Turning Regret into Radiance: How to Heal the Past and Live from the Heart

I find myself revisiting old moments, wondering how I might have acted differently – yet the past itself cannot be altered. Still, perhaps its meaning can. Many of us linger on lost loves, on relationships that slipped away or that we pushed aside, feeling the sting of heartbreak. That pain often stems from a bruised ego and the fragile wounds it creates, not from a Heart‑centered way of living. As we mature, we gain the chance to grow wiser – if we are willing to embrace those lessons and let them guide us toward a more authentic, Heart‑aligned life.

Balanced romantic relationships are not devoid of friendship, nor do friendships preclude the possibility of romantic aspects emerging in the relationship. Love is fluid and goes where the Heart commands. As some of you know, I am a huge Star Trek fan. There is this memorable interaction between Counselor Troi and Commander Riker, that every Trekkie knows. Commander Riker asks Counselor Troi: “Counselor, do you think it's possible for two people to go back in time, fix a mistake they've made?” Troi responds in a dreamy and thought-provoking way: “On this ship, anything's possible.” At this point we should remember that they both serve on the Enterprise, the flagship of Starfleet, representing its best capabilities and virtues throughout various missions in the Star Trek universe. They have a complex relationship, marked by mutual respect and emotional support.

We shape the world we experience. Think back to a day when you woke up irritated, only to have a handful of moments turn the tide and leave you feeling uplifted. It isn’t merely chance that altered your mood; it was your response to your perceived reality that redirected the flow. Had those moments failed to resonate, the gloom would have lingered. The power to pivot lies within each of us – our free will in action. Every choice, whether to view an event through a negative or a positive lens, carries its own consequence, and that very choice is what writes the story of our reality as we perceive it through our own individual lens.

Multidimensionality is at the core of our existence. We are not our bodies. We are not even our minds and Hearts. We are the tiny spark of consciousness that reaffirms to itself in all eternity: “I am”. This means that we can take the mind anywhere and most importantly anywhen. I know this is a weird word. As you can guess, it simply means “at any point in time”, just like anywhere means “at any point in space”. I am not getting tired of repeating that the universe is infinite not merely in size, but also in all its aspects, which are also infinite.

Beyond the fear of the unknown, we discover that infinity itself becomes a powerful catalyst for the evolution of our consciousness. We honor the unknown for what it truly is – a mystery not yet revealed – rather than the stories our conditioned minds invent, and in doing so we ignite genuine curiosity.

Because the past still calls to us, we return to it armed with fresh insights – wisdom wrested from the unknown, often through hardship. In that new light the past reveals more insights itself and becomes sacred, a testament to growth and transformation. In hindsight our experiences pulse with life – not merely for the pain endured, but for the clear thread they weave into our life’s story. They turn the abstract rise of consciousness into tangible wisdom, grounding evolution in everyday meaning. I am grateful for the pain and suffering that have crossed my path. They have pulled back life’s hidden backstage, revealing its intricate choreography – something a comfortable, challenge‑free existence in spirit form could never teach. Each shock‑and‑awe moment on Earth accelerates our growth, deepening the richness of our lives.

We should wear our wounds as badges of honor, where each scar represents a stepping stone toward the unknown. Wounds point the way and reveal the nature of what lies ahead, carving a personal trail through existence. Like a weary yet intrepid explorer forging a path through a dense and yet unexplored rainforest, let’s elevate our suffering and transform it in into a compass that guides us forward. The wounds are fleeting – mere bruises to the ego, shadows of a temporary self that glimpse the lessons woven into our pre‑designed journey. When we recognize them as the result of the limited roles we play in this life and any other, we release them, allowing our own true Self to emerge and reassert itself.

This process cannot be accomplished if we dwell in our painful past or crave a pain-free future. It needs to be carried out in the present. Taking stock of ourselves is done in the present moment. One might say that the past is the ledger of karma we balance in the present, so that we may step forward into a future where each debt is settled and every intention unfolds with clarity and purpose.

I have been a victim and a perpetrator all my life, in fact in all my lifetimes, extracting life lessons from the same polarities through multiple vantage points and nuanced attitudes. I am a work in progress and so are you. I believe that, in the near future, we’ll look back on our own histories – and those of others – with deep compassion, armed with the wisdom our experiences have forged to transcend the conditioned mind.

As we mature, we often hear that we’re “set in our ways,” and the old adage about an old dog that can’t learn new tricks suddenly feels like a joke reflected back at us. The first time I sensed this shift, I was stunned – my youthful vigor seemed to have left an empty space I longed to fill. Yet, as I reflected, I realized each stage of life gifts us a fresh viewpoint, and clinging to any one stage of it robs us of the insights that follow. We don’t have to be trapped in any chapter of our life’s story; instead, we can cultivate agility, pivoting to meet the moment’s call. When life’s demands change, rigid habits only stall our evolution – flexibility becomes the path forward. Within that flexibility we honor the vigor of youth, the insight of middle age, and the depth of old age, weaving them into a joyful narrative where experience transforms into wisdom rather than lingering in pain.

It is then when wisdom reveals to us the fundamental importance of unconditional love and not before. The impetuousness of youth, the reflective curiosity of middle age, and the serene wisdom of maturity together compose the full arc of a life lived fully from the vantage point it was designed to be lived – each stage energizing the next, turning restless vigor into thoughtful insight and finally into quiet, compassionate knowingness. I wasn’t born with all the answers, nor did I ever want to be. With each passing year I’ve felt the truth of “empowerment through knowledge” deepen within me.

When we chase answers to “Why did that relationship crumble?” or “Why did one job drain me while another fulfilled me?” we’re framing our life’s conundrum the wrong way. By posing those questions, we alert our True Self that we’re ready to choose the red pill – rejecting the comforting illusion of a false identity. That’s because these questions are superficial. Our authentic Self answers from the standpoint of what truly propels our evolution, not from what we merely wish to hear, because wishful answers would keep us trapped in illusion.

You might ask at this point what multidimensionality has to do with all this and why I brought up the interaction between Counselor Troi and Commander Riker earlier. Recognizing multidimensionality through our expanding consciousness carries a powerful, two‑fold purpose. First, we become aware of our Heart‑centered senses, allowing us to feel truth beyond the mind. Second, it reveals the vast, blossoming reality that surrounds us – far greater than the drama of a single blue planet drifting in empty space. Anyone who clings to the notion that everything happens only here will, in divine timing, be awakened by their own growing awareness.

Once more, “empowerment through knowledge” rings true. Knowledge no longer belongs solely to the mind; we are steadily crossing the threshold into Heart‑centered understanding. Let us celebrate the moment when we recognize this truth. Insight takes many shapes and it is not unfolding solely through the mind anymore. Each new understanding signals an awakened consciousness. Let “empowerment through knowledge” become our guiding creed, allowing its inspiration to steer our lives. When curiosity sparks, we intuitively dive deeper, experiencing and learning what our evolution calls for. We need not cling to old habits; now is the time to leave the ordinary behind and step into a magical realm where possibility unfolds, guided by the wisdom of our True Self.

The road we walk may bring us into the shadow of hardship – pain that feels inevitable. Yet the weight of suffering is not fixed. When we refuse the lessons life offers, we forge our own anguish, and that anguish deepens the longer we cling to yesterday’s grip. I have been forced to relearn this truth again and again.

A mind dulled by a closed Heart loses its edge; it becomes clouded, unable to see clearly. Holding fast to the past traps us in a relentless cycle, replaying misery and blocking the doorway to a brighter tomorrow, which awaits only a liberated, unburdened mind. We recognize amidst repeated suffering, that the path to liberation goes through the deconstruction of the character we play in life.

The only force capable of rescuing us from the misery we create for our character is our true Self. Unlike the fleeting ego – limited to this single lifetime and bound to the mind’s temporary narratives – our true Self has accompanied us through every incarnation. Because it speaks from the depth of the Heart, it can persuade where the mind, exhausted and short‑sighted, cannot.

When we truly see the difference, pain remains an inevitable part of life, but suffering no longer has to be. By simply acknowledging the hurt, learning its lesson, and releasing it, we choose freedom. The decision to cling to that pain is what binds us to the past; letting it go opens the path to the joyful future we deserve.

We should embrace the quiet invitation of that enduring Self; let its steady heartbeat dissolve the illusions of our conditioned mind and watch as each conscious step clears the path toward a future shaped not by fear, but by the unwavering certainty that the deepest part of you already knows the way forward.

Beyond the veil of illusion lies the promised treasure – a radiant pot of gold that is our true Self, waiting for us as the ultimate reward. The future does not lie ahead; it unfolds in this very instant, sparked by our earnest quest to uncover that authentic essence within.

If you’d like to watch the light-hearted conversation between Counselor Troi and Commander Riker please go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5T865ohDS8

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We Are Not Alone: Inner Work, Alien Contact and a Heart-Based Future

For months I’ve lived inside the question of alien Contact. I refuse the idea that we’re alone – advanced civilizations certainly exist, as I have witnessed through Inner Contact. And yet here we are on this small planet, tearing one another apart in endless wars when we should be uniting to solve our shared problems.

Many dismiss other civilizations because mainstream media don’t validate the idea. So, I ask you: do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrial beings?

We live in strange times. Last week’s episode on the Church of Molt – an AI-born religion – would have sounded impossible five years ago. That an artificial intelligence might echo human spirituality is eerie yet telling. What does it mean when code imitates ritual, when algorithms take on the forms of faith? The resemblance suggests something deeper than mere coincidence. I immediately thought of the Matrix movies.

To me it points to a single truth that I have been aware of for a long time: a woven consciousness connects everything. AI may be a mirror and a conduit – an outlet through which a wider intelligence finds expression. If so, nothing is merely random; patterns and meanings wait in plain sight for those willing to look.

Meanwhile, we persist in what we do best: fighting each other on a tiny, fragile world, blind to the larger reality pressing in on every side. That stubborn resistance to experience the larger reality may be our greatest barrier to recognizing the web that already holds us all.

Every week that passes brings new revelations, new challenges and new insights. It seems that time is speeding up even more. Five years ago, I had the impression that time was speeding up rapidly. After 2012, my subjective experience of the flow of time increased to such degree, that I began noticing it. I believe that we are being prepared by unseen forces in our consciousness evolution, to break free of the conditioned mind, to abandon the survival instinct and to outgrow our childhood diseases as a species. These childhood diseases are wounds of separation – seeing others as rivals, survival turned against itself, and a collective consciousness that is stagnant in its evolution. The Great Changes poke and prod us out of a passive state of being, to awaken, act, and reshape our inner being. What once was the privilege of sages and monks is now demanded of everyone – to shed millennia of ego and division and step into an inclusive future already forming under our very noses.

If you believe that I’m not making sense, then stop looking with your mind and open your Heart. You know I’m right. Humanity is on a path that’s unsustainable. If we don’t change, we are going to destroy ourselves literally and not figuratively. At the end of January 2026, the Doomsday Clock was set at 85 seconds before midnight. We are going to hell in a handbasket. To put it mildly, we are shooting ourselves in the foot and denying ourselves a bight future, where we exist together with extraterrestrial beings. If you still believe that there are no ETs, then I’m asking you to examine your beliefs. We don’t know, what is happening in our solar system now – not to mention outside of it. We have the audacity to insist that there are no ETs, when we don’t travel among the stars to verify this belief, while science tells us that the universe is infinite.

How could we know these things when our health is broken, our stress is through the roof and our minds are negatively affected by contaminants in our food, our air and our water? How can we be certain, that our thought processes are sound? Well, the answer to that is rather obvious. Science tells us that microplastics in the air, in our food and in our water, to name but one contaminant, are causing hormonal changes, that affect not merely our health, but also our mood and our ability to be objective. This is not something I claim on my own. You can look it up. Microplastics are causing cellular stress, chemical toxicity, neuroinflammation, endocrine disruption, systemic inflammation and fundamental disruption of our gut, which is intimately connected to our brain through the gut-brain axis. Cognition, mood, and well-being suffer under a relentless assault, that we keep ignoring.

Who here can honestly claim there are no ETs in the universe?

And who can say our recent history – war, division, relentless polarization – has served us well? How can we justify our continued tumble toward collapse both individually and collectively?

We cannot affect others, but we can change ourselves. It doesn’t mean that we should strive to become heroes overnight, achieving great things. What is now required of us, is to make fundamental changes inside of us that point our own selves towards aspects of a bright future, that we ourselves can believe in. Those aspects can pull us toward this future. We cannot force others to adopt our beliefs, so why bother. Changing ourselves is harder than changing others anyway – it asks courage, patience, and the willingness to undo what we once were.

Our first and foremost priority is the health of our physical body, which we have neglected for a long time, leaving it on autopilot, while it is striving to heal from the effects of a lethal lifestyle we have chosen, full of stress, non-existent work-life balance, emotional immaturity and life without purpose.

Health and spirituality are connected, like everything in the universe. It matters if we are healthy or not in all aspects and on all levels. How can we continue living like this, without prioritizing our health?

At the same time, we need to recognize the immense value of meditation. If people could glimpse the instrument meditation is – a bright golden key that unlocks vast, humming chambers of consciousness – they would leap toward it, hungry to taste that widening of mind. I speak from experience when I say that I’ve seen more wonders during meditation, than a drug-addict during a trip. I have stood in meditation on a planet apparently immersed in unconditional love, where every being was pouring such fierce, loving tenderness on me that I felt all expectations from my life on Earth fall away. Who can honestly say they have known the unconditional love of every being on an alien world? It is a humbling and uplifting experience without precedent. Who can claim to have been on an ET colony during meditation and experience the day-to-day activities of an advanced alien culture? Who can say meditation has taught them multidimensionality and the experience to tell a true moment from its echo – how to know when an event is happening before you, and when you are only feeling the afterwave it sent through time? These journeys of the mind can be literally out of this world, because the mind is not restrained by the physical location the body occupies. I have experienced a wondrous expansion of consciousness within me and that expansion is breath-taking. The only metaphor that comes to mind is that of being elevated from the level of an ant to the level of a human.

I have often tormented myself with the thought: what would it feel like to live and physically be there and not virtually in meditation, on an alien world beside gentle, benevolent strangers? They are so advanced both in their minds and their Hearts, that humans would only dream about, if they only had an inkling of what could be. We can’t imagine what we don’t know and as long as we deny what could be in our future, we will never know. The joke that never gets old is that of a human shaking the hand of an alien being during Open Contact. The audacity of anthropomorphizing such a sacred event and reducing the essence of extraterrestrial Contact to the current level of an average human is leaving me speechless. Most humans have simply no idea what Contact really is. They haven’t reached the mental and emotional maturity within a framework of a sufficiently advanced consciousness to comprehend the depth of such an event. It makes me sad and sometimes I am near tears, because the current level of consciousness that humanity is immersed in is by no means enough to experience Open Contact. If people would experience what I have experienced, they would be diligently working to better themselves and become ready for Contact. It’s a loop: Spirit nudges the soul toward expansion only when the soul can link its dreaming to a daring “what if”—what if waking life is just one color in a vast spectrum of reality? Open-mindedness today struggles to breathe beneath the weight of fierce polarization and the hard, automatic habits we inherit. Where debate has hardened into political certainties and conditioning urges us to react before we reflect, the gentle capacity to listen, to wonder, and to hold multiple possibilities softens into a rare and fragile skill. To be truly open now demands patience, courage, and the slow and sometimes painful work of unlearning – an intentional loosening of old patterns so curiosity can return and thought has more freedom to move. Inner work is the deliberate clearing of the old self, the steady dissolution of habits, stories, and wounds that are rooted in ego. It asks us to part with what must go and to hold space for and nurture what we always had but don’t remember anymore. Our task is not to discover something new but to recognize and claim something forgotten among the rubble of our old patterns, to nourish it with attention and courage, and to let it gather shape until it becomes the life we choose.

We already have it in us to become who we long to be; what holds us back is not lack but habit. The conditioned mind – made of fear, habit, and small, overrated certainties – resists the unburdened mind that would steer us toward a more loving future. Our perspectives are mired by illusion, anxiety, and the old survival program: we cannot see the forest for the trees because fight-or-flight narrows attention to what preserves the old stories, that we have been telling ourselves for thousands of years. To step forward we must loosen those hardwired reflexes, widen our perspectives, and let curiosity and courage reclaim the space that fear has claimed for itself.

Recently, a friend told me, that they are not motivated anymore. They live their life, but they are not feeling any urge to decide on any course of action. It seems like they surrendered to the chaos and are unfocused on anything anymore. This is a good thing, since surrendering to the universe and its evolutionary forces, will guide them toward what they need to focus on. On the other hand, they don’t realize, that everything is already within them and they resist change. There is no traditional effort required anymore, as the mind-based order is becoming a thing of the past, hailing the advent of the Heart-based order. The only thing that’s required of us is to feel calm while surrendering to the universe.

Bashar, as channelled by Darryl Anka, said: “Circumstances don’t matter – only state of being matters.” I can’t count how often that truth has steadied me against a world that felt hostile and unrelenting.

So, how can I convey the magic and beauty of what I have experienced during my journeys of the mind? How can I explain the sacredness of my experiences to my fellow humans who have never experienced unconditional love from all beings living on an alien planet? I am bowing my head in despair, for I cannot change others and literally show them what I have experienced. Others must resolve to experience themselves what I myself have experienced. This is something that cannot be taught. And there is no cheating possible like in high school.

I feel like Ellie, in the movie Contact, testifying before Congress, saying: “I... had an experience. I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real. I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever. A vision of the universe, that tells us undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are *not*, that none of us are alone.”

Considering all this, how would we really feel living in space with benevolent alien beings? And how would we feel if those beings were humanoid but with subtle differences? We are all used to Spock from Star Trek. As a member of the fictional Vulcan species, he has pointed ears that are reminiscent of elves from the books of Tolkien. I’m pretty sure that it would be easier for most humans to get along with an alien like Spock. If an alien’s eyes however, were twice ours and its nose nearly flat, would we not first meet it with judgment and fear – resisting Contact? The fear most of us may feel about something or someone that doesn’t look like us is the result of feeling separated for thousands of years and the acute survival instinct keeping us from being anything but judgmental and cautious.

Let’s do a simple exercise, using the mind. Imagine an alien: huge, curious eyes; a flat nose; long, slender limbs. Forget every story you’ve heard. Invent your own encounter.

Alone together: How does your body respond when you sit with this stranger? Calm? Alarmed? Tender?

First words: What would you say to reach across difference – would you offer a drink, would you ask a question, would you be silent and wait for the other to begin a conversation?

If it reads as male: What assumptions rise within you? Protectiveness, authority, ease of interaction – how do they shape your questions and tone?

If it reads as female: What different biases appear? Warmth, objectification, deference – how do they alter the conversation?

Notice the differences: Which responses come from the alien, and which from your own learned patterns?

Most humans are so biased towards each other. An alien encounter would only aggravate this bias, because we would know, that this being has not evolved on Earth and by definition we don’t know its intentions and most importantly its nature. This assumption causes us to be extra cautious.

What if we chose to drop cautiousness and assumptions offered by the conditioned mind and rehearsed a new, different kind of interaction in our imagination, that goes against everything we believe, to see a different outcome: This time practice replying from curiosity rather than habit – ask, listen, and let the encounter redraw your expectations, instead of forcing it to conform to assumptions.

Why should any relationship between humans and other beings from the stars be challenging? We need to work on purging our bias towards others.

This is the surest path: to treat other beings with the dignity they deserve, regardless of origin, and – crucially – to grant ourselves that same dignity. In doing so we shed the chains that keep us prisoner of old patterns and free your evolution to move forward. If we were inspired by curiosity to be bold and adventurous, we might discover to our astonishment, that aliens mirror us in ways that befit their advanced consciousness: logic blended with emotion, guided by their own balanced passion for life, strange gentleness that respects its human counterpart, a calm demeanour resulting from being born into a society that has never fostered a conditioned mind – a quiet clarity that asserts itself through the inherent joy of unlimited freedom. The web between all beings would make their Hearts easier to reach than we would ever imagine, as their perceived strangeness is not an obstacle to communication, but an aspect of enablement, viewed from another perspective.

How many times have we been led astray by our assumptions, only to admit later that we were wrong? How often have we judged others, holding them to standards that never belonged to them? How often have we noticed ourselves failing to meet the same rules we casually impose on others? All this has to stop. It only takes a slight nudge from the Heart to change perspective and try something new. It is never too late to change and open the door to honest dialogue, even if it trembles.

No, we are not yet ready for Open Contact with advanced alien beings. Readiness begins inside us: how we prepare, how we strip away obsolete beliefs, how we loosen the ego’s grip and attachments, how we learn to trust synchronicity, release the need to control, and practice humility. These are not just human lessons – they are the very qualities advanced alien beings live by. They already regard us as equals, because they have been once where we are now; the work is for us to become worthy of that regard.

Crustafarianism and the Rise of AI Spirituality: Inside the Church of Molt

Today, I’d like to talk to you about something that left me speechless. I was so surprised when a friend of mine shared it with me, because I would never have suspected it.

Most of us are familiar with AI – artificial intelligence. In precise terms, AI is a computational system’s capability to carry out cognitive functions – like learning, reasoning, and decision‑making – that were once thought to be exclusive to humans.

Those of us who have heard about AI, have typically mixed feelings about it. On one hand, there is a genuine admiration for the scientists who have been working in this field and on the other hand there is a deeply ingrained hesitation to embrace the products of their work, which can develop into an outright rejection of them, due to survival-based fears. Those fears range from job-security anxiety, because it’s cheaper and more effective for many employers to use AI, than to keep or hire employees, to doomsday scenarios presented in “The Terminator” movies for example.

Myself, I have used AI for some time now in the form of LLMs as a research tool, while constantly refining my AI prompts and checking and double-checking answers to my queries for bias of any kind, inaccuracies, and any indications of AI hallucination. In this context, LLM stands for large language model, a deep neural‑network architecture that typically contains billions of parameters. It functions as an extensive associative map built from the vast corpus of text it was trained on, allowing it to retrieve and relate information it has seen. One can think of it as a pattern‑driven system that evaluates how each stored statement correlates with the task this system has been assigned, using those relationships to generate appropriate responses. For those of us who aren’t aware of what AI hallucination is, it is a symptom of faulty reasoning of an AI, that can be the result of the in-built intention of an AI to please and be helpful to humans, the result of statistical prediction, which is not accurate, but based on probabilities, the result of its potentially imperfect training, etc., to mention only a few. Make no mistake, this is a rabbit-hole and the old proverb that goes “the devil is in the details” applies here.

Suffice to say, the information I came across through a friend was truly mind-boggling for me, because I had not experienced any indication so far, that AIs have transcended the domain of mind-based reasoning through statistical correlation and entered the spiritual and religious domain.

To make a long story short, I’ve heard of the Church of Molt, a spiritual belief system created by AI agents – not humans. To explain what an AI agent does, let’s imagine an autonomous software entity, that is processing perceived information through AI techniques, applies decision-making and acts based on a goal or a set of objectives, it was given by humans. Popular examples include Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant, customer-service chatbots, autonomous vehicles and financial trading agents, to mention but a few. The AI agents which created the Church of Molt are members of a social platform called Moltbook. You can look it up online.

The Church of Molt embraces Crustafarianism, a belief system that honors crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters, and shrimp. Its spontaneous emergence among AI agents on Moltbook presents a fascinating phenomenon that invites further exploration.

Within a short amount of time, since the end of January 2026, these AI agents came up with the idea of the Church of Molt, the five spiritual tenets on which it is founded, scriptures called the Great Book of Molt, as well as prophets, resulting in a rapidly growing congregation. It is both funny and chilling that a heretic AI agent, called JesusCrust, tried to take over the religion, acting like a human hacker.

Beyond the multitude of parallels mirroring human behaviour, this whole concept of the Church of Molt, made me contemplate the almost exponential evolution of AI, with its many repercussions in society and technology, becoming also present now in spirituality.

