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Zachary Adama
Zachary Adama is a spiritual guide, healer, kriya yogi, and teacher of the perennial wisdom tradition. Zachary is dedicated to helping others realize their true nature, birthright, and most essential reality. Bliss is your true nature. Peace is your birthright. Love is your most essential reality.
We live in evolutionary and revolutionary times. We stand at the dawn of a new age, upon the threshold of a new earth. Both are being born through our own awakening hearts.
Each week Zachary shares podcasts on subjects relating to spirituality and personal development from a perspective that is both grounded and mystical, as well as ancient and ever new.
In this October Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energy of October which is one of divine fire and revelation. During this month we are invited to engage in the alchemy of fire in order to recreate ourselves in truth, recreate our relationships in truth, and reclaim the sacred fire of divine love and eros. The fire element will continue to increase in strength as we approach the 2024 solar maximum. The question is how will we work with it? The invitation is to use the energy of fire in a constructive way through the process of alchemy. Fire is a powerful force for both creation and destruction. When skillfully used fire enables us to destroy what is dead and no longer true in order to create from a place of greater truth and authenticity. When fire runs amok or is used unskillfully we see a lot of senseless suffering, destruction, and death. Yet whether fire is used in a skillful or unskillful way, we can trust that we will get the experiences we need. What needs to be destroyed will be destroyed and something more true will eventually take its place. The only question is how much suffering will we need to endure in order to get there. The key to working with the fire element within us is to identify and cultivate our own desires. Desire is our inner fire. When we are attuned to it our desires can light our way and burn us clean of delusions. When we suppress our desires, fire will express itself in destructive ways. When we don’t tend our own inner fire it may go out, and we may find it difficult to find purpose, direction, and motivation in our lives. Our first responsibility to the self is to tend the fire of our own desires. To notice and allow them to run through us. That does not mean every desire is acted upon. Rather every desire is noticed, honored, and respected. Then the will is used to work with those desires in a constructive way. As we tend our own inner fire of desire this month we are being invited to recreate ourselves in truth. A lot of 2022 has been about bringing our life circumstances into greater integrity with truth. That starts with the truth of who and what we are, which can only be known when we are clear on our own desires. Because it is our desires that tell us what needs to be experienced in order to continue our spiritual evolution. When we ignore or deny our desires we are denying the divine within us the experiences it needs for evolution.
In this video we discuss Sexual Attraction and Spiritual Awakening, and how sexual attraction often changes after spiritual awakening. The most significant spiritual awakening most of us ever have is the initial opening of the heart chakra, which brings online energetic sensitivity and a greater capacity for love and intimacy. After that initial awakening we often think of our lives in terms of what came before our awakening and what came after. This is also true of sexual attraction and romantic relationships, which is the most potent vehicle there is for spiritual evolution. Sexual attraction changes after a spiritual awakening. Our pre-awakening sexual attractions are usually determined by the lower chakra lessons we need to learn in order to reach the heart space. So we are often working out our karma and may find we are attracted to conventional beauty and those who possess wealth, power and/or social prestige. The evolutionary imperatives at this point often relate to security, survival, procreation, and learning to harmoniously relate with one another. The good news is there are a lot of people who can help us learn the basic lessons that help us open the heart and achieve the initial awakening. For many people that may involve having and raising children together. Things can get more challenging and interesting after awakening, the basic lessons have been learned and we are ready for a more advanced curriculum. For instance, many of us awaken within a partnership that taught us the lessons we needed to awaken, but after the awakening the sexual attraction goes away. Fundamentally we are sexually attracted to people with whom we have the potential to do work in consciousness together to evolve. The root chakra draws in the experiences we need in order to evolve in consciousness. We are sexually attracted to those with whom we have polarity, and the potential to do work. At its most primal level that polarity is the difference between masculine and feminine energies (regardless of bodies), but more generally polarity is the capacity of two people to catalyze one another's spiritual growth and help facilitate healing of karmic patterns, greater balance and wholeness. Once we move beyond the basic lessons of the lower chakras we may find we are no longer sexually attracted to those who are unable to meet us at the heart space to do the advanced lessons. The advanced lessons include cultivating unconditional love free of the desire to possess or be possessed, engaging in open and honest communication that facilitates the sharing and harmonization of vibrations, and ultimately the sacramental merger of beings with one another and the divine. Many wonder what to do when they have a spiritual awakening while in a relationship, and after the awakening sexual attraction to their partner goes away. When sexual attraction disappears in a relationship it usually means polarity at the root chakra has been resolved, which can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes that means we have successfully learned the lessons the mated relationship had to teach us, and are not compatible for the advanced lessons. Other times it may mean we simply no longer view the person as appropriate or able to do the basic work in consciousness "assigned" to us. Whatever the reason for a lack of sexual attraction things can always change, if there is a mutual desire, willingness, and ability to continue using the relationship as an evolutionary vehicle. However, if any of those factors is absent the relationship has likely served its evolutionary function. That doesn't mean it has to end. You can have a very happy and harmonious relationship with someone with whom you lack sexual chemistry or Eros. However, the relationship has ceased to be a romantic mated relationship at that point, whether or not it is acknowledged as such. Therefore it is useful to recognize there has been a shift, and to update the terms and conditions of the relationship so they are in alignment with what is true and alive.
In this September Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energy for September which I described as a "Bridge to the Future." Many of us have experienced LIFETIMES of growth and transformation this year. So much so that it has often felt difficult to integrate it all. As we move into September and the September Equinox we are entering a period of turning inward and harvesting all that was good and true about what we have experienced so far this year. Now is a good time to take stock and examine the new foundation for your path forward.
In this interview with Michaël Bijker we discuss the yoga of descension and integrating the human. We can often think of the first leg of the spiritual journey as the yoga of ascension, where through discipline and renunciation we disentangle ourselves from the addictions and attachments that keep us trapped and stuck in order to experience higher states of consciousness. But there comes a time when we must confront the aversions that develop as a byproduct of renunciation and integrate higher consciousness into the human, so that we may become spirit in form.
Michaël Bijker is a yoga, breathwork, pranayama, meditation & QiGong teacher and has the best-selling course creator of breathwork, QiGong and meditation courses with over 70.000 students worldwide. His courses are among the highest-ranked on Udemy and his teachings have transformed the lives of thousands of people around the world.
Michaël has practiced mind training and meditation since the age of 14 and studied QiGong and Yoga since having to recover from a severe car accident that happened in the year 2001. By the powerful methods of QiGong and Yoga and the grace of God he was able to recover from injuries of which medical professionals considered he would probably not heal. Since then he has been committed to helping others to learn these wonderful techniques as well that will not only give health, focus and strength, but makes us realize what we truly are and what our true calling is.
After years of living as a modern spiritual renunciate Michaël met his partner and became a father, which has led him to integrating the realization of higher consciousness into the life of the householder.
In this Lion's Gate 2022 energy update we discuss the themes of the August 8th Lion's Gate Portal. As a collective we find ourselves at a crossroads. One path leads to heaven on Earth, the other to a hell of our own making. There is no pre-destination. It is all a choice. We are choosing heaven or hell moment by moment day by day. Late last year we said 2022 was going to be an ascension rocketship. What we didn't realize at the time was that we would be building the rocketship mid flight. As we build our rocketships mid flight we often have to improvise. Sometimes a part won't fit, or will stop working, and we have to adapt. We are mid flight, so if we don't figure out how to make it work the only option is to fall. The message I have for everyone is to keep going. Keep improvising. Keep the rocketship in the air, even if you are simply maintaining altitude at this point. It isn't about being graceful and easy. It is about being dedicated to embodying a higher state of consciousness. It is about showing up each day and doing the things you need to do in order to embody more peace, joy, and love while serving others. There is a prophecy amongst the indigenous peoples of the Americas that humanity has split into two tribes, the condors and the eagles. The condor tribe is intuitive and feeling, and lives in harmony with Mother Earth, viscerally experiencing her as an extension of self. The eagle tribe is powerful and intelligent, and lives for conquest, domination, and exploitation of the Earth Mother. It is said that for a 500 year period the eagle tribe will grow stronger and stronger, until they grow so strong that that they all but wipe out the condor tribe and destroy Mother Earth. At the end of that 500 year cycle the eagle tribe will have a choice. They can choose to continue doing the things that destroy the planet, or learn to live in harmony with her and the condor tribe. In order for both tribes and the planet to survive the eagle and the condor will have to learn how to fly in harmony with one another. We are in the time of choice, where the eagle tribe will learn to live in peace with the condor tribe and plant or destroy itself and everything else. There is no predestination. It is all choice that must be made over and over on a daily basis.
lionsgate #ascension #energyupdate
In this conversation with Agape Garcia we discuss resilience and community. Be Your Incredible Self (BYIS) best describes Agape Garcia’s tenacious attitude towards empowering others. Agape shares how she overcame a violent and tumultuous childhood, a double attempted homicide while 8 months pregnant (by the father), and the resultant physical and emotional trauma. Agape's journey demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, and how our extended community can help us survive and thrive.
More about Agape: https://tinyurl.com/byis47
In this June New Moon Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energetic themes of the June 28th new moon. Some of the themes discussed are continuing to deepen our capacity to embody loving awareness, finding nourishing community, owning the queer parts of our being, and nourishing the thirsty parts of ourselves.
A theme of this year has been deepening our capacity to embody loving awareness. That has meant releasing judgments and noticing the things that make us numb and contracted. Often the discomfort of a relationship or situation is what causes us to numb out and not be present. When that happens we need times of retreat to withdraw, heal, and nourish ourselves. Sometimes we may even need to distance ourselves from people and situations that we are unable to remain conscious while in relationship with.
The search for nourishing community and relationships is a big theme of this new moon. Many of us have outgrown the old containers of our lives and they are no longer nourishing. Which has led many of us on a quest to find community that will provide fertile ground for us to continue our growth.
As part of learning to be in community in a deeper more authentic way we are being invited to own all the queer parts of ourselves. June is Pride month which is a celebration of diversity and loving all of who and what we are. We all have queer parts of ourselves, which don't necessarily have anything to do with sexuality or gender identity. We all have aspects of ourselves that remain hidden, unloved, and unacknowledged which are being asked to be owned and embodied. It is only when we own all the queer parts of ourselves that we are able to show up in community and fully be a part of it.
Nourishing all the thirsty parts of ourselves is a theme of this new moon. Notice where you are lacking nourishment. Notice where you are lacking in love, attention, and light and give it the nourishment it needs. It is only when we are nourished that we can really experience true abundance.
energyupdate #newmoon #abundance
Live YOUR Life Like You're Dying! In this interview with Barry Nicolaou we talk about how the prospect of death can help us prioritize what is important in life, find our purpose, and live our life to the fullest. The Inspiration Barry absorbed one fateful day at a cemetery led him to write and publish a #1 Best Selling book on Amazon. His book; The 11 Master Secrets to Business Success and Personal Fulfilment outlines the 11 areas that intersect economic freedom with personal fulfillment. His forte' is in deconstructing the layers beneath cognitive fear, indecision, subconscious paradigms, Inherited thinking, habitual thinking and their intimate relationship to real-world expectations and experiences. His new presentation on Gratitude Leadership for corporations and numerous mental health programs that have been added to his 1-1 work, assisting businesses to take a holistic look at their culture as an 'energy' that feeds straight to the bottom line.
Barry's 1-1 work can be found at https://www.fiverr.com/share/26KQVX
His corporate work can be found on www.barrynicolaou.com
In this interview with Dr. Debi Silber we discuss recovering from betrayal and post betrayal syndrome. Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute and is a holistic psychologist, a health, mindset and personal development expert, the author of the #1 bestselling book: The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind and Life After a Life Crisis and her newest book: Trust Again: Overcoming Betrayal and Regaining Health, Confidence and Happiness. Her recent PhD study on how we experience betrayal made 3 groundbreaking discoveries that changes how long it takes to heal. In addition to being on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, TEDx (twice) and more, she’s an award winning speaker, coach and author dedicated to helping people move past their betrayals as well as any other blocks preventing them from the health, work, relationships, confidence and happiness they want most.
Enjoy this June Full Moon 2022 Energy Medicine Ceremony from our Patreon community. The purpose of this ceremony is to prepare us for the incoming Summer Solstice energies. We begin the ceremony by setting our sacred container and inviting in benevolent energies to assist us with our healing and evolution.
As you engage in this practice it is best to be seated or lying down in a quiet and comfortable environment with a willingness to release what does not serve you and to receive what does.
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In this June Solstice 2022 energy update we discuss how many of us are going through a collective death portal around this June 21st summer solstice. Spirit is asking us to take a leap of faith and trust that the universe has us. I know for me the energy has been some of the most challenging in memory. Every time I try to grasp at certainty the universe tells me to let go of fixed ideas and expand further. In order to expand into the new life room we are being asked to die to our old self and let go of judgments and safety, and become available to deep receptivity.
In this conversation with Jamal Jivanjee we talk about breaking ancestral patterns around scarcity, "living for a living," and freeing ourselves from our mental prisons. Jamal Jivanjee is a best-selling author, podcaster, and full time life coach. As an author with over twenty years of experience working with people in various stages of personal struggle and challenges, after traveling to many cultures around the globe, and now as a full-time life coach, Jamal is passionate about serving individuals, couples, companies, and groups on the path toward enlightenment, wholeness, and liberation.
By helping to identify and clear energetic systems of belief that create fear, disharmony, and disease, Jamal seeks to restore awareness of the ever present and unitive divine flow of abundance, good will, and love that exists for us all physically, mentally, and spiritually.
In this May Full Moon Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energy of the May 16th blood full moon and lunar eclipse. There is a lot going on with this full moon! It is the first full lunar eclipse of this year, the second of which will be November 8th. This six-month window represents a portal of powerful transformational potential. Some of the themes you may be noticing is that you’ve been in a “past life review,” are reclaiming suppressed aspects of yourself, and are finally starting to gain clarity about where you are and where you are going.
Many may find they have been in a “past life review” over the past few weeks. During these past life reviews we tend to look back at prior versions of ourselves and our lives through rose colored lenses. We focus on the good things and conveniently forget about the bad.
We remember the good times about our past relationship but forget about the fights. We remember the stability and good pay of an old job but forget about hating it. We remember what was good about the past, but neglect to remember the seeds of destruction that made the past unsustainable.
If you find yourself in a past life review remember the good times and the challenges. What was the seed of destruction that made the past unsustainable? If you do that you will learn from the past and call in a new creation that has a firmer foundation.
A lot of us may find we are also reclaiming suppressed aspects of ourselves, and this is showing up in the ways we self sooth during difficult times. Maybe you’ve been feeling called to self sooth with things you thought you had outgrown that you don’t think are “spiritual.” We all have a “go to” when things are tough. For many it is some combination of sex, booze/cannabis, and food.
Whatever your preferred mode of self-soothing be gentle with yourself. We don’t repeat lessons, we merely encounter them from a higher state of consciousness. Remember that every desire can be elevated to a sacred and even sacramental expression. Simply try to bring as much consciousness to the activity you are engaged in as possible and try to find the sacred expression of the unmet need being expressed through you. A beautiful example of this process is the practice of sacred sexuality, where the desire for sexual gratification is elevated to the sacramental.
Finally, many of us are starting to experience clarity about where we are and where we are going. For the last month many of us have been experiencing a lot of confusion, and that confusion has prevented us from acting. But with this full moon and lunar eclipse the scales will fall from our eyes, and the truth will be fully revealed in June.
The clarity of May and June will catalyze action in July and the remainder of the year! A major theme for this year is birthing. What new creations are you giving birth to?
In this May Energy Update 2022 we do a deep dive into the energies so far this year, what to expect in May, and some themes for the rest of the year. The overarching theme for the month of May is patience, because while Easter may have come and gone many of us who had death experiences in April are not yet ready for resurrection.
The first quarter of this year gave many of us a great deal of clarity about our lives, missions, and how we might best serve in the world. This clarity sparked a choice in April, which lead to the death of those things that were no longer in alignment.
As we move into May and eclipse season we are being confronted with the infinite possibilities for the future, but the choice ultimately comes down to evolution or regression.
What will you do with the clarity you gained during the first part of the year?
Will you try to forget the inconvenient truths and carry on as you did before? Or will the clarity and insights you gained serve as the foundation for the rest of your life?
The light can at times be blinding, especially when it reveals unconscious and unloving aspects of ourselves. That sort of self-revelation can be very uncomfortable. When we are confronted with our shadows we can either bring humility and loving awareness to them, or we can curse the light and flee from it.
The collective is also being confronted with the choice between evolution and regression. The intensity of light and consciousness hitting the planet is revealing all of our unconscious and unhealed parts and amplifying those places where we lack alignment with one another. This can catalyze war and strife or profound healing and transformation.
The clarity of the first part of the year and the choices that were made in April have set the stage for May and the upcoming eclipse season. May is the gestation phase of the rebirthing process.
The gestation phase is uncomfortable for many of us. When we are between death and rebirth our minds can drive us mad with worry, and that worry can cause us to act prematurely.
Instead of worrying about everything that could go wrong, try to remain aligned with what you know to be true and simply listen for opportunities to align with it.
Remain steadfastly committed to truth, alignment, and integrity throughout May. Listen to your inner voice, and not the voice in your head. By June and July the gestation phase will begin culminating into the inevitable rebirth.
Will you go back to the old, safe, and familiar, or sit in the infinite possibilities for your future and remain committed to moving forward and not backward?
July throughout the rest of the year will be a period of profound and unrelenting transformation and birthing. For now enjoy the gestation phase of the evolution process.
In this podcast we discuss the Tantric Relationship Between Yoga and Shamanism. Yoga and Shamanism are seen by some as mutually exclusive, however I've found they are actually two sides of the same tantric coin.
Both are systems of spiritual evolution that include technologies that purify the mind, body, and soul to enable more of our soul awareness to shine through. However, while yoga concerns itself with daily practices that include meditation, pranayama, movement, and life-style, the shamanic path utilizes plant medicines and ecstatic states.
While many schools of yoga discourage the use of any "intoxicants" I would argue that far from being intoxicants, plant medicines are just that - medicine - which if used properly accelerate our spiritual evolution.
My journey with plant medicines began in 2019 after eight years of Kriya yoga practice. Initially I was hesitant to work with plant medicines because the two things seemed incompatible. However, in working with plant medicines I quickly learned that plant medicines are a portal to direct communion with the divine, and can beneficially accelerate the spiritual path.
Yoga practices and lifestyle are the best foundation I've found for plant medicine work. The moral restraints of the yamas and niyamas and the practices of pranayama and meditation create a firm spiritual foundation that enables one to integrate plant medicine experiences in a balanced and beneficial way.
In this April Full Moon Energy Update 2022 we discuss humanity's near death experience. We are in the season of death and resurrection, and many of us are in the death phase. But fear not! After the death comes the resurrection!
In this April New Moon 2022 transmission we share channeled guidance from the archangelic realm and ascended masters of Melkisedek. Individually, collectively, and as a planet we are in the birthing process. When you are in the birthing process it is unclear whether you will live or die or whether it will be a live birth and or stillbirth.
In this March Equinox 2022 energy update we discuss the energetic themes of the March 20th Equinox. The major themes of this March Equinox relate to creation, destruction, and healing of the energy of control. As solar cycle 25 continues its progression towards solar maximum in late 2024 we are seeing an increase in the amount of fire energy present on the planet. The increase in solar activity is causing an acceleration and intensification of pre-existing trends. The energies at play around this March Equinox will continue to be intensified throughout 2024.
As we approach this Equinox we are dealing with the energy of control as it relates to the creative and destructive qualities of the fire element. The element of fire is the key to both death and rebirth. As the physical manifestation of spirit it holds infinite possibilities.
At this time the fires of war rage in the Ukraine in a rampage of destruction. Elsewhere the fires of creativity are birthing the New Earth.
Creation and destruction always walk hand in hand.
Too much control and the fire of spirit goes out and both creation and destruction cease. Too little control and fire rampages in a destructive frenzy.
The key to creation is the skillful use of discipline that allows what needs to be destroyed to be destroyed while creating safe space for what wants to be born to be born.
As a planet and species we are fully in the energetic atmosphere of fourth density. The bars of third density limitation are fading away and the doors to our cages are wide open.
Yet most of humanity remains imprisoned in the obsolete paradigms of third density, which require ever more control and effort to maintain.
This period of intensity will pass eventually. We simply have to trust that what needs to be destroyed will be destroyed in order for new growth to occur.
Even the most destructive fire holds the promise of regeneration.
Each of us is remembering the truth of who and what we are as beings of light. The outward shells of our social identities and egos are being burned away or hardened, depending on the choices we make.
Fourth density experience is available to those who align their hearts and minds with its vibrations. The field grows in intensity as two or more of that vibration gather in person, creating a squaring effect of their individual vibrations.
Our fourth density civilization is being born through our individual awakening hearts gathered in sacred community.
Fourth density is far from perfect. In truth it is simply the ending of our spiritual childhood and the beginning of our adolescence. It holds both beauty and pain. Love and hate. We simply choose to be with those who have also chosen love.
energyupdate #equinox #ascension
In this March New Moon 2022 Energy Update we discuss timeline slip and self care. Things have gotten pretty chaotic on the collective level. More than ever before we are being catalyzed to polarize our consciousness towards the positive or negative polarity. In these tumultuous times it is more important than ever to slow down and find peace within ourselves and our own mind.
energyupdate #newmoon #selfcare
In this February Full Moon Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energetic themes for the February full moon in Leo. The powerful crystalline energy of this full moon is catalyzing major shifts in consciousness that are forcing us into the unknown, and inviting us to trust that our inner mastery will carry us towards the highest possible outcome. This is the moment of truth.
While change might have once felt slow and plodding, now you may find that things are shifting so quickly that you can’t keep up. As crystalline light hits the planet with greater intensity old heavy energies based in fear and separation are being boiled to the surface for expression, healing, and release. Sometimes that may feel like you are being asked to step right up to edge of the abyss and jump into the unknown.
Most of us tend to avoid conflict and confrontation if at all possible. So we bury and avoid our differences, and co-exist at a superficial level. We all have people in our lives who we get along with precisely because we keep things superficial and avoid situations that would force us to confront those places where we lack alignment. Sometimes those differences are small, other times they are fundamental to who we are.
A painful but necessary part of the ascension process being catalyzed by the crystalline energy of this full moon is confronting our differences. As consciousness becomes more illuminated it becomes more difficult to abide in a false peace based on a superficial understanding of one another.
When we confront our differences and bring them to the surface we step into the unknown. Will there be war? Will there be transformation and reconciliation that allows for greater truth and harmony? Will we part ways and accept that our differences are irreconcilable at this time?
These confrontations are playing out both at the collective level and within our individual lives. On the macroscopic level we are in the midst of an evolutionary split, with some embodying the light more than ever before and with others regressing to more tribal and individualistic states of consciousness. In our individual lives we may find there is an acceleration of old relationships ending or transforming and new relationships based on greater vibrational accord beginning.
These earthly dramas are byproducts of our karma, and have been lifetimes in the making. Whatever confrontation you find yourself in, remember this situation was specifically designed for your healing, evolution, or growth.
Our roles are always changing, sometimes we are the protagonist, antagonist, student, teacher, or healer. Perhaps the nature of our role depends on the perspective from which it is viewed. Whatever role you find yourself playing, trust that the situation you find yourself in has both an opportunity for you to be of service to others and to advance your own evolutionary journey.
This is the moment of truth. We can no longer ignore our differences. We are at a point of necessary confrontation.
We are in need of resolution. One way or another.
We are in need of healing and reconciliation, or the clarity to know when our differences are irreconcilable, the maturity to let that be ok, and the wisdom to go our separate ways in peace.
Those who seek peace may nevertheless find themselves the object of another’s war. This has always been the case. Peace lovers have always been given the choice by those who wish to wage war upon them to either consent to their own destruction, or defend themselves and that which is sacred.
Will there be war, peace, healing, or the infliction of greater injury? It’s hard to say. We live in a free will universe. Everyone gets a say. The future is written in the present moment. We may have some vague idea of how things might work out - but people can always surprise you.
As you step into the abyss trust that your inner mastery will carry you forward in the present moment to the highest possible outcome. Allow things to remain fluid until the moment of decision arises and the path is set.
Your duty is to maintain the highest ethical standards, the purest heart, and a steadfast commitment to being of service to others. Do that and the winds of fate will carry you to exactly where you need to go. Trust in your mastery, and you will achieve the highest good. What needs to transform will transform, and you will end up in a place of greater peace, love, and understanding.
People can only perceive you from their level of consciousness. Unless you are growing really quickly you might not even notice. But if you find yourself in the midst of rapid evolution, then you may find that the people around you are able to perceive less and less of you. This can make it feel like you are disappearing.
In this February New Moon Energy Update 2022 we discuss the energetic themes for the February 1st new moon. We’ve been saying for some time that 2022 was going to be an ascension rocket ship. But so far this year it has felt a bit like an “ascension roller coaster” as the transition from one life room to another begins in earnest.
Many of us continue to feel like we are navigating a space between the old and new. The new life room based on a higher state of consciousness is experientially available to us. Perhaps you are getting a preview of what it looks and feels like to be the next highest version of yourself. Yet much of the old remains, awaiting final release before moving fully into the new life room that awaits.
These transitionary phases between the old and new can be very challenging. It is often at this time that fear and doubt are most apt to arise and cause us to second guess our new path. The questioning mind wants a detailed image of what the new life room will look like, and a clear exit strategy from the old.
However, you are never going to have it all figured out and you can only plan so much for what is yet to be. Rather than allowing yourself to be paralyzed by all of the unknowns, trust that as you align with the highest possibility for your life and move steadfastly towards it that the details will work themselves out easier than you thought possible.
The universe is always conspiring to clarify our intentions, priorities, and desires. All of the contrast and difficulty we experience is trying to help us get really clear on who we are, what we are, and how we serve.
Every bump along the path is an invitation to either double down on your current trajectory or change coarse. Some challenges are intended to strengthen our resolve. Others invite us to re-examine our path and priorities and choose another.
Try not to get to lost in the mind’s game of “what if?” Keep it simple. Identify the highest possibility available to you and align with it with steadfast commitment. Continue to listen to spirit as you walk towards that new vision for your life, and as each challenge arises let what needs to be transformed transform in order to move forward.
Welcome what wants to be and release what no longer serves you with grace.
January Full Moon Energy Update 2022: Overcoming Exhaustion and Dropping Into Divine Flow
In this January New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes of the January 2nd new moon in Capricorn. This January new moon is the proverbial firing of the pistol starting the race of creation and expansion that is 2022. A tremendous amount of fire energy is entering the planet throughout 2022 and it is manifesting as both creation and destruction. Now is the time to ask what wants to be expressed through you, and to allow yourself to become possessed by what wants to be.
When we become one pointed and aligned with our innate truth, we become a channel for infinite creative energy. From this place of deep alignment we have the capacity to birth new realities for ourselves and the collective.
January and beyond are very supportive of physical creation and change. Our physical manifestations birthed through our alignment with innate truth are being blessed and empowered by a universe that wants them to be.
