If I ask 10 people the question which comes first: Existence or Experience? almost everyone gets the right answer. Existence precedes experience.

Each day for every person is a battle of sorts for each has barriers with which to contend. It would seem that the metaphysical and the physical are constantly opposing one another, as the labor of the battling gods, as Aurobindo calls it, wages on.

Without context that supplies the why, you don’t know how to go about it the right way. Content is content. It’s just stuff

But behind it all lies the secret destiny, the objective, and the outcome of your life. Except you don’t know that so the game continues over and over and over.

I have shared my experience in a previous message of confronting the petty tyrants in my life in which I knew that if I followed through with my plan there would without question be a death involved. I would not be able to go to battle without experiencing loss.

On the other hand, if I chose not to confront, I would not be able to live with myself, for I knew that my fear and cowardice would have been the forces to which I had succumbed. It was an easy choice to make, but a nightmare to live through.

Simply put, if your experiences are dictating your behavior, then you are not in control. Your past is in control, making you out of control.

Each life is different with the soul selecting unique circumstances each lifetime to move along the evolutionary pathway toward that intended goal. What I was able to learn was that your birth is not the beginning of who you are and your death is not the end of who you are.

There are two versions of consciousness. One is spirit and the other is physical matter. They both share consciousness as their source and essence.

You may be experiencing your life just like that: a lot of motion that is mostly commotion, a lot of action that is mostly agitation. But no matter where you go, life is everywhere, the unfolding of life is everywhere and each of your moment is a magical tapestry being woven in the playground of planet earth, most of the time without you even being aware of the sacredness of each of those to what appears to be mundane moments.

Before birth, before you come into the world as an individual, you belong to the whole. The vast. The illimitable. The Godhead. The All That Is. Spirit. Truth-Consciousness. But when the being, you, comes into physical form, the being is individualized, separate, different from others, sees all others from its point of view, regards its individual version of reality as truth and disregards others’ realities, seeing itself as the center of the world in which it is operating

Because the condition of separation is a dominant condition of most human beings, it’s not hard at all to then think that the spiritual, that God herself, must be somewhere else. The Divine is this but I am that. Limited to the sensory world and habit, it’s no wonder you live a life of addiction to the mental, physical and emotional patterns. It’s like living in a box and the directions to getting out of the box are taped on the outside of the box

If you accept the notion that your Self is concealed by way of the ego, by way of your mind, that, of course, it would be impossible to see who the other person, much less anybody, really is.

Said in a different way, if you don’t know who you are, then how can you know who the other person is?

It turns out that what you want in life is the same thing is what you get whether you’re aware of it or not. You generate the concept in your mind and then you express it in your body. Then you express it in the world through your actions. So, the object is to change the thought which you can do right now

The first way is that transformation chooses you and when that happens, there’s nothing you can do about it. Now, the second way transformation occurs is through personal choice and the problem with personal choice is that you have time and you can choose when to start and stop.

Do you wonder what the purpose of life is? Are looking for meaning beyond just the physical? Start learning what it truly means to live a conscious life from the metaphysical to physical and back. Keep reading here…

Only a change in consciousness is going to save us from ourselves and we take the position that that will happen through the individual.

You can’t solve the problem because you don’t know what the problem is. Make as many positive changes as you can. But truth is going to come from somewhere else.

Developing and training your mind to transcend this divide can require a lot of patience and strength; it requires a lot of humility to see and admit your own stupidity and mental limitations.