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Love Be Thy Name

Jun. 23 Featured Posts no comments

by Matt Kahn

If we take a moment to look around, we realize how life as we know it is changing in such rapid and extraordinary ways. The structures of the government, financial institutions, and even the physical landscapes of other countries are changing in dramatic fashion. Each seemingly external change reflects the inner change occurring within the unfolding odyssey of human evolution. In this evolution, we are now facing what is necessary to be faced within ourselves, as we participate in the expansion of consciousness, like a turbulent rollercoaster of transformation in the amusement park of form.

It is no surprise that if everything within and around us appears to be changing at such a dramatic rate, so would the spiritual path appear to change just as dramatically. What was spiritually relevant, even one or two years ago, now somehow seems like ancient history. We are now experiencing a time in history where nearly every belief, idea, preferred coping mechanism, or even our most-treasured spiritual tools, now appear out of date. This is happening only as a means of opening us up to a deeper sense of simplification in our lives. Through these words, you are invited into the spacious landscape of eternal freedom – to know the truth in your own direct experiences of life, versus searching for the many empty meanings only ideas have assumed to be true.

With changes in our physical, emotional, or perhaps energetic aspects of body, we perceive such changes, whether exciting or terrifying, through the surging of nervous energy expressed by the human nervous system. This nervous energy is often defined by thought, and labeled as something called an emotion. Whenever emotions arise, they are categorized as being either good or bad, and either fought or embraced depending on the given viewpoint we have about a given feeling. It is important to know that no single expression of nervous energy feels any particular way. Rather, whenever an emotion arises, we are actually experiencing our own psychological history of assumptions made about such feelings.

As we are called to wake up, we may begin to openly feel these temporary expressions of nervous energy, not to maintain the tragic tale of victim consciousness, but as a means of exploring what the truth of these emotions happens to be. The truth of any emotion cannot be defined in mind, or contained in thought, but must be realized by surrendering to the curiosity of what it feels like to simply feel such feelings.

When a feeling arises, you may ask yourself, “What does it feel like to feel this way?” Notice the difference between that experience of pure openness, and our usual experience, which often asks, “What is it like to only experience what I think about this feeling?”

Be like a child whose courage stems from the innocence and curiosity of wanting to know what it is like to feel however you are feeling, without any preconceived ideas of what is good, bad, or otherwise. Every feeling is valid to explore, whenever it is here. And, if it is here – it is here to be fully experienced. It is here to be experienced, so you may experience the truth of it, which has nothing to do with the many ideas ever imagined about any such feelings.

Verbal or written pointers such as “be present” or “accept what happens” are very helpful, but they’ve now been so overstated in our spiritual circles, they have actually lost their usefulness and potency.

In most instances, there are many of us replacing incessant mental noise with incessant spiritual noise, reminding ourselves to try and practice what only thoughts believe will earn a better reality or a more fulfilling living experience.

These words you are reading are here inviting you beyond that paradigm of conceptual confusion, knowing the true fulfillment of life you are searching for is only discovered when there is nothing for you to spiritually maintain, so that you may fully allow whatever comes and goes, to come and go of its own accord.

When something comes, you are free to explore with your feelings – what is it like to experience this? When something goes, you are equally free to explore with your feelings – what is it like to experience that?

Fulfillment is not found in any goal you attain, any dream you actualize, or any purpose a clever mind has imagined and continues to chase. Fulfillment is how deeply and vividly you are experiencing whatever you appear to experience, and how freely, you allow what comes and goes, to freely come and go.

May we surrender all known ideas of ourselves and the world we see, knowing we only perceive lack in a world we fail to explore. Perhaps the only thing that is ever lacking in our lives is the lack of adventure and exploration that we came to this planet to freely experience in the first place. Inevitably, we fail to explore whatever we have organized into the trance of conceptual thinking. We maintain these illusory thought structures by believing that any of our thoughts and ideas have something to do with truth.

Truth be told, you are that which is aware. Everything arises within the vast formless awareness that you are, and you are here exploring a lifetime of infinite possibilities in a world of many appearances. Therefore, you are that which gives life to thought, to ideas, to opinions; not what any thought, idea, or opinion ever dares to speak about. Nearly every thought, idea, and opinion assumes to be speaking about the truth. In reality, thoughts, ideas, and opinions only refer to other thoughts, ideas and opinions.

You are that which gives life to the body that experiences all temporary ideas in awareness. You are that which gives life to the incredible world this body of awareness explores and experiences. You are that which experiences a journey of a lifetime, seeking to understand all that is here, while discovering the ever present truth of one’s self, that rests in the many reflections of that you see.

May we meet as this truth by daring to be ourselves – however imperfect, incomplete, whole, unique, or seemingly ordinary that we may believe we somehow appear to be.

May we no longer require the spiritual path to be a space where problems are temporarily extinguished, and then quickly exchanged for other dilemmas. May this path be a renewed space of sacred honesty, where we may notice whenever the heart is not exploding with joy, cascading with grace, and overflowing with the purity of love, the celebration of awareness that is here in your honor is being overlooked.

