Listening to another person's philosophy make the effort to go within and create for yourself. There is some great wisdom and truth out there.  But, do not follow it blindly because it sounds beautiful.  That is the way to oppression.

What do I believe in?  This is a very difficult question because most of what I believe in are things or people I can rely on.  I believe in the Presence Within because I've found I can rely on it. I believe in love because I can rely on it.  Not the love between two people because I have found  that is not reliable. Do I believe in God?  I believe there is a God or source of all goodness a creator. Although the concept is very chaotic because who knows what God is going to do next. I  am finding that God is a stabilizing force (which with my previous statement makes it a paradox.)  With all of the interconnectedness. God can be relied on when we feel that interconnectedness.  

It is easy to figure out what you believe in.  Surrender to it.  A few years ago I was in a hospital dying (according to the doctors) I had congestive heart failure and pneumonia (lungs half filled with fluid) I believed this was the end.  So I made peace with my life and told God "I'm ready"  but, take me quick,  I don't want to suffer."  I ended up living because my belief that I was dying was false.  It was an illusion.  The only reality is Love.  If you are sick or in a bad place in your life surrender to it.  Surrender to the illness.  It will prove to be an illusion.  Surrender to whatever you believe in.  If it's real it will remain.  If it is an illusion it will leave your life. 

Love

The reason I speak so much about love is that it has changed my life in very subtle amazing ways.  I had a friend on my massage table a beautiful  man.  I told him just to feel love.  He later asked me how he was supposed to do that.  I told him to remember a time when he was in a relationship and deeply in love.  Now take the other person out of the picture and just feel the feeling he had when he himself was in love.  When you just feel the feeling of love you find yourself at peace.  You can walk out the door and just feel love. You connect to nature.  You are part of nature.  You are part of the asphalt that your car drives on.  You are part of the homes along the street.  It feels like what God is described as being everywhere.  You don't demand anything of all of this.  That would be conditional love.  You just feel love and allow it to be.

there are several ways to get this feeling of love.  I just discovered a video of two guys falling in love.  Interestedly they were hired to make a porno (so I can't show the video here) but, as soon as they met you could see, hear, feel the connection and throughout the video which was more of a behind the scenes vid than anything.  I watch this video to inspire me.  To show me how love develops and feel it in myself as if I were one of the guys.  Another way is to go within to The Presence Within and ask it how to feel love.  You  could also go to the energy of love within you.  Sit there with it describe it to yourself how it looks like, feels like, sounds like until you have a clear image of it.  You may want to ask that image how to develop your feelings of love.

Definition of insanity...  We live our lives the same way at the same vibration expecting our lives to turn out differently. 

I had a dream this morning I was in a place and met a young man who I was very attracted to and it seemed he was attracted to me.  Then my friend Gary came along (Picture Tom of Finland looks perfect body great personality) and then they weren't there. I thought this guy had gone off with Gary. I felt bad that I had lost this guy.  Then I realized in the dream that I could match Gary's vibration and attract guys to me.  In truth there is no law of attraction. When we get to the point that all is one we will not need to use the premises of the Law of Attraction, but until then anything that can help,  use it.

Energy is movement. Vibration is movement.  Everything vibrates whether you can see it or not. People vibrate animals vibrate nature vibrates.  If you look through a very powerful microscope you will see your hand vibrating or a leaf The vibration is what makes it look alive!

We find people we admire and then match our vibration to meet theirs.  That is why it is a good idea to become the best person you can be to inspire others.  We are not here for ourselves but to help others.

Matching someone's vibration does not mean you become that person.  You take on certain character traits of that person and match them to your personality.  This is why it is said that every person in a dream is you.  Every person you meet or have some contact with is you or a part of you.  You can enhance  yourself to match that part of you and become better. They have given you the example.
Gary is a very attractive person in a lot of ways inside and out.  Do I want to be Gary. No. Would I like to be more like him. Definitely!

Say you want to be a great yoga instructor.  Find a person you admire as a yoga instructor and imagine what it would feel like to have that energy.  Feel that energy coursing through your body.
The same is true of being an athlete  or an engineer or a great philosopher.

A thought just hit me as I'm writing this that I could use the energy of a great writer.  I will work on that!  YAY!

Money, Love,Relationships,Career whatever you want in life.  There are times when we don't feel the "flow" of money or any of these things.  What happens when you don't say have a lot of money coming into your life.  You feel tense.  Ironically it's the tension around money energy that keeps it away.  Somewhat like a dam.

Once you release the tension the money flows. 