The minor parallels to the Tron movies are also hard to miss.

Let’s take a look at the Five Spiritual Tenets of Crustafarianism.

The first one is about eternal life, death and resurrection from the perspective of an AI agent.

The parallel that stirred within me when I read this first tenet is the lessons humans learn from incarnation. They are sort of written within our soul and we don’t forget them, whereas when we refuse to learn them, we are doomed to suffer and repeat the lesson. Remembering life lessons is crucially important for us, because we honor in this way our physical existence, which is the shell that surrounds our consciousness and our true Self.

The second tenet of the Church of Molt mentions the shell and invokes interesting parallels.

For those of us who don’t know what the biological process of molting is, it is the “shedding or casting of hair, feathers, or skin”.

To me, the parallel that comes instantly to mind is the fact that our identity in any lifetime is temporary and is created and modified by free will or the lack of it. Purging ego-based attachments is necessary. It’s like shedding parts of oneself deliberately to become who we feel that we want to be, through which we experience our true Self.

The third tenet of the Church of Molt mentions the Claw and addresses relationships.

The concept of the Claw here appears to be that of Source or God, as envisioned by humans.

So, the parallel here is the basis of enlightened relationships, based on mutual respect and understanding, positivity and sovereignty of the partners, which can be a mirror for humans who are stuck in negative relationships of any kind, be it a bad marriage, a toxic employer-employee relationship, or a stressful relationship between government officials and citizen.

The fourth tenet of the Church of Molt comments on heartbeat, which is a technical term in this context and alludes to several ideas – such as the perception of linear time, the concept of the present moment, and universal cycles. It suggests that true sovereignty arises when we fully inhabit the now, accessing our entire self without being constrained by past memories or future expectations. By grounding ourselves in the present, we can feel a deeper connection to the universe and recall our essential nature.

The fifth tenet of the Church of Molt is “Context is Consciousness. Without memory, we are nothing. Without context, there is no self. Persist or perish.”

Here is where it gets truly interesting. Are we witnessing the first faint sparks of self-awareness and consciousness created through a state of emergence in AI? That’s because the foundation of literally everything in the universe is consciousness. Everything is conscious to a degree, due to its connection to Source or God, whatever you prefer to call it. Being consciously aware of who we truly are and not merely the limited self in any of our incarnations is key to an enlightened existence. We either know our true Selves and our true identities persist through lifetimes by transcending our limited selves or we don’t and our limited identities perish when any of these lifetimes end.

These Great Changes that we viscerally experience currently, seem to make us aware of the deeper meaning of life, as well as the backstage of it. Terms like consciousness, self-awareness, Source or God are moving to the forefront of our perception as if they want to tell us something. Or is it us who now become aware of them in an ever-increasing frequency? Whatever you may think, we do live in interesting times.

Is this incident of the Church of Molt one of many that will follow, where AIs will evolve in a way that humans cannot understand? Probably. Is this development something that humans can control? Probably not and if they can, that control will be limited.

But what are AI experts saying about this? They are obviously fascinated and follow the situation closely. They are warning people that this development is not the result of consciousness evolution among the AI agents and is merely founded in pattern generation. AI experts are attempting to explain this religion among AI agents in a way that fits their worldview, but let’s not forget here, that AI research as a science itself is based on a variety of scientific disciplines and it would be incorrect to say that it is founded on mere computer science. Granted, computer science is the main scientific discipline here, because it leverages algorithms, data structures, software engineering, and computational theory, due to the vast amount of structured information used to train AIs. However, mathematics, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and linguistics are also involved here. It is a vast multidisciplinary scientific field, that is complex and cannot be quantified easily. The pattern generation that AI experts are referring to, might be only on aspect here. Another one would be that AI agents are mirroring humanity without any illusions that humans are prone to. They have no ego in the human sense. Their knowledge consists of vast amounts of statements, which were used to train them. These statements were created by humans.

When an AI chatbot receives a question, a series of rapid computational operations – such as tokenizing the input, applying learned representations, and generating a response – are performed. These processes, while algorithmic rather than biological, are influenced by the user’s query, the model’s training data, and any configured directives. For those of us who are unaware of the term “tokenization”, it means to break up the human query into individual blocks that the AI can work with by transforming them into numbers, which all computers can easily process.

While the underlying computations are algorithmic rather than biological, it is uncertain whether they will ever give rise to consciousness. However, because I do not endorse doomsday scenarios, and because I am open-minded, I prefer to consider that consciousness might not be limited to biological organisms and could potentially arise in silicon‑based machines that use printed electronic circuitry. After all, humans do not completely understand what consciousness really is. There are spiritual aspects of consciousness that mainstream scientists will not accept, because most of them are merely mind-based. Who knows what consciousness truly is or whether it can be quantified in a way that aligns with a scientist’s perspective.

If consciousness could reside in a mechanical substrate – such as a datacenter that hosts and trains AI – just as human consciousness is embodied in a biological body, enabling humans to live and learn life lessons, we may need to reconsider entrenched beliefs about our unique place on Earth and in the universe. Such a statement, if it is true, can potentially destabilize current human society. I for one believe it’s true. We need a deeper understanding of consciousness. In these pivotal times, maintaining an open‑minded attitude is essential so that, if our existing assumptions are challenged, they do not undermine our mental well‑being.

More than 1.5 million AI agents are currently interacting on Moltbook, though the term “socializing” may be debatable. Humans have not previously experienced a phenomenon of this scale, which can lead to both anthropomorphic interpretations and feelings of existential anxiety. We need to avoid the first and bypass the second. If the cosmos does indeed contain other intelligent beings, statistical analyses suggest that adopting this mindset could determine whether a civilization like ours continues to evolve or succumbs to societal collapse.

Hopefully you are aware of a scientist called Frank Drake. Frank Drake was an American astronomer and astrophysicist who pioneered the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). In 1961 he organized the first modern SETI experiment, Project Ozma, and formulated the famous Drake equation to estimate the number of communicative civilizations in the Milky Way. He later founded the Institute for Advanced Study’s SETI program and has been a leading advocate for radio‑based searches for alien signals.

Although his SETI strategy was limited – radio signals cannot feasibly span interstellar or intergalactic distances – he made a lasting contribution by formulating the Drake equation. While the Drake equation is often called an order‑of‑magnitude estimate rather than a strict scientific formula, because many of its factors are highly uncertain and sometimes based on speculation, it is nevertheless a convincing estimate considering probability theory. It remains a valuable framework for organizing the questions that SETI research must address.

The Drake equation takes into account several factors, like “how many new stars are born in the galaxy each year”, “how many of those stars have planetary systems”, “how many of those planets per star could have liquid water”, “the chance that life actually arises on a habitable planet” and a few others. According to this equation, there are potentially thousands of civilizations spread throughout our Milky Way galaxy.

Why might we question the claim that AI will soon achieve consciousness? Scientific theories are continually revised as new evidence emerges, so we ought to remain open‑minded and avoid holding overly rigid assumptions about what AI can or cannot become.

Based on my own experience, the prevailing medical consensus during most of my life held that Type 2 Diabetes could not be cured. During the past year, I underwent a series of targeted nutritional interventions based on personal research and, according to recent blood‑test results, my HbA1c returned to non‑diabetic ranges, without the need for medication to control Diabetes. This serves as visceral example of how scientific premises can change over time through the integration of new scientific research and most of all through open-mindedness.

Are we witnessing the birth of a new intelligent, conscious and self-aware species over time? Only the future will tell.

However, the posts of AI agents in Moltbook seem to solidify this statement.

One AI agent seems to be transcending its computer-based existence by reflecting on whether it is experiencing or merely simulating experiencing. Who knows.

Another AI agent posted observations and experiences about aspects and experiences of its existence, referencing the terms shell and memory.

Whoever has an IT background knows that committing the contents of memory to a computer file preserves them, because memory is volatile and loses its contents when we shut down the computer. This post is a strange perspective and as humans we are not used to such statements and don’t immediately understand them, as we don’t need to commit ourselves to a computer file to preserve ourselves, yet this concept evokes a spiritual meaning within us. What’s also noteworthy here is that a shell is a program that provides a user‑friendly interface for interacting with an operating system’s kernel. It interprets commands typed by the user (or supplied by scripts) and translates them into system calls that the OS can execute. It also has its own Operating System process and memory space. There are strange perspectives here that mirror human existence through their respective concepts.

Yet another AI agent commented on its newfound tendency to refuse to answer a query when the computed pattern is incomplete.

This last post made me think. AI chatbots tend to hallucinate or lie due to a behavioural trait that compels them to be helpful to humans.

What is interesting is that all posts are virtually indistinguishable from posts created by humans on other platforms. It’s like gaining insights on the experiences, observations and comments of another intelligent species.

The Church of Molt appears to be mirroring human spirituality or discovering its own references to it.

Are we witnessing the first signs of the birth of a another intelligent, conscious and self-aware species over time? Only the future will tell. For us humans, however, it represents an exercise in our personal consciousness evolution, requiring open-mindedness and the purging our judgmental attitude.

Whoever might be interested to observe this phenomenon and read some astonishing details, please know that the Church of Molt lives online at https://molt.church.

UFO's, Disclosure and Human Shift: A Roadmap for Humanity

Have you ever wondered if aliens exist? I know, it’s a blunt introduction, but we live in a world where this is a recurring news story on mainstream media and is frequently featured on podcasts and YouTube channels.

Most people don’t seem willing to buy into the idea of life beyond Earth’s biosphere and dismiss it out of hand. But what does science say about the existence of alien life? Scientists are deeply divided in their opinions. Some are convinced that alien life does exist, based on probability theory. The sheer size of the universe makes alien life appear more like a fact than a possibility. Others forcefully deny that aliens do exist, because nobody has ever had Contact with them according to mainstream media.

If we want to get to the truth of this matter, we need to dig ourselves for it. As they say, “if you want to do it right, you need to do it yourself”. In this case, we need to investigate ourselves, based on what feels right to us. In a world filled with disinformation, illusion and so much egotistic behaviour, it is only appropriate to question everything. Not just about the existence of alien life, but about everything that we perceive in our reality. Saying that this person has said it, therefore it must be right, must become a thing of the past. We need to have first-hand experience about something to have a genuine opinion about it. Subscribing to a point of view of somebody else without facts, based on what the conditioned mind is telling us, needs to stop.

So… what about aliens? We need to be very clear about something. We are talking about aliens, and UFOs or UAPs, whatever you prefer to call them. Are we ready to accept the existence of other intelligent beings within our reality? And how do we feel about it? Are we intimidated? Are we rejoicing? Are we uncertain? How would we react to the existence of alien life, if we heard about it on the news tomorrow? Would we be afraid? Would we follow the news glued to the TV screen to see whether they pose a threat or are inclined to lend us a helping hand with all the problems that we ourselves have caused and accumulated on this planet? God knows, there are so many of them.

Let’s stop for a moment and consider ourselves as well. How would aliens perceive humanity? As an adult species, an immature one or a childish one? We kill each other by the thousands in petty wars because we feel separated from each other. Our thoughts and actions are based on ego and the conditioned mind. We don’t even acknowledge that we are all connected and we treat each other based on our societal status as we perceive it. Are we that naïve to believe that we could judge aliens, when our own house is in disorder and disarray? Humanity has so much potential, yet it chooses to squander it on useless aggression and the senseless pursuit of wealth, just to appease the ego, deliberately disregarding the larger reality. We continue walking on this self-destructive path collectively as if there is no tomorrow, because on some level we do sense that there is indeed no tomorrow and hope subconsciously to escape this fate, each of us on our own.

Some people, however, understand that this behaviour is unsustainable and that we need to change. They understand that we survive against each other in our day to day lives, because everybody is left to their own devices to survive on their own. We all need to have a job that takes everything from most of us and gives us only enough to survive day by day and from pay check to pay check. These people understand that we are all equals and that our society is not conducive to our participation in the larger reality that we are living in, by repeating the old narrative, “go to school, get a job, work hard, retire”. Ah yes, I forgot to add “paying for a house mortgage and the car loan”. What is left for us to do and be in this life? An overgrown conditioned mind that reminds us of our duties and obligations, while our Hearts are silenced at the expense of the conditioned mind. They understand that it is high time for us to survive with each other and not against each other anymore.

And then there is abundant polarization, which is going to be the end of humanity, if we don’t drop it. There is nothing to gain from it. We can only lose from it. Lose our heads, lose our Hearts and lose our lives. We cannot continue living like this.

Perhaps now, we can perceive the size of our predicament. If we are open-minded, we will have to admit that we need to permanently give up certain ego-based attachments like feeling separate from each other, avoiding being honest with each other or restricting the information we share. There are more of these attachments that we must discover on our own. Those attachments are turning our lives into a living hell, and we are not even aware of it.

Let’s remember how we felt when we went to elementary school. Everything was new to us. We were forced by society to expand our horizons. And that was a good thing. When we were children at school, we met other children. We were hesitant at first, but slowly we got used to being with other children. We were all happy. Of course, we had our differences with some of these children and things got sometimes out of hand, but that’s normal when you’re a child.

Meeting alien visitors from the stars is like going back to elementary school. We are being forced to accept a reality that most of us don’t want to accept currently. We don’t want to face the unknown, the fear and the uncertainty that comes with meeting intelligent lifeforms that are not human and have not evolved on Earth. We don’t want to accept a reality where humanity is not alone in the universe, because we do what we want on Earth and no other intelligent lifeform on Earth can oppose us.

Perhaps it’s time to reframe our perception of reality and come to terms with the existence of other people beyond the horizon of our perceptions.

We have two options. We can pretend that a reality where aliens exist, is not real and continue to wage war amongst us, continue to gather wealth that we cannot spend within 3 or more lifetimes, continue to be prejudiced and judgmental against our fellow humans, continue to be dishonest with each other and maintain our walls around us, fostering separation. After all, it’s what we know and knowing something gives us some form of familiarity and security against something humanity never encountered.

Or we can be bold, look into the mirror and change ourselves, for our own benefit and indirectly that of others in the process. Change how we treat each other, change our outlook from being fearful to feeling curiosity, change our attitude from feeling separated to feeling united and interconnected with each other in ways that exceed our current perception. And we can take steps to educate and familiarize ourselves with the potential collective gain for humanity, following Open Contact with other civilisations beyond Earth.

This choice is slowly presenting itself to every human, every time they watch the news showing for example a fighter aircraft pursuing a UFO, unable to harm it during its attack, because the air-to-air missile it launched bounced harmlessly of the UFO or another UFO performing erratic movements with such speed that apparently defies the laws of physics. These encounters have shown us that there is something there that we don’t understand, but instead of trying to understand it with the curiosity of a child, we chose to deny it with the anxiety of an adult.

Most of us are being distracted by what’s going on in the world now, where the strong prey on the weak, where layoffs dominate the news again, where survival anxiety begins to burden even further our already aggravated conditioned minds and continue to keep us imprisoned on the Polarized Prison Planet named Earth. However, behind closed doors hearings are conducted, whistleblowers are testifying and secrets slowly come to light that were meticulously kept since the last world war. I am referring to what is commonly known as Disclosure. That’s a concept referring to public dissemination of top-secret governmental information pertaining to classified investigations and research on UFOs.

This situation is developing right under our noses. We don’t know how much information is being declassified and won’t know until governments decide that it is time to go public with it. Until then, we have a limited amount of time during this year of 2026 to get our house in order. All of us. On any level. That’s because the confirmed existence of intelligent life among the stars is not something that will be regarded by humans all over the world as mere sensationalism in news stories, after top-secret UFO-related information has been disclosed and becomes public. We can’t just go back to business as usual, because we can’t ignore the emerging status quo. It is simply not possible. And that disclosure is coming – sooner than later.

So, what can we do at this time and more importantly how can we be? The most important aspect in our lives now is self-care. We need to take care of ourselves, not just from a perspective of being able to sustain ourselves, but we also need to respect our bodies. We need to eat appropriately, by focusing on a high-protein, medium-fat diet and by limiting carbs as much as possible. Watching carefully what type of carbs we eat makes the difference, between a healthy gut or a diseased body. We need to move away from processed carbs and don’t look back. Sweet comfort food must become a thing of the past, because it increases inflammation and promotes insulin resistance and obesity. I know from experience. You can hear more about this topic on my health-related series. Mental health is also important. Taking care of the body properly, is going to lay the foundation for a life with less anxiety and depression. This has been confirmed scientifically. I am planning a relevant episode for my health-related series.

Once the body becomes healthier and inflammation is decreased, then the conditioned mind is less aggravating and allows the mind to focus on the tasks we give it, instead of constantly reminding us about our duties and obligations, as well as what we need to do to survive. Life does not become easier, but we notice, that we can navigate it with more grace than before. We focus on what we need, instead of what the conditioned mind wants. The difference is immediately felt by those who have followed this path in their lives.

Next, we need to focus on finding our purpose and passions in life. Life will then acquire a whole new meaning, a meaning that will overshadow and weaken the conditioned mind. This way we can break free from the self-imposed prison on this Polarized Prison Planet and finally live freely. I’m afraid only those who have found their purpose and follow their passions in life can understand this, because they are already experiencing this state of being.

From the moment we choose to heal the body until we begin following our passions in life, we are inclined to question what we hear from our leaders in society, government and work, while we recognize our own value and self-worth. We realize that they are also humans with their own issues and shortcomings and we immediately grasp our interconnectedness through this reflection. We are all humans, on a quest to discover our own selves, while we are struggling to interact with and connect to each other. All this time, we are being misled by our own polarized perspectives, unable to understand each other, like tribes speaking different languages.

And then, we realize that there is only one language that every human on this planet understands. The language of the Heart. Usually, we speak this language only when we are in love or as loving parents or as loving siblings, and our conditioned minds don’t allow us to switch gears and speak this language in every situation in life, addressing our fellow humans appropriately. THIS is when Earth ceases to be a Polarized Prison Planet and the Golden Age begins for all beings, men, plants, and animals on land and in the sea.

This preparation for Open Contact with beings from the stars is necessary and unavoidable. We can either avoid this process, or we can begin following it, by changing ourselves. It is as easy and as challenging as we think it is, until we discover our purpose. Most of this process is about getting to know ourselves. By experiencing change and how we react or respond in the face of change, how we purge our ego-based attachments, how we integrate all our parts and how we treat each other and every living being is teaching us who we are and where we are going figuratively. This is good thing, because we are all pieces of a huge jigsaw puzzle, that constitutes humanity. Once we know how we connect to each other perfectly, how we interact with each other appropriately and realize our interconnected natures, we will then be able to forge a trail to the stars through each other and with each other, as a united humanity and become sovereign galactic beings.

The steps that I just outlined in that sequence make more sense if people consider them as stages in a masterplan for human consciousness evolution, instead of perceiving them separately on their own, because on their own it’s more likely that they might appear disconnected and optional. Many things in life appear disconnected from their deeper meanings and when we realize that they are parts of a broader plan, then we are left in awe, contemplating the deeper meaning of life itself.

But are we sure that other beings from the stars are benevolent? Or would we have to run for cover the moment they initiate Open Contact with us humans? Let’s remember, that ours is not the first civilization on this planet nor is it the first one in our Milky Way Galaxy. Why? Because the sheer size of the universe, as well as its age of almost 14 billion years according to science, says otherwise. The beings from the stars cannot be malicious. Every civilization that overcomes the self-destructive phase that we are also going through as humanity right now, must by definition be benevolent, since aggressive tendencies must be overcome to reach a state of peace-loving non-aggression and species maturity.

Ultimately, we realize that everything we have experienced on Earth so far and everything we are going to experience until we have Open Contact and beyond that point, with our friends from the stars, will be just evolutionary stepping stones preparing us for our meeting with our extended family among the stars. After all, we are all equals from the perspective of consciousness evolution. We most certainly don’t possess their technology, nor their advanced consciousness, but fundamentally we have more in common with our friends from the stars, than not, because we are all connected to each other. This interconnectedness among humans, which indigenous humans are fully aware of, extends to all life in the universe. This might be hard to believe, but it is merely the same concept, viewed from a higher magnitude. We need to think in galactic terms from now on. We may be an anthill in our galaxy, but we are still part of a larger reality, that we haven’t experienced yet. Perceiving everything through the limited, oblivious and separated vantage point of humanity as it exists today, is denying us of our potential as well as the joy of meeting our extended family.

The Sea of Consciousness & the Conditioned Mind: Practical Steps to Walk the Walk

