Which Self, Which World?

by Worldchangeguy on March 13, 2009

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The purpose of The Reality Creation Project is to change the world for the better by changing ourselves for the better.  How we define ourselves and the world around us forms our intent, which in turn, forms our reality. Therefore, it is important to challenge our old beliefs of who we are and what reality is because how we see ourselves, and the world around us,  determines how we treat ourselves and one another.

There is nothing we have to do – only what we want to do. Take what you like and leave the rest.

Education Letter to Obama

by Worldchangeguy on August 19, 2010

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President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

SUBJECT: Project-Centered Education versus Program-Centered Education. Limitation of mind can produce great suffering. Education should be as much about raising consciousness as it is about raising money. It should be as much about serving the needs of the individual as it is about serving the needs of all.

All beings harbor within their consciousness the ideals, seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good, but few have the courage or wisdom to express them to any significant degree under the overwhelming pressure to survive and gain acceptance in the world as it is. As an individual, you seem to have actualized these values very successfully. I suspect, in addition to love, they represent your highest goals in life or you would not be as bright or insightful as you are. Imagine what America would be like, what life would be like, if these values played a significant role in our lives, if they were consciously present in the mind of every person and written above the entrance of every school and institution. Imagine that the role of every teacher is to help every student achieve these goals to the world’s and the student’s greatest benefit and satisfaction.

Open-ended, unassuming values like these open our hearts and minds and keep them open over a lifetime. However, our current belief/education systems often close our minds and imaginations. They distort and limit our powers of observation and discernment instead of expanding them. Here is why I say this: when I started catechism class in Catholic school in 1947, a nun told the entire class that all humans are sinful (born in sin) because Adam and Eve ate an apple from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil against God’s command. The nun also added emphatically, “And you can’t trust the flesh because it will always betray you” – her personal belief, I suspect. In one awful moment, every student in that class was told you’re bad and you can’t trust yourself. There was a third message hidden in these words as well – trust us (the church) and do as we say, we know what’s best for you. Loudly protesting these damning ideas, I was told, “Be quiet!”

The next morning, as we stood in line outside her classroom, the nun appeared and pulled me out of line. She looked down and asked, “Are you going to learn your catechism today?” Looking her in the eye, I said No! She immediately pulled a heavy wooden ruler out of her habit, grabbed my right wrist and started beating my knuckles as hard as she could until I cried out in pain and humiliation. It was as if by using torture she could force me to submit to the church’s teachings.

That entire period, I sat with my back to her, facing the rear wall of the classroom. The next day, after walking the two miles to school with my older brother Dicky, I refused to enter. On the way to school, I had made up my mind never to go there again. I said I would wait in the woods behind the church until he got out so we could walk home together.

That afternoon I told my mother what happened and repeated that I would never go back there again. Angry herself, the next morning she enrolled Dicky and me in public school. When my new teacher asked me to stand up and introduce myself, I used the opportunity to tell him how the catholic school treated its students. I then asked him how public schools treated theirs. He shouted, “Sit down, shut up and do as I tell you because I’m the teacher and I know what’s best for you!”

I had struck a nerve and under the veneer of politeness and concern, the message was loud and clear. The dominant cultural belief was, and still is, that children are the ward of the state. At its worst, the rationale goes, it is in the best interest of competition and survival to sift the chaff from the wheat, skim the cream from the top. At best, we want children to grow up so they can replace us in the work force, become financially independent, good consumers and start replacement families of their own. It is no wonder many children feel alienated, become angry and act out or go underground with their thoughts and feelings. We prepare them to fit into life, as it is, not to question and improve it, not to stretch and grow in response to his or her experience, curiosity, impulses and inclinations; it is to accept the established teachings of institutional authorities without question. If it wasn’t for the whispered encouragement of our souls, the promise of love and a fear of dying, mankind would have been toast long ago.

We are now reaping the rewards of this flawed system in an unprecedented breakdown of relationships and society. We are a society at war with itself. Government does not trust the people and the people do not trust the government. Fear and greed supersede love and sharing in our relationships.

How can we change direction? Instead of limiting ourselves to the question, what’s going to work best for “ME”, as many of us now do, we can start asking:

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  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in personal terms? (What is the best way to fulfill our own unique potential in support of the world and ourselves?)
  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of business? (What is the best way to maintain the health and well-being of the planet and humanity?
  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of education? (What is the best way for us to learn and grow? What are the most important things for us to learn?)
  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of the environment? (What is the best and most sustainable way for us to relate to nature and the earth?)
  • What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of peace? (What is the best way for us to relate to each other as individuals and nations?)

