Events & Downloads
In the last Zoom meeting, the Love After Life group experienced unintelligible voices coming through multiple times when different individuals were speaking. We keep everyone else muted and it was not an echo effect, and it didn't sound like any kind of feedback or glitchy sound. It sounded like a sped-up voice coming through. The person speaking didn't hear it, but the rest of us could. Our plan is to start recording these meetings in case any further phenomena occurs.
We've been having more cross-over synchronicities, signs and experiences. One includes a kind of "half-way" house our partners are apparently gathering in to help each other and help us in our efforts. Mediums in our group have commented on this and it has shown up in dreams and visualizations. Another common thread is some sort of community celebration on the other side. As we share our experiences with each other, we have been conduits by which other members are given signs and synchronicities through us.
One of the strangest sets of synchronicities has to do with TV shows, books and other media that pop up in our experiences that perfectly correspond to, or illustrate, or flat out repeat things we talk about in the group, the main one being the ability to go to another dimension and be with our soul mates via technology. The synchronicities have become so overwhelming and constant it actually had me wondering if I was losing my mind even though I have a perspective that completely validates and accepts this kind of reality and have been experiencing this kind of stuff for decades. Immediately upon having that sensation (dredged up from deep in my subconscious), the TV show that was illustrating a technological method of moving between dimensions ("The OA" on Netflix), mentioned that one has to accept what feels like madness to be able to move forward. That was actually part of the show up until then that hadn't been made explicit - people were driven mad when they looked through this window portal and could see alternate realities.
That triggered a line of thought both about old subconscious conditioning, self-imposed resistance and how certain deep assumptions constrain what our consciousness is capable of incorporating into our psyche without feeling a little crazy. Through the process of downloading and analyzing the information I was getting, I re-acquired a rather liberating concept I published in a book some time ago, but took off the market.
First, it came to me that the whole framework of "spirituality" begins with a negative and highly problematic premise that is usually unrecognized and unexamined: that we are somehow not perfectly fine as-is. That we are not whole as-is, not "enlightened as-is, and that we are somehow not doing and not being exactly who and what and where we chose or willed. That we are incomplete, not as good as we should be, that we have things we have to learn or levels we must advance. Then, people or institutions position themselves as having what you need in order to move forward, advance, become "better."
Then there are the implied or explicit threats for not accepting the truth of this idea. In marketing, the implication is that you wan't be enjoying your life as much as other people who use the product or service, or that something bad might happen. In spirituality and religion, that threat is more explicit - you will experience dark, bad, negative or painful consequences if you do not get with the program of "self-improvement," "soul growth" or "spiritual advancement." At best, the implied consequence for resistance is that you will not "be all you can be" or have to keep reincarnating.
This directly sets up a conflict perspective between those considered "spiritual" and those considered not-so-spiritual. It immediately puts us in the psychological stance of lacking something essential. We are battered by the proclamations that we are ignorant, misinformed and in need of the help of advisers, guides or spiritual masters to get where we want to go.
It seems to me that "spirituality" is just one way of framing certain kinds of experiences as we have a habit of so doing: into a systematic, ordered hierarchy, a more-or-less linear path from some supposed "not as good" place or state of being towards some supposed end goal.
The problem is that this kind of framing simply doesn't make any sense given the two fundamental premises of modern spiritual thought: (1) we are eternal beings, and (2) creation is infinite. There can be no "end" goal, and if we are eternal, we would certainly have already gotten there even if it did exist. Another almost universal spiritual axiom is that we are all, ultimately, one; we are all of spirit and enmeshed in spirit and have internal access to everything, everyone and everywhere. It is also commonly agreed that we have free will. If we have free will, how can we be anything, be anywhere, be in any state or situation that is not the product of our own free will?
If spirit/source/god is entirely reactive and providing to our will on some supposed "higher" causal or mental plane, why would that not be the case here? Think about this for a bit. Where is that "higher plane" supposed to exist, if not simultaneously **right here**? Is there something **other** than spirit/source/god (god as the "whole") to mix in with spirit to reduce its density, power, intensity, responsiveness here? Is there something **other than** this fundamental substrate that can interfere with it and keep it from being responsive and providing? How can we be anything other than perfectly in tune with that universal thing, and a perfect example of the thing that all existence is comprised of?