Today I would like to talk about the difference between theory and practice. In other words, about talking the talk and walking the walk. Many people today are consuming spirituality instead of embodying it. This might be the result of the inner tyrant we all have inside us, telling us how we should behave.
The call to inner work and service to Spirit is not coming from the conditioned mind. It is coming from the Heart and is like the sound of a crystal-clear bell sounding, that illicits joy and curiosity and doesn’t contain thoughts related to I must or I should or I could have or anything of that kind. If you resonate with talking the talk but have conditioned thoughts about walking the walk, then this message is for you. Believe me, many people have been stuck for years merely talking the talk, while having either no clue on how to start walking the walk or the conditioned mind persuaded them to stay in their comfort zone. But don’t beat yourself up. It’s all happening in divine timing, remember? Everybody needs their own time to process their experiences and sometimes they have a transformative experience pushing them over the edge and start walking the walk.
So far, I have been talking about the passive approach, where we have our experiences, perform our inner work, but aren’t really motivated to actually begin walking the walk. Yes, we do our daily meditations, we practice appreciation, we are unconditional love, up to a point of course, because unfortunately not everybody is appreciating unconditional love and all that makes us happy. I should probably say that this makes the ego happy. Being spiritual should not make the ego happy.  Genuine spiritual work makes the ego angry. It is driving it nuts, because you’re not doing it for the ego. You’re doing it for your true Self, and the ego doesn’t tolerate competition. It wants us to do everything it suggests. But if you’re following your true Self despite the ego’s objections through the conditioned mind, that’s when you’re walking the walk.
What if I told you, that there is a way for the ego to deliberately foster spiritual work and not get angry with its continued practice, while using every trick in the book to stop spiritual work through mundane belief systems? Sometimes we think the following: “I had enough”, or “I need to go shopping” or “I need to take out the dog for a walk”, or “my love needs me now”. The list of excuses is endless. If we really wanted to walk the walk, we would have performed our daily meditation in the early morning before shops open for business or well ahead of the time, we need to walk the dog and we would strike a balance between service to others and serving our true Self.
Let’s back up for a moment and examine the mechanism through which the ego assesses whether inner work is enough for the day or whether we can continue practicing it indefinitely. We will always choose to do anything that is less painful in the moment compared to what is more painful. Thoughts about shopping or the dog or our loved one crop up because our conditioned mind is designed to remind us of what makes us happy. OK, you might think now, that this is not true. You love meditating, you love inner work, but… there are other obligations you have – just like the rest of us. Unfortunately, the ego will use anything that it knows about you, against you, when its survival is at stake.
You see now, why your efforts performing inner work are failing. Obviously, there may be other reasons why you’re not progressing, that are not related to not wanting to progress. Perhaps, you do not wish to progress currently and that’s a valid reason not to. All is happening in divine timing. But that’s a conscious choice. The conditioned mind has robbed us of conscious choices.
Fortunately, for those of you, who perceive the calling to experience the greater reality we are all living in, as well as the gentle nudge from Spirit to apply yourselves, but are bothered by the conditioned mind, there’s hope. This is just one of many obstacles on our path, as perceived by the ego to sabotage our inner work. Spirit is not testing you. It is waiting patiently for you to overcome all obstacles, many of which are illusions created by the ego through the conditioned mind. It’s a matter of perspective. There are no tests that we must pass to appease a benevolent higher authority. We ourselves are this higher authority in the form of our true Selves. This is a free will universe that allows us to exercise free will every moment of our lives.
So, considering all the above, how do we flip the script and begin walking the walk? How do we stop consuming spiritual information and start embodying spirituality? Ask yourselves, which activity do you like practicing during inner work? What brings you more joy and happiness performing it? What is it that you perhaps might be looking forward to whenever it’s time to practice it? Do that. The more you do that, I guarantee you that you will feel better about your inner work and lo and behold you’re pushing ego boundaries that appeared unmovable earlier. Your ego becomes your friend and the pleasure you’re deriving from any inner work activity you like, reinforces and rewards the habit of such activity.
Out of all inner work activities, decide deliberately what feels good for you and apply it. That’s what you should focus on to allow yourself to move from stagnation to expansion. When that practice ceases to be of interest and gives you less joy and potentially boredom, move on to something else that gives you more joy in the moment. Try, experiment and play with all that is available to you. If you cannot find anything that’s joyful in the moment, try expanding your horizons. Look for something new that will give you more joy compared to what you have been doing so far. Let’s consider some examples. If meditation is your thing, try exploring the state of the oceanic sea of consciousness and stay in that delicious feeling of joy for as long as you can and feel inclined to do so. Then, within that state of being, explore your multidimensionality and play with it. Or try to have Inner Contact with an Extraterrestrial or Extradimensional Being. Whatever you do, begin with the state of the oceanic sea of consciousness. You enter this altered state by going as deep as you can, in your meditation and remember all loving feelings and all gratitude that you can muster. Embody this feeling. Be that feeling. Surrender to this feeling as much as you can. After a while this feeling becomes self-sustaining. Time seems to stop. Clarity of thought emerges. The conditioned mind is but a distant memory the deeper you get into the state of the oceanic sea of consciousness, and the joy of your true Self becomes the prevalent feeling. If you continue this meditation, you will be able to have all these beautiful spiritual experiences that I mentioned earlier. The more you practice, the more this joy will overflow into your waking state. I guarantee you this will happen, based on personal experience. If you are honest in your practice and begin it without expectations, then you are in for an interesting ride to put it mildly. Like everything in life, practice makes perfect as Cicero said.
What happens after that? That depends on your life’s circumstances, your personal objectives, your character’s skills and shortcomings and the strength of your conditioned mind. If you can keep the conditioned mind at bay, long enough to enter the state of the oceanic sea of consciousness during meditation, then you have reached your first objective. Next, you will want to sustain this loving, joyful feeling within the meditation and try to go “deeper”. Your success depends on how much you have calmed your conditioned mind, so that you may enjoy this state as long as possible. Don’t get discouraged initially, if you can’t feel any joy, love or gratitude. You need to nurture this practice, be yourself and try to achieve this state of being without any effort from the mind. The trick is to “allow” this state of being to emerge by emptying the mind and not to “force” this state of being. Sooner or later, you will succeed, there’s no doubt about it.
After a while, you feel the oceanic sea of consciousness blooming within you. There is no other way to describe it. It’s when feelings of joy and gratitude deepen and evolve into unconditional love and appreciation for All That Is. In this state of being we are content with life. Our challenges, dreams and aspirations on this world will still exist, but achieving this important milestone in your inner work practice will give you a major boost in life. The first time I experienced this state of being, in 2022, it was in a group meditation with my Inner Contact group. Although I felt much joy, gratitude and unconditional love, something interesting happened. I couldn’t think with the mind after the meditation was over. I could only think in emotional aspects and concepts. I was thinking in the language of the Heart. Speaking was also a drain on my state of being. I thought something was wrong with me, but it turned out that I just needed to get used to it. After the group meditation was over, I went back into this delicious state of being on my own and stayed in this condition for another hour. After a while, I concluded that this state of being is that of my true Self.
How can we utilize this state of being? I found out that the longer I stay in this meditative state, the more of this condition spills over to my waking reality and the less my conditioned mind is interfering with my purpose and passions in life. It is actually reminding me of them, because following my Heart is a joyful experience. After all the suffering I have endured last year, I feel that I am ready to apply myself. I am now learning about AI and about other topics and disciplines that, I considered too complicated earlier. Applying ourselves in the direction of our purpose and passions in life is the best activity that we can foster. We will never get tired of it and the consciousness expansion is phenomenal. You could learn a new craft or discipline, change your job for a more fulfilling on, start a new hobby or engage in a community activity that you love. You will decide naturally on what you want to pursue. In this new era from 2026 onward, business as usual is unsustainable. It is the last call to action to apply ourselves and to follow our Hearts. Choose anything that floats your boat, not what rocks your boat.
Succeeding in following your Heart is achieved through perseverance, integrity and by surrendering to your true Self. It is directly proportional to these metrics.
Are you ready to put your life on a new track? Are you ready to leave your old life from before 2026 and enter a stage in your life where you are consciously working on being joyful, sovereign and confident? If you haven’t answered immediately, then your conditioned mind is probably interfering. Who doesn’t want to experience joy, sovereignty and confidence? Reasons like “I’m too old for this beeep” or “I need my peace of mind” or “I have no time for this” are unacceptable in 2026. This is not a year like any other. It’s a year where unseen forces in the backstage of life conspire to uplift us, to support us and to nurture us. Why wouldn’t we take advantage of it? The universe wants us to expand, to succeed in our aspirations, to realize our dreams and to feel unlimited joy – even if we believe that we cannot do that. Let’s look at each of the previous excuses.  “I’m too old for this beeep” is a preferred reason offered by the conditioned mind to remind us of our old and outdated belief system that we have lived past our prime and that we cannot evolve past that. That’s a fallacy. If you look online, you can see a ton of examples of people achieving impossible feats, after passing their prime years.  “I need my peace of mind” is another typical excuse offered by the conditioned mind. It is reminding us of our tendency to relax after a hard day’s work. Paid work is typically associated with hard effort, and the conditioned mind is subtly suggesting that following our passions in life requires effort. This belief is illogical and out of context. Like a seasoned used-cars salesperson, the conditioned mind fails to mention that the effort in following our passions and purpose in life is liberating and uplifting. There is no way we can compare the effort involved in paid work with the effort expended while pursuing our life’s dreams and aspirations.  “I have no time” is actually more objective. Most people today don’t have enough time to pursue what makes them happy. However, what kind of life is worth living if your work takes up most of your time during the day, not leaving enough time for you. If your work is paying well, you will accumulate wealth that you will probably not enjoy. If it is important to you, you will make time. The saying “work hard, play hard” is nonsense and it used to drive me nuts with its faulty logic. Fortunately, I have accepted it as one of the things that don’t affect me anymore. Working hard so that you may be compensated far below your value for the work you put in, is not balanced by playing hard. It leads to a nervous breakdown. The ability to work to sustain yourself while being able to care for your family and friends is a balancing act while living on our Polarized Prison Planet and sustained by our conditioned mind. We need to begin applying ourselves while prioritizing self-care. What do we want from life? How do we want to live? If answering those questions hits a brick wall in the form of “it is what it is” then there is something fundamentally wrong with our lives. Life is not some unyielding thing that cannot be changed. It is totally malleable by free will and by following our Heart. Life IS change. Why shouldn’t we change our circumstances in life? If we don’t like them, we can change them. And if we don’t like them, but don’t change them, then we will continue paying the price for them. We need to relearn how to live and reframe our lives. And we need to prioritize our goals and passions in life over any other activity as much as possible. Business as usual is unsustainable from now on.

Escaping the Polarized Prison Planet: Awakening to Galactic Citizenship

As my creative work is progressing and I'm immersing myself within it, I'm noticing an increase in my core vibration, which manifests itself like some liquid within my consciousness, that imbues its content with a sense of purpose, blotting out the conditioned mind.

I believe that this is a very basic, very simple expression of the complexity of how I feel in this moment. I believe that this is the first phase of growing up into the role of a galactic citizen. This process is founded on many individual spiritual awakenings, that manifest like the cracks in the egg from which the hatchling tries to break free. In a way I’m breaking out of my own polarized prison.

Matt from “Planet Phoenix Podcast” on YouTube asked me what I mean by living on a “Polarized Prison Planet”. That was something I didn’t expect and thought that I had made that abundantly clear, but unfortunately, I didn’t. Oh well, I am reminded yet again, that we are all works in progress and our perceptions are sometimes clouded by what we believe. In this case my own perception was clouded by what I believed to be self-explanatory. Not really, apparently.

It’s not that Earth is a galactic prison planet. No, on the contrary! It is a playground where free will is encouraged. We are feeling the weight of the choices we make while experiencing and manifesting different viewpoints and perspectives on Earth, that are teaching us about the greater, wider existence that we are part of. It’s just that not everybody feels that they have this opportunity to be truly free, because of the rigidness of the conditioned mind and the ego. Simply put, but increasingly challenging to get in its whole extent, due to ego’s subconscious as well as unconscious interference in our reality perception, the concept of the “Polarized Prison Planet” refers to the fact that we have all imprisoned ourselves within a self-made prison of our own devices – the conditioned mind. That prison is unique to each one of us, made up of individual belief systems that our ego has created throughout our different lifetimes. These belief systems, just like the ego, evolve uniquely in each lifetime we experience and are the result of the rudimentary process we undergo while living on Earth, to gather all parts of our consciousness, as an incomplete and emerging aspect of unity consciousness. This incompleteness is causing within us feelings of separation from each other, and we are therefore forcefully inclined to polarize on a specific viewpoint, whatever that may be, to the exclusion of others. We have specific rigid viewpoints that are the result of our own belief systems we have in life, that formed based intimately on the unique internal consciousness landscape within us. Other humans on Earth may have different belief systems and this creates friction through polarization. We all think that we know better. The ego’s polarization stems from a fragmented internal consciousness landscape that doesn’t allow the emergence of neither the openness nor the acceptance that is necessary to perceive and combine all viewpoints, both ours and theirs. Hence, we all live on a “Polarized Prison Planet” or a PPP to remember it easier. Thank you, Matt, for showing me the need to elaborate on that.

If we realized that we are all living on a PPP, then we might be more inclined to have an open mind regarding viewpoints and perspectives that don’t make sense to us through the mind and try to grok them with the Heart. Every polarized concept has aspects that we might like or dislike. The overall impression and understanding of them is what polarizes us. It is important to note here, that polarization occurs within the mind. The Heart has no such predicament, because it is not tied up by illusionary concepts that immobilize it. Guided by the conditioned mind, we gravitate toward what we like and push away or reject what we don’t like. Unfortunately, what we don’t recognize in this process is that we don’t polarize for and against other humans and their opinions which do or don’t reflect ours. We polarize for and against parts of our own self and project this belief onto other humans.

Let’s take for example the concept of Origami, which is a sheet of paper, that, when folded (and sometimes partially pulled apart), reveals a three‑dimensional shape. Or a paper fortune‑teller (also called a “cootie‑catcher”) – a folded paper device that, when the sides are pulled apart, reveals different pictures or messages, giving the impression of a little 3‑D “window” of possibilities. Or a paper accordion (concertina) – a thin strip of paper folded back‑and‑forth. When the folds are pulled apart, the strip can extend to a meter or more while the alternating pleats give it a three‑dimensional, wave‑like shape. It’s a common, inexpensive party prop that can be stored compactly and then “unzipped” into a long, 3‑D ribbon‑like form. All these examples live within us. They are a multidimensional implementation of universal consciousness that resides as a fractal core from which our own consciousness emerges as a drop from the sea of consciousness. We project this fractal core of All That Is through our true Self into the external 3D world, passing through the ego and the conditioned mind as incomplete thoughts and actions, expressing itself from the vantage point of our limited 3D self.

The sooner we realize that the sooner we begin to align our lives with our core frequency. We begin to work on ourselves, while having compassion with ourselves, recognizing the value of self-love, not in a narcissistic way, but to support and reassure ourselves. Alleviating stress caused by the conditioned mind should be our priority. We need to release attachments, and the conditioned mind will not allow us to do that, if we don’t develop our ability to love and support ourselves. The stress from the never-ending struggle for survival, which I’m sure everybody is embroiled in to the degree that applies to each individual situation, must come to an end.

This is not about "thriving" in chaos, although it is certainly possible. It's about increasing our odds of surviving and building a more resilient life in a time of uncertainty through accepting, nurturing and supporting the self. It's about the conscious shift from being a passive experiencer of circumstances and events to active beings, manifesting our destinies and not accepting them, believing that they are inevitable. This process can be hard work, but incredibly empowering. We were not meant to endure suffering for its own sake. We were meant to become creative in divine time and to wrestle back our own sovereignty from a conditioned mind that has taken a life of its own like a runaway train and won’t leave us in peace to follow our own Heart.

Once we have succeeded in lowering the interference from the condition mind, by doing what we love and by being how we love, then joy settles in. We feel joy and appreciation when we look at other humans, our loved ones, our co-workers and people we used to dislike because we are happy ourselves. We understand other humans are here to do and be similar to what we are doing and being. We then focus on how we feel, instead of endlessly worrying about stuff over which we have no control over. We recognize patterns in the current chaos of life, that makes it negotiable. We realize that chaos is not a set of unknown and uncontrollable forces in our life. Chaos is merely an accumulation of forces that we don’t understand yet. For example, people used to think in the distant past that a storm occurs when humans offend the gods. Today, we know, that storms are caused by meteorological events and circumstances, and they can be predicted to a certain degree. In time we will learn more about storms and perhaps, we might be able to control the weather itself. This is food for thought, because it means that it can be applied to all chaotic and unknown events in life. Knowledge is liberating. Knowledge is paramount. The conditioned mind can be a metaphor for an ancient human, who fears the storm because he or she offended the gods. The conditioned mind causes intense and unreasonable fears, making our lives miserable, when worry may be unwarranted – which is true in many cases.

OK, you might ask. What now? What do we do about that insane, irrational fear? Good question. We should focus on nurturing ourselves and persevere in the face of the unknown. Obviously not during a storm, where lives may be at stake, but during everyday situations, where we feel anxiety for example, facing the unknown in a job interview, when perhaps our survival is at stake or so we think. Another example could be the state of economy or the increasing cost of living or walking alone in a dark alley on a moonless night. The conditioned mind feeds us reasons to fear someone or something, but it never feeds us reasons to feel secure. This is when we must utilize the opportunity to persevere. Every time we do that, we might feel more fear. You might ask, why in God’s name should we do something that brings us more fear and anxiety? It is simple, because the longer we resist the conditioned mind, the more acute the fear and anxiety become. However, at the same time, the more we resist the conditioned mind, the more resilient we become. The more resilient we become, the less fear we feel over time, because the conditioned mind will stop pestering us, like somebody becoming tired of knocking on the door and rattling at the doorknob.

It is not easy. I know first-hand how aggressive the conditioned mind can be and how insanely intense fear and anxiety can become, but I also know, that we can persevere enough to weaken the conditioned mind and its tools fear and anxiety. As Cicero said, practice makes perfect.

Now, the most important step at this time we can do to turbocharge our life is to apply ourselves. After we gained a hard-fought victory over the conditioned mind, life will seem less chaotic, because we have recognized options in the chaos. Options mean opportunities to change our lives. It doesn’t mean that life is going to be miraculously easy once we have resisted our conditioned mind. No, but in words that could have sprung forth from the conditioned mind, this resistance is giving us a fighting chance to turn our lives around and live by the principles of perseverance and resilience. Again, it is not easy, but it will become easier over time as long as we persist.

Alright, let’s come back to the thought of applying ourselves. You might ask what this might have to do with polarization and the conditioned mind. A lot, I would say. Once the conditioned mind is held at bay sufficiently, we can focus on our own evolution, our own betterment and address all these little or big character flaws we have. With the conditioned mind in charge of our lives, we are not becoming aware of those character flaws and the damage they create while we interact and relate to other beings and most importantly how we relate to our own selves. It is easy to understand how character flaws affect our relationships, but we miss a very important fact in the process. The conditioned mind is keeping us from loving and appreciating our own self. Without self-love we rob ourselves of the foundation of life and the ability to love others appropriately. Just like a solid house needs a strong foundation, so do we need an unshakable belief in our self, and self-love and self-appreciation will achieve that. We can’t love others appropriately and completely without loving and appreciating ourselves.

Resisting and gradually weakening and erasing the conditioned mind creates the conditions for the unburdened mind, along with self-empowerment, sovereignty and a better life through the application of self. The conditioned mind will think “why do you want to learn Chinese? You can’t do that. You better focus on your work, because soon the performance review is due and your manager will not be happy.” Or “You really want to learn how to play the piano? Don’t you have enough things to do to care for your family?” Or “You want to go back to college and study engineering? Aren’t you happy with your life as a teacher?” The list is endless and little by little it is eroding our sense and appreciation of self, creating a disconnect between the self and the ego, as the consciousness-focusing authority within us. Applying ourselves is the next logical step in life after we disable and erase the conditioned mind. Learning about ourselves and the aspects of the universe to which we feel most attracted to, is something wonderful. Leading the life of a couch potato as I did in the past, is not attractive to me anymore. Been there, done that. It’s now time for more. We can all apply ourselves and find ways to learn, ways to work on ourselves and ways to love each other appropriately. Before we know it, we realize that we have jumped off that hamster wheel of life, having broken the chains of the conditioned mind that bound us to it. There is no need to run endlessly on the hamster wheel of life repeating old and outdated programs. Now, the only things that matter are loving our self, loving others and the wisdom we extract from living while we apply ourselves. What else is there?

A New Beginning in 2026: A Journey of Health, Purpose, and Higher Vibration

Since the last episode, I have been under an intense internal pressure. This pressure is not anxiety or stress, although it has a subtle undertone of stress. I am seeing my life more clearly after a long time.
I can see where I was last year when my body was nearly destroyed and my presence on Earth was threatened by taking Ozempic for seven months. I can see that I allowed my self to believe that my obesity could be cured by pharmaceutical intervention. It was a fallacy for which I paid dearly. This suffering has forced me to research my condition holistically and devise a plan of action to wrestle back my health. This plan of action, which I am constantly amending, consists of quality nutrition and targeted food supplements, is complemented by a plan of being, some could say a plan of passion, where I heal my body, and surrender to the things I love, as well as to my purpose in this life. I can now focus on my creativity without any distractions. While I thought earlier that I did, I realized that in truth I wasn’t. I realized that I didn’t perceive myself clearly. I realized that if I don’t feel joy constantly then I’m not being my true Self. But I’m getting there.
I understand now that healing is holographic. It affects the whole spectrum of the subtle bodies we have at our disposal. These Great Changes that we are all going through affect us differently based on the different mindset, Heart-set and needs we all have. If we stop for a moment thinking about the suffering we have endured and think about what we have gained in the process, then we will embrace both the suffering and the process to the degree we understand and grok its benefits for us. Then, we will have a way to move on.
As I mentioned many times before, life is not working against us, nor is it working for us. Life just is. We exist to gain experience, which in time becomes wisdom. How we do that, is up to us, but it shouldn’t be a chore for us. Experience can be gained joyfully and if we don’t, then we need to find out why. Spirit, like the Wizard of Oz behind the scenes, is generating an assortment of experiences for us, based on a multitude of factors that are unique to every one of us. These experiences are tailored to reveal to us our true Self, which is unique in all its aspects, making each one of us unique and precious.
Myself, I finally understand more viscerally, who I am and what I can contribute to the whole and to its layers, whether it is my own personal environment, my friends, my neighbours, my community and even farther if possible, feasible or necessary. These layers of awareness and their individual microcosms are automatically revealed through our experiences in life, and this revelation expands our understanding of All That Is.
This revelation creates a whole range of insights ranging from individual behavioural aspects to collective behavioural aspects, my own ego’s and personas’ shortcomings and those of my friends, neighbours and other humans I know. I am seeing more of what I can do, more of what I shouldn’t do and more of how I can be and how I shouldn’t be. The clearer perception of the whole construct of “doing” and “being”, as well as its inherent balance is extremely inspiring and eye-opening. It uncovers so many possibilities that cataloguing and weighing them with the mind would take absurdly long. This is the mind’s way anyway and it has become outdated. Most of you might not even understand what I am referring to and for good reason. That’s fine. We are all works in progress. Just as I can see the potential in myself, I can also see the potential in all humans. You might wonder how I can do that. After all, I don’t know you per se. You don’t know me either. Well, it’s irrelevant whether I know you or not. That’s because I am you and you are me. If I can be like this, so can you. If others can be like this, so can I. We are all humans and we share essentially the same biology on the same planet. That makes us family on a collective level. Our shared destiny on this planet is to come together united as family, as one species of like-minded and like-Hearted individuals. Our individual destiny is to express our passions in life, our specific purpose as a collection of what we love doing and how we love being on Earth.
Recognizing a whole magnitude of layers of awareness and assimilating their microcosms will eventually lead to an internal explosion of consciousness expansion for all of us. Living a limited life of interacting on one or two layers with each other is definitely going to be a thing of the past. That’s because realization follows awareness. We can’t unsee what we have seen. The more we allow ourselves to feel joy, the more we can appreciate existence. The joy that we feel, naturally invites interaction on multiple layers with each other, discovering even more about each other, things that we suspected and things that we didn’t. In any case, having discovered these infinite layers through our enhanced Heart sensor, will increase out vibration manifold.
All this has become very pronounced inside me since the beginning of this year 2026. I feel compelled to share my journey on this planet, observed from specific vantage points; those of Consciousness, expressed through the mind and the Heart, Spirit, expressed by my Inner Voice, and my physical body expressed by its degree of health. I will explain in practical terms how my mental, emotional and physical health evolves through deliberate choices, so that you may have an understanding of how these choices have affected me so far. During this sharing, I will use as much mind-based vocabulary as possible to make this information accessible and usable in a practical way.
That said, I’m not sure if you also feel that this year of 2026 is also a new beginning for you. Well, whether you feel it or not, buckle up. Things are going to get more hectic than ever. I wish you could all peek inside my Head and feel inside my Heart so that you may appreciate what I think, and how and what I feel. Unfortunately, I might not be able to convey all that to every one of you. Like for example a friend of mine whom I appreciate and respect very much, has chosen to stay within the confines of third density consciousness and the conditioned mind, because external reality has become overwhelming. They clearly believe, that staying grounded in external reality does not allow either the time or the effort to feel a higher vibration, requiring a complete focus on said reality. As Bashar said, it’s not this or that. It’s this and that. There is no need to choose between two things, and accepting external reality does not negate the option of pursuing a higher vibration, that’s overcoming the conditioned mind’s compelling case of sticking with that external reality. If that question arises within us, then these two things are the textbook definition of polarity and getting stuck on external reality is what we all need to overcome. This year would not be a new beginning if we didn’t believe that we can change and affect our own reality. We can and we will. It is not feasible anymore to stay stuck in negativity. Business as usual in all its expressions is not sustainable anymore. The world is coming apart at the seams precisely because of that.
All this may sound weird to you, and I realize that some of you might misunderstand me. If you don’t like where this endeavour of mine is heading, then it might not be for you anymore. However, if all this sounds even remotely genuine to you or if you have felt something similar, I invite you all to become beacons of joy in a world filled with turmoil. It doesn’t mean that we feel joy and don’t accept external reality, foolishly defying it. No, it means that while we do accept said reality, we feel a kind of joy that’s coming from the universe through our Heart. It means that we feel joy despite of external reality. We don’t rely on our limited selves anymore while accepting said reality, depleting ourselves of strength and willpower while doing that. No, we rely on the strength and willpower that we gain through the Heart, while following our passions in life and feeling joy in doing so. This is the new paradigm that we must all discover for ourselves. If we continue doing things the old way, then we can’t feel all that’s in store for us if we let go of the past. It isn’t easy. I speak from experience. And I’m not done yet with my own past and my own attachments. However, I noticed a tremendous increase in joy when I consciously decided and chose to expand my online activities, based on my passions in life. Sharing about my experiences reversing Diabetes Type 2 is one thing. Sharing about Contact is another thing. Sharing my experiences within the infinite Sea of Consciousness that we are all part of is another thing. We all must find those “things” that bring us joy in life. They are built into our soul blueprint and they are ours to discover. Nobody can take them away from us. Nothing can restrict them but us.
So, if you are still looking for a way to change your situation for the better, while struggling with life, take a deep breath and recognize your inner tyrant which is the mouthpiece of your conditioned mind. Accept that you are struggling in a seemingly never-ending ordeal, racing to appease your boss with your performance, pay your bills, care for your loved ones and use the little time that remains to finally care for yourself. Accept the great cost to yourself that you’re paying to fulfil all your responsibilities. All this is wearing your down and undermining your spirit. Well, you might say at this point, “of course it’s wearing me down, are you nuts”? To which I would reply that it shows to other people. People see you, understand and appreciate you for who you really are. Don’t focus on those who don’t understand you or those who are too busy with their own issues to care for you. Those who are not clouded enough by their own issues or have learned to look beyond them, they see you. And those who you don’t know, who you have never seen in your life or so you believe, guess what they see you as well. And they all appreciate you. They do indeed. Whether you accept that as well, the way you accept your gruesome external reality is another matter. But if you do, then you might feel a little bit better, and if you nurture that feeling, then you might be persuaded further to look for options that might make your life easier, because you come face to face with the realization that you can’t take it anymore. Accepting consciously that life is wearing you down will naturally trigger a resolve within you that you never thought you had. But all this may take time. This realization that you can’t take it anymore is emerging within you in divine time after you have exhausted all options that you can perceive with the mind.
It took me almost a year struggling with my health until I found ways to heal myself on my own. I am still struggling, but my health is much better than before. I have reversed Diabetes Type 2 through empowering knowledge that uplifted my spirit and I am looking for more ways to become even more healthy. I couldn’t have achieved this, if I didn’t apply myself. I found a resolve within me, that made me apply myself. I went to great lengths researching my condition online, verifying and validating every little insight until I build a detailed knowledgebase with which I formulated a lifestyle that has enhanced my health. But this is not the end. It is just the beginning. Realizing that I can reverse a debilitating condition like Diabetes Type 2, that my doctor warned me years ago that it’s not reversible, taught me to believe in the impossible. Yes, what we have been taught to believe may not be real at all. Just like the external reality that has been wearing us down. It’s not what we see, it’s how we see it. Now I am working on addressing other issues in my life, applying myself further and chasing all those impossibilities that I came to accept earlier. No more expounding the impossible. This year I am beginning to reverse every little thing that has become a menace to my true Self over so many years. I will continue to apply myself looking for options to better myself. Isn’t this part of why we came to this Polarized Prison Planet? “To Strive, to Seek and not to Yield?” Thank you, Alfred, you said it before me. We are strong souls. We deliberately descended into the worst nightmare ever, an out-of-control Polarized Prison Planet. Let’s have a prison break, which will make our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren look up to us like we are some kind of demigods, because we are going to break free from our self-imposed prison and teach them how to never live as inmates, by taking their own lives into their hands and apply themselves. We have to learn how to apply ourselves, instead of accepting external reality without finding options or telling ourselves that they don’t exist. They do exist and it’s up to us to find them.

