OASIS SP, NM—She often tests us. She tests us in order to help us learn how we are faring. She tests us in the “real world” to see how well we have taken to Her lessons.

Think about Your True Nature all you want. Inquire into Your Very Being until the cows come home. Ask “Who am I?” for twenty years and seek Your Ineffable Essence. Thinking and questioning and inquiring are useful, but until we face the challenges of Life, we are just playing mental games. We are just swirling around inside our own heads.

I’m no different from you. She tests me all the time too. More below the break (huh?).

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Steele Creek Park, COE Camp, Whitney, TX—When your personal self falls away and your wake up to your True Self, how do you make personal decisions?

How do you make personal decisions without a personal self?

The answer below the break (huh?).

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Steele Creek Park, COE Camp, Whitney, TX—Over the last week, Glenn of ToSimplify.net and I have been hanging out about once or twice a day. Discussing everything from Solar Panels to Spiritual Enlightenment to Salt Water Flushes.

What I have noticed—and in noticing it, it has become a practice—that in conversations, I feel much more “contracted” (solid) than I feel in isolation.

An insightful reply to this observation might be something along the lines of, “Duh!,” but from my perspective I find it both fascinating and disturbing.

In isolation, most thoughts are no more important to me than random sounds—see my last post—but during conversations, the thoughts have a felt urgency to be taken (somewhat) seriously in order to participate in the conversation in a coherent manner.

Sometimes though—and only very rarely and only when I am consciously practicing it—I can step back as the Radiance (the thin, open portal) and allow the Light to flow through me-as-the-portal, hit the brain, get bent by the mind and converse on its own.

That is very cool when it happens.

But it doesn’t happen unless I catch myself, and I don’t catch myself nearly as much as I’d like to.

But I have faith.

Walling Bend COE Camp, Whitney, TX—Monday, I drove to Lake Tyler, and met up with Glenn Morrisette. I met Glenn about eight months ago in Santa Fe, and mentioned the encounter briefly in the Why I’m a Mystic video.

I set up camp next to his Chinook and we talked into the night. More below the break (huh?).

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Silver River SP, Ocala, FL

The Key to Radiance is Love.

The Key to Love is Connection.

The Key to Connection is Commonality.

Stare at an object. What do you have in common with it?

What do you have in common with any object?

Stillness.

You share the Stillness.

From the Stillness, feel the connection.

From the connection, feel the Love. Feel the movement of Love… Radiance flowing forth.

Radiance is Love.

Radiance is God moving through you: alive, grateful, and celebrating in Herself.

Look at an object.

Feel the Stillness. Feel the Love. Feel God Herself.

The less there is of you, the more there is of Her.

I write a monthly column for Horizons Magazine. Usually I just take a blog entry and clean it up. This month’s issue is for the new year, so I wrote it from scratch. It could have been titled, Enlightenment for Mystics, but I went with the above.

The body of the article below the break (huh?).

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The Religious: “God is Love.” (“I want to know Him, but He is separate from me.”)

The Radiant: “Love is God.” (“I feel Her. She moves through me.”)

“God is Love.”

“Love is God.”

Do you see the difference?

No one needs to teach you about God. No dogma is required. No reading, or research, or middle-men are necessary.

You have always known Her.

Anyone who has ever loved… knows the true nature of God.

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PS: After writing this, I cracked open a fortune cookie: “When seeking the Light, ignore the reflections and go directly to the Source.”