Make the Jump from the Value Judgment World to the Value Fulfillment World

Humanity has faced serious challenges to its existence before. We are facing one now. More than ever, we must be still and “know”, not melt down in fear and become reactionary, which only makes matters worse. We must open our hearts and minds to new ideas, new ways to see ourselves, and the world around us. We must think with new clarity and boldness. We must explore, discuss, collaborate and share. We must grow beyond our current limitations of thought and being.

First, consider there are two major value systems that serve as models for human behavior and two value systems that serve as measures of success. Life as we know it plays itself out within the matrix of these ideas. These core concepts, and how we relate to them, determine how we think and act in life. They give us the option of creating a Value Judgment World or a Value Fulfillment World. In a fear-based Value Judgment World, we manipulate and control each other with external values. We make value judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, smart and stupid, strong and weak, guilt and punishment. In a love-based Value Fulfillment World, individuals live by value fulfillment and practice idealism. In other words, they consciously determine the values of life and being they value most, their ideals, and actualize them to the best of their ability. They figure out what works for them and what doesn’t, what makes them happy and what doesn’t.

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Models of Behavior

1. Law of the Jungle – The Law of the Jungle is fear-based and tells us that life is about separation, scarcity, competition and survival of the fittest. Some interpret this to mean that every man is an island, it’s eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.

2. Law of the Body – The Law of the Body is love-based and tells us that life is about oneness AND separation, interdependence, collaboration, sharing, creativity and cooperation. We know unconsciously, if not consciously, the lessons our bodies teach us, or life would be short and brutal indeed!

Measures of Success

1. Money, Power and Privilege – money, power and privilege are objective, material measures of success.  Providing food, shelter and safety for our families and ourselves is essential while we exist in material form.  For most, this is by far the dominant measure of success in our lives.

2. Love, Truth and Joy – love, truth and joy are subjective, emotional measures of success. For some, love, truth and joy are just as important and life giving as money, power and privilege, if not more so.

Whichever set of core beliefs we identify with most has the greatest influence on our surface thoughts, feelings and behavior. If we find the Law of the Jungle and the idea of money, power and privilege more appealing, we become more fearful, predatory and materially oriented. If we find the Law of the Body and love, truth and joy more appealing, we become more peaceful, loving and thought-conscious or spiritual. Evidence suggests, as a whole, we are closer to the material end of the spectrum than the spiritual end – if this is not so in numbers of people, it certainly is so in the impact of materialism on our lives.

Change Begins Within

The “reality” we perceive through our physical senses is a projection of our Primal Motive. As individuals, each one of us strikes a different balance between the Will to Be (spontaneous, loving creation) and the Will to Survive (our fear of dying and obsession with survival in material form).  As societies and cultures it is the same; we strike a collective balance between the two, with one usually dominating the other. This suggests that to change what we see in the world, and ourselves, we must first change our position with respect to both Primal Motives. It is far less complicated and inexpensive to explore and make sense of two Primal Motives than to try making sense of everything going on in the world. We could spend lifetimes doing that and according to some belief systems, we do.

Many of us think life, as we know it, is failing or unsustainable because, as a culture, we make money, power and privilege more important than love, truth and joy. As a result, we live with more fear than love. Our thinking is more material than spiritual. It is compartmentalized, specialized and limited. As a society, we overtly and covertly place many areas of inquiry and exploration off limits, which results in feelings of oppression and selective perception. The challenge for each of us is to figure out what balance of ideas will work best for us as individuals and as a world. It is time to ask questions, not accept “official” answers without question.

The growing collapse of our economic and social system – increases in population, people in jail, homelessness, joblessness, food shortages, disease, wars, global warming, unsustainable growth and the loss of wealth, can be laid at the feet of putting fear, individuality and self-interest (ego) ahead of love, oneness and the common good. A similar imbalance occurs when we put the common good ahead of self-interest. We are capable of creating a system that values both equally. By giving equal value to both our oneness and individuality, we make it possible to cooperate, not compete, with one another. In addition, by asking questions that include ALL of us, we not only acknowledge our oneness and individuality, we acknowledge our individual and collective roles, and responsibility, in co-creating our shared reality.

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Five Beliefs That Will Change the World for the Better

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us. In other words, how we define ourselves, and the world around us, forms our intent, which in turn forms our reality.

We are both one AND separate. What you do to me, you do to you. What I do to you, I do to me. What you do to you, you do to me. What I do to me, I do to you. This largely intuitive knowledge is what gives substance and meaning to the Golden Rule – “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” (Is the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in our troops and the guilt we feel when we harm others, as well as ourselves, the soul’s way of telling us to stop doing these things?)

