Today we ask that you meditate on radical self-love.

Radical self-love is the total, unconditional love of the self.  It is the perception of the self as guiltless, sinless, and perfect.

This is the only true perception there is.

You are, in truth, guiltless, sinless, and perfect.  

Everyone else is equally guiltless, sinless, and perfect — no matter what they have done.

You may feel a lot of resistance to this concept.  That is why self-love is quite radical, in your world.

When people ask: “Why do so many bad things happen in this world?”

The truest of answers is this: “So that you will remember radical self-love.”

That is really why you are here.

You are also here to create, and build, and dream, and play, like the cosmic children you are.

But the most important thing you are here to do is remember radical self-love.

Remember, because prior to your physical incarnation, radical self-love was your natural state.  

Forgetting this is a part of physical incarnation in this world.

That is because there is a difference between radical self-love as a natural state, and the radical self-love that returns after you have forgotten it.

This difference can be described as a kind of distillation process.  The radical self-love that grows in the state of forgetfulness is even richer and deeper than the original, natural state.  

And that is the real reason you all come here.  This distillation process is “worth the price of admission” to the game of life.

So, the answer to the question: “Why do bad things happen?” is:

“So that you will return to radical self-love.”

Every illness is here to help you remember radical self-love.

Every shattered dream is here to help you remember radical self-love.

Every disaster is here to help you remember radical self-love.

All drama occurs in the absence of radical self-love.

And every story finds its happy ending in the return of radical self-love.

When you experience physical death, you will all return to the state of radical self-love, no matter what you have or haven’t done in this lifetime.  (And it is okay if you do not believe this.)

If you can, it is good to cut right to the chase, and look at what is blocking your radical self-love, right now.

Your greatest enemies and the worst things that happen to you are always, always here to help you remember radical self-love.

If you sit with this, you will eventually see that it is absolutely true.

Today we ask that you accept the darkness.

You live in a dualistic reality.  One of the fundamental attributes of your whole universe is that it is made up of very finely balanced opposing forces.

Therefore the fact that there is a lot of darkness in your world does not mean that there is something wrong or defective with it.  It is actually part of the design.

This is, for many, an extremely difficult concept to understand, or reconcile with a belief in a loving universe, or God.

If the universe is good, then why do so many bad things happen?

In your reality, there are two opposing forces.

There is a force that drives life toward greater harmony, unity, and beautiful complexity.

And there an opposing force that drives life toward greater disorder, separation, and chaotic dissolution.

You may call the first the “life force,” and the second the “death force.”

The death force, in of itself, is simply entropy.  It is the force that causes dust to accumulate, and mold to grow.  It causes metal to rust.  It causes complex things to break down into simpler components.  

Stripped of its “evil” connotation, that is all the dark side really is.  It is just mold, and rust.  

You might not like mold and rust.  But there is a place for it.  For it is necessary that things break down, so that new life may develop.

In truth, the most fertile and creative places in all the universe are those where the life force and the death force are very finely balanced — often by a hair.  

And the Earth is one such place.

The drama between the life force and the death force always goads extraordinary creative energy.

That is why so many of your geniuses — your brightest lights — come weighted down with a lot of darkness, with a very strong death force.  Mozart, and Van Gogh, were such people.

Very bright light and profound darkness tend to go hand in hand.  This is understood in your collective mythology.  Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter must both contend with potent inner darkness, externalized as Darth Vader and Voldemort.

This is also explains many “bipolar” tendencies.  Very light beings often come weighted with a lot of darkness, and are finely balanced between the two.

Rather than feeling that something is defective with you or the world, it would be more useful to acknowledge that a finely balanced life force and death force is simply intrinsic to life on Earth, and a cause for the incredible levels of creative energy and vitality found here.

Once this is acknowledged, there are ways to become more strongly rooted in the “life force” side of the spectrum.

If 50/50 is a perfect balance, then all you or anyone really needs in any given moment is 51 percent on the side of the life force.  100 percent is not possible, in this dualistic world.  But a whole lot can be done with 51 percent.

51 percent, by the way, is where humanity stands right now, at this very moment.   This is a cause for celebration.  

So what will keep you at 51 percent, or higher?

You must keep your house clean.

The human mind and body is very much like a house.  Dust is always collecting, mold is always growing.  

There is no way to stop this process — but you can clean.

Just keep your mind and body as light and healthy as you can.

Exercise, eat well, meditate.  Keep away from excessive negative energy.

