I am replicating an entry I made in response to Jim and Judith on their blog because I feel that many Gaians would find it useful:

 

As
I am reading your blog, and my eyes pass over,

"But if you knew someone
who was going about their life without fame, wealth, and public adulation,
would you say that that person is living a fabulous life?"  

I
stop to answer the question before proceeding because that is how I read, with
full intention. Or, why bother, eh?!

And,
my Inward answer starts like this

             

Of course not, fame and the like is hardly the "stuff" of fabulousness!  The most fabulous life to me is one that is funded consciously aware from WithIn, Spirit SELF at the  helm, and I do not mean in a helter-skelter kind of way that is "on" today and "off" tomorrow and randomly switching "on & off" in some mysterious way out of the conscious control of the individual. 

 

TRULY, Fabulous is free from the gnawing pain, and often kept secret from others, of seeking to obliquely deal with a sense of worthlessness that's rooted in separation from WHO WE ARE, in non-effective efforts to fill the "hole in the Soul" with the "stuff" of paragraph one, thereby creating a facade of being "fabulous" or even fabled.

 

 

Actually, fabulous in living the ordinary day-to-day life in come-union with one's Higher SELF as their daily self in thought, word, deed, and feelings. Now, that is one fabulous be-in life!

 

Then,
I continue reading.  You & I think, NOT -- ah, we concur.

However,
I consider the list in your blog, while addressing the types of behaviors of persons not tethered to the ways of the "maddening crowd" of normalcy seeking external authority, approval, or adulation, to be items highlighting the effects not the cause of fabulousness.  

From
my perspective, is not so much achieving the standards of living that fulfills us, as it is communing with our Indwelling SOURCE Who is ever informing us, that generates a permanency of living, that is really beyond fabulous in that it is infinitely available no matter what happens to the standards, and it is eminently a life that is Peaceful or Contented. 

Now,
fabulous is a word for this Peaceful contented state, yet it is a descriptor or label of our sense
of living from our hearts connected to our emanating Presence and, thus,  living consciously from Who We ARE - InSpirited Beings of Light~Love~Harmony~Peace - and all the fruits thereof that are fabulous, indeed!

 

Sorry,
if this seems like I am splitting hairs, but, from my point of view, these splits make all the difference in the world, TRULY. 

I'd
love it if you would drop by and visit with me and possibly deepen our relationship.  My home is presently a construction zone, and is currently known as my webpage: www.selfgnosis.org. 

       Excuse me a moment,

       I must wax poetic, I cannot help myself!

 

In the Cosmic Pattern,

Our woof and weave

May be crossing,

Creating

A piece within

The Cosmic Cloth

 That has no Weaver

 

Which...

Is made grander

 

 IF...when...

 Those beings,

Who are

The woof and weave,

 Simply notice

how
they are touching.

Its potential

Is idle

And

 Pregnant with
Potency

  Until

Seen

And

Embraced

 By those comprising
Its weave.

And then,

Birthing its potency into reality

It is alive

As

 The hearts of

The woof and weave

 Come into
Collaboration to create it outward.

 

And

 It is made holy

 When

The collaborators

Enter communion

With

The unseen Weaver and

Allow it to

Unfold its grandness

 Expanding the expressions of

 Greater Good...

All
to Love,

Sharon

PS.
Those obstacles/limitations are all you say they are and more; they are, the vibrational gap we have independently created for ourselves and have maintained an attachment to having. 

When teaching this to children (and the child within adults) I simplify the concept by saying these obstacles are TRULY our "trash on our path."  This "trash" cannot ever be at-one with our SOURCE of Being because all of it is  anti-vibrational to  SOURCE, and as such, our "trash" repels us from our Divine inheritance by occluding our recognition, and invariably, our re-union.

This means it robs us from our Come-into-union
or Communion which is our natural state, and this state has a permanency unless we UNdo it (which we have the Free Will to do, or not to do, as the case may be).  Well, you know how that goes,
eh?!

