Entities: Ones We See and Clear and the Ones That Rule our Everyday Lives
How Energetic Attachments Mirror Our Consumer Ones
In the spiritual community, the word entity is often whispered with reverence or caution. It evokes unseen energies that attach to us, influence our thoughts, fuel our fears, or drain our light. Many spiritual practitioners spend years learning how to clear cords, release attachments, strengthen their energy bodies, and cultivate sovereignty of consciousness.
But few ever notice that the same word “entity” is used for something far more mundane: companies, corporations, institutions, brands, governments, groups, and lifestyles.
Both are “entities.”
Both interact with us energetically.
Both can shape our thoughts, influence our choices, fuel our emotions, and redirect our life force.
Both have manifesting power within the world if we align with them or allow them to influence our thoughts and beliefs.
Yet we treat one with vigilance… and the other with indifference, probably because we don’t know how to deal with this type of interference as it is so conditioned into how we live our lives.
Transitioning From Dependency To Divinely Aligned Stewardship
The Inheritance Forgotten
In the hush between dreaming and dawn, two angelic messengers once led me through the veils of time. They showed me two futures: one trembling (more near future), one serene (after the trembles were smoothed away).
In the former dreams, the world was unraveling. democracies were falling, and cities hummed with unrest. Some submitted to a new and coming system while others, tired of clinging to old dependencies, scattered like leaves in the wind. Yet, hidden beneath the scattering, small lights began to appear. Hearts began to remember something older than fear.
In those dreams where I was shown a future father out, the chaos had faded, and before me bloomed a gentle Earth reborn. People lived not by domination but by harmony. Geodesic domes, glistening in white, gleamed across meadows. Gardens climbed rooftops, bee keepers tended bees, ponds spang fresh fish, and rivers and streams ran clean. The air was filled with the contentment of those who had learned to live in rhythm again. Money no longer ruled; trade flowed like kindness, and wisdom and empathy moved freely among souls.
As the angels watched the scene beside me, they whispered:
“This is not another world. It is this one, renewed. It will arise when humanity remembers who they are and where they come from. It will awaken when they comprehend their true creative power. It will manifest when Law of Attraction dances with the Law of Supply and Demand, and people move like lucid dreamers through the world of form. It will be born when humankind learns a new language, and spirit and matter begin to speak the same tongue. It will reveal itself when cause and effect is fully understood, and symbols of imbalance guide humans to make new choices.”
The more I experienced such dreams, the more a knowing within me arose that we are heirs not to hierarchical systems of control, but to the living Kingdom that grows wherever love, faith, and community take root. But to reach this point of change, we need to see where we stand on a ladder of growth and make a decision to mature.
Are We Leaving Something Out of Our Spiritual Practice?
Read the condensed version of this article (written in 2013) at Om Times Magazine >>
If we begin to see nature as a Bank of Life, we will be more mindful of where we are becoming “overdrawn,” suffering from “debts,” and need to make a “deposit.”
Across many traditions, be they Christian, New Age, Buddhist, Muslim, and beyond, one essential element often goes overlooked: a living relationship with Nature.
Even those raised in faith-based traditions may admire scripture that praises creation, yet never fully embody the reverence those teachings describe. Nature becomes admired from a distance rather than integrated into daily living.
In the New Age movement, the connection tends to be more symbolic than experiential. We send healing energy or think thoughts of love toward the Earth, but rarely deepen into the kind of relationship that transforms behavior, values, or lifestyle. The question becomes, “Do we truly value Nature more than the conveniences and possessions created at her expense?“
Nature as a Mirror of Wholeness
Many spiritual ideals (including unity, oneness, wholeness) become easier to understand when we reconnect with Nature in a real, consistent way.
This is because nature mirrors the energy of the collective. She reflects abundance, beauty, and harmony. She also reveals where humanity is out of balance. She communicates constantly, not through words, but through the state of her waters, forests, soils, and skies. What she most profoundly communicates is that when we lose the ability to see the sacredness in Nature, we often lose sight of the sacredness in ourselves.
The Rise of “Lifelessness” in a Material World
Humanity has gradually shifted its emotional loyalty toward non-living creations: objects, gadgets, conveniences, and technologies. These are made from Nature, yet we value the lifeless product more than the life that was sacrificed to create it.
We aren’t bad, necessarily because we do this. We live in a culture which our very survival depends our our having a mindset of “never enoughness.” We need to work more, create more, buy more (even having to pay to live on the earth’s body), pay taxes, and other requirements that separate us from nature and one another (treating ourselves and others in a buy-and-sell way) opposed to bring us closer.
Even in societies where most people have more than enough for basic needs, we are conditioned to believe we must constantly acquire more. As a result:
We focus on the future instead of the present
We feel anxious about what we might lose
We overlook the beauty that is already around us
We focus on the lifeless more than life itself
Nature reflects this imbalance by showing us, through environmental decline, how little we are treasuring life compared to lifeless things. If it really is true that we manifest what we focus on, then if collective, we are predominantly focused on what is lifeless (allowing life to recede from our awareness) then it makes sense that life, in the physical realm, would start to disappear.
Is Nature “Manifesting” or Simply Responding?
