Lifestyles and Legacies of Mystics, Poets, Sages, and Lightworkers

Principles, Practices, and Paths

Whether we call it “Heaven on Earth” as the affirmation goes in the first verse of the Lord’s prayer, or we call it a “Better Tomorrow”. The world is made up of people, each on their journey, each with lifestyles, life practices, and ways of being. Inevitably whether we connect the dots or not, these “ways of being”, or “practices”, however intentional or not, often take us to the lived life experience we have and often share with others. With the necessary disclaimers, caveats, and provisos, of overarching karmic arcs, unchosen circumstances, and those sorts of things, we could take this as a general truism.

We might also posit that if we want to realize a “Heaven on Earth”, the en masse lived experience across the distribution curve of humanity, another admonition comes into play, of seeking first the kingdom of God, Source, The One, The Tao that can be named, is not the eternal Tao, etc. There are many reasons for this and we’ll get to those in a bit.

While these words, on earth as in heaven, were spoken by Jesus, we find similar admonitions toward self-development, and spiritual growth, in various forms in spiritual and psychological literature across time and almost ubiquitously scattered across the corpora of globally and temporally lived traditions and their respectively associated wisdom literature.

We might also reason that resolving a cultural script, a family script, the consequences of trauma, or even, and especially, a distortional understanding arising from this same literature, would better our lives and subsequently the lives of others, and ultimately the legacy we leave for our children. The wounds we heal today, in our circle of life and lived experience, is one less thing our children and the generations to follow, have to contend with. And at the level of conveyed presence, hurt people, often hurt people, as the now well-known cliché goes.

LIFE PRACTICES

Whether our life practices are intentional and thought out, or they arise from default modes, environmental influences, family scripts, or the errors of our ancestors or culture, it follows that these practices take us down a road. It is from this perspective that we can take a quick look at the idea of “spiritual” or “developmental” practices. A favorite saying of mine is that ideally “Principles inform practices, and practices inform paths” or the life choices we make. The longer version is => Source-God-Return informs principles, that inform practices, that in turn inform paths. Both of these versions arguably work the other way around as well, refinement through observation, change, and reiteration.

PRACTICES

The following is based on the Neoscientific Framework as a set of foundational principles that inform the practices I am laying out here. These practices are organized into three categories: Individual Practices (IP), Relationship Practices (RP), and Love Making Practices (LMP). While the idea of LMPs may conjure images of the Kama Sutra, or Westernized Tantra, the LMPs in this categorization are based on the Neoscientific Framework. The three categories listed above form the foundation for intentional living and ending up in a place where we are not just pursuing but realizing “States of Being” and even “States of Existence” that take us to a full and fully lived life experience. Directly toward, the more nuances states of being like love, peace, happiness, and plenitude.

LIFESTYLES OF MYSTICS, POETS, SAGES, AND LIGHTWORKERS

Those down the road a bit would attest to the reality of a pleromatic unity, the fullness of being of the divine life. While the term, pleromatic (from the verb plēróō (πληρόω, “to fill”) rises from classical Greek literature, and the Gnostic tradition, it is a threshold place, a kind of Rubicon, and a destinational mile-marker that one happens across in consciousness once one traverses personal levels of consciousness. You’ve heard of the Lifestyles, of the rich and famous, in contrast, you might call this the Lifestyles of the mystics, poets, sages, and lightworkers, and it issues from and reinforces a very intentional set of practices.

THE ENVIRONMENT AND INNER WORK

In an ideal world, the macro-structural frameworks and umbrellas we live in and under would serve the often forgotten but stated purpose found in Jefferson’s words, “for this reason governments are established among men” securing certain rights, and conditions to optimize the developmental environment in order to realize Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness. These words, while not nuanced enough for the context of this discussion, speak directly to the descriptors of States of Existence and States of Being. This is on the macrostructural level. Incidentally, these concepts are part of the declarations discoverable in the founding documents of the Virtual Global Nation along with broader scopes of application. For most people, we live where we live, the environment is what it is, and for most people, on the level of the individual, one’s ability to effect change is arguably limited, through traditional means.

