We all want to converge (to meld in to only one) realities that exist as perceptions from those all over the world. We want to be the same. We want everyone in our group which we feel we belong to to accept us completely. I've spent my life not being accepted completely by people in my groups. And it has been the thing that has taught me the truths we now read here-in. When all are seen to only be desiring acceptance and oneness, then where will there arise the things life finds unacceptable, where will arise our tendency toward judgment. The judgmentally decided subjects and behaviors we deny and wish extinction to in others, those behaviors we condemn as deeply inhumane, in the world, and in ourselves create the very perversions we are judging outside of us. We want people to look out of their eyes and perceive the world they see in front of them the same way WE ourselves view this truth from our perspective. We want inside to be unified. We want to belong and feel save. This is a basic instinct for us all.

There is nothing wrong with this instinct. The instict to wish all others could awaken to our view of reality. The instinct for all people to see the "truth" as we see it. And many don't see what these words of truth mean, like a fish does not know what water is because it has never had the chance to live and compare it to any other experiential environment. And even though it is an inherently correct urge to want there to be one view of reality,countless wars have been created out of this instinct. We all have this instinct. But the reason we have this instinct is because we know deeply in our hearts and outside of our brains that life is amazing and that we are lucky to experience it and so are all of our brothers and sisters in human bodies that have the innate ability to be able to recognize it.

The impulse to be a part of a world that experiences the same reality, of a world of people who perceive reality in the way that we do, this is a simple and innocent impulse we all have like we all wanted to be accepted by mother and father. There is nothing wrong with this. We want a perfect world. We want a world where everyone is safe and loved; where everyone never fears walking down streets at night. Where everyone doesn't even think of getting hurt venturing into the night for a peaceful walk

The natural way all we humans express with our every action and invention is the way of the universe. It IS gravity. It is a desire for unification. A desire to believe within one's self that itself is acceptable. Can we now move from the acceptance of each other to a world beyond, like an acceptance of a universe? How greate that we have moved beyond the acceptance of human beings with dark skin not deserving or being considered for slavery and have moved toward accepting people who have differing sexual preferences than ourselves being able to get married. We will overcome this as well, as we have overcome all civil rights issues. The thing always holding back positive and world peace oriented progress has been ideas. We are reluctant to let go of ideas. They are the reality we have the natural impulse to want others to see exactly as we do.

So, is this impulse we all have within correct? What is usually overlooked is that it is an expression of a deeper essence of what we already are. We already are complete. And as we all wake up to this completion and unification, which our impulse to have everyone see reality as we do stems from, peace is the inevitability. The answer bringing world peace right now is the awareness of our sameness, which sees that all of our desires are really for completion and oneness. We all want to be totally satisfied. We want to not want for anything more. We want to lay falling asleep in the warmth of mother's and father's arms. We want the carefree, releasing stretch of the five-year-old in the awakening of the morning.

There is this want still in me. I want all to want world peace. I want all to see this underlying reality I see and bring it to the surface. This want I have is equal to the impulse of all human beings, equal to the impulse we all communicate with our desire to live among people who see the same perspective of reality as ourselves.

Any who attempt to awaken others to an ideal of world peace is simply doing the same thing Hitler was trying

to do, which is make someone believe something that he believes everyone should believe.

But one of these beliefs creates and is meant for the good of all beings. And each of these is a choice. For those who

wish to spread the positive, thus injecting positive into the world for future gladdened children, I applaud you with my heart's beat. And for those who have an exclusionary view that would have other people non-accepted because of THEIR views, I wish you the awakening that all deserve.

Let us awaken to our sameness in the desire for all to view the world as we do. We all wish to realize that we are in the same experience. We all are actually in the same experience when we shut-up and look around. And this truly astounding and miraculous experience called life and universe and existence, we all have the tendency to forget what IT is like a fish who has never been outside the water does not know water for lack of experience of a different environment. When we wake up to our underlying sameness, then all views are seen to come from a true place of love. It is much easier to be compassionate to ourselves and others with the knowledge that frustration and perversion and evil and disharmonious behaviors in ourselves is simply the result of an expression of people wanting everyone to have the same view and for ourselves to be safe in that world.