Whenever you notice you are innocently unaware of the eternal love that you are, seek those who are pure of heart to assist you in dissolving any sense of obstacle, any trace of terror, any degree of difficulty within your world of perception – so the breaking free of all self-imposed barriers may be as effortless as waking up from a vivid dream you forgot was being imagined.

If you are wishing to experience the truth of fulfillment, right here, right now, and you are willing to even discard your greatest insight in order to lighten the load, and experience the profound reality of infinite possibility no thought can anticipate, or actually describe, then I am here to be with you, as you gracefully wake up from the dream of limitation, and dance in the freedom of eternal love.

May you honor these gifts that are here being offered with the utmost sincerity, and receive them into the fullness of your being through the radiant innocence of your divine heart space.

May there be no reasons or restrictions that prevent our meeting, as the gates of the heart open to the melody of freedom – singing itself into the innocence of every experience. When listening closely to freedom’s song, you may hear these gentle words:

There is no one to forgive. There is no one to forget. Love be thy name.

Matt Kahn is the author of the book, “Effortless Freedom – A Timeless Dialogue of Life’s Deepest Teachings.”

Matt Kahn is a spiritual teacher, mystic, and intuitive healer. His spontaneous awakening arose out of an out-of-body experience at the age of 8, and his direct experiences with ascended masters and archangels throughout his life.

Many spiritual seekers have experienced amazing, unexplainable healings, and have awakened to their true nature through Matt’s profound and loving teachings and his transmission of sacred heart wisdom.

To learn more about Matt Kahn visit his website at True Divine Nature

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Lilou Mace: Spiritual Entrepreneur

Jun. 04 Soulgineers no comments

“Hello my beautiful co-creators,” Lilou enthusiastically states as she welcomes her viewers to another one of her inspiring videos.  If you are familiar with the phrase you know that you’re in for a wonderful treat.  In the next few minutes, Lilou will attempt to bring out the interviewee’s “juiciness” and share it with thousands of viewers across the globe.  With a wonderful mixture of a charismatic smile, a real sense of wonder and excitement, and an innate curiosity, Lilou’s interviews will leave you glued to the screen and thirsting for more.

With almost 1500 videos in English, French, Japanese and Spanish, you are sure to find a video that will call to you.  Lilou has been interviewing people of all walks of life since 2005 and has already gotten over 8.1 million views.   The topics cover a wide range and include:  success and law of attraction; love; shifts and evolution; spirituality; mind, body and spirit; and healing.

Her interviews include Marianne Williamson, James Redfield, Caroline Myss, Deepak Chopra, Michael Losier, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and John Gray.  While some of the people she has interviewed have a lot of name recognition, others are just everyday people with something powerful to say.  No matter how famous they are, they all share one thing in common – they have a message that Lilou feels should be shared with the world.  A message that will help her viewers open their hearts and allow them to unfold.

Lilou is motivated by a desire to see spirituality become something that we acknowledge every day and use to help us reach our life potential.

Lilou believes that we can fulfill our life potential and manifest our dreams by focusing our thoughts on what we want, listening to heart, love ourselves, be courageous, playing big and applying juicy insights, tools and practices which she shares daily on video. Her mission statement indicates that she aims, amongst other things, to “inspire millions of people to explore their unlimited potential and make spirituality an everyday thing”.

Video blogging for Lilou Mace webTV is not the only method that Lilou uses to inspire.  She is also the author of  I Lost My Job and I Liked It: 30-Day Law of Attraction Diary of a Dream Job Seeker and the co-founder of the 100-Day Reality Challenge internet community.  Her background is in online branding and she used her skills and knowledge to start two companies:  MPowerU and Emotional Brands.  Lilou is currently on a year-long Juicy Living Tour where she is traveling around the world interviewing people that will help inspire her viewers to focus on positive living and thinking.

 

To find out more information about Lilou and her projects go here.

To connect with Lilou on Facebook go here.

To check out Lilou’s Youtube channel go here.

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The Nature of Existence

May. 19 Movies 1 comment

What if you asked the spiritual leaders, gurus, scientists, artists, and everyday people of the world why we exist?

Roger Nygard travels to the sources of the world’s major philosophies and talks to scientists, philosophers and religious leaders  to talk about the nature of human existence and the meaning of life.

In this entertaining documentary, Roger receives answers from all areas of the spectrum.  From a Christian wrestler, to a 12 year old child, to Carl Sagan’s wife, and more.   Follow him on his quest and find out whether he learns the answer to his questions by the end of his journey.