This is enough to keep you at “51 percent.”  It might even get you to 52 or 53, which is a very big deal, in this world.  

And don’t hate the dust and mold.  Just accept its existence.

The crazy thoughts that rattle around your brain, the crazy things people do — it’s all just dust, and mold.

Dust and mold aren’t evil.  They have a vital part to play in this world.  

That’s all the Dark Side is.  Dust and mold, writ large.

You’ll never get rid of all the dust and mold, no matter how hard you try.  And even thinking you can or should is its own form of craziness.  

Just try to hold steady at 51 percent.  

51 percent life force, 49 percent death force.  

51 percent light, 49 percent darkness.  

51 percent love, 49 percent fear.

It’s a great starting place from which to change your whole experience of reality.

Today we ask that you not listen to the Voice of Fear.

The Voice of Fear is a very loud voice in your reality.  It is always talking.  

It is the Voice inside your head that tells you how worthless you are, and how hopeless everything is.

It is the Voice in the News that always speaks of a terrifying, hostile, and doomed world.

It is the Voice of Reason that says you are a speck of dirt in a cold, uncaring universe.

It is the Voice that drives people to acts of violence against themselves, and others.

It is the Voice of Addiction.  

It is the Voice of Dis-Ease.

The Voice will always present itself as your friend.  It tells you that you are worthless so that you’ll get off your behind and do something.  It tells you you’re a failure so that you’ll finally make something of yourself.  It tells you the world is hostile so that you can protect yourself and your loved ones.  It tells you about your enemies so that you can defend yourself, and attack them.  Oh yes, it is very reasonable.

It is the Voice that says, “One drink won’t hurt.”  It is the Voice that says: “You’re only buzzed, you’re okay to drive.”  

It is the Voice that says: “You’re not hurting your child, you’re doing this for his own good, because you must teach him it’s a cruel world out there.”

This Voice always knows.  It knows everything.  It loves to hear itself talk.  It is a great pundit.  It is very sure of itself, very certain, and it will always tell you that the facts are on its side.

This Voice says: “It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and there’s not enough to go around.  So you must bite and claw to get to the top, and to hell with everyone else.”

It is the Voice that says: “My family and my tribe is the most important, and I’ll kill to protect them, if necessary.  If other families or tribes are oppressed or exploited by my actions, too bad for them.  They’d only oppress and exploit me if the tables were turned.”

Sound familiar?

This Voice has many guises, but it is really only one Voice.  It is the Voice of Hate and Fear.  And it is responsible for countless deaths.  All suicides, murders, and holocausts are caused by this Voice.  Countless people die of diseases brought on by listening to and believing this Voice.  Your world is experiencing a massive environmental crisis because of this Voice.

You must stop listening to it.

There is another Voice.  It is much quieter.  It usually does not speak in words, but feelings.

It is the Voice of Love.  The Voice of the Heart.  The Voice of Spirit.

This Voice will not speak in certainties.  It is not about facts and figures.

It requires faith.

Not the faith of the fundamentalist, who waves around a book and says these are the literal words of God.  That is not faith.  That is certainty, and it is rooted in the Voice of Fear.

The faith of which we speak offers no certainty.  Nonetheless, it is very real, and truer than anything in your reality.

Love is the language in which it speaks.  Pure unconditional love, that asks nothing in return.

This Voice is all around you.  In the trees, the sky, the wind, the ocean, the sunset, the beauty of the Earth.  It is in the singing of the birds.  It is the cat purring in your lap, the warmth of your dog’s fur.  It is in the sweet smell of the baby you are holding.  It is there when you joyously play with a small child.  It is there when you embrace someone you truly love.  

It is there when you quiet your mind, in meditation.  When the Voice of Fear finally stops talking, the Voice of Love quietly makes its presence felt.  It speaks to you from the silence.

All true stories and myths tell of the conflict between the Voice of Love, and the Voice of Fear.  All mythic heroes follow the path of the love, even as they are beset by many frightening things.  They have faith in something deeper, and this faith can lead them alive and whole out of any monster’s den, with treasure in hand.  The treasure is the unshakeable peace and calm that arises from facing and transcending one’s deepest fears.

So it might be said that the Voice of Fear is your greatest teacher.  For it teaches you to dig down deep within, to tap into the faith and courage that lies in your heart.  

You may honor the Voice of Fear as your teacher.

But you must not listen to it or believe it, no matter what it tells you.

For the Voice of Fear always lies.  