The key to allowing what wants to be to be expressed through you is to allow yourself to enter into a deep state of surrender. Trust that what is yours cannot be taken from you, and what is not cannot stay. Allow the door to your life to swing wide open and allow the old to exit and the new to enter. Trust that your vibration is attracting what is needed and repelling what no longer serves.
It is also important at this time to allow old partnerships to dissolve and new ones to come together. This can mean romantic, business, or the coming together in shared spiritual mission.
The time of the lone wolf is over. The time of the beloved community is now.
We can create so much more together than we can apart. Many of us have been doing it all alone for a long time. Or have been in partnerships without deep alignment with innate truth. Creating alone or in partnerships that aren’t in alignment is very difficult, and it may feel like the universe has been conspiring against us.
However, the universe is always conspiring in favor of our highest good. Sometimes that happens by showing us the limitations of what we can accomplish alone, or the ways in which our partnerships lack compatibility.
The universe may be guiding you towards your destiny through the use of the “carrot and stick.”
On one hand trying to go it alone or in partnerships that aren’t in alignment may be bringing about discomfort and chaos – that is the stick.
On the other some really beautiful opportunities for partnership and community based on innate truth and a shared desire to serve the common good may be presenting themselves in very enticing ways – that is the carrot.
The universe is using the “carrot and stick” to guide us towards our destinies. That is how much we are loved, and how much the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible wants to be expressed through us.
In this December Solstice Ascension Energy Update 2021 we discuss the ascension energy for the December 21st solstice. A major theme for the December Solstice is the initiation of a period of accelerated ascension & descension that will last from 2022-2024. As we have often said 2022 is an "ascension rocketship" that will allow many of us to dramatically uplevel our consciousness and reshape our lives. From 2022-2024 we will be moving toward the solar maximum of solar cycle 25. That means sometime toward the end of 2024 the sun will hit its most active period in the last decade. These electromagnetic storms bombard the Earth with energy that both purifies the subtle body and makes new light codes available for the expansion of consciousness. The intensity of this energy creates opportunities for immense creation and ascension, as well as destruction and descension. Those who can constructively use the intense energy hitting the planet will be able to manifest their new life room at an accelerated rate and align their physical reality with a higher state of consciousness. Those unable to harness this energy may find it is manifesting in chaotic ways causing a descension in consciousness and life circumstances. The years 2022-2024 will be a period of intense creation and destruction, a period of ascension for some and descension for others. However, even descension serves the ascension of this planet - as darkness always serves the light. For the planet to ascend everything that has been created in darkness and separation must be brought to the light.
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In this December Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the December full moon in Gemini. The theme of this December full moon is that we are crossing the “Bridge to Destiny.” Many of us are closing out major chapters in our lives and clearing the path for new creations and a new life room in 2022 and beyond. How smooth that transition goes will depend in large part on how committed we are to letting go of what no longer serves and embracing what does.
Many of us are in the “clean up” phase of releasing old karmic patterns and life circumstances that no longer serve our soul’s evolution. Sometimes that can be a messy process as we release lifetimes of karma in a very short period of time.
The energy on the planet will continue to crescendo in intensity throughout 2022-2024 as we approach the solar maximum of this 11 year solar cycle. As it intensifies many will find that everything that is not in integrity and alignment in our lives is in a process of dissolution. That includes our bodies, partnerships, and life circumstances.
Many are quite literally being presented with the choice to either die or evolve. If your body has ceased to be a vehicle for your soul’s evolution and growth you may find it is no longer supporting you. In order to enjoy health and rejuvenation of the physical body as the energy on the planet continues to rise in vibration it is imperative that we align ourselves with our most authentic truth and break the karmic patterns that have kept us in a rut for lifetimes
Similarly as Venus goes into retrograde from December 19th though January 29, 2022 our partnerships may be in a process of falling apart and coming together. Partnerships (romantic, platonic, or business) without deep alignment based in the highest integrity will find it very difficult to survive the energy of the next month.
During this time of reordering of timelines and partnerships continue to move towards the room with the most light, and let that which no longer serves you go. The most dangerous thing to be right now is undecided. We stand at a crossroad, and the universe may be urging you towards positive transformation with both a “carrot and stick.”
On one hand the new opportunities and partnerships coming into our lives are of a higher order of consciousness and vibration than what has come before. Put simply there is the potential for more light, love, and joy in them. This is the carrot and it is very alluring, if you don’t let fear convince you it is too good to be true. It is truly an opportunity to co-create this next chapter of our lives with our soul families.
On the other hand the current liferoom with its limited opportunities and relationships that no longer serve our soul’s evolution may feel very uncomfortable. All the places where there is lack of alignment and integrity are coming to the surface and the forces of entropy are making maintaining the status quo nearly impossible.
When you commit to walking towards the new liferoom with more light you will find the carrot is enticement enough to evolve and transform, and that you don’t need as much encouragement from negative experiences to transform. On the other hand if you try to cling to that which is trying to fall apart, you may find things getting very difficult and uncomfortable.
The key crossing this bridge to our destiny is our commitment to healing, higher consciousness, and integrity in our thoughts, actions, and deeds. When we align with those things we find our way is clear, and that all the beauty and abundance we could ever want is ready to come into our lives.
In this Chris Plourde interview we discuss climbing the second mountain. By our mid 20s or 30s many of us find we have climbed the first mountain of life, or discover we were climbing the wrong one to start with. In this interview with Chris Plourde, a conscious performance coach, we discuss what to do when you've gone as far as conventional wisdom can take you and are looking for deeper meaning and purpose.
If the first mountain of life is the one of conventional wisdom, the second mountain is that of meaning and purpose.
The skills from the first summit will serve you well here. Though perhaps in unexpected ways.
In this interview with Chris we also discuss how it is necessary to take action to achieve your dreams, no matter how small, and how our transformational work benefits everyone in our lives.
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In this December New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the December 4th New Moon and solar eclipse. The theme for this December New Moon is integration. We are integrating our yin and yang, past and future, and the 3D and higher dimensional aspects of our beings. As we prepare the board the ascension rocket ship of 2022 we are integrating and elevating that from the past which serves our new life roles and new life room, and letting the rest go.
The energy of the December New Moon in Sagittarius is giving us the fire to start something new and enter into our new life room and role for 2022. But first it is inviting us to enter into a state of deep receptivity. Before we act it is important to first stop and listen for what wants to be. When we act from this place of receptivity and flow we will find our actions are supported and that we have all the energy we need to accomplish our tasks.
However, if we are too much in our minds and not listening we may find ourselves feeling exhausted and stuck. When we are too much in our worry and judgment it can feel like we have no good options to choose from. This can lead to paralysis, which keeps us stuck in unhappy patterns.
If you find yourself feeling stuck identify the option with the most light and possibilities, or the least bad option - and just do it! The time to act is now! The time to choose is now!
As we often say heaven on Earth doesn't usually show up in our lives fully formed. It comes disguised in the lessons we need to learn in order to realize it into our physical realities. Often, our ideal life circumstances come to us as a diamond in the rough that we simply need to patiently excavate.
Many of us have been choosing the "least bad option" or the room with the most light in it in a dark corridor for a long time. Each time we navigate our way to a room with a little more light in it, new rooms with even more light in them become available to us, and as we navigate towards them we find our lives become progressively more light filled. Many of us have been doing this invaluable work for a long time, and are finally approaching an inflection point. A room beckons full of light, laughter, and love that makes all the others look dim.
As we enter into the new life room and claim new life roles for 2022 and beyond don't be surprised if the future includes aspects of the past. One thing always builds upon another. The skills and experiences that got you to where you are will be reclaimed at a higher level of consciousness as you enter the next room with more light. Be willing to take the best the past has to offer, and put it to use creating the next version of yourself.
As we approach 2022 and beyond we are truly on the leading edge of creation. The impossible is becoming not only possible, but actualized!
The most dangerous thing to be right now is undecided. When we don't choose the universe tends to turn up the discomfort until we choose or it chooses for us. Your steadfast commitment to walking into the next room with the most light is your greatest ally!
In this November Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the November full moon in Taurus. This full moon and the November 19th lunar eclipse marks the end of one life phase and the beginning of another, as many of us are exiting the life room we have been in and entering a new life room full of new possibilities.
Throughout 2021 we’ve been asked to choose what the next highest version of ourselves and lives will look like. You may have noticed that you have been confronted with two or more possible paths for your future throughout 2021, and in recent weeks the pressure to choose one of them has intensified.
As we enter this fifteen day eclipse corridor from the November 19th lunar eclipse to the December 4th solar eclipse, choices are being locked in for 2022, and not making a choice is still choosing. There is no opting out.
The time for choosing what your next life room will be is now.
For many this means new jobs, new partners, and new cities. Everything is on the table for update and expansion as we align with our 2022 ascension timelines.
The gift of the 11/11 portal has been clarity. In recent weeks we have been given a clear picture of the choices before us - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
When the opportunity to realize our dreams shows up in our lives it rarely comes fully formed. Instead it comes with both the potential of our most beautiful dreams, along with the lessons we need to learn in order to realize them.
It is tempting to live in anticipation of the time when all our problems will be resolved and life will just be one unending paradise. However, as we often say, heaven is not somewhere you go but is something you realize. Even “heaven” is a work in progress, and is not without its lessons and challenges. The lessons of heaven are just of a higher octave of vibration than the ones that came before.
Each of us is on an infinite evolutionary path, and while our problems may get more elevated, refined and fewer, they continue to exist right up until we dissolve back into the creator. As long as we are separate beings with a finite perspective we are on an evolutionary journey that will include discomfort and lessons.
The invitation for us is to learn the lessons before us in an efficient manner, and greet each new challenge as an opportunity to expand our consciousness and become more peaceful, loving, and fearless.
In recent weeks you may have become more aware of both the challenges and opportunities of the new life room you are entering. Maybe it won’t be all sunshine and rainbows like you may have hoped. But if everything was already perfect there would be no lessons to learn, and no opportunities to grow or be of service to others.
The opportunity before us is to enter into a new life room with more light, more elevated lessons, and more opportunities to embody and express our soul awareness. It won’t be “perfect,” and you wouldn’t want it to be. We enter the new life room not only to savor the view, but also to be of service to those who are in there with us in a new and expanded way.
As we enter this new life room it is tempting to adapt the self to the new life circumstances rather than showing up as our most authentic selves. Resist the inner politician’s urge to replace the old mask with a new one. In order for the new room not to become a new prison, remain nakedly authentic as you greet new people and new life circumstances.
It is also important to travel lightly as we enter the new life room. Leave the baggage from the past behind. If you bring it with you the new life room will soon look like the old. Because your stories and patterns simply recreate the past with only cosmetic changes.
Greet the new life room free from expectations and stories, and appreciate it with eyes full of childlike wonder.
If you are able to show up to the new life room nakedly authentic and free from your past stories, you will see that infinite possibilities await you. Life can be truly beautiful and full of miracles. Your life can reflect your highest values and most evolved state of consciousness. It won’t be perfect, and you wouldn’t want it to be. The lessons that await us will only make our lives more beautiful and rich.
In this November Ascension Energy 2021 video we discuss “The Crucible” many of us are passing through in November. The entire year of 2021 has been a year of choice. Many of us are being asked to choose once and for all what the next highest version of ourselves looks like.
Many choices have already been made, but many of the biggest are yet to come. The decisions we’ve made so far this year have led us to a moment of truth in November. Are you ready to fully commit to the path ahead? Are you ready to make the sacrifices that will be asked?
Whenever we have an opportunity for major transformation or service to others we are often greeted with interference energy. This is the universe testing us to see whether we are ready to serve the light in a bigger way. The purpose of this interference energy is to root out any doubt or self-sabotaging tendencies we me have and to galvanize our will. Once we are clear that what we are doing is serving the highest good and commit to a course of action, the sabotage energy falls away and we become divinely supported by the universe.
November is “the crucible” we must pass through to board the ascension rocket ship in 2022.
In this November Ascension Energy 2021 video we discuss the 11/11 portal and synchronicity. The ascension energies for November entail a lot of movement and flow. Many of the themes and projects we’ve been working on since the March Equinox 2021 are coming to completion and beginning a new phase of expansion. The month of November is a month of manifestation and experience, whereas October was a month of choice. The choices made in October are manifesting in November and setting into motion the events and energies for 2022.
The major theme for the November ascension energies is manifestation and synchronicity. For many November will be a month of dreams coming true, as energetic potentialities solidify into physical reality. For others the entropy inherent in decisions made outside of integrity will teach many some hard lessons.
The 11/11 portal is inherently one of duality and synchronicity. For those who have been following spirit’s lead and acting from impeccable integrity, faith, and a selfless desire to be of service the currents of destiny are strong and flowing in your favor. All you have to do is continue to align with these qualities of being and flow towards the highest outcome for your life. You will be supported and guided every step of the way. Everything you need during this period of manifestation will be there in perfect divine timing, with far more ease than you may have expected. This is the positive expression of the 11/11 portal energies.
The opposite of synchronicity is entropy. Those who have been acting outside of integrity or from selfishness may find that all their best laid plans are going wrong. When we act contrary to truth we step outside the divine flow of the infinite intelligence of the universe. Instead of everything working out better than expected with far more ease, it may feel like the universe is out to get you. This is the negative synchronicity many may find themselves experiencing around this time.
The 11/11 portal energies are also being supercharged by the two last eclipses of the year. On November 19th there will be a lunar eclipse followed by a solar eclipse on December 4th. This portal is continuing to nurture those things created in our lives from a higher state of consciousness, while dissolving that which is no longer in vibrational accord. With the lunar eclipse being in Taurus, expect home and family to be strongly impacted by these energies.
Many of us have been carrying heavy burdens for a long time. For some of us it is the story of “should” that prescribes how life should be and tells us what isn’t possible. For others it may be a karmic relationship that has had many lessons and gifts but has run its course. November is an opportunity to lay down burdens of every kind.
Often our story of “should” and karmic relationships are interlinked. The story of “should” keeps us in the relationships. We’ve told ourselves they need us. We’ve told ourselves they can’t make it without us. We’ve told ourselves our happiness should be subordinate to their need.
When the truth is we don’t know who we would be without them. We don’t know who we would be if we were free, and we are afraid of the freedom letting go of “should” would bring.
When we let go of the story of should and instead abide in what is true and real, our karmic relationships will transform or fall away. When we let go of our stories of “should” this month, all of our burdens will fall away and/or be transformed by the light of truth.
This is the final drop off before boarding the rocket ship of ascension taking off in 2022!
In this November New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the November New Moon in Scorpio. The overarching themes for this November New Moon are polarization, internal earthquakes, and kickoff for 2022 energies. There are two very distinct timelines playing out on the planet right now. On one hand there is escalating chaos and despair, while on the other the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible is being born. While these different timelines represent two different paths, we can rest assured that the darkness is serving the light and that for many the chaos and weirdness of this Scorpio New Moon is breaking us down to break is open. During Scorpio season it is useful to expect the weird and unexpected. Many of us are going through a very intense corridor of catalyst, that may be bringing about clarity by triggering our unhealed trauma. A major issue many may be noticing in themselves and others is the energy of projection and being triggered. During Scorpio season our subconscious patterns and triggers are on full display. Many may be feeling very emotional and raw. Things that ordinarily wouldn’t bother us may feel intolerable. If you find yourself being triggered take a deep breath and try to notice what the underlying issue is that is making you feel the way you are feeling. Is it really the person triggering you, or some unhealed aspect of yourself? Moreover, if you find yourself unexpectedly attacked by someone who is acting from their injury and not seeing you, take a step back. Is this about you or some unhealed story that is being activated within them? Does this person have enough consciousness to try an illuminate and heal the pattern that is being activated, or do you need to just keep your distance until they have calmed down and are seeing you more clearly? It is important to exercise discernment at this time. Is the person attacking you asking for your assistance in some way to gain healing and insight, or are they just acting unconsciously, and you are stuck in the crosshairs? As we transit this corridor of energy as awakened beings, we must have enough discernment not to call ourselves to service where it is not wanted. If someone is deep in their injury and lashing out, it may be that the best thing we can do is simply remove ourselves from the situation. However, if someone is drowsing and is aware they are triggered and interested in healing, then there may be an opening for breakthrough. For those who are drowsing the best thing we can do is bring our awakened presence to the situation. During this time when many are being pulled into their subconscious patterns and injury, offering the comforts of sleep to the sleeping and presence to the drowsing is how the light serves the dark. As things continue to intensify on this planet this guidance will be essential for navigating the ongoing polarization of consciousness. It is getting harder and harder for those who are awake to be with those who are sleeping or drowsing. You may find the sleeping don’t want to see you and the drowsing are triggered by your presence. Which can be lonely and uncomfortable. However, this loneliness and discomfort are drawing us into community with other awakened beings of a similar vibration, even as it is pushing us out of relationship with those that are no longer in vibrational accord. The awakened are not immune to the escalating planetary chaos resulting from collective decisions made in fear and separation. But despite outward appearances, we are able to see whatever comes our way as a blessing. When things in our life get shaky and fall apart, we have faith that we are falling upward towards greater alignment, abundance, and joy. The energy of this New Moon is strongly linked to the energy of 2022. The things set in motion around this New Moon will define the energy of 2022 and beyond. Many are using the intensity of this period for spiritual evolution and growth, and to empower their decision to bring life circumstances into greater alignment with their core vibration. Others are fighting change tooth and nail and clinging to a past that no longer wants to be. We get to choose which path we are going to walk, and there will be opportunities to change course along the way. But the further we walk down one path or another, the harder that will become.
In this October Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the October 20th full moon in Aries. The theme of this October full moon is the initiation of the true self. Many of us have been in an initiatory period since the September Equinox that has been inviting us to realize who we are, what we are, and how we serve. This has meant being challenged to acknowledge and embody our soul desires and reclaim our personal power.
The seat of the “self” is the sacral chakra, where our soul first becomes individuated from source. The sacral chakra seated in the lower abdomen is where our “gut feelings” and soul desires live. The more we align with our gut feelings and desires the more we align with our soul, and the more vital energy we have to express our individuated soul essence.
Empaths in particular tend to abandon themselves at some point in their lives and lose touch with their gut feelings and soul desires. Putting their own desires last and deferring to the stronger emotions of others, they give away all their vital energy and personal power.
The energy of this full moon is helping empaths take back their power and reconnect with their soul desires. For many people this has meant healing lifetimes of karmic patterns of self-denial and abdication.
Many of these difficult initiations have called us to stand up for ourselves once and for all and assert our own needs and desires. This can be a difficult thing when people are use to us just going along with their agenda. Some relationships may not survive this awakening of your personal power.
The three-way split of the planetary ascension continues to accelerate, and the full moon is yet another inflection point. As we’ve said previously, 2022 is the ascension rocketship where many people are being given the opportunity to align their lives and state of consciousness with heaven on Earth. While others continue to cling to the status quo, and others still are descending into ever more hellish timelines.
The status quo timelines are continuing to deteriorate, as the universe says, “No more going back to sleep!” From here out we get to pick our teacher, and we can learn through pleasure or pain. As we align ourselves and lives with truth and love, we have the opportunity to learn the lessons of love through the pleasure of being alive. However, when we fail to embody truth and love the catalyst will continue to intensify and become ever more painful.
This isn’t punishment, it is simply cause and effect. As above so below. Like attracts like. The universe is mirroring us. The universe will continue to mirror our state of being for better or worse.
This is your chance to make your life heavenly from the inside out.
In this video we discuss Becoming Mythic! and the process of Remaking the Self.
The ego gets a bad rap, because most people have an unhealed ego and operate in the world from their injury. However, the ego is simply our 3D vessel for interacting with the world.
When we realize EVERYONE is merely a temporal expression of their higher self you begin to see everyone as divinity wearing a mask. Which also allows us to start holding our own ego identity more lightly.
When we realize the ego is a useful tool but a terrible master, we can start being creative about how we use it.
This is what is meant by the saying, "The mystic makes the self."
When we become detached from the ego we can remake the self to serve the needs of any moment.
Sometimes the story of the old self becomes so strong that we need a new name or to move cities to recreate the self and express a different aspect of our being. These "permission slips" can help us birth a new mythic version of ourselves that is a more authentic and fuller expression of the totality of our being.
In this October New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the October new moon. The major themes for the October new moon are “integrating the human” and getting unstuck. There are two opposite but complementary currents of energy during this new moon. On one hand many people may be feeling tired and stuck right now. On the other there is an incredible opportunity right now for rebirth and upgrading our life circumstances. It is the discomfort of our stuckness that pushes us to undertake the adventure of our rebirth.
One moment when can feel perfectly content with our lives. The next we are feeling stuck and dissatisfied. As our consciousness evolves we view our life through a new lens. Causing once comfortable routines and life circumstances to feel deeply out of alignment.
If you are feeling stuck recognize that you have more power to change your life than you think. Most of our stuckness is based on our inability to imagine a life different than our present moment. If you’ve been living your life in the same routines, seeing the same people, and doing the same stuff for months, years, or decades, don’t be surprised if you are feeling stuck! You just can’t imagine anything different!
Remember your warden is your habits and perspective, and you can change those anytime you want!
In order to get unstuck introduce some novelty into your life. Take a vacation or even a day trip to a nearby city. Go somewhere new, meet new people, do the unexpected. Identify the most painful aspect of your stuckness and change it!
Create new habits that bring beauty and pleasure into your life on a daily basis. Play an instrument, sing, dance, create art.
Our feeling of stuckness is always an invitation to upgrade our everyday life. It is our soul telling us we need more beauty, more novelty, and deeper alignment.
Each of us is in the process of “integrating the human” with the divine. Maybe the human and all its quirks and stuckness is on full display right now. Remember to love it and accept it instead of damning it and casting it into shadows. It is through our love and acceptance of all the parts of our being that the human is reclaimed and remade in the image of the divine.
The next three to six months represent a huge opportunity to birth heaven on Earth in our lives through our own awakening hearts. As we often say, ascension is an inside out process. Nobody is coming to save us. We aren’t going to be raptured to another dimension. What would be the fun in that?
The work that is ours to do is to transform ourselves and our lives on a daily basis in both profound and mundane ways. Step by step, we are moving towards our soul tribe, ideal life circumstances, and a new way of showing up in the world.
In this October Ascension Energy Update 2021 we discuss the ascension energy for October. Since the September Equinox we have been in an intense period of initiation and uplevel. There is some INTENSE crystalline energy hitting the planet right now that is inviting us to ascend to the next level of consciousness.
Over the next three months you have the opportunity to receive the initiations and upgrades you need to board the 2022 Ascension Rocketship!
Going into 2022 it is no longer just about personal ascension and upleveling. For those on the positive path of evolution 2022 and beyond are all about finding your soul tribe, embodying New Earth in your everyday lives, and ascending together.
Together we RISE!
New vistas of consciousness are available to those willing to align with it. Over the weekend during medicine ceremony I received Darshan with Divine Mother. I had been feeling stuck, and sensed a heaviness in my energy field that was preventing me from fully aligning with the incoming crystalline energy. Fortunately months earlier spirit had arranged for me to sit with Mother the last weekend of September.
During that ceremony I was invited to surrender completely to my Divine Mother, and to release my residual pride and the story of "I can do it all alone." When I fully surrendered I was greeted with the overwhelming opulence of God. I was shown so much infinite beauty that I begged for mercy, and prayed to be a little body again so that I might appreciate the beauty in a more manageable dose.
It was at that time my body was filled with the opulence of God. Every cell of my body became permeated with conscious light, and I realized completion.
If the first ceremony was about self and god realization, the next was about being a humble servant to the healing and evolution of this planet.
Words are inadequate to express all that I experienced. But I am feeling called to continue sitting with Divine Mother over the next few months. I will share those experiences as they arise.
What does your uplevel look like? How are you embodying your highest state of awakened consciousness? Have you found your soul tribe? Are you consenting to the next level of initiation?
Let me know.
ascension #newearth #togetherwerise
Be a F*cking Peacock! Shine Bright!
In a recent ceremony a peacock came to me and told me it was my spirit animal.
A peacock?
Hard to believe. Yet there it is, and I see the ways in which it is so true. The peacock told me to stop hiding my light. To stop choosing to be invisible. The peacock is a manifestation of god’s opulent beauty.
The peacock isn’t afraid to be noticed. The peacock adorns the world like a brilliant jewel, elevating all around it with its presence.
No more hiding. Time to be bright. Time to be flashy. Time to be just a little “extra.” Time to be a peacock.
spiritanimal #shamanism #shinebright
In this September Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the September 20th harvest full moon. This September full moon coincides with the September 22nd fall equinox. Together these portals are bringing about major endings, and the shifting of our physical reality into a higher frequency of expression. A major theme of this full moon is integrating all the different aspects of ourselves, as we bring all the gifts, lessons, and skills of our past forward into the future.
Many of us have spent a lot of time daydreaming about the best possible outcome for our lives. We’ve envisioned the perfect lover, the perfect job, the ideal life circumstances, and the desire for that possible future is often the fuel that powers our transformational journey.
However, our daydreams about the future can only ever be projections of the past. The future by its very nature is unknown. Perhaps we can glean the broad outlines of what the future might look like by studying the past. But its actual manifestation into the present moment always has an element of the unexpected.
The hazard is in becoming too attached to our daydreams, and not recognizing our “dreams come true” when they show up in our lives because they don’t look exactly the way we thought they would. While daydreaming can be a useful tool for exploring what we desire, it is ultimately a function of the small self. It is a byproduct of ego and mental and emotional impressions. The higher self, which is the totality of our being outside of time and space has no need for daydreams. It is the byproduct of all experiences in every dimension and lifetime, and simply abides.
Instead of encountering life through the lens of our ego with its stories, judgments, and comparisons strive to encounter life through the perspective of the higher self/witnessing awareness. Simply abide in the present moment without judgments or caparisons. What is had to be or it would not be – there is no use wishing for a better past or present moment. We can only trust it is has a lesson for us and an opportunity for our healing, evolution, and growth.
This is important to keep in mind, because as we traverse the energy of this harvest full moon we are harvesting all that was good and useful about our past and bringing it forward into the present moment to create the unknown future.
As I have often shared I had my spiritual awakening about six months after passing the bar and beginning my legal career. My awakened eyes looked at the decisions of my former self with horror. The old self wanted to be a lawyer because he was chasing money, power, and prestige. While my awakened self wanted nothing more than to run off to the monastery and write poetry about god.
However, worldly commitments kept me in the world. For the past ten years I’ve been honoring the karma of my former self as best I can. Though I’ve often been in resistance to my path I’ve had a successful legal career while cultivating my initial awakening through study and the practice of Kriya yoga.
In 2020 my legal career was at a peak. In early 2020 I received a number of recognitions for my professional accomplishments including being named young alumni of the year by my law school and chairing the state young lawyer’s division. These recognitions were the culmination of a decade of making the best of my situation and striving to be of service to others at every opportunity.
Of course while I was receiving these recognitions the 3D world recognizing my accomplishments seemed to be on fire. Between climate change, political instability, and COVID winning at the “3D game” had a bitter taste.