Some Law of Attraction teachers suggest disasters occur because humanity fears catastrophe, and this type of focuses makes them materialize. But a more grounded explanation is that people fear harm to Nature because they see harm happening… and feel helpless to live or act in ways to prevent this. Feeling helpless, it is easy to go into denial. It becomes someone else’s problem as we continue to focus on how we need to harm life (living with cognitive dissonance that we are doing this) in order to survive.
What would help us more is to understand that environmental changes act a mirror of human behavior,. Nature mirrors the natural outcome of extraction, pollution, overproduction, and emotional disconnection.
This isn’t about guilt. It’s about awareness. We are meant to care. Caring is a sign of emotional and spiritual health, not weakness.
When we recognize Nature as part of us, and ourselves as part of Her, we begin to repair the separation that fuels both environmental damage and inner emptiness.
Choosing Lifelessness Over Life
Collectively, we have been choosing lifelessness:
Speed over slowness
Convenience over connection
Productivity over presence
Burning out over replenishing
Consumption over conservation
We protect objects more fiercely than living things. Nature reflects this choice back to us through loss of vitality, species decline, and environmental stress. She mirrors to us what we treasure and where we place value. She mirrors that we don’t view life and worthy of protection, what is lifeless has more meaning in our busy lives. She is a reflection of our own internal strain.
The Law of Excess and Depletion
Every choice that creates excess also creates depletion somewhere else. This applies to both planetary and personal energy. When we overproduce, overwork, or overconsume:
Resources get depleted
Our bodies become exhausted
Our emotional reserves diminish
Balance is lost
Nature operates through balance. When we break that balance, the consequences appear both internally and externally.
If we begin to see nature as a Bank of Life, we will be more mindful of where we are becoming “overdrawn,” suffering from “debts,” and need to make a “deposit.”
Returning to What Is Sacred
As we move forward, we’re being asked (spiritually and collectively) to reclaim reverence for what has life. This includes:
Nature
Animals
Our own bodies
Our children
The ecosystems we depend upon
When we restore our relationship with living things, we restore our connection to the Divine Spark within ourselves.
Nature as a Guide to Manifesting More ConstructivelyRather than Destructively
To understand what we are manifesting as a collective, we must ask ourselves:
Why do we create as we do? Who benefits?
Why do we value lifeless objects more than living beings?
Why have we forgotten how to enjoy or protect Nature?
Why are we comfortable with the destruction of life, including our own vitality?
These questions open the doorway to inner and outer healing. When I look at Nature and what she is communicating, I hear her whisper, “You must learn how to grow things.” Not just plants, but life itself, including emotional life, relational life, planetary life.
When we nurture something living, our energy naturally shifts from destruction to creation, from disconnection to care. It restores emotional clarity, intuition, and balance. It balances the Divine Feminine with the Divine Masculine in a world where the Divine Feminine seems overlooked or abandoned.
Seeing the Larger Web of Consciousness
Collective consciousness isn’t just about protecting human energy. It’s about recognizing how our thoughts, fears, and behaviors shape the world around us, including our bodies, our health, and the environment. Its about seeing the fears we never really see or tend to because they are so normalized into our existence.
Lets go back to the example of manifesting disasters because we are afraid of them and so our fear is manifesting them. A good question to ask is, Why do we fear manifesting them? If we really examine deeply, is it because we can see what our collective actions are manifesting and we fear we can’t let go of participating in such lifestyles or actions? So these are the deep-rooted fears we need to begin to address.
We need to also have the courage to come up with new ideas, new models for lifestyles or even political systems which lead to our predicament. I think many of us are afraid to dream this way… I think because we feel too small to come up with powerful ideas, such as:
having community gardens or greenhouses on every blook as well as a fruit-bearing tree in every backyard (where possible) to reduce dependency on supermarkets and help with food insecurity and poverty.
having vertical gardens, rooftop gardens, indoor gardens
working with technologist to make gardening more easy and convenient
working with technologists to create plug-n-play alternative power solutions to free us from grid dependency (which forces us to be beholden to powerful energy companies, as well as the mining and transportation of power which incurs costs to nture, and the risks of pollution.
Buying more local, boycotting big monopolies, getting back to basics, focusing on community.
On the other hand, when we normalize stress, fatigue, powerlessness, depletion, and emotional shutdown, we lose the ability to notice and protect what is sacred. We manifest more of what isn’t sacred rather than what is. We manifest more of what is lifeless rather than what has life. We begin treating our own vitality the same way society treats Nature: as expendable.
The Invitation: Bring Nature Back Into Spirituality
When we bring Nature into our spiritual life, something shifts:
We reconnect with what is real
We regain sensitivity to life
We begin healing from the inside out
We rediscover beauty and enoughness
We remember we are part of a living Earth
And slowly, the missing piece of spirituality falls back into place.
Escaping the Matrix: Re-evaluating the Meaning of Life
There’s a strange ache in being human right now. We wake each morning on a planet of breathtaking beauty, yet to simply exist upon her soil, we must pay rent, mortgages, or taxes. To grow on her land, we must follow regulations. To partake of her fruits, many of us consume poisons or tolerate artificial substances (which more and more of us are becoming allergic or sensitive to). To rest, to heal, to dream, we must first perform mundane tasks which, in some ways, feed a consumer-driven existence. And even with healing we are subjected to rules or conditioning in which the artificial and man-made is preferred or regulated above the value of the natural.