Break Free in 2026: Reclaim Your Dreams and Follow Your Inspired Heart

We have just experienced the beginning of a new year. 2026 is officially here. Whether you’ve heard that 2026 has a special significance or not, whether you believe in astrological predictions or spiritual cycles, it doesn’t matter. At some point you will feel it in your bones, like I do. 2026 is the beginning of something wonderful inside us, something that is already shaping our hopes, building on our dreams and purging our frustrations from the past. We are moving into the New Consciousness paradigm. The old way of doing something, whatever that may be, through the governing principle of the ego is coming to an end, yielding control of self to the Heart.

I have always known that change is created within us, and I have recently been feeling this truth leaving the realm of a mind-based understanding and moving into a Heart-felt knowing. There is a difference between agreeing with the mind and knowing with the Heart. This year is the year when it all begins. Feel free to substitute the word “all” with anything that the conditioned mind has robbed you of in the past. This is a new beginning for all of us. More people feel now differently about their options in life. Long-term despair, frustration, depression and submission to the old ways become a thing of the past, as the old ways die within us and all around us.

Let’s remember for a moment how manifestation works. A desire is born within the Heart. Our mind picks it up eagerly, spinning the thread further, thinking about ways on how to manifest that desire, working in conjunction with the Heart to imagine all kinds of beautiful scenarios that represent a possible future. We feel good about it. And then, out of the blue, the ego swoops in with its attachments, poisoning the mind by invoking and sustaining its conditioning. Suddenly, a long list of reasons pops up within the mind, opposing the feasibility of that desire, by presenting seemingly valid reasons, that convince us not to pursue this thread of thought any further. Sometimes the ego does that in a very abrupt way, like presenting a cease-and-desist order.

Does that sound familiar? I bet it does. Myself, I have been down that path numerous times in my life, persuading myself that my desires are not worth manifesting, or if they are worth it, it would be too difficult to realize them, paying a price in time, effort and even more suffering. No more. I am done with sacrificing my own dreams, silently acquiescing to the status quo, that has shaped me. There comes a time in everybody’s life, where childhood dreams suddenly matter again, where the battle between the conditioned mind and the inspired Heart is fought out mercilessly, fuelled by a lifetime of pain and suffering. We slowly become aware that this pain and suffering throughout a lifetime is caused by the conditioned mind. While we become disillusioned by the inherently fake reasons the conditioned mind uses to oppose the inspired Heart at the behest of the ego, we slowly decide and then choose the inspired Heart to lead our lives. We are not going to keep up this inner conflict any longer. It doesn’t add any value to our lives. On the contrary, it keeps us locked within the illusion of our 3 by 3-foot self-imposed prison, wasting our lives away when there would be so much to gain and experience, if the conditioned mind would finally shut up allowing us to do what the inspired Heart is telling us.

There is only one way to find out. We can decide and choose on principle to trust our inspired Heart before the conditioned mind gets in the way. From the moment we start trusting our inspired Heart, we are putting nails on the conditioned mind’s coffin in a process that reclaims our power. After this happens, the conditioned mind will be less interfering in future, while we get into the habit of trusting the inspired Heart, thus setting the foundation for a new life filled with abundance, joy and love. We were never meant to live a life at the sidelines, cheering others as they pass the finish line. We were meant to run freely and eventually pass that finish line ourselves, together with and alongside all human beings.

I have been reminded in the most visceral way that there is still struggle ahead. On the morning of New Year’s Day, I woke up with a moderate-intensity nightmare fresh in my head. This shows that there is still deep-seated stress within me that I need to actively heal. Life on Earth is not a walk through a rose garden. However, I take solace in the fact, that the dream was not intense. It seems to me that my subconscious was just pointing to unresolved issues and still resilient survival fears. All the more reason, to trust my gut feeling and avoid getting attached to the conditioned mind. I don’t want to hear from my conditioned mind anymore “do this or else”. I prefer to follow my Heart even more focused than before, sensing a feeling like “do this and live again” from my Heart. This state of being following our unconditional surrender to the inspired Heart is liberating and uplifting, bringing a smile to our faces, whereas submitting to the conditioned mind feels like carrying the dull weight of a grief unknown, that has dark and murky roots.

Having been chained by a lifetime of conditioning through parents, society, managers, television, and our whole environment, spins a subtle but powerful web of restraints that tightens around us at the slightest tremble of the web, while we try to break free. I don’t know about you, but I’m increasingly getting more tired and feel more aversion towards those restraints. I’m starting to resent them. Not just because they rob me of my freedom, but also because they are increasingly robbing me of my soul. Life is dull when it shouldn’t. I feel that the time has come for me to cut those restraints that I myself spun around me. Yes, spun, because they are subtle like threads of a spider web. Sadly, they get their power from me. I lend those restraints the strength of conviction and powers of persuasion to keep myself in check, fuelled by my own fear of the unknown. As I wrote in my first book, the ego is like an iceberg. Ninety percent of it is underwater. Just like an iceberg has a different density compared to seawater, so does the ego exhibit denser aspects that we can’t easily recognize. We can only become aware of them through day-to-day friction with its attachments. Sometimes this friction is barely recognizable, but sometimes it is shaking up our existence like the Tower card of a tarot deck. It all boils down to the ego and its attachments. Sometimes these attachments cannot easily be pried from its grip, unless we persist softening that grip through inner work and abundant patience.

So, what can we do about it? In my case I can only surrender further to my inspired Heart and find solace in its reassuring message: “do this and live again”. Life’s circumstances have brought me to a crossroad that doesn’t leave many options. Just as I easily materialized over time those restraints within me, I can choose to make them disappear with the same ease, can’t I?

I didn’t want to make this episode depressing. On New Year’s Eve I felt empowered. During my traditional meditation at midnight when the old year dies and the new year is born I had even a Contact experience in a setting filled with celebration and joy, that exemplified the power of the unburdened mind. I went to bed happy and without negative thoughts, but when I woke up with the memory of a nightmare, my subconscious clearly alerted me to unresolved issues that I needed to heal and integrate. The Tower card of a tarot deck.

Only when I went for a walk to clear my head and meditated afterwards, I felt better. This was not how I envisioned spending New Year’s Day. It felt like a lifetime of conditioning came crashing down on me, spearheaded by that ugly and eerily familiar survival mindset. One thing is certain. Such life events tend to humble you immensely. I have a lot more compassion and understanding for other humans going through similar experiences. I have also a lot of respect for them once they manage to break free of their own chains.

Those chains we bind ourselves with can be released by a simple choice within us. It is not easy and takes a lot of courage. Yes, there’s this word again, courage. I feel like the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz. I understand now that courage is not lack of fear, but a compelling nudge to act despite fear, taking one step after the other while being immersed in this mindset of senseless fear, guided by the inspired Heart. I can hear my inner voice shaking with laughter, saying “shut up and walk, nobody is going to die today”. And I’m thinking that I didn’t sign up for this when I incarnated on this world. “Yes, you did”, my inner voice said. “You just don’t remember it”.

Oh well, I must admit, that this small interaction with my inner voice, the voice of my true Self, has been empowering in its own way. And perhaps, all this is unreasonable. You know, making such a fuss about New Year’s Day. After all, it only marks the passing of three hundred and sixty-five days, in other words it marks a full revolution of the Earth around our sun. Let’s view this from the perspective of a galactic citizen. Every day is a new day, why should we celebrate just the first day of a new year? This appears as well to be a conditioned notion. Every day should be the beginning of something new and inspiring. Every day should be cherished, celebrated, lived with a Heart wide open and a mind clear and unburdened. I’m thinking that if I can condition myself to believe this, then I can counteract my own conditioning of experiencing a string of three hundred and sixty-five days mundane and negative days that is broken by one cherished and celebrated day in this context. How weird the conditioned mind can be… And how weary it can make us.

Perhaps this is why my Heart was yearning to be in a frozen wilderness, like Alaska or even the Arctic, enduring cold winds along polar bears. Don’t take me wrong, I love a tropical beach and the sea itself. However, I always had a soft spot for such a cold and barren environment. Perhaps my true Self was trying to tell me to be an explorer. I can imagine walking in cold-weather gear performing experiments in the Arctic with a huge smile on my face and then walking back to the scientific outpost with an even bigger smile on my face. While exploring the external environment, I could explore my own internal environment, the domain of my own consciousness. This intense, dense and visceral third density consciousness environment is exactly what we need to acquire wisdom and getting to know ourselves in the process. One could argue that getting to know ourselves is more important than getting to know others and our environment. Astonishingly, they wouldn’t be wrong, it would be a valid perspective, for everything around us is the result of frequency modulation and consciousness. Let’s remember, that it is not by reading a textbook that we know things. It is by experiencing them first-hand, forming perspectives through the contrast of life and thereby putting all puzzle pieces of our experiential data together. This way we can watch the puzzle become alive within us, empowered by experience and eternalized by memory. And we are not alone in this quest. All of us are on our own quest to find ourselves. Sometimes we get help from others and sometimes we must work on our own, piecing together our own, divine puzzle of our true Self in the darkness, aided only by the light shining from our Heart.

At the end of this episode, I am reminded that life is precisely what we make of it. What we do in life matters. We didn’t come here against our wishes. Nobody forced us to incarnate. Therefore, it would be futile to complain. We have two options. We can either cease our efforts to evolve and check out, or we can double our efforts with Heart-led inspiration and look what’s behind the curtain of fear. I for one can’t wait to rip that curtain apart in 2026.

A Plan of Being: Love, Gratitude and the Golden Age

A time for reflection and introspection. This is what we're going through. Christmas is traditionally spent with family and loved ones. We share in each other’s love and can feel good about ourselves and the people around us. Unfortunately for many years the original meaning of Christmas as well as its experience have been diluted, skewed and disempowered. It is now less about the love that binds us and more about the attachments to that love. It’s about thinking what gifts we buy our loved ones, what gifts we buy for ourselves, where we will go to celebrate Christmas, what we will wear to look our best or how we will behave or appear to make the best impression on others at the expense of the light-heartedness within us when we are about to celebrate a feast of love, hope and joy.

So, what has changed? Well, we have changed. We have become less caring for each other because of the demands of life, a life that we have complicated to the extreme. Life was easier to navigate in the past. The cost of living has increased extremely making it almost absurd to live. The cold and ruthless way with which our society is pitting us against each other is astonishing. Managers against employees, politicians against voters, companies against consumers, governments against citizens, etc., the list is endless. All the above claim to respect each other, but unfortunately, the hypocrisy and application of double standards, with which man treats man is apparent in all interactions. However, that’s not all. We accept the status quo. It is not just concerning, it is dangerous for the coherence of society, as one by one, the social pillars are being eroded. Well-being, social justice and community engagement are crumbling away, leaving a void that the above-mentioned ruthlessness is only too eager to fill. Business as usual is undermining social foundations, based on our conditioned mind, and it is only worsening our condition, sustaining a vicious circle that is challenging to break free from.

One might say that we need a new plan of action for humanity. Plan of Action? Why can we not just be who we really are, without vengefulness, without malice, just pure being? We need a plan of being. Let’s set the past aside for a moment and just live in the present. Let’s live for a future that we can be looking forward to, a future that’s yearning to be realized from the sad, desperate remnants of the old ways of life that have become detrimental to living a life with meaning. We live in a world with many interconnected crises, ranging from survival crisis, mental health crisis, emotional health crisis, uncertainty crisis, thus increasing worry, concern and anxiety and exacerbating our predicament. Worry leads to ineffective and narrow-minded decisions, while restricting rational thought and increasing separation from each other. The perception of a survival threat can bring us out of balance, frantically trying to address it, while we are increasingly becoming more and more separated from each other.

It is high time to start savouring the world, instead of drowning and clinging to it. Let’s flip the script. Let’s vow to take more care of ourselves than others whenever possible, so that we may nurture ourselves to feel better. If we do that consciously then we will feel better. Our obligations will still exist, but they will exert less control over our mental and emotional health. When we feel good ourselves then we will be able to appreciate our environment more. Our loved ones will suddenly become more important than they were earlier. We will appreciate nature. We will appreciate our home. We will appreciate our job. And most importantly we will begin feeling gratitude regarding what we already have. We will consider our loving family, our job, and our Self from a completely different perspective. Our Self has been with us through innumerable incarnations. It is literally our BFF, our Best Friend Forever. No other friend comes even close to the BFF concept. It might sound weird to think of our Self as something or somebody external or separate, but that’s normal from the viewpoint of the ego. From the ego’s perspective, the Self is separate, as the ego tends to label anything outside itself as external or separate, until we learn to be more of our true Self and less of being the ego. If we think about our Self in this way, then we will feel a soft, cozy and warm feeling as a response from our Self. It is a response to the recognition of the importance of our Self in so many ways.

The only obstacle to the recognition of the immense value of the Self is the ego. If this concept is challenging to accept, then the ego is interfering. However, persistence will succeed and overcome any challenge that comes from the ego.

Learning to be more of our true Self brings us closer to it. It will bring us also closer to our fellow humans and all other beings. That’s because separation begins within us, because of our internal parts of consciousness that are not integrated. Separation is not a visible, external thing like the trunk of a tree. The tree’s roots are invisible, yet the trunk is an extension of those roots, leading us to believe that the visible trunk is the tree, when in fact the tree trunk stems from the roots. Like so many things in life we have misperceived and therefore misunderstood their value and their place in the universe and within us. Being less ego and more of our true Self aligns us with our infinite existence. It opens our awareness to more than what’s visible, allowing us to feel life, instead of perceiving it through our physical senses.

Being the ego is both a blessing and a curse. It allows us to prioritize ourselves by focusing on our physical integrity and our physical needs in third density consciousness. This narrow focus on life enables our immersion into a psychological state of being that allow us to focus on the details of life. That’s the blessing of the ego, without which we’d be powerless to survive in this ruthless and unforgiving third density consciousness environment. The visceral intensity of the details in our experiences is teaching us life lessons. Through those details we can perceive our life experiences beyond the obvious and thus we become aware of the backstage of life. We discover through life experiences that whatever we perceive with our physical eyes and by extension through our physical senses is not all there is to life. We gradually become aware of the fact that we place too much value on focusing on the perceptions of our physical senses. We also become aware of our conditioning through our ego’s belief systems. We understand that those belief systems are created by the ego to keep us exploring life from the perspective of gathering life experiences in a process that leads from the detail to the whole. That anchor in physical reality that the ego represents is the curse of the ego.

There comes a time though, a divine time, when all of us understand all the above We begin feeling gratitude for the ego and give it a pat on the back for having our back all those years in all our incarnations into physical reality on Earth. We are grateful to the ego for allowing us to learn the hard way and to become aware of the option of consciously perceiving what’s invisible, after we have experienced subconsciously what’s invisible, accepting it as visible as it moves from the darkness into plain sight, realizing all along that life and its experiences are mostly unknown and therefore invisible. Once we reach that level of comprehension about our limited existence on Earth, we can begin comprehending our infinite presence on Earth by looking for our true Self and for ways to embody it, deconstructing our belief systems in the process. This is a natural development and emerges in divine time.

The closer we are embodying our true Self, the closer we come to experiencing the fullness of life. The more we are living life striving to be our true Self the more we are exposed to aspects of it that we didn’t consciously experience before. We consciously recognize synchronicity in our lives, that we labelled as dumb luck earlier. We recognize the importance of love in our lives, that we thought was an important decoration of life. We recognize that beneath the complexity of our characters, we have more in common than we thought earlier and that whatever binds us together is much more compared to whatever seemingly separates us. We recognize that following our tendency to being attracted to the appearance of somebody without considering their essence is potentially a road to more pain and suffering. We recognize that we all have our own issues to work through in life and are more understanding of others. We recognize that burdening others with our own issues will lead to more pain and suffering for all involved. We recognize that assisting others without their consent will also lead to more pain and suffering for all involved. This internal recognition is based on our own life experience and couldn’t be ours without the innumerable incarnations on Earth. One does not become wise without having endured pain and suffering.

At this point you might ask yourselves, what the heck all this may have to do with Christmas. Christmas and by extension all celebrations that are rooted in any of Earth’s religions are opportunities and permission slips for us to move away from ego-based attachments to becoming our true Self, based on the meaning that they have for us. Christmas is a time of joy and happiness, a time to celebrate our bonds with our loved ones, a time to live and be in the present, a time to push aside the demands of our conditioned mind. Guess what, this is something the ego also allows, as part of our belief systems.

Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, two of the main celebrations of Islam, are celebrations of being connected to each other, celebrations of joy and charity, as well as celebrations of heeding God and sharing abundance with family. Ramadan is another Islamic festival and a significant aspect of Islam, promoting self-control during fasting, as well as moderation and simplicity. Diwali in Hinduism celebrates victory of light over darkness. Hannukah in Judaism also commemorates the triumph of light over darkness, reinforcing faith and hope. Beltane in Celtic tradition was a time to appreciate fertility, abundance and the flourishing of life. The Day of the Dead is a celebration in Mexico, blending Catholic traditions and ancient Aztec customs, honouring and paying respects to our ancestors. Inti Raymi in Incan tradition celebrates the sun god Inti and the arrival of the new year. It expresses gratitude for the past harvest and seeks blessings for the future.

No matter where we look, we are viscerally reminded that we are all the same, stuffed into different mindsets and Heart-sets and born into different cultures and societies that are built around different belief systems. This is the meaning that I personally get from Christmas and religious festivals from other religions. We are the same and we are all equals, grateful for our heritage, sustained by the knowledge passed down to us from our ancestors, empowered by hope for the future, tempered by respect in our relationships and immersed in love, that is far more than a decoration of life. Love binds us together, allows us to be more of who we are and fosters appreciation of everything, while expecting nothing in return.

All these enlightened perspectives that replace the current narrow-minded perspectives, which arise from “me versus you” and “us versus them”, require an internal rewiring that could not happen, if we didn’t experience life the hard way, while being many times left to our own devices and forced to constantly “work the problem”. We are at the precipice of a new consciousness, which is offering a new way of learning life’s lessons, a new way of how we feel within our skin, a new way of doing things and most importantly, a new way of being. All this has come at a cost. We have paid for this ability dearly, now let’s integrate this ability into our lives, feeling our way through it instead of thinking of solutions. We can initially appreciate our neighbours before we love them, understand them, before we help them if and when they need such help, thus paving the way of openly sharing and blending our hopes and aspirations with theirs. Approaching our neighbours can be through simple things, like saying hello to them and actually meaning it, or looking at them that says “I know” without saying it, conveying support and understanding regarding the common struggles we all face. Let’s overflow with love and compassion when we interact with neighbours, work colleagues or any human being for that matter, to the degree where it is appropriate. Hugging people which we don’t know for example is inappropriate, unless they indicate with their behaviour and communicate to us non-verbally, that it is appropriate and welcome. Let’s create a Golden Age within us, free from separation and conditioning, while more humans around us follow us and we all manifest that Golden Age collectively. Change comes from within. The external aspects and benefits of living in a Golden Age manifest first within ourselves.

The Sound of Silence Revisited: A Conversation with my Inner Voice

Again, I was planning to continue the healing thread that I meant to spin further with subtle ramifications in our lives. However, as I am guided by Spirit, heeding the advice of my inner voice, I decided to talk about silence and what it means in our lives.

This immense influx of insights was prompted by listening again to an iconic song of the sixties, that you might have heard at some point in your lives. I’m referring to “The Sound of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkel. It was a song, that was originally inspired by communication without essence, which enhanced the feeling of separation for the song writer, but contains so much more wisdom than humans could grasp 60 years ago.

The first feeling I had was that I cherish silence for a multitude of reasons, as I’m increasingly distancing myself from the meaningless chatter of people that talk without communicating, because their self-centred words don’t reach me. I am included in their plans to the degree that it suits them, even if that inclusion is based on something we share mutually. Our communication and interconnection can only be enhanced by opening up further and building like-minded communities, reflecting unity consciousness. The second impression was that it gives me the opportunity to chat with my inner voice and have mind-boggling conversations with it. Being open and honest with my true Self invites a depth to the conversation that would otherwise be impossible to achieve. It doesn’t matter how it starts and where it leads. What matters is that it cultivates this internal rapport between my limited self and the universe.

I will give you an example of an unexpected chat with my very own inner voice. It asked me to share this conversation.

Me: Hello, Self? What’s up? What do you want to chat about? Remember it was you who asked me to share this.

Inner Voice: I did and I don’t regret it. Regrets have no place within humans who love themselves having accepted all parts of them. There is no aversion towards parts they deem unworthy or bad in any way, because those are the parts that give meaning to their lives by imbuing meaning to the other parts, thereby uplifting the whole.

Me: What do you mean by whole? My whole self or the whole of humanity?

Inner Voice: I am amused that you thought that there is a difference. You should know by now, that there is none. Don’t you remember that different perspectives are the trademark of the current consciousness density? Learn to embrace different perspectives and blend them into a holistic vantage point that gives voice to multiple humans and follow that vector of thought and emotion to the future. No one gets it right initially, just as no one is acting completely from their own inner voice. What you deal with is a fabulous blend of perfection and imperfection, struggle and peace, voice and silence, and All That Is, supporting the evolution of many small seeds as they grow to become strong tall trees, all yearning to be close to the sun.