Not sometimes.  Always.

And the Voice of Love always tells the truth.

Not sometimes.  Always.

Who will you choose to listen to, today?

Today we ask that you be very honest about your motives, when you undertake any action.

It is always best when someone does something with a pure heart.

That is to say, it is good to act in ways that create the receiving and giving of love.

It is good, also, to take risks in such endeavors — in the giving of love, and the receiving of love.

So the pure-hearted motive is defined by the giving and receiving of love.

There is another kind of motive, which can be called the “egoic motive.”

Egoic motives have to do with dominance, profit, and status.  Egoic motives have a calculating quality.  “The bottom line” is an egoic motive.  Love does not factor into such calculations.  Fear always does.

Most actions are neither totally pure-hearted, nor totally egoic, but rather a muddled mixture of the two.

A common example is: “I am going to engage in work I don’t love, and may even cause harm to people, but I am doing it because I love my family and want to make money to support them.”

So there it is part love, part calculation.  Fear is very present in this action.  (Also, one should note that the person is giving love, but very blocked about receiving love.)

The result in these cases will often be mixed and muddled.  The person will attain some measure of wealth and status for his family.  But typically, there will be strain in the marriage, and problems in the relationships with the children as they get older.  Or the person may suffer from health problems.  

In any case, mixed motives always lead to mixed results.

That is why it is very important to closely examine your motives.

When the motive is truly rooted in the desire simply to give and receive love (and it is important to do both), generally things will work out.  This is not to say there won’t be challenges.  There is almost always a measure of challenge around healthy life experiences.  But there will be a deep well of faith to draw from.  Friends and allies will appear.  Energy will coalesce to support all actions undertaken to give and receive love.

Calculating egoic actions, conversely, may appear to be much easier and less challenging, in the short term.  Often with such choices there is the sense of “an easy solution.”  This is never the case, in truth.  When one engages in fear-based, calculating, status-driven action, any “easy solution” has a terribly high cost, which will be experienced as long-term suffering.

In general, always be wary when something presents itself as: “The Easy Solution to All Your Problems.”

That is not by any means to suggest that life must be a struggle.  That is not so!

When acting out of love, life is challenging, but in a good-feeling way.  The way going for a hike is challenging, or taking a pottery class is challenging, or establishing a regular meditation practice is challenging.

But there isn’t a miserable, despairing feeling associated with such endeavors.

The real misery and despair comes with actions that may appear to be easy, or the path of least resistance — like taking a job you don’t believe in, or spending your days engaged in meaningless activity for a steady paycheck.  Or allowing environmental ruin for short-term gain.  

Even if you are doing these things “for the good of your family,” what message do you think you are teaching your children?  You are teaching them to make the same kinds of fear-driven choices.  That is why cheating has become so commonplace in schools.  Children are taught that every activity is a means to a particular end: good grades, good colleges, status, money.  It is a very joyless, empty way to live.

This world often teaches that doing things for love is a form of madness, and that all sensible people need to make decisions from a place of fear and calculation.

But this is a terrible lie, and truly insane.

Follow your heart.  Examine your motives.  Do things that allow you to give love, and receive love.  Everything else may give you short-term gain, but will backfire in the end.  

Today we ask that you be appreciative.

In life, it is very good to simply be “one who appreciates.”

One of the connotations of the word “appreciate” is “increase” — as when something appreciates in value.

And so to appreciate, is to increase.  Only when you are appreciative in life, you are increasing the vibrational frequency of every interaction.

When you are served food, active appreciation of the meal, and those who have prepared it, as well as the life forms that are the food, increase the vibrational frequency of your dining experience.  The food will actually be digested better when you do this.

This applies to all of life.

One might say that all life experience is a form of “eating.”

When you are in a state of appreciation, it increases the vibrational frequency around what you are experiencing.  As a result, you digest life itself much better.

In addition, the act of appreciation opens all doors.

The opposite of appreciation is attack.

So instead of appreciating life experience, you reject and attack it.  This lowers the vibrational frequency around experience — and will give you a case of “life indigestion.”  A lot of sickness and dis-ease arises from “life indigestion.”

In addition, people who attack tend to experience many closed doors, and stuck energy.

In any given moment, it is good to ask:

“Am I appreciating?”

Or “Am I attacking?”

It is rare that one is neutral.  Usually there is an element of appreciation, or attack, in any interaction.

Being appreciative does not mean saying yes to everything, or being a doormat.  You certainly do not have to “eat” every life experience that is given or offered to you.  

