A Series of Essays

By

On The Beach

Essay Six: What To Do Now?

 

Essay One:  “The Introduction”

Essay Two:  “The Antidote”

Essay Three:  “Starting The Antidote”

Essay Four:  "How to Protect Yourself"

Essay Five:  "Creating Expanded Consciousness"

 

The main point of this series of essays is to give each of us some powerful tools to counteract the effects of The Lies of Modernity. This insidious and intentional programming, now enforced through propaganda and modern memes, is an all-pervasive conditioning that warps and limits, perverts and controls every individual’s natural consciousness, compressing it down into the tightly-limited form of the awake mental voice. Counteracting this repressive conditioning is not such an easy thing to do since most people have no idea what has been done to them, no idea they are in fact much more than their awake mental voice, no idea what they have lost in this process - and certainly no idea what this loss will lead to as an ultimate end result.

Without being too alarmist about it I have tried to make the point that our very well-being as entities in eternity is strongly affected by what we do as physical persons while here on Earth, the choices we make and the influences we allow into our consciousness. And even more importantly, we are not the only beings deeply affected by the choices we make both individually and collectively; all of life on this physical Earth is at risk as well.

We don’t know what is going to happen at the ‘big picture’ level here on Earth - and that drama is, frankly, out of our control anyway. We are responsible specifically for ourselves throughout this transformational time. No matter the outcome, we are required to do the very best we can by taking full responsibility for ourselves - and because of the way the universe works, we are bound to accept the consequences for our own actions. We must do what we can to learn how to step out of the oppressive conditioning used to control us, while leaving the larger drama up to others much more capable of dealing with it than we are. I do not speak here of any human agency, but rather of much greater powers: the powers of those who created Earth and all that is a part of it - including us.

Regaining the lost portion of your greater Self will be an excellent place to begin this journey of returning to our true Selves.

 

Facing the Challenges to Come

By rediscovering how to access the infinite link that connects us to all of Life, we will create a firm foundation upon which to build a truthful replacement for the false conditioning that has been used to subjugate and control us since birth. But there should be no mistake about how hard and difficult and challenging this process will be.

Since there is almost no truthfulness left in this place, there will be very few resources a recently ‘awakened’ person can turn to for information or help. The power of the lie here is so enormous that it will be oh so easy to slide back into denial and the comfort of our present conditioning. As long as physical life is slowly crumbling toward system failure, it will be easier in many ways to simply avoid doing anything at all regarding personal change.

The urgency will come when the crumble turns into a cascading collapse and the situation flies out of all control into realms of pure random chance for our survival as physical beings. Then individuals are going to wish they had put a few more tools in the old toolbox. A very good way to begin stocking that toolbox would be choosing to exist as a physical entity more wholly aware and spiritually prepared for what is to come.

Collapse will drive people away from the Big Lie - but in a very terrible way. Since we have no clue regarding who we really are and how things really work, we will flail about in frustration and pain as we leave such lies behind. When this happens it would be wise to remember that all sorts of new lies will be developed along the way as a stop-gap response to this situation. The psychopathic predators will not have gone away; in fact, for the short term, they will be even more determined to manipulate and deceive, while their apologists and supporters become a greater and greater percentage of the population as normal people ‘disappear’ while our world collapses around us. They will work hard to develop new and better methods of control within the collapse environment. Please be aware of this

Personally I think it would be a very good plan while the time is still available to strengthen our self and create a new, better and more firm foundation based on choosing to become a more completely aware entity. The easiest way I know to start this process is to expand our consciousness and reconnect through Nature with the larger part of who we really are.

I know, I know - this kind of thing sounds simply crazy; so I want to pose the issue to you in another way.

 

Reading the Handwriting on the Wall

I feel most of the readers of TwoIceFloes.com are aware that something is terribly wrong in the world today. This ‘wrongness’ is manifest in many ways, as well-known systems of society and life seem to be degenerating into chaos all around us. Most of us recognize it is just fundamentally wrong that humankind has become so lost we now threaten our own lives as well as the life of the Earth by our very existence and actions.

Many readers will understand that the real issues behind these failures are not the failures themselves, but something far more fundamental, something essential within us that appear to have gone terribly, terribly wrong. But what? What fundamental thing could be at the heart of these institutional failures?

