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June 28,2009
Under rate or over rate yourself
Smoke Pot, get drunk, do drugs including ‘meds’
Live in a Van RV or tent
Eat lots of garlic
Be a ‘cheater’ or lier
Hang out at graveyards
Work, work, work (60 hours/week or more)
Make gambling a large part of life
Fear of closeness

Obsessive-compulsive
Unresolved issues from childhood
Self hatred
Frequent women’s or men’s groups
Be a UFO fanatic
Have too many dogs or cats
Lack of self love

Small ego
Large ego that’s defensive & a cover up
Denial
Belief in any religion
Physical grooming obsessions
Avoid deep communication
Negative thinker
Fear of emotions

Thrill seeker
Yoga fanatic
Keeper of secrets from partner
Lover of violent TV shows and movies
Credit card abuser
Inability to Let Go

Ahhh! There are so many ways to get attached to ‘avoiding’ or, be in denial of. Having the attitude at 18 or 85 that there is no one to share love with just might mean you haven’t really been completely satisfied prior, by ‘avoiding’ deep, harmonious love. Love only takes work when one is ‘hanging on’ to ‘love avoiders’! Let Go – love yourself and find love in life too! It’s FREE!!!

June 27, 2009
‘Way back when’ a raconteur from ‘somewhere’ would ride into town pulling his horse drawn cart stopping for a day or two to tell stories about how he had the magic potion for curing all ills. After a short visit, the ‘snake oil salesman’ would escape to the next town and avoid the complaints that ‘nothing happened’.

Today the cart has been replaced by ‘Big Pharma’ and it’s pharmaceutical salesmen in a tie and suit as well as ‘illegal drug salesmen’ from the top moneymakers who make millions to the guy or thug on the street. The motivation is MONEY and what it will bring from power to sex. ‘Big Pharma’ is assisted by doctors who likely are at the mercy of the Pharma salesman and, uh, denial of that and their ignorance of what they prescribe. It’s a license to help people while rolling in the money but, how many unknown victims, unlike Michael Jackson are there? Drug Terrorists?!

As the world enters into 7 billion people and growing, there is money to be made and for the ‘big pharma’ salesman, quotas to keep their job. Pushers?! How many drugs are mixed into what amounts to ‘drug cocktail’s’ that spin out of control in the body. ‘Enablers of bodily toxicity’ are rampant in this new computer world. Accountability is lost into the wind of temporary ecstasy. ‘Everybody’s doin’ it is a common ‘take no responsibility’ answer.

The other day, I was conversing with a 15 year old and his mother when the subject of drugs came up. They are from a nearby upscale town that on the surface seems like an ideal place to live. With his mother looking on, he claimed that many in his high school, apart from him, were on drugs from pot to heroin, meth, crack, cigarettes and, who knows what else. Conforming with the crowd seems to be a motivator where ‘innocence’ soon turns to dependency and, experimenting with drugs that appear more effective for a longer lasting high.

I’ve been on drugs for years!!! Air is a drug replacement. Knowing how breathing can lead one to another type of ‘high’ to a clear mind and open heart where love and wisdom can enter, enabling inner growth far beyond what all drugs, legal or not, can even hope to reach the shadow of. Love and meditation are exhilarating, natural and non addictive except for the appreciation of. My drugs are love and meditation – they work and, provide creativity and, a joy of life as well as insight into all of it’s challenges.

June 26, 2009
The choice is yours! Make connections into a friendship with an unconditional response of always caring through thick and thin or, let it be an acquaintance but, not a friend that becomes a ‘friendshit’ which ends up being like two ships passing in the night who forever give little credence to what was. We all will have ‘forever’ soon to ignore each other except, perhaps those who’ve become love in our hearts.

It should be a rule in life to, if need be, to shake the tree of friendship when sometimes the apples or, the ‘other’ is hard to reach. Other than finding one’s best friend within, there is nothing greater than those friendships which can become our finest hour year after year inspite of the changes some may go through. Friendships are subject to challenges like people have within themselves and need each to step and stand up in defense of one of life’s greatest gifts.

One of the remarkable beauties of ‘friendships’ is that each is very independent and, unlike pets who have little choice but to be dependent on their owners as well as being very unconditional, they do evoke a necessary ‘dependence’ for their continued flowering of life. That ‘dependence’ requires the loving attention and receptivity to all who were cared for and loved, not to mention the unknown stranger who will be known tomorrow.