I have directly experienced how these obstacles MUST be transmuted and their energy returned to harmonic resonance with SOURCE for us to be done with them forevermore. (YEAH!)

Otherwise,
they keep resurfacing to be dealt with, albeit in different forms, again and again until we deal with them once and for all. We have the power to do so, but, clearly, we must know how-to.  Free Will requires that we must accept this fact and apprise ourselves of what this means and the how-to's. Nothing we have created of this negating nature "just disappears."

From all that I read in your lovely posts, (Keep up the input, people often have a need to jump on the ship and ports you can show to them for advancing their lives forward before they are ready to be about the business of serious transformation as I am pointing towards.)

I am guessing that you two are hovering around this lodestone of understanding and ready to hone in to the mother-load.  It is one of gnosis:
SELFgnosis.  Ummm, wonder if I am sensing this correctly or not?  I wouldn't want to cross that pompous line and assume I know your heart or any other person's heart, albeit, the signs seem to beckon my attention thusly.

People will rally and support animals with more gusto and news headlines than I see for children's rights, needs, etc.  This I don't understand.

Hating people, esp so when you've never even met them??!  This I don't understand.

Why people keep voting in politicians who lie, deceive, and bail out the rich?  How ANY politician can vote on a bill TO MAKE IT LAW, and NOT EVEN READ it??!!  This is gross incompetence and dangerous. 

I don't understand the American silence.

People's obsession with sports
over caring for children's needs, esp. the abused and neglected ones,
over political issues that are enslaving them,
over spending quality time with their families, esp. their kids,
over banking policies that are making them poor,
over their Spiritual life, releasing their pains,

So much I do not understand. 

The list, IF I had the time to prepare it would amount to a very long litany of insane behaviors that people accept and even support that harm them and the world they "live" in. 

Confusion is a real problem to face in returning to sanity of MAKING SENSE.

All to Love, Sharon

Ah, are you asking this question about the English language, or beyond any and all languages?  Your question clarified words, so I know symbolic language is not part of this questions scope.   Ummm...so I wonder.

There is a word in Japanese, kokoro, that has no English equivalent!  It is such a vast and heart felt understanding that a whole book was written by Lafcadio Hearn to attempt to convey the multidimensional and multivalent meanings that this word encompassed in Japanese cultural understanding of this word. 

Ever so loosley we sound bite this word to, "living from the heart," and in so doing we bridge a footpath to its depth, but it falls short  delivering a true meaning. 

A long study of the nuances of living from the heart and experiencing this way of relating and influencing life is required to give justice to a simple word the English language does not even attempt to encode into a concept, let alone into a word.  Says a lot about us, does it not?

Everything transcendent fails to be contained in the container of any word or words!

All to Love, Sharon

Direct and to the point, no beating around the bush delivered with kindness, if possible.

 Q&A dialog is always welcome.

AND, Oh, IF  you are talking about waking me up in the morning, well that's quite different.  I like this to be GENTLY, ever so GENTLY!

All to Love,
Sharon

My relationship with waiting is intimate; it's one of respect and trust.  Here's why:

Waiting lies at the heart of GOD/Source, waiting  with infinite patience for each and every lost soul's return HOME.  Since it is a heart quality of our Beloved Creator, waiting seems to me to be a quality to look for in our experiences as well as our responses to waiting itself.     

 

We can look at instant gratification as the counterpoint of waiting. We can consider how waiting develops the skills of patience and tolerance.  Of course, waiting is an integral element of pregnancy and healing processes.

 

Heck, waiting is inimical to life itself.  Seeds, pregnant and potent wait till opportunity provides the right catalysts to wake up the dormancy of waiting.  Then, the emergence process starts and waiting provides the time and space for the miracle of life and growth.

 

Then there's the chamber of waiting, a seemingly lifeless shell to external observers as a cocoon sits motionless upon a branch later to rejoice in the transformation and emergence of a butterfly from a once inching along caterpillar. Life is a mystery of waiting  from composting, to tides rolling in & out, to becoming an adult, to an endless list... 

