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            <title><![CDATA[The Art of the Mistake]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2017 15:10:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/300/0*pzoIHBGagXzrfrib.jpg" /></figure><p>Sometimes we humans can get obsessed with getting things right. The pursuit of perfection has led many a person into depression and substance abuse. The fear of failure can keep us from acting, and keep us from following our heart path.</p><p>We need to learn the art of making a mistake.</p><p>Apparently mistakes are one of the central features of the Divine plan. They can keep us humble and in surrender to the process if we allow it. And usually, if we release the need to judge and blame, the need to have a reason to forgive in the first place, the beauty of the process will reveal itself. Some of the biggest breakthroughs in life can be disguised as failure.</p><p>We begin by realizing that EVERYTHING that happens, happens at the behest of God. AND, that it happens for our good. Coming from this approach, we are free to perceive and even understand the lesson, the nuances involved. The ego mind likes to have its opinion on the way things are unfolding, but that opinion is what obscures the reality of the situation. God’s reality.</p><p>Releasing the mental idea of good and bad, right and wrong, frees us to respond from guidance within the heartspace. To move from Divine inspiration, divine mind. It also frees our mind to receive understanding as God’s reality unfolds before us. It also opens new avenues of expression that go beyond what we think may be possible.</p><p>The art of the mistake involves releasing the fear of mistakes, accepting the unfoldment as Divine, and allowing the deeper part of ourselves to rise through human expression. We are Divinely flawed, and perfect in our imperfections.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=528cc542c260" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Practical Guide to Enlightenment]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[gnosis]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[transcendence]]></category>
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            <category><![CDATA[evolutionary-psychology]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Olson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 02:37:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phase One — <strong>When ethereal spirit projects into dense matter a fracturing occurs. Awareness splits from Super-conscious into conscious, subconscious and unconscious. The ego is a product of this separation. The problem arises when the ego forgets its identity beyond form.</strong></p><p><strong>The ego is a fear-based thought system. Its mechanisms are based on avoidance of pain and the experience of pleasure. It is a learned system based on trial and error, and therefore keeps our awareness trapped by the past. It is of this world, it is the dualistic mind. Its true purpose is to be a tool of awareness, a catalog of experience. It will never find fulfillment, never be complete, until it reconnects with true Self.</strong></p><p><strong>Our goal is to rebuild our consciousness to operate as a more integrated Whole. For this to happen, we must release our attachment to the ego mind so that it may step aside and find its true place. As long as it is at the forefront, other layers of awareness and function remain in the background. We want to regain conscious access to the immense power which is the connected Self.</strong></p><p><strong>The first step is for the ego to understand that it, alone, is powerless over the immensity that is existence. It must, in order to evolve to the next stage of development, accept its limits. Only at this point can consciousness begin to integrate Higher Mind.</strong></p><p><strong>The second step is to come to an understanding that it is through reconnecting with Higher Mind that we move into the connected Self. Its the flip side of the coin. By releasing who I think I am, I find my true Self. And as such, the degree to which I find connection is directly related to the degree to which I admit and accept the powerlessness of the ego mind. Its a God paradox.</strong></p><p><strong>The third step of this phase is to give our self to Higher Power. There are many names given to Higher Power, but here the name is unimportant. The important thing is that we abandon our self to that Higher Being. So whether we call it God, Goddess, Allah, Krishna, Buddha nature, Gaia, the Tao or the Universe, we surrender ourselves.</strong></p><p><strong>From this point on we can release our opinions, preferences, and striving for some particular outcome. Our existence is an extension of the will of the Universe. In effect, it always has been, but now we become conscious participants in the unfolding. The source of our life becomes the Source of all power and all wisdom. Little me becomes the connected me, the agent of God. This is liberation from limitation.</strong></p><p><strong>Here we take our first physical action along the pathway. We follow the decision we’ve made with a prayer, spoken aloud (something to do with the vocal vibration). I use the word “Father” in addressing Higher Being. You may choose to substitute any words that work more in conjunction with your faith. The prayer follows:</strong></p><p><strong>“Father, I offer myself to you — to build with me, and to do with me as you will. Relieve me of the bondage of self. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help, of your power, your love, and your way of life. I ask that you guide my thoughts and my actions this day, and that you make me sensitive and obedient to your will. May I do your will always.” And so it is.</strong></p><p>​</p><p><strong>I encourage you to begin each day by saying this prayer, or a version of it. It puts the day in perspective and allows us to move forward in a new direction. Your life is now in the hands of God.</strong></p><p><strong>Also, life gives us the opportunity to put the meaning of this prayer into action every day. My favorite place to practice it is when standing in a long line at the grocery store. Rush hour driving provides ample opportunity as well. A “practice” of this principle is the greatest remedy you will find to life in our modern culture.</strong></p><p><strong>This completes the first phase. In the next, we begin to get to know the ego mind and its operation, so that as we move forward we can better understand its traps and pitfalls. And as such, we will begin to answer Apollo’s call from his temple at Delphi to “Know Thyself”.