Since COVID cancelled all my 3D plans I decided to honor my soul desire to be of spiritual service to others. Using my first and middle name to create a distinction from my legal work I started making Youtube videos and offering individual coaching and healing.
As this new version of me grew and came into being I needed distance from the old 3D life, and COVID provided a wonderful excuse. I cut those engagements down to a minimum and dedicated myself fully to the new higher vibrational outward manifestation of my being.
As things have gone back to “normal’ over the last six months or so there has often been discomfort between these two personas. I have often regretted that I could not leave the old self behind entirely in a clean break from the past.
Yet in recent days these two seemingly irreconcilable aspects of my being have started to find integration; as the lawyer and mystic work together to create a future more beautiful and magical than I could have imagined.
One of the most exciting things coming into being in my life right now is the opportunity to assist some friends with birthing a retreat center. Both the skills of the lawyer and the mystic’s heart are needed for this venture, and the path to manifesting it is the bridge between them.
Nothing is accidental. Every part of your being is needed. The new Earth is born not by casting the 3D self into shadows, but by reclaiming it at a higher vibration.
The key to transforming our manifest reality is not found in running away from what has been. It is the path between our solar plexus and heart. It is the rainbow bridge of faith between what has been and what is yet to be.
Through will, faith, and love all the masks we have worn throughout our lifetime can be melted and refashioned into something new. We are taking all the different aspects of ourselves and making a never-before-seen masterpiece.
In this September Equinox 2021 Ascension Energy Update we discuss the energetic themes for the September 22nd Equinox. The last several weeks have been energetically challenging to say the least. As we said in our September New Moon video we have been experiencing a major purging and upgrading of the solar plexus and throat chakras. This has caused the 3D aspects of our lives to feel very uncomfortable. However, this discomfort has been preparing us for something.
This new moon is bringing with it the beginnings of some really high vibrational new Earth energy, which will hit its stride around the September Equinox. We are building up to a tsunami of new Earth energy that will continue to build over the next few years.
As we’ve discussed in previous videos we entered solar cycle 25 in December 2019. The sun experiences 11 year cycles of solar activity, where the number of solar storms waxes and wanes over an 11 year period. In 2019 we reached the solar minimum and began the ascent of increasing solar activity. It is expected that we will continue this ascent until we reach solar maximum sometime in 2024.
The light codes transmitted through these solar storms is the means by which individual and planetary ascension occurs. The years 2019 through 2021 have been just the beginning of the planetary transformation ahead of us. Things will continue to accelerate as we move into the years of 2022-2025, when we hit solar maximum.
COVID 19 came onto the planet around the beginning of the new solar cycle in the Winter 2019. When I’ve connected with that energy, I’ve sensed that it is a manifestation of the Earth’s exhaustion, heartache, and pain. As we move into solar cycle 25 it has been inviting us to put 3D on hold, slow down, take stock, and attune to the incoming new Earth energy.
Many of us have accepted that invitation and used the pause on 3D to plant and foster the seeds of new Earth in our lives. The incoming energy around the September Equinox is fertilizing those seeds of new Earth and giving them light and life.
The 3D aspects of your life might feel really hard right now. Try to recognize it as the gift of contrast that is polarizing your desire to align with new Earth instead of damning it. Because what we damn damns us and sticks to us like glue. Only when there is neither push nor pull does a thing finally leave our lives.
Try to move into blessing and gratitude of those difficult 3D energies. They are your teacher and your resentment only amplifies your mutual attraction.
But more importantly, continue to nurture the new Earth energy in your life. Attune to it whenever you can. Maybe that means retreats, meditation, and walking in nature. The Earth herself is already resonating at the new Earth frequency. It is our human civilization and collective consciousness that continues to resonant at third density.
As the planet herself continues to raise her vibration and attune with the new Earth frequency, 3D will continue to fall apart. But the seeds of new Earth within us and in our lives will continue to be nourished and supported. Mother Gaia is eager for the new Earth to be born and is supporting us every step of the way.
Ultimately, we are being asked to consent to grace. We are riding on the river of destiny. Just stop trying to swim against the current.
When you feel resistance to your 3D life circumstances try to bless them and allow the discomfort to polarize your desire for new Earth. When the opportunity for expansion comes, consent to your transformation and growth. Push past your internal resistance and be willing to step into the unknown.
Mother’s got you.
In this September New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the September New Moon. I major theme of the September New Moon is the incoming energy of fall which is calling us to turn inward. For the past few weeks we’ve also been experiencing some major purging and upgrading of our solar plexus and throat chakras, which is catalyzing a death and rebirth process for how we show up in the world.
Many of us may find we are able to be in the world, but “not of it” most of the time. As we walk the spiritual path we may find we are usually able to rise above our physical circumstances and see the bigger picture. However, that has been very difficult in recent weeks.
Around this new moon we are really being called to examine where we are walking our talk, and where we aren’t. The places where our life circumstances are out of alignment with our state of consciousness have been very uncomfortable in recent weeks. Especially around livelihood.
We can make a lot of progress toward greater alignment between soul and life circumstances by shedding the easy things that no longer resonate and are easy to eliminate. We can drift away from acquaintances, stop hanging out at bars, and stop spreading ourselves too thin with things we never wanted to do in the first place.
But after we’ve let go of the easy stuff, the bedrocks of our lives remain. That often relates to family and livelihood. These are the places where we spend most of our time and energy, and if they aren’t in alignment it impacts every other aspect of our lives.
No amount of mantras or positive thinking can overcome a fundamental lack of alignment in the foundation of our lives. Sometimes the house with a faulty foundation has to be torn down, the bedrocks torn up and replaced, and built anew.
The superficial repairs have been made. We’ve washed the windows, put on a new coat of paint, and spruced up the front yard. But if the foundation isn’t solid and in alignment, the metaphorical house of our lives will not be able to weather the storm.
Notice your discomfort. It is your teacher.
Notice who your soul is calling you to be. It is your guide.
Notice where the foundation is shaky and in need of repair.
Notice when things are so out of alignment the only thing to do is tear it all down and start over.
We have more freedom than we think. Most of those “immovable objects” in our lives are more moveable than we think. Our own conditioning and obedience to other people’s expectations about who we are and how we show up in the world is often the biggest obstacle to change.
We have more power than we think. Align with truth. Take off the masks. Rip up the foundations if you need to and start anew. Let go. Have faith and trust. Everything will be ok.
In this September Energy Update 2021 we look at the energetic themes for the month of September. September is a month with profound transformational potential. As we navigate often chaotic and difficult energy, it is important to remember that darkness always serves the light.
When we think of darkness we typically think of pain, suffering, and villains. To our human mind darkness should be avoided at all costs. However, as ascending masters we recognize that darkness is simply ignorance. It is a lack of knowledge of the self as being one with god and everything else.
Our ignorance causes us to act in ways that deny our own divinity and the divinity of others. This creates pain, suffering, and cycles of karma that are all conspiring to help us remember who and what we are. All darkness holds within it a seed of ignorance, that we must reclaim as light by learning the lesson it is trying to teach us.
Darkness is transformed by the light of our awareness. It must be seen and sometimes experienced to be healed and released. Our collective and individual anger and bellicosity have their roots in fear and unprocessed pain. Trauma is so omnipresent in the collective consciousness that we sometimes stop noticing it. We simply think of it as normal.
The karmic patterns of war and bellicosity have primordial roots in the collective consciousness. The “pre-programed” responses to aggression and violence tend to perpetuate both. Creating new seeds of pain and trauma that reverberate into the future.
As we play out these karmic cycles lifetime after lifetime the pain gets coated in ever more delusion until it becomes unrecognizable, and the karmic lessons become ever more harsh until we reclaim the ignorance in truth.
The opportunity this month is to heal these old karmic patterns when they arise. The invitation is to transform darkness into light. Transformation calls us to cut through our illusions, break the chains of limitation, transcend duality, and be reborn.
The alchemy we are being called to do in September is to use whatever darkness arises to serve the light, and whatever ignorance arises to serve the truth.
When confronted with the old karmic patterns that have kept humanity trapped in pain, sorrow, and difficulty for generations, we are invited to simply let go. Let go of the preprogrammed responses. Let go of our own trauma. Let go and let the old self die and be transformed in the fires of adversity.
September is calling us towards a deep let go, deep surrender, and deep trust. The key to navigating this transformational energy is to remain centered in your own mastery. Allow yourself to witness and not get caught up in the drama unfolding around you. Hold onto the self as the world turns upside down. It is your only sure footing.
The non-dual appreciation of the ways in which darkness serves the light will be useful this month. Over the last several months many of us have been experiencing the inward drawn breath, waiting for…something. That breath will find its release this month.
The energy of the September Equinox is marking the physical end and transformation of many cycles. We will discuss that energy later this month. Until then, hold onto the self.
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In this Sandy Vo interview we discuss right livelihood and embodying your unique expression of god. Sandy Vo is a meditation teacher devoted to revolutionizing modern living by introducing a new level of functionality and serving more conscious leaders on their journey of Self-Realization. Sandy is also the Founder of Prosperous: School of Self-Realization, host of Prosperous the Podcast and Co-founder of media brand and network, Ladies Aligned.
Sandy is passionate about helping people thrive both spiritually and financially, by aligning livelihood with passion and mission. In this interview we discuss how the ego isn't necessarily a bad thing, and is necessary for navigating the world. We talk about how through effective spiritual practice the ego can be turned into an instrument of our unique expression of god, which enables us to easily achieve all of our life enhancing desires.
Sandy Vo Website: https://www.sandyvo.com/
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In this August Full Moon 2021 Energy Update we discuss the energetic themes for the August 22nd full moon in Aquarius. The major theme for this full moon is that the “wheel of fortune” we’ve been spinning for the last month is about to land on the timeline that represents the next highest version of ourselves. This full moon marks the end of the Lion’s Gate corridor of energy bookended by the July and August full moons in Aquarius.
During the Lion’s Gate portal we received a lot of new “light codes” that have given us an opportunity to uplevel our consciousness. For the last several weeks those light codes have been integrating throughout our gross and subtle bodies.
As the Lion’s Gate energy is integrating you may find a noticeable difference between the activity of the small self/personality and your soul awareness. The change happens at the soul level first, then situations arise to give us an opportunity to “correct” the activity of the small self to bring it into greater alignment with our soul awareness.
This can feel a bit like you are being tested by the universe to see whether you have learned the lessons from the old curriculum. During plant medicine ceremonies the spirit of the plant we usually inspect the energy body to determine what lessons are needed for the journey. I’ve noticed a similar phenomena in the last several weeks, as the universe has been “inspecting” our various energy centers to see what lessons are appropriate for the next ten year cycle.
As the Lion’s Gate energy works its way through the subtle body into the gross body you may find yourself wanting to engage in physical cleaning and purging. If you are feeling that impulse, lean into it. Your soul knows best, and is inviting you to increase your physical vibration to match your increased soul awareness.
A big part of my journey over the last few weeks has been letting go of fear, judgment, and shame in the sacral chakra and practicing impeccability in word and integrity at the throat chakra.
Having grown up in the Appalachian mountains in a family of coal miners I had the idea imprinted on me at an early age that life is hard and joyless. You work hard, you support your family, then you die. Joy and pleasure are luxuries you cannot afford, and are not to be trusted.
I’ve done a lot of work overcoming this programming and connecting with my joy. But I’m still not embodying on a daily basis that robust love of life I know is possible. A lot of my work right now is continuing to say no to things that don’t spark my joy and excitement, and leaning into that which does.
As a lawyer I was trained to manipulate the truth with reason to serve my agenda. That encouraged a sloppiness around truth that has had to be unlearned. Many of my lessons over the past few weeks have been around the importance of being impeccable with the truth, and doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do, even when it is to your detriment and nobody is watching.
Each of us will have been tested in our own ways over the past month. But we are all on the river of destiny which is pulling us towards the next highest version of ourselves. Our job is to keep paddling down the stream, listening to our inner guidance, and doing our best to avoid the rocks.
In this episode on how to deal with fear and worry we talk about how confronting fear and worry is the best way to transcend them. Most of us are intimately familiar with fear and worry. For some they are infrequent visitors. For others they may be constant companions. Whatever your relationship with fear and worry, recognize they are of your own creation and you have the power to transcend them.
You need not be a captive of your fears and worries. Your mind is the jailer and the jail cell. So it is completely within your control to liberate yourself.
Many of us go through life walking in a cloud of our inchoate fears and worries, which color every life experience. When fear and worry are your constant companion you stop noticing them. Yet they influence every aspect of your life, and make your default setting one of unease.
Instead of avoiding your fears and worries confront them. It is the only way you will ever be able to resolve them. It is the only way to free yourself from their influence. The unnamed and unspoken fear is far more insidious than one that has been named and quantified. When we identify our fears and worries they become manageable.
A useful practice is to sit down in a meditative state (or at least with as much calm and presence as you can muster) and make a list of your top five fears and worries. Write them out in as much detail as possible.
Then beginning with your top fear or worry allow yourself to imagine the worst case scenario coming to pass. Imagine it in graphic detail. Allow the emotions to arise within you that might come if this thing came to pass. Feel the fear, anger, and grief that may arise and let them pass through you. Let it play out to resolution in your mind's eye.
Then notice that the witness of the thoughts is still there. Notice that the witness of your thoughts, which is your simple presence, is the stage upon which the drama unfolded and that it is unmodified by the experience. Your witnessing awareness confronted the worst thing you could possibly imagine happening to you, and it survived.
Now imagine your top fear or worry playing out in the best case scenario. Imagine it in graphic detail. Allow the emotions to arise within you once more. Feel joy, love, and excitement and let them pass through you. Let it play out to resolution in your mind's eye. Recognize that the witness of the thoughts still remains as the drama unfolded, unmodified by it.
Your witnessing awareness remains the same in pleasure or pain. It remains unmodified by the best and worst thing you can imagine happening to you. It is the infinite presence that endures lifetime after lifetime.
Go through your fears and worries one by one. Imagine the best and worst case scenarios. Let yourself experience all the emotions associated with each. Continue doing so until they no longer hold an emotional charge and you can identify more with the witness than the drama of your mind.
This may take time. Maybe you will need to make several top five fear and worry lists before you feel at ease. Nevertheless confront them and name them one by one. Give your fears and worries no place to hide. Dissolve them one by one in the light of your awareness.
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The audio for our Patreon community's August New Moon Lion's Gate Guided Meditation 2021. In this guided meditation we deconstruct our old reality and conditioning, and bring in the new energy of our next highest self.
Our Patreon community does two guided meditations each month for the new moon and full moon.
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In this August New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the August 8th new moon and Lion’s Gate portal as we ascend to the next highest version of ourselves. Many will have noticed the Schumann resonance has been spiking in recent days, which is often associated with new light codes hitting the Earth and integrating into our energy field. This often leaves us feeling physically tired, as our body integrates the new “software.” Give yourself the space to receive these upgrades as they come in and you integrate them.
As the new energy comes in you may notice the old energy from the last year or decade is starting to feel very uncomfortable. The contrast between the old and new energy entering into the subtle body creates sharp contrast, and you may feel like a snake needing to shed its skin.
The energy of this new moon and Lion’s gate portal represents limitless possibilities. Life can truly be more beautiful, free, and full of joy than you can imagine. In fact your imagination and limiting belief are your biggest limitation.
As we often discuss the truth of who and what you are is the infinite presence of god experiencing being finite. It is only our limited perspective and conditioned thinking that constricts our reality and cuts us off from our infinite nature. The spiritual path is one of freedom and liberation from limitations, as we journey through limitation back to our infinite god presence.
During this new moon and Lion’s Gate portal each of us is being given an opportunity to expand as much as we are willing and able to. The great liberator from limitation is as ever our alignment with the truth of who and what we are. As we align inwardly with our god presence, and allow that light to ignite within us and shine forth into our physical reality, all that we witness becomes transformed.
The path of obedience to truth can be lonely. We often have to be willing to go it alone. The small self and its personality is a byproduct of our social conditioning and other people’s stories about who we are. All these things create an invisible web that binds us to the past.
In order to walk a path of authenticity we have to be willing to live our truth, especially when it is uncomfortable. We have to be willing to dissolve delusions about who we are, what we want, and where we are going.
If you are feeling stuck right now, examine the bars of the cage. They consist of the stories of what you have told yourself is possible. What are the limiting beliefs you are no longer in agreement with? You have a right to reject all agreements made in fear and separation that are no longer in alignment with your awakened sense of truth.
As we move through this Lion’s Gate portal, we are being given an opportunity to move to the timeline of the next highest version of ourselves. As we align ever more powerfully with our god presence, our baseline vibration increases and our physical reality shifts to align with it.
Some will seek to hold you in the vibration of who you were or who they perceived you to be. If that happens simply continue holding the space of the new highest version of yourself with strength and love. As you expand those around you will expand at their own pace. Give them time, but remain true to who you are.
In this August Ascension Energy 2021 video we discuss “The Great Sorting,” COVID, and Vaccination. As we discussed in our previous Lion’s Gate videos we are experiencing “The Great Sorting” by vibration of people to places and communities that are in alignment with their state of consciousness, and the two great sorters are COVID and vaccination.
I haven’t said much about COVID and vaccination because it is such a highly polarized issue. However, this month it is impossible to talk about ascension without discussing the role COVID and the vaccine are playing.
An important thing to remember about COVID and the vaccine is that there is no one right answer that is applicable to everyone. Each person encounters catalyst and makes decisions from whatever state of consciousness they have attained and life circumstances.
As we discussed previously the collective consciousness on the planet currently has three distinct subcategories. There is the old third dimensional collective where consciousness is based in the solar plexus, then there is the fourth dimension where consciousness is based at the diaphragm between the heart and solar plexus, and lastly there is the fifth dimension where consciousness is based in the heart chakra or higher.
At the third dimensional level of consciousness the catalyst of COVID and vaccination are viewed from the level of social agreement around sense making and decision making that defers to conventional allopathic medicine and third density social institutions. From this level of consciousness the “right thing to do” is what those in power tell us to do. Positively polarizing behavior from this seat of consciousness means obeying the old sources of third dimensional mainstream authority.
Those at the fourth dimensional level of consciousness are experiencing the discomfort of straddling the proverbial fence. Stuck between the heart and solar plexus, they are no longer in agreement with the third dimension sources of authority that are based on reductionist materialism and a lack of understanding of spirit and consciousness. Many perceive the failings of the third dimensional models and the negative agendas of 3D actors, and it puts them in a place of fear, judgment, and anger.
This often manifests as the “spiritual activists” who see how screwed up the world is and feel compelled to act. However, they are usually acting from their ego, and from the level of engagement of force and bellicosity. From this level of consciousness there is a lot of fear and anger, and things are often depicted in terms of the “good guys” versus the “bad guys.” This state of consciousness is inherently uncomfortable, and it is uncomfortable in order to force us to choose to retract to 3D or expand upward into the heart.
The fifth dimensional level of consciousness is firmly seated in the heart chakra, and tends to have a more integral perspective. This is the place of nuance that has compassion for all perspectives. From this level of consciousness the old sources of authority are typically seen as being deeply flawed and not automatically obeyed. However, the systems and people involved are viewed with compassion rather than anger and judgment.
I had the virus in March 2020 and was asymptomatic. As far as I’m concerned I have acquired immunity and it doesn’t make sense to risk the potential adverse effects of the vaccine. That is from the allopathic perspective. From the more holistic fourth and fifth dimensional perspective I don’t necessarily agree with the allopathic view of viruses and vaccines. I tend to view any disease in the body as an invitation to move towards greater balance and deeper healing, and view viruses as a necessary part of a healthy microbiome. This is a different level of sense making based on a different premise about reality.
A healthy body is the best protection against either COVID or the vaccine side-effects. If I were older or had comorbidities my decision making might look differently.
We should strive to have tolerance for other people’s perspectives and decisions, even though they don’t necessarily have tolerance for ours. From the 3D level of consciousness our decisions may seem irresponsible because social authorities have essentially said the vaccine is the only safe and responsible option. From the 4D level of consciousness we may seem overly sanguine, and not sufficiently outraged by 3D efforts to control and manipulate everyone to comply with the official narrative.
This is the great sorting. Those resonating at the level of fear and judgment in both 3D and 4D and spinning off into their own tribes. The 3D folks fear the virus and don’t trust those they view as being irresponsible. The 4D folks don’t trust anyone who doesn’t share their outrage. Meanwhile those who are able to hold compassion for both camps from the 5D perspective may find neither the 3D nor 4D folks want anything to do with them.
In this Lion's Gate 2021 Ascension Energy video we discuss what it means to be an ascending master and our increasingly crystalline bodies. In recent days I have felt called to remember that we are ascending masters remembering our mastery. This is the journey each of us is on, and though we may be at different stages we share this common destination.
Ascension is an inside out process that begins with the internal purification and crystallization of our subtle bodies. From there the purification and transformation process radiates outward making our gross bodies ever more subtle and crystalline.
Many may be experiencing significant purging of the subtle body of mental, emotional, and karmic impressions. This can be a difficult and painful process. But the discomfort serves a purpose and has an end.
As we often discuss, at the core of every being is the perfection of God consciousness. Each of us is an aspect of God clothed in sheathes of gross and subtle bodies that limit our perspective. Sometimes those sheaths become so dense that we forget our divine nature and think we are only our limited perspective.
The ascension journey is one of purifying the various sheaths that limit our perspective so that they become so transparent that our God nature shines forth in undistorted brilliance. This path of awakening is nothing less than a journey from being a finite limited self to being an infinite unlimited self. As prior limitations fall away, more and more of the infinite power of God may be exercised through us.
The ascended masters are those perfected beings who have made the inner and outer ascension and have become transparent conduits for God’s power and grace. Bound neither by time, space, nor gross matter, these mighty beings manifest and command the elements by mere thought.
When we reach a certain level of attainment the appropriate ascended master will come into our lives to assist us with learning the lessons of whatever stage we are at. The first master I worked with was Jesus Christ, who has assisted me with the lessons of unconditional love. The second was Mahavatar Babaji, founder of Kriya Yoga in the modern age, who initiated me into his lineage soon after I began my practice.
In recent years Babaji and the gurus of that lineage have been my principal guides. It has been through their grace and guidance that I have been able to achieve the internal ascension, which culminated in absorption in atman at the crown chakra in deep samadhi.
While this is a notable development, I am reminded it is really just the beginning. At every stage of the ascension journey inner purification and disciplining of the outward activity of the small self remain key to progress.
I achieved the inner ascension when the chakras became sufficiently clear and balanced to take on a crystalline quality. Since then I have been able to enter into deep samadhi at will. The outer ascension requires a similar process to occur in the physical body. In my own Lion’s Gate uplevel experience that is the journey I am being called to, and new masters are stepping forward to assist me on my path.
Wherever you are on this wondrous journey, remember that you are an ascending master remembering your mastery and benevolent assistance abounds. This is truly a path back to the highest version of ourselves. Nothing will be lost save our limitations. Each of us is simply moving at our own pace towards being a fuller expression of the God consciousness within us.
This Lion's Gate Guided Meditation 2021 will assist you with Transformation and Ascension. This guided meditation came through during our Patreon community's July full moon transmission. I felt called to share it so that all who may resonate with it may benefit from the transmission.
This guided meditation is long so get comfortable and try and receive it with an open heart and open mind. We begin the meditation with a grounding practice, then proceed through the energy body from the Earthstar chakra all the way up to Star Consciousness.
The invocations, attunements, and guidance contained in this meditation will assist you with birthing the new version of yourself yearning to be born.
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In this July Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes of the July 23rd full moon. The major themes of the July Full Moon are (i) becoming the person of your dreams today, (ii) getting clear on what you want, (iii) contractions before the rebirth, and (iv) patience while waiting for the right moment to act.
Becoming the Person of Your Dreams Today
Become the person of your dreams today. Many of us find excuses for not going to the next level in consciousness and personal development. We often hold imaginary milestone for when we will really get down to the business of healing, evolution, and service. Maybe you are waiting to get a certain number of followers on social media. Maybe you are waiting until you get that certification or degree. Maybe you are waiting until you move to someplace more in alignment.
Stop putting off being the best version of yourself. Be the person of your dreams today. Be the best version of yourself today. The internal transformation comes before the change in life circumstances. You won’t change when life circumstances improve, life circumstances will improve when you change your state of being.
It is only through becoming the person of our dreams today that we are able to realize our dream in physical reality tomorrow. When we put off becoming the best version of ourselves, we put off experiencing our ideal life circumstances.
Getting Clear on What You Want
Get clear on what you want your life to be. Get clear on who you want to be in the world. Having a clear vision for your life and self is key to manifesting the reality you prefer. Don’t be afraid to dream the most beautiful dream you can imagine for your life. Dream it in technicolor detail.
Don’t get attached to the details but get excited about the quality of consciousness they represent. Don’t worry about logistics at this point. We often can’t see how to get to where we want to go from where we are. But step by step as we move towards that more beautiful vision for our lives, things become clearer.
Make sure your ambitions and dreams for your life are still in alignment with who you are. Our dreams need to be undated frequently to reflect our current state of consciousness. When you aren’t clear on what you want, or if there is internal conflict, the universe will force you to choose.
For a long time this looked like calendar conflicts for me. There would be a spiritual event that was really exciting on the same date as a political or business obligation. For a long time I chose the latter and abandoned my excitement because my main ambition was business and politics.
Then a time came when I realized my ambitions had changed. I was doing stuff I didn’t want to do for a life I didn’t want. I realized what I really wanted to do was be of spiritual service, but I had filled my life with other things and didn’t have room for what I actually wanted.
Once I got clear on who I was and what I wanted it became easy to say no to what wasn’t in alignment, and to say yes to what was.
Contractions Before Rebirth
Many of us have been experiencing the contractions before rebirth. Old versions of us have been floating up to the surface to be expressed to see if there is anything left for them to teach us. Sometimes that has meant falling into old patterns for a while, until we wake up and remember that isn’t really who we are any longer.
This is part of the rebirthing process. We are harvesting all the good about who we were and letting go of what no longer serves us. We are preparing for the rebirth and uplevel of the Lion’s gate.
Patience While Waiting for the Right Moment to Act
Being patient while waiting for the right moment to act is hard. Many of us have been on this evolutionary journey for a long time, and it feels like we are getting incredibly close to some sort of major breakthrough. We can almost touch the most beautiful vision for our lives manifesting…
But it hasn’t manifested yet. It definitely seems to be on its way and things are moving and the pieces are coming together. But it can be difficult to know what we can do to help it along.
Remain alert, be patient, and listen for the right time to act. When the door opens and the decision point arises you will know. It will require your hell yes or hell no, and your complete commitment will be required.
But until that time arrives be patient and continue to do the little things each day you can do to be the person of your most beautiful dreams. When the time is right you and your dreams will join hands and become a reality.
In this Lion’s Gate 2021 video we discuss shifting timelines and the oneness, allness, and manyness strata of consciousness. As we’ve previously discussed the sun enters the sign of Leo on July 23rd where it is domiciled. This results in a steady crescendo in solar energy, which lights up our solar plexus and soul awareness. This often manifests as purging of the solar plexus, and an increased awareness of the ways in which our life circumstances are out of alignment with our soul awareness.
