Happy February. It’s going to be a month of profound change and deepening intimacy with the divine creator source. It’s a real chance to be in our hips and hearts and hold space for the immense waves of change ahead. 

Know that you came to this time on planet Earth with the ability to surf the waves of change occurring. The Hopi and Lakota prophecies speak of these tumultuous times when wind and water will unite in force to purge the land and when wind and fire sweep across those areas that have been disrespected. The wind is the element that brings with it precious knowledge.  They speak of the medicine wheel being out of balance and how we cannot separate any further from the divine source, and we will live in uproarious times until we consciously take action to deepen our intimacy with ourselves, the planet, and the cosmos. Until we respect all life in all its forms and do not place the human condition above the rest of creation. 

 I had a clear vision recently when I realized that we focused on seeking truth by looking outside ourselves around fifteen years ago. Then came the iPhone, and our attention suddenly shifted downward to a tiny screen in the palms of our hands as if we were praying. Now, we are so consumed by a false matrix that prevents us from fully turning inward to the home of our purest source—the silent stillness that holds all the answers. We are beginning to value artificial intelligence over emotional intelligence. 

 Life is a beautiful odyssey, filled with its ups and downs, and along the way, we all encounter suffering and challenges. It’s completely normal to feel overwhelmed at times, especially when we focus on what’s going wrong. We might view the world as unfair as if fate or the universe has a personal grievance against us, that there is a punishing god , and that some people hold power over us. This perspective can feel burdensome and filled with resentment. But it’s crucial to remember that this is just one way of looking at things—it’s not the only truth. Our experiences often shape our outlook: the universe isn’t out to punish or reward us. Instead, it simply flows according to its own natural rhythms.

 Our suffering does not arise from an indifferent universe; it often comes from resisting the natural flow of life. The universal flow is continuous, like a river. It is flowing in, through, and as. It is not just in us but in everything throughout the cosmos. We can stand at the edge and observe it moving or turn our backs on it; still, it flows. We can dip a toe in, and it continues to flow. We can immerse ourselves in it, and guess what? It keeps flowing. We can even become the flow and find ourselves co-creating a life of profound beauty and seductive experiences.

 From the moment we enter the world, we are provided with beliefs and expectations about how life should unfold. We start labeling and categorizing experiences as good or bad. However, this mindset can obscure a vital truth: everything that happens is simply part of the grand universal order; life is not personal. When we resist this order, long for different circumstances, blame others for our struggles, or wallow in self-pity, we ultimately cause ourselves greater suffering. The universe is only abundant, delivering an abundance of what we focus on and perceive to be a truth. This is the true essence of being a co-creator.

 Complaining often reflects a struggle to understand the laws of the universe rather than engage with it. Embracing life as it comes is essential for overcoming challenges. Acceptance enables us to align with and integrate into life’s currents instead of resisting them. This doesn’t imply that we should be passive or give up; rather, it indicates that every situation, even the tough ones, presents an opportunity for growth and learning. Suffering is indeed a gift waiting to be unwrapped. On the roadmap of life, these moments of suffering serve as signposts that guide us on how to surrender and create a more embodied, empowered, and fulfilling experience. Frequently, the most profound insights arise from the most challenging circumstances, and the obstacles we encounter are designed to uplift us rather than bring us down.

 Consider this: people from similar backgrounds can experience vastly different lives, even with the same opportunities. One might glide into success, while the other might struggle through repeated challenges. The reason for this difference is not merely luck or external circumstances; it heavily depends on how people perceive, interpret, and respond to their life situations. For many, we have embodied disempowering aspects of life that we struggle against. When we surrender to the divine source, we are shown how to transmute these disempowering aspects and then reintegrate with a deeper intimacy to the source and our unique expression of the source. If something is disempowering, it can never be integrated; the universe is not here to make you suffer unless you believe you should. Suffering is an option until it’s no longer an option.

 When we complain, we trap ourselves in a cycle of negativity, fostering the illusion that we are victims of external forces. However, we liberate ourselves from unnecessary suffering when we surrender our perspective from resistance to understanding.

 Instead of asking, “Why is this happening to me?” It’s far more enriching to ask, “What can I learn from this?” Reintegrating our divine self is a mental development that involves unlearning what we were taught in our formative years.

 This slight shift in thinking transforms challenges into extraordinary opportunities for growth and inner peace, allowing you to reconnect with your divine creative force and foster the life of your dreams.

 The universe’s neutrality isn’t just a concept that lightens human suffering; it’s a profound understanding that we play a significant role in shaping our own experiences, often without even realizing it. Our reality comes to life through our perceptions, choices, and insights, illustrating how much power we hold in creating our own journeys.

