We have just celebrated July 4th and, as we shot fireworks into our nighttime skies celebrating independence, it was a perfect invitation to look within and see how much inner freedom we actually allot to ourselves. This holiday classically represents a celebration of our country’s freedom. In addition to being a reminder of our forefathers’ declarations it has, at times, served to be a measuring stick for how far we still have to travel to get to our destination of actually living these truths. Nowadays the 4th of July holiday has also morphed into a banner weekend for all things modern Americana and our current-day celebrations are parties beside beaches and pools, sprinkled with red, white and blue, popsicles, hot dogs and hamburgers.
Yet, what are we really celebrating? The banishing of imperialists? Real freedom? Why, then, does this party feel so devoid of palpable application to our daily lives and our innermost hearts? Yes, most of us have the right to vote for our representatives in office or on policy. However, how many of us elect freedom, kindness, compassion, love, and uplifting thoughts to run in our Consciousness? How many of us are sovereign over our inner environment? Most of the population runs completely amok, driven by our patterns and unconscious. We are very often tortured by our thoughts and feelings as we make them paramount. We naturally value the freedom to choose what we want to wear, practice what religion we want, share our beliefs; yet, inside ourselves we are trapped by our individual negativity, not realizing that we have another choice. How we can choose differently is by taking sovereignty within and electing ourSelves into Freedom. And this comes about from Individual Choice and Responsibility. From a Spiritual Perspective we know that the Path to Peace doesn’t come from treaties and arms embargos, marches in the streets, etc.. Rather it comes from each Individual’s Responsibility in the group setting to Choose Love. To Choose Grace. To Choose Peace. To Choose Kindness. To Choose Forgiveness. To Choose to be born anew. These are more than just concepts, they are living realities that we each have an opportunity to attune to each-and-every moment. The way to true Freedom is granted is by giving It to one’s Self. This is done directly through a very specific Path, called Initiation into the Sound Current. My much-loved and deeply wise Meditation Teacher, Dr. Roger B. Lane who founded The Center For Religion And Advanced Spiritual Studies, gives this precious Gift to students who request Initiation. I am one of those Blessed students and have the direct, palpable experience within myself of being truly and entirely Free. Through following the devotional practice exactly as laid out by my Meditation Teacher at the time of Initiation I allowed the karmic patterns of fear, hurt, anger, unworthiness, jealousy, lack, limitation and much more to be Lifted from me. As these habitual thoughts and feelings were cleared and taken up through the Process that the world commonly knows as Meditation, I became Freer and Freer and Freer until becoming as I am now. Someone with total autonomy her life and complete Inner Freedom. My experience of this is so joyful that is leaves me wordless. Life is Technicolor for me now with great enrichment of flavors, colors, sights, sensations, tastes and so much more. The irony is that alongside this or, possibly even the root as to why I am deeply grateful for life’s many blessings and bounty, is that I am less attached to things than I’ve ever been before. I have the Freedom to know that I am fine and I am Loved regardless of how I am treated in the world. Regardless of anyone’s response to me, I am Worthy of God’s Love, and I have deep acceptance of the Spirit within me each moment. Not at a holy-roller or some imaginary set of words to say declaring devotion, but as a gracious recipient of this wonderful Gift of Freedom, living each moment with celebration within me. It looks like a warm smile on my face and thankfulness in my heart. It is kindness to all and sincere caring for my fellow humanity. It is also being guided by the greatest leader there is; the Spirit within. This is the true Independence. And this Independence Day is every day. Copyright 2017, 2023. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved.
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I had a much deeper awareness of the Lasting Power Of Acts Of Kindness when I received a phone call – seemingly “out of the blue” – from someone who had done some work for me in my home.