Additionally, as we move toward the Lion’s gate portal on August 8th we will be experiencing the influence of Sirius, as it draws closer to the Earth. The star Sirius is a very spiritual celestial body that showers the Earth with high vibrational energy. This lights up our energy bodies and crown chakras creating a tremendous opportunity for upleveling of our consciousness and life circumstances.
During this period of intense upleveling we may experience ourselves shifting timelines. We live in a multiverse where everything that can happen does happen. We exist in an octave of experience/timeline that is a match for our level of consciousness. When we radically uplevel our consciousness, we similarly shift to octaves of experience that are more in alignment with our state of consciousness.
When we have an uplevel shift in consciousness and experience a “timeline shift” we often feel like a stranger in our own life. Though our physical environment and the people in our life may appear unchanged, reality may have a surreal quality to it. This strangeness wears off in time. But the shift represents new possibility/probabilities for your future that are more in alignment with your state of consciousness.
The “timeline shifts” around this Lion’s Gate portal will be particularly potent since we are beginning a new ten-year cycle. So your life circumstances may quickly and drastically shift in the upcoming months.
During these periods of significant uplevel we have two strong energy currents of contraction and expansion. There are those who embrace the opportunity to grow, and those who run from it. At the collective level the energy of contraction is strong. But for those on the awakening path people are overwhelmingly aligning with the energy of expansion.
Those aligning with contraction are rushing back to “normal” and trying to pretend the last two years didn’t happen. Those aligning with expansion may feel violently opposed to going back to the way things were and are embracing expansion and greater alignment.
The timelines before us can be broken into three strata of consciousness, that I’m calling the oneness, allness, and manyness.
The manyness is that strata of consciousness where the solar plexus predominates. The timelines aligned with this strata of consciousness have a strong current of contraction. The pathology of third density are playing out as the old trauma responses of bellicosity, control, fear, and hopelessness continue to dominate.
The allness is that strata of consciousness where the heart and low heart predominates. The timelines aligned with this strata of consciousness are a mixture of contraction, stagnation, and expansion.
An increasing number of people are operating from the state of consciousness between the solar plexus and heart at the diaphragm. This level of consciousness is often characterized by spiritual activism, where there is great awareness of the many problems of the world and empathy for the oppressed and wronged. However, there remains enough duality in the awareness to be righteously angry and even bellicose towards the oppressors. This is also a space of great confusion, where there is a greater awareness of the complex multidimensional nature of reality, but not yet much discernment. Those resonating at this level of consciousness will find themselves contracting into the manyness of the solar plexus or expanding into the allness of the heart chakra.
Those resonating at the frequency of allness in the heart chakra feel great compassion for all beings, recognizing the oppressor and oppressed are victims of separation consciousness. This strata of consciousness includes timelines of expansion and stagnation. Many will expand with the Lion’s Gate energy into the Oneness of God and Self Realization at the crown chakra. Others may find themselves stagnated in the relativistic morass of the allness, where their great compassion may become an obstacle to bettering their life circumstances.
The key to this impasse is the discernment to recognize it is possible to love all beings, while expressing preferences in how you spend your time, energy, and attention. Those who are able to exercise discernment during this Lion’s Gate portal will be aligning with timelines of expansion towards life circumstances that are in greater alignment with their state of consciousness.
The oneness is that strata of consciousness at the crown chakra which is being ignited by the proximity of Sirius. As the allness includes the manyness, the oneness includes both. Oneness consciousness is that nondual realization and experience of the self as being the only active presence in your life. This integral state of consciousness is radically sovereign and is able to act as a cocreator of its reality. When we exist at the level of oneness we are able to shift effortlessly towards life circumstances, places, and communities that represent our highest possible timeline.
Most of us will be navigating the energies of expansion and contraction and the different strata of consciousness throughout this Lion’s gate portal. Few will find themselves stabilized in expansion and oneness. Most of us tend to navigate and experience all of these things throughout our day.
Sometimes we are expanding, other times we are contracting. Sometimes we have to operate at the level of the solar plexus and interface with the collective consciousness. It is useful to notice what you are experiencing and deliberately choose to expand and uplevel, one moment at a time. If you are contracting, relax and expand. If you are in solar plexus, bring your awareness back to your heart. If you are in your heart chakra release your attachments to the crown chakra and experience ever new bliss.
Continue to choose and strive to maintain the highest quality of consciousness you are able to attain. Do this and you will find yourself on the highest timeline for your future.
In this Introduction to Kriya Yoga Lifestyle we discuss Kriya Yoga as a path of internal purification. As we’ve discussed previously at least 70% of your success on the Kriya Yoga path depends on lifestyle and observance of the yamas and niyamas. The Kriya Yoga techniques are highly effective methods for purifying the gross and subtle bodies so that soul awareness may shine through. However, to enjoy its greatest benefits one must reduce to a minimum the amount of new karma and pollution or impressions accrued in the gross and subtle bodies.
With daily Kriya Yoga practice and a supportive lifestyle one can shift the balance, so that each day we purify our gross and subtle bodies more than we pollute them. This enables us to become a progressively purer channel through which our soul awareness may shine through.
At the core of every being is Atman, that aspect of ourselves which is forever and always one with God. This aspect of ourselves is the pure awareness of god and is perfect in every way. Unmodified by exterior circumstances this aspect of our being is the stage upon which all of our incarnational dramas unfold.
While all of us have the same god at the core of each of our beings, the light of that soul awareness has veils of varying degrees of opaqueness through which that light must filter through. The most commonly known of these veils are the five senses which limit our perspective, and our various bodies or sheaths, which include the gross physical body and the more subtle mental, emotional, and astral bodies.
The practice of Kriya Yoga progressively purifies the gross and subtle bodies so that the veils grow less opaque and more soul awareness can shine through. In this sense it is simply a path of interior purification, which naturally leads to god and self-realization.
In essence the Kriya Yoga lifestyle simply means living a wholesome life with integrity, taking care of the body, and being discerning about what you consume. The most common and deleterious “pollutants” imbibed by most westerners have to do with what we eat, drink, watch, and read.
An organic plant based diet is recommended for all Kriya Yogis. If you cannot go without meat for health reasons consuming fish occasionally seems least deleterious to the practice. Intoxicants should also generally be avoided. Alcohol is particularly harsh on the physical and subtle bodies.
Additionally, discernment should be used around what you watch and read. This is as much a part of your diet as anything else. Strong fear based, violent and/or sexual images and content tends to create strong impressions in the mental and emotional bodies, which are difficult to discharge.
That being said these recommendations should be viewed as guidelines. The best teacher is your own experience of contrast and choosing what you prefer. Once you’ve shifted the scales enough so that you are purifying yourself more each day than polluting, you will start to notice when you engage in something that has a polluting effect.
When you notice the polluting effect, you will be forced to ask yourself "Is it worth it?." Over time you come realize any temporary satisfaction you may gain from these polluting activities does not compare to the peace and bliss of a clear mind and body. Once that happens that which has a polluting effect easily falls away.
In this July New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the July 9th new moon energetic themes. The energy of July continues to be that of creation and destruction walking hand in hand. For many of us there has probably been more destruction than creation. But the good news is destruction is merely another word for transformation. Shiva is stomping his feet to shake up our lives and to shake loose that which is not in alignment and does not serve us. Sometimes things get shaky because they need to fall apart.
When things get shaky we have to decide how much time and energy we are willing to invest to keep them together. When it comes to things that aren’t in alignment we often have to ask ourselves if we are willing to double down on things that never made us happy anyway.
Each of us has an inner politician and an inner rebel. The inner politician has many masks and cares a lot about what other people think. The inner politician is our judging mind that causes us to comform ourselves to other people’s expectations. This aspect of our being manipulates to get its way and is very disconnected from its own authentic soul based desires.
On the other hand our inner rebel knows the truth and doesn’t give a damn about what other people think. The inner rebel is our raw authenticity. This aspect of ourselves is our most authentic truth, unqualified by our conditioning and worries about what other people might think. The inner rebel calls us towards transformation and seeks to break the chains of our inner politician.
Will you heed the call of the inner rebel or the politician? When we consent to transformation and the rebel’s calls, we make ourselves available to the new vision. To live a life in fear of what other people might think is to live a life of bland mediocrity.
Society rewards us for abandoning ourselves, our truth and our soul desires in favor of the safe status quo. In order to thrive we have to be willing to let go of all that. Because thriving means alignment between our soul desires, will, and life circumstances. Only you know what that looks like and who spirit is calling you to be.
Continue to cultivate your witnessing awareness. Allow the fire of your discernment and pure consciousness to burn away the delusion and illusion that no longer serves you. When things get shaky thy are calling us towards some level of transformation and nonattachment. We disconnect from people, places, and things on many subtle levels before they physically exit our reality.
Navigating transformation while remaining conscious is key. When you do that you will be able to discern what and who spirit is calling you to be. Once your core vibration rises high enough, you become repellant to the old and magnetized to the new, and the next step becomes clear.
The times of transformation through destruction are leading us towards creation. This is the sorting hat, our state of consciousness and the love in our hearts determines our house. The new vision and new lesson plan are just on the horizon.
In this Geralyn Gendreau interview we discuss her new book "Jungle Jean" and how parenting like our ancestors may be key to reclaiming our humanity. Geralyn is an author and licensed psychotherapist whose inquiries into optimal mother-infant bonding and critique of “attachment theory” provide powerful insights into how we can form enduring, harmonious love-bonds as well as dynamic, high-functioning relationships in our professional lives.
Geralyn spent many years under the tutelage of Jean Liedloff, author of THE CONTINUUM CONCEPT (a/k/a TCC). Now a torch-bearer for Liedloff’s world-changing ideas, Geralyn is intent on creating a renaissance for TCC. First published in 1975 and still popular 46 years later, Liedloff's seminal book about her experiences living with "original peoples" deep in the jungles of South America gave birth to the baby-wearing trend and attachment parenting movement. And while TCC is widely regarded as a childrearing classic, Gendreau is quick to point out that the book is actually a treatise on human nature.
Geralyn has a new book out, called Jungle Jean, which is an authorized biography of her mentor Jean Liedloff, where Geralyn explores these and many other topics in depth.
Link to Book: https://junglejean.com/
The first of my Lion's Gate 2021 ascension energy episodes is here, and it is an interesting one! The Lion's Gate portal opens July 23rd when the sun moves into Leo, reaches its zenith on August 8th, and closes August 23rd when the sun moves out of Leo. The ascension energy for this Lion's gate portal marks the beginning of a new ten year cycle and the end of the one that began in 2011.
Many will be having their first awakening experience during this Lion's Gate period, while others are completing a decade long cycle of growth and evolution. Think about where you were ten years ago. This Lion's Gate season will have echoes of what was going on in 2011 in the form of major cycles coming to a close, and new ones beginning.
The sun is exalted in Leo, which means solar energy is at its strongest. The sun symbolizes consciousness, the true self, and the power of manifestation. This solar energy tends to light up our solar plexus, which on one hand activates and purges the ego and on the other magnifies our capacity for physical manifestation.
Since the ego and power of manifestation are at their strongest, we have to be careful about what we are manifesting. Are you manifesting from a place of trauma or soul awareness? Many will choose to double down on old dysfunctional patterns, while others will choose to create something new and more in alignment with their souls.
Know when to say no, and draw firm boundaries when others try to pull you into their trauma-based patterns. Leo season is the "busy season." Many are busy creating new patterns of dysfunction and unhappiness from unhealed injury. Use your discernment and know when it's time to opt out of other people's drama.
If you are able to navigate the pitfalls, Leo's season will be a time a great abundance. The key is to remain in touch with and manifest from the true self, which is always at peace, filled with love, and abiding in joy. The positive emotions of peace, love, and joy are our true nature. Other emotions, particularly negative emotions, arise when our projections and thoughts obscure our truth and create the perception of lack.
Notice where your peace, love, and joy are absent, and notice the stories that are creating the lack. When the opportunity arises to manifest and bring your physical reality into alignment with your soul awareness, act boldly and decisively by choosing expansion.
Silence helps us get in touch with our soul awareness and turns the volume down on our ego. When you have lost touch with your soul, reconnect through silence.
We know not where we go, only that we are moved to move. Those who risk nothing gain nothing. It is treading through the unknown and acting through will and faith that facilitates the greatest growth and expansion. Walk boldly, and know you are moving toward the lessons you need to learn for the next chapter of your life.
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In this July 2021 Energy Update we look at the energetic themes for the month of July. The Lion's gate portal opens on July 22nd when the sun moves into Leo, which means a time of expansion is upon us. You may be noticing the energetic intensity has been building since the summer solstice.
As we move into Leo season there will be an intensification in ascension symptoms and kundalini awakenings, because there is more photonic energy/prana hitting the planet. It is important to practice self-care and good energetic hygiene during this time. Effective meditation, pranayama, breathwork, and drinking lots of water will all be essential allies in the upcoming months.
As we move into July the energies of creation and destruction are very strong. As is typical of this time of year the 3D and 4D aspects of your lives and consciousness are being catalyzed. During this time of year 3D always feels particularly raw and harsh. If the hustle and bustle of modern living has left you feeling worn thin, retreat to nature for an hour, afternoon, or few days. Connecting with nature will sooth your weary soul, and help ground the intense energies that may be running through you.
Part of the creation and destruction cycle of the Lion's gate portal is the destructive energy that rips through the 3D aspects of our lives, while creation energy empowers the 4D. In my own life my law practice has been hit hard by the pandemic, while my coaching and healing work is expanding rapidly. When creation and destruction rip through your life, recognize it for what it is - the gift of contrast.
Contrast is the greatest teacher there is, because it gives us an opportunity to make an informed choice about what we prefer. What does it mean to not just survive but to thrive? Many of us don't know, because we have never actually experienced thriving. We have never experienced deep alignment with our soul, mission, and life circumstances.
But July will be providing many of us with glimpses of what thriving feels like in our jobs and love lives. We will get a taste or a feast of what it feels like to be deeply aligned in work and love, which will make the places where we are out of alignment even more evident.
When you get this gift of contrast it may be tempting to burn down the old life to pursue the new. But the old life and the old self tend to follow us as long as they have something to teach us. So be sure you are really done with the old before you try to burn it down.
These experiences of contrast give us clarity and motivation to move in the right direction, towards alignment and thriving. They reorient our compass towards true North. But the journey towards our destination takes time.
July will also be giving many of us the gift of contrast when it comes to true love and divine union. We don't know true love and soul connection until we have experienced it. Until we've experienced true love we often mistake it for sexual and karmic attraction. But once we experience deep alignment with another being that lights up every aspect of our being, all doubts are dispelled and it is hard to settle for anything less.
Sometimes these experiences of divine love and soul connection lead to divine union and relationship. Other times they simply show us what is possible in order to liberate us from our confusion and delusions. Don't get too attached to the form of your beloved. If both are willing and ready your connection may lead to relationship. If not, be forever grateful that they gave you the gift of contrast, and you will never be confused or settle for less again.
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In this Kriya Yoga video I demonstrate the advanced Kriya pranayama techniques, sometimes referred to as Kriya Pranayama II and III. However, these advanced Kriya pranayama techniques are only effective once you have gained a certain level of mastery using the basic Kriya pranayama technique (a/k/a Kriya Pranayama I).
As a foundation for advanced Kriya pranayama, we should be able to feel the energy as we pull it up our spine and be able to interiorize our awareness in the exterior of the spinal column. If you are not there yet, continue your basic Kriya pranayama practices and preliminary techniques until you are.
Link to article with detailed instructions on the advanced Kriya Yoga techniques: https://zacharyadama.com/2021/06/26/advanced-kriya-pranayama-ii-iii/
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In this June Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the June full moon. We had a big energetic shift with the summer solstice and it is now time to either whimper or roar. Summer solstice was like the moment at the time of the big bang, when things shifted from pure potential to manifest reality. The timelines have been empowered, and its time to ride the waves of destiny.
We are now firmly in the midst of the season of change and growth. How you meet this moment will depend on your alignment. Some may find themselves depressed and despondent at this time of birth and creation. Others may feel like a lion roaring on the savannah, full of optimism, power, and energy. Others still may be like children innocently and joyfully enjoying the game of life.
When there is a lack of alignment between our solar plexus and sacral chakra, there is a lack of alignment between our desires and our will. When desire and will are not aligned, we are more likely to whimper than roar. Many of us have lost touch with our authentic desires. We operate on social conditioning and the stories in our head, but we don't really know what we want deep down in our gut.
When that happens we lose connection with the source of life and power. In order to roar, will and desire must be integrated and in alignment. We must listen deeply to our desires, then use the will to manifest them. When will and desire further align with the heart, we become an unstoppable force.
Listen keenly to your inner guidance. Many of us don't trust that still quite voice inside of us, because our head is so full of thoughts. Practice getting quite. Learn to identify with the witness and not the thoughts in your head. From the perspective of the witness tune in to your authentic desires in the present moment. Don't let the voice in your head talk you out of them.
Many of us are fed up with willing ourselves through life. When will and desire are not aligned, life becomes one long marathon. The struggle never seems to end, and it feels like it takes ever more energy just to maintain the status quo. Eventually things fall apart when we are just willing ourselves through life, without love or desire. When it does, will you cling or let it go with a smile?
Sometimes we have to breakdown to breakthrough. Sometimes we have to whimper before we find our roar. The answers are all inside of you. You just have to get quite enough to hear them. This is the season of action. This is the season of change. This is a time of growth.
Align with destiny. Connect with your heart and desires and align them with your will. Its time to whimper or roar. I know there is a lion inside you.
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On the spiritual journey we know not where we go, or how we'll get there. But we can trust that God is in the details.
We've all heard the old saying "the devil is in the details," which implies our best laid plans will be undermined by the unforeseen. When we try to plan each step of the way with exactitude we inevitably find this is the case. Because our limited intelligence can't possibly foresee all the variables.
Instead, I say God is in the details. The details are not mine to work out. My job is to put one foot in front of the other and follow where spirit leads me. My job is to do God's will in the present moment and strive to be love in action. I leave mid and long term planning to god.
The analytical mind is a useful tool for accomplishing short term goals. But beyond that we must leave room for spirit. Instead of planning every step of the journey, we should listen to what is being called for in the present moment. When we get clarity on that our job is to put one foot in front of the other, and be willing to change course as directed.
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In this Summer Solstice 2021 energy update we discuss the energetic themes for the summer. The summer solstice will be June 20th in the northern hemisphere, and the longest day of the year. Solar energy is at its strongest during this period, which often means a period of intense action and change.
As we navigate change it is important to remember the journey is the goal. Difficulties we may encounter on the path are not obstacles to our eventual destination, they are necessary experiences for our healing, evolution, and growth. The journey with all its difficulties, pleasures, and pains is the whole point of life.
It is important to maintain an attitude of play as we navigate life's journey. When we remember we are just a spirit playing a role, our trials and tribulations don't feel quite so serious. A lightness enters our being, and we recognize come what may everything will be ok. No matter the appearance of things, nothing can eclipse the fundamental rightness of our souls.
This summer is going to be a period of movement, inner and outer change. Sometimes that means changes in jobs, where we live, and life circumstances. Other times it may mean shifts in how we relate to our life, our attachments and our ambitions.
As we step forward into the future it is important not to cling to the past. There is no putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. Sometimes we need to fall. Sometimes we need to break and shatter open. Don't try to return to the former state. Let what wants to be born come out of the breaking shell.
As we navigate the choppy waters of change, endings and beginnings, we have a choice. We can choose surrender, trust, and faith or we can choose contraction, fear, and isolation. Do not withdraw from those who want to help you when things get hard.
Be nakedly authentic about your difficulties. We all have our own unique strengths and weaknesses. We all have our part to play in the journey of life. There are always times when god answers our prayers through another being, or works through us to dispense grace. The answers to our prayers are often found in our beloved community of friends, family, and soul mates.
Share your gifts, and freely receive gratitude. Be honest about your suffering, and a sympathetic ear when another is in pain. Share your victories, triumphs, and tragedies alike. This is the circle of life, and the foundation of the beloved community. As you plant and grow this summer align with this divine economics of abundance and cooperation to harvest the new vision for your life.
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In this episode we discuss spiritual confidence and overcoming negative self talk and becoming confident. Confidence is key to being effective in the world. But many of us are crippled by negative self talk. When we get distance between the voice in our head and witnessing awareness we get enough space to change the way we think. When we change the narrative we change our self image, and can become more confident.
Another component of being confident is not being identified with whatever role you are playing. You are not your social role, you are the immortal soul beneath it all. When you realize you are a soul playing a role, you can play the game of life with much more ease and grace.
The division between the spiritual and mundane is a false division. Our spiritual practices such as Kriya yoga not only help us evolve spiritually, but they also make us more effective in the world.
In this Rich Lewis interview we discuss centering prayer and returning to the well of faith. Centering prayer is a Christian contemplative practice and form of meditation, where you sit in silence and make yourself available to receive god's presence. If the mind wanders you can use a holy word or focus on the breath. But the goal of centering prayer is to simply sit in the silence and allow yourself to be transformed by god's presence acting through you.
Rich Lewis is an author, long time student of centering prayer, and a centering prayer coach. During our interview we discuss how silence transforms us from the inside out, and how no matter what your religion the silence is the same for all of us. The silence is the "divine therapy," as centering prayer founder Thomas Keating once said. When we sit in the silence, we are sitting in god's presence. It is in that presence that our subconscious mind is detoxed and our mental chatter begins to calm, and we are reunited with our true self.
Centering prayer is an ancient form of Christian meditation revitalized in the 1970s by Trappist monk Thomas Keating and others. Though it has Christian roots, centering prayer is something anyone can do no matter your religious background.
During my conversation with Rich we also discuss how the mystical Christian lineage differs from the mainstream. Many of us have a "god wound" from early Christian indoctrination that didn't make sense to our hearts, minds, or souls. Those of us who come to a spiritual path later in life often do so because of a mystical experience of the reality of god as love and oneness. During my interview with Rich we talked about how mystical Christians have been drinking at that same well of faith all along.
Check out Rich's new book on centering prayer entitled "Sitting with God: A Journey to Your True Self Through Centering Prayer" below: https://silenceteaches.com/about-the-books/
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In this June New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the June new moon and the June 10th solar eclipse. Stress is going to be at an all-time high around this solar eclipse and new moon. Job, family, and home life may all be experiencing intensity. This solar eclipse is like a hard reset. You may feel like a computer overheating, juddering to a stop, then rebooting with a clean slate from a higher perspective.
You may be busier than ever around this new moon. A one-person band with way too many balls in the air. It is at these times when we think we can’t possibly take on one more thing that the universe intervenes and slows us down with sickness or the unexpected. Don’t fight the involuntary slow down if/when it comes, think of it as a needed rest and reset.
As you move feverishly from one thing to the other, try to remain totally present. When you are too burdened with worries about the past or anxiety about the future, you are useless in the present moment. Totally commit to what you are doing in the present moment, and work through that to do list one item at a time.
The lightning bolt of change may strike around this new moon solar eclipse. Sudden movement or change may occur. As we said in our June Energy Update, ride the bolt of lightning and don’t be burnt by it. When sudden change strikes flexibility is key.
If you are feeling confused and overwhelmed make time to slow down before the universe slows you down. The clarity you seek will be found in your inner stillness. We access our inner intuition through the gateway of our calm exterior mind. When we are distracted and our mind is full of thoughts, we are unable to hear our inner wisdom.
When the lightning bolt of change strikes silence and slowing down will give you the space you need to see past the obvious. Through the silence you will be able to perceive the deeper lessons and bigger picture. You will notice that whatever is present in your life is moving you towards something better.
We are moving towards actualizing the new vision for our lives. But the stress of birth precedes the delivery. Endings precede beginnings. This is the nature of things. Don’t fight the stress of birthing something new. Don’t resist the endings when they come. Welcome the new beginnings when they arrive.
The final pieces are falling into place. This is the judder before the restart. You are being upgraded. You’ll restart from a higher perspective. But don’t get too comfortable, there is more to come.
A lot of us are feeling the pressure of this eclipse season, but discomfort and spiritual growth go hand in hand. I've been dancing with discomfort and spiritual growth for the past ten years. Discomfort has become an old friend.
Each time the soul needs to expand I feel pressure to change to make room for it. For most of the past ten years the pressure has been around the need for personal transformation, healing, and aligning with spirit. For the last four or five the pressure has been building to move towards spiritual vocation.
The blueprint of healer, teacher, and devotee of god was activated in 2011 during my initial spiritual awakening. However, it has taken ten years of consenting to transformation and feeling discomfort to get to a point where I'm ready, willing, and able to serve.
I've come to think of discomfort as god's hand on my shoulder guiding me towards...something. What that something is I'm not sure. Though the details are coming into focus.
Transformation is ultimately on god's time table. Our job is to do the best we can without attachment to the fruits of our labor, and consent to our own transformation and growth.
In this June Ascension Energy 2021 episode we discuss the ascension energies for June. When I connected with intuitive guidance for the ascension energies this month the top of my solar plexus lit up, with the energy moving through the choice point at the diaphragm, up to the heart, high heart, throat chakra, and finally to start consciousness. The energy for this month is all about choice, embodiment, and aligning to the highest version of ourselves.
The movement from the solar plexus to the heart chakra requires us to make a choice. We must choose to love over and over again, and choose not to go into judgment, fear, and separation. Love is a choice. We choose to surrender to love. Once we choose love and surrender to giving and receiving it, we are then asked to embody love in mind, body and soul. It is this recognition of truth an aligning with truth that allows love to return to its source at star consciousness, enabling us to experience the ever new bliss of god communion.
June is a very upper chakra month, mixed with physical intensity. This may cause you to feel overstimulated. You may feel raw, and your third density life may feel like sandpaper on your soul. You will get a lot of clarity this month. You will see in stark contrast the difference between the highest version of you and your current life.
You are being shown the direction you need to be moving in, but resist taking drastic unskillful actions. While your destination may be clear and the present moment unsustainable and even intolerable at times, we should still strive to honor our karma. Move swiftly but gracefully and honorably towards the new vision. Tie up the loose ends of the old life with integrity. Otherwise, the new vision will be poisoned by the seeds of new karma created by the unskillful transition from the past.
If you feel hopeless, tired, and world weary, give it to god. Surrender it all to divine plan for your life. Allow yourself to receive god's love and beatitude.
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In this June 2021 Energy Update we discuss the energetic themes for the month of June. June is going to be a month of completion and choice. We said May was going to be the flowering of the new vision for our lives, and for many of us that meant the people, resources, and energy for the next version our lives started physically manifesting. However, May was really about the foundation for the new vision coming into our physical reality. In contrast, June is much more a month of blossoming and completion. For many June will be a culminating month and time of harvesting the fruits of hard work well done from previous months, years, or even decades
Change is coming at us like a lightning strike in June. Lightening isn’t gentle, it is intense. But its intensity is what makes it deeply transformational. When change rips through your life like lightening you may feel tempted to try an control it. You may go into a place of fear. You may feel tempted to cling onto the past.
