PALM BAY, FL–Why do I keep harping on the importance of living as a Soul?

Because when you could care less about all the minutia that goes along with being human–the minutia that is important to people who think they die but is irrelevant to those who think they are immortal souls–then it is much easier to let go of the Personal Self, to surrender the Illusion and find the bliss of Mystical Oneness.

Evolving from Human to Soul to Radiance to Oneness (see TBOMO) is a much easier path (think grade school to high school to college to doctorate) than trying to go from Human Being straight to Oneness (ie: going from grade school directly to your doctorate degree (it can be done, but isn’t very likely)).

PALM BAY, FL–Want to know another secret?

The secret to inner peace is to stop believing in illusions.

If any of these questions bother you, then you are caught up in the World of Illusion.

The easiest way out of the Illusion is to stop taking your life so seriously. Notice that if you started to truly think of yourself as a Soul (rather than as a human being), all those worries (implied in the above questions) vanish.

In the much grander life of a Soul, those tiny little things–call them the Minutia of Mankind–simply don’t matter that much anymore.

PALM BAY, FL–A few years ago, a Jewish friend of mine, exasperated with my constant questions, replied that he didn’t know whether Jewish people believed in Hell or not. At my, “And you call yourself Jewish?”, he shook his head and said, “Wirs, to many Jews, Judaism isn’t so much a religion as it is a culture.”

I was shocked into silence by the wisdom of his reply–to which he took the opportunity to run and hide in the men’s room before I could regroup.

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PALM BAY, FL–I’m going to let you in on a little secret–a secret that the sages from time untold have all agreed on: You are seriously screwed up.

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PALM BAY, FL–Early yesterday morning, in my inbox, I find a long, complex email from my client, sent the night before. In it, he went over all the extra features and functionality that he wants implemented into the project we’re working on so that it is ready for an upcoming demo.

Huge changes. Complex changes. Changes that require a lot of thought and time. Changes I didn’t feel I had the time or energy to make. More below the break (huh?).
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PALM BAY, FL–As I was redesigned this blog a few days ago, I paused a moment to re-read the first chapter of Fading Toward Enlightenment and was suddenly overcome with emotion.

As I reread this page–as I relived that cold, dark morning alone at my grandfather’s grave (having missed the funeral)–I was overcome with emotion as I recalled looking down at the freshly turned earth of his final resting place.

At that time, I was wracked with tears at the meaninglessness of his life. At the meaninglessness of MY life. At the meaningless of ALL life.

That was a key moment in my evolution–in my realization that there must be something more than simply being born and living and dying.

That was the moment something shifted inside. When, on that cold damp morning, as I looked up from the freshly turned clay of the gravesite, and I saw these miraculous cherry blossoms (above).

At that moment, I caught my first glimpse of an intelligence working behind the scenes.

That was the moment something changed in me.

That was the moment I became a mystic (though I didn’t realize it at the time).

PALM BAY, FL–As I said earlier, I wasn’t sure WHY I was writing The Benefits of Mystical Oneness (free download here), but in doing so–in having faith in Her–not only did my “purpose” become clear (helping the mystically-minded find enlightenment), but also my next steps.

Benefits offers spiritual seekers Hope.

My next work(s) will offer spiritual seekers a Path (practices).

Until I get the Path down though, here’s a collection of blog posts filed under the topic Techniques.