Love has no prejudice for anyone who has no discernible motive other than to be receptive to ‘loves energy’. Friendliness is a quality that stirs hearts and receives a resonance from others that creates a ‘circle of warmth’. Friendliness is a method to lighten the load of communication and nurtures everyones hearts be it with a ‘hello’, a smile, or a little light conversation. Be ‘friendly and seek those who are friendly’. Be friendly to oneself with all thoughts and memories no matter what they were. Traumatic memories are softened through sending out love that may be no where to be seen but, overflows from loving the self. Friendliness is magic and even a medical-health wonder.

June 24, 2009
Breath is a key to filling oneself with love. Breathing in and out, visualizing each breath as love coming in and, outpouring love, transforming one’s being into a softer, more compassionate person.

This morning, while doing my morning meditation walk at the break of dawn, the fragrance of early summer air from the myriad of plants, flowers, and trees was overwhelmingly fragrant, verging on orgasmic. The early morning air is the freshest natural oxygen to imbibe for a blissful intoxication and clearing of the mind. As I think of the millions who find their need to be high in these times on various hallucinatory ‘crutches’, it’s quite amazing to see that it’s all so unnecessary when breath becomes love.

Breathe in existence and breathe out the love to existence. Love is in the air and in each conscious breath it becomes the air and, the very breath. Have a ‘love affair’ with existence! Magic comes pouring in with each breath while merging with existence. Drink the elixir of life with each breath and give out that magic of love to existence. Life gives while you give to life. Rich or poor, this or that, all are blessed to use natures gifts to enhance ones every day.

Soon the quality of life will begin to change as the unnecessary negatives will disperse into the air while the enhancing positives of life will fill the spirit with wonderment’s. Love is accumulative and, is born anew each and every moment into an unparalleled freshness. The mind is a collector of good and bad with a tendency to cling to the unwanted, hurtful. The unfreshened, stale mind will pollute the heart to the extent of controlling and restricting it. Avoid having the mind be possessive of the heart, let the heart have full access to the mind.

The ‘breath of life’ is the secret to freeing the heart and mind into it’s natural blissfulness. Breathe deeper with awareness – it’s a love/life saver! Love is always new!

June 23, 2009
All love comes to a ‘fork-in-the-road’ – take it! Just standing in front of the ‘fork-in-the road’ while the other moves on is perhaps testament to love that was conditional all along. Relationships, be they family, friends, or loves, are always experiences for the memory. Sometimes these relationships end up being unreliable by one or both. It’s always a choice to be the more conscious and loving one. Some end up being the ‘love and dump’ type. Always, it’s an opportunity to love oneself deeper and love that which was the ‘spark of love’ in all ‘disappearing relationships’ – it feeds the self love.

Synchronicity of purpose in all relationships, ensures harmonious meetings when forks in the road present themselves. Synchronicity in communication breeds deeper love and harmony for the walk through life’s challenges. The experience of being in deep attunement and trust with another creates a foundation from which to protect as well as encourage more of life’s connections with the same aura of meaningfulness.

It’s nice to always know which way to go and, find that choice to be in communion with another for experiences that support life’s godliness. Paying close attention to all connections is paving the way to experiences that produce the best results. Life is a series of ‘forks in the road’ that require choices of discernment for most thoughtful consequences and, karma.

Separation and divorce are ‘forks in the road’ but also, an opportunity to learn empathy, compassion and, the depths of love. No one should separate or divorce without paving the way for more loving connections with each other. All disconnections and divorces have the potential of being a beautiful thing and a harbinger of similar and yet, very different positive experiences to come. Life is an ‘interdependent’ journey that can be a blessing for those who have clustered together, from friends to loves, in formulating a support group of love and continued friendship.

June 22, 2009
Men have too many rights! Women need to have the same and equal rights but, contrary to ‘male opinion’ even in the US, discrimination continues blatantly and, subtilely. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure used when a patient’s heart stops beating and breathing stops. Women all over the world are ‘smothered’ by men’s ‘entitlements’ even so much so that they exhibit the ‘Stockholm syndrome’ and identify with the ‘male captors of their rights so much so that they even deny not having the rights they as human beings are entitled to.