As we examine our lives around us, everything is owned by someone or something. Everything has a price tag, including our own souls and destinies. And it can all seem so disjointing and confusing at times. And in this machinery of survival, so many radiant souls lose sight of why they came here at all.
I imagine if an angel looked down upon us, they might tilt their head in quiet bewilderment, watching humanity forget its wings. Do they wonder whether we will ever remember them or how to fly? Do they yearn for us to see the world not as a marketplace, but as a living constellation of luminous beings whose souls are capable of painting galaxies with the brush of consciousness? Or do they watch in silence as we stay small, busying ourselves with keeping the wheels of an outdated machine turning?
It is a strange poetry, isn’t it? Something so divine, so radiant, has become entangled in the gears of its own invention.
The Machinery of the Mundane
We live inside a system that teaches us to trade time for tokens, wonder for work hours, presence for productivity. Our days become filled with errands, forms, and endless small tasks just to keep up an invisible treadmill that spins faster the more we run.
For some of us it feels as though humanity’s light has been harnessed to power a machine we no longer believe in. This creates a form of cognitive dissonance where many of us live with and can’t recognize because we’ve been been living in an orchestrated box for so long we don’t know what it looks like to live outside of it. We glimpse higher truths, touch moments of wholeness, and then are dragged back into the circuitry of obligation: such as mortgages, grocery lists, taxes, bills, and the list goes on. The heart yearns for poetry, but the world demands we put our light on the shelf to sustain the machinery of our current existence.
Yet beneath the hum, something ancient calls to us. It ignites a memory of freedom, of living in rhythm with the Earth, and finding new definitions for words like abundance, economy, and currency.
Helium Balloons: Could They Power Homes or Homesteads in the Future?
Dreaming of Eden Part 1
During my recent monthly reading, I heard the words “helium balloons” and going into why, I felt it might have to do something with alternative power. When I followed the thread, I discovered something fascinating: scientists and innovators are actually experimenting with helium balloons as a source of renewable energy.
It made me wonder whether answers to our world’s challenges could arrive, in some part, from above, in directions we don’t expect? Could there be forms of technology that don’t rely on massive infrastructure or endless resource extraction, but instead rise lightly, pulling energy from the sky?
Around the world, balloon-based systems are being tested to generate solar and wind power, offering electricity in remote places where traditional grids can’t reach. And though the technology is still young, it sparks the imagination of what a future might look like if we could lift our power systems into the sky: not as towers of control, but as gentle, floating companions to the earth below.
What’s Already Happening
While helium balloons for energy might sound like science fiction, the seeds of this idea are already being planted. Around the world, inventors and researchers are testing ways to lift solar panels and turbines into the sky, where the air is clearer, winds are stronger, and obstacles like shade or rough terrain no longer matter….
Dealing with Censorship Through Using Indirect Approaches
In There is a card in the tarot called The Tower. It is the card of collapse, the moment when a structure built on a shaky foundation falls in one strike of lightning. At first glance it looks destructive, but its deeper message is about truth: if we want what we build to endure, we must set it on solid ground.
Lately, I’ve been feeling like we are all living in a Tower moment. The foundations of our culture, including media, politics, even technology, feel unstable. New laws, new tools, and AI-driven enforcement seem to press us into a painful double bind:
If we speak out, we risk censorship or backlash.
If we stay silent, we risk complicity with systems that do harm.
It’s a trap that weighs on the conscience.
The Burden of Complicity
Remaining quiet can feel like safety, but it also stirs guilt. To watch injustice without raising a voice feels like a form of agreement. Yet speaking up carries its own risks, such as lost opportunities, lost friendships, even legal or social repercussions.
This is the burden many carry in silence: the sense that whatever we do, it is wrong. Either we are punished by the outside world for speaking, or we are punished inwardly by our own conscience for saying nothing.
Silence or Speech?
The truth is that not all silence is cowardice. Sometimes silence is wisdom, such as if we are waiting for the right moment, protecting ourselves until we can act in ways that truly matter. And not all speech is courageous; sometimes it is reckless, spoken without thought for timing or impact….
Everywhere we turn, the world seems caught in a storm of chaos: new laws, surveillance, censorship, endless cycles of outrage. It’s easy to feel hopeless, as though the only choices left are to rage against the machine (inciting the machine to push back more aggressively), or to remain silent and complicit (struggling with our consciences and sense of spiritual integrity, or employing cognitive dissonance to cope).
But maybe there’s another way. Maybe instead of letting fear and the control grid (the rich and powerful) dictate the future, we (the little guys) can begin to join in more constructive ways, together building something different: small sanctuaries of freedom, resilience, and hope. Or, even possibly using AI to help us design our neighborhoods, so they are not turned into cages to monitor and control us but places where freedom and privacy reigns within with:
fruit-bearing trees on every property (where possible) replacing dependency on the control grid for food
gardens wherever possible (indoor, outdoor, community greenhouses)
sustainable energy (where possible) replacing dependency on the control grid for power. This can be anything from pedal power, solar panels, wind power, or using AI to create even newer forms of technology.
Looking Past the Chaos
So much of what surrounds us today is designed to distract and disempower. Fear campaigns, political theater, and constant crises keep us paralyzed, waiting for someone else to fix the world. We wait for corrupt systems to collapse on their own. We wait for those in power to wake up. We wait for a savior to appear and rescue us…
The Blue Rose, Mary Magdalene, and the Energy of the Divine Feminine
Between 2006-8 I had a series of dreams involving Mary Magdalene. In one, she stood by a body of water, filling a jug, and spoke of “Carmelite.” Then, in my dream, Mary turned to me, put a blue light into my outstretched hands, and called me to “be a protector of the Blue Rose.” I wasn’t really sure what to make of the dream at the time.