Here are some of the quotes you can find (not verbatim):

  • I exist to figure out why we exist.
  • I don’t doubt God, I doubt his representatives.
  • A world with only happiness would be hell.
  • Science gives us a journey to find something that may ultimately be indistinguishable from our concept of God.
  • God created himself ; We are a thought of God; We are all God/Goddess.
  • Santa, why do children in Africa get genocide for Christmas?
  • Everything that happens is a challenge to find God in that event.
  • There are over 1000 religions because no one religion has exterminated the rest.
  • The way you live your life is what you believe in.
  • The person who confronts you is your liberator.
  • If you went back to before the big ban and had the same ingredients, would we still be where we are today?
  • Religion is for people who believe they’re going to hell; spirituality is for people who have been there.
  • Is the world a better place for having humans in it?

If you are a Netflix subscriber you can watch this movie instantly.

To learn more about the movie go to its official site here.

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Give Me 5

May. 19 News no comments

On May 17, 20011, graduates at the University of Tennessee at Martin had a special treat.  They received a valuable message from Jerry Reese, their commencement speaker:  chances are that 95% of people can do what you do with the right training but it’s that 5% that you bring to the table that makes you perfect for the job.

Jerry Reese is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the New York Giants.  While speaking at his alma mater he challenged graduates to turn to their neighbor for a high five.  However, this high five represents a pledge that they’ll make to one another to make that 5% count:

“Say ‘give me 5.’ That means I’m going to hold you responsible to make a difference, not blend in, and make this world a better place,” he said.

He added jokingly, “If you are the general manager of a NFL football team, 99.9 percent of people can do what you do. I get e-mails, letters, phone calls from people telling me how they can do my job better than me.”
But, he noted, “It’s the 5 percent that you do, that you bring to the table — that unique 5 percent — that’s what we’re asking from you. That’s your contribution.”

To read the original NWTN Today article go here.

 

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Validation

May. 19 Videos 1 comment

Excuse me, but do you validate?

Validation is a short film written and directed by Kurt Kuenne.   The viewer is captured by the story of, a smiley and happy parking attendant (T.J. Thyne), who goes beyond the call of duty and rather than just validating drivers’ parking tickets, he includes a special kind of validation: their value and worth as unique individuals.

As the parking attendant compliments people on their appearance and demeanor and touches on their inner qualities, you can see the smiles growing.  Our happy attendant goes beyond the everyday man and brings validation to even President Bush and Saddam Hussein.

Life seems to being going great for him until he enters the DMV where he is confronted with a beautiful photographer (Vicki Davis) who strictly adheres to the DMV policy of NO SMILING.  Despite trying and trying our parking attendant eventually becomes defeated because there is one person he can’t make smile. Can our happy parking attendant pull himself out of it?

What happens to someone that makes them stop smiling?

To watch the short on Youtube go here.

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Escape from Zombie Food Court

May. 13 Everyday Life no comments

Deer Hunting with Jesus

We are increasingly living in a world where we are taught what to like and dislike, what to wear, who to vote for, what music to listen to, and even what we should feel.  Rather than living in a world where we share our experiences and feelings with others who can give us a hug or a pat on the back, we now text it or tweet it or facebook it.  Rather than take someone to the emergency room with us so that we can have a shoulder to lean on, we’d rather share the pain with our smartphones so as not to inconvenience our loved ones.

Joe Bageant, author of Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir and Deer Hunting with Jesus, gave speaches to the Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University at Lexington, and the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago.  In these speaches he was asked to talk about human consciousness.   Bageant argues that as followers of the corporate world we have lost our individuality:

Strangely enough, even as a population mass operating under unified corporate management machinery, most Americans believe they are unique individuals, significantly different from every other person around them. More than any other people I have met, Americans fear loss of uniqueness. Yet you and I are not unique in the least. Despite the American yada yada about individualism, you are not special. Nor am I. Just because we come from the manufacturer equipped with individual consciousness, does not make us the center of any unique world, private or public, material, intellectual or spiritual. The fact is, you will seldom if ever make any significant material or lifestyle choices of your own in your entire life. If you don’t buy that house, someone else will. If you don’t marry him, someone else will. If you don’t become a psychologist, lawyer or a clergyman or a telemarketer, someone else will. We are all replaceable parts in the machinery of a capitalist economy. “Oh but we have unique feelings and emotions that are important,” we say. Psychologists specialize in this notion. Yet I venture to say that none of us will ever feel an emotion that someone long dead has not felt, or some as yet unborn person will not feel. We are swimmers in an ancient rushing river of humanity. You, me, the people in my Central American village, the child in Bangladesh, and the millionaire frat boys who run our financial and governmental institutions with such adolescent carelessness. All of our lives will eventually be absorbed without leaving a trace.

Yet, most of us feel that somehow we are unique.  So how do we differentiate ourselves and what role does our consciousness play?

Fortunately though, we can meaningfully differentiate our lives (at least in the Western sense) in the way we choose to employ our consciousness. Which is to say, to own our consciousness. If we exercise enough personal courage, we can possess the freedom to discover real meaning and value in our all-too-brief lives. We either wake up to life, or we do not. We are either in charge of our own awareness or we let someone else manage it by default. That we have a choice is damned good news.

Read the original article on Joe Bageant’s website (it’s a bit long but well worth it).

Drawing courtesy of Austin Kleon

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