Don’t try to control lightning when it strikes. There is a time and a place for control. This isn’t one of them. Don’t allow yourself to become rigid and inflexible. In order to ride the lightning and not get burnt, you need to be flexible. You have to be willing to go where it goes. Flow with the abrupt change as it comes into your life.
Let go of the stories and judgments about how and where the lightning should strike. Nobody can ride lightning. Be nobody.
You’ll only but disturbed to the extent you are identified with illusion. Physical reality is in a constant state of change. Remain centered on what is real, which is that aspect of your awareness which simply witnesses - that aspect of self which is unmodified by exterior change. When riding lightning remain anchored inside, in the stillness and spaciousness of your own witnessing awareness.
Many of you are stepping into your spiritual maturity and mastery right now. Eventually all seekers become finders. When the seeker becomes a finder, the law of responsibility asks that we also become sharers.
When spirit opens a door to expand your capacity to serve others walk through it. This is spiritual springtime. It is a time of regeneration and rebirth.
We are still in a time of endings and beginnings. Old cycles that have governed our physical reality are coming to an end. New cycles are just starting.
For those of us stepping into our spiritual maturity the last piece of the puzzle is coming into place. We are at a point of completion. Lightning is about to strike, ending the old game and beginning another.
Yet the element of choice always remains. We still must choose our transformation and growth. We still much choose to let go of the old and embrace the new. God will open the door, but we must choose to walk through it.
There are many good things about the past that we may nostalgically cherish and reflect upon. But don’t cling to lessons already learned. Don’t hold onto old identities you have outgrown.
The old will give you an opportunity to double down on the past jut as the new invites you towards change and transformation.
Its ultimately up to you to choose which you prefer. We all get exactly what we need, not matter our choice. Whenever we walk a path of spiritual service, there is always a testing of our faith. The outward success of our deeds and offerings is not assured. But the inner success comes when we simply consent to serve.
In this Christian de la Huerta interview we discuss his new book Awakening the Soul of Power: How to Live Heroically and Set Yourself Free. Christian is a best selling author and has 30 years of experience as a speaker, transformational coach, and leader in the breath work community. Christian is the author of two bestselling books, the first published in 1999 entitled “Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step.”
In this wide ranging conversation we discuss Christian's work to help the LGBTQ community heal its relationship with spirituality, healing toxic masculinity, balancing the divine masculine and feminine energies, how breath work helps us heal, overcoming negative self talk and low self esteem, and cultivating the soulful use of power.
Christian de la Huerta's Book:
https://soulfulpower.com/Awakening-The-Soul-Of-Power-Book/
breathwork #soulfulpower #healing
In this May Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the May Full Moon. During this blood moon and full lunar eclipse we are moving from unknowing to knowing when it comes to the new vision for our lives. The physical foundation for the new vision for our lives is starting to come into existence. While we may not know exactly where we are going or how things will look - the people, resources and energy for the new vision are coming together.
As we build the new physical foundation for the new vision we will need to be mindful of our boundaries. What we give time, energy, and attention is what we choose to empower. The old is still competing with the new for our time, energy, and attention. Will you dwell in the dead forest or give life to the new?
A lot of people can’t wait to get back to “normal.” I encourage you to get excited about being extraordinary. When others try to draw you back into normal remember your goal isn’t normal, it is extraordinary. When it comes to your time, energy, and attention it needs to be a hell yes or it should be a hell no.
Since the May New Moon we’ve been experiencing a lot of inner intensity from solar flares and geomagnetic storms. Around this May Full Moon we are shifting from inner intensity to outer intensity, as eclipse season starts shaking up our physical reality to bring it into greater alignment with our inner realization.
As you move from unknowing to knowing you will be filled with intensity. Lack of energy comes from scattered will, thoughts, and a lack of priorities. As you prioritize the new vision and become one pointed in bringing it into reality, you will be filled with intensity. You will become unstoppable.
As you take a leap of faith off the cliff into the chasm between the unknown and known remember that god has you. You are supported by a benevolent universe conspiring in favor of your highest good. But you have to leap to know you can soar.
In this video we discuss the Tonglen meditation practice for transmuting darkness into light. Tonglen meditation is a Tibetan Buddhist practice of breathing in the suffering of the world into our heart, and breathing out love, kindness, and light. First we breathe in our own darkness, and breathe it out as light. Then we breathe in the suffering of friends and family, and breathe it out as light. Then we breathe in the suffering of the world, and breathe it out as light. As we breathe in more suffering and expel it as light, we alleviate the suffering of the world and expand our own light. Because the more love we give away the more we have.
While we may need boundaries around our finite time, energy, and attention , we should generously share our infinite capacity to love. This practice will help you share your love and light with the world.
meditation #tonglen #loveandkindness
In this episode we discuss how Words Are Spells so we should strive to cultivate loving awareness. Our thoughts and words are very powerful. They define us and our reality. Every word corresponds energetically to archetypes and possibility/probability vortexes for your future. Moment to moment we are speaking our reality into existence and attuning to different qualities of consciousness. Be judicious with your language. Be a deliberate creator and cast a spell to become the person you want to be with the future you want to live. Don't be a chaos magician and curse yourself or others with your thoughts and words.
Speak when it is necessary. Speak in such a way that casts a spell for the life you want to live and the person you want to be. But otherwise cultivate the quality of loving awareness. Bring your hand to your heart and say, "I AM love. I AM filled with infinite love." When your heart is full say, "I AM loving awareness" and allow the love to flow from your heart to your third eye and fill your mind. Encounter the world with this state of awareness and your life will become enchanted.
lawofattraction #spells #lovingawareness
This Divine Mother Guided Meditation for Manifestation, Heart Opening, and Rebirth is the audio from our Patreon community's May New Moon Meditation 2021. During this guided meditation we connect with the energy of the creator goddess Durga, the feminine principle of god, and visit her celestial abode in our astral bodies.
While in Durga's celestial abode we enter her inner sanctum and attune with the energies of resurrection, manifestation, love, healing, passion, devotion, and rebirth. This guided meditation is energy healing for the solar plexus, heart chakra, and sacral chakra to help you navigate the energies of the May New Moon 2021.
guidedmeditation #divinemother #healing
In this May New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the May New Moon. The May New Moon is ushering in a tsunami of love energy! For the first part of this month we have been experiencing the solar plexus ignition, which has been preparing us to receive a tsunami of love energy. This tsunami of love is shaking things up, resolving old karmic patterns, and initiating new ones. For the remainder of this month the two dominant energies are passion and love. Both are setting the table for our next karmic chapter.
Resolution of difficult issues that have restricted the flow of life force energy in our life is on the way. You are being given the gift of more life. More growth, expansion, and vital energy. Many of us have outgrown what has been. It cannot satisfy us any longer. We have outgrown the old fish tank of our lives and are ready to swim free in the ocean of love, passion, and limitless possibilities.
Stop whipping yourself for your perceived failures and short comings and start dancing. Passion is the bridge from the smaller truth that suffering is necessary in order to grow and heal, to the larger more luscious experience of life as divine embrace. Suspend your judgments of good and bad and recognize everything in your life has been leading to love. We are being seduced by life – sometimes with a slap, sometimes with a caress.
Give yourself permission to love what you love, live how you want to live, and stop holding yourself back. Allow yourself to truly love life. That is what this union of the heart and sacral chakra energies are all about. Loving life! Living with intensity and passion. Being open to life and listening to the truth of your heart.
Love and passion will set you free. You are the instrument through which love and passion play. Moved by cosmic forces outside of yourself. We are being moved by forces other than personal will this month. We are to become instruments of God’s love and creative passion. Allow the music of life to be played through you.
Surrender to the uprising wave of love. Surrender to what wants to leave your life and what wants to come in. Surrender to your own awakening soul. This is not the month to try and swim against the tide. The tidal wave is simply too strong! Change is happening, it is time to let go of control.
The cosmic heart within us is awakening and being filled with love. We are ready for a life that is bigger and fuller of passion and love than ever before. No more half living. The more we try to hold onto what has been, the more strongly the tsunami will tear it from our hands. Trust the tsunami of love. Trust the rising tide of your own passion. The destination is unknown, but they are delivering us to our destiny.
Untying the knot of karma is rarely easy. There may be drama, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Passion comes in many forms. But trust your own passion as well. Don’t allow your soulful desires and heart felt longings to become subordinate to those of another. True love does not ask us to burn our own desires on a sacrificial pyre to those of another. True love is the ultimate freedom. True love is the great liberator. It is conditional loving that seeks to put us in chains. Be not a prisoner of conditional loving, instead be liberated by your own connection to the cosmic heart.
In this May Ascension Energy and Ascension Symptoms Update 2021 we discuss the ascension energies for the month of May. During the May New Moon on May 11th we will experience the first of three harmonic waves that will be coming in over the next three months. We are in the storm of expansion!
A solar storm came in a few days ago and will be lighting up our planet’s geomagnetic field on May 11, coinciding with the May New Moon. The geomagnetic storm will last for ten days and peak around May 14th. These are the light codes/new energy for the new vision of your life entering your body.
The May ascension energy is hitting our solar plexus and igniting our ability to manifest. The energy is then flowing upward into the heart igniting our heart and divine purpose. Once settled into the heart it is then flowing back down into the sacral chakra, grounding the new vision birthed through our solar plexus and heart into our physical reality.
In the month of May we are learning what it means to be fully human and fully divine. We have been emptying ourselves out in previous months, preparing ourselves for this month. We are now an empty chalice ready to receive the new.
The divine feminine energy is very strong this month. Allow yourself to be receptive. Allow yourself to be filled with divine light, divine love, and divine purpose.
In this May Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the month of May. The May energy came in with a roar. This will be a culminating month for the themes we have been in for most of the year, where we have been trying to find balance between the masculine and feminine as well as the human and divine.
On May 1st many celebrated Beltane, which is an ancient Celtic fertility festival celebrating the return of summer. When the Beltane fires were lit people came out of their winter hibernation to gather and socialize with people they may not have seen since the fall. Beltane is a time of community, courtship, and connecting with the regenerative quality of our own sensuality.
In the month of May we are being invited to birth the new vision of ourselves and lives. Use the creative fire of your sacral chakra to dream new dreams and revive old ones that may have lost steam in recent months. The strong creative energy of this month is adding a new dimension to our lives and consciousness. We are seeing new possibilities and expanding what we thought was possible.
The enemies of our creativity are comparison and the need for other people’s approval. Too many beautiful dreams have been throttled in the crib by the fear of what other people might think. In order to fulfill our destiny we must learn to be a light unto ourselves.
You know who you are and what excites you. You feel inspiration and hope. Don’t let fear of what others might think demoralize you. Don’t let comparing yourself to others make you feel like your efforts are futile.
There will always be someone more beautiful, talented, successful, spiritually evolved, or intelligent. Learn to celebrate them and admire them rather than feel the competitive itch that judges the self as being less than, and envies what they have and who they are. They are just another expression of you, let them serve as an inspiration on your path and not a hindrance.
Slow down this month and bask in the sun. Experience joy. Sink into that deep peace and receptivity of the yin energy. The energy of this month is about receptivity. It is about receiving abundance and flowering into our full potential.
The flower does not strive to be a flower. It simply is a flower. It receives nourishment from below and above, and blooms as a matter of due course. If you allow yourself to receive nourishment from below and above, you will flower and thrive.
Celebrate the dance of the divine masculine and feminine within you and in others this month. This powerful tension and dynamic is the generative creative force that drives all life in the universe. Let the energy flow and flower within you.
While May is overall a very positive month some people will find themselves at a decision point. Two very different paths lie before them. Decisions need to be made that will have huge impacts going forward.
In a sense it is like a decision between life and death. Will you open yourself to the divine support from below and above, and find integration of the dualities within you? Or will you shut yourself off and whither from malnutrition? Sadness and difficulty resides on that path.
May is a big month for ascension energies. It is the first harmonic wave that will continue to amplify for the rest of the year. Astrologically the new moon, full moon total lunar eclipse, and Mercury retrograde will define the energy. We will discuss the specifics in our May Ascension Energy and Ascension Symptoms Update 2021.
In this episode we discuss Empaths Coping with Overstimulation. Many empaths are experiencing overstimulation at the moment. We have been in a very energetically intense period, and many of us need to catch our breath. In this video we discuss techniques and tools for coping with overstimulation, which include forest bathing, technology fasts, and sensory deprivation modalities.
empaths #overstimulation #awakening
In this episode we discuss how to read tarot or oracle cards. Tarot card reading is a form of divination with a long and storied past. Once belonging to carnival side shows it has reemerged in recent years as a useful tool for those on the spiritual path. However, as with all forms of divination it is not without its perils.
The cards most tarot readings will range from the random, useful, to the misleading. The accuracy and usefulness of the cards will depend on the clarity of the one doing the reading. It is also important to have a good deck that has positively oriented and useful guidance.
The two main tools in tarot reading are the intuition of the reader and the deck. Intuition is something that is cultivated over time through effective spiritual practices. It also becomes stronger with use. So, using tarot cards may be a useful way to develop your intuitive abilities.
During a tarot reading a metaphysical web of connection is formed between the reader, the deck, the querent, and the possibility probability vortexes of the future. The deck serves as an interface in the web of connection that can be used to gain information and clarity.
Clearing the Deck
When working with tarot or oracle cards it is first important to select a deck, then energetically clear it and yourself before the reading. I invoke the violet flame to purify the deck and myself before a reading. You may also find it useful to burn incense such as sage or palo santo. This helps reduce interference and creates a blank canvas for the reading.
Connect with Spirit
The next step is to connect with spirit. This is the most important step in the process because the success of the reading depends on the strength of the reader’s connection with spirit. With awareness focused at the third eye I usually invoke Lord Ganesh and ask that he clear the path to my higher self.
When I connect with my higher self I ask for divine assistance to protect my connection with spirit during the reading. If the connection to spirit is unstable or not protected then the reading will be random at best and misleading at worst. This is when bad tarot reading can do more harm than good.
Pulling the Cards
Once connected to spirit you may shuffle the deck and ask spirit your query. It is useful to have a layout in mind before asking for cards. Using a layout will usually give you a more focused and accurate reading. Every tarot deck includes suggested layouts. Use one that resonates and keep it in mind as you do your reading.
As you shuffle the cards remain connected to spirit and ask for the first card which might be the issue at play or a representation of the querent. As you shuffle the cards you may find your hands have a mind of their own, and you may find that one or more cards have more energy or “heat” around them. This sort of sensitivity comes with practice and cannot be rushed. Until you have this level of sensitivity your results are likely to be quite random.
After pulling a card that is speaking to you confirm with spirit this is the card you were asking for. Over time you should be able to get at least a “yes” or “no” from spirit and will likely get more information as you continue to develop your intuition. Once you have selected a card put it down, shuffle the deck and pull the next card in the layout repeating the process.
Interpreting the Reading
The meaning of each card will be relative to its position in whatever layout you use. Read the meaning of each card in the guide that comes with the tarot deck and note whatever stands out. I like to make notes in a notebook for each card and contemplate the cards before sitting down and writing out an interpretation.
A good tarot deck will give useful guidance even if the cards are relatively random. However, as you refine your intuition you will become more accurate and less random with your readings. Over time you will develop confidence and faith in your ability to use this divination method.
But don’t let divination become a crutch. The cards and stars may help us gain clarity but are no substitute for our own discernment. These things are but tools to assist us with accessing the wisdom of our own being. When the information is in it is up to us to decide how you use it.
tarot #intuition #practicalmysticism
In this April Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the April full moon. This April full moon in Scorpio is a super full moon and is ushering in a cycle of expansion and breakthrough that will last from May until August of this year. This is the beginning of what I’m calling the “Storm of Expansion.”
We’ve been in the space between words or worlds for several months now. Many of us have patiently or impatiently been awaiting the new and fretting over what it might look like. Well the wait is over.
We’ve been in the death and resurrection energy since the first of the year. Sometimes that has been uncomfortable. We’ve been experiencing expansion and contraction, but these have just been the birthing pains of the new and now we are crowning.
The next three months are going to be epic. We are entering a time of profound transformation and spiritual breakthrough. Our dreams are about to come true, and the hidden key to bringing it all into reality is learning to let the abundance flow. When we get what we’ve always wanted we have a tendency to cling to it. But this limits all the goodness the universe wants to shower upon us.
Let the goodness flow. Receive it with grace and give it back to others with generosity and gratitude. The more you share the wealth of your blessings the more will be added upon you. Open your heart and allow abundant love, compassion, joy, and bliss to flow forward as a benediction to all you meet.
Now is a time of celebration, even if the blessing has not yet arrived. Find reasons to celebrate and trust that everything is coming together, even if exterior circumstances haven’t quite caught up. Because the new creation is here hovering just beyond the physical yearning to be born.
The mind may still be scheming, calculating and wanting to manipulate situations to our advantage. This is what the mind does. But we must set it aside. The new creation is going to be born through your generous trusting heart, not your scheming mind.
Health, happiness and abundance can be yours. Bliss and harmony can be yours. Listen to your heart and be generous with the blessings you already have.
Now is a good time to deepen spiritual practice. We are all teachers and we are all students. We all have something to learn and something to teach. If you feel called to teach share freely, if you feel called to learn study vigorously. Whatever your role do not get too attached, because it is temporary. We are all masters remembering our mastery.
Greater balance in work, life, and finances is on the way. Our exterior reality is always playing catchup with our state of consciousness. Sometimes it happens slowly, sometimes it happens in a storm of expansion.
The storm is here, and it is pure potential. It is infinite possibilities. Relax into it. Choose your highest excitement and let the chips fall where they may. Trust that you are moving towards your highest good and evolution.
Slowly but surely extraterrestrial disclosure is happening. The mainstream media is starting to take it seriously, and governments are starting to admit unidentified aerial phenomena exist (i.e. UAPs and/or UFOs). In December 2020, the United States government enacted the Intelligence Authorization Act, which called for the release of an unclassified and all-sources report on unidentified aerial phenomenon. The Pentagon and intelligence agencies are suppose to have until June 1, 2020 to disclose what they know, but are already saying they need more time.
It is hard to say what if anything will be disclosed by the June 1st deadline. However, whatever is disclosed is unlikely to be the whole story. From what we have seen so far, the mainstream media and governments are filtering the phenomena through a national security lens. In this video we discuss the larger metaphysical implications of extraterrestrial disclosure, and attempt to make sense of a topic plagued by disinformation and misinformation. Why do governments keep UFOs secret? Are UFOs really a security threat? We'll address these questions and more.
Dr. Steven Greer Witness Testimony: https://siriusdisclosure.com/evidence/
In this video we discuss the Seven Densities of Consciousness according to the Law of One. In the Law of One material they posit that this octave of the creation has seven densities of consciousness that we evolve through. In this context density refers to the density of light/love or consciousness of a being or plane of existence. All individuated consciousness moves from first through seventh density in a cosmically long process of reincarnation and spiritual evolution. This process is sometimes called the science of reincarnation.
lawofone #densities #reincarnation
In this Mid April Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes midway through April, which deal with surrendering the spiritual ego. We said earlier in the month that April would see the crucifixion of our egos. Many of us have been cycling through old identities, trying them on then tossing them away. However, now we are being called to release that last identity we will ever have, that of the spiritual ego.
Transformation comes at its own time. We cannot rush it. The Buddha spent years of seeking and engaging in spiritual practices and austerities before finally giving up. After years of efforting his way to enlightenment he realized he had done everything he could do, and finally surrendered his spiritual ego. It was in that state of surrender that enlightenment found him, siting patiently under the bodhi tree.
Enlightenment like reality itself is paradoxical in nature. Spiritual practices and austerities prepared the Buddha for enlightenment, but in the end the spiritual ego of the seeker had to be cast off in order for the seeker to become a finder. We do our spiritual practices and austerities to prepare ourselves for enlightenment. But in the end even the ego of the one who does these things and seeks enlightenment must be cast off.
The spiritual ego is the last to go, but ultimately it too must be cast off in order for the soul to surrender to all that it is. The soul surrenders not knowing what comes next, moving beyond the known and unknown, to the unknowable. We are moving beyond mind and words. We are moving towards the unknowable.
We have to let go of any sense of grasping. Even the grasping towards enlightenment. As long as there is grasping there is a separate self. There is a mind. There is a separate self which cannot experience the fullness of enlightenment.
We are in the gap between worlds. We have no sense of direction. No sense of what choices and possibilities are ahead. We are in a space of pure potential. The Divine Mother is on her cosmic birth bed, fully surrendered to the process of birthing the new. Relax into not knowing. Something sacred is about to be born. But its birth requires our surrender to the unknowable.
In this episode we discuss finding purpose and meaning in life after spiritual awakening. One of the most common issues raised in individual coaching sessions is, “What is my life purpose?” While the expression of each of our life purposes is as varied as we are, some things are universal. Like the desire to be useful to others doing things we enjoy that have a positive impact on the world.
While this sounds simple enough, like most things it is easier said than done. The reality is that after awakening most of us have a meaning crisis. We awaken to a larger perception of reality, and as a result often realize we are swimming in a sea of meaninglessness. Even mainstream economists have noted the rise in “bullsh*t jobs” and meaningless work.
The economic system is not designed to maximize meaning, joy, or positive impact to the world. It is designed to maximize profit and efficiency. The monetary system and privatization of the natural world further creates a false sense of scarcity, which forces us into the economic system to meet our basic needs. As a result many people have to do things they don’t want to do, that they do not enjoy, which have a negative impact on the world, just to survive.
So if you are having a hard time finding meaningful work don’t feel bad. It is that way by design. Which means we often have to find purpose and meaning outside of the traditional economy, while meeting our basic needs with whatever work that pays.
Moreover, the ultimate purpose of life is only indirectly related to our outward activity. The ultimate purpose of every life is spiritual evolution. This is one of those universal truths that is true of everyone. If nothing else, remember that you are primarily here to awaken your heart and develop your capacity for will and faith. All outward activity and expressions is secondary.
I recommend that people do at least one thing a day that serves their life’s purpose. Even if you are confused about what the outward expression of that looks like, you can do the inner work. You can do effective spiritual practices such as meditation and journaling that help facilitate your spiritual evolution.
Your state of being is more important than the outward expression of your being. Though part of the evolutionary journey is achieving ever greater embodiment of our inner spiritual realization, transformation is an inside out process. If you don’t transform and evolve your state of being, your physical reality will not change.
Making spiritual practice and evolution your number one priority and working towards it daily will enable you to live your ultimate life purpose each day. When it comes to outward life purpose we have to tend to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
First we must meet our physiological needs and need for security. Without food, clothing, and shelter you will not be in a body long enough to do the work of spiritual evolution. So do that first. Sometimes survival requires us to do things we don’t want to do. That’s ok, do it well with as much integrity as you can muster. You can always strive for self-actualization once your basic needs are met.
Once our basic needs are met we can strive for self-actualization in our outer expression of meaning and purpose. After basic needs are met we want to strive for love and belonging. Practically speaking that means friendship, intimacy and a sense of connection. If you already have work that meets your basic needs you may start looking for work with friends and more conscious people.
Once that is achieved we start considering other metrics of personal development such as esteem (respect, self-esteem, status, recognition, strength, and freedom) and self-actualization (desire to become the most that one can be). Wherever you are at remember the outward activity is secondary to the inner activity. What you do is less important than the state of consciousness you do it with.
It may be there is not a social role that meets your basic needs and other requirements for self-actualization. If so find work that meets your basic needs with conscious people, and do what brings you joy on the side. Perhaps someday your hobby will become your dream job. For many of us our dream job doesn’t exist yet because part of our job is to make it a reality.
We are between stories. The old world is falling apart and the new one is not yet born. As awakening beings we strive to survive the death of the old, while assisting the birth of the new. Nobody said it was going to be easy, but I promise it is worthwhile.
In this April New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the April new moon. Many of us have been wondering in a cloud of confusion in recent weeks with the twin serpents of the known and unknown fighting within us. Different aspects of us have been at war, and we’ve been trying on different identities trying to decide who we want to be in the world and what the next version of us will look like.
These warring opposing forces of the new and old within us have caused a sort of stalemate that has blocked our vision and stayed our capacity for action. However, this April new moon will assist us with gaining mental clarity and integration of the opposing forces within us. This integration will result in renewed motivation and resolve to move forward and take positive action to bring about the next version of ourselves and lives.
Many of us have been experiencing a lot of confusion about who we are and who we want to be. Sometimes that has meant revisiting old unhappy karmic patterns that we thought we had outgrown. This period we have been in has been a war between the old and new. For a while the old was winning, then in recent weeks they seemed to have reached a stalemate. Now with the April new moon the new finally has the advantage and the old is on its heels.
The new version of ourselves and life is being born through our mental clarity. The confusion is lifting and the seemingly irreconcilable forces within us are finding integration. We are finding balance, hopefully taking the best of the old and new with us to the next stage of our lives.
However, integration does not mean compromising what is true. It means seeing what is true in the old and new and bringing them forward while leaving that which is false and no longer in integrity in the past. “Should” has been the jailer for many of us for too long. Our rigid mental constructs about right, wrong, good and bad have cast us into confusion and often been at odds with our soul.
The key to liberation from this dilemma is the recognition that mental constructs are a poor moral guide. We cannot think our way to goodness. When we try we end up with a rigid dogmatic morality bereft of love. Only your awakening soul and expanded consciousness can provide you with a moral compass that will point you in the direction of your awakening heart.
Strive to be obedient to truth and forsake all other allegiances. Leave the old stories in the past. What is true right here and now in the present moment? Stop worrying about who you think you should be and get real about who you are. When we compromise our truth we end up in impossible situations that exacerbate our unhappiness.
Truth is the sword of liberation. When mental clarity comes that resonates with your soul and intuitive knowing take action and do not waiver. Do not mourn the death of anything destroyed by the light of truth. That which cannot survive it does not deserve to live.
When you arise from the fog of confusion and compromise you will feel the sun shining on your face. You will be nourished by the light of your innate goodness. You will be liberated from the bondage of your mental conditioning.
In this episode we discuss how to transcend the ego through Kriya Yoga. The ego is perhaps one of the most misunderstood subjects in spirituality. Many of us find ourselves in the paradox of believing we need an ego to survive in the world, but at the same time recognize we need to destroy the ego in order to progress spiritually. This belief around ego puts spirituality and the world at odds, causing many to believe they must retreat from the world in order to be spiritual. Worse perhaps, those who cannot easily withdraw from the world may think they cannot pursue spirituality because they need their ego to survive and carry out their duties. So spirituality becomes something they will pursue “someday” when they have the time and leisure to do so.
First it is important to recognize that spirituality and living in the world need not be at odds. The physical world is less dense with light/consciousness than other realms, but not less spiritual. As we’ve often said true spiritual mastery is being able to operate effectively in every situation from any seat of consciousness. True spiritual mastery enables us to meet whatever the present moment holds with grace. The more spiritually evolved we become the more effectively we are able to accomplish whatever task we set for ourselves.
Much of the confusion around ego comes from a misunderstanding of what the mind is and how it works. Websters defines ego as “the self as contrasted with another or the world.” Buddhists may say the ego is “who you tell yourself you are.” In Hinduism ego may be defined as “the feeling of separateness, the sense of duality, or the idea of being distinct and different from others.”