We are not only the product of creation; we are creation itself! In the dynamic dance of life, sometimes we lead and sometimes we follow. Sometimes we do both simultaneously.

ALL life is sacred. You are one face of God. I am another. God is All That Is and All That Is, is God!  

EVIL does not exist in reality. Consciousness (Energetic Awareness, Awareized Energy) or God wants to know itself in all ways. It seeks pleasure, not pain! However, to tell one from the other, to have the power of choice, Consciousness must know both. To know hot, we must know cold, to know happy, we must know sad, to know love, we must know fear.

Responsibility (response-ability, accountability, creativity and self-development) is the price of freedom, peace and long-term human survival. We can view life as a burdensome journey of pain and suffering or a creative opportunity to learn and grow. In either case, we get what we concentrate on. As creative beings our ultimate challenge is to see where we are, decide where we want to be, and get from here to there, safely and responsibly.

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The 21st Century serves as a natural timeframe for building a dream, a vehicle for life in the New Millennium that will help transport mankind through the next 1,000 years in peace and safety.

Project-Centered Education versus Program-Centered Education

Program-Centered Education: Normally, as adults, we see children as thinking, feeling and creative beings. So why do we settle for an “official” view that defines them as anything less? Many of us sense children are newly arrived souls launched on a journey of self-discovery and reawakening. When we see a truth and ignore it, we are guilty of false loyalty, whether it is to a beloved individual or a sacred belief. In doing so, we are saying that loyalty to people and beliefs, even when they do us serious harm, is more important than life itself.

Program-Centered Education treats children as property – as resources or commodities to develop, harness and exploit for personal and social gain. Seldom does it encourage students to develop their own beliefs and values or question and challenge established ones. (See, My Recurring Superman Nightmare for an example of how the system works.)

In life and business, how many of us ask if what we’re doing is good? Does it improve the quality of life and increase humanity’s chances for survival or does it undermine it? In many cases, we do what we think works best for us, giving little or no thought to how it works for others. To create a society based solely on the Will to Survive, which many of us interpret to mean – survival of the fittest, eat or be eaten, kill or be killed – is a recipe for disaster. We need to include the Will to Be for the expansion of consciousness and balance. It is what makes us feel love and care about our future.

Project-Centered Education sees us as both one AND separate. We are both the product of creation and creation itself. The “project” in Project-Centered Education is to create better versions of reality and ourselves. Starting with what’s going to work best for ALL of us, in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace, teachers and students can develop projects that help them discover greater understanding and serve the highest good. By encouraging children to ask questions, we not only engage them in creating their own reality and shaping their own future, we enlist them as partners in co-creating our shared reality.

When seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good is our primary goal we have a purpose for living and learning, and buried within these ideals is the promise of love, truth and joy. We are not bad; it is our ideas about who we are and what reality is that limit and distort our human expression.

“Education” includes doing for ourselves what others will not or cannot do for us.

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Active and thoughtful participation in the creation of our reality is the change we have been waiting for. Public education is an excellent place to start.

Evolution, not Revolution – it’s time for God’s “Children” to grow up.

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What can we do today for the selves we’ll be tomorrow?

Roger and Sandra Peterson

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Vice President Joe BidenEd. Secretary Arne Duncan

Senate Speaker Harry Reid

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Senator Tom Harkin

Senator Bernie Sanders

Senator Sharrod Brown

 Senator Al FrankenSenator Dianne Feinstein

Senator Barbara Boxer

Representative Dale  Kildee

Representative Dennis Kucinich

Representative Lynne Woolsey

Representative Alan Grayson

Oprah Winfrey

 Bill & Melinda GatesSteven Spielberg

Bill Moyers

Thom & Louise Hartmann

Amy Goodman

Ed Shultz

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

CA Ed. Super. Jack O’Connell

 

We Create Our Own Reality

During the course of everyday events we often forget the role of thoughts in the forging of our material reality. We get lost in the visible symbols, the material by-products of our imaginations, forgetting the invisible blueprints from which they, and we, emerge.

Pure energy like money, its material equivalent, is shaped into matter and experience by thought. It can be used to lift up or smash down, to build character or destroy character, to express love or express hate, to beautify or make ugly.

The purpose, or challenge, of life is to learn how to use thought in its various forms to shape energy into a pleasing reality. The prize is a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of a job well done. And, like learning to walk or talk, it is a personal, subjective endeavor that requires creative aggression. It is a great balancing act, where one must accept falling down in the course of learning how to stand up.

Remember:

Thoughts are “things” with a reality of their own and you an artist. With thoughts in the forms of belief, attitude, value and expectation, you paint the landscape of your life.