The answer is simple: what has gone wrong is the loss of a connection to our very core nature as spiritual beings here on Earth.

At its heart the present and coming conflict is a spiritual war, a term that will make most of us grind our teeth in denial and tempt us to reject this statement. I wish I had another term to use because the word ‘spiritual’ has been co-opted and tied to the lies of Modern Religion for a very long time. Such lies have been developed to hide humanity’s true nature from us, making us weak, controllable and unstable.

Remember that Religion, an institution supposedly developed to explain the unexplainable, is really intended to obscure and prohibit the very easily explainable from us for the sake of creating total control over human perceptions and self-awareness. Such humanly-created institutions are actually totally dishonest falsehoods operating in terribly destructive ways.

The term ‘spiritual’ now comes with all sorts of religious overtones, undertones and connotations. Most of these connotations involve a separation of the physical human from the spiritual human. This false separation is now being mediated by many varieties of ‘Religion’: fake ‘old-time’ Religion; fake modern Science; fake institutions. All……all are entirely false in usurping something they have no right to claim sovereignty over anyway.

Something that is meant to be very easily and naturally experienced by any living person is now controlled and mediated by the very institutions that are supposed to explain these things. The spiritual nature of man is now under the direct control of humankind's institutions; and to step outside of that control is to risk censure - or even death.

Never forget, the Inquisition is still in operation.

There is no religious overtone or religious need or religious obligation at all necessary in order for a person to explore and reconnect to his or her own true Being-ness. Think about this for a second. Why in the name of all truth is it against the law in almost all societies for people to explore and extend their expanded consciousness? Even the use of naturally-occurring psychotropic drugs is a mandatory 25-year prison sentence in almost all developed countries - yet to my knowledge not one person has ever been fatally harmed by a psychotropic mushroom. In many other countries ‘witches’, a term frequently used to demonize those who are shamanic in nature, are incarcerated in mental institutions - or still put to death. Why?

The reason these proscriptions exist is to prevent us from exploring our own real nature. This situation has nothing at all to do with Religion. It has to do with Nature - our own true nature, the ‘true nature of us’ that has been stripped from us and hidden in plain sight. All institutions are false in that they have been created for the sole purpose of denying our natural, direct connection with Nature from every human on the face of this planet.

There is, at present, no true Religion actively attempting to help each individual explore his or her own consciousness. A true Religion would be facilitating such ‘spiritual’ exploration, not trying to control it or to deny it is even possible as current Religions now do. But the use here of the very words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirit’ will make many readers uncomfortable and will tempt them to reject what I am saying because of our already preconceived assumption that such words are the sole possession of ‘Religion’. If we do this, we will be throwing the baby out with the bath water. And the ‘bad guys’ will continue to take full advantage of our ignorance and willing acceptance of their well-crafted, ongoing control mechanism over this core aspect of being human here on Earth.

There is nothing magical, mysterious, holy, demonic, or strange at all about the subject of one’s own true nature. There is no need at all for organized Religions to intercede between us and our own real nature. They are humanly-constructed institutions designed to explain the unknown and they are being used to control the explanation and experience of something fundamentally available to each living person. This is nothing more than the theft of our own personal, spiritual human sovereignty.

It is unreasonable to think that humanity so conflicted and out of touch with its real nature as whole beings could ever create properly functioning institutions of community and governance.

If we allow this theft to stand, then by our own free will we are embracing the rest of the lies used to control us and our lives. This is the fundamental issue, the one that lies beneath all of the secondary-system failures we see daily throughout our society.

Coming Back to You

As Cognitive Dissonance, the founder and host of TwoIceFloes.com, will always and properly say: the issues and choices always come back to us. It is right there inside each of us. Each of us, individually, must fix this broken thing inside of our own individual selves - this deeply spiritual thing that has nothing at all to do with current institutional Religion - before we can really be whole and capable and able to stand against the large and the small Lies of Modernity.

What has happened to humankind on Earth is the equivalent of child abuse; nothing more and nothing less. The true tragedy in all of this is that billions living here are now so abused they can never be normal humans again, no matter what happens next. Fortunately, Forever is eternal and it includes the opportunity to heal and to become whole again.