In 2013, I had another series of dreams. In one, a great lantern stood before me. It had panes of light that I could open like doors to reveal the past, the present, and the future. When I opened and walked through the past pane, I was immediately in a scene where I saw a king on a throne demanding people’s persecution and arrests, and I was among those fleeing to the forests to escape.
I was able to exit that pane and open and walk through the one representing the future. After doing so, I was taken by two angels to the banks of the Euphrates River where it branched in two. On the left side of the branch, war and conflict raged. One of the angels called it the War of Armageddon. But on the right side, I saw Mary Magdalene once more, this time gathering women into communities of peace and harmony. I watched them at a distance building their communities, making them off-grid, and helping one another. They were so enfolded in community and sharing that they were not touched by weapons and bombs exploding on the other side of the river. I asked the angels why I was seeing all this, the angels told me that it would be these communities which would be “protected.”
I share these dreams because I believe they are not mine alone. We are living in a time of choices: to engage in conflict and destruction, or to join in harmony and what heals both ourselves and the world. Perhaps the Blue Rose is not only a symbol given to me, but one which offers that if we protect the Blue Rose we will be protected by it. When we guard compassion, wisdom, and love, those very qualities surround us in return. The Rose shields its guardians even as they shield it.
The Call of Mary Magdalene
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ~ Rumi
For centuries, Mary Magdalene has been remembered as a woman misunderstood, her voice silenced by history. But in mystical traditions, she is not fallen—she is faithful. She stayed by the cross when others fled, was the first to witness the resurrection, and bore wisdom passed from heart to heart.
In my dreams, she reappears not as a figure of the past but as a guide for the future. She is the one who gathers, shelters, and creates circles of love when the world falls into conflict. She reminds us that survival comes not through domination but through compassion, not through conquest but through community.
To follow her call is to carry the Blue Rose, guarding love and wisdom in an age of fear and division.
The Call of Women
In the dream of those protected communities, it was women who were gathered together….
The Circle and the Square: Sacred Integration and the Rainbow Bridge
Reflections on the Crop Circle discovered in May 2025
From fractured ground I rose, drawn by light I almost forgot. Above the noise, I found the truth, and brought it home to earth.
In May 2025, a stunning crop circle appeared in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire. It portrayed an intricate Celtic knot held within a circle, with a square at its center. While crop circles are often debated, and I recommend everyone find their own symbolism and meaning, asking ChatGPT about how it would interpret the response offered was:
The design has sparked various interpretations among researchers and enthusiasts. The Celtic knot is traditionally associated with themes of eternity and interconnectedness. The inclusion of a square at the center is seen by some as symbolic of grounding or structure, potentially representing the material world. This juxtaposition of the infinite (circle) and the finite (square) may suggest a message about balancing spiritual and material aspects of existence.
The circle has long represented spirit, eternity, and the boundless. The square is its earthly counterpart, representing form, structure, stability. For the square to sit within the circle is to place matter within spirit. This is such a powerful message: the material world is (or must be) held inside the container of the spiritual, not the other way around.
But for many of us, when it comes to the way we live our lives, we’ve learned to do the opposite.
Forward vs. Backward Integration
The reason this became meaningful to me was because, years ago, within a dream, I was shown two ways humans align spiritually. One way was called, “forward integration” and the other “backward integration.”
Forward Integration is when we start with our spiritual values and shape our lifestyle around them. For example, believing in peace, and choosing not to fund or support industries that profit from war or exploitation, even if it’s inconvenient. Our lifestyles are brought into alignment with our spiritual values of peace and love.
Backward Integration is when our lifestyle comes first, representing our need to survive, fit in, or succeed. We package or compartmentalize our spiritual values to fit a box we live defined by our material lifestyles. We might believe in peace, love, and oneness with nature, but still support unethical entities or consume things manufactured through an extractive, exploitative, polluting, or destructive process because “that’s just how life is.”
This second way leads to a quiet but aching rift inside due to the need to live with cognitive dissonance or to engage in spiritual bypassing. It’s like trying to build a temple of light using bricks soaked in shadow. Many of us live in this dissonance daily and don’t even realize it, because the disconnection has become normalized or seems impossible to overcome and still survive.
Building the Rainbow Bridge
The way out of dissonance, is through creating a bridge: bridging the material with the spiritual with new awareness….
In today’s world of rush and business, we can easily become fixated on our work, priorities, and fascination with technology to the point that our relationship with nature and what is living, natural, and pure is eclipsed. We tend to think of the Law of Attraction as a law that states that we will tend to manifest from where we most place our focus. If this is true, is it possible that the external world is starting to communicate to us, and very loudly, that we need to change our focus for the sake of maintaining balance on a personal, collective, and environmental level? If so, what are some ways we can begin to turn our focus around?