 

Visit The Real Talk World Library (http://realtalklibrary.com). It contains many first-hand accounts of extraordinary experiences like Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love, Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers, Inside Ivy, What I Learned in Catholic School, Dreams of My Unborn Grandson, A Healing Meditation Surprise, Pete’s Creation Dreams (includes the Genesis Dream), The “Suckface” Incident and The Ball of Light – a (Lucid) Dream about the Nature of Consciousness and Being. These experiences and others describe a much larger picture of who we are, what reality is and what we can all do when we let ourselves go gladly into the nature of creativity and not hold back.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 

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Thoughts and Questions for the New Year

by Worldchangeguy on January 1, 2010

Remember how good you are, how much you do and how well you do it!

I paste material like this up on my bathroom wall behind the toilet so my guests and I can have something useful to do while using the loo. Mind if I share it with you? Happy New Year!

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves and the world around us. Ask yourself: what’s the best way for me to think about myself and the world around me? What’s going to work best for me and ALL of us? We are not only the product of creation, we are creation itself!

 The power of choice and the strength of persistence (“Never give up!” – Winston Churchill) are what give us hope for creating the change we want to see in ourselves and the world.

Believe in yourself and your own unique abilities. NO ONE can do a better job of creating your reality than you!

What’s going to work best for ALL of us in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace?

How we define ourselves and the world around us forms our intent, which in turn, forms our reality.

Create positive change in the world by creating new and better rituals:

For example, the Catholic Sign of the Cross states: “In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.” The Father is God, the Son is Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is the loving bond between God and Christ, Father and Son. I don’t know about you but I feel excluded from this ritual, left outside in the cold. I refuse to accept that so I’ve created a new Sign of the Cross, one that works for me. As I touch the fingers of my right hand to my forehead, heart, left shoulder and right shoulder in a sequential sign of a cross, I say:

In love of You, Me, Us and All That Is!

This ritual acknowledges both the oneness and individuality of All That Is. The reference to “You” can be another person, nature or anything you want to acknowledge in the moment. We need to create new and better rituals, rituals that serve us, not enslave us. We need to be bold and creative! It is time we include ourselves in the Sacred Circle of Life.

Sometimes I vary my Sign of the Cross by saying:

 I love You, Me, Us and All That Is, unconditionally; and I remember how good we are, how much we do and how well we do it.

When we want peace more than war, we will have it!

I often wonder if the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) so many of our combat troops experience is the result of “knowing” intuitively that when they kill someone else, they’re killing a part of themselves. More of us are beginning to think that the universe is alive, that “Energy” is not just a mindless, mechanical force that creates reality by accident. It is much more than that!

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Energetic Awareness or Awareized Energy is the only answer that explains everything I’ve ever experienced in waking reality, dreams and imagination. It is also consistent with discoveries in Quantum Physics that are bringing us closer and closer to an understanding that the basic unit of anything is a unit of consciousness. Individual units of consciousness act like stem cells and can become anything, forming and dissolving structures in response to the intent and design of thought forms around them, of which we are one. We lose the sense of magic and wonder this process represents when we push it away from us and simply refer to it as electromagnetic energy. When we examine ourselves carefully we can see the fundamental qualities of consciousness at work in our lives and how it unfolds as a direct result of thoughts and emotions – the spontaneous and directed interaction of consciousness and energy at all levels of being.

According to this understanding of creation, we are killing a part of ourselves when we” kill” someone else, even home-invading ants, at the biological level of being because we are breaking their connection to their biological experience, which, as we all know, requires a great deal of time and energy to create. Even though as pure energy we cannot be destroyed, breaking another entity’s connection to their biological experience is a big deal, big enough to make anyone feel guilty for doing so.

- Roger “Pete” Peterson - http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Reality Creation Project Relevence

by jglatz on October 13, 2009

As a reader of a variety of contemporary “new age” authors, I can readily see how RCP fits with the theories found in their works. They may take matters to deeper, mathematical levels, or attribute their ideas to channeled information, but when the bottom line is compared, the thrust is pretty much the same:  We are what we think. We are all connected.  We do create our own reality. What RCP does best, however, is to emphasize the need for the world to accept the concept of unconditional love as a means to save us all. It may sound like a daunting task, but even the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built one stone at a time (maybe with a little help?). I, for one, will try to be a placer of small stones.

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Living a Five Star Life

by Worldchangeguy on October 13, 2009

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Would you like to have more joy and less stress in your life? Do you want to discover the secrets to reaching your full potential? Would you like to make a positive difference in the short time you’re here on this earth?