So, here is the upshot: we are already existing in what is commonly called the "highest" spiritual realm, all the time. We are already perfectly enlightened and one with what we call "spirit". We are an all powerful, all knowing, omnipresent perfect being, doing exactly what such a being does throughout eternity in an infinite creation: adopting individual personality frameworks to have experiences. We adopt resistances and limitations and internal structures, divide ourselves into the experiential illusion of "self" and "other", to experience. To experience the learning of that which we have hidden from ourselves; to experience helping and getting help (hiding from ourselves that nothing in spirit **actually** needs help); to experience growth, kindness and love (and their counterparts) embedded in contrasting elements and situations; to experience consequences and effects structured in a way that in turn give us the value experience of appreciation, importance, achievement, advancement, realization, epiphany, wonder, etc.
I'm not indicting spiritual structuralism and marketing as some bad thing here. This structure (like religion, materialism, pragmatism, capitalism, etc.) provides for certain value-laden experiences. The point is not that such structures should be avoided, but rather that we can choose, via free will, which structure we want to be in, or create our own, and steer ourselves in that direction.
The key is simply allowing ourselves to do it because we have access to all potentials within. When you accept that the situation you are in is a perfect manifestation of who you are as an individual, a reflection of your own individual psyche, you understand that the only way to change your situation is to change who you are - in other words, by altering our thoughts, our assumptions, our world-view, our perspective, our psyche, our subconscious, the source/spirit/god we are made of, that is all around us and permeates through us, **must** change synchronistically.
Removing a resistance towards what you want is the same as changing ourselves psychologically and is the same as "allowing". You cannot change your situation because "you" is what is manifesting the situation to start with - the spirit of the individual in perfect, synchronous correspondence with its environmental spirit/source context. The situation around you will only change when **you** change. Otherwise, people just futilely repeat the same situational circumstances over and over. It's just the appearances that change, not the fundamental situation. They experience the same doubts and same fears over and over. They always require external validation. Their "progress" only comes as they can allow, if at all, usually through some external source (which is really just a proxy for their own inner knowledge), down whatever path they can accept.
Changing radically can feel like death or madness - it can be too much of a pivot from your prior self when there is still part of the old psyche rooted deeply in one's subconscious. So, usually, a transformational process is required, but once you realize that you're not going to die or go crazy, you find you can trust the process and you can allow more change more easily. It's not going to erase who you are.
We've been having more cross-over synchronicities, signs and experiences. One includes a kind of "half-way" house our partners are apparently gathering in to help each other and help us in our efforts. Mediums in our group have commented on this and it has shown up in dreams and visualizations. Another common thread is some sort of community celebration on the other side. As we share our experiences with each other, we have been conduits by which other members are given signs and synchronicities through us.
One of the strangest sets of synchronicities has to do with TV shows, books and other media that pop up in our experiences that perfectly correspond to, or illustrate, or flat out repeat things we talk about in the group, the main one being the ability to go to another dimension and be with our soul mates via technology. The synchronicities have become so overwhelming and constant it actually had me wondering if I was losing my mind even though I have a perspective that completely validates and accepts this kind of reality and have been experiencing this kind of stuff for decades. Immediately upon having that sensation (dredged up from deep in my subconscious), the TV show that was illustrating a technological method of moving between dimensions ("The OA" on Netflix), mentioned that one has to accept what feels like madness to be able to move forward. That was actually part of the show up until then that hadn't been made explicit - people were driven mad when they looked through this window portal and could see alternate realities.
That triggered a line of thought both about old subconscious conditioning, self-imposed resistance and how certain deep assumptions constrain what our consciousness is capable of incorporating into our psyche without feeling a little crazy. Through the process of downloading and analyzing the information I was getting, I re-acquired a rather liberating concept I published in a book some time ago, but took off the market.
First, it came to me that the whole framework of "spirituality" begins with a negative and highly problematic premise that is usually unrecognized and unexamined: that we are somehow not perfectly fine as-is. That we are not whole as-is, not "enlightened as-is, and that we are somehow not doing and not being exactly who and what and where we chose or willed. That we are incomplete, not as good as we should be, that we have things we have to learn or levels we must advance. Then, people or institutions position themselves as having what you need in order to move forward, advance, become "better."