Male ‘brainwashing’ of women has paralyzed their emotions and generally numbed down their freedoms. 99% of religious leaders, with their outdated ‘holy books’ and their sleeping with the politicians, are male! It’s not uncommon for females to delude themselves into thinking that they have far more rights of freedom than they actually do.
In all Islamic societies, for example where women are required to dress certain ways, often covering their face or heads as well as to follow certain archaic protocols in connecting with men, the women are severely brainwashed by males to feel they have freedoms that, to the western woman (who still is seeking more rights), is ‘appallingly’ delusional.

The ‘ills of world society’ are fueled by male domination of women, overt or covert. Drugs, violence, rape, crime, and wars are man’s ‘gift’ to the world that demands women to wake up and not contribute to this form of slavery. Less than 100 years ago women had no say in voting in the US and still, they are manipulated in their choices without being aware of the manipulation. At this writing, riots are happening in Iran over alleged voting misconduct as men in the form of idiots called Mullah’s are in control of violence to subjugate all women into ‘lockstep’ for male domination. Of course, all ‘enforcers’ of free speech during these disturbances are MEN!

Yesterday at the waterfront in downtown Port Townsend, Washington, I noticed a ‘hairy ape like male’ with no shirt to cover his 100 pound overweight ‘eyesore’, walking casually, licking his ice cream cone. Anywhere in America if that were a 13 year old ‘semi-flat chested girl’, she would face not only harassment but ‘arrest’. ‘Double standards’ for women are canceled world wide. It’s time for every woman to be as she has every right to be and, as males do. Be aware, question authority, and move from the heart. Breath in that ‘freedom of rights’. No CPR!

June 21, 2009
One of the greatest ways to lie is by ‘omission’! ‘No tell – no hell’ is a cop out to hide behind the truth. There are infinite ways to tell someone you love them without having to say it, but some choose ‘eternal silence’ as a method of conveying what seems as a ‘who cares’ approach. My feelings are you either love or, you hate. All in between ‘love and hate’ is just a pandering to the mental comfort that one is in the right.

‘Love Omission’ particularly applies to family, friends, and ‘loves’ who have either flown the coop or just ‘take up space’ in a ‘we’ space that has little or no love resonance. Love of another is a two way street that needs resonance like a drum needs drum sticks. Someone needs to be there. One of life’s great befuddlement’s, is people who have and still do mean something to one’s heart and yet, choose to ‘omit’ all forms of communication. It’s best that one play that game by always sending loving vibrations and, appropriately, a little ‘knock-knock’ on one of their windows be it phone, email, card, ‘hello message from someone who does connect’ or, whatever.

No one wants to think that they hate someone that was loved by them, family or friend, even an ‘ex’, but bottom line, it’s a form of hatred even if by ‘omission’. Life is much shorter than most really have a deep concept of. Much, much shorter. Realizing that on a ‘deep gut/heart felt level’ one can only be open and always prepared to be loving. Call loving ‘friendly’, at least. I have a friend from NYC who tours the world several times per year ‘being friendly to friendly’ souls (preferably female), who said years ago that his good fortune with the opposite sex was his friendliness seeking only friendly people, be they old ladies or. even dogs. People ‘unfriendly’ certainly deserve one’s being friendly perhaps even more so however, it take ‘resonance’ to collaborate in a meaningful exchange of loving kindness.

One either spreads negative or positive, love or hate. The time is always ‘now’, not tomorrow. People disappear. sometimes they die in silence that one never knows about because of ‘love’s omission’, more that a ‘white lie’ but, enough to put a tear into the eye of god and the heart of any loving person. Love is free, communication is free, why not choose both for a more fulfilled you and a better world?! (stream of consciousness)

June 20, 2009
It don’t take a ‘rocket scientist’ to see that ‘women self destruct’ from a life of common sense accompanied with love, compassion, empathy, etc. Women typically dream of the moon and diamonds but, end up with anything that doesn’t impress them much as, having anything a woman is entitled to. Men are the beasts of humanity having nothing to offer but promises to meet a woman’s nonsensical dreams and, instead make a mockery of the nuances of love’s infinite expressions, ‘transparently’. (Always rare exceptions on both sides acknowledged).

Marriage is little more than a seeming comfortable, secure trap from what it is that women really seek, if, they ever even figure it out! I strongly recommend that most every woman and man live separately and invest in a dog or two while learning how to meditate and love themselves before venturing into the ‘guilded cage’ of partnering with anyone. ‘Guilded cages’ trap and restrict freedoms, but have very comfortable surroundings that, sadly, are dead and non responsive.