Life Energy Tip #1 – Increase your intake of live and organic foods
When we are in a rush or low in energy, it can be easy to grab something to eat that is quick, pre-packaged, or artificial. However, there are lots of quick and easy convenient foods that are natural and full of living energy. For example, fresh organic fruits can be grabbed when in a hurry, vegetables can be prepared ahead of time, or nuts and seeds can be sprouted. When you eat a more natural diet, you not only support your body to be full of vitality, but you are decreasing the demand for mass produced, processed, and packaged foods. In fact, if more of us can learn to see the value in buying less from polluting, greed-based corporations (in favor of local organic farmers), the more we send a message that creates a new kind of demand: i.e. that farmers will be rewarded for food production techniques that are organic, non-polluting and free of pesticides, GMOs, excess packaging, chemicals, dyes, and other vitality-depleting impurities.
Life Energy Tip #2 – Spend more time in nature or with pets
It is so easy to spend our days working indoors and then go home and plop ourselves on our couch to relax through engaging in various forms of inanimate technology. Not that technology is bad or wrong, but our use of it can be balanced with our reminding ourselves to appreciate our connection to nature and animals. Things that you can do to restore the balance and renew appreciation for life energy are to exercise outdoors when or where you can, take a walk every day, play with a pet, make sure to notice the beauty of nature every now and then, or organize a weekend hike or trip to the beach or other natural, revitalizing activity.
Life Energy Tip #3 – Grow something
A great way to refocus on life energy is to tend to plants or living things and watch them grow. Even those who have a black thumb can start small by bringing a few houseplants into the home. Those who feel more adventurous can store seeds, start a garden or greenhouse, or learn to grow simple food crops indoors.
Life Energy Tip #4 – Understand that there is a Law of Balance
Sometimes less is truly more. Finding the beautiful and miraculous within the mundane and simple can be a wonderful way to revitalize and refocus on what truly matters. It also helps us to redefine our concepts of abundance and prosperity through making sure that it focuses on what has life energy. The downside to our viewing abundance/treasure as primarily money and non-living things is that we must fail to protect life if we wish to amass it. Life, environmentally and collectively, may then mirror that it has lost its value for many of us and thus begin to disappear.
We can turn this trend around through changing how we behave as consumers through being more responsible as to who we buy from and what we buy. This helps us to focus on enhancing rather than depleting vital life energy for ourselves and the environment. We can also rethink the Law of Abundance through understanding that there is also a Law of Balance. The Law of Balance exhibits that wherever we use our energy or resources to produce excess, there will naturally follow some level of depletion through burnout of our own bodies or nature’s resources. So, being able to keep our lives in balance can end up being the most truly abundant way to live!
Life Energy Tip #5 – Make changes in your use of energy or fuel
While going fully off the energy grid to use more natural and life-sustaining forms of power may not be practical or possible for everyone, there are little things we can do to become more natural and focused on what preserves life. Walking or biking can offer a natural form of transportation. Using less gas, busing, or committing ourselves to using more eco-friendly vehicles also gives companies incentive to think in more sustainable and environmentally friendly ways in order to make a profit. Reducing exposure to EMF (electromagnetic frequency) emitting devices during the day can also help those individuals who can feel sensitive or easily depleted by such exposures.
Life Energy Tip #6 – Protect water and trees
Water and trees are precious resources can be negatively affected or polluted by human efforts and activities. The first step in protecting them is to begin to see them as precious. The second step is to find ways to protect water and trees through our homes and how we use these resources. For example, we can learn to use less water, buy less packaged goods, use less plastics, buy recycled where we can, or be careful of what chemicals and toilet papers we flush down our drains, toilets, etc. We can also aim to buy from suppliers of goods and services that are more ecologically responsible concerning these resources.
Life Energy Tip #7 – Honor your natural emotions and cycles
Many of us are conditioned by our spiritual beliefs or how we are raised to suppress our natural emotions. Many of us can end up living in our heads, over-think things rather than living from our hearts. If you have dreams at night where you are running away from something in fear or you are battling negative forces, then you could being in a war with yourself or your emotions; possibly trying to suppress too much. This kind of fight or flight can drain vital life force energy.
A better approach to suppression is to employ mindfulness. Mindfulness honors what we are feeling in the present moment rather than trying to run away from or suppress it. It is always best to honor all our natural emotions and cycles such as sleep, eating, and resting. In this way, we are not burning out during the day and trying to grin-and-bear with what was never meant to be natural.
Another thing you can do is to watch for tendencies toward self-medicating as a way to cope. Many of the ways we may try to self-medicate ourselves concerning the stress we feel and are taught to deny can get us trapped in a vicious cycle of running away. It also leaves us increasingly relying on what is unnatural in order to cope or having a need to self-medicate to take the edge off through overeating, addictions, recreational drugs, alcohol, anti-depressants and/or anti-anxiety medication.
When we make these small changes in our lives, we may find that we are more balanced and helping the world to be more balanced at the same time.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. -William Blake, 1807
We live in an age of overconsumption, over-activity, and constant promotion. Everywhere we look, someone is selling something, sometimes even their spirituality. Modern teachings often tell us how to “manifest more,” “achieve more,” or “become more,” implying that if we’re not materially successful, there must be something wrong with us. Some even suggest we have energetic “blocks,” as if our humanity were a spiritual disease to be cured.
But the deepest healing we can bring to Earth, to one another, and to ourselves does not come from chasing more. It comes from remembering that we are already whole. We are already enough.