Now, is it practical to say the above words and live by them? Is it useful to even

write words meant to lead to an awakening? Can we feel the resistance toward believing it possible that everyone would understand the truth of our sameness? Was it practical for Da Vinci to consider designs for flying machines? It took 500 years for those ideas to become reality. Some curse technology for the fact that with it our less aware members of the human family have killed and been killed in the hundreds of millions. Yet there are many who have been on the other side of the planet and have flown home across the oceans to see their wife giving birth to their newborn child. Countless people have spoken on the telephone to their loved ones thousands of miles away right before their last dying breath. Billions of lovers have wooed each other for hours upon hours and days upon days with emails, phone conversation, written letters, and long-distance flower deliveries. Thousands of extra years have been lived by hundreds of thousands of transplant patients. What it is we curse is not technology itself, but the use of technology to destroy life. And this points to the incorrect knowledge of the users of that technology, not the technology itself. And the same can be said for money. Money pays for killing during war and conquest time. But it isn't money that is doing the paying OR the killing. It is the unaware person who lives in the illusion that there are more important things in life THAN LIFE ITSELF. And this points to the individual not knowing their own truly miraculous nature.

Common sense awakens us. It is like a joke. We are led in one direction and then the punchline awakens us to a different perspective. And we are delighted by the surprise. And we laugh. Though many were killed in the past by the Catholic church for believing the Earth to be round, common sense, once explained simply enough and with enough evidence, awakened all people to the fact that the Earth is NOT flat. Even the most fundamentalist people among us today are in the supreme knowledge of the Earth's inarguable roundness. And so it will be as has always been, and peace will reign on Earth as common sense evolves and life's glorious nature becomes simpler to communicate and realize.

It should be stated that world peace is
inevitable. There are many ideas in the world stating that complete
annihilation is inevitable. But I believe the complete opposite. And
this is an inward belief not based on faith. There is at the root of
the human heart an innocence, a love, a truth that all possess as
their truest self. This is the actuality of the essence of all
people.

The crew of "Everyone Is Going
Conscious", the documentary about world peace, has just finished
an interview with Ron Hirschbein. Ron is the founder of the peace
studies program at California Sate University, Chico. He said that in
essence if anyone had said that Nelson Mandela would be released from
prison in the racist country of South Africa, everyone would have
laughed. And if it was then said, not only will he be released, but
he will become the president of this country, everyone would have
laughed even harder. Ron also brought up that nobody would have ever
imagined that the USSR would collapse, let alone peaceably. He then
pointed out that nobody four years ago would have imagined that in
four years the United States of America would elect an African
American as president, let alone an African-American with a Muslim
name.

This points us to ourselves. It shows
us how the seemingly impossible always occurs. Can we imagine world
peace? Can we believe in its inevitability? There are millions of
people on Earth who do. And it is this belief that is creating it.

The thing that keeps this author
motivated and set on this mission to help facilitate world peace is
this: I wanted to be rescued as a child. I was just like Anne Frank,
the young girl who hid with her family in the attic while the Nazies
hunted and killed millions of people because in their minds they
believed something untrue: that there is a "better than"
and "worse than" in the world. I wonder if you who read
these words believe that there is a race or group of people on Earth
that are better than others. I'm pretty sure that very few who read
these words believes this.

However, there are still those
operating in the world out of this false conception. I was abused as
a child. I was beaten and tortured psychologically until the age of
thirteen years-old when my mother abandoned me. I wanted to be
rescued. And there was a lot of rescuing that went on during world
war 2. And there are a lot of children all over the world waiting for
their rescue.

This is my mission, as pretentious as
some may find it. It is what drives me and it will always be this
way. And so I ask you to join this mission. I ask you to work for
world peace. And what does that mean?

Working for world peace is simply
working for the inward recognition of truth. Truth is true for all
people. Truth is what we're after. We are asking for our own
awakening. And from this awakening we operate out of an unwavering
experiential knowledge that does all the motivating we will ever
need. It will lead us toward which ever direction we head in that
offers us the ability to love what we do in life while simultaneously
adding to the inevitability of world peace.