Years had gone by, and suddenly, there this person was, on the line. This person began to thank me – profusely, really, all these many years later – for something that was still first and foremost in her memory: that she had been cleaning my apartment, had used the wrong product and that instead of getting angry, I was Kind. I simply suggested that she use another product. Knowing mySelf as I do, I’ll hazard a well-educated guess that I was an Initiate Of The Sound Current at the time (and still am) and that I was working The Teachings as Taught to me by Dr. Lane, the Founder/Director of Cosmos Tree and Center For Religion And Advanced Spiritual Studies, Who is My Spiritual Teacher, by letting go of what most likely was anger; of Focusing into Spirit. Of being Neutral. Yes, years and years later, here was an Act Of Kindness was, very much alive in Its Love, in her choice to Receive That. I mentioned this call to Dr. Lane and My Teacher further Taught me – using Himself as an example – that My Teacher still recalls Acts Of Kindness from years ago. At that moment, The Staying Power of Acts Of Kindness was My Important Learning. I better understand now why an Act Of Kindness by a friend of mine decades ago still “floats by” inside of me on a regular basis. That Act Of Kindness took place years ago between my junior and senior years in college when I was doing a summer internship for a magazine. For one reason or another, the cover story for the issue that we were all working on hadn’t worked out; and the editor asked me if I’d like to give it a shot. A “budding writer”, I saw it as an opportunity, said “yes” and dove in, immersing mySelf in the subject matter, then writing and rewriting for four days and three nights straight in order to meet the last-minute deadline. Not a month goes by, to this day, that I don’t recall my best friend at the time staying up with me to make sure I was fed, hydrated, just plain well taken care of. There is so much Glory in That Act, I Know now, on Receiving That Glory. In That Choice by a seeming “other” that was made. So, too, floating through me is another Act Of Kindness that only upon This Learning do I recognize as Such. Years ago, I Hosted The Meditation For Health And Well-Being Brought Forward by My Teacher at my home on the opposite side of town from the Cosmos Tree Home Center. One day, a friend called to say that his mother wanted to make me dinner and he would bring that dinner to the Meditation - clearly for me to enjoy afterwards. Did I want chicken or beef? Something else? To this day. This Act nearly moves me to tears as I receive this Gift of Love. So, These Gifts Of Love matter; and They last. Instead of walking by a blind person who may need help with direction-ing because I’m “too busy”, it’s time to focus properly into Spirit; to Model Kindness, a Quality of God, as My Teacher often Teaches. It’s through God’s Kindness and Mercy that we are given the Gift of Initiation Into The Sound Current and the Opportunity to Love Him and, as a byproduct, go Home to Him. This very planet is here for That Purpose. Through a Divine and Glorious Act Of Kindness We, as Souls, are able to Be with Him while we’re in the body. It doesn’t get More Important than That. My Teacher also Teaches that “Kind” in Kindness refers to the Truth that we are all One Kind, Which is Spirit. Acts of Kindness, seemingly for “another”, are really for MySelf. Thank YOU, My Teacher, for helping me better Understand the Power of These Loving Acts and of My Power To Create/Co-Create Them. I haven’t asked My Teacher This, but Spiritually, I have a sense that They are recognized in the Highest of Heavens, that they are Truly Glorified. Moreover, as I was Taught by My Teacher, Kindness “echoes” through all of Spirit. Copyright 2023. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. The Path Of Soul Transcendence that Dr. Lane brings forward is an Initiatory Path. It is a Sound Current Path that Initiates Walk and experience directly inside themSelves in the Soul Body; we are with the Lord, God while we’re in the body, which is a Great, Great Miracle.
The Purpose of our being here is to come to Know OurSelves as Spirit, as Soul and by Walking this Path exactly as Taught we go Home to Him/the Lord, God, Which is Where we as Soul came from. As Dr. Lane explains: “‘In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God.’ The Word is the Sound Current. We are here in the physical body because we chose away from the Spirit that we are and have created lifetime after lifetime of karma/separation from Him/OurSelves. God in His Kindess and Mercy has given us a Way to re-cognize ourSelves as Soul, as Spirit and to re-member the Living God and, in this Process, Return Home to Him.” On this Path we as Initiates are Lovers of God; that is What we do: we Love Him. We Adore Him. We live in Devotion. If we Walk the Path exactly, we have the Opportunity to go Home to Him, go to Completion. We go to Completion. The focus is not on karma; it is on Loving God. The karma is cleared by Grace; “it clears when it clears,” as Dr. Lane explains. Key to this Path is that you can’t do it alone. The Blessing of this Path and One of Great Magnitude is that the Lord, God Himself, Whose Path This is and Who put It here from the Beginning, has sent a Master Who is able to lead us through; we follow Him – the Spiritual Form of the Master - inside ourSelves. Dr. Lane is this Sound Current Master and this is The Lord, God’s Gift to us. Initiation is the Process by which the Soul is sparked Awake. This takes place during the Initiation Itself. As Dr. Lane explains, “‘Initiate’ means to begin and you then begin the beautiful, gentle, natural Journey from fear of Him to Love of God, from your will to the Alignment of your will and God’s Will, to the realization inside yourSelf, the Knowing that you are One and the Same with the Spirit.” As Dr. Lane further explains, we do not have a lot of rules and regulations; “we don’t tell you what to eat or how to eat …You’re adults.” This is a Path of ever-increasing Spiritual Strength/Frequency, ever increasing Self-Awareness and ever-increasing Acknowledgment of Our Responsibility, Which according to The Teachings on this Path, means “the ability to respond to the Spirit we are.” Live The Teachings as Instructed, Which is simple and easy, and you’ll discover that the Joy is Inside of you; the Love is Inside; indeed “Everything exists inside of you,” as Dr. Lane has written. Initiation is the Gift of Gifts given to us by the Lord, God Himself and It is All for us. It is through His Compassion and Caring and Mercy “that He wants His kids Home,” as Dr. Lane states. Our Destiny – the Spiritual Blueprint that’s been here from the Beginning - was established by the Lord, God Himself and It is This: we are all going Home to Him sooner or later. Why not be smart and make it sooner? How do I take Initiation? How does one “take Initiation”? One requests this Precious Gift by emailing info@spiritcentral.org and writing “Requesting Initiation” in the email with your name and contact information. A member of the Initiate Community will happily get back to you. Copyright 2022. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. The world can appear to be a place of strife, competition, fear, negativity and pain when we see things through the “us against them” mentality. Yet there is a place within yourSelf where you reside that knows you are taken care of, you are okay and you are whole. From “here” you can trust your ability to be in the world because you are placing your focus on the Positive, which is the Soul that you are. Then, as the powerful Creator that you are, you create your outer situations to reflect this. And we affirm being self-contained by keeping our own power, which is really the Power of our Soul.