Life coach, Betty Mahalik, tells you how in her beautiful book, Living a Five Star Life. She challenges all of us “to live a great life by discovering the life we have right now, instead of trying to invent a whole new life.” This little book has more wisdom, common sense and inspiration than any I’ve read in a long time!

Today, I’d like to share her chapter titled: My Life Would be Perfect If…”

Enjoy!

Excerpt from: Living a Five Star Life

by Betty Mahalik

In this day and age, we are surrounded by messages that virtually scream, “Your life would be perfect if…” My life would be perfect if I had a different job, a different house, car, nose, spouse, bank account (fill in the blank). Or my life would be perfect if I could be like some celebrity whose life appears so well-ordered and perfect-o. This week I encourage you to stop playing “my life would be perfect if,” and start playing “my perfect life.” What’s the difference? Three things: being in the present, an attitude of gratitude, taking action with what’s available now.

When we’re caught up in the “my life would be perfect if” trap, we’ve lost touch with the present. And the moment we detach from the present, we can no longer practice gratitude. Think about it:  it’s difficult to be grateful for what you don’t have…and what you don’t have is always somewhere out in future-ville.

Look around you right now. Think of 10 things you’re grateful for. Do you have a roof over your head and food to eat? I’m guessing the answer is yes. Do you have at least a few good friends or close relationships? Then appreciate them too, right now. Keep going, and practice being in the present and being grateful for what is here and now at least a couple times a day.

You’re also probably sitting there thinking “yes but.” Yes, but I want more money, a better relationship, more time to travel, to be thinner, happier or whatever. It’s one of the great mysteries I’ll never figure out. The minute you stop focusing on what you lack, start focusing on what you’ve already got, and add the “magic” ingredient of action, you actually begin to attract more of what you want. It’s an amazing formula for really living your perfect life!

Let’s say you want to lose weight or get in better shape, but you don’t have an hour a day to spend exercising at the gym. Therefore, you’ve pretty well resigned yourself to not losing weight or getting in shape. What if you had five minutes though…just about everyone can find five minutes to exercise, stretch, walk around the block or walk the dog. Would you be willing to be grateful for five minutes and make the best possible use of it? Therein lies the beginning of your perfect life!

A simple formula may help you remember how to apply this principle:

  • The present
  • + an attitude of gratitude
  • + positive action
  • = my perfect life.

Try it for a day.

Each time you start dreaming about how perfect your life would be if…come back to this moment, give thanks for what is, and do one thing to perfect what you have and who you are right now. There’s a saying that “when the student is ready, the teacher appears.” If you’re ready to start perfecting your life, your teachers are all around you.

What are you waiting for?

Today, I’m pleased to say we’re offering Living a Five Star Life for only $10.00. This is a 37% savings off our regular price of $15.95. To learn more or look inside the book, just click here.

Note this offer expires October 14, 2009 at 11:59PM CST.

To Life,
Mac Anderson
Mac Anderson
Founder, Simple Truths

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Change the World for the Better with Love, a Reality Creation Project

by Worldchangeguy on October 4, 2009

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Have you ever thought to ask yourself:

What do I want more than anything else in All That Is?

I use All That Is because it includes everything we know and don’t know, consciously. Why limit our answers to the material world?

The following stream-of-consciousness excerpt from Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love explains why I asked myself this question and the answer I got in return. The answer may surprise you as much as it did me! (To read the whole story, click on the title, which is linked to the article.) 

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As I continue my journey toward Clearlake Highlands in the afterglow of my Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love, I ask myself, Why me? What did I do to deserve this amazing experience?  I roll this question around in my mind and travel back in time to a point two years earlier. At home alone, I’m sitting at my desk wondering what to do next and start feeling sorry for myself as I think about all the times I’ve tried and failed to achieve my greatest goal in life, changing the world for the better.

What can be more exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves and the world for the better? What can offer more hope when the future of mankind looks so dark?

As a child, I was unhappy with life. In my world, people didn’t treat each other very well and I didn’t like that. I knew I had two choices. I could either withdraw from life or do something about it. I chose to do something about it! Specifically, although I couldn’t put it into words at the time, I wanted to help create more love, truth and joy in the world. I knew I was asking a lot of myself but, hey, what’s life without a challenge? It seemed to me that trying to change the world for the better was preferable to giving up.

I had decided to climb Mt. Everest but here I was, in my early forties, still stuck in the foothills with too little time and too little money to do more than maintain the bare necessities of life. My salad dressing business after college was a failure, my several attempts at multilevel marketing failed, and here I was, still working full time driving buses for a living, even though I liked my job.  In a moment of supreme frustration, I threw my arms up in the air and asked the universe, What do I want more than anything else in All That Is?

