No, this writer is hear to tell you about Randall Carlson the Renaissance man. Having spent the better part of three days with Randall, both in the workshop and the intimate circle of a dining room table, I can safely say that this man resonates with both the world of science and the realm of the mystic.

From topics ranging from Atlantis to Sacred Geometry, home building to music and art, this guy has got it all. I’m always fascinated  when I meet someone who legitimately knows his stuff, with no ego as a foundation, but instead an enthusiastic passion for discovery. This is Randall Carlson.

I would implore you to discover yourself the many facets of Randall by tuning in to some of his workshops presently on youtube. You can start here

and the rest is up to you.

Now I would like to say a little something about my friend Judy Welder and  her amazing garden of delight nestled in the hills of western North Carolina. To all that attended the workshop she was the most gracious of hosts. Her easy manner and desire for a perfect space gave the 50 plus visitors a wonderland of spiritual aliveness and communal oneness. This was not the first workshop she presented but the first I was blessed to be present at. Her dream is to make this an ongoing event and to bring people together in the light of  truthfulness and expanding awareness. This is the Vigilan dream as well and our need for transmuting the ego species into the species of appreciation. We can all be a part of this transmutation, we just have to awaken to the light of the Source and breathe a new consciousness into our present mindset.

For me this past week has been transforming. New doorways have opened inside this consciousness and the journey has taken a new direction. Thank you Randall and thank you Judy for giving me the keys.

This morning I decided I had the inspiration I needed to complete my journey into maya, and again, as I  began to write, I realized that what I was searching for was still not attainable. There was emptiness in my writing that cried for help. I turned to my email as a distraction [for I find creative detachment sometimes produces interesting results] and found this wonderful creation forwarded to me from Robert. However intended, this piece fit my expression of maya so well that I thought I would present it to you.

“So life is an illusion and the dream is the true reality.”  © 2010 cosmicobserver

I draw your attention to a quote I found in today’s New York Times. The article entitled “Sizing Up Obama, in Real Life” takes the reader on the President’s visit to Edison, NJ, a hub of working class, middle class America. A quote from a local police lieutenant sums up the ignorance and ego-centric attitude living in all of us today.

“Maybe he’s not a true socialist, but his ideals and ideas are — this kumbaya thing where everyone gets the same health care and the same benefits. And most of the health care is going to go to immigrants. Well, the country wasn’t built that way.”

Wow, that kind of sums it up for us all. Are we that void of love, compassion and human kindness. Is it just all about me? Do you think Thomas Jefferson would agree with that man? Hmm!

Imagine walking down the street and passing a homeless person. As we pass a voice calls out, ‘I am God.’ We turn to see only the homeless person before us and wonder where that voice could have come from. We ask, ‘did you say something’ and the homeless person replies ‘yes, I said I am God.’ A chuckle stirs from behind our breath and we stand amazed at the audacity of this misfortuned being. No sooner do we begin to utter our disapproval at this heresy does this being begin to glow with a golden aura. At once we notice a transformation both in him and in our self. Our ignorance mind sees through the veil and becomes enlightened and our recognition of this absolute truth becomes evident.

Now this allegory seems simplistic I know, but there is truth behind these words. If we could just immerse ourselves in the void for just a dot of time we would sense the realness of Divine Oneness.

Among my favorite passages from “Letters” is one in Letter Fourteen “Sides of Oneness.” I bring it back to you now. Meditate on it a while. It holds a knowing that can help make you free.

© 2010 cosmicobserver

“Sometimes, when I wake up in the middle of the night, I feel very much alone, like there is no God, no spirit, no nothing! It’s just me lying there, totally alone in the universe. I try to reach out to God or some spiritual essence, and I get nothing in response. I have to ask you, because you seem like someone who might have an answer. Why do many of us feel so lost and alone, even after a lifetime of seeking? Why would God, if God even exists, leave us feeling this way, without any direct communication? If God exists, why don’t we know it, constantly? Why don’t we really know when we really need to?”