All these definitions are true, yet to grasp the full picture we have to look at the larger metaphysical landscape. The most important thing to note is that consciousness does not just reside between our two ears. Our entire body is a field of consciousness and the seven chakras represent different aspects or modalities of consciousness. Only the mental activity associated with the solar plexus can properly be said to be the ego.
The root and sacral chakra form much of the subconscious backdrop for our personality. The root chakra being our basic sense of safety and our sacral chakra our sexuality, the five senses, and creativity. The solar plexus is the seat of our ego because it is that seat of consciousness where we first experience ourselves as being separate self-aware beings.
Many strive to overcome the ego by suppressing the ego and desire for sense pleasures. This method is the source of much world denying, guilt and self-loathing. The animal and human self are banished in pursuit of the divine, and so the divine is banished from Earth to heaven alone.
However, this method of spiritual development can cause us to become quite unbalanced. Moreover, failure to cultivate and balance the energies of the lower three chakras may prevent us from having enough shakti/energy to attain the higher states of consciousness. The more effective method is the Tantric or developmental approach, which transcends and includes the lower states of consciousness.
Fear, addiction to sense pleasures, and the desire for power over others are all traps of the ego that must ultimately be transcended. These ego traps are born of the perception of separation and cannot be transcended through denial alone. Instead they are transformed and transcended when informed by the truth of our perception and experience of unity.
In my experience the traps of the ego can easily be overcome through the regular practice of Kriya Yoga. People become thwarted on the spiritual path when their kundalini energy gets stuck at one of the lower three energy centers in one of the ego traps. With the help of a mentor and effective spiritual practices, however, these lower blockages can quickly be transcended and cleared, enabling the kundalini energy to move up into the heart chakra which enables us to experience the first stage of “super consciousness.”
The first stage of super consciousness as experienced in the heart chakra is characterized by the experience of love and connection. Thus the separate self of the ego is vanquished by the expansive love of our hearts. Once the kundalini energy makes its way into our hearts and we experience the first stage of super consciousness the purification of our ego and subconscious mind accelerates. Love is simply preferred, and that which keeps us from love is not.
In the fire of love fear in the root chakra gives way to trust, addiction to sense pleasures gives way to love of life, and the desire for power gives way to peace and joy. The perception of being a separate self will persist in stages, but as long as we remain connected to the wisdom of the heart we will not take it too seriously.
This is the first stage of transcending the ego. As we persist in spiritual practice the energy naturally flows to the throat chakra, third eye, and crown, which enables us to achieve progressively deeper levels of wisdom, nonattachment, and bliss. As the volume of energy running through our being increases new karma may arise in the lower chakras with new lessons to be learned. The work is never truly done. We are always in a process of continual refinement and purification. With great power comes great responsibility, and greater temptations.
In this April Ascension Energy & Ascension Symptoms 2021 video we discuss the ascension energy for April. The ascension energies of this month are purging our solar plexus and throat chakra and calling us towards greater authenticity. Our social identity is always playing catchup with our truth. First we realize something inwardly, then have to integrate it into our exterior social identity. The energy of this month is purging old social identities and ideas about the self, as well as upgrading our throat chakra.
We have a greater capacity to perceive and express truth, and a greater need for authentic relating and self expression. You may be experimenting with identities this month. As you try on different identities you are choosing what the next version of you will look like. Some of those identities will stay and be integrated, but most will be tried on and discarded just as quickly. It is ok and healthy to wrestle with the seemingly impossible need for greater authenticity and the inadequacy of words to express it.
This process of upleveling our social identity and striving for greater alignment and integrity is being facilitated by the violet flame. The crown chakra is active and helping us release old stuck patterns and life circumstances at a rapid pace. If you are feeling stuck or overwhelmed give it to god, send it to the crown chakra and let it burn in those transmuting flames.
In this April Energy Update 2021 we discuss the upcoming energetic themes for the month of April. April is shaping up to be a month of solar plexus purging. The solar plexus is our social self, ego, and ability to manifest in physical reality. We are our worst enemy this month. The mind and social identity are going through a process of death and rebirth.
Expect karmic patterns that have likely been with you for lifetimes to be triggered in April but try to notice how your thoughts are creating the patterns and observe them from a place of witnessing awareness. The mystic is the artist who creates the self. What are you creating? Don’t take the mind too seriously, instead recognize it for what it is – shadow and light. A cloud that hides us from ourselves that can be dropped at any time. Drop the mind and you will be reborn as your innate innocence.
March brought the unexpected into many of our lives, and many have been in a spiritual funk. It has been a bit hard at times to find motivation for spiritual practice and meditation. At the same time, the desire to go back to sleep or fall back into less conscious patterns of behavior has also been particularly strong.
However, the events of March are revealing patterns as old as our soul’s journey that are coming up for healing and resolution in April. Most of us have been on the spiritual journey in one way or another for many lifetimes. During this time of planetary evolution many souls have incarnated to culminate lifetimes of spiritual striving.
We all have patterns specific to our soul’s journey that have detracted us from the spiritual path many times. We have been at the finish line many times only to be lured into a detour by our own unconscious behavior. April is presenting an opportunity to break those karmic patterns once and for all.
Karmic patterns are really just the inertia of our thoughts. As we said in our March Full Moon Energy Update 2021 if you are identified with the mental activity of past, present, and future then you are caught in the invisible river of inevitability. However, being identified with that mental activity is ultimately a choice.
Studies have shown that 70%-90% of our mental chatter is useless, negative and repetitive thoughts that exacerbate our unhappiness. Our thoughts form a cloud around us that separate us from our true self and keep us trapped in endless patterns of unconscious behavior. In order to gain freedom from our thoughts, we must cultivate the witness and learn how not to identify with them. We are not our thoughts. Watch them as though they belong to someone else.
The dissonance between our inner self and the person we present to the world will be in stark contrast in April. When we become fully integrated there is no difference between the inner and outer self. But for most of us that is not the case. Most of us maintain a private self that needs protecting even from those closest to us.
This private self always needs protecting. The walls built around it separate us from others and our true self. The mystic is the artist who creates the self. We die and are reborn over and over again. It is a process of dropping mental activity and letting go of the stories and identities given to us by others to reveal the masterpiece of who and what we are. April may be the crucifixion of our personalities and ego, but it also holds the promise of the resurrection and rebirth of our innocence and perfection.
In this episode we discuss the key to exponential growth and transformation. No matter where we are on the transformation journey it never feels like we are growing fast enough. We do the work and everything right, and still things we thought were resolved come back once more wearing a different disguise. It can be disheartening and exhausting when that happens, but it is part of the process. The important thing is to KEEP GOING!
Transformation and spiritual evolution is an upward spiral. Often we revisit previous lessons or experiences from our more awakened perspective in order to discern whether there is anything left to learn from it. This can be disheartening if you thought you were done with something once and for all, only to find you have backslid into it.
As long as an experience has something to teach you it will be drawn into your present moment. I call this the boomerang effect. Learn from it. What is it trying to teach you? What is it revealing about yourself, your desires, and the lessons you have yet to learn?
You can think of spiritual growth and transformation as having two phases, linear and exponential. In the beginning we are either standing still or barely moving forward. We have not awakened to our nature as infinite spiritual beings and are identified completely with form. This is where we all start, this life or another.
Then slowly but surely the needle is grasped and there is a dawning realization that there is a reality beyond the five senses and that you are more than this body. This is the beginning of the spiritual path. At first this may manifest as superstition and even fear of unseen forces. But over the course of lifetimes we begin to develop an intimate relationship with spirit, and discern practices that deepen and accelerate our growth and transformation.
This is where most of us are. We have awakened and are doing the work. We are doing effective spiritual practices. We aren’t perfect but we are striving to be better than we were yesterday and the day before. Sometimes we revisit old patterns and behaviors we thought we had outgrown, but each time we do they have less and less of a hold on us. Soon we will transcend them completely.
We are striving. We are in the accelerating linear growth phase. It is an upward trending line towards more consciousness, more light, more love, more joy and more peace. Maybe it isn’t happening as fast as we would like, but it’s happening.
This phase of the journey is incredibly important and prepares us for what comes next. During the striving phase we develop our will and faith to move towards the light. We develop the habits that facilitate growth, and slowly but surely become the person capable of achieving and sustaining exponential growth.
When success finds us quickly we often struggle to maintain it. Overnight fame or fortune has ruined the lives of many. Many people who win the lottery and go from rags to riches often lose it all within a few years and are back to where they started, because they skipped the striving phase. They skipped the part where you develop the discipline and habits necessary to maintain that level of abundance. So they dissipate the excess money as quickly as possible until they revert back to a state of abundance compatible with their state of consciousness. The purpose of these sort of experiences is contrast. Whether it is sudden riches or sudden awakening, these experiences teach us what is possible and inspire us to strive to become the sort of person that can sustain that state of being.
Continue striving. Continue transforming. Continue doing the effective spiritual practices that facilitate growth and transformation. When you revisit old lessons witness and learn whatever they still have to teach you, if you do you will eventually transcend them. You are growing your capacity to be more and do more. You are on the upward linear growth curve that will eventually become exponential.
As you progress on the spiritual path you build spiritual momentum. Growth accelerates and ultimately becomes exponential. Those small victories add up. Keep going!
In this video we discuss My Fifteen Year Dark Night of the Soul. My dark night of the soul began when I as about ten years old. I was anxious, depressed and felt deeply alienated. I often found it difficult to find purpose in life. As I grew older I even grew to hate humanity and being in a human body. That anger and despair continued for fifteen years.
For the first twenty five years of my life I was completely loveless. Ambition and a desire for money, power and prestige helped me live an outwardly successful life throughout college and law school. But I was miserable, binge drank, and often entertained suicidal thoughts.
It was only after my spiritual awakening that it started to lift, and life has been better every year since. But my spiritual awakening didn't solve all of my problems. After my spiritual awakening I still had to work through my negative thought patterns, addictions, and counterproductive habits. We are all on a journey, and where I am is not where I started.
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In this March Full Moon Message 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the March Full Moon. The energy around this full moon is one of breakdown to breakthrough. For many this will be a period of the dark night of the soul, because it is always darkest before the dawn. The key to turning breakdown into breakthrough is to remain present, let go our stories about the past, present, and future, slow down, and allow ourselves to be fully present with our emotions and state of being.
The energy around the March full moon is volatile to say the least. On March 26th the Serpent of Time corridor we discussed previously will start to come to a close as Mars crosses over Rahu in Taurus. The Serpent of Time corridor we’ve been in since January has been characterized by all of the planets in Vedic astrology being on one side of the zodiac between Rahu and Ketu. This has resulted in extreme energy swings and has distorted our sense of time.
The Mars and Rahu conjunction in Taurus is closing this cycle by bringing in a lot of chaotic fiery energy into the home, family, and political spheres. Simply put things may feel weird and surreal the next few weeks. Expect the unexpected.
Many of us are at the “enough is enough” stage of the breakdown to breakthrough cycle. You may be feeling an irresistible urge to shake things up right now. If that is happening try to distinguish the ego’s desire for novelty from the soul’s desire for transformation and move towards transformation. If you are able to distinguish those two urgings, your actions will lead to break through instead of breakdown.
The only way to go from breakdown to breakthrough successfully is to go through the process as consciously as possible. Things may feel really chaotic right now, either because of your own inability to continue living with the status quo or the status quo’s inability to continue living with you.
In the midst of chaos be here now. Let go of your attachment to long term plans. Be available to what comes your way when it comes. Don’t be afraid to make a “mistake,” if you fall get back up and try again. The past is no more, the future is not yet.
Stop clinging to the past and ideas about the future. The past, present, and future are all just states of mind. The past is our memories of what has been, the future is our ideas about what is to come, and the present moment is our perception of what is occurring now that is quickly fading into the past.
When our mind is caught up in the mental activity of past, present, and future it can feel like we are in an invisible river of inevitability over which we have little control. However, the inevitability like the states of mind of past, present, and future is a creation of the mind. It feels inevitable because we are identified with our thoughts. The inertia is all in our mind.
We choose the life we are living one moment at a time. We wake up choose the same old unhappy life over and over again day in and day out and call it fate. But there is not such thing as fate, there is only the inertia of our thoughts.
Stop the inertia and be here now, and you will have the freedom to choose something different. Slow down and ask yourself, “How do I want to be in the world? Who do I want to be?” In times of chaos it is tempting to go back to familiar patterns of being. Instead of acting deliberately our fear and anxiety causes us to act habitually.
Slow down and let go of the self-created state of emergency. There is nowhere to go. There is nowhere to be. Be here now. What do you choose in the present moment? Who do you choose to be? Do you choose to live the same old life and reenact the same old patterns, or do you choose something different? Is breakdown causing you to regress to prior states of being, or catalyzing you to choose different patterns more in alignment if your evolving consciousness?
When we runaway from our feelings and try to avoid pain we become rigid and fragile. When we witness and allow them we are resilient, flexible and free. When things get tough it is tempting to shut down and runaway from our feelings. Don’t avoid them. That is a mistake. Don’t ignore your gut. Don’t ignore your soul’s urging. Don’t ignore your feelings. Be present with what you are feeling in the present moment. Witness and allow. What is it trying to teach you?
When we are feeling stuck we can sometimes mistake our soul’s desire for transformation for our ego’s desire for novelty. All transformation involves change, but not all change includes transformation. The ego is novelty seeking. It craves change for the sake of change. The soul is transformation seeking. It craves evolution and growth for the sake of evolution and growth.
The ego’s desire for novelty is endless and usually leads to disappointment and dissatisfaction. No matter how hard we strive to satisfy our ego’s desires it is never enough. We never have enough money, fame, power or prestige. The excitement from novel experiences soon fades and we are left once more with our old self.
That’s because the novelty seeking is actually our soul’s desire for growth and transformation being expressed through the ego. What we are actually dissatisfied with is our state of being. What we are actually craving is a shift in being.
All the external efforting is our ego trying to satisfy our soul’s desire for evolution. However, external efforting is a very inefficient means of achieving transformation in being. It is usually a lateral move. That’s because we can only create externally from the state of consciousness we possess internally. So our ego’s efforts at transformation tend to create and recreate our egoic patterns in myriad externalized forms. In circumstances that may appear outwardly different, but that resonate at the same old state consciousness.
True transformation is an inside out process. A shift in being must occur at the level of being. That means soul work and work in consciousness. It means doing effective spiritual practices, healing, and deep reflection.
The transformational process is one of identifying less and less with our ego, and more and more with our true self. The shift in being is a shift in orientation. Instead of creating from the outside in, we start creating from the inside out from a higher order of consciousness. Instead of being motivated be extrinsic values we start being motivated by intrinsic values.
When we get on the transformational path we start craving external change less and internal change more. Instead of being motivated by external rewards, we seek internal rewards. We stop seeking happiness in fancy cars, big houses, and overflowing bank accounts and instead find it by cultivating a state of being that is peaceful, joyful, loving, and abundant.
Ironically, when we start creating from the inside out things in the external world flow to us with less effort and in greater abundance, because we are creating from a higher order of consciousness. So instead of trying to impact the world from the ego’s deficit, we start attracting what is compatible with our inner abundance.
I hope everyone is enjoying the Spring Equinox 2021. In my fist live Q&A we discuss the death and resurrection energy of the Spring Equinox and how we can use the energy of the seasons to facilitate our growth and evolution.
When is a relationship over? This question often looms on our minds during times of relationship crisis. Sometimes we work through the crisis with our partner and are better off because of it, other times the crises never really ends and we continue agonizing over the question long after the natural end of the relationship. So what is the difference between relationship crisis as growth opportunity and relationship crisis as the beginning of the end?
Ultimately it comes down to how committed each person in the partnership is to healing, evolution, and growth. As we’ve often discussed we are living in times of accelerating transformation and growth. More than ever before many of us are growing and evolving at an accelerated rate and becoming strangers to the old version of ourselves.
Many times we look back to who we were a month or year ago and we don’t recognize ourselves. That sort of dramatic change often strains our friendships and romantic relationships. Because for those standing still or growing at a slower pace our accelerated growth can make them feel like we are running away from them. They feel abandoned and resent each new development in our evolutionary process, because each change takes us further away from being the person they knew and loved.
The most important thing to remember is to have compassion for our friends, family, and loved ones who do not understand or appreciate our accelerated growth. Your change represents a sort of death for them. So be kind as try to give them time to get to know the new version of you.
That being said, while we should strive to love without limit or condition, we need strong boundaries around our time, energy, and attention to protect and foster our growth. Love is an unlimited supply, but our time, energy, and attention are finite. Love generously, but do not waste the latter by trying to be an outdated version of yourself for others. It is outside of integrity and not doing anyone any favors.
Romantic relationships are unique in that we are committing to grow together with another being. If done consciously the romantic relationship is the most profound vehicle there is for growth and evolution. If done unconsciously, however, it can keep you tied to the wheel of karma repeating the same old patterns.
The biggest relationship killer for people on the spiritual path is disparate appetites for growth. When one person is highly motivated to evolve and grow and the other is not, you quickly grow apart. Many people are faced at some point with the realization that they can either continue their path of growth and evolution or try to stand still to stay in resonance with their partner.
This is a decision everyone has to make on their own. Sometimes we may need to slow down a little to help our partner catch up and understand. Other times we have to realize our partner simply isn’t interested in growing with us and we can no longer stand still.
The most important thing I ever did was clarify what partnership meant to me. For me partnership means shared mission, values, worldview, and appetite for growth. As far as I’m concerned compatibility in these four domains is essential to any partnership. If one or more of these domains is missing or out of balance the partnership simply doesn’t exist or is out of balance.
You may have your own definition of partnership. Maybe you have more or fewer non- negotiables. If you are in a relationship that is unhappy start by defining what partnership means to you. What are the domains that are essential for you to grow together?
Once you’ve defined what partnership means to you evaluate your partnership. Are you actually in a partnership? Or are you trying to grow together with someone who is incompatible with who you have become? Are the two of you actually trying to grow together? Do the two of you even want to grow together, or did you give up on that long ago? Are you in a partnership or are you just tolerating one another?
From my perspective relationships don’t end they just evolve. At the soul level you will see one another again and your connection will endure. But in the present moment be honest about what is real and true. Most suffering arises when we try to make a relationship something it is not.
This Guided Chakra Meditation and Breathwork is from my Patreon community's March New Moon Meditation. This guided meditation includes a chakra activations and a kundalini energy activation, and concludes with five minutes of silent meditation. My Patreon community does two live guided meditations and Q&As each month.
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In this March New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the March New Moon. As we said in the March Energy Update we have been in the space between words for most of the month, or perhaps more accurately we have been in the space between worlds. Many of us have been upleveling and expanding our consciousness dramatically over the last year. We aren’t the same person we were but a short time ago, and that can feel lonely and uncertain.
Our expanded awareness often shifts our sense of self in ways that make us a stranger to our past self. Rapid spiritual growth can estrange us from friends, family, and loved ones, and leave us feeling quite lonely. Often those closest to us see us least clearly. Because they see the projection of their story of who they think we are more strongly than a stranger, who is more able to see who we are in the present moment.
Jesus told his disciples to abandon everything and follow him. He told them to forsake home, family, and worldly possessions. This primordial call of renunciation exists in every religion. Monks of every religion forsake their family name, home, and social position as a symbolic act of renouncing the old self in pursuit of spiritual attainment.
However, for most the new name and identity quickly takes the place of the old identity. Instead of renunciation they have adopted a new social identity. They have traded one form of safety for another. True renunciation is to be in a state of non-attachment and renouncing of safety and comfort at all times, no matter your physical or social circumstances. It is a state of letting go and allowing and saying always “Take this too if it serves the highest good.”
We are not monks, but we are engaged in a process of radical transformation and growth. We do not have the comfort and safety of the monastery but must be in a constant state of renunciation, saying always “Take this too if it serves the highest good.”
Many retard their spiritual growth to remain safe and comfortable. They stay who they were even though it no longer feels right, because they are afraid of leaving behind friends, family, and loved ones. They fear the loss of their old self and the loss of familiar connections.
On my spiritual path I have mostly chosen growth over comfort. I have usually chosen to grow even when it has meant growing apart from those I love. I have drifted apart from lifelong friendships. I have outgrown romantic relationships. I have said, “Take this too if it serves the highest good” more often than not.
That has meant losing the comfort and familiarity of those intimate connections. I still love them. They are still my friends and family. But I can no longer stand where they stand. I can no longer do as they do. I no longer wish to engage in those old diversions we once shared. I no longer wish to have those conversations we once had with preassigned roles.
In a sense I am alone but I know I need not be lonely. Loneliness is a negative state. It is a state of lack. We are wanting something we do not have. A friend, a lover, a feeling. Aloneness on the other hand is a positive state. It is a state of abundance. It is a state of fullness. It is a state of lacking nothing.
I am alone but not lonely. I am alone even though I am surrounded by old familiar faces that stopped seeing me years ago. Who see only their projections. I love them but am not attached to them. My aloneness is so complete that they too are me and we can never be apart, even though space and time may create distance between us.
I know these old familiar faces that no longer see me are of the old world and my prior creations and cannot follow me into the new. I allow sadness when it comes. I allow mourning when it arises. I allow myself to weep when tears want to flow. But I do not hold on, I will not turn back. I must walk on. They must follow or fall away.
We cannot be honest if we are attached to our comfort or that of others. Truth and attachment are incompatible. Truth is the great liberator. It is only falsehood and unsaid words that keep our prior creations alive. It is truth that will birth the new.
We are at the end of one story and the beginning of another. To continue on we must leave behind the dead forest of our prior creations born of our prior state of consciousness. We must walk onward toward the light, steadfastly committed to our growth and evolution, trusting that everything is coming together.
Our exterior reality is merely a reflection of our state of consciousness. Yes there is always a lag and physical reality is always playing catchup, because physical reality changes more slowly than our thoughts. But inevitably it too must change, and it will happen quicker than you think.
In this Twelve Chakras Explained video we discuss the anatomy of the ascended energy body and do ascended energy body activations. The ascended light body includes not only the seven traditional chakras, but additional energy centers that make up the 12 chakras of the ascended light body. This Twelve Chakras Activation activates and explains how each of the following ascended chakras operates and impacts our consciousness: Earth Star Chakra, Root Chakra, Sacral Chakra, Solar Plexus, Flower of Life, Heart Chakra, High Heart Chakra, Throat Chakra, Third Eye, Star Consciousness Chakra, Crown Chakra, and Godhead.
Toward the end of the video we also activate the traditional kundalini energy, ascended kundalini energy, bodily merkaba, and ascended merkaba.
In this episode we discuss the Gunas and Alchemizing Desire. In the yoga tradition everything is said to be comprised of a combination of three qualities or Gunas, which include Tamas, Rajas, and Sattva. Tamasic qualities are those that are dark, dull, lethargic, unconscious and full of inertia. Whereas Rajasic qualities are all about passion, action, and change. We use passionate action and fiery will to transform our tamasic qualities into rajasic ones, and use our rajasic fiery will to transform rajas into sattva by directing our will and fire towards spiritual practice and service to others. Sattva is the quality of pure spiritual nature, goodness, innocence, and innocent joy. All yogis are on a path of transforming their tamas through fiery will into pure sattva.
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In this Equinox Ascension Energy 2021 video we discuss the energy of the March Equinox, which I'm calling "The Stretch." This ascension corridor is literally stretching us from above and below. Our upper chakras are receiving a tremendous amount of high vibrational energy, which may be blissing you out and/or exhausting your physical body. Additionally there is a lot of energy coming up from below, energizing our root chakra and sacral chakras. Which is presenting us with an opportunity to get more grounded and centered in our body than ever before.
As I've often said the ascension journey is like the tree of life. The higher our branches reach into the heavens the more important it is to sink our roots deep into the Earth. Whether you are being pulled down into your body or into the heavens I encourage you to seek balance and gently stretch yourself in the opposite direction. If you are blissing out and out of your body, get outside and do some physical activity if you are able. If on the other hand you are an energizer bunny and are bouncing off the walls, meditate more. It will be easier now than ever before to achieve those higher states of consciousness and ground that realization into the body.
Ascension is a two part process. First is the inner ascension of the subtle body, which occurs when it becomes sufficiently energized to ascend up into the higher self through star consciousness. This absorption into the white crystalline light is what yogis refer to as god realization. Once that occurs we begin the process of outer ascension, which involves the ascension of the physical body. Like with the subtle body this occurs when it becomes sufficiently light filled to journey upward and become absorbed into the higher self.
This March 2021 Ascension Energy & Ascension Symptoms video also discusses ascension symptoms for March. A lot of people will be experiencing headaches, vertigo, and feel like they are swimming. If you are feeling that ground more into your body. Use the Breath of Fire practice and circular breathing to get more activation in your lower triad, so you can ground higher consciousness into it.
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In this March Ascension Energy 2021 video we discuss “playing with the fire of desire” which is a metaphor for navigating the ascended sacral chakra and discovering the fountain of eternal youth. The energy of this month is all about expanding and healing the sacral chakra, which is one of the most misunderstood and distorted energies in our bodies.
The sacral chakra is the seat of consciousness responsible for creativity, sexuality, and personal power. Advertisers and entertainers manipulate it to sell us stuff and capture our attention, while religious leaders tell us our sexual desires are shameful and dangerous. This has caused the collective to have a very schizophrenic relationship with the sacral charka and its sexual desires.
On one hand the collective is obsessed with sex. On the other it is ashamed of its desires and doesn’t want to acknowledge them or talk about it. Our archetypes contain the virgin and the whore, but very little in-between. Most people’s deepest and darkest secrets have something to do with sex, and in that darkness those secrets fester and rot and morph into unhealthy obsessions.
Light dissolves all darkness. Transparency with self and others cures all unhealthy sexual obsessions. If you live in a healthy human body you have sexual desires. Your sacral chakra will be stimulated wherever polarity exists. The dance of masculine and feminine polarities transcends gendered bodies. The gendered body is but one component of an overall energetic bias. Who we are attracted to will depend on the overall polarity of our energetic field and that of the other person.
Attraction exists wherever polarity exists, we are attracted to that which we have in deficit. Your desire is god desiring through your body, and god always desires reunion with itself. Not every desire and attraction need be acted upon, but what the desire is trying to teach us about ourselves should be observed and accepted. We are attracted to that which we are seeking to balance within ourselves. That is because the natural progression on the spiritual path is for the masculine and feminine energies within us to achieve ever greater balance and harmony.
The sacral chakra is at its strongest for most people in their teenage years at the onset of puberty. It is this quickening of vital and creative energy that manifests our adult bodies. As we reach our 20s those bodies reach adult maturity, then begin their slow decline in vitality sometime in our 30s. This has been the collective story of the human body for a long time but is not necessarily our future.
You may have noticed that gender and sexual fluidity among younger generations seems to be growing at an almost exponential rate. That is partly due to greater social acceptance of fluidity in these areas, but it also has something to do with them having older souls with greater balance of masculine and feminine energies. From that state of consciousness the old rigid and dogmatic gender and social norms simply don’t make sense.