The renowned Meditation Teacher and Founder of The Center for Religion and Advanced Spiritual Studies, Dr. Roger B. Lane, describes this paradigm in the published Tool For Living Free entitled, “The Secret of Success”. Dr. Lane explains, “When we’re always, always questing after status, power, success, fame - if we achieve it we always have to maintain it. So there goes all of our energy, there goes all our consciousness – it’s aimed at that or, if we don’t have it, we’re doing the same thing. We’re always striving. So we’re either seeking to maintain it or we’re seeking to obtain it. And that’s what happens, that’s the nature of the beast. But the interesting thing is that the quest is central in our consciousness. But we’re told just the opposite.” “We’re told that we need to know ourSelves as Spirit, as God, as the Light of The Most High that we are and from that place… our Focus is on God and Who we are then all that other stuff is added to us. …” Let’s reflect on this for a moment! Dr. Lane says, “All that other stuff is added unto us.” It is a modern version of what the Beloved Jesus The Christ was quoted as saying in Matthew 6:33, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” We are encouraged to place our attention on God, on our Soul, on Spirit and, through that Focus and Receiving, we will automatically, seemingly effortlessly, be given all the things of the world. Look at the importance of what is being Taught! So we need to Receive. And we Receive by placing our Consciousness at God. The world really is inside out and backwards as Dr. Lane Teaches! You have all the things of the world by placing your love and attention on what is within – God. Dr. Lane elaborated further in “The Secret of Success” by explaining the keys some very smart people he knows used to unlock life’s true magic in this way. “And these Souls that won at the game of life allowed themselves to be given to. Their focus was in God and they allowed everything be to added unto them. And everything was added to them. It’s like they got out of the way of the world and things of the world just got added to them. Because that wasn’t their focus. So they won. They won God. They won the Lord, God. They gave themselves God. That’s where success is. Success is in meeting the goal of life and the goal of life is to know God while you’re in the body. …” To learn how to do this by Receiving Initiation into The Sound Current On The Path Of Soul Transcendence and start the wonderful journey of knowing God within visit http://www.spiritcentral.org. Copyright 2017. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. It is almost embarrassing to fall in love as I approach 40 years of age. We’re grown ups and yet these days our eyes see color more vividly; words from each other’s lips have a deep meaning and impact in our swelling hearts; we lounge with greater gratitude for the moments in repose together and relish in every breath that the other takes. Turns out it was more than a summer romance and being in love can indeed make the most modest of beds feel palatial by virtue of being nestled in each other’s arms. Falling in love makes ordinary sighs, kisses and nuzzles feel like brushes with heaven’s own Aphrodite.
We’ve both experienced many streams of life already. It almost feels like we should have tapped out a few historic relationships ago and just made peace with the leftovers; that which remained after the winnings were collected and the dealers went home. I’ve thought this deep well of kindness, delight and easy rapport with a man wasn’t in the cards for me. A beautiful home, sure. And being a mother, absolutely. Awesome trips and hot dates bachelors, why not? But real love for a man with whom I am enamoured and who cherishes me? I had my doubts. In the absence of this dream having not yet coming true, my no plan plan was to simply get on with my robust life and be a muse to myself, amusing myself along the way. Pretty good deal. Yet the poppy seed-sized wish for romantic love and sweet partnership embedded in the smooth tissue of my heart began to florish. Slowly, steadily and quite unnoticed, the roots took delicate shape around my body’s biggest involuntary muscle and without an announcement the flowers opened their delicate petals to reveal the bull’s-eye center of a wish granted. And there he was – bringing a smile to my face and a large laugh to my happy belly, hugging my little body close, protecting us with all he thinks and does and all he asks for is me to enjoy the delightful ride. So here we are, as adults, back at square one of child-like wonderment, sophomoric silliness in-love-drunkenness. You can grasp why I say this sweet nectar of adoring love between us is ever so slightly embarrassing. The interesting piece of this equation is the very je ne sais quoi of why it works. And why now? Why the lover’s puzzle pieces snap their way into interlocking, perfect union this time around, though we’ve both had a hearty spin of Cupid’s wheel in our previous romantic incarnations. I rested in this question and keep circling back to the only answer of worth. Something about this love is familiar. I’ve tasted it before. And the yearning for that sweetness has lead the charted course of my life to exactly this moment, this late night, this revelation and this sweet note. There is more to this story than just the two of us devoted sweethearts in it. There is the One. The One is the pulse of all Love on the planet. When we are Aligned with the Soul within us that Love flows. That’s precisely what I’ve done by taking Initiation into the Sound Current On The Path Of Soul Transcendence. This is the nectar of love I bask in when with my beloved - the deep, fresh, mountain sweet, untouched Love that fuels me wholly and comes from the Soul within me - that I bask in all the time. It is the Love of living at the