First of all, God does not exist—not in the way you want him to. I say ‘him’, masculine, to emphasize the non-existent quality. God does not exist as an outside benefactor, some ascendant personage, waiting to attend your needs, ready to answer questions or calm your fears. However as I’ve pointed out before, the creative, intelligent quality of the Cosmos does exist. It is Conscious Evolution, and it exists within the very essence of all awareness. Nothing exists outside of this awareness.

“But this is my point. I’m not aware of it when I want to be aware of it.”

Yes, indeed, you are not aware of it. But you know it. The problem re-stated, is this: You are not aware of your own inner knowing. I’m talking about the essence of your awareness. This knowing is a deep instinct, hidden from your current waking mind. I understand your frustration, now more than I did at the beginning. The problem, for all humans, is one of alignment with your authentic being.

“I have recurring fears that I am not connected to anything. That is my real question. Is my sense of self and appreciation, to use your term, part of some larger consciousness that goes on after I die? Does that sense of self-awareness go on? Is there anything in me now that will continue, or go back into spirit? Has my life experience contributed to that something? Or will it all just fade and dissolve away into nothing at the end? This is my fear in a nutshell.”

The fact that you even have the fear of losing your awareness, or of being abandoned and meaningless in the greater sphere of creation, is evidence of the inner knowing I refer to. It is likewise evidence of your disconnection from it. Without the inner sensitivity, the question would never be raised. Without the inner connection you would not be having this conversation with me. I am an example of what you seek, right in front of you. But what you are really searching for is not assurance of your existence after death. You really want to know whether you truly exist at all, right now!

“That’s absurd. Of course, I exist!”

But you don’t, you see. You are just a figment of Cosmic imagination. We all are. We are a projection from Source, out onto the screen of illusion that it has created to experience separation from oneness. We individuals are the embodied experience of divine detachment—a synonym for ‘projection’ in this case.

The vigilan sense of appreciation is, at its root, this knowing of paradox. It is acceptance of separation in the midst of oneness, and individuality within an undivided whole. But understanding of this is hidden from the human being. That is why you ask about continuation of your awareness after death. You, the thinking individual—ego and mind—exist only ephemerally, as an illusion. The real you lies hidden within the formlessness.

The awakening process of evolution is entirely about this question—the uncovering of your hidden awareness. Here is the way it works: You are God, my friend. We all are, universally, and in particular. The energy of collective awareness that pervades and incubates the Cosmos in us, is what you are calling God. For the purpose of answering you, I will use your term God, though it is a name I rarely use.

God, if it’s any consolation to you, is in the same boat you’re in. The infinite divine intelligence took on aloneness and separation as a great experiment; Conscious Evolution has done this for the sake of its own awakening and feeling. That was a major turning point. God, as homo sapiens, broke off from its own divine being and sense of oneness to immerse itself here. The motivation behind this was a desire for feeling—the avenue into awakened presence.

“I’m not sure your explanation is helping. It does serve to distract me from my fear. But it doesn’t quell my fear.”

Distracting is the same as quelling, for your state of mind. I am giving you a means to remove your awareness from its attachment to mental musings. My explanation will not remove your emotions though, if that’s what you’re looking for. But it will give you a way of feeling through your predicament—and God’s.

“All right. Proceed.”

Consciousness cannot truly desire to be anything it already is. The awareness-of-oneness had to break apart, if it was to reveal itself, to itself; it needed a mirror. That is the essence of being and feeling lonely and separated. Your kind, my sapiens friend, was a great trial in separative awareness and the form-identified intellect. The feelings of aloneness and emptiness you described are perfectly natural to your species.

“Nice!”

Humans always felt cut off, unfulfilled, like there was something enormous missing from their lives. There was. The awareness of connection to divinity was missing. This disconnect was embedded in your genetic structure, and it gave you the feeling of aloneness any time you paused to reflect on your fate. Still, this genetic passage was a necessary evil, if the intellect and hominid evolution were to proceed.

“So, I’m perfectly natural to be feeling meaningless and hopeless. That’s a big help!”

Believe it or not, I am helping you—into freedom. Feeling the emptiness and the desire for what was missing within was in fact the driving force in your entire evolutionary history. It was that sensation of abandonment in the midst of abundance, and emptiness in the presence of everything, that moved you to become who you are. Out of that feeling arose your mind and ego—and your identity as a species. All the coping and defense mechanisms of homo sapiens grew from this root.