In response, a clear male voice, about six inches in front of my forehead, said, “LOVE!”

Despite my surprise, I shouted, that’s it! More than anything else in All That Is, I want love – I want to give love and I want to receive love, unconditional love! In a flash of insight, I realized everything I had ever done in life was for love. I was either responding to love or the promise of it, or reacting to a lack of it. When I felt or acted badly, it was because I felt unloved and unappreciated for who I was and what I was doing.

As a young person I felt great anger and frustration because I found it so hard to love myself and others. Many of the people around me seemed petty, mean, critical, insincere and vindictive most of the time, like me! It didn’t occur to me we might all suffer from the same problem, a cultural mandate to make value judgments, to constantly compare ourselves and one another to outside standards of being and performance. We even compared ourselves to one another, and still do.  It was and is the kind of behavior that leads to conflict, anger, fear, resentment, violence and contempt. Unwittingly, many of us become Master Fault-Finders and a source of pain and anguish to ourselves and others. It is a behavior or reaction pattern that is as common today as it was yesterday.

For better or worse, we live in a fear-based value-judgment world of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment. It is a world of external values and in this world unconditional love is an ideal, not a reality. Out of learned fear and distrust of ourselves and one another we place conditions on almost everything we do. As parents, teachers and civil authorities we tell each other, whether spoken or unspoken ”Act ‘good’ (by my definition) and I will reward you. Act ‘bad’ and I will punish you.”

By treating ourselves as little more than mindless masses of protoplasm that need to be poked and prodded into  pre-defined patterns of order and behavior, it’s no wonder we find it so hard to like ourselves, let alone love ourselves. Our current belief system lacks imagination and appreciation for who we really are and what we are capable of becoming. We can and must change that!

As Pogo, an old comic strip character created by Walt Kelly, once said: “We have met the enemy (and savior, I might add)… and he is us.”

Even though it took two years to gain alignment, the universe gave me what I wanted, an Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love!

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Excerpt # 2 from Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love – also stream-of consciousness:

Near the top of Mt. St. Helena, the rain has become a downpour with water, driven by powerful gusts of wind, sheeting across the road. Pausing my experience for a moment, I wonder if Michele is aware of the amazing drama playing itself out in the invisible and timeless world of possibilities around us. My question remains unanswered so I return to the business at hand. This time, if I’m able to make contact with the wall of energy, I’ll stay with it until I know what it is. Wham! It’s still there and again I have the same intense emotional reaction. This time, though, I stand my ground. I refuse to budge one inch and, suddenly, I’m inside the energy!

After waiting to see if anything bad is going to happen, I ask, what are you?

“This is the energy of unconditional love,” says a deep, soothing male voice that seems to come from every point within the energy field.

Wow, I sob even harder now because I know it’s true. That’s why I burst into tears every time I touch it with my mind! Intuitively, I must have known all along what it was but, intellectually, I didn’t have a clue.

What I do now completely astounds me but seems perfectly natural under the circumstances – I open up. I utterly and spontaneously open my life and being to this loving Energy. And just as quickly, I begin to shut down as feelings of vulnerability and shame fill my mind. It suddenly occurs to me that every thought and feeling I’ve ever had and every act I’ve ever considered or committed is exposed to view and I can’t bear the thought.

Sensing my anxiety, the Voice of Unconditional Love says: “Nothing you can ever say or do can keep you from being loved unconditionally.”

Both shocked and relieved by this unconditional acceptance, I cry even harder. I’ve never experienced this kind of love before, at least, not in human terms! As I experience it now, I know there’s nothing I have to do to earn it. Just being is enough! Here, unlike the human world, there are no demands, no expectations, and no pre-conditions to satisfy before you can receive love. It’s simply here to experience and enjoy!

Literally bathing in this loving energy, I wonder if the anger, misperceptions and imagined sins of my past will wash away forever. I use this moment to imagine they will, if not forever, at least for awhile. Even if it’s just the beginning of the end for these negative thoughts and feelings, that’s good enough for me!

As my love begins to flow, I find myself joyfully wanting to perform miracles for this Loving Energy, to honor it for the loving regard in which it holds me. A superman in this alternate reality, I’m able to perform feats of magic and strength that are impossible to perform in the physical world. Then I stop to think about how important it is for me to fulfill my own unique potential as a human being here on earth. Suddenly, I “know” that the Energy of Unconditional Love is home, my real home! It is my birth place or point of origin as a living soul, and my ultimate destination.