Soul Level and the joy of being in that place inside myself while playing with my boyfriend that becomes much move than emotional love and devotion. It is my living as the Truth of what I am - Soul - and enjoying one of life’s great gifts, romantic love, while diving and surfing in the waves of the Soul’s rhythm within me. Even just a hint of that manifesting as a micro in our tender relationship is enough to fuel rocket ships and satiate million man marches. I have the Love from God’s Heart flowing through my Consciousness and, when I am with my boyfriend, I have this Joy in my heart, in my laughter and in my kind communication with him. It is the Oneness of God. The One is the ceaseless Love that is Spirit alive in the world, inside each of us. Oneness is comprised simply of God’s Love. My falling in immaculate love with my dearly sweetheart, in this chapter in my life, while studying with the magnificent Meditation Teacher, Dr. Roger B. Lane, is a direct correlation to being a Student of this Love. I wouldn’t have had access to the effusive, every-giving, profound, flowing, glowing Love inside of myself had I not tapped into the ancient Sound Current that Dr. Lane Teaches me about through direct experiences. The Sound Current is comprised of Love. Living Love. That is what flows through my veins, is my veins, is my cells and the building blocks of atoms and even the space between atoms. The Love is ancient and It is all that there really is, when you burn off the fat of karma and reincarnational patterns. It is most certainly older than my heaven-sent boyfriend and my age combined! Yet our love affair is very deeply steeped in this Love because I, as a Student of Dr. Lane’s, am constantly Attuning and re-Attuning to this high Frequency and filling my cup with this Love through the Mediation Of The Light Of The Most High that Dr. Lane Teaches. This flow is within me and from this place I’m involved in a deeply loving relationship; unattached and unabashed to be mySelf. I am Free to fully be Free. I walk through the world just like everyone else and enjoy the same pleasures only more so because I’m free inside myself to be in the fullness of what is. At each-and-every moment. It is similar to being on vacation yet in my hometown. At home inside myself and with deep, ever-replenishing gratitude, endless Love and no need to even fuss with international exchange rates. This way of living is free. Regardless of my age, stage or stats because all that matters is the ever-increasing Frequencies of Love inside myself. That’s the real joy – living in the vast, constantly-sourced tide of unfettered adoration within me. From that place I move in the world and I relate to my endearing beau, enjoying our magical mystery tour thoroughly. I relish in the strong current and tender warmth of manna from heaven that lives alive and bright inside of me, as me. Copyright 2016. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. In Tools For Living Free #39, entitled “Spiritual Economics”, Which is comprised of excerpts from Talks given by Our Teacher and from The Money Workbook written by Our Teacher, there is part of a paragraph that comes to me inwardly over and over again.
This part reads thus: “And I watch so many people do their funny little stuff with money. ‘There’s not enough; let me hold on. Let me see if I have enough for lunch. If I have enough for dinner.’ Oh, and they’re tight and they’re tight. And they’re contracted. And at the same time they expect God to help them out. But if they’re contracted how can He? You haven’t made yourSelf big enough for the Spirit you are. … So Giving has a lot to do with being big enough to Allow the Spirit inside of you to be because that’s pretty big …” I was recently buying some sushi and thanks to the Gift of this Tool, I was aware that I was contracted. Up until that time, I realized, I had purchased this same sushi package nearly every Saturday afternoon while I am canvassing the neighborhood near the Home Center as a Loving Service and whenever I did so a part of me tightened up and held on; and I allowed that part – the basic selves – to be in control and I bought the least expensive sushi I could find in the case. For years, I’d look in the case until I found a package that was $8.45 instead of the one that I preferred, which was $12.45. And I’d pick up each package, then put it down, then do the same thing again until I finally took the $8.45 one; and so went this “effort” of sushi shopping from a tight place instead of giving mySelf the spontaneous fun of giving mySelf the more healthful, creatively displayed package that I prefer. The spontaneity and fun is all part of en-Joying the life the Lord, God has Given me! (Versus creating lack and limitation, which is karma; and for which I am responsible.) Only, thanks to this Tool, which I’ve read numerous times over the last few months, I Knew this time what “tight” meant when I felt it. I had an instant biofeedback mechanism for poverty consciousness/lack/limitation: my chest felt compressed as if ten pounds of iron were weighing down the skin above my heart. Before this, I was unconscious in that I chose to identify with my basics; and to go with a fear of “not enough”. This time I had been taking the Everyday Evolution I Class Taught by My Teacher; and, as a result, I was very much aware of my basics and I had distance on them. I Knew the Wealth was within; and that I am Spirit. Knowing that I am Supplied by Spirit; and that Spiritual Economics is giving to mySelf based upon My Knowing that God and I are One and, thus, in Reality I am boundless. The Giving is Giving mySelf God by being Present, Which is placing my consciousness at God, Which is Abundance Consciousness. I simply chose to purchase exactly what I preferred to purchase. I consciously did the same thing with another food purchase in this “time period”. I had gone with the habitual pattern of being “tight” with mySelf, using a habitual outer reference point of the “virtue” of saving money. Instead of holding back, I purchased exactly what I preferred to purchase – from “soup to nuts”, every item. I supported mySelf both times by doing Self-Talk: “basics, come present! I need your cooperation and energy to spend [amount of purchase] on food now. Thank you for supporting me in this and continuing to support me in being generous with mySelf no matter what. I love you.” I’ve done the above regularly since that first time. Most of the time I put the situation into the Light Of The Most High for the Highest Good. “For the Highest Good” is the protection so if the action had been “reckless” perhaps I would have been “stopped” from doing it. But I Knew I was Supplied. It was an Inner Knowing. The more I went with This, practiced This, the more whatever was needed just came in “naturally”. It’s a process of Knowing how Powerful I am; and that it’s God’s money; and that I’m Okay; and Loved by God/Spirit/The Teacher, Which is Loving mySelf. As needed, I did the Two-Part Release Technique to let go of fear that had come up. Sometimes, I need to ask the Lord, God to give me the direct experience of receiving the money that I do have. I also knew that this was an opportunity to let go of the fear of “not enough”, of this as a pattern. I also told my basics that I need their cooperation and energy to support me in having enough money and being 100% Supplied by the Lord, God. I also put the situation into the Light of The Most High for the Highest Good and asked the Lord, God for the Highest Good to replace what I had spent now. Nearly every time, it’s already been replaced. When it has not is when I chose away from working with the Light Of The Most High/with the Spirit I am or, because putting my preference into the Light For the Highest Good is the protection, if it’s not replaced that’s for the Highest Good, too. And I may not have any idea what’s going on anyway. I also from time to time ask my basics to support me in being in Gratitude. Now I am adding, “for the Gift of Initiation Into The Sound Current On The Path Of Soul Transcendence and the magnificent bounty given to me moment-to-moment.” When I decide to give mySelf an item often the less it costs. There’s no effort. I had been putting off buying a couch for my new apartment (I was running “not enough”) – when I stopped; Co-Created with the Lord, God for the Highest Good having the couch of my dreams now. I went online, put my preference into the Google search box; and in minutes there it was online: the “perfect” couch. It has since been delivered; and I adore it. Moreover, throughout the ordering/delivery process, the company kept taking more and more money off the price. More and more. $65 then another $65. Boy! Are we Powerful. The Wealth is inside. The key is Giving – inwardly by being Present and outwardly as byproduct, too. That’s the Key. Even on the “mundane” level of money. Copyright 2022. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. I vividly remember the exact afternoon I heard the first notes of reggae music. I was perched on the cliffs with childhood girlfriends overlooking the sparkling Pacific Ocean. When the music came on I was beyond taken with it. It went straight to my mainline and my heartbeat permanently shifted to that of a crisp roots rhythm guitar. I was awash in the sweet sound. As the honorable Robert Nesta Marley said, “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Reggae has a pure, positive vibe to it. It matches me perfectly. It was me living a sun-soaked, bikini-laden, sandy feet, beachside youth in Southern California. It was my college nights in dreary, dreamy London-town, with the strong Jamaican influx of roots and ragga music banging from beneath the cobblestone street basement clubs. Reggae was always more than a sing-a-long at a summer time concert or a fat dub bass line mixed with keyboard and brass horns for me; it was a happy reminder of life being joyful, easy and fun. A lot of the pure reggae vibes, barring some dark horses like Peter Tosh and a handful of fiery young bloods, are steeped in positivity and have that signature Caribbean, Polynesian, South American as well as New Zealand and Australian heritages of, “No worries. Easy now. No problemo. Shaka bra. I’ve got nothing but love for me bredren and sistren.” The lyrics are inclusive. All accepting. All loving. All’s good. Mix in a little sass of, “Cock up yuh bumper, sit down pon it,” and you’ve got an anthem brewing. This is the aspect that always kept me returning. Positivity plus the coined, “No worries.” I took that notion to heart. Yet, I also had my feet very firmly planted on the ground and wondered to myself, “With all due respect for the forefathers of this rad music revolution, do they actually think there are no worries in life?” Really, no worries? Zero. How do they do that? Even though I was young and my life was peachy keen even I recognized that life seemed to hold an ongoing series of problems and troubles. “How can you truly have no worries?” I wondered. I concluded that these raggamuffins must be high on herbal sacrament to such a large degree that their exclusive daily responsibility was just to collect tropical fruits and spearfish for dinner. They in fact were so very worry-free that they casually rocked bellbottom jeans when it was 96 degrees in the shade. I’m generalizing, of course, but the “no worries” essence always kept me curious. It can’t be that simple as just saying it even in sweet harmonization, I thought. I kept on skanking. Kept on growing. Kept on living. Kept on keeping on. Problems came and problems went. Money came, money went; money came again. Lovers came, went and came again. Life was very good to me, much to give thanks