How to release this tension.  A lot of the tension comes from thinking that these things can only come from specific sources.  Money comes from your job.  You rarely see it coming from elsewhere. If you see your job as your source of money then if something happens to your job what you believe as your source may dry up.  Your actual source of money, relationships et al is in reality God, the Presence Within that is connected to God or your source.  This is an unlimited source.  Whatever comes from this source is unlimited.  It can flow, say, money to you from many different areas,  some of which you may not have ever thought of.

Allowing your unlimited source to flow money to you takes the tension away.  You will get it in the best way ever because your source is also all knowing.
These thoughts are also true of relationships.  There was a time that the only source of relationships were immediate social interactions.  Now those interactions have expanded to work, bars, sports, activities, hobbies, the internet.  Your source can put you in the relationship you desire and is the perfect relationship for you.

And so on with any area of your life.
Give your problems to your source.  Imagine walking around inside you and finding your source of all goodness.  It could be like a well from which things flow. Imagine pulling a lever and money flowing out of this well or source or imagine going up to your Presence Within and giving it the problem.  Allow your presence to figure out the perfect solution and let it be.

A friend asked me about the quote from Henry David Theroux "Men living lives of quiet desperation" and what is that about? I went within to my presence and asked the same question and I heard "because they do not feel connected".  I asked "connected to what?" the answer I received was "to anything!"

 They do not feel connected to the people around them or animals, the trees, bushes, lakes rivers, desert to nature itself. They may not be  feeling a connectedness to spiritual source.

 This can mean you as your own spiritual source,The presence Within you  or you may believe that Source or God whatever you wish to call it can take the form of a specific religion.  Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, etc. There are a myriad of forms God can present itself to you. When we feel connected to people or things around us we do not feel lonely or desperate. We know there is help if we need it, something we can rely on.

 A lot of people do not have a “fallback” or feel there is nothing there to help them in times of desperation.  As Carl Jung has said that “whether or not you believe in God you must (for your own mental health) believe in a source outside yourself greater than yourself because we all have those times when we can’t depend on ourselves".  We must be able to believe that there is something “out there” that has the answers we need.

Another message I got from within was that people don't realize how remarkable they are. Perhaps this is because people think they have to feel remarkable to be remarkable. 

The thing about remarkable people I’ve found is that they don’t feel remarkable. I’ve known quite a number of people with IQ’s over 150 a couple of them 160 and 165.  What I realized is that these people don’t think they are smarter than anyone else they wonder why people ACT so unintelligent.  People who are creative geniuses rarely know they are geniuses.  They see others that they admire and wonder why they can’t be at that level?

How to realize that you are remarkable.  First believe that you are.  Everyone has some remarkable trait.  Second, listen to people when they compliments  you .  As in Gestalt Therapy if someone comes up to you and says you’re a horse’s ass you can write them off.  If two people say you’re a horse’s ass you can write them off but, it will give you pause to think about it.  If three people say you are a horse’s ass  you better start looking for a tail.

The same is true when several  people compliment you on an area of your life you work in or love to do. How often when someone compliments us do we automatically accept it? Probably not. We need to accept the fact that others believe we are remarkable and then look and see for ourselves ways in which we are remarkable.

What is the greatest power we have available to  us?  God?  The Universe? Or Source?  Whatever you want to call this power outside yourself greater than yourself.  No, God is really not available to us at all times at least a lot of people believe that.  It's Love.  Love is available to us at all times. We don't have to see it although we can.  We just have to feel it.  Once you feel love it can do incredible things in your life.

Quite a number of years ago I was in a very metaphysical space and most of my friends knew it and some even tolerated it.  I got a call from one friend Max whose lover Steve was dying in a hospice of AIDS.  Max asked me to come and he asked another very spiritual person to be there also.  I sat by Steve's bed and put my hand on his are.  I went within and heard the message just give him love.  That's what I did.  I sat there sending love into his body.  The doctors had given Steve morphine to keep him out of pain.  I kept sending love (in the end I found out it was 3-4 hours that I had sat there.  All of a sudden I felt the ceiling open up then I felt Steve leave his body and I saw his body shrink.  I was awestruck!  Max looked at me knowing something had happened and said" he's gone isn't he?"  I was in such a state of awe all I could say was "yes!".  Max started wailing.  I could not be there for him right then because of the awe I had felt. 

I find that when I feel love there is no judgement of others.  You see them as wonderful.

There is no judgement of events.  They just are. There is no judgement.  I always heard about connecting to nature that we must feel a connection to nature and I tried but the connection eluded me until I just felt love then the connection just happened. Feeling love brings about remarkable things like Peace within.  Will it solve all your problems perhaps if they were meant to be solved or perhaps you were meant to solve them with love.

Forgiveness happens when you realize you did nothing wrong.  When you realize the other person did nothing wrong. Forgiveness happens when you can release the pain and you realize that the pain was all illusion.  Forgiveness happens when you realize that we are all one!