There are many organizations that are
working for the inevitability of world peace. In fact, there are over
a million humanitarian aid organizations now existing on Earth.
However, nobody has to join an organization to work for world peace.
All that is ever required is to feel the pain of all of the children
of the world waiting for their rescue. The peaceful work of all past
and present humans creates alternate realities for all of the
billions of people alive today. Were it not for the positive thoughts
and actions created by all of history's peaceful ones, the world
would have suffered many Hitlerian-type incidents and atrocities.

The centuries old conflict in Northern
Ireland has just recently come to an end. This should be celebrated
all over the world. Bravery is NOT physical. Bravery exists on the
inward plane of consciousness. Bravery is believing a positive in the
midst of a sea of negative. There have been many brave people who
have believed what others had deemed impossible. Here is a list of
positive things that have occurred that the majority thought
impossible:

1. the end of the holy inquisition

2. the end of catholic governance in
European countries

3. the end of child labor in western
countries including the USA

4. the end of pubic executions in
western countries

5. the end of slavery and the slave
trade in western countries

6. the end of burning women thought be
be "witches"

7. women given the right to vote

8. black and white children being able
to now go to school together and be friends

9. science proving the underlying
equality and order of essence in the universe in the equation E=MC2,
which means that all is energy and energy is all, which means that
our perception of differences is a result of misinterpretations of
the mind, which is what all wise sages have for thousands and
thousands of years called the "illusion."

10. a global movement toward world
peace, which has been occurring and increasing in such at such an
exponential rate that if looked into by anyone would be completely
astounding and inspiring.

Now it appears that we are on the verge
of world peace. We, as one family of humans on Earth, have access to
all of the essential knowledge to be able to break through all
illusion and awaken to the underlying sameness we all possess as our
deepest and truest selves. There really is nothing holding us back.
And we may think about all of the resistance and stubbornness we feel
may be out there in the world. But common sense awakens people if put
in a simple to understand way. The more we ourselves learn the many
different ways of communicating peace, the more we help to awaken
others by our actions, thoughts, and words.

We've been filming a documentary on
world peace. This is not an organization. It's a project I felt
compelled to do. And the many doors that have flown open since
beginning the project sometimes shocks me. But the point is we don't
need to do anything except what we feel we ourselves would enjoy
doing to help create peace in the world. It can be anything. We can
work alone or with each other and it doesn't matter which it is,
because we are still working together so long as it's for peace. This
is a movement that is connected on the inward plane of consciousness.
There need be no affiliation with any outside groups. That is why
this is the biggest revolutionary movement in the history of life on
Earth.

We owe no allegiance to anyone. We only
have this inner urge to create peace as the substitute for the
violence and murder of children. All children deserve this. So let us
say with great inward knowledge that world peace is inevitable.

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The funny thing about Zen koan is that there is the questioning, which IS the answer. In essence, the answer is in the moment. And this is a living experience. When there are expectations of a future gift or payoff, or when there are dwellings on past pains and even successes, there is the loss of relaxation into the moment, where all thoughts are actually occurring.

We have this natural appreciation for those who dwell in the moment. They are the most spontaneous people we see. They are comfortable in their own skin. They can cry on camera without showing the least sign of being out of the moment, and we pay these great actors well. But they are not acting. They are really there in this place of tears. They are the crying. Their being IS the experience being conveyed. And we love them.

If the last idea or concept in the mind is that once all concepts, thoughts, and ideas are let go of we will experience oneness and peace, then when we let go of this last idea we will experience its truth. This means saying, "I don't know." This means letting go of all sides we might choose to fall to, be it democrat or republican, atheist or believer, black or white, liberal or conservative, hippie or yuppie, racist or humanitarian, hetero or gay, drunk or sober, blah blah blah. Buddha suggested a middle way. This would point to awareness falling upon the noticing of both sides of all without choosing either side.

The mind is a reflection of all that there is. There is emptiness in silence. And when the mind is silent, life springs into existence out of this nothingness in the form of thoughts and impressions. And as suns and planets arise and disappear within the infinity of space, space never once chooses to identify with any of it. It simply sits still as the womb that holds and supports existence.