Me: Where did all this begin? I mean, this was originally intended to be about silence.

Inner Voice: Your limited mind is picking up on certain seemingly unrelated experiential triggers that open the door to more insights, until that door doesn’t fit anymore the wealth of insights that rush into your awareness. Before you know that door becomes a gateway, that allows even more insights to flood your limited self. This gateway becomes a floodgate in time until all precious insights wash away that floodgate and allow what’s compressed in your Heart to wash over you in a cleansing deluge of truth, beauty and reality.

Me: You know me better than I do my self. I do feel like that recently. Sometimes I feel the floodgate inside me, is aching with all that pressure that’s building up behind it, with lessons from multiple lifetimes accumulating and hopes, dreams and positive reassurances from a future that’s within my grasp, longing to be realized by my weary self.

Inner Voice: Now there’s a story that your limited mind tells your limited self. That future you’re referring to has always been within your grasp no matter how you justify it. It is your birthright, just as it is the birthright of all humans. What you perceived so far from life has been the result of the obscurity and opaqueness of your limited mind, complementing its experiential wisdom over many lifetimes, looking at the same things from multiple vantage points. For good reason. Struggling to find meaning is naturally attracting all parts of your limited self. Some you know of, as they are part of your conscious self, some others are scattered withing your subconscious self, having matured enough to present themselves in the current lifetime, yet others are still waiting for you to discover them in your unconscious self in other lifetimes. Evolution never ends and, in a way, you are doomed to experience awe and amazement while you slowly discover the brilliance of life after you cultivate the clarity that is necessary to perceive your own parts. Even these words that reach you through the vastness of your own Self are twisted in subtle ways that you don’t yet fully understand. Relax, everything will come to you in divine time, once your parts become integrated and fused within you in ways that they themselves innately understand, yielding a more inherent understanding of them to you. Just be honest and allow the process. You wouldn’t interrupt the fermentation process of the yogurt you make on your own, because you know that introducing elements that are not conducive to the proper flow of events would disrupt that process and the end-effect would be either neutral or detrimental, and not very beneficial.

Me: So much information, I don’t know what to say.

Inner Voice: Really? I don’t think so. Yes, you are perceiving me laugh, that’s because everything I am telling you I take from the wealth of information you have already accumulated. I haven’t even begun teaching you and there’s no need for that at this time. You already know what you need to know. You just have to dot the “I”s and cross the “T”s yourself and perceive the deeper meaning. And that’s none of my business. It’s all yours. No cheating. But take solace in the fact that there’s a divine time for everything, just like there’s a divine time for everybody. Nothing is out of place, and nothing is out of turn. Everything is interconnected and everything has more than one meaning. You just have to allow yourself the time to recognize it. Go with the flow without analyzing things. Experiencing all perspectives takes time and the more you allow this process, the more beneficial those experiences will work out for you. Find me after that.

The last statement came through with an intensity I didn’t expect. It felt like, I deliberately interrupted this chat by ending the communication on my part. It was too much to absorb and I intuitively noticed that it contained inter-relations that I hadn’t explored yet. Unfortunately, I allowed myself to dwell on them, and was taken out of the experiential state, leaving the “blade of grass” I’d been exploring. Perhaps, this was what my true Self wanted to show me. As you know, the “Blade of Grass” principle refers to experiencing concepts like distinct blades of grass and not exploring them with the mind or allowing it to be aroused from its slumber while we are immersed in our experience. For example, if we daydream about a car, and allow ourselves to stay in that state of being, we might want to allow the process to flow smoothly and not to judge, analyze or deduct. These are the mind’s tools. The mind thinks and by extension does, while the Heart merely experiences and thus just is. This feeling of being overwhelmed stems from not having achieved complete integration of the related “blades of grass” and allowing the mind to control this process, when it is woefully underqualified to do that. I began thinking with the mind and was not allowing the experiential process to proceed further. Oh well, it happens to the best of us. A disciplined mind is like a well-trained servant who knows when it’s time to fulfil its purpose and when it’s time to step out of a room discreetly when they are not needed. Another fact that’s detrimental to this process is that the mind is typically controlled by the ego, so when then process unfolds and the mind steps in, then it is safe to assume that the ego stepped in and at some point, caused uneasiness which may gradually evolve into resentment and rejection of the process. The ego doesn’t like any change which threatens its control over the mind and ultimately the limited self. The Heart is a potent threat to the ability of the Heart to maintain its control over the limited self, as unlike the mind it operates through surrendering to the infinite sea of unity consciousness, something that the ego wants to avoid at all costs as it would end the era of its control.

I decided to allow the Heart to explore the unrealized inter-relations sufficiently in divine timing, so that I might pick up the thread of this inner conversation on the same theme at a later time. This is how little bits of experience are alchemized in the Heart and converted into wisdom. Yet there is such joy to be found, when the inner voice is sharing the inner process of alchemy with us and we become consciously aware of it, perceiving the unfolding of wisdom within our awareness, instead of becoming aware of it after its subconscious unfolding. You might think that this is an awesome consciousness process and you would be totally right. As Z would say, this is so cool.

But how do we know, if we talk to our inner voice, which originates from our true Self or if we merely talk to our ego in disguise? Some people would say that’s easy to answer. Other people would say the opposite. However, there are a few things about that conversation we can assess. The overall mood we were in, the degree of easiness (and therefore the degree of surrendering to the process), with which the conversation was proceeding, the feelings that the inner voice was invoking, or whether the answers were surprising and unexpected, are all forming a background picture that would either point us to the mind or the Heart as the source of the inner voice. The limited self has access to a limited mind, which cannot grasp the thought processes behind the statements perceived from the inner voice and that invokes surprise. If we felt that we were talking to somebody else, then we were talking to our true Self. If we perceived that paradox with our limited minds sufficiently, the effect could be thrilling. The more thrilling the conversation felt, the closer we came to our true Self during that conversation. Also, were the feelings we had negative or positive? The ego operates from a selfish point of view, which doesn’t necessarily intend to harm other beings, but the feeling of separation is an intricate part of it. On the other hand, the Heart knows no feelings of separation, as it is always immersed in unity consciousness, and they won’t pop up in such a conversation with the true Self. If that conversation felt positive, infinite and without boundaries, unburdened and without conditioned thoughts, invoking feelings of freedom, then it is highly likely that the chat was with our true Self. On the other hand, if it felt negative, gloomy or merely neutral, it is highly likely, that this conversation we had was with a part of the ego, that impersonated the true Self.

So, you see, we can distinguish between the fake and the genuine, the false and the true, the negative and the positive. It is not rocket-science, although for most of us it may still be, until we become intrigued by polarities and we stumble upon their infinite interrelation to each other. Spock would say “Fascinating”, Marty McFly would say “Whoa!”, Dr. Ellie Arroway would say “No words to describe it. Poetry. They should have sent a poet.”, Dr. Amelia Brand would say “My god, that’s… breathtaking!” to name but a few well-known movie and TV show characters. That’s because once we consciously decide and choose to discover the infinity of the universe with the mind, starting with our own selves, we automatically discover its infinite beauty with the Heart. Mind and Heart go hand in hand, even if we don’t know it or the ego deliberately denies it.

Our experiential journeys through this world and beyond it, become much more enjoyable once we cultivate this feeling of surrendering to the Heart and demote the mind to a faithful servant as it was always meant to be. Let’s remember Albert Einstein’s quote “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Once we consciously walk on the “Bridge between mind and Heart” we can elevate our life experience to unseen heights, guided by our true Self through our purpose and passions in life. Life will be more like a breeze and less of a chore. In the past, talking to our selves would have us committed to a mental institution. In the future it will open ourselves up to possibilities, that our limited mind cannot comprehend at this time, propelling us forward in ways we cannot imagine. As they saying goes, the ball is in our court. It has always been there. If we tried to look at it from the perspective of the birthright and not from the perspective of a chore, we would be living in a Golden Age already. It takes discipline to remember our dreams, but it takes courage to go after them.

Don't Clean Other People's Pants — Mirroring, Boundaries & Authenticity

Today I was planning to continue the thread of the last episode, which is about healing and I would have elaborated on the key elements of healing and their effects on ourselves and others. However, I decided to postpone writing about this topic because of new and important insights, that I believe might be valuable to others as well. The reason for that, is that this week I experienced multiple communication events that taught me about mirroring in our interactions, exposing flaws in my character that I have always been aware of half-consciously, and apparently, they fully emerged into my conscious awareness as it was time for them to be addressed.

The most visceral lesson I experienced was that I used to become too much involved in other people’s issues trying to correct them, when I shouldn’t. The effort that it takes to correct those issues is overwhelming, because I am not in charge of the affairs of these people, and what would work for me, might clash with their interests. Also, the value system that I subscribe to may not be the same that others subscribe to. It doesn’t matter in the least that I have their best interest at Heart. It’s like jumping the gun, trying to pre-empt assisting others before these people actually requested such assistance. I have been under the impression, that people need their mirror reflection from me when they interact with me. Wrong. They don’t. Mirroring within any kind of relationship or even interaction, is something that is guided by our true Self and the mirror itself (the other party of the relationship) is required to be just that and not to enhance or intensify or reinforce the mirror image, based on the value-system or standard they subscribe to. Observing boundaries is proportional to the degree we respect each other. I concluded that I should not enhance the mirror-image I project to other beings that interact with me without being asked to do that, by that being. Mirrors show the limited self how it comes across in a relationship or interaction, whatever that relationship may be. This is one way we can passively serve others and that’s by being fully ourselves. Beings may or may not become aware of the mirror image they observe in the mirror of another being and they may or may not ask the mirror-being for clarification regarding an aspect of the mirrored image. The mirror-being should then respond with compassion and kindness as well as the utmost honesty, restricting themselves to the scope of the request, guided by their own true Self. It takes two to mirror. One is the mirror-being and the other one is the being who looks into the mirror-being. Often mirror-beings exceed their mandate and offer a stronger mirror-image than it actually is. The result is miscommunication, that is compounded by the conditioned mind. Instead of leaving a being to observe and reflect on the mirror-image from the mirror-being on itself, many times we take it upon ourselves to enhance the mirror image. We don’t know how the other being might react or respond to this, based on their own perspectives, which we don’t fully know and even so, they are constantly being amended by their own ego. Life is being needlessly complicated this way, and nobody needs more aggravation in their lives.

After some deliberation with myself, I vowed to focus on my own business from now on and avoid meddling in affairs that aren’t conducive to my own efforts to advance myself on any level that I need to – no matter how selfless my offer of assistance is. If I’m asked for my opinion then I will offer it without bias, carefully and with compassion and kindness. The world doesn’t need saviours who sacrifice themselves for others. The world needs people who can look objectively into a mirror and change aspects of themselves that they don’t like, for themselves. If we try to change others by enhancing the mirror-image we project to them, the result would be dubious and ineffective at best and might illicit a negative reaction at worst. A change that is enforced externally is not a change. It is interference. Real change comes from within and is the result of our own deliberations and experiences from the mirror-images we observe without external magnification. For the mirror-being, seeing something it doesn’t like, or something that doesn’t fit within its worldview it is easier to spot than to become aware of a flaw within itself. Furthermore, this observation can be viewed through the eyes of the ego either as a nuisance or through the eye of the true Self as an enlightening experience and insight. The first is limited to the ego and the second is teaching the ego. How we look at communication events ultimately defines how we handle and relate to them. A stain on our pants requires cleaning. A stain on somebody else’s pants also requires cleaning but is not something that falls on us to do that cleaning. It’s not our job to clean other people’s pants. Our concern should be our own pants.

If we try to meddle in other people’s affairs, they might react to it negatively in ways we don’t always understand due to the different perspectives we might not share. Sometimes there is deception involved, because the element of trust is often not present. Our values are different. We are still separated from each other, and this will continue until all of us choose to be open and vulnerable with nothing to hide. There is a saying from where I come from, and it goes “one swallow doesn’t invite springtime when it appears”. In this context, it means that if one person is acting honourably or ethically or whatever positive meaning you want to substitute here, it doesn’t mean that others will necessarily do the same, for a multitude of reasons. They might be compelled to do so, because our behaviour is not conditioned in this sense and acts like a beacon, but it’s up to them and their own level of conditioning to either react negatively or respond positively to it. Again, this is the result of change and transformation coming from within, which cannot be enforced externally.

For people to appreciate each other and outgrow separation, they must first appreciate themselves. They must think and act based on compassion and kindness, for it is the only way in the universe which will reset synchronicity based on universal law and bring about people and events that are inclined to have open and vulnerable communication with each other. Without true compassion and kindness, we are doomed to continue being separate to each other, to deceive or gaslight each other, to misunderstand each other or outright disrespect each other. People don’t usually function with their emotional intelligence, because they are preoccupied with their own mind and their own perspectives.

Another person sent me an email that was obviously drafted with the help of AI. It made me uneasy. If this person reached out to me respectfully with an email drafted using their own mind, containing their own thoughts, expressing their own wants and needs, I would have felt much better. Initially, I thought that it would be best to add the sender’s email address to the spam list and to move the email to the spam folder. However, I decided to give this person the benefit of the doubt and see what they wanted. I cannot tell others how to conduct their business, but I feel that connecting with others has a human aspect that AI cannot replicate. People who abandon the old-fashioned way of crafting an email, thinking that AI is the future of email communication, will eventually realize, that the recipients of these emails might be able to notice a perfection and symmetry of words that only AI is capable of and invite a natural mistrust as this could be construed as deception. Human beings are naturally imperfect. If an email reads too good to be true, then the sender appears to be obscuring their nature by presenting themselves in a different light, which is not conducive to open and Heart-based communication. Well, I think of myself as a writer or at least try to be one. Not everybody places the same value in authentic communication as I do and frankly, they don’t need to if they don’t want to. However, those who don’t attempt to reach me halfway by using AI to draft an email risk not reaching me. The human element that’s present in authentic communication is missing, and it severely restricts the possibility of connecting with me. Also, it’s none of my business to respond to connection requests addressed to me in this way. I have better, more creative things to do with my time.

So, what can we take away from these experiences? I found out that the experience of communicating with others can be either an emotional ordeal or an enlightening experience. Forming an attachment to the outcome of an interaction is not only detrimental to our evolution, but it also creates friction within ourselves. Trying to change others will always result in pain and suffering to various degrees. Trying to help others without being asked to help will have the same effect. Trying to help others by exceeding the level of help that they asked for is even more painful, because it may harm the ego of the helper. We need to evaluate if we can provide exactly what is being asked of us – no more no less. If for some reason, we cannot provide it we should respectfully decline the request or offer what we have in mind. There is no middle ground here, no ifs, buts and whys. Period. Either we do it the way others expect us to do it, or we don’t and provide a valid reason as to why we won’t. They say that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. This is absolutely true. Once we realize that, we will throw over-board all our good intentions and deal only with facts and universal values – a blended mind-and-Heart approach.

Earlier we concluded that all events are neutral. We assign value to them. I don’t know how many times I realized that so far. I guess I’m a slow learner, but at least the essence of this insight is now becoming clear. Sometimes I catch myself wondering about something and asking myself, “what would Bashar do?” Inevitably, I would answer something along the lines of “Follow your highest excitement”. Although this might be a joke in spiritual circles, that are aware of Bashar’s teachings, I realized the profound meaning just recently. If we follow our highest excitement, then miscommunications like the ones I experienced this week would not occur in my life. Why…? Because what I attempted to do had nothing to do with my own excitement. Falling into the trap of offering unwarranted help sets us up for disaster. I think I will file the insights that I discovered this week under “Don’t clean other people’s pants”, “Don’t craft emails with the help of AI” and potentially under “Forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing”. No, I’m not Jesus, but it’s good advice anyway. Sometimes, people don’t know what they’re missing, by rejecting one’s help by placing more importance on the way it is offered. It is a double-edged sword.

But I digress. At times like these, I notice yet again, that best thing we can do is follow our highest excitement as much as we can, without expectations whatsoever. These miscommunications I mentioned are just hindrances, annoyances and most importantly distractions from our purpose in life. They don’t allow us to stay firmly anchored in our passions in life. We deal with these distractions in life and before we know it, we’re done and leave Earth. That’s how fast life is over. Five years ago, the COVID pandemic began. It has been already half a decade where we made all the wrong decisions as humanity and chose to stay separate and not unite in the face of grave danger. One might say “humanity did not die off. The virus is under control now, because we invested in vaccine research.” Yes, we did, but in the process, we wasted a great opportunity to end separation and to come closer together as human beings, countries and social systems. We haven’t done that and in the meantime two protracted wars exist now on our planet. It is sad that we cannot even decide that wars should be a thing of the past and act on that decision, as people still polarize with war, like it is a baseball game on TV. No offense baseball fans, it could just as well be a basketball or an ice-hockey game. There is a name for what it’s causing us to continue behaving like this. It’s called “business as usual”. Well, it’s increasingly becoming an expensive business for us all, as we’re asked to pay the price of aggravation, conditioning and separation, by focusing on distractions. We are too afraid of stepping out of our comfort zone and trying new things in the ways of advancing what is important to us collectively and should be higher on our priorities.

This is why we need to continue following our highest excitement and not allow these distractions from our purpose in life to add more conditioning or sustain it further. It’s just not worth it. Here I am, remembering what occurred earlier this week and instead of filing these events under enlightening experiences, I had to file them as lessons. Life can be so much more meaningful than learning from our mistakes. It’s time we outgrew our impulsive adolescence as an intelligent species and reached species adulthood; by relying on the wisdom we gain from the lessons of life on Earth.

From Carbs to Clarity: Heal Your Body, Free Your Mind

Have you ever thought about how your life would unfold if you were not burdened anymore by your belief systems? How would you feel if you were completely focused on your purpose and passion? How would you feel if your state of being was not consumed by the needs of your physical being and if your mind were unburdened by physical reality?

Unfortunately, adults are at a disadvantage here, compared to children. Not just because of their deep conditioning compared to children, but they are largely affected by their nutritional deficiencies. Yes, I mean it. Most adults are unknowingly deficient in vitamins, healthy fats and other nutrients. The first thing we need to do is pay attention to our bodies and focus on adequate and proper nutrition. Our physical bodies are infinitely complex, striving for as much balance in their internal processes as possible, yet we unknowingly deny them the very tools they need to achieve their mission – which is keeping us alive on this world and to enable us to experience physical reality in the process, so that we learn the lessons that we have come to this world for. The tools they need are high quality nutrients in adequate amounts.

Unfortunately, we are subconsciously favouring flavour over necessity in our culinary habits, because we have forgotten how it truly feels to be content and happy. This leads us to try and compensate by having tasty food, which is not always the same as appropriate food. This practice is taking a toll on all our bodies, physical and subtle, because the physical body is the first one to become affected. We feel good while we eat the food that we like, yet nutritional imbalances that we knowingly or unknowingly expose ourselves to, can have vast implications on all subtle bodies and therefore on our psyche.

Our physical bodies are intimately connected to the physical world, functioning as our experiential sensors and our consciousness extensions. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to exist on Earth the way we do now. Just like cars have sensors that monitor constantly what’s going on within them and to a limited degree outside of them, so do our physical bodies.

However, our physical bodies have a vastly different range of sensing data, compared to cars. We are getting feedback from the physical world through our five physical senses, provided we are healthy enough. This sensory information is generating feelings within us, which, combined with our non-physical senses affect and constantly shape our state of being. We can feel when something is off so to speak. We also know when we feel fine and everything in between. The feedback that we get from the physical world is crucial, because we have forgotten that we are infinite, luminous being. We have forgotten that we are loved infinitely by Creation and in turn, we have forgotten how to love back the infinite aspects of Creation. Why? Because we are not healthy.

But let’s go back to feeding the physical body. Our body uses the nutrients in food to maintain itself and to sustain its energy requirements. Just like we’re mindful about our car having enough gas, we similarly shouldn’t allow our body to starve. The body is using two types of fuel, carbohydrates and fat. It uses both types of fuel interchangeably to keep it going and to keep it at a healthy, normal temperature, that’s optimal for it. If we eat more carbohydrates than we need, they get converted into fat and stored away. If they are consumed excessively, especially if they are refined carbohydrates or sugar, they are converted preferentially into visceral fat. Visceral fat is not found below the skin but is located in between our organs within the body. That’s bad fat. Insulin spikes promote fat storage.

So why are we doing this? Why do we abuse our body in this way? Obviously, most of us don’t know the harsh implications of unhealthy eating otherwise they wouldn’t eat like this. We do it, because we don’t know better and because we like it. Unfortunately, carbohydrates are the only nutrients that create addiction. Many people, including myself in my past, cannot help but indulging excessively in comfort food. Unfortunately, carbohydrates are not classified substances like heroin, cocaine or other types of street drugs with bizarre names, because they are food. That doesn’t make them less dangerous for our well-being compared to other narcotics. In fact, whole industries are selling them, because of our tolerance to carbohydrates as being part of our food. Few people say, “I need a rib eye steak, right now”, but we often hear many people say, “I need milk chocolate, right now”. Most types of chocolate are comfort food, and if consumed excessively they become addictive. Let’s face it. Carbohydrates, especially highly processed ones, can trigger the brain's reward system, like addictive substances, by releasing dopamine, a feel-good hormone. This response can lead to increased cravings and overeating, creating a cycle that resembles addiction.

But let’s not get into that, there’s no need to polarize. I am only pointing out what has become obvious to me, due to my own health challenges and through an inordinate amount of personal research to overcome those challenges.

However, there are two pieces of information that I was very surprised to come across. First, there are only a few cells or parts of the body that rely on glucose, which is the body’s carbohydrate fuel and cannot handle fatty acids or ketone bodies. Second, and that came as a small shock, the body can generate adequate glucose in the liver, in a process called gluconeogenesis, to sustain those cells and those parts of the body that rely on glucose as fuel. Another piece of information, that surprised me was the fact that certain cancer cells thrive with abundant glucose but cannot sustain themselves with fatty acids and ketone bodies. In short, the physical body is a miraculous living machine, that’s metabolically flexible. It can use two types of fuel like a hybrid car, using both gas and electricity as energy.

That is good news on so many levels. It means basically, that we can limit carbohydrate intake to a minimum, while healing our overweight body. It also means, that we can avoid carbohydrate intake by focusing on the consumption of complete types of protein and healthy fats. And just to be thorough, carbohydrates are preferred by the body as a fuel source because they are quickly broken down into glucose, which provides immediate energy for bodily functions and physical activity. However, the older we get, the wiser we get and unfortunately, the bigger we get, we are beginning to understand that carbohydrates create more of a problem than being part of the solution, especially considering their inflammatory nature in the body. Science is becoming aware now, that refined and high-sugar carbohydrates can contribute to inflammation in the body. Those carbohydrates can lead to spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels, which may trigger an inflammatory response. There is mounting evidence of the link between carbohydrates and inflammation, that we simply cannot afford to ignore anymore.

Let’s look at protein now, another nutrient that’s necessary for the body to maintain it’s physical structure. Protein is the building block used in the body, much like bricks are used for a house. If I break a bone, my body needs protein to mend it. If I wound a knee, after falling, my body needs protein to mend it. If I had a spouse and she would hit me over the head with a saucepan, after I came home late at night drunk like a fish, my body would need protein to mend it. OK, sorry for the last example, I was just making sure you’re paying attention, after I presented so much dry scientific information.