In the human race, God was missing from its own being. The divine essence contrived to abandon itself, to separate from and divide its own integrity. This is, of course, an impossibility—hence the illusion of it all. But nevertheless, the infinite intelligence determined that illusion was worth the price.

God developed a craving for what it could not have—a process of its own awakening. To accomplish this, it contrived to not know itself. That desire was so profound that God was willing to sacrifice its natural sense of well-being and oneness, in order to experience separation. This was the only way it could know itself fully—from without and from within. All the isolation, pain and anxiety in the world is a product of God’s craving for this experience…

Copyright © 2010 by Robert Lee Potter

I would like to give a nod today to Ms Shannon Dunn joining the resonance from the other side of the planet, in New Zealand. You can journey through her blog ShannonDunn.com which is dedicated to better living through a more balanced state of being.

We are traveling in Vermont this week and enjoying the freedom that emanates through the soul of this state. Vermont is truly blessed to have continued the message our Founding Fathers had intended us to live by. Thank you Vermont. We salute you.

ⓒ 2010 cosmicobserver

ⓒ 2010 cosmicobserver

“Several letters ago, you gave me three suggestions for living through the Great Storm. Can you give me any more?”

Here are three more suggestions, which are follow-ups to each of the three I started with:

1) As you improve your capacity to actively notice what you are feeling and thinking, and what is happening around you, turn that noticing into the expansion of awareness. Invite into your being a new openness and allowing that will begin to dissolve barriers around the little self. The focus of this is the release of your identity with form, and that which is separate from the Cosmos.

You may use noticing as a technique within your meditations. Observe, for instance as you sit still, that there are holes within the fabric of your thinking. There are occasional brief pauses in the streams of thought. There are openings between all the streams as well, loopholes if you will.

Use your imagination to zoom down to microscopic levels in these holes. There, if you are patient, you will recognize what we call points of peace. Now apply your awareness to these points. Center in on them. Relax into their spaciousness. They feel enormously peaceful. When you enter their orbits, you feel blanketed by the most refreshing and calming influence. If you do this, you will find that they are not only supremely serene, but they are also internal power generators of great abundance…

If you would know your true reality, your formless identity beyond form, consider my second suggestion:

2) Turn not-resisting into active acceptance of the moment; accept Now as your true identity. It is only logical. If there is only one Now and no other, then everything is within the Now, in the same space. Everything belongs to it. We are all simultaneous, as I’ve already asserted. We are all one, both in essence and in substance. All the boundaries in the world, in nature, in the Cosmos, are just permeable membranes; we are literally liquid beings, flowing into and through one another. We all flow continuously through our environments.

There are many examples of this fluidity. Look at breathing for one. It is the most fundamental life-sustaining action we can take. Stop eating and you live a few weeks; stop drinking water and you live a few days. Without breathing, the body and brain die within minutes.

The breath we breathe sustains our life in the physical body more essentially than any other function. Yet we are giving it away in great exhalations several times a minute. We draw in and breathe out. Where is the boundary between our bodies and the air, the room, the person beside us, the sky? Our skin is highly porous, especially at microscopic and subatomic levels. Our minds are continuously receiving and digesting the ideas of others, and in turn giving them away again. The heat and cold outside invade our bodies without hesitation. We take in food and give off waste products. We touch each other and feel comfort, irritation, or excitement.

Our boundaries are, in truth, arbitrary. We construct them and use them for good and understandable reasons, but that does not make them real. We could just as easily see that there are no permanent boundaries, and no one would be the worse for it. In fact, with awakening, we are a lot better off. It is our knowing of oneness, integration and sharing of the fabric of existence with all else, that gives vigilans health and abundance. We see boundaries as elements of functionality, not identity…

“All right. Yes, non-resistance sounds great, but is it really something we can use in our daily lives? It seems so abstract sometimes. Where can it lead?”