This loss of humankind's true nature as an infinite spiritual being is the fundamental issue wrong on our Earth now. And it can only be fixed by each of us doing our utmost to learn the truth about ourselves and not to be influenced by the lies created to keep humans from knowing fully, and thus understanding completely, our own eternal and incorruptible true Self.

This is nothing less than a very crucial war, a war now being fought one person at a time over the freedom to live a life here on Earth that is truly of one’s own making.

I started this fifth essay with the title: ‘What To Do Now?’ And that is an interesting question to ask of ourselves at this point. It is interesting because if we do decide to personally discover who and what we really are, each of us will ultimately become a very unique, beautifully real . . . and possibly very lonely person living within this current ‘Civilization of Lies’.

Unique and beautiful because we will each begin to embody our true Self and everyone around us will feel that embodiment in some way - and lonely because almost no one around us will understand us or know what we are talking about if we attempt to share anything with them about our personal evolution. They will probably think we are crazy. And we will certainly begin to walk down a few very different roads in our lives because of the choices we have each made to truly see our real and eternal Selves and to act accordingly.

 

It’s Only Natural

If, just once, we allow ourselves to expand into Nature and learn more about what we really are, what happens to us personally from that point on will depend on how deep and how expansive this experience is for us - and how far we choose to take it over time.

But we do not need to take it very far at all to inoculate ourselves against the Lies of Modernity. One simple experience of our consciousness flowing out into thousands and millions and billions of directions at once should be enough for us to realize that each of us, through our connection to the life around us, is more than we were ever taught or ever imagined we could be.

One experience of the natural, energetic indivisibility of objects will be enough for us to realize the falseness of the concepts of finite material existence, and especially the extremely limited concepts of polarity and duality now ruling our planet and our consciousness. Simplistic linear concepts such as duality and polarity do not exist at all in Nature, and each of us will realize beyond a shadow of a doubt how these false concepts are used to keep us separated at a very subtle level, one from the other.

It is amazing to discover these huge realizations are possible through the simple act of just connecting to a tree. We do not have to go to any distant realm, follow any great guru or god, go through years of self-denial or speak to any strange creatures. We just need to re-connect to the Mother Earth of our birth. She will show each of us who we really are.

If we do explore at deeper levels, we might find ourselves connecting to the non-physical beings that are in constant support of us physically. Direct awake communication with these entities can open channels in our physical mind such that we will be able to communicate directly with them at all times.

This might at first sound like simply having yet another voice in one’s head; but it is not. It will be quite different in tone and quality - and at all times will be instantly recognizable as coming from them. They are always available for consultation and support. We must simply ask. That is all. This voice will never tell us what to do, but will always provide support and assistance if asked. It is a tremendous comfort to know we have another ‘set of eyes’ helping us at all times.

Our explorations as we go will lead us on to greater and greater levels of conscious awareness of our own innately expanded abilities and connections. Deeper exploration can lead into areas of direct management and control of energy, usually the electro-magnetic energy of the Earth. We can learn how to gather, focus and control this energy as well as how to use it appropriately for both creation and in service to others.

None of these things will make us ‘normal’, or popular with the ‘normal’ society that exists now. In older times, people with these abilities were known and understood and accepted as respected and contributing members of the group. Just as with every other exceptional personal skill, some people excel in these areas. In older times, such individuals were respected and valued; today, they are reviled and excluded. How far we have fallen!

If we explore this part of our true nature, our expression of such abilities will be unique to each of us and different from that of others. This is our individual ‘gift’ to others in this life; if we take the time to discover what it is and are willing to both develop it fully and share it with those around us, it will add greatly to the richness and dimension of all of our lives here on Earth.

What each of us does with this unique difference will depend on the depth to which we explore it and what we decide to do with it. But the lasting inoculation against the Lies of Modernity, i.e. The Antidote, does not require personal work of much depth at all. Just one successful instant spent within the loving embrace of Nature will be enough for each of us to recognize the insanity of Modernity; that one unforgettable embrace will give us the tools and strength to start throwing away the lies, especially the lies created around the fear of physical death, and begin to set ourselves free to walk our own paths and be our own true Selves.