As I ponder my thoughts about the nature of Unconditional Love, I remember it’s more than just a “place” – it’s a state of mind and being. I can create and experience it wherever I am, no matter what I’m doing!

With an almost imperceptible shift in consciousness, I find myself standing naked in the middle of a dimly lit room with golden, metallic walls. The walls are separate and meet at sharp 90 degree angles like most earthly rooms. Realizing that the energy of separation and hard angles doesn’t fit my mood or the soft golden glow of the walls; I reshape them with the power of my mind. I make the separate walls coalesce into one continuous, smoothly curving wall, including the angles between the floor and ceiling.

I’m not satisfied until the room looks and feels like the inside of a large womb.

When I stop to admire my handiwork, the air in front of my face begins to crackle and pop with dark, exploding points of energy. Suddenly, the dark points turn into golden rays, which shoot out to form an oval frame of shimmering, radiating light. Materializing within this amazingly beautiful frame is the face of a man with long brown hair and a beard. Before my eyes become completely lost in his, I notice his serene, Christ-like features.

As He looks through my eyes and into my soul, He says, “Roger, you’re delightful, just the way you are!”

Oh my God, here I go again! The impact of His kind face and loving words starts me on a new round of intense sobbing. Strangely though, while the Outer me sobs, the Inner me calmly reaches out and lifts the bottom edge of the energy field that surrounds us. Gently raising it above my head, I look out across the sloping fields and vineyards of Calistoga lying at the foot of Mt. St. Helena. The Christ-like Entity is now standing on a grassy knoll a short distance from me. Raising His arms, I watch as He sends waves of loving energy rippling out across the earth and into the universe. Like air over hot pavement, the energy ripples and expands outward in all directions. I know it is meant to include everyone and everything in All That Is.

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Send the healing energy of Unconditional Love out into the world every day!

Is my Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love and that of others (See: Jay’s Story and share your own), a message to all of us? Do we all need to connect with this energy to heal ourselves and this planet for future generations? I think so and I know many of you do too.

At our current level of development, we have hypnotized ourselves into believing “we’re only human, we’re basically bad, we can’t trust ourselves” and “life is about survival of the fittest, eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.” We’ve almost completely forgotten who we really are. It’s time to wake up and remember who we are long enough to make a course correction. What better way to do that than reminding ourselves that Love is the light and the way?

What kind of energy do you send out into the world? What is your basic Feeling Tone?

The challenges of life can undo anyone and corrupt their basic good intent. When I asked myself what my basic energy or Feeling Tone was, the words that came back to describe it were anger, fear, resentment and contempt. It modified over time as I grew in understanding. 

While my primary Feeling Tone or Spiritual Signature was made up of fear, anger, resentment and contempt, it was modified by feelings of love and compassion. The anger, fear, resentment and contempt I felt was reserved for bullies and abusive authorities of all kinds, people who felt they had a right to tell me what to do and who to be, without asking me, and people who took advantage of others with force, lies and deceit. My love and compassion was reserved for those who were oppressed and abused by those in power.

For many years I felt justified (righteous) in my angry beliefs. But then, I began to realize my energy was part of the problem! It perpetuated the conditions I wanted to eliminate. Like a radio tower broadcasting a program signal, my basic Feeling Tone was continuously sending out negative energy, which could affect everyone within range. It affected the way I felt around people and how I reacted them. It also affected the way others felt  and reacted around me.

When it occurred to me I was unconsciously broadcasting negative energy out into the world, whether anyone deserved it or not, I felt awful.  That’s not fair, I thought!

This revelation made me ask: what kind of person do I want to be and what kind of world do I want to live in? The answer was simple. I wanted to live in a world that was more loving, truthful and joyful and I wanted to be the kind of person who reflected that kind of energy out into the world. I suspect many of us do. And the only way to create that kind of change in the world is to become it!

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Seth: To Condemn Others is to Condemn Yourself

“While man’s works may often certainly appear destructive, you must not blame man’s intent, nor must you ever make the error of confusing man with his works.

For many well-intentioned artists, with the best of intentions, produce at times shoddy works of art, all the more disappointing and deplorable to them because of the initial goodness of their intent.

Their lack of knowledge and techniques and methods then become quite plain (clear). By concentrating too deeply upon the world of newspapers and the negative reports of man’s actions, it is truly easy to lose sight of what I tell you (louder) is each man’s and each woman’s basic good intent.

That (good) intent may be confused – poorly executed, tangled amid conflicts of beliefs, strangled by the bloody hands of murders-and wars-and yet no man or woman ever loses it.

That represents the hope of the species, and it has ever remained lit, like a bright light within each member of the species; and that good intent is handed down through the generations. It is far more potent, that illumination, than any hates or national grudges that may also be passed along.