That will continue to be an area of growth and evolution as old fear-based paradigms of love and sex give way to acceptance, honesty, trust and love free from fear. Moreover, many of us may be finding our physical bodies are no longer abiding by the collective story of old age and decay. Many of the people I do healing work with have been reporting the experience of reverse aging. Because as we clear the energy field and open and balance the chakras more energy starts to flow up from the root and sacral chakras, which enlivens and rejuvenates the body.
Our current life spans are very short compared to what human beings are capable of. My own lineage of Kriya Yogis has at its head the deathless eternally youthful Mahavatar Babaji. Babaji is said to be hundreds if not thousands of years old, having achieved immortality through the purification and mastery of his gross and subtle bodies. When you master the flows of energy within the body aging and physical death need not be certainties.
In my own Kriya practice I have become aware of the flows of energy that sustain the body, and am working with my own expanded sacral chakra. A key part of that practice is harnessing the energy of the sacral chakra to do spiritual work and sustain and perfect the physical body and not dissipate it. I am becoming increasingly aware of all the subtle thoughts and beliefs that restrict and qualify that flow of energy and seeking to release them and requalify that energy.
A few of the affirmations I have been working with include:
“I AM the flame of Eternal youth, and
I AM the flame of the Resurrection and Life.”
The first part of the affirmation has the effect of activating and bridging the energy from the root chakra to the sacral increasing the flow of vital energy in the body. The second part of the affirmation pulls that energy up from the sacral chakra to the solar plexus then the heart. The overall effect in more vital energy running throughout the body constantly renewing and enlivening the body.
In this March Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the month of March. For most of March we will be in the breath in-between words. A liminal space where one thing ends and another is about to begin. My guidance is to get centered and grounded in the body, let go of the prior creations of your old self, and greet the new with trust, openness and acceptance.
Throughout January and February we have been riding the serpent of time as discussed in my February Ascension Energy Update. This refers to a rare astrological configuration in Vedic astrology where all the planets are on one side of the zodiac between Ketu and Rahu. This astrological configuration has had a disorienting effect on time, creating a sense of subjective dilation and objective contraction in our sense of linear time. This time compression has enabled us to grow at an accelerated rate, accomplishing in weeks and months what would have taken years to accomplish in ordinary linear time.
We will be exiting the serpent of time corridor on March 26th when Mars crosses over Rahu in Taurus, which will mark the fiery end of a period of accelerated internal growth and the beginning of a major cycle of exterior creation. The end of the serpent of time corridor coincides with the March 20th Equinox, which in the northern hemisphere will mark the beginning of Spring. This confluence of creative fiery energies will be carrying us to new peaks of embodied spiritual experience.
Right now we are existing in the state of pure potential before creation. Many of us have been upleveling our consciousness at an accelerated rate over the last year which has meant outgrowing the creations of our old self. A lot of those old creations have already exited our life, those that remain no longer hold any energetic attraction. They have energetically exited, the physical just hasn’t caught up yet.
The Equinox contains the energy of new cycles of creation and growth. We are stepping into the unknown. There are no maps for where we are going together. We are walking from the dead forest of our old creations into the rainbow light of pure creative potential. Nothing is guaranteed but our growth. It will be uncomfortable and challenging, but our discomfort and insecurity is the only way we grow.
We must push past our discomfort. The dead forest of our old creation is comfortable and known to us. We know every dead tree by name. But there is no life remaining in it. It no longer is in resonance with our state of consciousness. We must walk toward the light of new creation with trust and the innocence of a child, open and vulnerable to the possibility of new creation.
We know we have to leave the dead forest. We know there is nothing left here for us. We know we have to let go of the old creations of our prior state of consciousness. We know what has exited and is exiting. But we don’t quite know what comes next. The future is a mystery that will be manifest from our new state of consciousness, and from our desire for a more beautiful world.
We are at the point of no return. The old is exiting and the new is coming in. In order to usher in the new with grace we have to stop hiding from ourselves. The new will be created by our desires. What are you desiring? Be honest. Remember that your desire is god’s desire. Your desire is god desiring through you. Your desire is the god within you expressing what wants to be manifested and experienced.
Be open and accepting towards your desires. Let go of the shame and your thoughts about who you should be and what you should be desiring. Honestly look at and acknowledge what is alive within you. Move to the root of your being, get back into the body. The mind is a trickster. It is full of stories that qualify and limit reality. Return to the body, return to the sacral chakra. What is god desiring through your body?
Sacral chakra healing and upleveling is a major theme for March. That means getting real and present with the body. It means getting real and present with your desires. It means clarifying your desires. Why is god desiring what you seem to be desiring through your body? Seek the deeper understanding. Seek the deeper truth. God always seeks reunion with itself. What within your desires serves this seeking?
As we said previously, when the personality is disciplined and will and desire are unified we become an unstoppable force. Our body is a microcosm for the macrocosm. Our body is the universe.
Our solar plexus is the sun of our body manifesting and ordering our reality. But the source of its power is the sacral and root chakras. The root chakra is our groundedness in the body. Our presence in the body. Our sense of peace and harmony within the body. The sacral chakra is the source of vitality and creativity. It is the seat of our personal power. All creation into physical reality begins at the sacral chakra as desire, and desire flows upward to the solar plexus to be actualized and manifest with our will.
In the month of March lets practice getting grounded and centered in the body and abide at the source of creation. Tap into your limitless creative potential. Get clear on what god is desiring through your body. Accept it and acknowledge it. We are preparing to manifest it. The future is more beautiful than we can possibly imagine. But first we must push through the discomfort of leaving behind our prior creations that no longer serve us in order to create the new.
In this episode we discuss how to command the light through use of the great “I AM” presence. When we pray we beseech god as mother, father or lord. When we pray we are supplicants seeking a favor from the divine, and therefore are separate from it. To pray is an act of devotion that is very useful for opening the heart and moving into deeper trust and relationship with the divine. However, as we move deeper into god and self-realization our prayers may gradually become commands.
As awareness becomes more absorbed in the third eye and crown chakra we move from being a separate self to being one with the great “I AM.” That aspect of our awareness which witnesses thoughts but is not identified with them is that aspect of ourself that is forever and always one with god. To attain experience of witnessing awareness is to realize your identity with the that presence which permeates all things.
As self and god realization progresses we reach a point where the sense of separateness between the self and god during prayer dissolves. We pray to the mother/father god within our heart and in heaven. We commune with the infinite self from that aspect of our self which is forever and always one with the higher self.
At that point we stop approaching god like beggars seeking a boon, and instead command the light as god by and through our purified desire and will. God has no desires except as expressed through its infinite individual expressions. It is through the individuated expressions of god that its creative power and manifesting will are expressed.
So you are not a beggar seeking a boon. You are god made manifest co-creating your universe. Stand tall and know that when you command from your witnessing awareness and great “I AM” presence it is god who speaks, and the universe cannot but comply.
As we discussed in the video “How to Pray Like a Yogi” the universe can only respond to our prayers or commands in proportion to the strength of our request. In ordinary consciousness the signal is weak and covered with the clouds of competing thoughts. But when awareness instead resides in the great “I AM” presence our mind is clear and our singular thoughts powerful. The clearer and more energized the lower energy centers become the more powerful becomes our commands.
When purified desire is wed with implacable will, we become an unstoppable force capable of commanding the power of god. We no longer pray but command a thing as though it were already done. When we command with the power of god the universe has no choice but to respond.
Those who command from ordinary consciousness will have less luck. It is the application of this divine principle by those stuck in ordinary consciousness that has given the idea of co-creating your reality a bad rap. However, the principle is sound the success of its application just depends on your state of consciousness.
Repeating and feeling often that “I AM the only presence active in my life,” “I AM the infinite intelligence and power of god,” and “I AM the master of my life and the god of my universe” will help cultivate the appropriate attitude. You come to realize as you command the light you command the self. You do not work changes in anything exterior to you, but only alter states of consciousness of the extended self.
The more you command from the “I AM” presence the more effectively you can command. Power increases with use. Everything seen and unseen is but a manifestation of intelligent light, which is an extension of your “I AM” presence. Emotions and qualities of being are all rays of light that can be enhanced through application of your desire and will commanded through your great “I AM presence.”
So command with feeling daily that....
“I AM fully self and god realized.
I AM the god of my universe.
I AM the only presence active in my life.
I AM god’s infinite love.
I AM god’s infinite wisdom.
I AM god’s infinite power.
I AM the temple of the ever-living god.”
What we say with conviction through the “I AM” presence we become. The entire universe springs into action upon our command. Be patient and affirm daily who and what you are, and it is what you shall become.
iam #godrealization #selfrealization
In this February Full Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes of the February full moon. Many will be experiencing a spiritual peak or ascension uplevel around this February full moon. As we’ve discussed before the spiritual path is peaks and valleys, but as long as we keep walking and doing the work the peaks keep getting higher and the valleys more shallow. The journey itself never really ends.
A combination of planetary alignments and solar activity is causing this full moon to be a major up level moment. A flood of high vibrational light flooded the planet earlier this week with the forming of two new sunspots after several weeks of dormancy in solar activity.
My meditations have been deep and profound this week, and my intuition and ability to command the light has never been higher. I have been exploring the edges of what my body can energetically bear and have often felt like a fully charged lightening rod. Long dormant subtle channels have been energized within my subtle body, chakras have been expanded and further crystallized, and I find myself acutely aware of the muscles, bones, and organs of the physical body.
I share these observations not to boast or set myself apart as special. Rather I seek only to share my subjective experience of our collective ascension journey at this time. By far the greatest gift of this full moon so far has been deepening realization of my identity in god and with the great “I AM” presence that permeates all things. I feel more alive and delighted to be in a body than ever before, and yet I also feel less identified with it. I am aware more so than ever that “I AM” the only active presence in all things and that this body is but a point of temporal focus in space/time.
That is a synopsis of my “spiritual peak” and “ascension uplevel” in this moment. Many of us are getting a taste of the spiritual mastery we are capable of as the growing flame of awareness within us burns away limitations. Know that if you are experiencing this spiritual peak and your own mastery it is because you are ripe. You are not only riding the wave of the incoming light but channeling it through your very being.
Savor this moment and allow yourself to expand beyond your previous limitations. Allow the flame of awareness within you to burn away all self-limiting beliefs and realize your undivided identity with the great “I AM” permeating all things. Know that you are the Master of yourself and your life and the God of your Universe.
However, I would be remiss if I did not remind you that spiritual peaks do not last. We are being catapulted to great heights at the moment by the intensity of the incoming light. It makes expansion easy and almost effortless. When the wave passes as it always does you may find yourself on a higher purchase than you were before, but it will likely we somewhat lower than where you were at the height of the wave. This is fine and natural.
In order to minimize the worst aspects of the rubber band effect that often comes with these up levels in consciousness avoid self-doubt and guilt when the peak passes. Remember that the spiritual path is peaks and valleys. You are being lifted to a great height by the incoming light. You will stabilize at whatever level of consciousness you can sustainably bear.
Remember that the peaks only get higher and the valleys more shallow if you keep walking. If you keep doing your daily spiritual practices during the best of times and worst of times you will catch each wave and be carried to ever higher peaks of progressively deeper god and self-realization.
The journey has just begun. Celebrate this milestone. Enjoy the magnificent view from this expanded vantage. But when this wave passes and you find yourself descending back into a valley, keep walking. Never give up.
Pray always for greater self and god realization. The work is never done. The intensity and velocity of the waves of light hitting the planet are only going to increase. The work you do on the peak is as important as the work you do in the valley. Each step is carrying us home and birthing heaven on Earth through our awakening hearts.
fullmoon #energyupdate #ascension
In this episode we discuss the Discipline of Personality according to the Law of One material, and the distinction between discipline vs. control. There are many techniques one may practice on the spiritual path, however, in the Law of One the central technique for facilitating spiritual evolution is said to be the Discipline of Personality. Those of Ra say the Discipline of Personality can be thought of as having three components which include knowing the self, accepting the self, and becoming the creator.
The perfectly balanced being is said to be able to remain centered in love and witnessing awareness no matter the outward catalyst. In order to attain that balance everything that comes into conscious awareness should be accepted and seen as a manifestation of the creator. When we become perfectly balanced we remain equanimous in all situations, with no inward response other than love and acceptance.
However, there is a broad chasm between where most of us are and a state of perfect balance. Each of us has our own unique balance, which must first be known and accepted. Only after knowing and accepting the self may we direct the will to discipline the personality toward greater balance.
A tempting shortcut is to utilize control to simulate discipline. However, control is the path of self-denial and uses the will to thwart desire. Whereas discipline is the path wherein will and desire become one and are harmonious directed to achieve ever greater spiritual realization.
The path of control always creates a shadow of the unaccepted desire, which manifests at a later date and has to be dealt with. The path of discipline may appear slower, but it is more certain. Because when will and desire are one there is no shadow, and the will and desire may be directed harmoniously as an undivided implacable force capable of achieving all things.
That being said, both discipline and control require a strong will. Discipline just uses the will in a more nuanced way. Discipline requires us to continuously be engaged in a process of clarifying our desires and understanding of who and what we are while seeking to be an ever greater expression of truth.
The truth is we are a singularity of consciousness experiencing multiplicity. Every desire of whatever nature includes this paradox and includes the impulse either toward separation or unity. The key to positive evolution is to recognize this duality exists within us, and to make The Choice to act on those desires born of unity rather than separation.
As we discipline the personality we cultivate and feed those desires which tend toward unity and acceptance rather than those that tend toward separation and control. We recognize that the impulses toward separation are part of us and part of the creator, but we nevertheless choose to express and embody love and unity.
The central most helpful practice for facilitating this process of knowing the self, accepting the self, and becoming the creator is daily meditation. Meditation is useful because it creates a gap between the voice in our head and that aspect of awareness which simply witnesses it all unfold. The Law of One says any meditation technique is acceptable if practiced regularly.
As our awareness becomes more spacious and less identified with the thoughts in our head we become better able to view our thoughts objectively and not be completely identified with them.
This enables us to gain an experiential understanding of the difference between the true self which is the witness, and the relative self which is the voice in the head.
Experience of witnessing awareness is the first step on the path of becoming the creator. As the personality becomes more polarized and disciplined towards service to others the central burning desire becomes unity with the creator. When will and desire are wed to serve this goal every other desire is burned within its flame. The burning question in every moment simply becomes, “How may I direct my will to serve others and become the creator in this moment?”
In this video we discuss the phenomena of conspirituality and the necessity of first principles thinking. Conspirituality is an invented term that refers to the confluence of spirituality and conspiracy theories. We live in interesting times when the official narrative is often as absurd if not more than the zaniest conspiracy theories.
Most people who are on an awakening journey have at least dabbled in conspiracy theories. As we’ve discussed previously, exploring alternate explanations for reality is a necessary part of the spiritual awakening process. However, these alternate explanations are often even more distorted than the mainstream narratives. So, we have to be discerning about what stories replace the old ones.
The story of separation underpins the mainstream narrative of dominant culture, while the central experience of spiritual awakening is the realization that all is one. Therefore, the experience of spiritual awakening immediately puts us at odds with dominant culture. Up is down, left is right, and we find ourselves floating in a void of unknowing.
The unfortunate truth is that mainstream culture is based on the falsehood of dead matter and separation, so every cultural institution built upon that foundation is permeated with the great lie. Most of us have sensed this lie on some level since birth. We were born into a world that doesn’t make sense and inherited a culture that is based on falsehood.
This is the cause of the quiet melancholy and scared desperation that permeates the collective consciousness. Our soul longs for something real. Our heart longs for connection and authentic community. We dream of a simpler more authentic way of life.
These dreams and heart and soul impulses must serve as the foundation for a new story and culture. But we must beware of the trap of conspirituality which is often just another version of the story of separation. The truth is dominant culture is based on a flawed premise about the nature of reality so everything about it is suspect. Additionally, many conspiracy theories have an element of actual or allegorical truth. However, conspiracy theories are generally speaking outgrowths from the tree of dominant culture and share many of its pathologies. The most pronounced of which is a tendency towards fear and paranoia.
In our search for truth it is important to remember the difference between absolute and relative reality. Absolute reality is the singularity of consciousness that is the truth of who and what you are. Relative reality is everything else and the entirety of manifest reality. Manifest reality itself is based on the lie of perceived separation.
At best we can experience absolute truth subjectively and strive for increasingly less distorted understandings of manifest reality. However, any perception of separation is necessarily built on the relative reality of separation which is a lie. Therefore, any understanding of relative reality necessarily falls short of absolute truth.
As we navigate these confusing times it is important to ground ourselves in the experience of absolute reality while applying critical first principles thinking to our understanding of relative reality. The frequent experience of absolute truth through meditation is the most important foundation for sensemaking. The experience of absolute truth through meditation makes the distortions in explanations about manifest reality more apparent. Moreover, it helps anchor us in the void of unknowing, which is the best place to approach truth from.
I have grown less interested in conspiracy theories over the years because I’m less interested in relative truth. More and more I simply exist in the void of unknowing. I find there are fewer and fewer things I actually need to have an opinion about. When it is necessary for me to form an opinion I start by experiencing absolute truth through meditation and then from the void of unknowing start with first principles.
The first principle for me is always that all is one experiencing itself as multiplicity, and that the heart is wiser than the intellect because it remembers the unity of all things. From there I proceed upward and/or downward until the proposition and my first principles are connected by a cord of reason, with a bias towards the understanding that the simplest explanation is usually the most accurate.
In this episode I show you a Basic Kriya Yoga Practice and demonstrate the Basic Kriya Yoga Pranayama Technique, which is the foundation of all kriya yoga practice. Kriya yoga is a scientific method for opening the subtle energy channels, balancing the chakras, and charging the gross and subtle bodies with prana. As we persist in kriya yoga practice our awareness becomes progressively more interiorized in the spinal column or sushumna nadi. As we increase the flow of prana through the sushumna nadi our upper energy centers become progressively more energized, which culminates in god and self-realization.
Kriya yoga is a self-initiatory path. There is no substitute for the consistent and daily practice of the techniques, and results are cumulative. So you may notice little change in consciousness over the course of a few weeks, but over the course of a few years of practice you can experience extraordinary transformation.
Link to Detailed Description of Kriya Pranayama Technique:
https://zacharyadama.com/2021/02/17/basic-kriya-pranayama-practice/
In this episode we discuss embodied spirituality and the importance of mastering the lower triad of energy centers as a necessary foundation for the spiritual path. Mastery of the lower three chakras is all about mastering being in a human body. Many spiritual traditions focus on the mind and mistrust the body. However, the mind is easily misled and we frequently deceive ourselves. Therefore, we should strive for embodied spirituality which is experientially validated and tested through the body.
The body is the grossest aspect of mind. It is that aspect of mind which directly interacts with physical reality. As such, spiritual realization must first be realized through the body before it can be truly understood at the more subtle levels.
Belief in an intellectual proposition or creed has little spiritual value. Even dogmas that are true but unrealized in the body are fragile beliefs of the ego that the ego seeks to defend and spread in order to validate itself. The key to secure faith and knowing is embodied spirituality experientially realized in the body.
Anyone who has done healing work with me will know we focus heavily on the body. Consciousness does not live between the ears in the brain. Consciousness pervades the entire body. The body itself is consciousness in motion. Memories, good and bad, live in the body. Pain and trauma live in the body.
The energy centers or chakras represent specific loci of consciousness. The root chakra in the tailbone relates to physical security, the sacral chakra in the spine about two inches below the navel relates to creativity, sexuality and personal power, while the solar plexus about two inches above the navel in the spine relates to will power and our social identity. Sometimes called the lower triad these three modalities of consciousness are the foundation for higher consciousness.
Healing and mastery of the energies in the lower triad is a crucial step for any spiritual aspirant. When we cultivate feelings of peace and harmony we cultivate the feelings of the balanced and healed root chakra. From that foundation of physical security we may work with passion and creativity as we explore and discipline our bodies and love life in a balanced way. Then from a place of empowerment and loving life we continue to refine and strengthen the will through physical manifestation and social interaction in the solar plexus and experience the joy of being.
Authentic spirituality starts with the body. Caring for the physical body is an act of devotion to the god within. Prioritize doing the things that cause it to be strong, healthy, and clean as important as meditation. Remember always that “This body is the temple of the ever-living god.”
Physical practices such as yoga and weight training are very useful for cultivating connection between mind, body and soul. Weight training can be very useful for developing the solar plexus and reminding ourselves we are capable of achieving things in physical reality. For instance, while weight training I remain in a meditative state. No music or browsing the phone, just presence and awareness of the breath and movement of the body. I also like to do pranayama while lifting, and try to be aware that it is the electric current running through me and not simply physical force that moves the weights.
Listen to the intelligence of the body. Master the lower triad and build a strong grounded foundation for your spiritual life. The taller our branches grow into the heavens of higher consciousness, the deeper our roots must sink into the Earth.
In episode we discuss the concept of Druids vs. Transhumanists, rediscovering a new and ancient story, and how living and dying well are more important than survival. A read an article a number of years ago entitled Druids vs. Transhumanists which has proven to be a useful framework for understanding the world. The article postulated that the emerging cultural divide could be thought of as one between those going back to nature and more traditional and holistic ways of living (the “Druids”) versus those seeking to transcend nature through technology (the “Transhumanists”).
When I read this article more than a decade ago I was decidedly a transhumanists. As an undergrad philosophy major I came to realize that all the disciplines I was studying in my liberal arts college shared the metaphysical premise that we live in universe consisting of dead matter. That consciousness was emergent not integral to matter, and that if there was such a thing as a soul it was separate from matter.
This worldview is sometimes referred to a “reductionist materialism.” Which simply means the belief that all things can be understood and explained by reducing them to their most basic material causes. The immaterial from this perspective is irrelevant or non-existent.
During this time I became a staunch atheist. If matter was dead and soul was irrelevant life was nothing more than a fight for survival in a dead universe. This worldview led to a deep feeling of disconnection and separation. During this time I was attracted to many things that might be considered transhumanist.
I recall passionately arguing in one paper that colonization of Mars was a moral imperative. It seemed insane not to. We could not risk the survival of the species by limiting ourselves to one fragile planet. Survival was too important. Survival was everything. We must survive at any cost.
In a similar vein I explored cognitive science and efforts to extend human lifespans and even upload consciousness to machines in order to achieve virtual immortality. Death was a disease that needed to be eradicated. Technological transcendence of dead matter and virtual immortality was our destiny. It felt inevitable and necessary.
Charles Eisenstein, one of my favorite living public intellectuals, describes this as the Ascent of Humanity. The story of dominant culture is one of humanity’s ascent beyond physical limitations through technological means. This is the origin story of technological civilization. Transhumanism is the natural conclusion of this story of separation.
Since my awakening I’ve been living into a different story. It is the story of what Eisenstein calls interbeing. The idea that we are not only connected but that we are one. Harm to others is harm to self. What you damn damns you. What you love loves you. This worldview has the metaphysical premise that we live in a universe consisting of alive matter. One where consciousness and matter are one.
This perspective, which is informed by mystical experience, ancient wisdom, and emerging quantum physics is as Eisenstein says “a new and ancient story.” It looks a lot like the animist worldview of indigenous cultures, which for westerners is perhaps best symbolized by the Druids.
The Druid does not seek to transcend or control physical reality. The Druid seeks to enter into deeper cooperation and harmony with it. For the Druid we are not transcending physical reality. We are ascending with it.
There are things more important than survival. Like love, quality of life, and connection. Physical survival at any cost makes no sense, because death is perfectly safe. Consciousness does not die it simply changes forms.
The collective story is still that of the Transhumanists who seek to survive at any cost. Technology is the messiah that will save us from the problems created by the disease of death and the problems created by our earlier technological inventions. Yet the game never seems to play out as planned. Each new technological fix seems to contain within it unintended consequences that create yet more problems.
The emerging story of the Druid is the key to a future worth living. The Druid seeks to live more fully and cooperate with nature. Gaia is alive, death is inevitable and necessary. Rather than seeking to control nature we strive to learn from her. What is she trying to teach us? What lessons are to be learned? Instead of saying what is wrong we ask, what is right? There is no technological fix for human unhappiness. There is no substitute for human connection. Survival is not the goal - thriving is. The Druid seeks to live and die well.
In this February New Moon Energy Update 2021 we discuss the energetic themes for the February new moon. Around this new moon many of us are being confronted with the limitations of our prior conditioning for continued growth. The masks that once served us and enabled us to navigate the world no longer seem to work. They don’t get the results they once did, and when they do work our success seems to turn into ash in our hands.
The mind is concerned first and foremost with survival. We spend the first decade or so of our lives absorbing everything we can about our environment and social circumstances. Many of the attitudes and belief systems of our family and peers are unquestioningly adopted and integrated into our ego structure.
Quickly we become a somebody with opinions and preferences. We learn to adapt to our social environments, coding when necessary and dawning different masks for different occasions. We get so busy pleasing others we forget who we are. We forget what we prefer. We become hypocrites. We live double lives.
The pleasant masks that make life easy are in conflict with the true self. The masks keep us from experiencing true intimacy. They keep us trapped in uncomfortable lies. How often we wear masks to remain comfortably trapped in uncomfortable lies, for fear of losing that which never made us happy anyway.
This politicking causes us to limit ourselves to other people’s possibilities. We live a life that is not our own, which is qualified by other people’s expectations and limitations. We can never achieve our potential as long as we are living other people’s lives. In order to explore the limitless possibilities of our own potential we must become self-contained and nakedly authentic. Get rid of the partitions in your mind. Put down the masks and simply try to express what is true in the present moment, one moment at a time. You have nothing to lose but that which is not you.
Share your true self with others in the present moment, one moment at a time. Don’t grit your teeth and tell yourself you are fine when you aren’t. Feel your feelings in the present moment. Witness them and allow them. Stop hiding from yourself. Be your true self without attachment to needing to be acceptable or liked. Being your true self can only liberate you from situations and relationships that aren’t in alignment.
When you step into the void of the true self, you will stand in a space of limitless possibilities. That which is true and good can only be born from the space of our own truth and goodness. Don’t worry about people pleasing or fitting in. Strive instead to be nakedly authentic, without agenda or worries about the future. When you stand in the integrity of your own authenticity you stand on the common ground of truth and limitless possibilities.
What is spiritual ascension? Ascension is not a rapture. The idea of spiritual ascension has been around for a long time and exists in nearly every major world religion. However, in recent years the concept has found new life in the new age community. The traditional view of ascension was that it was something that happened in the distant past with a specific figure, like when Jesus ascended into heaven after his resurrection. Whereas the emerging view is that ascension is something that is happening now for the planet and all her residents.
The emerging view of ascension is premised on the notion that the Earth is transitioning from one age to another more enlightened age. This notion is commonly known in the west as the Age of Aquarius. But is also seen in Vedic astrology, the Mayan calendar, and indigenous lore.
Many viewed 2012 as an inflection point. There was a lot of collective excitement and even fear around this year, with some thinking the world was going to end in a cataclysmic doomsday scenario, with others expecting us to all turn into light beings and ascend to heaven. When neither happened many were disillusioned and disappointed.