We come out of the universe like a leaf on a tree. And yet our impressions from our senses along with our inward opinions about them creates this sense of self that we call our self-view. We see how inaccurate self-views can be for those who are skinny and yet see themselves as "fat". We see how inflated egos can be way off the mark. The world as we see it in our opinions of mind arises simultaneously with the self-view as we see it. And what is not acceptable is seen out there, while what is acceptable is seen in here. In the absence of this view of out there and in here, in the silence of mind without these thoughts, we are left with what actually is, which is one and which is our actual selves, our nature.

It is true that awareness is the beginning and end. Awareness becomes aware through the filters of perception based on a past of a world out there and circumstances and occasions such as a mother dying. This means a whole host of things to many different cultures. In many native cultures death is considered the greatest point reached in a long and well-lived life. The mourning process for these people is way different than our own here in the West.

However, this is not the topic awareness chooses to follow at the moment. The point is that awareness becomes aware of an event (like a mother dying) and it sparks the inward corresponding emotions made up of chemicals released from the glands of the endocrine system. Yet, these chemicals released for many in western civilization are far different than those released by the awareness of a mother dying in a lot of native cultures. These people have less harm on their bodies because of it. There is less stress in general in lesser technologically and economically developed countries. This is hard to believe for those who feel comfortable here in the west with our apartments and houses and cars and jobs and 401k plans and warm clothing from Wal Mart, etc.

Truth be told, studies show beyond argument that the highest rates of deaths by murder, heart attack, breast cancer, and other stress oriented diseases actually occur here in the United States. So if it is merely a perception based on self-agreed-upon interpretations of the experiences of events that have occurred in our lives, then how easy it is to bring real joy and longevity to a life well deserving of life.

In the late 70's and early 80's molecular psychology and neurochemistry were becoming hit with the reality that awareness itself is the a priori beginning of bodily reactions and tensity within the muscles. During tests using rat's brains (which it need not be said how the author feels about such things) scientists discovered that rats have the very much the same brain chemistry as humans do. GABA, the neurotransmitter that keeps the brain balanced is common with rats as it is with humans. When rats and humans have low GABA output in our brains we become more irritable and violent prone.

There was an experiment with rats where the scientists took a violent rat with low GABA levels and put it in a cage with rats of normal GABA levels, thus they were more peaceful, and the violent prone rat killed one of the peaceful rats. The balanced GABA level rats, just by witnessing this violent even, had their own GABA levels drop, thus making themselves more unbalanced and prone to depression, irritability, and violence toward themselves and/or others. Awareness was the beginning of these bodily occurrences. So the phrase “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change” has a lot more meaning here. The way we take in our experiences and translate them based on our beliefs constructed out of the limitations of one single life in almost ten billion creates our moods and emotions and feelings. If you don't feel life important, you may have no feelings on seeing a spider killed. But if you really see life as special, you might just cry seeing something so complex and beautiful needlessly destroyed.

The relativity of factors that come together serving our every moment as it is and as we experience it are enough to make one see the illusion of choosing a belief in any one story going on here. Our idea is flawed, so long as it is an idea. The reality needs no ideas. And this is emotional equilibrium. Our understanding needn't be clung to. If it has to be clung to, then there is no true understanding.

If awareness is the beginning, then we follow back all of the sense vibrations and particles that we tend to translate as a world out there in need of our approval or disapproval, and we are left with awareness, a formless, bodiless, non-differentiated actuality existing in the very same essence in each and every living organism, as well as in each of their cells and molecules. Awareness is as gravity is: it cannot be found apart from anything, and not a thing can be found apart from gravity. Everything has gravity. And gravity and thing are never separable. Awareness is apart of all cells, all organisms, all cultures, all solar systems, all galaxies, all universes full of galaxies. Everything makes up something else, something greater, yet the same level of complexity exists everywhere. A solar system is just as complex as a human body. And an atom is just as complex as a galaxy. What's really odd is that a galaxy requires a mass of atoms, and atoms require a space filled galaxy in order to exist in. Inseparability.

Awareness, gravity, sameness, essence, whatever you wish to call it. This is a nature we all share. And any identification with anything other than this is limiting, tragic, and comical. Thus the laughter of the newly enlightened.