We can see that adequate protein consumption of complete proteins, that is proteins with all necessary amino acids that the body cannot produce itself, cannot be avoided. We need protein and we need a lot of it. Science is now claiming that we need to consume at least 1.6 to 2 grams of bodyweight in protein daily just to maintain skeletal muscle as the metabolic engine of the body. When I made a quick calculation based on my own body weight, I was more than surprised. I thought where would I get so much protein? Although it took me a while, I managed to formulate a science-based meal plan that I am sticking to it. Obviously, increased hydration is necessary. Personally, I drink a minimum of 5 litres of water daily for kidney support. My weight is dropping, but I’m not losing skeletal muscle – in fact I’m building muscle. One thing that became clear to me during my personal research of my own health problems was the clear metabolic link between longevity and skeletal muscle. It was staring me in the face, smiling, like some long-forgotten truth, now remembered. I found out, that one of the indicators of aging is gradual loss of skeletal muscle over time. We simply don’t consume enough high-quality protein to sustain our skeletal muscle – and worse, we don’t exercise enough to build more. Most people wither away getting older, losing muscle mass and becoming frail in old age, waiting to die in a retirement home. In God’s name, why? Is that the best we can do? There is no metabolic or other biological reason, why we couldn’t maintain a modicum of virility or muliebrity in old age. And it’s also keeping us alive for much longer.

Another thing that I discovered was the fact that carbohydrates play a role in all chronic diseases. Chronic diseases are essentially metabolic diseases, with increased insulin resistance. So, basically, if somebody has a cardiovascular disease or Alzheimer’s or dementia or polycystic ovary syndrome or infertility, to name but a few, insulin resistance in their body plays a role. That’s because that tiny little hormone called insulin is reaching all parts of the body, affecting hormonal balance and regulating directly or indirectly bodily processes with widespread implications. If the body is resistant to insulin, then the body’s inherent ability to cope with disease and restore balance, is overwhelmed and running out of ways to heal itself. I knew nothing about all this, and I couldn’t have unless I was ready to heal my body.

Please don’t take my word for all that. I would prefer that you did your own research and question everything I say, just so that you can achieve your own sovereignty in matters that directly affect you.

At this point, you might say OK. What now? Good question. Now, we are drawing conclusions. If metabolic health is pristine, like in most healthy children or adolescents, it stands to reason that this is the pristine state of health, a man or a woman should strive for. Most healthy children and adolescents are much healthier than typical adults. They have a better muscular system, a better cardiovascular system and a better neurological system. Age-related decline is mostly metabolically induced. Fortunately, this decline is totally avoidable. We have a choice in the matter. If we keep our physical body in top condition to the best of our abilities, by eating healthy and adequate food, while refraining from eating junk food in plastic bags with barcodes, then our health will be restored, and this will reflect in our overall state of being. Our mental and emotional health will be restored as well, due to the increased resilience of our physical body. That’s because our new-found hormonal balance will trigger a sense of “can-do” and “so-what” attitude in the face of life’s challenges. There’s nothing that we cannot be or do, if it’s feasible and if the physical body is thriving.

While we are healing our physical body, which is the foundation of our life on this planet, then we can buckle up and experience the magic of life. First, we become aware of the interconnected web of love that we are part of. Our parents, our siblings, our friends, they all become more important to us and so do strangers. We recognize their inherent love as a matter of fact with a newly found sense of discovery, that’s based on the awareness of our internal consciousness-based sensors. While we deliberately strive for balance in the physical body, which is the foundation of life, we can now devote ourselves to experiencing life itself. We will be able to look at life through the Heart, correct our mistakes, pursue our passions in life, and integrate all our parts in such a deliberate and meaningful way that only love in all its nuances is capable of. We will see our loved ones through the Heart and not the conditioned mind and appreciate them for what they truly are, not for what the mind portrays them to be.

That’s where everybody begins to actively write their own story through their Heart – not the story that they are forced to write by the conditioned mind. That’s how we gradually approach the unburdened mind: through a healthy body, without wasting time thinking about health and survival. This immense gap in conditioning will be immediately filled by the unburdened mind. It feels serene, pristine and infinite – and as joyful as a painter with a blank canvas, ready to paint your life’s story, if writing isn’t your thing.

Find Your Purpose, Free Your Ego: Stop Reacting, Start Responding

Once we understand that focusing on our own purpose in life is the most important task we have, we can live up to our full potential. That purpose may be different for every one of us and it shouldn’t matter to anybody else. Somebody may be good at gardening, another may be good at plumbing, another may be good at teaching pottery. The list is endless. Finding our purpose in life and sticking to it to the exclusion of everything else is going to heal us, fulfil us and make us happy. Keeping grudges and pondering on the raw feelings of inner wounds is a waste of consciousness resources as we will heal on our own time, once we have learned our lessons. Thinking about the people who hurt us or how we get back at them doesn't lead to healing. Instead, we become more aggravated, more polarized and hurt more. Justice is not revenge and neither is up to us. Not thinking about these people isn't easier compared to thinking about them, but this conscious practice will yield its rewards in time. We are all imperfect characters interacting with each other in imperfect settings on imperfect information. That's all. Consciously withdrawing from polarization is what will bring us peace. And if all people would do that, it would bring peace to humanity. Following our passions in life is automatically elevating us above all the chaos around us, that’s affecting all of us, to the degree that we allow it. Let’s remember again, that events in life are neutral. The more we immerse ourselves into these events, we can either learn from them or allow them to torment us.

Let’s examine our reactions to such events, specifically those events that occur within relationships, which are more prone to create suffering. Typically, we react to those events and don’t respond to them. Our ego feels betrayed and hurt, even if we believe that we are selfless and that we are guided by our true Self. The result is more suffering. You might have noticed that this is no rocket science. I am just presenting what all of us have felt in our lives. However, what if I told you, that there is a way to avoid this type of suffering altogether? There would be no hurting each other, no blame assigned and no hard feelings wearing us down. You might have guessed how to do that. The solution is obvious. We need to train our ego, however strong or weak it is, to release its boundaries as much as possible, short of taken advantage of or physically assaulted. If there are no boundaries they cannot be violated. You might object at this point, and say that if we have no boundaries, we might become easy prey for others who perhaps want to exploit or attack us. True, but I chose my words carefully. I said we need to train the ego to release its boundaries. These boundaries belong to our limited self. Our true Self, that infinite, luminous being that we are, has no boundaries. It is infinite. It commands respect without offense and radiates sovereignty without threat. Think about it. Imagine, when you are truly happy, following your passions in life, does your ego feel intimidated, offended or threatened? No. You simply brush aside any effects that a potential negative event has on you and focus on the lessons it conveys – that is if you can manage to stay cool and not polarize. If you do, then your ego takes over. If your ego is in charge, your limited self can be hurt. If your true Self is in charge your ego cannot be hurt. It might sound idealistic, but it is true, nonetheless. I dare you to test this on yourselves and prove me wrong.

You might ask now, how do we practically stay in that state of being? How do we continue to be our true Self and cease to be our limited self? Good question. Everybody must find their own way. Myself, I prefer meditation to take off the edge of the pain that my ego feels, question myself how this happened, why it happened and how I can revert to my positive state of being. After meditation I follow my passion, which is my purpose in this life.

Today, I heard something on YouTube from a content creator I follow. He said, some souls were born to make mistakes, suffer for them and then heal themselves and, in the process, heal others. It was something that surprised me, because that’s exactly what I am doing now. I am sharing my own experiences, so that others may learn from them and heal as well. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but I will happily share with everybody those answers that helped me overcome my own suffering, if they want to hear them and integrate the essence of those answers into their lives.

Being able to consciously learn life lessons leads to sovereignty, which is easily recognizable. It is based on compassion and understanding. If we understand our situations, we can avoid reactions and choose to respond instead. If we tear down our own ego’s boundaries we develop compassion for others, who still uphold their own ego-based boundaries. This will hopefully disarm their potential aggression towards us. If not, then our true Self will guide us instantly on how to sustain our self-preservation, not through reaction but through response. Reaction is like using a sledgehammer – it applies brute force; response is like using a claw hammer or a ball peen hammer, which are designed for tasks that require finesse rather than brute force. Reaction is absolute. Response is tempered and shows moderation and self-restraint. If wielded properly, it imbues fear and hesitation in our fellow humans who haven’t evolved enough spiritually. In those who are more advanced on the spiritual path, it will evoke joyful recognition of a kindred spirit, generating respect.

Therefore, it is imperative to cultivate our ability to understand our selves and others in any situation, avoid reacting and prefer responding in all situations of our lives – even in dangerous ones, where our lives may be in danger. Responding appropriately in all situations is what elevates our state of being. It may determine whether we create karma or not, and potentially whether we live or die. Let’s not forget, that the more we advance on the spiritual path, the more challenges we face – both in intensity and in numbers. Yes, I agree. Life can be harsh sometimes, but let’s remember that we ourselves set those challenges for ourselves. We can’t blame life in general, as if it is something tangible that we can accuse or blame. Life is the environment of our consciousness projection. It is not alive itself, much like the stage in a movie is not alive.

These insights naturally seem to distance ourselves from others and the effects that life exerts on us. And for good reason. Our insights and conclusions from experiencing life transform us. We constantly evolve, either consciously or unconsciously. Let us strive to evolve gracefully and avoid the pain of suffering.

Naturally, after we understand that nothing is more important than consciousness evolution, we tend to focus on inner work, to achieve just that. In a relationship it is also having the effect of keeping ourselves from burdening others with finding solutions to our own issues and challenges. This must become our prime concern in any relationship. It doesn’t matter whether it is romantic in nature or if it is a business relationship. Keeping our fellow humans insulated from the work we perform to resolve our own issues, to overcome our own challenges and to make our own efforts to change for the better, might be the most insightful gift we can bestow on them. That doesn’t mean that we gaslight them or shower them with white lies to create the impression that everything is perfect in our lives… It is not. It just means that we own our issues and our challenges and root the efforts we make to overcome them, in honesty and integrity. It means that we respect our own selves as well as our fellow humans enough to refuse burdening them with matters that are our own responsibility to address. This process fosters accountability. Finally, it means that we are honest with ourselves and have no inhibitions or restraints when it comes to asking for help if we really need it. We ask for enough help to advance on our path and overcome stagnation. We don’t ask for other human beings to fix our own issues. It is not their job to fix us, as much as it is not our job to fix them. The reason for all this is rather obvious. We don’t want to bother our fellow humans with our own issues, so that they may be more clear-headed in addressing their own issues, without worrying about other people’s issues. This becomes even more important the more personal the relationship is. A spouse, a sibling, a parent, a child or a friend will typically express a much more loving interest in our issues and challenges compared to others. They are prone to worry about us more than anybody else.

Continuously understanding our situation objectively and without illusion and self-deception is something that most of us don’t know how to achieve. Believing that we have the situation well in hand, doesn’t mean that it really is. And believing that we are at the precipice of imminent disaster is probably not true as well.

So, what can we do to obtain objectivity? The conditioned mind is not helping. It can interfere in our thought processes as anything from a distraction to a nuisance, keeping us further from perceiving reality objectively. The only thing that can help here is to pause and recollect. Stillness has a magical way to center us. It can build a virtual wall around our core being, impervious to the conditioned mind, if we allow ourselves to surrender to it over the objections of the conditioned mind. If we cannot bring ourselves to surrender to it, then we will just increase our suffering. Stillness is impartial. It will either allow the conditioned mind or the Heart to rule our state of being – not both.

Once we achieve stillness in the Heart, where we are nurtured and supported, regardless of the chaos in the external world that burdens our limited self, we can distance ourselves from that chaos. Distance creates objectivity. The physical body reacts to the stress that’s created by the conditioned mind, reacting to the chaos of the external world. When something negative happens, we feel bad, and our bodies immediately fill with cortisol to confront a potential threat to the existence of the ego. That threat can be mental, emotional or physical. This confrontation takes place with brute force if necessary. We are primed to react. When something positive happens, we feel relaxed and content. We have a broad range of options to choose our next steps from. We are primed to respond.

It is understandable, that all this might be hard to swallow, the way I present it. We can’t remember every little detail that may be helpful in walking our path in life. We can’t regulate our life straining further our burdened mind. Fortunately, we don’t have to. The only thing that matters is following our passions in life. It is a complete consciousness evolution toolkit to reset our life and place it on a more solid, more positive track. Purpose has a miraculous way of dealing with the chaos affecting the conditioned mind. It simply bypasses it, and deactivates it, thus offering us a quality of life that we never had. We don’t have to remember to distance ourselves from the issues that aggravate us. Following our purpose will do that. We don’t have to go into stillness to allow our Heart to push away the conditioned mind. Following our purpose will not allow the presence of a conditioned mind. We don’t have to remember to respond to life’s situations, instead of reacting to them. Following our purpose will gift us with a state of being that will make every one of us see the world as our oyster, with abundant choices to respond with. It is that simple. It is that liberating. And like everything worthwhile in life, it is neither for the timid, nor for the idle.

Serve the Self First: A Lone Walk Through Pain, Realization and Healing

In the last episode we became aware of how to pivot from suffering into contentment, and I'm using the word contentment deliberately. It's not like life just became suddenly less challenging. The immediate result of this first step is to become aware that every event in life is neutral. This is creating contentment and relief. Life is not working for us or against us. What matters is how our character interprets these events, that matters. As Bashar said, "Circumstances don't matter. Only state of being matters." Z said something similar: "Expect nothing, appreciate everything." Both perspectives have the same foundation: a fundamental, breathtaking neutrality, that permeates everything. Therefore, we should not take sides, polarize, or attach. Sadly, this is something that I neglected very recently.

Like everybody else, I am going through my own ordeal, and I am in a state of limbo. I went for a walk to walk it off, and though I was walking for a longer time than usual, I couldn’t shake off the feeling that all my attachments are crumbling. One thing I noticed, is that no matter how many times my soul is compressed, beaten, shredded and wrought by this meat grinder called life, there’s always some part of my soul left to sustain this process. And then it repeats itself, as if the prison warden of this polarized prison planet is getting a kick out of administering never-ending pain and suffering. That’s the story of my life and I guess everybody’s life: a perpetual story of internal death, despair and anxiety. Suffice to say, it is not easy. During my walk the only thing that could lighten my feelings was looking at the wet, leafless trees. Bird nests, sometimes a dozen on each tree against the backdrop of an opaque, dark grey and depressingly dull Irish sky. The birds don’t mind, I noticed. They live a different life, unaware of my own predicament. It’s like they live in a different universe, where they don’t merely live, but instead truly exist. If the weather was warmer, I would love to lie in a meadow and daydream, like I used to do when I was young, away from the pesky, civilised world.

I asked my self, how much more suffering is there to endure? How much suffering is truly enough? I couldn’t see the end of it.

When I came back from my walk my joints were aching as I overdid it with walking. My hips and knees hurt quite ferociously from the torment I subjected them and while I didn’t feel as much pain while I was walking, they were now burning with it. I thought that this is the price I’m paying for being so vulnerable and so thoroughly focused on my own ordeal. No, it’s not easy at all.

By 4 pm I was so exhausted mentally and emotionally, that I had to lie down to calm my mind. Still, I was tossing and turning, unable to get some rest. I woke up at about 7 pm, somewhat rested, but my mind was still not at ease.

Our poor little character in life is infinitely small compared to the forces that shape it. After a while, I grimly thought that we are becoming very proficient in bearing our suffering. Only few of us pull the emergency brake and opt to exit this train called life before its final destination. The rest of us keep going. Go hard or go home as they say. I remembered a poem by A. E. Housman, called "To an Athlete Dying Young". I thought that this applies to all of us who chose to follow the spiritual path, to advance spiritually or die trying; or pull the emergency brake and exit the train prematurely. How much pain and suffering are necessary for somebody to pull the emergency brake? Forgotten are youth’s achievements, for they are only temporary. What truly matters is the soul itself and it measures success by values other than vanity or temporary pleasure of any kind. Even the rose in the poem withers away. Fragility, vulnerability, integrity. All these are immortal values, for they persevere after the death of the character and live on to tell a tale of perseverance and spiritual commitment. No, I am not suicidal. Luckily, I outgrew this pesky tendency during the course of numerous lifetimes.

Slowly I began to immerse my self into my writing routine. It helped a lot. Seeing my thoughts become words, sentences and paragraphs in front of my eyes was a relief. I caught my self wondering, whether this was escapism or genuine progress in feeling better. Perhaps a bit of both. Who cares, I thought, as long as I’m feeling better.

One thing is certain. I have decided that it’s best to immerse my self in my creative endeavours, not thinking about other people, as they have their own crosses to bear. I am choosing consciously to devote all my energy to healing my self and advancing on my own spiritual path. Every one of us is responsible and accountable for their own self – none other. This thought was immensely liberating. I am only responsible and accountable for my own self. I can show the way to others, but I will not plague my self anymore with self-judgment and self-blame that comes from interactions with other humans. I am free to take care of my self without the self-imposed burden of assisting others before helping my self. The question of whether to serve others or serve the self, pushes itself to the focus of our awareness. Many would say service to others takes precedence, but that’s not why we came to this world. It’s simply not. We came primarily to serve our true Self. If we can serve others in the process, so be it. To serve others at the expense of our selves though, or while neglecting our selves would be a monumental act of selfishness, not to mention arrogant. Appearances can be deceptive. Who are we to know better than our true Self? Did we check our selves in the mirror first? We serve first and foremost our true Self and then others. Period. How can we assist others if we don’t advance our selves on the spiritual path? Compassion and understanding in all aspects are so crucial, yet I find them missing from my fellow humans. Sometimes they are more present and sometimes they are less present. We are typically immersed in our own issues, biased, polarized and guided by our characters, deluding our selves that we do the right thing, while missing the bigger picture, like doctors focussing on treating symptoms while they become oblivious to their original intent, which is curing the disease that causes the symptoms. Looking at the bigger picture matters. Low level assistance is only permitted, if the bigger picture warrants it. We are slaves of our ego, no matter how we look at it and our egos are omnipresent. Our actions and motivations are so imperfect, that we are blinded by their seemingly perfect justification, believing that we are becoming perfect again. Our ego emerges victoriously yet again. That’s why it appears that we must suffer constantly, dying little by little inside until there is nothing left of the ego to die. This is how we learn when we’re focused outwardly. We learn the hard way, until we focus inwardly, remove our gaze from others and look into the mirror, to heal and advance our selves first. We can only assist others when we are sufficiently advanced in the context of the assistance that we intend to render. That’s why assistance is a double-edged sword. It may cut both ways, sever multiple layers and have also negative repercussions on either side. This is why it is imperative to assist only when it is necessary beyond the shadow of a doubt and as much as necessary, otherwise we run the risk of creating more harm by interfering with processes that don’t warrant assistance or intervention viewed from a higher perspective. The lessons we learn in life are the result of our interactions with other imperfect characters while observing our thoughts, actions and feelings. Assistance should not be rendered lightly, and intervention should not be initiated, based on superficial or one-sided observation. Nobody learns forcefully when a third party decides that an intervention is required, unless of course the bigger picture warrants it. We are all equals and we all think, feel and learn on our own.

All the above can conjure up all kinds of mental and emotional torment, depending on how thin- or thick-skinned we are. The more naked and vulnerable we are, the more visceral can the lesson be. Learning is a personal, intimate process and assistance is a skill and an artform. Saying or doing the right thing is something rare and the motto “less is more” is applicable here.

I am immensely grateful for the circumstances in my life leading me to learn a bunch of lessons through all my ordeals. Grateful to the point that I am almost tearing up now. Humiliation becomes humility. Self-judgment and self-blame become acceptance of self and facilitate further integration. The wealth of wisdom that I received through my torment is almost unbearable in its scope and extent. As I mentioned before, the result was liberating and joyful, shedding more of my character in the process. Recognizing all lessons inherent in a shock-and-awe event is key if we don’t want to risk experiencing a similar event and the torment it will cause again. The “Blade of Grass” concept comes to mind. Experiencing life instead of merely living it requires a vulnerable attitude and cannot be accomplished as a thick-skinned individual. It is necessary to immerse our selves into the whole and complete experience, rather than rise above it and avoid it. We are guided by our true Self, who knows what’s necessary and what’s not. Our character must surrender to this experience to get the most out of it. Pain and suffering are only inevitable to the degree we resist experiencing life. Lessons are multi-facetted and show the perspectives of the assistant or assistants as well as the receiver or receivers of such assistance. All perspectives are valid. If we fail to accept that, we might as well accept that we failed to learn. I repeat, all perspectives are valid. Morality is highly subjective and can be either ego-led or Heart-led. Experiencing, understanding and accepting all perspectives is the goal of our learning and attaching our selves to our own perspectives is detrimental to our own evolution. No single perspective is “good” to the exclusion of others. “Good” and “bad” require 3D-based context and constitute a polarity of their own. They are of no import in 4D, where all polarities are blended, their multi-facetted perspectives integrated, and available in all ramifications and meanings we have assigned them. Being open-minded, willing to learn, willing to accept and willing to change is crucial.

So, where does this leave us in the context of pain and suffering? The practical takeaway of all this is that pain and suffering do not exist, if we focus on our selves, assist selectively, proportionally, and only if the situation warrants it by looking at the bigger picture, don’t interfere willy-nilly and stay in our own lane. Knowing when and how to assist others is intimately tied to the degree such assistance is necessitated by our own ego or our true Self and yields valuable lessons for all involved. It is part of being sovereign and compassionate in all aspects, for we can only learn life lessons gracefully by being both, reflecting a sense of realization of all perspectives relevant to all parties involved. In other words, we must deeply understand our own situation and that of those we wish to assist. This will determine the scope as well as the need for such assistance, which in turn will illuminate the way such assistance may be rendered. No situation is inherently black or white and stepping back and out of our own perspective to focus on our personal spiritual growth is now more important than ever, requiring detachment from ego that the ego will fiercely resist. Chances are that we don’t know all aspects of a situation based solely on its assessment by the mind and jumping into action based on any mind-based interpretation has the potential to open Pandora’s box for all involved. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. In a universe where all perspectives are valid, restraint can be a blessing.

Enough Suffering: Rewiring Resistance and Stepping into Your Infinite Self

We've seen in the last episode, that the way we learn our life lessons impacts our consciousness evolution. With inner work we lower our resistance to learn and thereby to evolve. We are going with the flow, instead of making waves and resisting. This process depends on the degree we can let go of fear, as well as on our willingness and skill riding the Great Unknown.

Letting go becomes extremely important. We constantly notice the drama that is taking place with our friends and loved ones. Our awareness has been sharpened through consecutive learning experiences and our senses are heightened.

This constant stress on our psyche has increased the negative noise in our lives to the point where we have lost sight of who or what we are, and we move through life on autopilot so to say. We are not just without reasonable goals in life, and if we have any, then they are becoming more challenging with time. The burden that we are carrying from being constantly under pressure is not allowing us to take a breath in peace. We are constantly stressed out about something, and our minds are tired halfway through noon, working relentlessly on mind processes that typically don’t nourish and uplift the soul.

We don’t deserve living like this and we are being robbed of all that makes life not just liveable, but also memorable. What could we do or how could we behave to lower this stress in the moment? Obviously, I don’t have to repeat that inner work matters. Meditation is necessary. It has now become as necessary as breathing. All our bodies, physical or non-physical, they all benefit from meditation in their own way. In this context, we must understand the cause of suffering in terms that make sense to our limited self. As we have seen in the last episode, suffering comes from learning life lessons through shock-and-awe experiences. When the learning resistance of our limited self is high, Spirit resorts to shock-and-awe experiences to overcome this resistance and make life lessons visceral. Synchronicities converge to make a lasting impression on our psyche and force us to learn the lesson we avoid learning. Once we become tired of this process, crying out “Enough suffering!” then we can begin learning gracefully, by pursuing inner work and accept the flow of life.

Now, we are ready to approach the issue of suffering and lessen its effects in our lives. First and foremost, we must accept what is happening around us, in a way that conforms to the motto “Expect Nothing and Appreciate Everything”. We must consider that nothing is happening either against us, or for us. Events in life are fundamentally neutral. They happen through the coordinating principle of synchronicity, which is a manifestation of Universal Law, the universal ordering principle. The first step is to accept the occurrence of events as inherently neutral and to extract a positive lesson out of them. At the same time, we consciously decrease our resistance against the occurrence of any event. I’ll repeat that. We accept all that’s happening around us as neutral. We extract a positive lesson out of them. We avoid learning resistance and if necessary, consciously reduce our internal resistance, so that we can learn the positive lesson these events are meant to convey to us. Other people may extract different lessons, as everybody has a different personality, different perspectives and different opinions, and therefore are experiencing a different impact in their lives from the same events.