This reality, while having its influence on people, is not where our most efficacious effort can be applied. Our most effective effort is within our circle.  In the words of Victor Frankl, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of1 circumstances, to choose one’s2 own course.”. These words draw from Holocaust research, and speak in bold and starkly contrasting terms – advocating intentional practice. And, bringing this portion of the preface full circle, these are the actions required across the distribution curve of humanity to realize heaven on earth and beyond as we reach for the stars. To realize the peace plane as a destination, and a lived experience as a species, we must accomplish this in the instance of each individual.

This is not to state that external macrostructural considerations wouldn’t be helpful here, or a safe space, or the means to do this process, we are getting to this, but at the moment we’re going to talk about individual practice.

INDIVIDUAL PRACTICES

CONTEXT: Throughout human development and civilization across time, tool use has been a primary factor, from the stone axe to the thought tools found in the applications and computers of today, we finally arrive at a point in history, where we can now potentially effectively utilize tools associated with consciousness itself. Make no mistake, this tool use can and will take us to experience a much broader understanding of what is possible and human potential. It will take us to plumb the depths, to know the height, the width, the inter-dimensional expanse of possibility.

Individual practices are powered by the tools (action principles) in our toolbox, and Instruments, the gauges found on the dashboard of life, registering inputs from life experience to those found across the affective spectrum, to somatic (in the body) sensational events. They are employed by practicing, non-reactive witnessing, of the observational data, often affective, or sensation-based, at initial levels, that provide us with feedback. This helps us to use the right tools for the right task, navigate the roads of life and consciousness, and to develop, utilize, and draw upon both the masculine and feminine aspects of the self, necessary for the often asymmetrical processes that help us iterate through the life-death-nuetral zone-rebirth process – that takes us through layer after layer of self-similar form, and affective encapsulation, and level after level in consciousness, and one transformational door after another. The, “be ye transformed by the renewing of the mind.” Or ACIM’s “defenselessness” or Zen “unlearning”, or the asymmetry of the analogously Taoist, yin-yang process experienced over time, within the self, or the “deconstruction” process from a constructivist viewpoint.

In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, (here we go with this parallelism again) William Blake, submits “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed1 himself3 up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his24 cavern.”

To the point where fully embraced we come to neither male or female as a resting state. Having covered the ground, we are now capable of holding the space for another in either aspect.

Thumbing through the archives of the world’s wisdom literature, we find this statement in the Gospel of Thomas, Verse 22 => Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.”  They said to him, “Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?”  Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom.”

Ultimately this process takes us to plumb the depths of our own being and provides the foundation, for a fully ingathered coherent, and resolved personal consciousness, this establishes a “baseline of peace” that sits next to the now completely thinned veil, (obstructions and blocks removed), so thin in fact that it becomes only a nuance of demarcation, that exists between personal levels and broader mind and Source. (Link to Source-God-Return site) – the glory to glory and expansive awareness, living the connection, the awareness, and the flow.

It might be pointed out that from this resolved place of peace, we have in effect torn down the barriers that exist between our lived waking awareness, and the often-associated self-concept that travels along with it and Source. Those travelers having made the journey would attest to the feeling of arriving and seeing it all anew for the first time, multiple times over. Or, in the words of T.S. Elliot, “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Or, more specifically, In this process, we finally arrive at the realized understanding of the statement by the apostle Paul, “ … to see as we are seen”.

FROM THE STILL WATERS OF PEACE, LOVE EMERGES

Paul, in writing those words, wrote them at the end of what is considered the love chapter, in 1^st Corinthians 13. In the unblocking, we can live in the witness-participant state of connected being, to a reality of very nearly infinite possibility. It is the undoing of the separation. Lived restorative, and renewing love, translates to even small acts that utilized at the right time, right place, and teachable moment, drawn from and issued forth from Source, and expanded and specified into our, now, extra spatial-temporal awareness, to utilize via what is often called the butterfly effect, systemic amplification, in profound acts of love.