Surrender to the feeling of unconditional love.  Surrender to the thought of unconditional love Give yourself up to unconditional love.  When you don't have any expectations of nature you truly connect to nature.  When you don't have any expectations of animals you truly connect to animals. When you don't have any expectations of people you truly connect to people.

Know your own truth.  Know yourself.  Being Clairsentient (some call it an em path)  I pick up on other peoples feelings.  Sometimes I take their feeling in.  I did this recently with a "homeless" man I met.  I did not realize it at the time but the next day I felt despair in the morning and early afternoon.  As I questioned it within myself I realized that it was not my despair but his that I had taken on.  I then gave it up to God or my source and the despair disappeared. We are all empaths to one degree or another and we all take on others feelings or moods to some degree or another.  We must know who we are to know what is ours and what is someone else's.  That way when we take on these emotions we know that this is not our truth.  We can then release it to our higher power. We clear ourselves.

Your actions help define who  you are.  If you are a compassionate person you will take compassionate actions.  Look to your actions negative and positive to see who you are.  Seek to embody those positive actions to create more positive actions.

If say you are a vegetarian because you wish no harm brought to animals but, wear leather belts and shoes do not put yourself down for these actions but embodied being a true vegetarian eventually you will find other means of clothing yourself.   If you are a vegetarian because you want a healthier lifestyle embody the healthier lifestyle. 

You have access to all the answers you need to every question.  It is your presence within you that will give you the answer you ask for. How does it do this?  It is connected to your source.  It receives the answers from your source and passes them on to you.  It sees the bigger picture and how you need to go to get where you are going.   When you look at a map to take a car trip, you see that most places you need to go you cannot get there by a direct route.  The same is true with the places you go in life.  It's rarely a direct route or perhaps you find that the direct route was not the best way to go.  Enjoy the scenery along the pathway of life.  Trust that you will get where you are going and that it will be the best place for you.

As I sit meditating today I grounded myself as I was taught by sending energy or "roots" down into the earth to the core and bringing up golden energy into the first Chakra.  I imagine these "wheels of light" as turning clockwise.  I got the message from my presence within just to allow the energy to flow as it will.  I then saw this energy moving around the root chakra and spinning it clockwise and then moving to the other side of my sacral chakra spinning it counter-clockwise and so on up my energy system. until it moves up and out of the top of the head.  I was then guided to bring energy down from spirit on the opposing side of each Chakra so that it look like a helix within my body.

I thought how could this be?  The Chakra energy would stop moving with the opposing forces hitting either side.  I was told by the presence within that in a fully realized being there are two parts to the Chakra Vortexes a "front" and a "back", if you will each spinning opposite ways.  The Yin and the Yang. 

I end with the Indian greeting. Namaste' which means literally "The Presence Within me honors The Presence Within you".

What are Chakras?

The word chakra comes from a Sanskrit (East Indian) word that means wheel. For thousands of years, they have been visualized as round balls of light that can open, close, darken, brighten, and spin. Their locations represent different aspects of human experience. Our emotions, physical health, and the ability to connect with others are all thought to be reflected in the condition of the chakras.

Brief Descriptions

• First Chakra–
• Also known as the Root/Base Chakra. Located at the base of your spine. Associated with our sense of security in the world, survival, self-esteem, shelter and food, the material things in life, and making money. This is where our physical and emotional stability and balance co-exist. Body- spine, nervous system. Color- red.
• Second Chakra–
• Also known as the Sexual/Spleen Chakra. Located in the curve of the sacrum. Associated with sexuality, sensuality, procreation, passion, emotion, and creativity. This is where the energy of our ancestors exists. Body- spleen, digestive organs, sexual organs. Color- orange.
• Third Chakra–
• Located in the upper stomach area just below the rib cage (behind the navel). Associated with our sense of personal power, the ego. This is where our energy comes from when we compete, protect, control, transform, and make choices. Body- stomach. Color- yellow.
• Fourth Chakra–
• Located in the area of your heart. Associated with unconditional love, compassion, joy, unity with all living things. Body- lungs, heart. Color- green.
• Fifth Chakra–
• This is the bridge chakra which allows us to receive nurturance and permits us to express our deepest truths. Located in your throat. Associated with creative energy, communication, and self-expression. Body- immune system, hormones. Color- blue.
• Sixth Chakra–
• Located just above and between your eyebrows. Also known as The Third Eye. Associated with intuition, deep wisdom, and spirituality. Body- pituitary gland, mental and spiritual processes. Color- indigo.
• Seventh Chakra–
• Also known as the Crown Chakra. Located just above the top of your head. Is thought to be our gateway / connection to the Spirit world. Here we feel and know that we are One with all that is, was, and will be. Color- violet.