To know thy Self is to know God, to know the ancient truths of life itself for life is much less a mystery than you have been taught. Believing it to be a mystery gives your mind the justification it needs not to know how life works. Believing that there is a grander reality and that the unknown is not unknowable, this position gives your mind the justification it needs to know it, to become it.

There is your journey. That is your evolutionary path. It is the beautiful story of you, of all others, and of the world.

And here you are. It is your development, your transcendence, your transformation that explains and justifies your existence and provides credibility to the possibility of living an extraordinary life and fulfilling your deepest potential.

The biggest barrier by far in living a fulfilling life, without exception, is ignorance. Ignorance is the absence of knowledge. Those who are ignorant don’t know they are. You don’t either and neither do I. Why are you and I ignorant? Truth is abandoned as a requirement of taking birth in order to play the game of becoming and in doing so, you forget who you are or why you’re here on the planet.

It’s also pretty easy to acknowledge that we have little knowledge of the rationale of the cosmos to create the opposite of itself in the form of ignorance and all forms of human unconsciousness. Because the mind is so deeply rooted in material and mental reductionism, it’s hard to convince the mind about a concept that states that the process of evolution, particularly your own unique, individual evolutionary process, is the divine seeking to realize itself in physical form. But that’s exactly what I’m trying to do and to say. Because truth is never expressed in the negative, what other purpose could there be?

Now if you take a look at your life you can see three distinct (3) phases: you have birth, death, and, between those two parameters, you have the process of becoming, of you becoming.

These efforts to make your real self known in the physical world create pathways for your soul to make itself known. The inner is now becoming your outer, governing everything in your outer world, and in doing so, you increase significantly your chances of awakening, of happiness, of self-realization, which by the way is the only thing that can satisfy the soul or the psychic being or the innate image, whichever one you would like to call.

When you begin to create an inner poise, you are always connected to this center…it’s an umbilical cord that the more you are aware of it, you more you practice living from that center, the more you are able to conduct yourself in your daily life from that center. The outer is slowly unnoticeably, becoming your inner. The gap is closing. The concentric circles of becoming are narrowing as the movement is now directed not outside of you but inside of you.

I would invite you to understand that you are the world, so, if you don’t like what’s going on in the world, then, at least, you know where to start.

You may be the most enlightened individual on the planet but you’ll notice that the rest of the world is not. The struggles and sufferings that are a part of daily life cause many to feel that existence is an act of futility in trying to acquire conditions of satisfaction and fulfillment. That being the case, many philosophies have argued that life here must be abandoned and satisfaction found somewhere else…an escape from earth.

I am suggesting that a new world is being born and along with that, a new knowledge. The process of awakening for the individual is essentially the evolution for the collective, for the planet. It is essentially the changes that you see taking place in the world.

Projection is a commonly used psychological term. It is a commonly used term when discussing relationships. What is not commonly understood is that perception is projection. Perception is not separate from projection and projection is not separate from perception.

When it happened, I was aware that my intention and my desire to grow, to evolve, to become awakened, had drawn me to the book but it was my teacher at the time who would introduce me to it. It took me two years to read it the first time. While traveling, I lost my first copy that had extensive notes and I was devastated.

It’s really hard to imagine that a different reality other than the one your eyes tell you is there exists. It’s really hard to imagine that a life without pain exists. But it’s also important to accept that there is so much suffering in this world.

My recommendation is simple. It is time to organize, direct and undertake a path in your life. This is but one path but it is a powerful one.

You must learn to take responsibility for your learning and to think for your Self by moving inside of your Self. If you go about the business of seeking a Savior outside of your Self, you are going to find one, so be discerning.

There is very little known about the realm of consciousness and like all truths, will be greatly contested. The idea that something greater could be taking place is foreign to the human mind.

It is far too simplistic to state that you gained your identity of who you consider yourself to be from your parents, religion, or the educational system, and yet most people can certainly recount specific incidences in which their identity was affected in one way or another in one or more of those three environments. But, of course, there’s a lot more going on. Your identity is almost certainly going to be intertwined with reference points outside of yourself.

I know of no other practice other than meditation that stands the chance of helping you make progress in your life. Meditation is the only art that you can practice but never master and at the same time, become a master.

In spite of all of the limitations and barriers that you face in your physical, horizontal world, you will achieve mastery by no longer dividing and separating the events of your life as good or bad but by unifying every event in your life as part of truth-consciousness, part of the Divine, part of God. For everything here is a tool of truth-consciousness, including you.

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.