But there is a way of saying no to things that does not involve attack.  You will know by the feeling tone around it.

Appreciative energy always has a light, loose feeling.

Attack energy always has a heavy, constrictive feeling.

Increasing appreciative energy can radically transform one’s life experience — particularly when accompanied by a dropping of attack energy.

Today we ask that you feel your power.

“Power” is unfortunately a rather loaded word for many people.  It is something to be feared — as in a misuse of power, or powerful authority figures, or destructive power.  Nuclear explosions are powerful, hurricanes are powerful, tsunamis are powerful.

In short, bad things are powerful.  Dictators and earthquakes are powerful.

Goodness is often associated with a lack of power.  There is a meekness, a mildness.  Babies, puppies, kittens — these are considered good, but powerless.  (This is not true, but that is the perception.)

When you think of “aggressors” and “victims,” who has “power”?

The aggressor has “power”, right?

But who is “good”?  

The victim is “good.”

And so “goodness” is linked with “victimhood.”

Victims are certainly morally superior to aggressors, are they not?  They are martyrs.  They are beloved by “God.”  They will go to Heaven.

Victims, of course, tend to be quite powerless, or else they would not be victims.

So, quite simply, many people believe, from a moral perspective:

Power is bad.

Powerlessness is good.  

This is usually not a conscious belief, but if you dig around in your mind, you may find some version of this thought form floating around.  It is very widespread and pervasive.

In many dramas — particularly melodramas — one is shown the character of someone who is downtrodden and abused being very morally pure, or saintly.  Of course this is an intrinsic part of all western religion, meaning Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  

But what if it isn’t true?

What if power is neither bad nor good?  

Power is just power.  Electricity is a form of power.  Is electricity good or bad, from a moral perspective?  

Everything contains and radiates power.  Vast amounts of it, in fact.  Power is energy, and the energy bound up within matter is astonishingly huge, as Einstein’s famous equation shows.

Power is energy, that is all.  Trees are powerful, bacteria are powerful, stars are powerful, frogs are powerful, and you are powerful.  Which is to say, you contain and radiate energy.

But if you believe that “powerlessness is good,” what do you think that might do?

Well, for starters, it might mean that you have less energy than you could.

This is not about manifestation.  This is not about magically willing yourself a new house or a new car.  Even those attachments to shiny objects are their own form of powerlessness.  The shiny objects are not good or bad, but thinking you need them in order to prove your worth to the world is its own form of powerlessness.

Just be powerful.  The way a tree is powerful.   The way a blade of grass is powerful.  The way a sparrow is powerful.  The way a star is powerful.

Can you see that fundamentally there is no difference between these things?

The are all energy.  They are all power.  And so are you.

Power is good, because energy is good, because life is good.

Powerlessness as an ideal is life-denying.

If a tree believed that “powerlessness makes me good,” it would slowly die.

And that is what many people actually do, all quite unwittingly.

Power does not mean “have a big ego and push people around.”  That is not power.  That is fear, which is a form of powerlessness.  

Power just means, you are an astonishing energetic being, like a tree, like a star.  

Sit with this.  See what arises.

Today we ask that you not give up on the world, and other people.

Sometimes this is very difficult for sensitive individuals.  The world, and other people, may at times seem so crazy and degraded that there is a desire to withdraw from it altogether.  There is also a deep fear of the world, and other people.

Since many of you are not going to retreat to a secluded monastery, it is essential to find ways to be okay with the world and other people, and not fear them.

It is true that most people in the world are insane, to one degree or another.  It is important to make this distinction.  They are not bad, evil, or defective.  They are insane.  

Insanity is a disease.  This is literally true.  Humans can “catch” insanity, like the common cold.  This is what happens in places like Nazi Germany, when otherwise ordinary people do unspeakably horrible things, because they are sick with mass insanity.  

Most people these days are not insane like Nazis, but there are other forms of insanity.  In many places, consumerism has become the commonplace insanity, with people believing that “more stuff” will make them happy.  This is, of course, utter nonsense; yet many intelligent people believe it.  

Also, even as people become more interconnected through social media, many people are having great difficulty forming real human connections.  There is a superficiality to much in the modern world, a lack of depth, that goes hand in hand with consumerism.  People cannot sit still, people cannot get to know each other on a deep level.  As a result, even well-educated, sophisticated, urbane people have a habit of not treating others with kindness or compassion, because they have a superficial understanding of other people.  And this is actually a form of insanity.  