The Wound Beneath Our Striving
If we could see into the heart of most human conflict (such as jealousy, resentment, competition, overwork, or emotional withdrawal), we would find the same root: A fear of being less than, more than, or not enough.
Nearly every interpersonal hurt traces back to this fear. And yet, imagine what would happen if we released the belief that anyone must prove their worth. What if enoughness became our default?
This is not idealistic. It is deeply practical.
Letting Go of the Drama of “More”
To let go of struggle, we must first examine the human condition itself.
As humans, we are conditioned to compare, to compete, and to assume that security comes from external achievement. But much of this conditioning arises from an imbalance in our collective energy: an overemphasis on yang (doing, conquering, striving) and a dismissal of yin (receiving, resting, intuiting).
Most people fear yin energy because yin looks like surrender, softness, or “not doing enough.” But yin is the well from which abundance flows.
Yang creates action. But yin allows us to receive the fruits of that action without anxiety. Without yin, yang becomes frantic and represents the endless hustle with no sense of arrival.
Balancing Yin and Yang: The Hidden Secret of Abundance
True abundance requires harmony between yin and yang:
Yang: action, creation, movement
Yin: receptivity, surrender, intuition, trust
When yin is present, we feel full. We worry less. We trust more. We move from the heart instead of fear.
When yin is absent, and rely too much on the yang, we over-strive, overwork, and feel the constant pressure to achieve, without the ability to rest, receive, or replenish ourselves. We believe the present moment is “not enough,” and therefore we are not enough.
This mistrust of yin leads to the modern obsession with chasing abundance rather than receiving it.
Redefining Abundance: From Ego’s Hunger to the Heart’s Wholeness
As Eckhart Tolle beautifully explains, the ego is sustained not by having, but by wanting. Wanting more. Seeking more. Needing more to feel substantial.
But wanting is not abundance — it is lack.
True abundance has no fear of loss and no need for acquisition. It is gratitude. It is presence. It is the miracle of enoughness.
This is why spiritual texts say it is harder for a rich man to enter heaven. This is not because wealth is wrong, but because seeking more can obscure the heaven that is already within.
With this, we begin to understand that heaven is where the heart is. The more we look outside ourselves for completion, the further we drift from it.
The Miracle Hidden in Ordinary Things
When we experience true abundance, we find beauty in the seemingly simple:
a quiet moment
a kind word
sunlight on a leaf
a breath of peace
a shared smile
Seeing the miracle opens the heart. Once we see the miracle in the world, we recognize the miracle within ourselves. This is not striving. It is awakening.
Why “Striving for Abundance” Doesn’t Work
Striving implies lack. You are trying to manifest something you feel you need rather than have. You cannot strive for what already exists.
The truth The Secret never taught you is that trye abundance is not something to attract in the future. It is not something material. It is not part of the consumer paradygm that holds us hostage to outdated norms and values, that treats us as something to buy and sell and encourages us to treat the world and everyone around us in a similar fashion.
Abundance is something to recognize in the present. The miracle innate within such abundance is that it is always now. And this is why both the materially abundant and materially poor can share the same inner wound of “never-enoughness.” Neediness doesn’t disappear with possessions. It disappears with presence.
People who know inner abundance often live simply not because they must, but because they can. They have less fear, less grasping, less need for control. They experience more unity, peace, and freedom.
Cultivating Inner Abundance
If you want to understand what abundance you are truly seeking, ask yourself, “What feeling do I hope abundance will give me?”
Acceptance?
Safety?
Worth?
Ease?
Rest?
Freedom?
Joy?
Then, begin nurturing that emotional state from within, rather than waiting for the external world to create it for you.
This shifts your entire life.
The Lotus Within
In the end, all we truly need to know is this: Inner abundance is not connected to material abundance. Inner neediness is.
You were born whole. You remain whole. Within you is a divine lotus that is eternally pure, untouched by the mud that surrounds it.
It never ceases to amaze me just how much luxury we all currently have, both material objects and levels of longevity. Well of course that is not the case for the majority actually, though to us in the west it would appear to be the case. The real truth is that almost 80% of the world’s populations have very little of these commodities, and their lives are often cut prematurely short through hunger and disease. Kind of odd wouldn’t you say? That 20% of the people of the world have more than enough and may not even realise their good fortunes. A conundrum indeed, do we need more or do we need less (to share more)?
The undertones of the issue I see as the feelings of not-enough-ness: a supposed lack of ‘abundance.’ People seem to think that in having more (mostly material things) they will somehow escape the feelings of not being enough. The evidence is however, that many if not the majority of these poor souls never reach a point of satisfaction. They continually strive for more and newer gadgets and clothes and wealth.
Now, I am not here to criticize any of this. I simply wish to point out a few fundamental facts that may be escaping people and thereby direct others toward a different potential: one of peace, freedom, and avoidance of the outcomes of our current preoccupation (which their eventualities end in mental dis-ease and many other devastating physical health symptoms).
Point 1
The items we strive to accumulate are intrinsically dead. They are lifeless, motionless, without animation, created by destroying that which is living. It is a type of necrophilia to be killing the living earth and creating lifeless gadgets and other material objects. No-one (not even me) would argue against that these items can have a beneficial purpose and serve us well. They are tools to give us ease of life and help us to be able to achieve many more tasks and objectives than we previously were able to achieve in our lives or certain time-frames. However, we all are aware of many things that we hardly ever use, but do very little about this if we are honest. We stick them in cupboards, attics, garages, sheds and containerized storage facilities, waiting for a day to use them that often never arrives. My grandmother had plates and crockery which I never actually remember her using. After she died, all that happened was that her family argued and fought over who got what. And, for what? So that they could stick it away in another drawer, cupboard or garage….