It is imperative for any peace of mind that you believe in the existence of man’s innate good intent.

Now: Make distinction in your mind between man and man’s works. Argue all you want against his works, as you read in your newspapers of errors, stupidities, treachery or war…

…To identify man with his poorest works is to purposefully seek out the mars, the mistakes, of a fine artist, and then to condemn him.

To do this is to condemn yourselves personally.”

From Session 799, The Nature of the Psyche – It’s Human Expression, A Seth book by Jane Roberts

How can we send the healing energy of Unconditional Love out into the world? Here are some suggestions:

  • Spend time every day thinking about the Energy of Unconditional Love and what it means. Remember what Unconditional Love says: “Nothing you can ever say or do can keep you from being loved unconditionally.” It also says: “You’re delightful, just the way you are!” Take time to feel the energy behind these words.
  • Remind yourself every day that more than anything else in All That Is, you want to love and be loved unconditionally. You can do this any time of the day or night in quiet moments no matter where you are or what you’re doing. I usually do this exercise when I lie in bed at night, and it never fails to make my abdominal muscles tighten and my body, shake. What’s happening to my body when this happens? I think good things are happening!
  • Practice understanding and forgiveness. Remind yourself every day that everyone is basically good and doing the best they can with what they know, even though, with more effort and imagination, they can, and will understand more and do better. Review your past relationships and experiences in the light of understanding and forgiveness. Forgive others for their behavior and apologize for yours. Know that all of you were doing the best you could with what you knew at the time. Practice understanding and forgiveness on yourself for any pain or injury you’ve brought upon yourself out of anger, fear, ignorance or hate. Practice understanding and forgiveness on your parents, brothers, sisters and friends. Work up to more distant and complex relationships as you experience success with those relationships closest to you. Read: The Healing Power of Forgiveness. It’s an account of how I made peace with my parents after many years of anger and rejection.
  • Practice appreciation. Stop making value judgments by comparing people, including yourself, to outside standards of being and performance, and stop comparing people to each other, including you. Each one of us, every “thing”, is uniquely different from any other. Remember all the wonderful inventions we constantly create to make life more comfortable and safe. Remember how good we are, how much we do and how well we do it despite the demands and expectations  of life . Remember how challenging life is for all of us! Develop the habit of looking at life through other people’s eyes. Learn to appreciate and celebrate the beauty, magic and wonder of all life. It’s part of learning and growing as spirit in flesh.
  • Create affirmations. Make a list of love-related affirmations you can repeat every day, or buy a computer program (Dream Manifestation Wizard is a great one) to design and play your affirmations as often as you like.  Here are some examples of affirmations you can use: I love myself unconditionally. I love you unconditionally (“you” is everyone outside you). I love us unconditionally. I am loved unconditionally and I am unconditionally loving. I love All That Is unconditionally. Over time, what you affirm will become your reality.
  • Visualization. Send the healing Energy of Unconditional Love out into the world and beyond like the Christ-like personality in my vision. Develop the power of your imagination. It is as much a part of who you are as your intellect.
  •  Finally, take love out into the world with you. At work or play, remember that we are basically good, not bad. Remember, there is no right or wrong, good or bad – there just IS. There is what works for us and what works against us. Remember, we are doing the best we can with what we know, and we’ll get better as we learn and understand more. Remember, we all want to be loved and valued, and there is a form of energy in All That Is that loves us all without condition. Create a more loving, truthful and joyful reality by projecting love into the world, not fear or other negative emotions.

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Six beliefs that will lead to better understanding and change the world for the better:

  1. We are both one AND separate. (While uniquely individual, we are all made of the same stuff as the universe – units of consciousness or Energetic Awareness condensed into form and substance.)
  2. We are not only the products of creation, we are creation itself!
  3. We create reality from the thoughts we accept as belief, attitude, value and expectation.
  4.  We are not evil - we are learning how to use energy to create a pleasing reality.
  5. How we define ourselves and the world around us forms our intent, which in turn, forms our reality.
  6. As we think, we create. Change what we think and we change what we create!

Together, in body and spirit, we can change ourselves and the world for the better. Practice these exercises individually or in groups. As more of us learn to love ourselves and others – to send love out into the world, instead of fear, anger and hate - we will see change we cannot now imagine.

Have fun as you play with the Energy of Unconditional Love and create change in yourself and the world. Unlike many things in life, it won’t kill you and it won’t cost you a dime!

In love and peace,

Pete (Roger A. “Pete” Peterson) – http://realtalkworld.com and http://realitycreationproject.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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