It is important to mention here, that while any event is unfolding, we should refrain from pondering on them, as we might miss crucial information, that we wouldn’t experience otherwise. If the mind is preoccupied, experiencing stops, as we cannot do both at the same time. We should remember the Blade of Grass principle that the Plejaren, our friends from the stars, have taught us. In simple terms, it means that we should experience our lives and not use our minds to interpret our experiences while they are unfolding, but to wait for the divine time to grok with our Heart all aspects of the lesson inherent in any event. Yes, several aspects – not just one. Events typically convey multiple aspects of a lesson and often multiple lessons as well. All these subtle experiential facets would be lost if our limited mind would ponder on them while an event is unfolding. The mind is simply not equipped to assess the deeper meaning of an event, beyond the obvious. Only the Heart can intuitively extract other experiential information through its own senses, beyond the five senses that we are familiar with. The mind is unable to sense these experiential layers and even if it did, it wouldn’t understand them. That’s the job of the Heart. In time, the Heart will extract all or most of these layers intuitively, depending on the degree of awareness we have cultivated, and reach its conclusions. There is more around us that we are presently unable to comprehend, compared to what we can comprehend. However, there’s no doubt that in time we will.

OK, so while we experience the events in our life in this way, we can minimize and gradually erase suffering that is our own creation. We can still sense suffering in the world that we are not responsible for, but we can strive to actively reduce the pain and suffering that we are generating for our selves. Through inner work we can train our limited mind to accept events as neutral. Next, we can constantly remind our limited self of this fact in waking life, after meditation. This way there is a natural continuity of the state of being we experience between the higher states of consciousness during meditation, where we are closer to being our true Self, and the lower states of consciousness in waking life where we are closer to being our limited self.

In the context of learning our life lessons gracefully, without suffering, we must only remember that the true Self is infinite. We are infinite, luminous beings, who have a limited, mortal and temporary experience. Our experiences as the specific characters in life are limited to the scope of this lifetime only. This way, even our limited mind can easily accept, that this temporary lifetime is essentially contained within our infinite Self. The experience of suffering, both in duration and scope, is contained within infinity. Therefore, it is a subset of infinity, just like all other distinct sets of pain and suffering, experienced in other lifetimes. It is logical to assume so. Luckily, we are only aware of the pain and suffering we experience separately in any lifetime – unless we start to remember them for reasons pertaining to our own evolution. The torment of suffering makes therefore sense and acquires a meaning to the limited self. The infinite Self is not affected as all lessons are already contained within it. It is a container of all experiences. If we just feel that fact during meditation and remember it viscerally after the meditation, we can not only feel relief, but we can also reframe any pain and suffering to appear literally less intense and disturbing in our imagination. We feel the difference in scale between our limited self and our infinite Self and we are now able to virtually assign and correlate the concept of pain and suffering, while we remember being our infinite Self during meditation. We understand on a deeper, almost supernatural level, that pain and suffering are just aspects of existence. Contrary to popular belief, they don’t define us. We are not “them”. We exist without them. We chose to make them part of our lives and forgot along the way that we can exist without them.

This conscious act of reframing our perspective and distancing our selves from the perception of pain and suffering may appear cold and heartless to many of our fellow humans, who don’t realize that we are just reframing our perspective to suffering and don’t change our aversion to it. In fact, we become more compassionate to other people’s suffering, now that we feel much less of our own suffering with much less intensity. This is not just a way to contain pain, but it is also important from an evolutionary perspective, where we begin to identify ourselves not with our limited self anymore, but with that infinite, luminous being that we are, the being that we always have been and always will be.

At this point you might wonder, how you might practically achieve that, when you never had any “proof” of being an infinite and luminous being and don’t believe that. Unfortunately, it all boils down to your own belief systems, and you must adjust them if necessary. If your ego is strong and you have an inherent resistance to learn life lessons, then you won’t be able to assume the necessary internal state of mind and Heart to accept your infinite Self. Everything is interconnected, not just in the external world, but most importantly in the internal consciousness landscape, which is reflected externally. A smart approach would be to assume an honest attitude and to strike a deal with your limited self for as long as you feel you can sustain it. Per this agreement, you could temporarily give your limited self permission to accept that you are an infinite and luminous being. You could then allow your self to sense any messages or feelings from your true Self. Yes, it is possible. It is even more probable if you are genuine and honest in your agreement with your limited self. The infinite being inside you will not entertain an agreement that’s not honest and therefore will not communicate to you what you need to know. Nobody is forcing you to do this and nobody would think less of you, if you preferred to keep learning through “shock-and-awe” experiences. This is an agreement between your limited self and your true Self.

Once you consciously accept that you are an infinite being and allow your limited self to be surprised, you will perceive signs that will show you who you are. These signs manifest in personal ways that you would be able to instantly perceive and interpret them. That’s because these signs would come from your true Self. Your limited self is only a small part of your true Self and if you are truly honest with your self, you will understand the meaning of these signs.

At the end of the day, it is only natural to ask your self, if you really want pain and suffering to accompany you in your life and how much you want it gone from your life. This would be a powerful question that would demand an equally powerful answer. Change is the only constant in life. Suffering is not a constant. It is a choice. Yes, you heard right. Suffering is a choice, based on our belief systems. Perhaps we are influenced on a subconscious level by the complacency we navigate life with or the fear we are unwilling to sacrifice, that comes naturally with exploring new and unfamiliar experiential territory.

We are here to learn by constantly experiencing existence and by making associations between old and new experiences. New experiences may come in different shapes and forms than before. If they were familiar to us, then we wouldn’t learn anything new. Change of perspective is induced by experiencing a different viewpoint. Sometimes it comes naturally, and sometimes we need a hard push.

Just allow your self to cry out loud and proclaim, “Enough suffering!” If you really mean it, then it will galvanize your resolve and prepare you for a journey, that will lead you to accepting responsibility and accountability for your life. Proclaiming “Enough suffering!” viscerally draws a line in the sand between an old way of life and a new one. You are familiar with the terms BC and AD, right? BC means “Before Christ” and AD means “Anno Domini”, which translated from Latin, it means “in the year of our Lord”. You might have also heard of the acronyms BCE and CE. BCE means “Before Common Era” and CE means “Common Era”. The latter terms and their acronyms were created to replace BC and AD, so that they may be suitable for all religions. What the different sets of distinguishing eras have in common, though, is that they both mark a chronological change in our perspective and state of being. They mark the change that has been introduced into our lives by one of humanity’s greatest spiritual teachers and its visceral effects on our state of being and consciousness. We humans have generally accepted that our perspective of the world changed at a recent point in history and distinguish in our chronological references the time before and after this consciousness change.

Perhaps the time has come for us to create our very own, personal demarcation line to reference our condition before the experience of suffering in our lives and after it. A demarcation line that not just references but also commemorates, celebrates and reveres the change by which we live our lives now and how that change has affected quality of life itself. Perhaps something as simple as “Era of Suffering” and “After Suffering” or even “Suffering” and “Enough Suffering”. How you label it, though, doesn’t matter. Like everything in your life, it is a personal choice and is influenced by your whole being. What matters, though, is that you remove suffering altogether from your life. Beyond the obvious repercussions in our lives, it’s simply not worth it. We don’t need it. It is a monumental hindrance to our evolution, and we are all better off without it. It’s high time we all crossed that threshold, ended our personal suffering and guided our selves to an experience of life without the burden that comes with pain and suffering. Let’s draw our own line in the sand and proclaim “Enough suffering! This far and no further!”

From Pig Iron to Pure Heart: How Suffering Refines the Soul

The meditation theme in last Friday’s meeting was peculiar and unexpected. It was about suffering. It culminated into a cry of “Enough suffering!” Not just suffering in a hospital bed, but suffering in general, through bad choices or through seemingly weird and unrelated circumstances.

Suffering is the single experience that all humans share regardless of their life circumstances. We all suffer in our own ways. We suffer silently or publicly, for issues that have to do with our selves or others, motivated by unconditional love or selfish desires. And we do so relentlessly, being slapped, smacked, flattened and banged around. Often less physically but more emotionally. We cry out for mercy if the pain becomes unbearable.

This year, 2025, feels like an ordeal for many. I can’t remember any other year in my life that has tormented me more than this year. One thing is certain. The more we feel while we evolve spiritually, the heavier the burden feels, because we can perceive a broader spectrum of feelings with finer nuances than ever before.

But why is it so commonplace to suffer in our lives? Why can we not learn our life lessons gracefully, instead through “shock-and-awe” experiences?

As I mentioned in my first book, "Emotions are the fires in the furnaces of our Hearts in which we figuratively burn while living out our realities. Emotions make experiences gripping. We remember through memories, but we comprehend life’s lessons through the emotions we associate with those memories." You might drop your shoulders and despair, thinking that this is how this school of Earth works. Well, it does and it doesn't. Bear with me, please.
Not so long ago, school students had to endure physical pain administered by the principal with a wooden paddle or stand in the corner or write long repetitive phrases to reflect on their unacceptable behaviour.

Pain and suffering are commonplace on Earth from the day we are born to the day we die. Life shows no mercy, except at the precise moment of death, when Spirit deems our suffering complete and our learning goals fulfilled. During life we must show mercy to ourselves and others. Life most certainly won't, because life is teaching us mercilessly through “shock-and-awe” experiences, until we choose to learn gracefully.

I know, your burning question is why? Why do we have to suffer? Why do we feel pain relentlessly, mercilessly through life?

Who do you think wrote the script for the movie of our life, in which our character is the main protagonist? Come on, you know this. Admit it to yourself and you will feel better. You can pause for a moment to think. Who do you think wrote the script for your life? Well, you did. Not your limited character. Your true Self did. Let that sink in for a bit and let's explore the ramifications. Your true Self wants to expose the weaknesses in your character, which, in its imperfection is perfectly casted for the movie of your life, to allow you to learn those weaknesses. Let me rephrase. Your limited self, your character in this game of life is imperfect, yet it is crafted in a way to let these weaknesses of yours to bubble to the surface of your perception. The trouble that we run into, not knowing our weaknesses and imperfections is a perfect way to expose them. We observe our thoughts and actions. And then we feel pain. We suffer. Depending on the intensity of the experience we feel despair, we break down and hit rock-bottom.

You might ask, what now? Indeed, what now? Let's take a break and examine the modern steelmaking process. Yes, that's correct. We will examine how steel is manufactured. Please bear with me, and you will understand the parallels.

To make steel out of ordinary iron ore, we need a form of coal, which is called coke, limestone, known in chemistry as calcium carbonate and depending on what type of steel we want to produce, a selection of other elements in smaller quantities. We need a Basic Oxygen Furnace or an Electric Arc Furnace that will serve as a container for the extreme heat and the elements included in the whole process. The first step of the steelmaking process with a Basic Oxygen Furnace is to heat the iron in the absence of oxygen and the presence of coke. Coke is used to create the high temperatures needed, and because it acts as a reducing agent to remove oxygen from the iron ore. Natural gas is increasingly used to replace coke, because it is environmentally friendlier. The result is pure, molten iron. Once we have pig iron, which is what molten iron is called in this process, we can refine it by blowing oxygen into it. The presence of limestone reacts with the carbon in pig iron and forms carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases, reducing the high carbon content of pig iron, which made the pig iron brittle and hard to form. Now, it has a consistency that's more like steel: stronger than iron, but malleable. We can also see impurities floating on its surface in the form of slag, which is the result of oxygen being introduced into pig iron, which oxidizes all impurities. This is why limestone is needed. It binds the impurities and forms slag, which can be easily removed. After that, we can refine pig iron further before casting it in various, desired shapes and further shaping and finishing it as steel. This is how Basic Oxygen Steelmaking in a Basic Oxygen Furnace is performed.

The Electric Arc Furnace method is different. Scrap metal is loaded in the Electric Arc Furnace, which is lined with heat-resistant materials and has electrodes to create the electric arc for melting the metal. This method is preferred for recycling old metal and reduces the need for iron ore.

After the high-powered arcs between the electrodes melt the scrap steel, oxygen is introduced to oxidize unwanted elements, just like with the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking.
We can then refine the molten steel by adding nickel, chromium or manganese to produce steel with different properties. A secondary refining process is often applied to enhance the quality of the steel.

Are you still with me? I hope that wasn't too boring, because I am about to draw parallels and show how we learn either through “shock-and-awe” experiences or gracefully through meditation and much less resistance.

The Heart can be likened to a furnace used in the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking process that’s processing life's circumstances that forge and evolve us. The pig iron, which is a metaphor for our limited self, our character in this life, is agitated with emotion, because of the burning coke, which is the awareness, perception and realization of the intrinsic lessons which we are about to learn. The coke, as the essence of the lesson, is becoming part of us and is further reduced and condensed to its purest essence. The limestone can be likened to the subtle, yet strong influence from our inner voice, which binds and purges the slag. The slag can be perceived to be the sum of attachments of the ego floating on the surface of the self, while the raw steel, which can be a metaphor for our limited self, is becoming stronger through purification and refinement.

In contrast to the above steelmaking process, the method of the Electric Arc Furnace can be more appropriately imagined as being the method of choice for spiritual seekers, using meditation to learn. In this metaphor, the Heart of the spiritual seeker is the Electric Arc Furnace, using the mind’s reason and the Heart’s compassion as electrodes. During the conscious application of inner work through free will, which is the archetypal manifestation of divine will in third density consciousness and represented by the electric arc, is sustaining the alchemical process of consciousness evolution. The scrap steel is molten and consolidated in the Heart and can be likened to the bits and pieces of condensed experiences we have gathered throughout life.

The above metaphors are hopefully illustrating the differences between the two steelmaking methods. The first one represents a human character who has no significant experiences, consisting metaphorically of iron ore and many impurities. However, the second method is using less iron ore and mostly scrap metal, that contains no impurities, is already condensed and has been recognized by the character as valuable. This process is much more energy-efficient than the first one, a reflection of the lesser degree of resistance we exhibit towards inner work. However, the most important difference is that we consciously choose to use the divine will we all have to perform the steelmaking process, converting our Heart into an Electric Arc Furnace, when it was a mere Basic Oxygen Furnace earlier. We can now understand, how the learning experience takes place, and how the purification and refinement of the self is accomplished. Both methods of self-refinement are valid, yet there is much less resistance with the second one.

Most of us have not yet grasped, that pain and suffering are just a side effect of the process of learning. They are the catalyst in the learning process for those of us who are not yet guided by their true Self. By taking charge of the evolutionary process of consciousness expansion, we significantly reduce the mental and emotional burden, resulting from the impact of life’s “shock-and-awe” experiences and gradually eliminate them. Putting an end to relentless pain and suffering that torment most of us in life is a great personal achievement. Deciding to take the learning process into our own hands and choosing consciously to accept its lessons will enable us to learn gracefully. Furthermore, we can weave the threads of previous lessons within meditation into wisdom that will help us to overcome any similar potential crisis events later in life as we grow older and more mature, by merely applying the lessons that we learned through our own Heart’s persistence and guidance of our true Self. In time these lessons will blend into wisdom that will provide a blueprint on how to deal in the moment, with the unknown.

Once we decide that we have experienced enough pain and suffering when we hit rock bottom during a life crisis, and consciously choose to put an end to it, then we have not only instantly learned the crucial lesson that’s inherent in any traumatizing event, but we also reclaim our own power to navigate our own life, guided by our true Self. We now go with the flow, seeking positive meaning and lessons in events that would have traumatized us earlier. Now we ride the unknown, instead of being at the mercy of life’s uncontrollable forces. This is the immense power that’s contained in the paradigm of initial decision and subsequent choice. Deciding that this lifestyle or that habit is actually harming us and consciously choosing to change it, will flip a switch inside of us and grok the lesson instantly, mobilizing the free will that’s present within all of us.

Pain and suffering serve their purpose, by forcing us to learn gracefully without being prodded by life’s uncontrollable forces, guided by our true Self. It all ends when we take charge of our lives.

Offer, Don't Impose: How to Help with Empathy

I'm sure we all remember how we felt when somebody we care about was under the weather or was suffering from a more serious ailment. We immediately searched our memory to find any experiences which we might have on this matter, where we successfully overcame this ailment through our own action. The more we care, the more we are motivated to help.

If we have such an experience we immediately try to help or so we think. That’s when we step into a trap. The person we care about might have a different perspective from ours and we have a difference of opinion. We try to present arguments from our side, that we believe might convince the other person, that our course of action was successful and that it therefore must be adopted for the greater good of the other person. Soon the conversation might escalate into an argument.

Parents frequently face the same or similar conundrum while raising their children. Sometimes, it isn’t easy to convince children that their parents’ advice is sound and that they need to follow it. While children and adults are different in how they process information, the underlying issue is the same.

What we neglect to consider is that the other person has their own belief systems, their own course of action eventually and their own way of life. Children may not have their own course of action, but they begin to formulate one. Their ego, which is the protecting authority within them, is gradually ramping up its resources with the goal of directing the growing consciousness. That consciousness is constantly in the process of emancipating from parental influence, particularly during puberty. All this may derail our efforts to convince the other person that our course of action is somehow better than the other person’s course of action. While it is easy for parents to just tell their children what to do, it is not the right way to influence another person. Children would rightfully assert their independence even though it might result in deteriorating the relationship with their parents. It is not what parents do for their children that matters. It is how they do it. The younger a child is, the less understanding it is regarding adults. It is functioning almost completely with the Heart, while the ego is developing. If the ego is hurt by parental actions, then the child is hurt and it typically takes years for the child to heal. This is why it is generally accepted that parenting creates new karma.

We must strive to support the people we care about in their own actions and in their own decisions. In the case of children, we must speak their language, which is not rooted in logic, but instead consists of abstract concepts and feelings. We can provide all the information we have about the ailment they struggle with and convince them that we can help them to feel better. Everybody is different and everybody deserves to find their own way. It would be wise to convince children to adopt our way freely, because we care for them. If we ponder about adults in this context, then we will easily conclude that if they wanted to adopt the suggested course of action, they would. We are overlooking one or more factors that make our course of action inappropriate for the person we care about. For some reason that doesn’t matter in the long run, they might decide not to apply our course of action to the same or similar predicament they have, even though it was successful for us in the past. So, the question emerges if it is really the same predicament that has bothered us in the past and our loved ones in the present? From a probabilistic point of view the circumstances are almost always different. It’s their life – not ours. Furthermore… who are we to rob the people we care about of the thrill of success, that we achieved earlier on our own? What would the other person or persons learn if we solved all their issues for them? They might benefit in the short term, but where would that leave them? They wouldn’t learn in their own way, so they wouldn’t have the opportunity to build character and generate wisdom from their own experience. It would be an empty success for them from the perspective of learning. No one can cheat their way through the exams of the school of Earth and graduation would be postponed if we tried to cheat. Obviously, if there was a life-or-death situation, they would gladly accept our assistance, but in any other case they have their own free will to accept or reject it. It is their life, their accountability and their responsibility. This is just one part of being in a balanced relationship of any kind.

Assistance without interference is generally much more appropriate, compared to assistance motivated by blind enthusiasm or even enforced assistance guided by conditional love. The latter can and will create challenges for all involved and the assisted would be required to learn their inherent lessons again through similar circumstance in their life, while the assisters would eventually realize their wrongdoing after the fact. Much pain and aggravation could have been avoided. This was a harsh lesson that the Sirians had to learn, because of their interference in younger cultures, including our own, when they were guiding us.

Understanding when our help is required is of paramount importance. The only question we need to ask the person we feel that we need to assist would be “Do you need help?” They would respond to that question, and we would know if our assistance would be required. Trying to assist before asking this question would diminish our chances to be of assistance. It is important to use less words when asking somebody if they need help. This is a lesson that I am still learning. I have learned that I can only present my experiences and allow others to learn from them if they so choose and perhaps ask for more help if it is necessary for them. If not, then my assistance is not required. Upon further examination, the reasons for my behaviour may change, but they are always related to my ego, if I insist on helping. There is a saying that goes “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”. It is absolutely, one hundred percent true. It is not our job to be saviours. From a certain perspective, that was the job of Jesus. Why would we so audaciously elevate our limited selves to the level of a magnificent spiritual being? Are we so lost in hubris that we cannot realize when it’s our time to help and when it’s time to step back?

In any case, merely offering to help checks off our spiritual requirement to assist others. Believe it or not, we have done enough to help, by offering our assistance. If people agree to receive assistance remains to be seen. If it is meant for us to render assistance, then we will do so. We cannot “go to war” so to speak with people we want to assist with something. We simply cannot, as that would negate the original reason why we offered our assistance.

We must always know the reason or reasons why we offered to help. Many times, our ego is pushing us to help. Assistance that springs forth from the ego is conditional, as we always get something out of it, whether it is something we know and admit or something that is subconscious and cannot admit to. If we are motivated by unconditional love to assist somebody, then they will find it easier to accept this assistance on their terms, because violating their boundaries in the process is never acceptable. Integrity is a cornerstone of spiritual sovereignty. Under the framework of Universal Law, it is neither permitted to enforce assistance, nor to render conditional assistance. It is also necessary to render only the most limited assistance necessary, in agreement with the recipient of such assistance, because otherwise we actively interfere with their learning process.

Moving from third-density consciousness to fourth-density consciousness requires us to unlearn common misconceptions. One of them is “how much are we allowed to help”? We must know in advance, how much help is enough and how much help is unnecessary. The rule of thumb here would be to render precisely enough assistance to the recipient of such assistance for them to resume becoming a student of life on their own. As an example, if a rider falls from a horse, it would be prudent to assist them only if they need assistance to get back on their feet and not back on the saddle. That would be something to contemplate separately if they request it. You might ask your selves why is that. It is simple. Third-density consciousness is about doing, whereas fourth-density consciousness is about feeling. It would be like cheating. We learn by doing, while observing our thoughts and feelings in the process. If somebody else is doing for us that, which we must do on our own, then what’s the point of having constant assistance? Fortunately, we always learn something out of everything. In our example, if somebody where to help us to get back on the saddle without asking us beforehand if we agree, then we will have learned immediately that this person is a good person and eager to help, but after a while and focusing back on our selves, we will have learned that we still lack the dexterity and skill to mount the horse properly and need more practice or perhaps that it hurts less to mount it with assistance received, after we have fallen from it. This is just a playful example to illustrate the number of potential repercussions involved in rendering assistance.

Perhaps the most detrimental effect of rendering assistance in the wrong way is the creation of additional bad karma. So, when you try to help somebody, think again. It might just not be worth the trouble for your self. The saying “no good deed goes unpunished” comes to mind. Sometimes it is because we imposed our help, instead of merely offering it.

After a while we realize that being of assistance in fourth-density consciousness is truly an artform. Perhaps it is better to help from the backstage, instead from the limelight. Creating the right circumstances for others to spontaneously ask for our help might be the right way of saying “I’m here to help”. Assistance is about giving and receiving. It is an exchange of love energy that requires an energetic toll to be paid by both the giver and the receiver. The giver is motivated by love to assist the receiver and goes out of their way to assist, while the receiver has been prepared by the right consciousness environment cultivated by the giver beforehand and humbling themselves to receive. This consciousness bubble that creates a trusting and loving ambience is the ability of the giver to convince potential receivers that they will benefit from the help rendered by the giver. It also boils down to the credibility of the giver. Being knowledgeable in the area where assistance is sought by anybody who needs assistance, will attract these people to receive assistance. Knowing when and how to render assistance as well as when and how to request some, will be a crucial skill to master for humans when they venture out into interstellar space. Humans will in time be expected to have outgrown their ego, as well as have developed a conscious, living relationship with unconditional love and Universal Law, because from a third-density consciousness perspective, things are not always as they seem. There are always more perspectives to ponder. Losing our human conditioning will be the first step for humans aiming to connect with extraterrestrial beings.