for, and yet the low hum level of worry ran beneath the soundtrack of my life. This was despite the fact that I was a generally very positive and blessed person. Having worries given how lovely my landscape was seemed strange to me even though it is very much the accepted norm for most people. Now I know from my beloved Meditation Teacher, Dr. Roger B. Lane, “That what passes for normal in this world is actually crazy.” I never thought to look within. Yet that is exactly what Dr. Lane has Taught me to do. Through the Meditation Dr. Lane Taught me at the time of Initiation into the Sound Current, which is profound process by which the Soul within me was sparked Awake by the Spiritual Master, I have learned directly and experientially that I am more than my body, my thoughts, my feelings, situations, or anything else. I am Soul. I have learned to walk through life knowing That and allowing that profound Power to flow and glow in each-and-every moment. Living as Soul is so pure. Spirit just handles things for me. I feel as though I’m floating and my day-to-day life is so easy and grace-filled, like a concierge service is taking care of every detail. This most certainly didn’t just “happen” overnight for me. I have studied with Dr. Lane for years and am devotedly committed to keeping my inner environment clear and bright with the Love that I truly am. There is deep Devotion on my part and continual re-Commitment. Each moment. Each-and-every moment. There really, truly are no worries here. It is all Love and Love is all there is. It is ultimate Oneness, more so than any reggae ballad has ever conceived. To clarify that it’s not that I have no worries because everything is perfect for me in life. Rather, through the process of Walking The Path of Soul Transcendence that my Teacher brings forth I’ve learned how to keep my Consciousness at Soul and Its Expression. Kindness, gratitude, joy, forgiveness, generosity, responsibility, commitment, humor and much more. When I focus on Soul I’m allowing the Flow of God’s Love to operate in my life. I’m allowing mySelf to be carried, as it were, through the physical world. Like a surfer, I paddle in by placing my Consciousness at Soul and drop into the Soul Body, allow myself to be carried and ride that magnificent wave. This is available to everyone. The most incredible, powerful thing in the world is within you. It is the Same as That Which is in me. The Soul. The Soul is Oneness. I & I, as the reggae vibes would hint at. In reality we are all the Oneness. We just don’t know it. Until we do. When living at Soul Level Consciousness the skank is for real. It is the Oscillation of the Soul – Which is pure Love - in Divine Joy and Harmony. We are so blessed that we get to know This while we’re in the body, not after “death,” which is an illusion anyway, but right this moment as I listen to my favorite jams and enjoy a beautiful Wednesday afternoon. That’s the immediacy of Spirit. I’ve learned so much through the process of studying with Dr. Lane and through the Divine Experiences I’ve had while Meditating with The Light Of The Most High. The Soul in me is comprised of the same “material,” as it were, as That in Dr. Lane. It is similar to if you were to learn a new language you would seek out a classroom and educator to guide you. Dr. Lane is deeply Committed to his Students and serving Them and welcomes all Students into the Meditation Studio, asking only that we Love God, Which is Loving ourSelves. This is the ultimate egalitarian, equal rights, justice scenario. Dr. Lane Teaches that we are all deeply Loved. Infinitely. Beyond understanding. Regardless of what we do. Out beyond the field of wrong-doing and right-doing as Rumi would say. We are implicitly perfect just as we are. Not on the physical level with our quirks nor on the emotional or mental with hot surges and circular thoughts. It’s the Soul within us. The part of us that is Perfect no matter what the outer circumstance is. It is the essence of Who we really are. Even if we don’t know it. Similar to how gravity operates regardless whether or not we acknowledge it, believe in it or can calculate it. It just is. The good news is that you don’t have to understand anything to Receive. Start Meditating now by attending a Meditation at your local Center. Work with the Teacher, Dr. Lane by requesting Initiation into the Sound Current On The Path Of Soul Transcendence. Do it all with a Loving heart and curiosity. You won’t have to take anyone’s word for anything. It’s all within. You’ll have direct experiences yourSelf. The system is that magical. Spirit customizes life for you to have the exact Learnings you need to Lift and Grow and know yourSelf as Soul. Cruise through the world with your focus on the Soul you are by Meditating and working with the Teacher and you will find that you are more powerful than you could have ever dreamed. The sidekick; the byproduct of this awesome cocktail is that life becomes so easy, so joyful, so laughable that it is the best thing going. I can’t begin to describe how happy I am. How good the music sounds from this altitude! How everything just seems to happen for me and is better than I could have ever imagined! I smile. I am living the ride of my life. Irie I? You bet. No worries? Nah brah, not a single one. Immeasurable Love and natural mystic beyond words. Yes iyah. The fire is blazing for you, too. Take the gift if you’re reading this! Run with it and run allowing the Spirit you are to run the show. And rock steady to the sweet Sound of your Soul! Copyright 2016, 2022. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. If I were to describe the one thing that takes up my time and energy when I could be putting it to much better use it’s when I am in “my little room” doing my little thing as if no one else is there. Just my little thing as if no one else matters.