 

Walking My Walk

As an example of how this looks, I can only speak of my own experiences and what I have personally done about all of this.

I consciously stepped out of the training of my non-physical teachers when I was about 15 years old. I realized to continue would probably force me to live apart from other people. You simply become too strange for more ‘normal’ people to feel comfortable with you. I was a teenager and wanted no part of that, so I walked away from it.

But I learned over time I couldn’t get away from it at all. They are always with you. The lessons are always with you. I never allowed anyone else to know these things about myself. No one knew - not my family (other than my siblings) or my friends. But recently I have been feeling guilty. I know I have had very unique experiences and insights that might be useful to others - especially now. The approaching troubling times have brought me out of hiding.

Now I am sharing a bit of me and a tiny bit of what I learned as a child in the hope what I am saying will resonate with others out there and allow each of you who are reading this to experience more of your true Self. I have no interest in being a teacher of anyone; but I am happy to be a sharing friend.

We are all so much more than we think we are, so much more than we have any idea about. I wish I could take each one of you by the hand and show you. But it does not work that way. In this case you must find out on your own and incorporate that experience into your growing sense of your true, natural Self.

It will be magnificent for you.

 

On the Beach

27 July 2014

Iba, Zambales, Philippines

 

A Series of Essays

By

On The Beach

 

Essay Five: Creating Expanded Consciousness

 

Essay One:  “The Introduction”

Essay Two:  “The Antidote”

Essay Three:  “Starting The Antidote”

Essay Four:  "How to Protect Yourself"

Essay Six:  "What To Do Now"

 

How to expand your consciousness..........

I can’t believe I just wrote that out. Never in the last 40 years of my life would I have thought I would discuss or reveal such things in a more-or-less open forum. But after recently reading a fascinating forum topic by TwoIceFloes.com member Andee, called ‘The Elephant in the Room’, I decided to ‘man-up’ and talk about what I know about this issue of purposefully working to increase one’s conscious awareness. Perhaps it will be of use to someone; this is what I hope for most.

I was taught how to let my mind, my normal physical-awake consciousness, flow out of me and into other places in this earthly place of existence - and beyond. This ability is nothing unique - you possess it as much as I do. This essay will allow me to offer you the means to begin to explore this forgotten ability within. But first, before I write about the personal methods for doing this that were taught to me, I want to mention something about the words we use to describe our mental states of being.

I am very wary of using the terms ego, superego, id, conscious, and subconscious as if I were using terms as defined by modern science. I could look up their dictionary definitions and we could discuss them among ourselves - but I really don’t think such a discussion will be very enlightening. We are all so deeply damaged by our conditioning in this modern world that I think these terms are, in many ways, incorrect. They define what is basically a pathological state; not the normal state of natural humans. To me, using these terms to define what I’m about to share would be like going into a terminal cancer ward and deciding to reference the physical state of these patients as representing the normal human condition.

This is how sick I consider humankind to be at this time of Modernity.

Where is a control group that is not from Modernity; a group that has an entirely different way of viewing the world? Well, they really don’t exist now - but they did 80 or so years ago until their ways of thinking were marginalized, dismissed - or ruthlessly destroyed. Instead of challenging psychology, their mental worldview was consigned to the marginal arena of theoretical anthropological study and was not included in modern psychology. Now, those kinds of groups have almost vanished and there are no truly unspoiled control groups left to us. We are left to believe the modern human and how we mentally present ourselves today is all that is possible, even though science knows that a person’s mental state is created from both Nature and nurture.

In my opinion, the current generally-accepted descriptions of a human’s conscious state are a scientific impossibility. Unless there is a control group available that comes from a completely different ‘nurture’ paradigm, it is now impossible to come to a genuinely accurate conclusion obtained through a truly objective scientific study.

I used the term consciousness to lead off this discussion. I would actually prefer to use the term awareness, but there are clear and obvious issues in using that term. For instance, a person could be completely conscious in his or her own way, but sightless and not personally aware of colors at all.

However the issue of awareness goes to the very heart of my essays.

How can you be aware of something if you have no knowledge of its existence? Or what if you aware of it, but you have no tools available to explore or experience it? Our collective conditioning has stripped from our awareness the possibility of exploring important parts of our individual consciousness.