It leads right here: 3) You can turn your acceptance into authenticity and thence into appreciative action. You can translate the formless into form in the manifested world. You can look and move in the other direction as well. That is, you can move from form into the formless space. Action is necessary to be physically alive. But not all actions are healthy. Many actions are cut off from Source, and are not inspired by beneficial motives or outcomes. For actions to be healthy and beneficial to the actor and to the acted-upon, they must be generated from the Life Source. The clearer and cleaner the connection, the healthier will be the outcome.

Authenticity is the health-giving connection. It is more than just a buzzword or synonym for spirit-seeking. It is an avenue for practical efficiency in all you do. Authenticity equals simplicity. Actions, like thoughts, tend toward complexity, and hence away from the authentic awareness; they tend toward dense formations and loss of connection unless they are consistently guided from Source. Source and simplicity are the basic tenets of the vigilan appreciative faculty; these were also available embryonically to homo sapiens. So, it is not beyond your capacity to begin exploring this primal core of your being. To facilitate your transition into the new species, you will want to know the way this works.

“Yes. I do want to know.”

This is the way. The still, small voice is speaking. Stop shouting within yourself, within your mind, long enough to imagine that voice. Stop rustling the papers of your impatience, and careening through your daily life in avoidance of what’s real. The way authenticity comes to us is by stopping. How do you stop? Do so by not resisting what is. Anything that is not real—in the moment—has been added by your mind, as a form of distraction and defense. Notice this phenomenon in yourself, and continue to drop your resistance. Call that energy back into your matrix.

The way appreciation works is by being what it is not. I say these words of paradox again, to intentionally confuse your mind. Not resisting opens the way into the not-self; that is, into all that you feel separated from. Walk that way! Enter that which you have rejected and denied. The not-self is in fact your self in disguise. Remember paradox always points to the truth. In order to practice deep appreciation, you must first disidentify from the form of yourself in the world. Identify, rather, with the formless stillness. Accepting what seems to be not you breaks down conditioned attachments to form and dissolves the fortifications of the ego…

Copyright © 2010 by Robert Lee Potter

Now we are approaching the grand turn in our destiny. This movement of consciousness started back when men and women strived for greatness in thought and a heart filled with appreciation. The pride that was our founders lives in the light that guides our inner most dreams. The dream of being one with the planet and the system that it is a part of. The dream of a galaxy filled with wonders of exploration and a universe filled with dimensions we have yet to traverse. Here lies the idea of a new, evolved humankind.

There is surely a thread that ties us together. A Golden thread, that shimmers so subtle through our being we can only feel its resonance. And yet we stand dumb to accepting what will surely be. We cannot change the destiny that is before us. It is of cosmic making and we are merely the pieces on the board. We can wake to its knowing and become part of it or we can sleep in our uncomfortable egos and get lost along the way. Is this what our founders had in mind? Are we a sleeping nation, unaware of the greatness that lies ahead?

So let us wake tomorrow with a new voice. One of gratitude for the light that has been past down to us. Appreciation of who we are and where we are headed. For we cannot stop the evolution from happening. It is upon us and as strong as ever. We can ignore it for the sake of our own single needs and wants. But this thing that is so great, so much bigger than all that surrounds us, is a force that will push all that self serving aside. It will annihilate the foolish ego minds and present us with an idea that is beyond our imagination. And yet, those who imagine it will make it so.

ⓒ 2010 CosmicObserver

This evening’s attraction is a wonderful monthly workshop and meditation with Ilona Anne Hress. Ilona is a healer. She heals beyond the needs of the body. She heals through the nuances of the spirit. Her approach is filled with laughter, inquisitiveness, application and sound. She makes light, she reads, she teaches and she sings. By the time the evening has ended you are in another world. You feel one with Peace and Light and Cosmic Fairy Dust. As I write this post I can say I am still reeling from the effects. I would recommend that any and all participate in Ilona’s world and she can be contacted through her website growingconsciousness.com