 

Then, there's the beauty of how SELFGnosis teaches us to behold our transitions by paying attention to how our perspective and well being shifts as well as noticing other changes we may not have anticipated. 

 

Such vigils are very personal and instructive.  We have the honor and responsibility of holding open Sacred Time and Space for change to occur while we forge a relationship of Trust with our guiding SELF ever fostering a deepening awe of how close we are to wisdom all the time.

 

I have an intimate relationship with waiting, one that started out with "ants in my pants" anxiousness always in a hurry for results, to one of peace abiding in me as I rest more and more comfortably in unfolding, vigiling, and revealing processes.

 

All of these have a waiting requirement that pays in great dividends .  It is powerful to be witnessing myself changing and experiencing a peace inherently within as a trusting relationship with my Inward Spirit as My Beloved SELF and best friend is made the way of my life. 

 

In summary:

My relationship with waiting is one of respect and trust.  I often refer to it as an act of Beholding, that is to Hold into Being something better for tomorrow than today may be holding (in time and space). 

 

At the heart of accepting and changing is the ability to wait with open expectation.

 

Again, a deep one there, Siona.

 

Thanks for asking because I didn’t think this one through till you asked it here, and I'm glad to see how important waiting/vigiling is for a fulfilling life.

 

All to Love,

Sharon

I love bridges (and trees)!

 

I Am gearing up to build the bridge I here speak of, and it will have the power of the verb potency inherent within all bridges, namely, that of bridging connections while closing gaps.

 

It will bridge outward, connecting to all who are ready to KNOW that wonder+filled Who residing within themselves beating their hearts, breathing their breaths, and urging them to know their soul's purpose -- giving conscious awareness and meaning to WHO I AM at the personal level of consciousness.  This is SELFGnosis.

 

I am NOT talking about concepts.  I am talking (well, writing) about personal experience here.

 

I am excited about this potential actualizing, and the shift this will be creating in the collective unconsciousness of HUmanity, as one-by-one more and more God in us personally, is more God in HUmanity.  How could it be any other way??

 

Re-memberance of Who we are is one and same as reconnections with Source which, by its very nature, will be creating cascades energy and consciousness away from violence and insanity of separation and into a Unity of Oneness.

 

Now, that will be something to celebrate, and all because of the simplicity of bridging or Hooking-people up with their empowerment to be all they can be…Who they Truly Are.  

 

Are YOU ready?  Speak up.

 

That is how WEi  open the doors of opportunity and change them from an idle potential we think about, hope for, wish will come to pass, and actually make it happen…this is the way of SPIRIT or The TAO. 

 

I'm just asked to do my part. The rest will be our history when others choose to DO THEIR PARTS.

Ask, and the FLOW is turned on.

 

LOVE works in wondrously marvelously mysteriously elegant and simple ways, yet, the style and outcome is always GRAND and GOD GOOD!

 

All to Love,

Sharon

 

 

PS.  This is not a philosophical post, me waxing glorious from some airy place in my head, or anything like that.  These are my comments from knowing the impact SELFGnosis is having upon people, by just witnessing how the Beta classes on The Basics is going.  Want to participate at the beta level? 

 

Let me know so the bridge building can start!

 

 

 

A Dialogue that takes a deep dive with fellow Gaians...

I could give sound bite answers, while likely hugely popular, I will not for that makes folly of the serious dialogue I think such questions are intended to open us up to having.  With that said, I shall dive in.  I hope you will take a swim with me and share your thoughts, too.  Dialogue deepens our communication and growth itself.

 

First off there is a question that must be asked to clarify that what is assumed is what the questioner is asking, even though the implication seems evident, it may not be the point of view (POV) of all those who answer - development of what aspect of personal exactly?  Psychological, mental, emotional, Spiritual, ego, cultural, or what?