This is all very challenging for spiritually sensitive people to cope with, since such people feel things very intensely.  Such people have a strong sense that most “normal behavior” is actually not healthy at all — and they’re right about that.  

There is no easy, quick fix solution to this issue.  But it is very important that spiritually awake beings not give up on the world and other people.

It is important not to blame, judge, or attack other people for insane behavior.  By and large, they are doing what they have been conditioned to do.  They truly don’t know what they’re doing.  This doesn’t mean they’re evil.  It just means they are terribly confused and incapable of seeing things clearly.  

When you blame, judge, and attack people who are just blindly acting out conditioned behavior, you’re not helping.  In a way, you’re just perpetuating the craziness.  You are sinking into the craziness yourself.  

The only way out is to break the cycle.  Please do your best to cultivate patience and compassion for those people whose vision is occluded, no matter how tempting it is to feel anger or disgust for them.  

Can you hold space for other people, and the world?

Can you sit with what happens, without judging, attacking, or rejecting it?

This is really the great work for all spiritually awake beings.  Not to give up on people, but to hold space for them.  

Every time you choose to “hold space” rather than “judge and attack,” you are actually making the world much more livable — and, as a positive consequence, it will appear less frightening to you.  

Today we ask that you find a new way to look at your life situation.

When most people look at their life situation, they think: “I have problems.”

“I don’t have enough money.”

“I don’t have enough success.”

“I don’t have loving relationships.”

“I don’t have enough health.”

And so on, and so on.

Their life situation is defined by problems.

But what if you perceived your life situation in the polar opposite way:

“I do have enough money.”

“I do have enough success.”

“I do have loving relationships.”

“I do have health.”

Sit with statements like this, and find the ways in which they are equally true.

For example, if even if you believe you don’t have enough money, somehow something must be sustaining your life force, or else you wouldn’t be reading these words right now.

Isn’t your life force always sustained?  Hasn’t it always been sustained?

Maybe you do not believe you are successful in worldly terms, but surely, if you consider the matter, you can imagine that you are a success at something.  Even if it is just getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth — you must accomplish things successfully, or again, you would not be here to read these words.  

As for loving relationships — even if you are alone and friendless, is there truly no one?  Maybe you have a pet.  Maybe someone working in a store was kind to you — that is an expression of love.  Maybe someone out there in the world really cares about you, even if it is hard for you to acknowledge this.  

On a fundamental level, the universe itself is loving and sustaining you — or else you wouldn’t be here to read these words.

As far as health goes, just being alive requires a substantial amount of health.  All your organs and cells must be functioning at a high rate of perfection, or you wouldn’t be alive at all.

Think about it: your heart is beating.  Your lungs are taking in and expelling air.  Nourishment is being absorbed.  Neurons are firing in your brain.  A whole lot is going on in that body, and it is going on perfectly — or else you would not be reading these words right now.

This is not about being a pollyanna, or a foolish optimist.  Everything that is being stated here is absolutely true.

What is truer?

That you are a capable human being whose life is being fully sustained, within a caring universe?

Or that you are a struggling, helpless victim whose life is being snuffed out, within a hostile universe?

Chances are, you subscribe to one of these two beliefs.

Which one feels truer to you?

Consider the matter carefully.  For whichever one you choose to believe — and it is a choice — will wholly determine your experience of life.  

Today we ask that you not be cynical.

No one is born cynical.  Little children are not cynical.

Cynicism is a defense mechanism that begins often in adolescence, and for many continues to thicken and harden as people age.

“Coolness” is associated with cynicism.  You’re cool, unemotional, a bit callous toward people’s feelings. You tend to attack things that are emotional and sincere.

Cynicism is associated with a critical voice.  The cynic is perpetually unimpressed.  Nothing is ever good enough for the cynic.  Life is an eye-roll, a yawn.  

This is a very limited, unhealthy state of mind.

Cynicism is a form of armor.  Children don’t start off cynical, but as they get hurt by life experiences, cynicism creeps in.

Cynicism is like the slime that forms on a stagnant pond.

Your energy is like water.  When it is healthy, it moves and flows.  When you are psychically injured, energy gets stuck.  The water stagnates.  Slime grows.

Cynicism is the psychic slime that grows over an injury — a place of stuck, stagnant energy.

Look at the ways in which you are cynical.  Look at the things you are cynical about.

These are clear indicators for you of where you have been injured, and have not healed.