So this is it. This is where it all begins. Not in the star laden hierarchy of the spiritual gurus or the new age wannabees. No this is a grass roots movement that is taking it’s energy from the sincere, awakened souls, that populate the hills and dales of our vast planet. The Dick and Jane crowd. This is where the movement is taking shape and this is where the movement is going to evolve. I pray that you realize, each one of you, that your addition to this movement is as important as any team that needs all of it’s players to win. The future holds magical things for humanity. It is not the apocalyptic vision that some of society imagine. That is only their ego’s fear that paints that picture. No, this is a world that has been envisioned in all the great minds and hearts of those who have brought Knowing to this realm of humankind. Krishna, Buddha, Christ – they all knew and tried to tell us. And we have laid dumb to their words. But change has come in our time and we are in the midst of a great shift. This shift is so great that in generations to come we won’t even recognize the beings we are now. It is a time of celebrations – through the very muck and mire of the ignorance that stands in our way – we move ahead. Strong in our knowing of what will come next, a life of Peace and Oneness and Appreciation of all that the Source, through Conscious Evolution, is giving us.

This is a great beginning people. Don’t be fooled by the tumultuous happenings of the moment. Remember, it is always darkest just before the dawn.

ⓒ 2010 CosmicObserver

All these items or names are featured prominently in our daily news. They evoke an emotional response, however big or small, from most of us, and set the stage for our disposition to change it’s temperament and control our mood for an extended time. Perhaps you are riled up just from one of the above mentioned. Let’s try an experiment. Let’s see if we can neutralize the effect they have on our psyche.

Close your eyes and imagine all those items and names are points of light, out in front of your vision. You can hear chatter coming from those lights. The chatter, at first, fills your head with annoying sound, but allow the chatter to subside and the lights to become silent, just twinkling in the air. Now see those lights become one large sphere and see it move to a spot about 10 inches above your head. As it floats there, imagine something that brings joy into your life; a flower, a painting, a poem, a song or a face, and place it in the center of the sphere. Next, see the sphere move down into your head and feel it release the pressure of the noise from all sides of your skull. Let the sphere move into your throat and taste sweetness on your tongue. Once again, move the sphere into your stomach and feel it release all the tension in that spot 3 inches below the navel. Finally, move the sphere into your heart. Let it hover there for a while. Now let it expand, filling your entire body. Feel the balance it affords. The peace from within.

This is the state of appreciation. This state of appreciation comes from balancing the emotions and leveling the mind. It is the natural state of an evolved species and one that can be ours.

Have a great day…

ⓒ 2010 CosmicObserver

It showed a cross-section of emotional driven egos, short on facts and long on ignorance. In many ways it could be compared to the 1968 horror film “Night of the Living Dead.” There is a mob mentality in both cases and a dumbed down, unconscious approach to life. The zombies are recently risen-from-the-dead carnivores, who have nothing better to do than ravage the countryside looking for new blood to consume. The New Right are recently risen-from-the-ranks, confused middle class white Americans, who are ravaging the countryside looking for gratification of their sophomoric emotional pain bodies. They are being led by disgruntled, former would be politicians, whose sole purpose in life is to grab the limelight and spread idiocy throughout the land. When shall we learn…

ⓒ 2010 CosmicObserver

Message from O

6-15-10

Discuss the disconnect between those who have egos and those who don’t. For instance:

“If ego is the major problem on the planet now, and we cannot do anything to get rid of it, what is our true course of action? You have said the change (mutation) must come from within—at the genetic level—and that we cannot make it happen; it must be the soul or Source who does it–when it gets ready. That sort of leaves us just hanging around waiting, while all hell is breaking loose. This doesn’t feel right to me. Surely, there is something we can do!”

May I respond?

“Yes. I didn’t know you were listening. Thanks, O. I would love to hear from you.”

Good. There is, of course, something you can do. It is to be aware, to open your consciousness as wide and as deeply as you can… and then go even deeper and even wider. No limit! Our message to your world is to be aware. Be awakened. There is no way but from within to do this. If you engage this activity, it is Source acting within you, through you. It is your genetic structure acting to transmute itself—in the very action itself.

But, my friends, be aware first—and foremost. The awareness must precede the awakening, as paradoxical as that will sound to you. Awaken in order to be awake.