 

I shall answer via an all inclusive POV since my POV recognizes that all development is inter-related albeit some are inimically tied together as a unit, such as ego~Spirit for as one waxes, the other wanes.  I choose to hone my growth toward a continual return to MAI Spirit SELF.  I feel the need to make this distinction since I am noticing many people are saying they are "working on their Spiritual development" while actualizing more and more of their ego structures with a "holy demeanor," yet their hearts are more and more judgmental of the holiness or not of others.  Nothing could be more self-deceptive than that.

 

I choose to be most accurately guided by God-TRUTH as juxtaposed to personal truth(s) which are belief dependent. God-TRUTH is infinitely What IS and universally applicable in a consistent, constant, and congruent way, and has no dependency on how we may feel about its veracity or not.

 

This all-inclusive nature, in and of itself, attests to the superior quality of God-TRUTH which  never changes and has the innate quality of stability funded from its eternal consistency and all-inclusiveness/Universality.

 

Also, from my POV, Spiritual overarches and is the all-inclusive growth, expect for the enhancements of separation which is ego aggrandizement development.  I love Wayne Dyer's breakdown making the word ego an acronym: EGO = Edging God Out. 

 

Personal or religious truth(s) are tainted and deviated from Original TRUTH by human understanding, motivations, or interpretations which inevitably cull out something unique from the Universal, making it "uniquely special," and this consequently amplifies separation over Oneness (loss of Universality)  making its assertion suspect at best, eh?

 

Now, that I've cleared the air of what could be a point of confusion, I shall address these questions:

 

1. What most helps your development?

 

SELFGnosis has done more for healing all the causes of what was ailing my life.  My patterns of self-destruction, my unawares of how I was attracting energies and experiences that were perpetuating pain behaviors, avoidances, misunderstandings, ad naseum, have been exposed and made clear to my outer conscious awareness so that I am no longer victim to my blindness. 

 

I am now forging skills, by the ever wise hand of my Higher SELF, to Pay Attention, discern with primal TAO clarity the choices I am making from moment-to-moment, making me a conscious co-creator of my life.

 

More & more, I am living empowered by knowing I am choosing and, thus, creating - therefore, recognizing & owning that I am response+able for all my experiences. 

 

Being a victim to the "vagrancies of life, fate, luck, "just way I am," "just happens," "punishment for past sins," ad naseum is not my delusional POV anymore.

 

1. What interferes with it?

 

The most trying interferences are those past inclinations responding to the accepted momentums plaguing humanity's sanity that I had a sickly endeared harmonic resonance with from my negative patterning and belief systems. 

 

I call these my Achilles Heel and they are anything that is a tender point of easy slippage into false ideations and fears that I know are false, yet, "hauntingly call to me" as having validity due to past momentums of affinity with them. 

 

These would include things like my mother's anguishing when dad was late coming home because it was triggering her fear of losing family security for 6 kids because dad was driving home drunk from the bar again. 

 

If my loved ones are late, I find a creeping sensation of this anguish trying to surface for me to fantasize with, thus entertaining this fear and loathing into a possible reality to contend with - the past trying to haunt my present IF I would only give it some of my time and attention. 

 

So, I am saying I must be a vigilant sentinel to whatever beckons me to create it into a reality of pain and suffering which is the antithesis of God-TRUTH informing  my creating realities. 

 

A conscious-willful-mindful-choice is the key of our ability in how we create our life realities, and this requires attention to all my thoughts, words, and deeds. 

 

It is not as tiresome or hard as it sounds because the process of SELFGnosis gifts you with ascending momentums of Being more God in you doing your thinking, doing, and actions.  Cool stuff.

 

1. What helps you truly be yourself?

 

To be myself can be interpreted two different ways-

 

1. One is to be more of my personality and my identifications which have  promulgated what makes me different from others and all the drives connected with that perspective of myself.

 

1. The other is to be more of MAI-SELF which is to be Who I AM as Sharon. This is allowing by free-will-choice the Divine Intention to manifest unique expressions as only our Beloved Creator can live, move, and have BE+in me/Being as me.

 

This is the elegant & simple understanding that WEi are a Unity of Oneness, and as such are like facets of a Cosmic Diamond.  TO be TRULY Who We Are is to shine as only our facet can shine adding unto the overall brilliancy of the Cosmic Diamond we are all integrally a part of as a wholism.