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Our own idea of ourselves and our own idea of the world we perceive to be outside of our skin are what are keeping spontaneity from arising. That means that our actions are not honest. They are not guided by the moment, or God. God and moment are one. Moment brings in no ideas or images. When I say “this moment,” where are the universal images? When I say “God,” this brings in a whole host of mental images and ideas. So when I say “moment,” what I mean is “God.” And action spawning in the moment without the entanglement of thoughts connected to memories of past and ideas of now and future are the very universe itself expressing itself outside of the illusion of a “someone” responsible as the cause of such things.

I see shy people. I see many 5^th Chakras closed and fearfully protected. It is obvious to the more free and less inhibited among us that it is a perception of self and world that is the inhibitor for the shy. The perception of self is in relation to the perception of world. Both are always incorrect in that they are simply idols and not the actual reality, which requires no ideas in order to be. After 5 billion years of the Earth's hypothesized existence, never once has the living planet required a thought or concept or perception in order to continue on.

dali-illusion

The way we see ourselves and our world influences our behaviors and our personalities. All stems from the mind. The truth is never what we think. So the saddest state of affairs is that the majority of the most divinely capable and developed beings on Earth are in their own self-constructed prison. This is called a “point of view” or “perception.”

Truth be told, there is no difference of self and world. There is no boundary of self encapsulated within a bag of aging skin versus the world outside of this walking space-suit. In the absence of thoughts or the absence of clinging to them there is only a whole universe.

I think that I'm writing this right now in consideration of the people who are still confused and highly upset over the harmful deeds of other human beings. Firstly, sometimes we are addicted to feeling the pain of witnessing or becoming aware of violent and ignorant actions that cause harm to people. We allow these feelings we feel to identify us as the opposite of the “problems” we perceive in the world. If we feel strongly and painfully and tormentingly toward the violent and murderous behaviors of our fellow humans, we then must be the opposite of this ignorance, thus we consider ourselves “conscious” or “enlightened” or “above” or “better-than” or “deep.” Yet this is simply another trap. Best to simply understand and let compassion prevail.

How can we understand truly horrific deeds and behaviors in the world of human beings? Let me give you an example. In my studies of serial killers I noted a few things all serial killers have in common. When asked, “Why do you choose victims that you do not know? Why do you gag your victims and refuse to look at their ID cards?” the majority of these people answer that the reason why they choose victims they do not know and refuse to learn anything about them is because “it would ruin the fantasy.” The fantasy is to kill what inside is considered to deserve hate and extinguishing.

When John Wayne Gayce was a child his mother would make him go a long time without a hair-cut and his father would beat him and call him a queer for having long hair. His biggest fear as a child was of clowns. When he grew up he would dress like a clown and go out and find young men who looked gay and he would kidnap them, torture them, and kill them. When a serial killer says that the reason he doesn't choose victims that he knows is because “it would ruin the fantasy,” what he is really saying is, “It is much harder to project the inward idea of what is to be hated and destroyed onto people if their voice or smell or movement or anything that are particular to them doesn't match up with the inward idea I carry about what is completely non-acceptable."

Understanding this, we can see that even the actions of serial killers stem out of the desire to be accepted unconditionally. Trying to kill what his father saw in his son as unacceptable is the way John Wayne Gayce unconsciously attempted to earn his father's love. All actions on the Earth by all people on the Earth always stem out of a desire to be completely accepted and loved unconditionally. This is the highest truth, one that enables compassion to allow us to offer the world of people the very thing every person truly desires most. Thankfully, the initial torment and inward confusion and hurt experienced by those who cannot understand the harmful deeds of other people is the first step that inevitably leads the seeker toward this high understanding of where all people truly operate from. Wouldn't it make sense that all anyone ever really wants is love? And wouldn't it make sense that all actions we would consider disharmonious and hurtful all stem from people denied love at some point?

There is no easy way to see outside of the illusion of a self apart from a world. The     best way is to have a deep and penetrating look at the situation. A person who sees the world as a dangerous place also sees themselves as victims or weaklings. And a person who sees the world as a safe place full of beauty also views themselves as able and worthy of a happy life. Even in views, we cannot separate the interdependent and unified oneness of the universe.