For context, and perhaps a testament itself to this reality, we can step back to an Old Testament example, that is found in the book of Numbers chapter 12. It records an interaction and conversation, that portends contextually described development.

“And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

² And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it.

³ (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

⁴ And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.

⁵ And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.

⁶ And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

⁷ My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.

⁸ With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

We read this parenthetical (now Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) I mean seriously this is quite a statement, and it speaks to ACIM’s, “defenselessness”, we think of meek as a doormat, but this is about vertical orientation toward Source, not fellow human beings. And, if we read through the interaction, there are some fairly significant takeaways.

Guidance through dreams is one thing, coupled with the distortional vectors of consciousness, but walking and talking with Source, this is another thing. Sound familiar to the above? The “unlearning” the Constructivistic “desconstruction” process. In this, we also come to realize the connection between the use of the word meek here, and the usage of it in the beatitudes, “Blessed are they who are meek, for they will inherit the earth.” Vertical meekness, but more than this proactive self-facilitation of preparation (seeking it out), based on an understanding that connection with Source, and the broader awareness that accompanies it, far transcends the perceptual field. This process leads to a spiritual grounding and confidence that is nearly unprecedented in human experience and the confidence to carry out unfettered bold action horizontally. Because it is now realized from a Source connection.

WHAT IS MEEKNESS, REALLY?

From the human perspective, the behaviors that follow would not appear meek, but vertical meekness takes us to the foundation plane of peace, where only the nuanced demarcation exists, that place where the grieving of the transformational process (the dying to the soon-to-be, old self, and the realization of the new self) and joy that accompanies it, are so closely tied in the affective experience, that one can barely be distinguished from the other. Here the tears of sadness flow into tears of joy.

This nuanced grief and joy segment of lived trans-lateral emotion (in affective epistemology, emotion not connected to the perceptual field, but instead the knowledge of process, process that occurs across paradigm, (Knecht, circa 1992). This connects us to the verse, found in Heb 12:2 “Who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Let that sink in … for a moment.

We think of that epochal moment, and the tearing of the veil in the temple and one begins to understand the occurrence there. Our mind, reflects on the walking and talking with Moses, the sections of the temple. That door that takes us to Paul’s “seeing as we are seen”, that door that takes us to arriving at the same place for the first time. Now, at this point in the journey, in the words of Bob Dylan, you are Knock-knock-knockin’ on Heaven’s door. You are standing there on the doorstep about to cross the very threshold into the marriage of heaven and earth. I have to tell you, it is my experience, that Jesus and so many others are standing there on the other side, with their hand on the doorknob. The door opens wide, and we run into the prodigal son’s father – and his waiting and outstretched arms.

Yeah, that part brought tears when I wrote it.

And Jesus said, knock and the door will be opened to you. Or in full” Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

These practices take us to a place of spiritual grounding for the more real and realized self. The place that ACIM talks about, where nothing real can be threatened. The SELF  that sees at it has been seen, for so long on this journey, this developmental cause, where lightworkers, and the lifestyles of prophets, poets, and sages, are pushing on one end, in acts of actuated service and Source-God-Return is on the other calling. Jesus’s brother James, reiterates, – Draw nigh unto him and he will draw nigh unto you.

NOW – ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN – CAN WE DO THIS ON EARTH?

So, what are we doing to bring this to fruition, not just for the individual, but for the entire planetary population and beyond? That in a nutshell is the work, what did we do? Well, we set up a new macrostructural shell, a new space, and deliver globally a new set of tools and instruments, that take humanity to a new level of tool use.

THE TIMING?

Well, it corresponds to the co-evolutionary components necessary to create the critical mass, that will allow people to seek this out as a lifestyle. What will nearly be AGI, in AI Tech and ML will change so very much in terms of means of production and a post-scarcity world, where we will have soon cured diseases, eliminated poverty, and created the foundation for this great journey. And, on a really tangible level this will begin for many at the portal door, found in the Traveler’s port of the Nth-Dimension Universe.