The result of being “in my little room” is that I create a disturbance; I certainly disturb the person or persons involved with whatever it is that is being done; and my choice disturbs all of us because we’re One Spirit. It can be as simple as my choosing away from returning an email or phone call in clarity and in a timely manner or my sending written work to someone when I haven‘t taken the time to proofread it because I had something else I’d rather be doing. The “excuse” I give most often is that I was doing my “job”, my “job” in the little room sense of the word. So, I’m sitting there late at night “cleaning it up.” I know the little-room-ness of things from both sides of the fence – as disturber and disturbee. Here’s an example. In a recent Satsang My Teacher referred to someone focused on their “own little role”. That was me. Before the Talk began, I set up three devices to record the Talk; then after we had Meditated for two or three minutes, I asked My Teacher whether it was OK to start recording; then I repeated it again and I repeated it again even though My Teacher had said something but I didn’t hear it because I was focused on recording and when to begin doing that. Then My Teacher had to stop because of the interference I had caused. At the beginning of the Talk, instead of being Present, I was focused on my own little “job”. By doing that, I chose into karma, which takes me out of the Forcefield – the Growth and Upliftment/the Grace brought Forward by My Teacher, Who now has to stop and work a lot harder to do That. More important, my choice into karma broke the Forcefield. Through the Grace of My Teacher the Forcefield was reconstituted and the Satsang continued. If My Teacher had chosen otherwise, I would have been responsible for the Growth and Upliftment that the Souls present would otherwise have received from the Satsang. I was in my little room – focused on, OK, now I turn on the recorder. I was focused on my “job”, as if the Service I am Honored to do, were a “job” in the world. I left out the “big picture”, Which is My Teacher/God/all Souls. As long as I pushed that button on the recorder, who cares, really, what was needed, etc. That’s the attitude with it. Here’s What My Teacher said in this regard during the Satsang: “Now, if you paid close attention … at the beginning - that to me was very indicative that so many of us are focused on our own little role, not aware of a bigger sense going on. Not aware of the Spirit That we are, not aware, as was said so beautifully earlier, that God lives in us as us. So God lives in me as me. That It’s God and we need to have that sense - not just the sense of your little, small job egotistically - but how it fits in in the bigger picture and that you are the bigger picture and we all do our part to bring forth the movement of Spirit and the Spiritual Progression and the Spiritual Energy Patterns That are here and That come to the planet. …” My deeper understanding is that I need to just Be and to Trust and to be quiet and to Allow the next step – rather than running my ego in everyone’s face – “my little job”, “my little job”, “my little job.” I’m with The Teacher inwardly, by Being in the Soul Body with Him. I also Know that we are One Spirit; and that my choice to break the Forcefield, Which is an Extension of the Lord, God Himself into this world, disturbs all Souls. As My Teacher has Taught, a butterfly flapping its wings in one place – or my choice into karma - can cause a hurricane someplace else. Earlier today, I asked someone to please send an email to someone with information about attending an Event that was taking place later today. The email was sent – and I thanked this person for their Service - only it left out key information that the person needed in order to attend. I Received this action energetically as a “little room” action, a “my job in the world” experience. As a karmic/disturbing action. It took my time and my energy. I also cared that this person did, in fact, attend this Event; and to me, This Attendance was the Priority: that this Soul attend the Meditation Of The Light Of The Most High that evening, that this Soul Receive That Blessing/Tap into the Light. When I asked that clear instructions be sent, the person responded that this person “was at work” and would do so soon. I have since Learned that I needed to say that this needed to be done immediately. I was “at work”, too, on that Satsang conference call, outside mySelf doing the “job”. Blind to the Sacredness of The Service, to the Priority, habitually going with the priority with a small “p”, with the one(s) the basic selves - the part of us that brings forward our karmic patterns - want us to follow. One more example: I recently had a videoconference-call scheduled and the person was 30 minutes late. I waited. Same thing, basically – she was doing her “job” in the world, which, as it turned out, was “something came up with my kids that I had to take care of.” The focus was on “my little job” instead of on What My Teacher Teaches, Which is Individual Responsibility With And In A Group Focus. Anytime I’m doing “my job” in the world and that’s my focus, I’m in karma and creating more and that disturbance is violence towards others. As My Teacher has Taught me many times, what I do affects others, The Teacher in particular. The Solution is the Priority – the Job is Being Centered/Present; the Business I’m in is the Business of Loving God, as My Teacher Teaches. Being in Alignment with the Priority – Lining Up with That. And doing Self-talk so that I am in Loving Cooperation inside mySelf. Anything else is karma for which I’m Responsible. Copyright 2022. Soundly Inc. All rights reserved. Up until now, I have not gotten everything done that I needed and preferred to get done.