 The law of cause and effect beautifully shapes our existence, reminding us that every action carries its own consequence. When we choose to align our actions with wisdom and responsibility, we open the door to a reality filled with peace, harmony, and fulfillment. Conversely, responding with resistance, blame, or complaints can unintentionally create a cycle of suffering that seems impossible to escape.

 Ultimately, we must embrace a higher consciousness that views life not as a series of injustices but as a perfectly orchestrated symphony of experiences. By relinquishing complaints and accepting what is, we cease being victims of circumstance and become co-creators of our destiny. The universe is neither cruel nor kind; it simply exists.

 Our choice lies in how we dance with it. The symphony plays a universal song. Are you ready and willing to pirouette? Or would you rather stand on the edge and complain about the key in which the music of life is played? A deeper, more intimate perspective, understanding, and definition of the divine leads to a more integrated experience of one‘s self as sacred. When we become truly still and silent, we gain an embodied experience of the divine flow that we are. Eventually, we integrate and become the flow.

 Our hearts’ true nature is stillness in the silence. Our hearts are like the membranes of drums. When an energetic frequency touches them, they vibrate with feelings. They do not label or categorize the feelings; they simply feel.

What a beautiful gift to be alive in these extraordinary times on earth.

Happy surfing.

BE Well

Surrender to the voice of the silence
What lies beneath all this silence is stillness.
Is it possible for you to simply be still?
Don’t try being still; don’t try to acquire it.
Simply be still.
Still is no thing, it is nothing.
It is not a state of mind or a physical posture.
For just one instant stop.
Notice what remains.
Notice what is present.
Just notice. Don’t try to label it or name it.
There is no need to capture it or be captured by it.
There is no thing to capture: nothing.
Just have the experience of you.
In this moment just be the perfection that you already are.
There is nothing one can say that you don’t already know
Be willing to allow yourself the freedom of sacred knowledge; silence.
Discover the light that emanates from you; it has never dimmed despite the cacophony or the darkness that surrounds you.

Every answer you might still be in search of is lying in wait in the center of you.
It is not in the corner of your mind.

In this moment of profound silence, recognize what remains constant and does not come or go.
Amidst the noise, chaos, calamity, joy, peace, and fulfillment, your life communicates in silence.
Embrace this moment of stillness and merge with your divine self.
Healing is the byproduct.

Experience the death of everything in the silence.
All that you were taught you were dies in the silence of the stillness.
You are not your past nor your future; in the still silence is who you are, who you have always been.

Those who have died have nothing to do with this moment of silence.
They no longer belong.
There is only being.
No one ever returns to report anything else.

Stay present in the silent stillness.
Don’t check out or daydream.
Be present to what is or isn’t happening.
Don’t use spiritual concepts to escape the truth of silence; freely be here in the now.

I am not speaking to your mind
I am speaking to your soul.
Thinking is a great power but a corruptable power.
Inquire, but not with your mind
Inquire with your beingness
Your nature.
Be naturally inquisitive like you were at birth.
There is great freedom and engagement in this.
Your formative years
Your domestication is best served by death.
This death is an angel, a gift to be unwrapped.
As a young child, you did not fear death
You were taught to be afraid of the inevitable.

There is this desire for true freedom and real fulfillment that, at some point, appears in everyone’s lifetime.

Within this longing lies the grandest of paradoxes: this desire for freedom and a fulfilling life can only be realized if you don’t do anything to know it.

Here lies the conundrum. The mind cannot believe this, and since we tend to associate with our minds, we struggle to believe this.

So, there is a focused search for more things to do, and as a result of this intense focus, you are given more things to do.

You are given many things to do, an endless list of tasks and obligations. But consider this: what you are being given to do is designed to wear down your desire to do.

Many practices are pitched and sold as tried-and-true that will ease suffering and take you to enlightenment. As a result of this enlightenment, you will find inner peace and magically be fulfilled. But what you are left with is a new sense of doing.

Yet because this you that you associate with is made of light, there is no need to be enlightened because there is no unenlightened. If you are light, then how is it that you can become enlightened? There is nothing to do to obtain enlightenment; there is only the realization and allowing that you are light, having an experience in three-dimensional form. Remember: The lights are on, but nobody is home.

Many forms of spirituality are designed to assist this realization. These practices are designed to still the mind so it does not obsess about the next activity or object needed to reveal this true fulfillment. To reveal the resolution of the longing for Truth.

In such practices, which I’m sure many of you have or have had or tried to have, there is usually an attempt to focus and concentrate the mind or the combination of stilling the mind and body. Eventually, that points to the fact that there is a reprieve, fulfillment, and peace when the mind’s activity is at rest.