 

The more I heal into Who I Am and out of who I've been trying to be, the less I have need to express the patterns and pain behaviors that underlined the Sharon I grew up to be. 

 

Unwittingly, this was an adult who was seeking relief from her unrecognized pains, working hard responding to urges to be a productive "doing machine" for love and affection disguised as desires (sincere they truly were) to give & do my best in whatever endeavors I undertook, as well as driving my efforts to leave this world "a better place  than the one I was born into."

 

1. What supports your unfoldment?

 

SO, Consequently, SELFGnosis, which heals out our errors of POV, not with allegiances to theories, dogmas, rituals or practices, rather with transmutative forces tapped within from the Source of Indwelling Healing/HS, peels away our false identifications like an onion is peeled. 

 

This is the epitome of Love in action for it is not overwhelming because its step-by-step, or peeling one layer at a time away, allows for an inner awakening or regrouping of your shifted abilities and perceptions in a measured way, one that is paced by yourself. 

 

Since this is an Unfolding process of the highest order, it is experienced as an ease of dealing with and adjusting to Who We are without shock or a debilitating flooding of our sensibilities.  Step-by-step or peeling layer by layer is doable and amazing, at least from my experience and from those I've had the opportunity to share it with.

 

Unfolding is a revealing process.  We've heard the axiom, "TRUTH reveals."  We know that what is underneath a fold is revealed as it is unfolded, so the two are really an at-one process!  Simple and elegant at once is so Divine, would you not agree?

 

Healing out my miscreations, misunderstanding, and negative patterning while simultaneously replacing these with their diametric counterpoint energies of Universal understandings and harmonic resonant patterning is the essential action that defines transmute, transform, and transcend, and it is a pleasant process, indeed.

 

1. What do you find most regularly blocks your life path?

 

Anything deceptive, confusing, or "in my blind spot" is a block or detour I am alerting myself to pay attention to noticing and, more importantly, NOT ignoring, downplaying its importance to be dealt with, or "letting it slide." 

 

I've learned that such red flags are side stepped at my own peril of repeating or being "dragged into" whatever detour they are designed to distract or busy me with.

 

 

Thanks Siona  for asking this thoughtful set of questions for our sharing, pondering, and caring.

 

All to Love,

Sharon

I'm working on several books, a beta class for SELFGnosis, preparing a demo disc for feedback from about 20 volunteers who have agreed to view the SELFGnosis Basics class for whatever gems they will be sharing, a parenting class, and a revision of the Great Me-Little Me concept worked into a non-violent method of disciplining without harm that fosters thinking skills, accountability, and logical consequences.  So far this has been a real success with the kids and parents!

 

Volunteering with CASA with a storytelling time for the children who are removed from their homes and going through the gruesome process of temporary placements.

 

Studying marketing, learning how to use some of my computer programs for writing and publishing, and acquainting myself with internet basics of creating a web page, and the like.  I would LOVE to off this part of the project to those more inclined to enjoy the computer end of things.  It is not my "cup of tea" and I discipline myself to its rigors because I must at this juncture.

 

I'm having the evolving experience of a blossoming relationship with a fine woman who is rising to the challenges of filling "Della Street" type shoes in advancing the idea of AKRNA non-profit into a viable entity.  I love this gal!  I'm beginning to see some wings sprouting for her and me, and that is great.  She's opened me to the idea of sweat equity and the joys thereof.  Ha ha, we both laugh...

 

 

I've been having the unexpected pleasure of meeting with another very creative early childhood teacher who is pondering the possibilities of joining our learning adventure of creating a replicatable educational system.  She brings a yin quality to our vision that is exciting.  Time will tell how this garden will grow or not, so much to consider and work out so that everyone wins and is fulfilled by their involvement.

 

I've been working with some souls weary of their ego's machinations and the painful scenarios of unconscious pattern repetition creating life yuk.  This has been going exceedingly well, in spite of a glob of whirlwind upsets coming at them…transitions, transitions, transitions can sure be consuming of time and energy with so many things pulling at the attention center.