I hope that you see the point that I am trying to make. Billions of created (dead) objects are not even serving any useful purpose at all, except possibly occasionally reminding us of a loved one. We all know someone who’s house is so full of ‘things’ that their life is cramped and challenged by fear of someone stealing their dead goods. If we were actually using this stuff, then it wouldn’t feel so destructive and harmful to Mother Nature. But, we all do this: we take and we take and we give little mind to what the effects of our wanting/taking will have on her.
Point 2
We really don’t need all of these things to have a happy life. Before they were invented, we managed. We made the best of our situations and got on with appreciating Nature, our natural environment, the beauty in it, and how to enjoy it. We knew how to enjoy gatherings with friends, shared meals, sharing of tools and equipment, resources and the abundance of Mother Earth.
An example of this:
In rural communities the farmers would employ the local people to produce the crops and when harvest time came, even the villagers whom usually had other jobs, businesses, pretty well all gave a hand to bring in the sheaves. This provided unity of purpose, a shared income, and meaningful work for many people.
When mechanised farming came in, farmers needed less farm hands, were able to create more product from less resources of labour and could create larger profits (the debate about profits/loss can go on all year, and I’m certainly not inferring farmers were/are greedy and therefore the cause of the suffering). But, people were the ones to lose out in this scenario, and also the earth. Because labour wasn’t needed so regularly, tractors, harvesters, ploughs, harrows and crop-sprayers had to be made; and, then, buildings to house them. (Have you also noted the amounts of old rusting rotting machinery there is laying around in farm yards/buildings? These could have long since been recycled).
Point 3
The clothes, shoes, jewellery, ornaments, make-ups, perfumes, designer things, named brands and technology have all come at the cost of using natures stored resources, and not always in very environmentally friendly ways. I, too, like some of these items and get great satisfaction from having their service. But it bothers me, that we as a race, have not really considered the long term damages we have wrought in having these things. Our wants have overtaken common sense and reason. Our needs have given us almost no conscience for the results of this action. We need to see that coexistence and longevity as human beings and Nature is a fine line that cannot be crossed without huge impacts.
Many others, including myself, have actually been championing this issue for many years. The ways in which it has become so evident that we, human beings are causing the majority of our environmental problems is clearly documented in scientific studies and ecological research. Al Gore, Severn Cullis, David Suzuki, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace are amongst the main initiators of action being taken to rebalance this caustic behaviour. And others, like Mandy Peterson, Radical Routes, Abundant Earth Community, People for Ethics, Awareness, Community and Ecology (P4eace.com), Fellowship of IntentionalCommunities, Diggers and Dreamers (and the groups/communities and organisations they champion) and many more are all taking positive steps towards de-cluttering the earth of the materialism and its cruel harmfulness towards Nature.
As a warrior for change, and out of respect for Nature, I have cut down significantly on using carbon energy. I make more informed choices now with regards purchasing products (which, does not mean buying nothing), so that I can have a clearer understanding about how these actions have impacted on physical resources. I am not totally against people benefiting from creating items for people to use, nor in favor of suddenly closing factories. But, I am saying that I have seen other ways of providing things that have less impact on the planet and communities.
I also gave up collecting huge stores of material items and now I share the things I had previously and keep little more than what serves me daily. I don’t own a car either. That way I don’t need to impact our environment through using petrol (which these companies destroy and harm the planet more than most). I don’t need insurance (another largely greedy commercial enterprise), nor roads already laid. I ride a bicycle and walk everywhere I can, occasionally ride in a car or on a bus or train. I buy foods from local enterprises and check that they have sourced them from greener sources as much as is humanly possible. I work to support myself, which as I have little outgoings, is far easier than before. This gives me some free time to pay attention to the beauty all around me. In fact, walking is a fantastic way to see Nature and engage with it and reconnect with the beauty it shares for free. Traveling at speed means that we miss most of this engagement.
I recount the above measures I have taken merely to highlight what is possible and not to say anything heroic about these actions. It is far easier though to go with what everyone else does, but it would not be the right thing to do. As I have seen the benefits of this choice, I wanted to share the idea that I am helping to implement here in Lincolnshire. It is presently called the Abundant EarthCommunity. Please check out the google group, read the blog entries and share whatever you can if you feel the passion to help create sustainable alternatives for our futures.
Most of all, please remember, that you are enough; without all the trappings of the world and its greedy selfish negligence of the planet.
James Redfield, Eckhart Tolle, Mandy Peterson and many other authors have been writing about these issues for such a large part of the past several decades with the aim of waking people up gradually into a new world. One that has been created by blindness and greed. The reason they have been attempting to wake people is certainly not to manipulate them further. But it does seem clear that these rather small groups of people have done so out of concern for the welfare of the greater number of their human family. Of course no-one likes to be waken in a violent and scary fashion. A cold bucket of water thrown over you might cause you a heart attack, but a slow gentle shaking will do no harm whatsoever.