Then there are the implied or explicit threats for not accepting the truth of this idea. In marketing, the implication is that you wan't be enjoying your life as much as other people who use the product or service, or that something bad might happen. In spirituality and religion, that threat is more explicit - you will experience dark, bad, negative or painful consequences if you do not get with the program of "self-improvement," "soul growth" or "spiritual advancement." At best, the implied consequence for resistance is that you will not "be all you can be" or have to keep reincarnating.
This directly sets up a conflict perspective between those considered "spiritual" and those considered not-so-spiritual. It immediately puts us in the psychological stance of lacking something essential. We are battered by the proclamations that we are ignorant, misinformed and in need of the help of advisers, guides or spiritual masters to get where we want to go.
It seems to me that "spirituality" is just one way of framing certain kinds of experiences as we have a habit of so doing: into a systematic, ordered hierarchy, a more-or-less linear path from some supposed "not as good" place or state of being towards some supposed end goal.
The problem is that this kind of framing simply doesn't make any sense given the two fundamental premises of modern spiritual thought: (1) we are eternal beings, and (2) creation is infinite. There can be no "end" goal, and if we are eternal, we would certainly have already gotten there even if it did exist. Another almost universal spiritual axiom is that we are all, ultimately, one; we are all of spirit and enmeshed in spirit and have internal access to everything, everyone and everywhere. It is also commonly agreed that we have free will. If we have free will, how can we be anything, be anywhere, be in any state or situation that is not the product of our own free will?
If spirit/source/god is entirely reactive and providing to our will on some supposed "higher" causal or mental plane, why would that not be the case here? Think about this for a bit. Where is that "higher plane" supposed to exist, if not simultaneously **right here**? Is there something **other** than spirit/source/god (god as the "whole") to mix in with spirit to reduce its density, power, intensity, responsiveness here? Is there something **other than** this fundamental substrate that can interfere with it and keep it from being responsive and providing? How can we be anything other than perfectly in tune with that universal thing, and a perfect example of the thing that all existence is comprised of?
So, here is the upshot: we are already existing in what is commonly called the "highest" spiritual realm, all the time. We are already perfectly enlightened and one with what we call "spirit". We are an all powerful, all knowing, omnipresent perfect being, doing exactly what such a being does throughout eternity in an infinite creation: adopting individual personality frameworks to have experiences. We adopt resistances and limitations and internal structures, divide ourselves into the experiential illusion of "self" and "other", to experience. To experience the learning of that which we have hidden from ourselves; to experience helping and getting help (hiding from ourselves that nothing in spirit **actually** needs help); to experience growth, kindness and love (and their counterparts) embedded in contrasting elements and situations; to experience consequences and effects structured in a way that in turn give us the value experience of appreciation, importance, achievement, advancement, realization, epiphany, wonder, etc.
I'm not indicting spiritual structuralism and marketing as some bad thing here. This structure (like religion, materialism, pragmatism, capitalism, etc.) provides for certain value-laden experiences. The point is not that such structures should be avoided, but rather that we can choose, via free will, which structure we want to be in, or create our own, and steer ourselves in that direction.
The key is simply allowing ourselves to do it because we have access to all potentials within. When you accept that the situation you are in is a perfect manifestation of who you are as an individual, a reflection of your own individual psyche, you understand that the only way to change your situation is to change who you are - in other words, by altering our thoughts, our assumptions, our world-view, our perspective, our psyche, our subconscious, the source/spirit/god we are made of, that is all around us and permeates through us, **must** change synchronistically.
Removing a resistance towards what you want is the same as changing ourselves psychologically and is the same as "allowing". You cannot change your situation because "you" is what is manifesting the situation to start with - the spirit of the individual in perfect, synchronous correspondence with its environmental spirit/source context. The situation around you will only change when **you** change. Otherwise, people just futilely repeat the same situational circumstances over and over. It's just the appearances that change, not the fundamental situation. They experience the same doubts and same fears over and over. They always require external validation. Their "progress" only comes as they can allow, if at all, usually through some external source (which is really just a proxy for their own inner knowledge), down whatever path they can accept.
Changing radically can feel like death or madness - it can be too much of a pivot from your prior self when there is still part of the old psyche rooted deeply in one's subconscious. So, usually, a transformational process is required, but once you realize that you're not going to die or go crazy, you find you can trust the process and you can allow more change more easily. It's not going to erase who you are.
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