</strong></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=b534aec75375" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Twenty five years ago I had a "spiritual" experience that changed my life.]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Olson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 08:40:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twenty five years ago I had a &quot;spiritual&quot; experience that changed my life. I came away from it with a gnosis, a knowledge that this was a lifetime in which the world would change. That I was here to help usher in that change. After two and a half decades of blood, sweat, tears, depression, utter failure and despair, here we are. And the time is Now (the time has always been Now:).</p><p>If you keep up with astrological events, the past year has been, for lack of a better word, crazy. On top of that, the electromagnetic field of the earth, steady as she goes at 7.83ish Hz for recorded history, has been spiking on a fairly regular basis, the last to 500+Hz. Our brainwave frequency falls into entrainment with this field.</p><p>Humans have a tendency to &quot;normalize&quot; things, but as an observer of events for the past several years, I can officially say that shit be crazy out there. Endtimes scenarios playing out. And if people stop for a few moments to pull their heads out of the &quot;devices&quot;, you see it too. But this is not the end, this is the Beginning.</p><p>A new spiritual dynamic has &quot;set in&quot; on our little plain of existence. A transformation is happening here, now. A new &quot;level&quot; of conscious awareness has made itself available for us to participate in. In order to accept, we simply have to be willing to release the old. Let go, and let god, as it were.</p><p>There are tools which can make this process a bit more effective, things we can do to ease the transition. As an evolutionary scientist I have outlined the most effective plan I have found through my decades of study, strung together from the worlds of religion, science, metaphysics and recovery. It is available on this site, follow this <a href="http://www.journeytowholeness.net/">link</a> and click &quot;Begin the Course&quot; at the bottom.</p><p>The time is Now, y&#39;all. Our world, the very continuance of the human race is in peril. In the words of the great Krishnamurti :</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/624/1*SsH9EpYy9IAXsVWGa-Hf1g.jpeg" /></figure><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=7b272e51ffa1" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stoking the Fires of Transformation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:18:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/300/0*MrMDcxj_sD3GQbxn.png" /></figure><p>Spiritual alchemy involves transforming the human base nature into the gold of spiritual nature. This is the true Great Work, the transformation of consciousness from earth mind to divine mind.</p><p>The secret, the essence of this transformation, is in the understanding, and the realization, that what we seek is already present. All we are doing is burning off the “dross”, releasing that which obscures the gold underneath. This “gold”, this spiritual perfection, is our true nature. It is our true reality.</p><p>There are concrete practices to burn away the dross, to release the programming of the ego mind. In a previous article I revealed that the true meaning of Holy “Spirit” is Holy Breath. Breathing the breath of God. In this practice we will utilize the Holy Breath to stoke the fires of transmutation, transforming our consciousness from earth mind to divine mind.</p><p>The science of neural plasticity has to do with actually rewiring the way our brain functions. The following exercise does this by utilizing the electromagnetic field of the heart to cause the brain’s through patterns to move into entrainment.</p><p>Phase Two of the program “A Practical Guide to Enlightenment” lays out a framework to investigate and identify the ego mind’s fear based through system. For a thorough practice of this dynamic, I suggest you work through an inventory of the ego mind, although this is not necessary for the practice detailed here.</p><p>We begin with a practice of observation of our own thought process, simply observing the way we are thinking at any given moment. With this practice, we introduce the practice of non attachment/non aversion. Observing our though process without judgement, no right or wrong, good or bad.</p><p>Practicing the Holy Breath begins to expose us to the expansive awareness found within the heartspace. When the ego’s fear based thought system begins to pull our awareness away from the heartspace, we observe this thinking without judgement, and become willing to release it. Not push it away or bury it, not feed into it. We become willing to release it.</p><p>Next, we accept whatever feelings and emotions these thoughts bring with them. We welcome them in, and feel them. Anger, lust, greed, all of these have a frequency associated with them. We allow them into our emotional body without judgement.</p><p>Then, we turn to the Holy Breath. We breathe into the heart center and allow our minds to merge with expanded awareness there. We allow the electromagnetic frequency of the heart center to synchronize our thoughts, and our emotions. This field is exponentially more powerful than the brain’s thought processes. We allow this field to bring our thoughts and emotions into a state of entrainment. Keep consciously breathing into the heart chakra, synchronizing, until a calm sense of presence is established.</p><p>Repeat as necessary.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=1a474d55246c" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zero Point]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2017 19:39:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have the power of all creation inside you.</p><p>This is not philosophy, or esoteric mumbo blah. This is a scientific fact. Granted, this has not, as yet, been understood and accepted by the “mainstream”, but here are the details.</p><p>Nassim Haramein is a savant philosopher/scientist. He has put forth a revolutionary “unified field theory”. If you are not familiar, this is what Einstein was working on when he transitioned (I believe Haramein is Einstein “reincarnated”). He has done all the math, has the geometry exacted, and even decodes the Tree of Life, I Ching, and ancient symbolism from various cultures through time and across the globe that point to this rather simple “equation”.