Though this has been going on for some time, it would appear to certain observers that the result has been lethargic from the people waken from this preoccupation with materialism/things/resources. We are still using energy sources at rates that are unsustainable. Why even a week or so ago here in the United Kingdom, energy companies were reporting strategies that would stop private users demanding so much supply during the week, when manufacturers needed that power for industry. They were being encouraged (the private household consumer) to use supply at the weekends rather than at other times.
Peaceful Warrior is a writer, song writer, boat man, warrior of light, adventurer and doer of random acts of kindness. You can find out more about him at his website and his blog.
What is Duality and what is Isness, and why does it matter what we believe?
Duality by dictionary definition is:
duality (djuːˈælɪtɪ )
Definitions
noun
(plural) -ties
the state or quality of being two or in two parts; dichotomy
(physics) the principle that a wave-particle duality exists in microphysics in which wave theory and corpuscular theory are complementary. The propagation of electromagnetic radiation is analysed using wave theory but its interaction with matter is described in terms of photons. The condition of particles such as electrons, neutrons, and atoms is described in terms of de Broglie waves
(geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of the point and the plane in statements and theorems in projective geometry
to have presence in the realm of perceived reality; exist; live ⇒ I think, therefore I am, not all that is can be understood
used in the perfect or past perfect tenses only to pay a visit; go ⇒ have you been to Spain?
to take place; occur ⇒ my birthday was last Thursday
copula used as a linking verb between the subject of a sentence and its noun or adjective complement or complementing phrase. In this case be expresses the relationship of either essential or incidental equivalence or identity ( John is a man; John is a musician) or specifies an essential or incidental attribute ( honey is sweet; Susan is angry). It is also used with an adverbial complement to indicate a relationship of location in space or time ( Bill is at the office; the dance is on Saturday)
takes a present participle forms the progressive present tense ⇒ the man is running
takes a past participle forms the passive voice of all transitive verbs and (archaically) certain intransitive ones ⇒ a good film is being shown on television tonight, I am done
takes an infinitive expresses intention, expectation, supposition, or obligation ⇒ the president is to arrive at 9.30, you are not to leave before I say so
takes a past participle forms the perfect or past perfect tense of certain intransitive verbs of motion, such as go or come ⇒ the last train is gone
British English: being You can refer to any real or imaginary creature as a being. NOUNPeople expect a horse to perform like a car, with no thought for its feelings as a living being.
To the untrained eye, it may appear that there are always pluses and minuses. Good or evil, love and hate, war and peace, cold and heat, or light and darkness. Up, down, left, right, inside and outside, forwards and backwards. But you may be surprised to know that by a process we call relativity we can arrive at many other points of conclusion and or debate. Duality would have us believe that both exist side by side and that there is only one thing or the other, with it’s opposite at the point of us determining our viewpoint.
For example: if we are cold, that means there is an absence of heat. Heat exists as a concept like everything else, therefore if we are not experiencing it, we are subjected to it’s diverse opposite. The amount to which we are experiencing it is determined by our personal decision about where one ends and one begins. Quantifying. In this theorising model, both heat and cold are the same thing, just adverse ends of a spectrum of sensation felt by our bodies sensory receptors, with determinable advances towards or away from each end. Which of course also indicates/theorizes that there is/are no ends, on this linear scale.
If we go up, by relativity, we are no longer going down or stationary. Right means less left, and so on… I’m sure you are beginning to get my point. So if we move from one to the other both still exist in the material and tangible world in which we perceive this experience to be taking place, whilst another potential truth also exists. That we can move and not move and whilst we are moving, one of the perceived ends appears closer, but also that the non movement requires a silence, a pause which in and of itself is neither of the ends of the scale. Is the fog clearing, or are you still confused?
I merely offer another perspective that you and I can consider, to be able to diversify our relative thinking, and see this in and of itself as somewhat limiting to our being, our Isness.
Duality gives us a reason to feel comfortable in the main, because we can fit things into a neat box. We label it up and pigeon hole it and go away thinking nothing bad can come our way because we have organised our world as we wish it to be. Compared to the theory of complete chaos, relativity and duality appear very sound and dependable. Have we considered our own limiting minds in all of our calculations? Our emotions, beliefs, prejudices and bias, not to mention our paranoia that we don’t know everything and our rationality dictating our soundness of mind? Duality really implies that something is, and it is, because of what it is not. And by definition, there are many things it is not, all at the same theoretical moment in what we have constructed to evaluate this and called this time.
Being, Isness however allows us to accept all things as equal, as being one with each other. This Isness means logically that each occurrence is as important as any other. That what holds each thing together is as important and relative as any of the other component parts which it bonds/holds/controls to keep them where they are, will and should be.
Significantly we as human beings have for centuries tried desperately to control, understand and manipulate everything in our material and tangible existence, but without the wisdom to see that we cannot and do not have the power to control everything. There does seem to be a type of order in the realms of the known universe, and the tangible reality we have called life. And yet there is also a lot of mystery, chaos and apparent tragedy in it too.
My personal experiences have shown me that following a particular path can lead to treasure as also it can lead to disappointment. No one way is superior to any other in discernible and or credible values, other than does it serve me or not. For this reason I cannot judge one way as being inferior or superior, despite what other human beings state of their experiences. My truth is only that. My truth. It is a truth, based upon present considerations and data. Tomorrow it may change, or it may not, depending upon what event comes along to offer me a new way of evaluating that new data.