Any woman who chooses a partner who is not her equal or more, in being balanced emotionally, spiritually, and consciously, is an ‘idiot’ and likely has what she karmically deserves. If she settles for the frills of the ‘outer’ including a life of material luxury she then lowers herself to less than what most dogs offer. Men who settle for that deserve any ‘hell’ that comes with it. Few men aren’t really ‘garbage men’ in disguise but for appearances and abilities to offer that ‘truth be told’, one doesn’t really need.

Life with meaningful relationships is a ‘joke’ until one wakes up with the laughter to see the reality of it. There are two types of people -’bottom feeders’, who look for answers everywhere but inside themselves and, those pearls who see it and, manifest it. One who can’t distinguish a real diamond from a manufactured one, never can ascertain if they’ve got a real one in their sights.

Love doesn’t take work – clearing away the ‘brush’ takes the work! Love is the easiest thing in the world, finding it through one’s many acquired bad habits including, not deeply loving oneself, fuels the fires of destruction. Love is simple, free and,‘freedom’! (Stream of Consciousness)

June 19, 2009
The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, was wrong when he said ‘God is Dead’ but, in a way he was right! Actually, God moved on to another solar system thousands of years ago leaving the seeds planted here of Godliness or, ‘self gardening’ for each to grow on their own. So there is no God and yet, there is.

What’s all this ‘believe in God stuff’ then? Well, no harm but, it’s not much different than believing in Santa Claus in the middle of Summer except by that time he’s gone and, in his case ‘was never there anyway’! To think that there is this one God and he’s just watching this little speck solar system in the universe among millions of solar systems, is frightening to think that billions do!

Now wouldn’t a compassionate God spend time wherever life was new? Now maybe, just maybe, God planted the seeds of ‘godliness’ in each person thousands of years ago to monitor themselves individually and collectively only if they take advantage of that special ingredient left for them – ‘freedom of choice’. Possibly, feeling the job was well set for humans to take self responsibility and, the need was greater elsewhere, God went out into the universe. Certainly God is a great gardner and all the species were in place to grow and prosper with the mystical, magical energy left for them.

Mankind is still waking up even in this digitized, technologically advanced age which is challenging the ‘old world order’ of greed, selfishness, and power. Religious leaders in the millions around the world are inventing new ways to keep their ‘flocks’ together even using the ‘stick of guilt’ for everlasting damnation. Worship of idols and what the imagination conjures up is epidemic as people cling in fear of why they are here and where they are going. God left the secret to love and life hidden in plain sight for those who see it within and then, nurture it. Godliness is in each, no necessity to seek but, only to pay attention …pay attention…pay attention….

June 17, 2009
The ‘old God’ of popular perception, that varies from person to person, has been gone for millenniums! We have no ‘tracking system’ yet to see if this ‘god’ just went to setup another ‘life’ in one of the millions of ‘solar-like’ systems. This old god apparently got the ball rolling here and ‘set’ the control factors up for it to happen by itself until humans hopefully evolved enough to take it to the next level.

We are on our own! The good news is that we have the ‘seed of godliness’ within each of us but for our recognizing and manifesting it. The ‘ancient religions’ have been pilfered of love and purity while men have historically used the ‘gullible religious type’ to fatten their own ego powers and money. That will only stop when enough people wake up to the reality and not continue falling asleep with no awareness of the ‘hand-me-down’ scriptures.

At this point, the churches, mosques, and temples need to ‘stop’ regurgitating the old secure mumbo jumbo and, fire up a new path of seeing that the key is for each person to find the consciousness or, godliness within themselves. There are NO disadvantages and only ‘advantages’ for a more authentic spiritual life. All the seeds of love just need attention to grow. Start with looking at and replacing the habits that are negative and even hurtful to others with positive ones like compassion, a good attitude and, being the highest self.

The ‘New God’ or NeoGod, has been more and more visible starting in the 1950’s. Clearly, there are a few million people around the world who have stepped out of the programming of the past, while still adhering to the more ‘sacred maxims’ similar in all religions. The fears of ‘hell fire and brimstone’ dictums are gone instead, being replaced by the transparency of awareness of all possibilities that stimulate the sensitivities to be more kind to the self and others. A big factor in this growth of consciousness is the willingness to question the why’s and ‘what for’s ‘of all rules of religion, politics, and society in general. Always, the rules are motivated from love and awareness as the manifestation of the new ‘NeoGod’. The ‘son of god’ is now the ‘sun of godliness’ rising everyday for everyone’s salvation and rebirth!

Arhata