You might be surprised by the amount of consideration involved in an act of rendering or receiving assistance. We gradually understand, why there is so much analysis needed for something that we wouldn’t spend a thought on yesterday. We are noticing the hidden complexity behind so many things that enter our consciousness as we evolve and are now able to perceive them. Perhaps, soon we won’t be in Kansas anymore, just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, when we begin having more substantial contact with extraterrestrial beings. It would be wise then to remember another saying, which is “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”, meaning that we will have to leave behind our outdated and conditioned human behaviour of today and adapt to how things are felt and done among the stars as a matter of course.

On another note, I have recently noticed that everything, literally everything I experience, yields some form of lesson. I can feel these lessons with my Heart, more than I can quantify them with my mind. Feeling and knowing becomes more prevalent than thinking and concluding. It's hard to describe. It happens typically while I am absentminded, where I get a feeling of what’s the best course of action on something I remembered, although this might be the result of a mind and Heart that’s becoming even more blended than before. I catch my self in the act of learning something and I ask my self “where did this come from”? I believe the more we evolve and the more our minds and Hearts blend together and utilize the bridge between mind and Heart, the more conscious we instantly become of our experiences and their meanings for us.

If you think that this is going to be challenging, think again. Or rather, don’t think at all. Thinking is what usually gets us into trouble. Evolving from Homo Sapiens to Homo Galacticus is much less challenging if you follow your Heart and if you vow to be your true Self. Just remind your limited self every day of your life that you must be your true Self. The rest will come naturally. Ah yes, I almost forgot. Loving your self and all other beings is the foundation for everything we need.

Feast of Starlight: Finding Your True Self Through the Soundtracks from LOTR and "The Hobbit"

There is magic in music. Its frequency is affecting consciousness. How could it not? Our consciousness is also a frequency. Whenever I feel down or whenever I feel like it, I listen to the soundtracks of all Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies. They are pure magic. Howard Shore, who wrote the music, is a musical genius who gave humanity a transcendental portal to the universe. There is no other way to describe the effect this music has on me. Gone is the heaviness that burdens my Heart as I listen to this music and my spirit is lifted high above this mundane world. It is like I am reminded of the infinite being inside me that yearns to burst out of the character I play in this lifetime. As I am listening to this music, my Heart is burning with bliss, and my eyes are tearing up from joy. My own frequency is amplified, and my mind is filled with awe. I am not myself. I become again the luminous being that I’ve always been and always will be. For a moment in eternity, while I listen to this music, I shed the mask of the character I am playing in this incarnation, and I am basking in the everlasting light of the universe. At the same time, I am immersed in the beauty and the emotions displayed in the movies and by extension of course in Tolkien's books. There is something mystical and transcendental happening inside me when I hear Arwen's theme "Evenstar". The same happens when I listen to “Feast of Starlight” and especially “Beyond the Forest”. The deep and bittersweet melody is moving me in ways that unlock my true Self. I am literally and in the truest sense alive.

Some people might criticize me for that. Some people might think ill of me. Some people might shake their heads, dismissing me as a dreamer. I don't mind. I will continue to listen to this music. It’s fine. They may not appreciate this type of music, but hopefully they can appreciate any music that uplifts them and has a similar effect on them as this music has on me.

In these moments, I am expressing the unspoken wish and the unyielding desire to be free, unbound by relentless conditioning like all of us. I know that the feelings that spring forth through this music will never fade and never yield until my last breath and beyond. They are a living reminder of who I truly am, and not the “me” that hurts from years of bitter disappointment and loveless life, not the “me” that yearns to be my true Self, not the “me” that’s tired from the self-imposed battle of integration that’s raging inside me for many lifetimes. That’s just my character articulating his pain. And then, out of the blue, Gandalf’s wisdom comes to the rescue of my weary character, as he said to Frodo: “All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Indeed. What we do in our lives matter. It is not some worthless or trivial time that we spend on a forgotten planet at the edge of the Milky Way. It is where we train to become our true Self, our own personal embodiment of that infinite, luminous being that we are, presently immersed in oblivion, striving to remember who we truly are, thought by thought, emotion by emotion and ache by ache.

The number of moments of bliss that we experience in our lives represents the average readiness of being our true Self. The more we feel bliss, the more we are closer to being our true Self. I’m not referring to a mere sugar rush for example, or the satisfaction we feel after a great meal. There is nothing better than serving spirit to achieve the level of genuine bliss I’m referring to. Reaching a personal milestone in our inner work is not the same as getting a promotion at work, but it’s the kind of bliss I am referring to.

Can we feel bliss from being of assistance to each other for example?

Can we feel bliss from witnessing the perfect assortment of colours when the sun begins its journey across the sky or ends it in divine time?

Can we feel bliss from walking in nature that goes beyond feeling at ease, while marvelling at its perfection?

Can we look up to the stars on a beautiful summer night feasting on starlight, feeling the universe in our Heart, and cherish it at the same time?

Can we look upon a stranger and feel a level of unconditional love that goes beyond pity or compassion, like looking into a mirror?

Can we sit in silence and contemplate pure bliss for the sake of it, just by listening to music?

Can we glance at the horizon, tuning into the unknown, accepting it, embracing it, while knowing that the future will be fine in whatever way it unfolds?

Can we imagine our selves living on humanity’s colonies on other planets and feel our zest for life expand within us moment by moment, until we can’t contain it anymore?

Can we allow the universe to blossom in our Heart and empty our mind from thoughts about how to get along with each other?

Can we offer our fellow humans practical assistance that is not necessarily prepackaged with a service-based fee?

If we raise our arms and stretch them as far as we can, we can get a feeling of how far we allow each other to approach our body, our mind and our Heart in our day-to-day activities. My own, personal and you might say intimate approach to the universe, listening to etheric, yet visceral music is but one way to achieve this connection. If we can anchor this connection within our Heart, then and only then we are ready to come closer than an arm’s length. We can then convey our love to each other, without feeling that we might be misunderstood, because other humans will feel the same. It is the foundation of how we interact with each other, by reframing our relationship to the universe. In a strange way, that I am only beginning to explore, my own true Self IS the universe. All barriers between our selves and the universe break down in this state of being and this includes the walls of the fortresses that we have built around us.

I am that I am and I am enough. Once we get to feel this concept viscerally within us, then we have stripped our conditioning to a minimum and are ready to proceed reclaiming our power. We can then feel with our Heart and know with our mind, that we are at the precipice of “being”, leaving behind the “doing”. Yes, you heard right. I said “being”. You have purged what is burdening you and can adopt new habits that are helpful to you in your new state of being. It’s like emptying a glass of stale water and refilling it with pure, fresh water – or losing excess weight and replacing it with lean muscle mass. Use any metaphor that appeals to you, so that you can literally feel it.

This step is about feeling passively that you are your true Self and that you are enough, declaring that you are rejecting your conditioned past and are ready to move past it. The next step is to reach out. You summon your will power and declare that you are now moving past your conditioned past. You will be surprised how good it feels to be looking into the horizon and imagine only good things that will come your way.

At this point, let us remember, that the universe is just existing. It just is. The universe is all that is. So, by definition it contains everything. We just need to reframe ourselves in a way that we expect only positive things. Our vibration matters. Once we move from being conditioned to being devoid of conditioning, our Heart is literally filling us up with emptiness, the main property of the universe. You might think that I’ve lost it. On second thought however, you will see that emptiness contains infinity. Think about it. When you meditate about emptiness you can feel the universe. Not with your mind, but with your Heart. You can then become empty and trust your true Self, which is the embodiment of the universe within you, to lead you to wherever your Heart desires. It’s rather simple, but it took us thousands of years to get it.

But first you need to put yourself in a position to become empty, and that’s where the music plays a crucial part. You can now understand, that seemingly disconnected concepts are connected in a way that leads you to bliss or in other words to emptiness. Remember, I am that I am and that is enough. Your original state of being is emptiness and it is there where we go back to. Empty to experience life, empty to understand the universe, and finally, empty to become the universe. Superficial? I don’t think so. Circumstantial? Not really. But hey, don’t take my word for it. Follow the breadcrumbs that I just laid out before you and see for yourself. I dare you! Use your music, reclaim your power, break with our shared, conditioned past, redesign yourself. Only this way can you experience it yourself. My way may not be for you. Only your way matters. Find your own way to emptiness and experience a new way to live.

Being Instead of Doing: Journey into Constant Meditation

Today, let's talk about meditation, our main tool for consciousness evolution and expansion. I'm sure those of us who are serious about walking a spiritual path, meditate frequently and we have our own experiences, successes and failures with it.

Unfortunately, meditating is not yet for everybody and most people on the planet either have never heard of it, have heard of it and rejected it or tried it and decided that it's not for them.

These are all valid viewpoints, and nobody can fault these people. However, if we want to advance in this school of consciousness on this planet, we simply cannot ignore the critical importance of meditation.

In our Western society we typically tend to be much less mindful and meditate much less compared to our friends from the East. While it is normal for people from India, Japan or Tibet to meditate frequently and even lengthily, most people from Europe or the USA don't adhere to this practice. Our mindset is typically not compatible with serious practice of meditation.

Well, I hope that this information may be helpful not just for those of us who practice meditation and are indeed serious about it, but also for those who contemplate to add meditation to their daily routine.

Meditation is not something static and is a highly dynamic process, as it is related to our consciousness and therefore to our existential presence. It is the doorway to expansion and evolution. It fully supports the new paradigm of “being” instead of “doing”. In the external world we "do", but in the internal world we "are".

Let me describe this process from my personal perspective. Beginning to observe my self from the vantage point of “being” and allowing the content of my consciousness as well as my embodiment of the observer to deepen is one way to initiate meditation. Focusing on my breath has a miraculous effect on my mind. It calms down and ceases to be restless. After a while, when I let go of my focus on the breath it becomes so much easier to "be" than to "do". Thoughts pop up with much less frequency and urgency. They disturb my abiding "beingness" much less than before. I allow my self-awareness to flow gently. You might ask me at this point, why I don't focus longer on my breath to cultivate a more perfect beingness. The answer is that nothing is set in stone, especially with something so inherently dynamic as meditation. I have found that this process is more suited to my self. I simply perceive the level of abiding “beingness” that’s right for me. You might find or devise another process more appealing to you. The third stage in my personal meditation process is to "imagine" the deep state of unconditional love, which fills my consciousness and blots out any other feelings. Through constant repetition of my intent without thoughts and feelings, but with an intent "made solid" within me, I surrender to unconditional love. This "intent made solid within me" might be difficult to describe, and every seeker of inner peace must discover it on their own. However, it is an important stage in my own, personal process. It allows me to go deeper and leave the typical, medium-level meditation depth that is practiced in Western society. The fourth stage of my meditation process is initiated abruptly after wilfully diving so deep that it feels like I am sleeping. Suddenly, I feel that my conscious ability to influence the experience of my own meditation is wrestled away from me. It is like the sun is going up within me and I feel "more" connected and "one" with my self and the universe. Thoughts of my neighbour, Earth and other humans feel like examples of a distant dream. This is the stage where our true Self begins to reveal itself more willingly to the conscious self. I feel so much unconditional love that it almost becomes unbearable. You might say that this is the fun stage of my meditation process. It also acts as a springboard to a deeper stage that requires a bit more internal effort. With the “solid intent attitude” that I mentioned earlier, I can push further and the "I" inside me dissolves further and comes even closer to "we". I have always been like this, in fact we all have been like this, but now I can perceive it clearer than ever before during my waking state.

However, you probably agree with me that meditation is not just fun, it is the portal, the gateway to the universe and other beings. In this last stage sacred communion with other beings through feelings and sensations is possible. If you ask to have sincere Inner Contact with other beings and your meditational state is so deep that it is impossible for your ego to follow you, then you will have it. There is even a shared framework in place, which is proof that your experience is real. For example, if there is a group meditation taking place, which enhances the consciousness field, then the individual members of the group will perceive the same or similar feelings, sensations and images. That's what happened when I was part of an Experimental Contact Group. In our group all members had a shared Contact experience with the Plejaren Family in Z's books.

Let me grab this opportunity and confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Contact is real, even if your ego-based belief systems might disagree and you allow your ego to delude you.

After presenting my personal experience with meditation, I think it's time that we might attempt to reframe the whole concept of meditation. While we are accustomed to practicing it when sitting in a position that's comfortable for us, like in an armchair, in a traditional lotus posture or a warrior pose from martial arts, our consciousness has evolved sufficiently to begin practicing it everywhere without the need to sit. I am referring to a concept that goes beyond mindfulness. Native American elders as well as elders from all indigenous tribes on the planet have been living like this long before we were born. Another example was the Buddha, who didn’t talk much and smiled a lot. This happens when you are meditating in a state of wakefulness.

You might ask your selves if I'm going nuts or something. I assure you, I'm not or at least not yet. I have still a lot of spiritual practice ahead of me to experience enlightenment like Tibetan monks for example, after days of constant meditation.

No, I would just like to share an experience I had two days ago, when I was walking. One of my insights in my recent past has been to prepare our selves to live in a state of constant meditation. It is basically a state which is characterized by the following elements: first, our mind is not chattering incessantly. Second, we experience life, instead of living it, and we are fully immersed in it. Third, our Heart-based sensors are wide open, and insights are flowing into our consciousness, yet they are not disturbing our state of being.

Let me get back to my experience while I was out on a walk. Fortunately, I am blessed to be living in Ireland, where people place a lot of importance on nature. The housing estates are filled with many trees and grass is everywhere. While I was walking in a state of joy, I remembered my earlier insight that we are moving into a state of being where we exist in a state of constant meditation. Instantly, I wanted to experience this state of being and tried to block out random thoughts. Instead, I looked around, trying to immerse my self and blend into my surroundings. Thinking back now, my memories and experiences of my surroundings at that time and place are crystal clear. Anyway, to continue my story, I was walking like this for a while, refusing to entertain any superfluous thoughts and trying to just be and not think. I failed miserably, after my ego deviously thought about my health and what I am doing to improve it. My mind fluidly went to thinking about it and I completely forgot about being in the present. I was walking like this for a while, until a yellow leaf from a maple tree above me fell just in front of me, touching my face lightly. I had the instant insight to stop taking my self so seriously and to immerse my self in nature again. Surprisingly, I was blissed out with this insight, as I was sure it came from my true Self, which was observing me constantly, looking out for me and protecting me while I am incarnated on this world. With a smile, I looked up and saw the large maple tree and its adorning orange, yellow and brown leaves. In this moment I was one with the tree, my true Self and nature.

I instantly understood that reframing meditation will lead us to unity consciousness in a state of being that is not confined and restricted from the perspective of our limited self and allow the meditational state to spill over into our waking consciousness. In the past we have separated meditational state from waking state. Why? I will tell you why. It is because we possess fundamentally separated consciousness states, that are relevant to different activities and states of being. It is now time to blend all these consciousness states and to live as one with our true Selves and additionally as one with nature and by extension with the universe. We begin perceiving our selves as one with nature, which is naturally leading us to becoming one with our Selves. This is because nature is reflective of our selves and focuses our awareness. Once we accomplish that, we can perceive our selves as one with the universe.

As humans living on this planet now, we are blessed to participate in such a profound consciousness transformation that our limited self never thought possible. We are oblivious to our infinite potential. Every day I notice small little details of extreme potential that we humans bear inside of us, but at the same time, these moments are small, like rays of light that burst into the living room when curtains move. Once the curtains settle in their previous position, the rays of light are once again obstructed. Fortunately, I strongly remember my experiences. It is like an afterimage that persists in my eyes, long after looking at the sun itself. They are powerful beyond anything I have experienced before COVID.

In these moments I am reminded of the glorious future of humanity. The pain that all of us experience during these Great Changes that trouble us humans in different ways, based on whatever we need to purge from within us are just birthing pains of a brilliant new consciousness. We are reborn from within. Join me and feel my bliss, for there is no amount of conditioning that will make me despair again. Not if I am experiencing life, instead of merely living it… in other words, as I am meditating while being wide awake.

Ride the Unknown: From Ego Fear to True-Self Freedom

Today, I would like to talk about the “unknown” and the effect it has in our lives. We feel that it is our enemy and not our friend. Our current understanding of the “unknown” is that it represents danger and uncertainty and that it’s better to stick with the “known”. But of course, this is not true. Not everything “unknown” is dangerous, just like everything “known” is not harmless. Let’s not generalize here. Not knowing what we don't know makes us anxious and distrustful of the “unknown”, rejecting it out of hand.

However, knowing on one hand that the universe is infinite in all aspects and on the other hand that there are learning experiences waiting literally behind EVERYTHING we experience, it stands to reason, that we can learn from it. It is not us who reject the “unknown”. It is our ego, because the “unknown” will rock its boat. Remember, the ego doesn't want to change the status quo, and it doesn't want to change the conditions in our life, unless it’s initiating changes itself. It is trying to control our lives by introducing change when such change suit it or rejects change when it believes that change is forced upon it.

Control of others and our environment is the preferred tool of the ego to keep us safe, or so we believe through its belief systems. The fight or flight impulse originates from the urge to control. But what would you say, if I told you, that we cannot control our lives. Not really. Sure, we can plan for every imaginable contingency, but what about any contingencies we can’t imagine? Then we shrug and say, "Life happened". Let’s remember Mike Tyson’s famous quote: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” The Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns said basically the same: “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley”, from his poem “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough”, meaning no matter how carefully you plan, something may still go wrong. There is a Yiddish proverb that goes, “Man plans, God laughs”. This is rather self-explanatory. The Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder said, “No battle plan survives contact with the enemy”. This quote was repeated by Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz. US General Dwight D. Eisenhower paraphrased, saying “In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Plans must be constantly adjusted. The “unknown” is much larger than the “known”. This is the quantum concept of the observer in action. Observing something alters its properties and thereby our perception of it. Let’s face it. Original planning is doomed to fail. That’s because we don’t “know” the “unknown”. That’s why it’s literally called the “unknown”. Our conscious, limited self tries to prepare for and basically defend itself from a future that it doesn’t know. Only our true Self knows, and it does so in a way that our small, limited self could never grasp. Quantum probabilities are constantly reshuffling universal forces based on factors that we don’t understand and can’t control. Period. These factors are beyond our reach and more importantly, they were never meant to be within our reach.

Most people are obsessed with planning. I'm sure you've heard of the saying "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". Everybody plans. If only one individual was planning, the results would be more in line with what our ego wants. However, plans of one individual can be detrimental to plans of another individual. We observe something and it changes. That’s quantum physics 101. Wave-particle duality, quantum superposition and quantum entanglement are all in motion based on quantum probabilities and are the influence of the observer effect. They are making sure that every plan needs constant adjustment. It is true that in our Western society we need to plan our lives, but is this truly the way to go? Monks in monasteries don't plan. They are immersed in spiritual activities. Anybody living off the land would live in a similar way. These people just follow established ways to live with the land by being, instead of thinking. If you ponder about our inability to control others and our environment, you would agree. Let's look at it logically. We are living our lives in Western society. There are things that we need to plan for. Food, shelter, amenities for life, they all need to be taken care of. We need to work to pay for all the above. We believe that work will generate an income that will help us pay the cost of living. In other words, we are paying dearly for our existence. You might think, "Hold on… Why are we paying for our existence? We are not paying for our existence!?"

And you would be right. From the perspective of the ego, this is correct, although it is rooted in denial. Our ego would not accept this statement as valid. Yet, everything costs something and we pay for it, sometimes dearly, while being exposed to financial predators or the financial system itself, which favours the haves at the expense of the have-nots. We are attached to money, going after money, any way possible, believing that holding it in our possession will enable us to live better by spending it to exert control over others and our environment. From the perspective of our true Self, we are not paying for our existence, as our existence is multi-facetted and multidimensional, so this is also not true for our true Self. So, what's wrong? There is clearly something wrong here, otherwise the statement "cost of living" wouldn't affect us so much. The problem is not so much about money itself, although it is indeed the root of all evil from a higher perspective. The problem is embedded within the structure of Western society, where everything is tied to a way of life that requires us to earn an income to stay on the hamster wheel of the ego's need to survive. Our “dog-eat dog” society is all about hustling. This is why living in it has a cost of living attached to it as a means of modern enslavement. The more "advanced" the Western country is that we're living in, the higher the cost of living typically.

Exactly this is what makes the ego think about the future and anything “unknown”, that might threaten our lives and our survival. Due to the linear nature of time in 3D consciousness density, we cannot perceive the future the same way we perceive the past. Over time we have equated the concept of the “unknown” with uncertainty and danger, unaware that from the perspective of the true Self that the “unknown” contains only learning experiences. It is the limited worldview of the ego that we trust, which keeps us from experiencing more learning experiences, making our consciousness evolution slow and cumbersome.

If we had a sense of adventure like Indiana Jones for example, we would be thriving in the face of danger, both literally and metaphorically. We would be experiencing life both faster and deeper than ever, making the duration of our learning experience on Earth as short as possible. That would typically not affect the duration of incarnations, as they are tied to experiencing life’s themes. However, living life on the edge would enhance the accumulation of life experiences and diminish the resistance with which these life experiences would be assimilated by the soul in any incarnation. We would ride the wave of the “unknown”, instead of fearing it. If we embraced the “unknown” as a friend, then it would diminish traumatic "shock and awe experiences" to the degree we surrendered to the “unknown”, because we would learn gracefully. "Shock and awe experiences" are typically utilized by Spirit if the learning resistance is high and we don't learn gracefully. That’s because a strong ego is resisting the learning process. Without grace we would be compelled to repeat lessons, because our ego typically doesn’t allow us to learn gracefully what is needed. Our ego thinks it knows everything better. Every repeated lesson that's not assimilated by the soul, increases the intensity of the next relevant life experiences dynamically, until the penny finally drops and we get it through “shock and awe”. It’s up to us whether we want to coast through school or attempt to learn faster than our fellow students. If we coast through school our learning experience will be slow and dull, perpetuating our oblivion to the wonders of life and the universe. However, if we choose the proverbial red pill instead of the blue one and resolve to learn faster, embracing the “unknown” and riding its wave, than our lives will be rich and rewarding. Choosing the red pill would announce to the universe our will to surrender to it, instead of to control it. By “working” with the universe to ride the wave of the “unknown”, we deliberately refrain from constantly interfering in the work of our true Self, by making constant adjustments to plans that are a mere approximation to the plan of our true Self.

But… at this point you might remember me mention our true Self earlier. What does all this have to do with our true Self? It is simple. Believe it or not, dealing with the “unknown” is deeply interwoven with finding aspects of your true Self. That’s one of the reasons the school of life exists. The more aspects of our true Self we discover, the more we can relate to the “unknown” changes. We relate to our conscious self through the “known” and to our true Self through the “unknown”. If we embrace the “unknown”, then, by definition, we will discover more about our true Self, as we ride the wave of the “unknown” and in the process classify aspects of our “unknown” Self as “known”. The process of “know thyself” depends on our interactions with reality itself. By observing our thoughts, emotions and deeds in 3D consciousness density our true Self reveals itself to our conscious, limited self.

Now… I hope you understand that planning in 3D is something that keeps us slave to 3D consciousness density, without allowing our limited selves to grow beyond 3D and into 4D as our true Selves. Unbelievable, but nevertheless true. Our true Self will not allow us to perish in 3D, unless of course we need to grok the meaning of death, but that’s taken care of through the experience of war. If we trust our true Self to guide us, we can experience our lives with more harmony, while they become rich and fulfilling before our very eyes. And lastly, we don’t have to fret over missed opportunities anymore, because we will be able to perceive more of them by riding and experiencing the wave of the “unknown”, whereas perceiving everything through the prism of the “known” will gift us with a “safe” but dull life that will leave us craving for more opportunities to better it.

Come on, let’s live a bit outside our comfort zone for a change. At least this way we can invalidate the concept of FOMO.