Sure, these practices give moments of beauty, transcendence, and true knowing, yet that underline longing, the underlying sense of how do I get it? How do I keep it? How do I be it, is never realized and allowed.

There is still a need to achieve, to do, to complete the journey you set out to go on. The mind can never be sufficed because it has a job to do, and being still and silent isn’t in its true nature. Ultimately, the question arises as to why you want to shut down the creator’s voice, which is speaking through you.

So why are we so focused on going on a journey of discovery and doing?

Could we collectively agree that we were kicked out of the Garden and need to repent by doing/achieving to return?

My travels in Peru amongst its shamans suggest this is the driving force behind all this doing.  Is it possible that we have been guilted into believing this and ashamed of the three-dimensional form, our body, we co-created to give the universe an experience of itself?

Is it possible, at this moment, to stop right where you are? Stop all efforts to get whatever you think will give you fulfillment or whatever you feel will provide you with truth. Is it possible to let go of? I still need to do what I should have done, I could have done, I would have done.

All that is required is one instant of genuinely stopping.  If you let go of this internal dialogue for just one instant, it will still be waiting for you when you are finished. It needs you more than you need it.

This one instant is elusive to most people because when they approach the instant of stopping, they usually experience an enormous welling of fear.

If you stop, there is the fear that you will slide back. You will lose the ground you gained through your efforts and practices. The chaos of the external world will sweep you away. You will lose this identity you fought so hard to create. The mind tells you that it’s happened before. The old ball and chain of who you were taught, disciplined, and traumatized to be suddenly gains weight and creates more drag.

This internal dialogue arises: I’m still not fully satisfied, but I’m more confident than I was; I have a better life than before; my mind is calmer; my circumstances are better, and if I stop, I might lose all I’ve gained.

This is the risk that everyone will have to take sooner or later. Eventually, everything will be lost anyway. When you leave this body, all that was gained, obtained, and accomplished will be lost and set free. That’s reality. This whole lifetime will be lost. All the accumulations of this lifetime will be lost.

If you don’t stop and yet have faith in other lifetimes, then this lifetime is a hope that the next lifetime you will stop.

This is so obvious that it is startling. It’s so apparent and avoided at all costs, even in esoteric wisdom. One wishes there was some magic formula one could have whispered in one’s ear. And yet, it is continuously being whispered: Stop.

It’s that simple, so simple that you can’t believe it.

Eventually, these instances of stopping begin to accumulate; they become moments and minutes into hours. Eventually, you realize that who you indeed are is the witnessing. You are not a being witnessing but the act of witnessing.

When you allow your mind to stop, you experience fulfillment—more fulfillment than you can ever imagine.

You are pure awarenessing, with a perspective from within the eye of modern life’s hurricane of chaos. There is a sense of wonder inherent in the reality that there is nothing to fix, know, or do that hasn’t already been done. Everything, including you, is beautiful and perfectly complete.

As you allow the stillness of yourself, this heart-centeredness, the world becomes still around you. In this stillness of nature, you realize that all of nature speaks to you.

The animals each have their unique message. The plants each tell you how beautiful you are. The stones, water, and wind speak in their divine way. They are so full of love, beauty, and grace that they know what message you are ready to hear and present themselves to you accordingly.

No one or thing obtained can set you free when you are already free.

It’s impossible to awaken when you are pretending to be asleep.

The archetype of the witness is the one who can observe without needing to fix something. With practice, the witness eventually becomes the act of witnessing and can refrain from engaging. Today, on our planet, there is so much drama vying for our attention. Now more than ever, developing the act of witnessing is essential. When you are the act of observing, you will always be taken to a place better than you have imagined for yourself.

Due to our conditioning, many of us find it challenging to observe without getting involved. We have been taught to take action whenever things don’t go as expected and solve any perceived problems. If we don’t sense any issues, we become restless and search for something to fix by creating a problem to keep us occupied. According to shamanic wisdom, this is because we believe that by staying busy fixing things, we can escape our mortality and never die, as we have tasks to accomplish. It is much easier to take on the role of the witness when the event is far removed from our localized reality, like when it is in another country, state, city, or neighborhood. Distancing ourselves from the event can then subdue the emotional charge surrounding it. Yet, when it is tied to our work or family, we often get triggered and call on our past conditioning to quickly resolve it momentarily.

CONSCIOUSNESS SCALE

David Hawkins’s consciousness scale has three distinct categories of witnessing. The lowest frequency or vibration is the victim, where everything is happening to you. All of your experiences are witnessed through your painful events in this lifetime and past lifetimes. Your consciousness has shame, guilt, fear, anger, grief, and pride all entangled in it.