Up until now, I’ve allowed mySelf to do anything but by choosing to be “on the fence” by engaging with my basic selves – the part of me that brings forward my karmic patterns – instead of staying Present and doing Self-Talk to educate them to go down the track I prefer. From this place of false identification everything is “confusing”, defined by My Teacher as the fusion of Spirit and matter. For instance, instead of consciously choosing to jot down what needs to be done in a schedule the night before, which I Know is key to keeping track of what needs to be done and directing my basic selves - the part of me that brings forward my karmic patterns - to go down this track, to go with my Knowing, as I’ve been Taught by Dr. Lane, My Spiritual Teacher, I’m allowing the “dumb part”, the habitual part, to rule. I don’t want to do the work, including lining up with what needs to be done by doing the Self-Talk (see below) and by being Present. I want to be comfortable, which goes against The Teaching that we are not here to made comfortable, as the Christ, Jesus has said. I’m in the “confusion”. I forget to schedule or I think about doing it. Of course, once jotted down, I need to allow the Flow to follow it day-to-day. Then I had a special session with My Teacher that is called Lane Consulting. At its end, My Teacher supported me in putting up a big reminder sign that reads “Get Things Done”, which I did. Then I listened to the Podcast for March 2022 Titled “Eternal Vigilance: Are You Practicing What You Know Or Are You ‘Knowing’ That It’s Practice?” (MP3 A109). It is comprised of a Talk given by My Teacher That is also available by going to cosmostree.org. What stood out to me in listening to this Important Talk was My Responsibility as an Initiate to be clear; the numerous wonderful examples that My Teacher gave of using everything to Lift; for instance, being asked to pass the salt, feeling annoyance and simply releasing the negativity, choosing to come from a Loving Heart and passing it. So simple. So easy. And so Profound! So, today, a tax-related situation came up. So did fear. I did the Two-Part Release by Calling in the Light Of The Most High: “Lord, God, send me Your Light! Lord, God, for the Highest Good please take anything that separates me from the Spirit I am!" I told mySelf "it's OK to let it go!" I also Called in the Light Of The Most High and asked the Lord, God for my preference: that all is fine and okay with my tax payments, etc. I did Self-Talk to direct my basics into the action and to direct them to support me in being Neutral and coming from a Loving Heart. I did this by saying “basics, come present!” Then: “I need your cooperation and energy to support me in calling the tax department now. And to be Neutral and Coming from a Loving Heart while doing it.” As an Initiate, I also Know that this situation is an Opportunity to strengthen mySelf as the Spirit I am. I Know that My Teacher/the Lord, God has used taxes, including calls to state and federal departments as needed, to help me Lift and Grow for around 20 years now. So, up until now, when I call this particular state-wide department there is what I consider to be a long wait before someone comes on the line and I’ve allowed mySelf – much of the time – to run a “should”. “They ‘should’ pick up now!’ I Know from My Teacher not to “should” on mySelf. I stayed in a Loving Heart. Did the Two-Part Release as often as needed. And, then, naturally, easily, I just used the time on hold to get some more things done, including much-needed organizing. Easy. Simple. Done. Then I Committed to just doing stuff. And using everything that comes to me to Lift and Grow. To come from a Loving Heart. To Grow in Love for the Lord, God – the Purpose of the life I’ve been Blessed with. And to put whatever it is I’ve chosen to do in the Light Of The Most High for the Highest Good. And to Let go, Let God. As for that “fence” - instead of “thinking” about what I’m going to do; for instance, about all that organizing I need to do among other things, this time I just made a choice and moved on it. And I did the organizing fast. 1-2-3. Fast because I’m choosing now to listen to mySelf and I prefer to do things fast. Very fast and well. And to jot down agreements I’ve made – what needs to get done – and do it. It’s simply Choice and Being Present – that Choice of all Choices. For me, Talk Number A109 reinforces this Choice by helping me Remember the importance of Loving mySelf. Loving mySelf is being Present. So I do That. I do what’s needed to “keep my Inner Environment Clean”, as My Teacher Teaches. As my Teacher says, “it really is that simple!” |
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