It is the simplest thing imaginable to simply realize the illusion of a solid reality in perception. A while back when I used to drive I had to get a pre-registration sticker for my car while taking it through the smog process. This sticker had a number signifying the month by which the car was to have been smog checked and fully registered, which allowed it to be driven until then. I had absolutely no idea that these things, the pre-registration stickers, even existed. But once I got one myself and put it on my car I then started seeing them everywhere. They had always been there. But my limited perspective was never aware of them. And so I say to any doubts you have and to all of the pessimists there may be out there, “Go out and find some beauty, some love, some truth, some bliss, and then, once you are aware that it actually exists, you will start to see it everywhere."

beaches winter sidewalk reflection

The more we develop deeper and deeper
the experiential awareness of our fundamental beings as awareness, a
natural ethics arises to meet the problems viewed most detrimental in
today's world.

It is enough to say I am awareness and

so are you, and thus there is no difference, and thus there is no
need for a relational projection. There is only you as me and me
serving to make these endeavors in life easier for you/myself.

For we are tribes members, parts of a
whole, fellow miracles of universal awareness, dumbfounding
conundrums of nature, together, breathing, wondering, and sharing.

This awareness happens of its own
accord. These effortless ethics lead only to peace as they come only
from peace.

It would be nice if the universe in
general as a spacious home with innumerable galaxies and suns and
planets was to be discussed and truly wondered about for at least
half of all of grade-school. You take a mind to a far away place and
the depth of awareness becomes entered into in direct inward
proportion. To be aware of an infinite universe and ponder its vast
existence, is to become an awareness that has pondered the vast and
THUS IS VAST. In being vast one does not fall victim to the
superficial, and we become less targetible by advertisers. We are no
good for the economy, unless what is purchased is an environmentally
friendly product. And those who run companies that are conscious
wouldn't hire advertisers that would forget about our divine humanity
and market to us for their own ends by advertising to us images that
manipulate our desire for reproduction and our fear of death. That's
just plain mean.

100 years ago there were hardly any
“mystics,” truly “aware beings,” or people who could even
write on these topics. Now, as I search the web, there are
soooooooooooooo many people that have something to say on these
matters of awareness, and any who have had deep experiences of self
can see which writing comes from true experience. And the majority,
in fact, almost all of them are coming from their own inward
experience. There are so many people now on Earth that are aware to
such a degree that has never in history been seen. There has been a
huge evolution in consciousness that has exponentially increased
since the dawn of the first “I am something” thought.

This tells us that we are right on a
cusp of sorts, for there are millions of aware beings, and yet
billions of lesser aware consciousnesses in the old paradigm and thus many not able to effortlessly operate
from the natural ethics that would bring about world peace. Within a
few years we can see the result of the world created by the more
aware. Every corner of the city or the building will have multiple
influences in conversation, in magazines, books, TV, films,
billboards, bars, churches, everywhere........all will be inundated
with an infinite amount of results of influence by the growing
conscious masses among us. So we can expect the billions of people
not yet aware of the truly miraculous nature of existence to go
conscious within the next few years. This is an inevitability. People
can't stand being alone. And as the planet shifts and the majority go
conscious, what use is it to cling to limiting views when acceptance
and unity was all you were after in your clinging. A conscious world
is an accepting world. And what is accepted transforms healthily.

We are the actor in the role, not the role itself..................................

How can such a simple truth be so unnoticed?

Don't we have a “WE” that we write about?

As writers and teachers we all reside in the same family. We know this

We long for the very same thing------peace in the world like it is within our inwardly connected selves

When we are in that non-place, completely relaxed while floating to who knows where,

there we abide within the very same house

None of us are perfect, except that in all is already arrived perfection

Our true calling being what we enjoy the most

To understand and transform this understanding directly into the compassion that transforms all

A simple listening ear, an open heart, accepting fully what is present

A simple truth, not always unnoticed

Our sameness in essential identification is the identification with non-identification

I imagine a world where painters line the streets in the late morning spring

And where is the imaginer?...................................: In THAT spring, observing that scene, and all without a real body

A camera's eye in the omnipresent corner,

playing with imagining and creating a beautiful world