You view life as tragic, demanding, disappointing, hopeless, evil, and miserable. You experience life through anxiety, depression, and negativity. You keep blaming others and things outside of yourself for how you are. You have completely separated from your divine ability to co-create a beautiful life, to walk in the way of beauty.

VICTOR OR ACHIEVER

Eventually, you might find yourself rising out of this observation as the victim and working to become victorious. Quite often, you respond to the event through your past conditioning, and any attempt to solve these still has you engaging with the past and trying to fix things to improve it. You have taken on the role of doer.

There are many strategies for doing this that give people temporary relief from their distorted projection onto the reality mirror. But eventually, the old pattern reemerges, and you are again reaching for a new way to fix your reality. It’s like putting duct tape on it and hoping for the best. Eventually, the leak springs anew and engages you by occupying your attention and requiring you to find a way to fix it.

Think of it in terms of a dog and its stick. Something keeps throwing the stick, and you, the dog, chase after it, bringing it back so you can wait for it to be thrown again so you have something to chase after. This keeps you occupied with a reality that is, at best, futile in its return. You begin to tire of the result, and the observer emerges as the true you. It seems better than chasing your own tail.

Victor’s consciousness attempts to reason the way out, accept, and find courage and willingness to continue. The victor views life as acceptable, satisfactory, and hopeful, giving it meaning. They become productive and have an endless list of tasks to accomplish. There is a sense of relief in executing parts of the endless list. As it fixes one thing, it adds on another so that it has something meaningful to engage with. Idol hands are the devil’s playground.

As the observer develops, it begins to be experienced as observing. You start to realize that it’s possible to observe what is going on in the world around you and not have to fix any of it. You can become a non-doer. The more you begin to observe, the more faith you have in allowing the true nature of things to unfold for your highest and best. You sit back, allow, and watch it unfold. You go for the ride.

VEHICLE

In the Hawkins scale, this is known as the vehicle. When you become the vehicle, you leave driving and navigating up to the divine energy that orchestrated all this in the first place. You realize that there is no punishing force that has it out for you and has left you needing to act on its behalf to correct the mistakes you believe it or you have made.

By allowing this into your consciousness, you become love, joy, peace, and eventually enlightened. You experience life through synchronicities, trusting in the process. You have affluence through compassion and loving what is. You see everything as perfect, complete, supportive, and magical. You see yourself as extraordinary and intuitive and create your dream accordingly.

By recognizing yourself as the observing, you dream your world into being by co-creating with the source of all things. This relationship with co-creating is your faith in your feminine aspects to create pure beauty reflecting the love that you are. You step out of the masculine mindset of needing to do and to solve, and you allow things to be created on your behalf. You allow the mother of all mothers to develop perfection for you and invoke grace in creativity.

The witnessing or observing is who you are. It is who you were born as. It is who you will be when you leave this body behind in death. You are not a human being. You are consciousness on an extended vacation as a human being. You are not this body you currently occupy. You are not your mind, and you are not your heart; these are tools to be used to expand your consciousness on this planet.

Most of us have forgotten that this time on this planet is a retreat, where we are experiencing the mysteries of being in dense, energetic human form. We have gotten caught up in the drama of such a dense reality and identified with it to fit into the “human race.”

We identify with, attach to, and fiercely defend the events that shaped our view of ourselves, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that suggests otherwise. We forget who we really are. We are not what happened to us; we are the act of witnessing.

The act of witnessing is not passive; in fact, it is very active. When we witness the event unfolding around us, we experience the truth of what is occurring. We don’t become traumatized by it. We don’t create an identity out of it or use it to judge ourselves as worthy of the divine witnessing we already are. We realize that the truth doesn’t need us to validate it as truth; it simply is truth. We don’t wage wars over ideologies and belief systems, and we don’t discriminate against those who are different from us. Instead, we realize that everyone and everything is perfect, including ourselves.

UNIFICATION

The final stage of developing witnessing is unification. In observing, we realize that all is one and that the whole reason for this journey and life on earth in this human body is to reunite with everything we know to exist. Everything is made up of the same essential elements. We are made of stars, and the stars are made of us. Each of us is a small part of the whole, and nobody has any more connection to the whole than you do. When witnessing, you realize that what you are observing is observing you. That everything is information informing everything else. This could be called the mirror of reality.

When we talk about awakening and going on a spiritual journey, we are eluding to the development of our witnessing and returning to our divine state of non-doing. We drop the identity of a being and find ourselves in the act of creating. We are the reflection of the divine mother, showing her undying love for the divine source she has engaged with to create this physical plane we call reality.