People who are cynical about loving relationships have been hurt in relationships.  Or else they’ve never really had one; they’ve been rejected.

People who are cynical about doing meaningful work often feel blocked and frustrated about a lack of meaning in their own careers.  

People who are cynical about spirituality were often damaged by negative experiences with religion; or else feel so victimized by life that it is impossible for them to believe in a loving universe.

It is very easy to fall into cynicism.  It is the common language of victimhood — and most people feel like victims.

Cynicism feels like a defense against further victimization.

But really, it is a block.  It is the slime on the stagnant pond, cutting off light and air and flow.

Cynicism is a block to healing, well-being, and expanded consciousness.

In this world, it is very frightening not to be cynical.  For every sincere, genuine person out there, there is a horde of cynics waiting to pick them apart, and tear them down.

But if it weren’t for sincere, genuine people, nothing of real meaning and beauty would ever be created in this world.

Please notice the ways in which you are cynical.  These are signposts for you, leading you to places where you have stuck psychic energy and unhealed injuries that bear examination.

Being cynical and tearing down other people may give you a temporary rush, but in the long term it only increases your misery.  It is a direct block to your well-being.

Today we ask that you work toward integration.

For many spiritual people who are open to these words, there is a sharp divide in their lives.

When engaged in spiritual activity, there is a sense of well-being, and wholeness.  One feels the goodness of reality, and a loving order to the universe.

And then… there is the rest of life.  

Paying the rent, paying the mortgage.  All the countless cares and worries, fears and doubts.  

You get caught up in mass consciousness.  You read the news, you check Facebook.  You listen to friends and family members, people who are not spiritually open and cynical, or who are perhaps caught up in religious dogma, with its orientation toward guilt and shame.  You believe in scarcity, you believe in lack.  You believe the world is doomed, going to hell in a handbasket.

All of this makes you feel awful.

So life takes on this bipolar quality.  We know for some of you, this is literally the label placed on your mental condition.  But for many, many people, whether or not they are labeled “bipolar,” life has a deep bipolarity.

You live in a dualistic reality, in which all things separate into poles: up/down, left/right, male/female, black/white, pleasure/pain, and so on.  Everything breaks down this way, down to the smallest particles of matter, and antimatter.  One could say that bipolarity is fundamental to your reality.

But the specific dualistic conflict being described here is that between what might be called “expanded consciousness” vs. “limited consciousness.”

In expanded consciousness, there is a sense of connection with a good and loving universe.  Reality is intrinsically good, and you are intrinsically good.  This creates a feeling of deep well-being, and wholeness.

Limited consciousness is defined by a sense of separation, fear, and struggle.  The universe is perceived as cold and uncaring at best, and hostile at worst.  It is a “dog-eat-dog” reality, in which aggressors thrive and the weak are victimized.  Reality is intrinsically broken, and you are intrinsically broken.  

Limited consciousness feels terrible.  It is associated with feelings of despair, depression, anxiety, and panic.  Paranoia is here.  Suicide is here.

So — these are the two poles that many of you are flipping between now: expanded consciousness, vs. limited consciousness.

Some of you may be noticing that limited consciousness feels worse than ever.  For many, it is becoming quite intolerable.

This is because for those of you who are really at home in expanded consciousness, limited consciousness simply doesn’t work for you any more.  It is like wearing a terribly tight pair of shoes.  It hurts!

If you are wearing a terribly tight pair of shoes that really hurt your feet, what do you do?  If you’re sensible, that is.

You take them off.

Likewise, the pain and unpleasantness you may be feeling around limited consciousness is meant to be a goad to you to drop it, once and for all.

This is easier said than done.  You are living in a world where almost everyone is walking around in horrible tight shoes and suffering, but they believe that this pain is somehow normal.  Everyone wears tight shoes, so it doesn’t occur to people that there’s any other way to live.

But most of you reading this know otherwise.

Most of you have experienced expanded consciousness.  You know what it feels like.

You are being asked, at this time, to drop limited consciousness once and for all.

It may seem incredibly frightening, but really, it is just taking off those tight shoes that are hurting you.

Every one of you has the power to do this.

You are asked to be whole.  You are asked to be integrated.  You are asked to be divided no longer — no longer the open spiritual self wrestling with the cramped limited self, but just plain open.

If you choose expanded consciousness, you will be supported in that choice.  Please know this.

Take off the tight shoes.  Don’t keep doing what hurts you.