“Yes. You wrote that in Letters. But I keep coming back to the concerns of so many people today, and New Age teachers. They are saying we need to pull together, to focus our attention on correcting the imbalances in the world, to use our consciousness in better ways to effect change.”

I know. And these leaders mean well. They are still convinced that survival of your species is the most important factor in evolution. I am here is say it is not! That is a species’ conceit, an ego position. It is like an individual saying, ‘I must survive. Therefore, I will change myself.’

“But is that so bad? Shouldn’t we be focusing on changing ourselves—as in mutating into your species?”

Not at all. It is not your mission to create me, or to evolve into me. Your mission derives from your destiny.

“And that is? Please remind me. I know, I should have that on the tip of tongue.”

It is to be the ground out of which grows the new flower for the new Earth, the flower of awakening. Your suffering, struggle, negativity and confusion are driving the changes that will occur. They are the fertilizer and the soil. Your destiny is to prepare the way for the new garden to blossom forth.

“Yikes. That sounds more dismal than you ever said it in the Letters.”

It is not dismal to an awakened, egoless mind. The only thing dismal in the soil is the pollutants your civilization keeps adding to it.

“Wait. I feel we’re getting off track here. Please come back to some kind of advice and reassurance that a human can digest.”

All right. I keep assuming that you are more mature than you have yet become. Thank you for reminding me. This is important for communicating to your compatriots. What you are doing in your time, what your awakening leaders are doing, is setting the stage for release. You are building a platform, a foundation—soil again—for the change that will occur within you all.

“But I want to hear about—to question you about—what would be the best attitude in these times. Should we not be orienting ourselves toward a better world, doing things that can improve our species and our planet—whether we do mutate or not? Shouldn’t we take action on behalf of the future, and not just lay back and allow it to happen within us? This is the crux of my dilemma.

Yes. I see. From my perspective, I see Source acting. From your perspective, you still feel as though you need to invoke the Source, to invite it to act through you, to align with it in order to make change happen. What I see is that Source is acting, and has acted through you all along, unbeknownst to your mental awareness. What is, is one. There are no real divisions between us and Source, especially now in the Apocalypse, the Revelation. What Source (and Conscious Evolution) is doing is bringing your time and my time together in the Now. It is acting to reveal, in us, its own destiny of awakening. What we each are doing is realizing the action of evolution.

What may appear to you as action for the good of the future and the good of the planet, is in reality Source acting through you to affect this outcome. It is the same for vigilans. We are acting as Source in these same matters. The reason I will always return to the need for you to go within and realize the changes there first, is that you truly cannot change the world to make it better without first becoming the change your seek. If you do not dissolve the ego first, then the ego will take charge of the change, so to speak. And change will come to naught. Ego will not change; it must only dissolve and diminish.

Ego will always feel separate; it will always foster separation and defensiveness. This is the greatest challenge for all humans now. It is not about solving the environmental or economic crisis; it is not about how to raise better food and eat a better diet to improve your bodies; it is not about how to end war and corporate domination of your politics; it is not about how to correct the health care system from pharmaceutical company control. It is about how to see through the struggles of your time, and see through yourselves. See through what you have always believed yourselves to be—the separative ego identity. Become transparent to the individuated attachment to form and desire to improve forms—no matter how noble the cause may appear to your fearful minds.

Releasing your ego’s demand that the human species must survive, will allow you to see the greater picture with the clarity of Source. It is not to say you must turn against your species or against your ego. That would be the ego’s way. Just release. Just stop holding on. Let the form not be your identity. This becomes a blessing and not a sacrifice. The Earth is who you are, Conscious Evolution is who you are, Source is who you are. You are not home sapiens.

In the changing inner communion of your being, all else will be effected. As the ego is released from its dominion, your deep awareness arises. It comes through the heart, yes. It comes through the feelings that bring passion and power to your state of living. This is the empowerment, the Apocalypse. You will continue to take actions in the world. Let them be positive, nurturing actions that mean good and plenty for your fellow beings and for your future generations (vigilans). But take those actions, not that you may defend your species, or defend the Earth even. Take them out of response to (and in step with) the inner empowerment of Source, living fully within you, rising up like a fountain of truth, pouring forth its blessings into your experience of the world.