</p><p>At the center of every atom is a mini black hole. All of ‘creation’, what we consider to be the physical world, blinks in and out of this black hole, aka “the void”, at the speed of light. There is a mini Big Bang from every atom, in which creation “erupts” and is pulled back in, in every moment at the speed of light. The void is non-local, is omnipresent, literally “everywhere”. Within the void, which is at the center of each atom, is contained the energy of all creation. In each particle, everywhere.</p><p>The scale created by Haramein’s equation plots everything from the universe to the atom, in a more or less exact progression. And just about the center of this progression is the biology of the human body, which means, according to Haramein, you and I act as the event horizon of the black hole. We feed information into the void, based on our energetic “equation”, the void takes in and interprets that information, and feeds it back out as creation. We are both creating, and being created, at the speed of light.</p><p>So, more or less, a scientific explanation for the way prayer and the power of belief and “the secret”, magic… etc. etc. works. Our energetic expression (not just thought, which only plays a small roll compared to the entirety of the bodies energetic signature), our energetic expression is the imprint the void uses as a model for creation, utilizing the mathematics found within “sacred geometry” (a google will be informative if you are not familiar with the term).</p><p>In meditation, in stillness, we center ourselves within the void. We commune with the All, as the All is the void. This is Zero Point.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=7e823ddf2882" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Breathing the Breath of God]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Olson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:11:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings, I am Thomas, and I am an evolutionary scientist. In another lifetime I was known as Didymus Judas Thomas, the disciple of Yeshua, commonly known today as Jesus. I bring you this information for the purpose of informing you that the original message of the master Yeshua has been subverted, it is incomplete. It is my purpose to help restore that message at this time.</p><p>We will start off small, with one of the biggest discrepancies. Just a word that was never translated from Latin to English. “Spirit” is a Latin word, it means breath. In Greek, the word used was pneuma, meaning breath. In Hebrew, the word is ruach, meaning breath. That kinda changes things, don’t you think? The Holy Spirit, in reality, is the Holy Breath.</p><p>Instead of an esoteric Holy “Spirit”, Yeshua came to bring us the concrete practice of breathing the Holy Breath, actually breathing the breath of God. Go through the New Testament, and change every instance of Holy Spirit to Holy Breath, and you will get an idea of how important this knowledge, this practice, is. Change every instance of “spirit” to “breath”.</p><p>Many cultures use breathwork as part of a spiritual regimen. In India, the practice of pranayama utilizes the focus on the breath to synchronize with the life-force of the body. In the following meditation practice, we will be using the breath to synchronize the electromagnetic field of the brain with the electromagnetic field of the heart. This is what is known as heart/mind coherence.</p><p>The electromagnetic field produced by the heart is exponentially more powerful than that of the brain. The heart contains the same type of cells as the brain, call neurites in the heart. The heart is intuitive, reacting to outer stimulus before it actually occurs, and it sends much more information to the brain than vice versa.</p><p>In the Gospel of Thomas, Yeshua tells us that when we “make the two, One”, that we can move mountains. This practice is intended to do just that, using the breath to bring the brain and the heart into a state of entrainment.</p><p>This practice works best after we have done some work clearing the energy body of any blockages that may be lurking from our past, or even ancestral memory. There is information that cellular memory is stored within our DNA. Clearing has been occurring naturally recently, but there are practices which can assist with this. One is detailed in Phase Two of the program “A Practical Guide to Enlightenment”. But even if you have not done this type of work this meditation and practice is beneficial.</p><p>We begin by bringing the focus of the mind to the breath. Connect with the breath and observe it as it moves into the body and fills the lungs. Do not force this focus, allow the mind the synchronize with the breath.</p><p>We want to now connect the mind and breath with the body. Send your awareness down to your feet. Breath into the feet, connect with the feet on the in-breath, and release with the out-breath. Move up the body in this fashion, next to the calves, next to the thighs. Breath in and connect with the in-breath, release with the out breath. Waist and hips, torso, hands, forearms, upper arms, shoulders, neck then head. Now, you are simply the breath.</p><p>Send your awareness now to your heart chakra. If you are unfamiliar with the heart chakra, a bit of googling will be beneficial. This is the bodies central energy field, residing in the heart/upper chest area. Allow your awareness to move into this energy center. Breath into this energy center and feel the expansive awareness. Here the breath merges into this energy field moving out from the body, yet still centered in the heart. This is the gateway into the expanded awareness of your Higher Self.</p><p>Spend some time here. Feel and sense the energy field of the head/brain attuning to the expansive awareness of the heart center. With each breath allow your awareness to expand, beyond the body and within. This awareness is your true reality. Now, consciously, breath in the breath of God. This is the Holy Breath, the Holy Spirit.</p><p>John 4: 23–24 — “But the time is coming and is already here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in breath and in truth. The Father is looking for anyone who will worship him that way. For God is the Breath, so those who worship him must worship in breath and in truth.”</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=eb7f973e9c01" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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