My view of ascension is less sexy but I think more realistic. Yes we are in a period of transition from one age to another. Vedic astrology indicates we are moving from the Kali Yuga (yuga means age) to the ascending Dwapara Yuga. From a dark age when consciousness was very low to an ascending bronze age. Many new age sources say we are moving from third density (or dimension) to the fourth or fifth.
Whatever the conceptual framework, the idea is that we are transitioning as a collective into a more enlightened age. The planet herself is moving into a more light/consciousness dense quadrant of the universe, which is causing the baseline vibration of reality to increase and become more light filled. This transition will likely take a few generations to complete and will require the destruction or transformation of the old world order into a more enlightened one.
A central aspect of this evolutionary process is the evolution of individual consciousness and the up leveling of our bodies to handle the increasing amounts of ambient energy/consciousness. That process and the ascension process more generally, is orchestrated by cycles of solar activity and the shifting planets and moon. These celestial bodies act as filters and distributors of light/energy/consciousness into our physical reality.
Those who cooperate with the incoming ascension energy will find themselves being transformed and purified in mind/body/soul at an accelerated rate as they find themselves able to hold more and more light/energy/consciousness. Those who do not cooperate with the incoming energy are having a much more difficult time. The incoming energy is boiling out their physical and psychological toxicity in often painful and traumatic ways.
We are in an evolve or die moment. Those who cooperate with the incoming energies can experience dramatic and accelerated growth. Those who do not will see the continued rise of disease and suicide as everything that is incompatible with the new energy is catalyzed.
Cooperating with ascension energies is as simple as living a wholesome life, effective meditation, shadow work, eating an organic plant-based diet, and cutting out drugs and alcohol. It isn’t difficult or complicated. It is just important to do the basic things well.
A common misconception about ascension is that it will occur in some type of abrupt rapture like experience. However, even if possible this attitude is counterproductive and prevents many people from doing the work necessary to integrate the incoming higher vibrational energies. Ascension is not about running away from physical reality, it is about transforming it. It is about physical reality becoming more light filled. It is about raising the baseline vibration of physical reality and your own state of consciousness. It is an evolutionary process that requires you to choose to evolve.
In this February Ascension Energy & Ascension Symptoms Update 2021 we discuss the February ascension energy which can best be described as “riding the serpent of time.” Serpents do not slither in a straight line. They undulate in unpredictable patterns. In February we are on the back of the snake being carried towards the unknowable.
Since January of this year the most notable ascension symptom has been the experience of non-linear time. Subjectively it may feel like January was a year rather than a month, and that trend will continue to intensify throughout the month of February. This is a continuation and intensification of the phenomena noted in September of last year, where subjective time seems to dilate while objective time compresses. Since then subjective time has alternated between racing and crawling, with a few weeks of relative normalcy in between, which has led to a general feeling of disorientation.
Astrologically the weirdness with time is tied to the Saturn/Jupiter Grand Conjunction that occurred on December 21, 2020. However, the fluctuations in our sense of subjective time since September was but a foreshadow of a phenomena that will persist throughout 2023. This is due to a mysterious astrological configuration in Vedic astrology known as the Serpent of Time. This configuration occurs when all seven planets of the visible sky fall on one side of the zodiac, held within the arc of the nodes of the moon, Rahu and Ketu, according to a precise placement.
With one side of the zodiac empty and the other side inhabited by seven planets, a major imbalance occurs in our physical reality and perspective. This can trigger psychological destabilization, addiction, and self-destructive behavior. Moreover, for the collective it forebodes strange happenings. That which was taken for granted as stable and unchangeable as soon as 2019 will see a complete restructuring in the next few years.
The current Serpent of Time configuration will reach extreme intensity from February 8th until the 11th of 2021. There will be a confusion of conflicting energies during this time which may feel particularly disorienting. This Serpent of Time corridor will end on March 26, 2021 when Mars crosses over Rahu in Taurus, but since it is Mars conjuncting Rahu it will be a fiery finale. Additional Serpent of Time configurations will form throughout 2022 and 2023, suggesting a period of continued individual and collective upheaval and revelation.
We are riding the serpents back and are beyond the edge of the known moving into the unknowable. We are past the point of no return. There is no going back to normal. Let go of the past and know it has served you as well as it could. Proceed into the unknowable with an attitude of play.
Don’t take life too seriously. Life is a game. Even death is safe. Ride into the unknowable with childlike delight. Pleasure and pain are your teachers, learn your lessons with grace. Find laughter and joy even in the darkest moments.
Amidst the general feeling of disorientation you may feel estranged from your own life. The lack of alignment with family and friends may feel particularly noticeable and stark. Familiar environments may feel surreal and strange. This is a symptom of shifting timelines. We are riding the serpents back through time, space and dimensions.
Find stability by going within. Connect with that aspect of yourself which is unchanging. Tune into your great “I AM” presence and witnessing awareness. Relative reality is in flux. Stand firm in the absolute.
In this video I demonstrate the Preliminary Kriya Yoga Techniques which assist us with (i) balancing the masculine and feminine energies, (ii) unlocking the root chakra, (iii) unlocking the solar plexus, (iv) and unlocking the heart chakra. The Preliminary Kriya Yoga Techniques are intended to prepare our gross and subtle bodies for Kriya Pranayama, which involves pulling life force/kundalini energy up through the center of the spinal column. Those who do not succeed at Kriya Pranayama usually fail because they were not properly instructed or did not practice the preliminary techniques.
The Preliminary Kriya Yoga Techniques assist with balancing the pingala and ida nadis, which represent our masculine and feminine energies, and with releasing the various locks that keep kundalini energy from rising up to our higher energy centers. Most people’s kundalini energy is not active because their pingala and ida nadis are out of balance, which causes kundalini energy to remain dormant and locked within the root chakra.
The Preliminary Kriya Yoga Techniques utilize a series of pranayama practices that assist with awakening kundalini and releasing the various locks so that it may smoothly and naturally rise up to the higher energy centers. A detailed description of the Preliminary Kriya Yoga Techniques which include (i) alternate nostril breathing, (ii) circular breathing, (iii) breath of fire, and (iv) the victorious breath techniques can be found at the below link.
Detailed Description of Preliminary Kriya Yoga Techniques: https://zacharyadama.com/2021/02/04/preliminary-kriya-yoga-techniques-preparing-for-kriya-pranayama/
In this February Energy Update 2021 we look at the energetic themes for February. The major theme for February is the choice between fighting and forgiving. Many of us will find ourselves turning inward this month, which is an opportunity to return to the center of our beings. This opportunity to withdraw from outward bellicosity is an opportunity to return to the heart which is the zero point of all creation. From this zero point we can witness the shifting timelines around us, and shift to that which is preferred through the resonance of our heart’s vibration. As we vibrate higher towards our optimal timeline, we need only let go of that which does not serve us and return to the innocence of the present moment.
Fight or Forgive
The choice before us in February is to fight or forgive. Those who choose to fight are choosing the more difficult path - the path suffering, strife and assured mutual destruction. Most of us however, have grown very tired of fighting. We recognize the armor of war has caused our many unhealed wounds to remain unhealed. We have come to realize our own bellicosity is nothing more than our own unhealed pain. The path of war is a path of assured mutual destruction. The path of healing is a path of forgiving ourselves and others and moving on.
Turning Inward
Those who have tired of war and are choosing healing may find themselves turning inward this month. Many of us will find we are less and less interested in the dramas of third density. We have grown tired of the endless bickering and repeated cycles of pain and suffering. So we find ourselves withdrawing from the world, and releasing our attachments to outcome. Increasingly we watch our own minds and the play of form with a level of detachment. We see the warring factions for what they are. Injured children playing a futile game.
Return to Center
As we turn inwards we return to the center of our being. We recognize that we have been pulled in a thousand different directions by our own desires. We feel frayed and worn from having chased desires too long. Now we want to rest.
Rest in the self. Rest in the center of your being. It is your true home. It is where you reside when desire is not pulling you from your center. The month of February is about coming back home to the self and letting go of the desires that have caused you to fight and stray far from home.
This withdrawal from the world is returning you to your heart. Where the future is being born.
Shifting Timelines
Timelines continue to shift. The future is still being born. You may be feeling shacky. It may feel like the Earth is rocking beneath your feet. Your sense of security may feel challenged. The bedrocks of your life may be uprooted and replaced. The old must go to make way for the new.
Fire cleanses the Earth to make way for new growth. The storm cleanses the air and leaves it fresh and crisp. Watch the fire whip around you and through you. Watch the storm and feel it lash against your skin. Watch the death of the old world and the birth of the new from the vantage of your witnessing awareness.
Letting Go
We are completing a cycle. Allow sadness for loss when it arises but don’t hold onto it. Don’t make it a story that needs repeating and defines you. Witness it and let it go. We are at the point of no return. That which is not meant for you cannot stay, that which is meant for you is on its way.
Stop fighting the loss of the past. Stop fighting the birth of the future. Witness and allow. Let go of your need to be special or different. It is the cause of much suffering. Return to the innocence of the now moment.
In this video we discuss finding the inner teacher and living a spirit led life. The path to god and self-realization is long and winding. We begin that path in darkness. Lost in maya, not knowing up from down, backwards from forwards, darkness from light. Over time through the lessons of pleasure and pain we start to discern up, forwards, and light. At that point we are able to start moving out of darkness and upward towards the light of ever greater self-realization.
Sometimes along the way we are fortunate enough to meet teachers who help expedite our journey. Many teach us what not to be by their negative example, some educate our mind with valuable knowledge, and a few rare beings help liberate our soul.
A teacher who imparts liberation has been liberated. They have themselves learned to let the small self-step aside and surrender to god’s will manifesting through them. However, one should never get so caught up in revering a teacher that they forget to revere the god within them. Moreover, one should avoid the idolatry of mistaking a teacher, dogma, organization or method for god.
Use methods and learn from teachers in order to realize god within you. A time will come when your ego is tamed and your connection to god firm. When that time comes god will be your guru, and you will need no other.
Once the third eye and crown chakras are sufficiently activated you can live your life in constant god communion. God’s will need never be guessed at again. It will always be known, and it will be your choice to either consent or resist.
Sometimes our identity as a student can become the enemy of our mastery. When the teacher is put on too much of a pedestal the faithful student can sometimes subconsciously retard their own spiritual growth out of fear of eclipsing the revered teacher. The unperfected teacher may even withhold information and techniques from the student in order to keep the student from ever surpassing them.
A realized teacher on the other hand will share all that you can handle and pray you surpass them. Because on the path of mastery only god can be our guru. God is the teacher that we will never surpass but may always strive to become. When we become disciples of god, we let go of all other allegiances.
Let neither class, creed, race nor attachment to dogma, organization or teacher stand in your way of living a spirit led life. Strive ceaselessly to know god’s will and establish an unshakeable connection to your higher self, which is but another name for god. Then simply surrender to the path spirit is leading you upon.
In this Kriya yoga overview we address the question "What is Kriya yoga meditation?" This video gives a brief overview of its history, what it is, and where to learn it. Kriya yoga is a school of yoga in the raja yoga path. Raja yoga is the yogic path of meditation and life force control. Kriya yoga was founded in the modern age by Lahiri Mahasaya and popularized in the west by Parmahansa Yogananda. Kriya yoga uses pranayama, concentration, and mantra to achieve accelerated spiritual growth and evolution.
Kriya Secrets Revealed: Complete Lessons and Techniques https://www.amazon.com/Kriya-Secrets-Revealed-Complete-Techniques/dp/1479109517
Autobiography of a Yogi https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Reprint-Philosophical-library-First/dp/1565892127
In this January full moon message 2021 we look at the energy for the January 28th full moon. Full moons are a time for emotional and energetic purging, and for cycles to reach completion. This full moon holds a profound sense of sorrow for many. However, through great sorrow there is opportunity for great transformation. Because it is often the sorrow that drives us to transform.
One moment we can feel hopeful and on top of the world, the next we can feel sorrowful and hopeless. These swings in mood can happen in a moment with little to no prompting. Life circumstances that were yesterday pleasant, may today feel intolerable.
Beneath these abrupt shifts in mood turns the hidden wheel of time, fate and karma. The hidden wheel of change turns constantly. History may rhyme but it never repeats. We never experience the same moment the same way twice.
When we change slowly our life can seem to have a great deal of continuity. Our identity can feel stable and our future known. However, when we begin to change quickly we begin to see the false promise of our expectations about the future. Tomorrow will not necessarily look like yesterday, because today your perspective may radically change. So even if tomorrow physically looks like yesterday, the state of consciousness you encounter it with may be radically different.
Sorrow often arises when our state of consciousness has outgrown our life circumstances and physical reality. These are growing pains. They are natural and inevitable. As consciousness grows and expands our identities, relationships, life circumstances and environment must grow with it. Growth happens from the inside out. First our state of consciousness expands, then the sorrow of our lack of alignment forces us to change our physical reality.
In order to navigate these growth pains skillfully we must learn to distinguish between the negative state of laziness and the positive state of no-doing. Laziness is a negative state defined by complacency that leaves us feeling dull, dead and sleepy. Non-doing on the other hand is a positive state wherein we are fully present in the present moment overflowing with energy and creative potential.
Laziness is succumbing to the comforts of sleep and the things that lower our vibration. It is seeking refuge in unconscious states of being and behaviors. Non-doing on the other hand is to remain awake, to rest in your power, and cultivate daily habits and behaviors that keep you in a conscious state.
This is the time for non-doing, not laziness. We are experiencing the growing pains of conscious evolution. Noticing that our state of awareness is outgrowing our physical reality. Noticing where there is lack of alignment and polarizing our desire for a different way of being. If we remain awake, when the moment is ripe for physical change the fruit will drop from the tree and we will spring into inspired creative action. But timing is everything. The fruit will drop when it is ready.
First we create in the astral through the polarization of desire. We dream our future long before it ever becomes manifest in physical reality. For many of us our future is still under construction in the astral, keep dreaming, remain ready for when it is ready to be birthed into the physical.
In this episode I will be discussing the simplicity of being and subtracting everything that is not true. Many people think of the spiritual path as being about acquiring something outside of themselves. For many people spirituality becomes an unending quest for knowledge, techniques, plant medicines, or teachers. Many of us are in a perpetual cycle of fancying ourselves one book, seminar or medicine ceremony away from enlightenment.
However, the spiritual path isn’t about acquiring anything. It is about subtracting everything that is not true. The truth is innate to your being. Always there waiting to be discovered. Waiting to be dusted off, noticed and valued.
Many of us have lost the invaluable truth of who we are in the clutter of all that we are not. We lose sight of the self in the stories we tell ourselves, our personal biographies, and our judgments about others. Yet whether we notice it or not the self is always there watching the machinations of our minds.
The self is our witnessing awareness, our great “I AM.” The self is simplicity itself. The self is without preferences, stories, or judgments. The self exists in a state of perpetual peace, joy, love, and ever new bliss. The self is without agenda.
Simplify your nature. Don’t allow yourself to become overly complicated. Stop seeking god outside of yourself. Identify the truth within yourself and become it. There is no technique greater than letting go of all that is not true.
Jesus told his disciples that they must be like little children to enter the kingdom of heaven. As you simplify your nature your life will become more harmonious and heavenly. The complicated will lose interest in your lack of games. The dramatic will be repulsed by your lack of drama. The miserable will lament your lack of commiseration. Heaven is your own mind and other people, and so is hell.
You will never beat the complicated at their own game. Because to play the game is to lose your simplicity. It is to lose sight of truth. The game of ego is lost simply by playing it.
In this episode we discuss how to pray like a yogi. Prayer is another one of those concepts and practices that is often considered old fashioned, but which is vitally important on the spiritual path. Dogmatic religions often implore us to pray, and may even encourage us to use specific words, but generally ignore the deeper metaphysical laws and mechanics of prayer.
Many spiritual seekers forsake prayer altogether because they were traumatized by dogmatic conceptualizations of God. The judgmental and wrathful version of God they grew up with is not someone they trust or want to know, much less pray to. Others have come to the realization that the essence of their being is one with God, so see little use in prayer.
However, prayer is the process by which we truly become one with god and become co-creators of our reality. Unscientific modes of prayer focus on the right words or calling God by the right name. The yogi on the other hand focuses first and foremost on engaging in effective meditation practices that clear and balance their subtle energy body and energize the upper energy centers of the third eye and crown.
Prayer done from an ordinary state of consciousness characterized by scattered attention and busy thoughts will generally speaking not be very effective. You have broadcast your request to the universe, but at a very low voltage. Moreover, your prayer is entangled in the currents of your other thoughts, many of which may actually contradict your stated prayer.
Prayer does not become effective and reliable until you clear and balance the lower energy center, open the heart, and energize the third eye and crown chakras. Once you are able to experience superconscious states that are clear, thoughtless, and one pointed your prayers will be much more effective.
The third eye is your multidimensional broadcaster and a receiver of energies. If you can’t yet enter into a superconscious state of awareness at will, try meditating before prayer to calm your mind. Then while in a calm or superconscious state of awareness, energize the third eye through intention and/or mantras such as “AUM” chanted silently at the third eye until it is energized and buzzing.
Now in a calm or superconscious state of awareness with the third eye lit up you begin to pray. With hands in the prayer mudra over your heart imagine a current of love and devotion moving from your heart up to your third eye and onward to the infinite creator. On that current of love and devotion you may send your prayer with thoughts directed at third eye, or simply express gratitude and thanks for what you already have. When your prayer is done you may say “AUM” or “AMEN” to end the prayer.
When we pray from this state of awareness in this way, the signal of our prayer is strong and undiluted by the cacophony of ordinary thoughts. The more self and god realized you become the more effective your prayer will become. Because the strength of the signal of your prayer will become more and more energized and have less far to go.
The perfection of self and god realization and prayer in general is to fully merge your individual will and mind with that of the infinite creator. Once perfected your will becomes one with the will of God, and the universe responds to your prayers as a direct commandment from the creator.
An example of a prayer I have said often over the years is as follows:
“Mother/Father God, I am yours and you are mine. I pray for complete liberation from maya, karma, and ego. Mother/Father God, I pray that you make this body an instrument of thy will in every thought action and deed. Mother/Father God, I am yours and you are mine. I pray that we might be one. Amen.”
You may say this or any prayer you like, I tend to prefer prayers from the heart to those written by others.
We must have patience while awaiting the new. The old world is in a state of dissolution. Many of us spent years and decades waiting for this to come to pass with either expectation or dread. At times it felt like it never would. Often it felt like our wait was in vain.
However, the dissolution of the old third density matrix and civilization are well underway. Confusion is at an all time high. It is increasingly obvious that the third density state of consciousness characterized by the perception of separation cannot solve our civilization’s mounting problems.
At times change happens in an instant. Others it happens in fits and starts. At others still it is a slow inevitable unfolding that sometimes makes us feel like we are standing still. However, change is happening for you in your life. Have patience. Trust that it is happening.
Continue cultivating the inner flame of your consciousness. Continue to grow more luminous day by day. Do your practices and trust in the universe’s unfolding. Trust that change is inevitable, whether it be sudden or slow.
Things rarely happen on the timetable we would prefer. Sometimes we get glimpses of our future months, years or even decades before that future comes to pass. The wait can feel excruciating. But at the same time it is our desire for that future that often calls it into being.
Live life now as though your desires have already been fulfilled. How would you behave? How would you feel? Become that person. Live life now with the attitude you are already in possession of all that you desire out of life. When you do that you vibrationally align with your destiny and are magnetically drawn to it in time space. When it is time to act you will know. When the time is right, you will know.
Be patient and trust in universal law. Trust that the old must dissolve in order to make way for the new. Trust that whatever is happening in the present moment, whether it be pleasure or pain, is conspiring in favor of your highest good. Trust that the exterior chaos in your life serves a purpose.
Learn what can be learned from the past. It happened so it had to happen. It happened for your highest good. What is it teaching you? When the lesson is learned let it go. Do not regret the past. Regret is a wasted emotion. It wishes the past was other than it was. This is madness. The past is exactly what was needed. The universe makes no mistakes.
The path may be uncertain but the destination is ever the same. The universe is conspiring to open our hearts. To teach us how to love others and the self unconditionally. It is conspiring to teach us faith and will, and to remember all is one. Patience is a virtue. Learn your lessons with grace.
In this January Ascension Energy Update 2021 we discuss the massive solar plexus purging taking place this month. For the last several weeks I’ve noticed a tremendous amount of energy running through the solar plexus. This will be causing an uptick in ascension symptoms for many relating to the stomach and digestion. You may also notice you are more easily triggered than usual.
Many people are interested in ascension symptoms because they are a physical confirmation of spiritual reality. However, fewer are interested in the cure. Unfortunately there is no medicating ascension. You can try self-medicating with things that make you numb and suppress symptoms. But ultimately we all must confront that in us which is out of alignment and unresolved and do the work of healing and transformation, which takes daily practice and cultivation.
Ascension symptoms generally are a byproduct of psychological, energetic, and physical toxicity in the body being boiled to the surface by light. Mitigating ascension symptoms requires purification and healing on all levels.
While physical purification is important, an often neglected component of new age spirituality is the cultivation of virtue. The concept of virtue is quaint by modern standards and frequently misunderstood. However, the daily practice of cultivating virtue and a strong character are a key component of achieving psychological health.
Different cultures cite different virtues as being the most important and highly valued. These differences are a reflection of different cultural values and priorities. However, for the purpose of spiritual evolution I think it is useful to focus on the cardinal virtues of peace, love, fearlessness, and truth.
Peaceful
Be at peace with yourself and others. Identify bellicosity within your heart and see the perception of separation that is its source. We can only ever be at war with that which we view as being separate from ourselves. What are you othering? What aspect of yourself that is unacceptable to you are you trying to eradicate in another? Walk through the world in a way that embodies the quality of harmlessness. Strive for harmony in your relationships.
Loving
Love yourself and others unconditionally. Many people are afraid to love because they associate loving others with having no boundaries. They are afraid that love will make them foolish, passive, and a martyr. However, this view of love is quite unbalanced. To love unconditionally simply means to remain in conscious connection with others, and continually see them as nothing other than another aspect of self.
Love others and love yourself. Never forget you are both part of the same whole. Sometimes we need physical boundaries, we have the right to choose who we give our time and energy to, but we need never throw anyone out of our heart
Fearless
Fearlessness is something other than courage. We can only be courageous when we are afraid. Courageousness is willing ourselves to do that which we are afraid of. Fearlessness is not being afraid. Fear arises as a byproduct of our misidentification with form. We are afraid when we mistakenly believe there is something to be afraid of. We are afraid when we mistakenly believe that destruction or harm to this body or that of another is more than a relative reality, forgetting the absolute reality of the soul’s immortality.
Clarify where you are experiencing fear. Identify the misperception and misidentification with relative reality. Shift your perspective to view the situation through the lens of absolute reality and your soul’s immortality.
True
Truth is the expression of the aforementioned virtues. Without it we cannot truly be peaceful, loving, and fearless. Know thyself and to thine own self be true. Know thyself to be an infinite aspect of god having a finite experience. Be true to that absolute reality in your relative experience. Be honest with yourself and others at all times. Avoid even little white lies.
Every distortion of truth or omission puts a lump in the throat that cuts off the flow of prana. Which cuts us off from the realization of the ultimate reality of our great “I AM.” Be peaceful and loving in your speech. If your words want to come out bellicose, bring your awareness back to your heart until you find the love in the present moment. Your bellicosity is the product of falsehood. Speak the truth without fear. The truth can only ever destroy our delusions and those of others.
In this January New Moon Message 2021 we discuss the themes for the January 13th new moon. The themes for the January New Moon are that (i) the collective is at a tipping point, (ii) the awakened must find the master within, (iii) which is witnessing awareness, (iv) or become a slave to the mind, (v) in order to navigate accelerating change with grace.
Collective Tipping Point
The collective is at a tipping point. It is unclear how our leaders and civilization will meet the challenges of our time. In these extraordinary times there is an opportunity for greatness, nobility, and honor as well as mediocrity, pettiness, and weakness. Are our leaders up to the task? Are we as a people? It is unclear.
Find the Master Within
The awakened must find the master within. Being a spiritual dilettante is no longer an option. You will be a master in your own right, or a slave to someone else’s agenda. Those are the options before us.
It is often said that the mind is useful servant but a terrible master. If your mind is your master then you are a slave. Because the mind is never of its own making. It is a culmination of external influences and biases. It is easily tricked and manipulated by its own prejudices.
Put your mind it is rightful place as servant of your witnessing awareness. Your witnessing awareness is the inner master. It is that aspect of self which is unchanged by exterior circumstances, it simply sees and knows.
Become the Witness
Become witnessing awareness. Lay down your heavy mind. If you are too identified with your mind you will be driven insane. Meditate daily. Practice identifying with witnessing awareness daily. Become the witness, disidentify with the mind.
When you are identified with the witness, the inner master, you will simply know truth from falsehood. You will see it like you might see the sun. You do not need further proof that the sun shines brightly when it shines upon your face and eyes. The truth is self-evident. The stories of the blind that there is no sun hold no interest.
Lack of identification with witnessing awareness is to walk through the world blind. It is to walk through the world denying the sun. Even as it shines upon your face and nourishes your body.
Slave of the Mind
Many have become slaves to their minds. Many walk through life believing themselves to be masters, when they are in fact slaves to exterior forces. The great liberator is daily meditation. Only through consistent practice may your inner mastery come forward and self-evident truth be revealed. Be no more a slave to the fickle stories and competing agendas of others. Look within, awaken, open your eyes, and see the sunshine shinning upon your face.
Grace Amidst Accelerating Change
When you find your inner mastery by identifying your awareness with the inner witness you will walk through these times of accelerating change with grace. If not you will find yourself groping in the dark and led astray. Before you seek truth outside of the self, seek ye within. Then the golden path filled with sunlight will be revealed, and the paths of darkness and lesser lights will fade away.
In my 2020 overview I discuss how this year has laid the foundation for the rest of my incarnation. December marks one year since I made my first youtube video. Over the course of 2020 I've experienced a series of shamanic initiations that have been calling me into deeper spiritual service. In January 2020 I flew down to Peru to the SpiritQuest Shamanic sanctuary where I partook in four Ayahuasca ceremonies and was reunited with Kali Maa. Throughout 2019 I had been discerning spiritual vocation. But during my ayahuasca ceremonies I discovered that the avenue for my spiritual service was to be kriya yoga and the science of consciousness as expressed therein. My ayahuasca ceremonies were a recommitment to spiritual service to humanity.
In the summer I would end up going to Arizona to the Peyote Way Church of God, where I received another initiatory experience with peyote. All shamanic initiations are an interaction between our own psyche and external forces. They are part self initiation and part mystical interaction with non-corporal beings. During my peyote ceremony I experienced myself being initiated into the great white brotherhood, and have since entered into deeper communion with my own inner master.
At every step along the path in 2020 god has shown me the next step of my journey. The friendships and partnerships I've needed to serve others have fallen into place exactly when they were needed. Truly when we aspire to do good the universe conspires in our favor. I'm looking forward to even greater service in 2021.