One more thing. Be graceful with your leadership today. Who the true leaders are will be obvious for anyone with an awakening soul. See them. Hear them. Follow them and allow them to lead you—as one. Do not divide against them or pull them down with your doubts and separative perspectives. Join together in the heart and radiate their leadership into the Earth for your time and for mine. Part of awakening is to know your place in the great spaciousness of Now. This means playing your role both as an individual and a member of the great evolving family of humanity—and beyond. Be of good cheer. Be as one.

ⓒ 2010 CosmicObserver

[I rise up with a realization.] “Wait! You are revealing this information to us. So, the knowledge of the Key to the Threshold will now pre-date its discovery. How will this affect evolution and all?”

“Ah. Now, my son, you are picking up clues to how Conscious Evolution really works. I said that we have done this all before. We’re practicing it all over and over, until we get it right.”

“No! But I don’t get it. I can’t process this.” [I slump back down on the cushions.]

“Don’t worry. There’s no guarantee that the angelans will actually let you remember any of what I’ve told you once you go back to your own time.”

[You stare at him, as puzzled as I am.] I don’t understand. Your society knows that merging with homo angelicus is your destiny, and yet you are not acting on it? Why don’t you simply realize and be done with it—meld Now?

[Old Man beams mischievously.] “Because we don’t want to!”

[We stare back at him with a cool gaze. He continues,] “You see, it is destiny for us to realize, for sure. But it is likewise, our destiny to savor the moment, to let it play out—as long as there is joy in it. We want to appreciate it to the fullest. This requires that we remain under the influence of time. We must use time in order to appreciate timelessness.”

All right. I see. [You’re much quicker at this than I am. You lean forward toward the wizened face.] Appreciation is timeless, only in the moment. Experience, however, is time-bound. Right?

“Yes, but to say it more accurately, everything is in the moment; there is no other place to be. But there are layers. Experience is a layer within time; time is a layer within the moment; and all the layers are functions of appreciation.”

“Oh My! I seem to really be getting this. I’m blown away by what you just said. I see it almost diagrammatically in my head. All the layers of reality and illusion are right there in the diagram. I see where we are in this scheme too, and where the scheme is in us. We are choosing to be in time because of experience. That’s what incarnation is all about. At the same time, we are steadily moving to a place where we will eventually have to give up experience all together! That’s why you don’t want to go straight into full realization right now. Am I right? I can see how you’d want to stay with experiencing. It’s more fun.”

[You put your hands on my arms and squeeze.] I like the fresh ways you see things, human brother. And I like what’s gotten into you lately.

[I feel the meaning behind your words. It’s a depth perception I had not noticed until this moment. I’m staring at your eyes, but beyond them—looking straight into your soul; and my own soul. It’s hard to pull away.]

“Here is the last thing I will tell you about the angelans: As much as this may surprise you, as much as they are powerful tricksters and elusive spirits, they are actually our servants! Their entire civilization is devoted to service—of each other, of all other forms of life, and especially of us! We are the blessed recipients of their limitless and amazing gifts. All that we have been given, by the Source, by Conscious Evolution, by awareness and appreciation, is gifted to us by angelans. Throughout history, we have been given glimpses of their function in our world. We have hailed them as angels and daemons, protectors and wardens, fierce warriors. But we did not know the half of it.

“For centuries, we vigilans, revered homo angelicus. But we thought of them as a totally independent species. This is just the opposite of what they are; angelans are the embodiment of approachability, if we only knew the way, the window, the key. We now know it! The way is service.

“What an awesome model for us all!” [I sigh.]

[You bow, and I follow suit.] I must now look at the diversity of oneness in a whole new light. All the layers of differentiation are measures of how we come together; they are portals for realizing we were never separate. I have known this intuitively, of course. Now I know it as an intimate identity. Thank you, old soul.

“You are most welcome, sister of the matrix. I perceive that our human brother here is close to the same realization.”

[With that he motions us to sit again beside him. He takes your hand in his and places it into mine. Together, our triangle holds the silence for a long time, listening, wondering, allowing.]

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