 

In all, as I read through this,  I am amazed at how much WEi are getting done, how much we are knocking the snot out of some very trying challenges.  We are inspired and that is a saving grace as Wei keep choosing back to be "More God in us" taking care of business!  Any other way of going at this is surely folly, eh?

 

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the Sales Tax Reformation issue I have been giving time to by writing articles, letters to editors, visiting representatives at the Capital & at city governing levels, and calling people of interest to encourage their participation so we can get a serious TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION issue resolved at law with a long-term solution that is functional and not just some band-aide or appeasement measure that only gives the impression of "stopping an economic hemorrhage".

 

I guess one more project is before in the ever present NOW beckoning for me to take an action:  Go to bed and get some sleep -- all my atom, cells, and electrons are begging for a rejuvenate R&R!

 

Good Night, my friends.

 

All to Love,

Sharon

 

PS>  I guess it is clearer why my blogging has been spotty, so sorry about that, my heart is never far away even though the pen may be a bit consumed with other tasks.  Thank you for YOUR TIME & ATTENTION.

PPS> I could post some of the letters and such, I just figured, who would be interested in such things?

God, now that's one heavily charged word of a 1001 meanings!  There's the implied understanding of an overarching Source that is our Beloved Creator, yet, this basic unifying thread of understanding the commonality of our creation into being is diversified into divergent sets of differences and details that are both dizzying and perplexing, is it not? 

 

The deviation range is as wide as a canyon with hatred for those "not like us" (whatever that really means??) to as narrow as a hairline crack between us with an undifferentiated love for everyone regardless of belief(s).

 

From the point of view of a Universal Creator and Source of all existence, expression, and experience, yes, I do very intimately understand a God to be our emanation and sole source of all that we dream of as a perfected type of life. 

 

We dream of idyllic possibilities because at our essential core of remembrance, such a state is what we KNOW to be our TRUE state, and of course, we long to return to that contended state of Be+in+thing (Being). 

 

Alas, we've largely forgotten that it is our response+ability to recreate that state here below as it is above since that harmonically resonates with our natural state. Most of us are so drunk with separation-as-real that we think such a way of Being is a dream, while nothing could be farther from the TRUTH. 

 

We are so deeply dreaming the separation state into existence, and we are suffering the consequences thereof, including wondering IF God/our Source/our Father is real enough to have a belief about, not a KNOWING even, rather a belief. 

 

Does this not strike a chord of affinity within you that this somehow "makes a lot of sense"?

 

I no longer believe in God, I know God is the life that breathes you and me, and beats the rhythm of our hearts in a unison of living, asking us to dance a Cosmic dance with our Spirit/Creator as our lead. 

 

Is it not time to be coherent friends co-creating rather than people divided by dogma that is YET creating beliefs of "better than and less than" keeping us arguing, fighting, and declaring our superior beliefs to be the way with some self-righteous indignation for those not so inclined to believe as we do?

 

Is not the absurdity of our deviations that are preventing us from coming into union seeming to be of questionable content and possible error??

 

 

I see GOD in your eyes...You bet I know GOD is real! Pinch yourself and start questioning yourself back into knowingness, too.  Essentially, we're beyond the belief stage;  time to catch-up with Who You Are.

 

All to Love,

Sharon

 

My original post to this question on the date it was posted to Zaadz in my archive at:

http://asimplegnosis.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/do_you_believe_in_god#comments

The simplest of things, the Cosmic convergences or synchronicities that I notice throughout any given day, crack an Inward Smile that is most delightful, indeed!

At such moments I marvel at the Spiritual essence of awareness underpinning this game we are playing that we call life, and I think to myself, What A Wonderful World...we need to get out of the way and allow the Oneness to emerge...

I am grateful to be healing the separation that was binding me to pain, sorrows, and death, and find the peace, contentment, and satisfaction of fulfilling activities a most happy exchange!

All to Love,
Sharon