Consciousness is a person’s awareness of their surroundings and their relative location within those surroundings. For instance, as beings of the material world most humans are not consciously aware of energy; but we are aware of the result of energy used as a force to do work. We are aware of the result of energy but have no awareness of energy itself. This one fact should alert us to the limitations we are currently under as physical beings trying to become aware of the universe.

I am also hesitant to use the terms ‘awake’, ‘asleep’ or ‘dreaming’ to describe states of consciousness. These terms can carry a tone of judgment about them and I never want anyone to feel because they are just ‘waking up’ to these issues they are inferior in some way.

Our conditioning about these matters damaged all of us long before we were able to judge for ourselves. We have been convinced by societal beliefs and memes we are simply physical beings living lives apart from Nature. We are led to believe that everything of ‘Nature’ is primitive and chaotic, or threatening and messy - while everything of modern man is advanced and progressive.

Our language just does not have the right words to describe our true human ‘being-ness’ and all of its vast possibilities. We are even limited in our ability to discuss and describe ourselves by the very languages developed in our Modernity. This conditioning has stripped from us our knowledge of ourselves as more than physical beings with a deep connection to Nature.

At this point I want to again substitute the phrase awake mental voice for the word ‘ego’, which is the term usually used in this sort of discussion. Ego has a lot of negative baggage connected to it, which at this point needs to be discussed thoroughly before that negativity is allowed to continue due to any personal connotations on the part of the reader.

I don’t wish any confusion about what mental state I am talking about here. I am talking about the voice that most of us hear inside of our heads, the one we normally associate with the ‘thinking self’. We think this voice is ‘Us’ because we hear it all the time - but it is not really us. It is only a part of us, a part created by each of us from all the conditioning that has happened over our individual lives. The real, individual ‘Us’ is a great deal larger than this little voice we are trained to hear.

I have discussed my understanding of this awake mental voice and how it came to be, in Essay One: The Antidote. (Link)

To expand our consciousness, we need to find a way to lessen the constant presence of this awake mental voice in our heads. This is not easy at all since we tend to think this voice is ‘Us’. Our conditioning will have us believe we have no other experience with ourselves except this awake mental voice; but there is also our asleep mental voice which we have been taught to dismiss. If we want to connect to the larger Self, which exists both inside of our physical mind and outside the physical universe altogether, then we must turn down the volume of the awake mental voice - an undertaking that will seem truly frightening for some and absolutely impossible for others.

 

Getting There

I was taught to quiet my own awake mental voice by letting my mind wander into the physical nature of plants.

This is easiest for me when I choose a large mature tree, but even a blade of grass can work. It should be a plant connected to the earth, not one contained in a pot. Usually I will be barefoot with the soles of my feet in contact with the ground. A quiet space works best for me with no one else around. That includes no distractions such as music and especially no conversation going on nearby. I sit still and relaxed - and then let my mind drift. I do not focus on anything, but then I also do not try to restrict my thoughts either. I just let myself drift and focus on the plant, gently trying to connect my own consciousness to that of this plant.

When you attempt to do this exercise your awake mental voice might start nagging at you, telling you this is crazy; that you can’t talk to trees. Tell your voice gently but firmly you don’t want to talk; you just want to feel the tree. Gently push your awake mental voice away as often as it comes up and simply give yourself permission to flow into the tree.

Use whatever method you need to such as visualizing parts of the tree in great detail. But the point is not to make it a chore or to use lots of words. The use of chores and words are the domain of the awake mental voice and that is what you want to leave behind. Do not focus on lights or spirits or God or gods or anything except the tree. Trees are part of Nature and part of Mother Earth. That is all you need.

But you really can commune in this way with trees or other plants. They are very aware of you.

Everyone’s experience is different; but for me personally I simply slip into the consciousness of a tree and begin to sense it. It is as if my physical mind expands, gets bigger, and then focuses beyond me and into the tree. My mental state when connected with that of the tree is much like a dream state, but not a lucid dream because I have left my awake mental voice behind. Communicate with the tree and only with the tree. Do not be distracted by anything else until you can grow in your ability to focus yourself within this state.

All of us experience life by using our various senses in slightly different ways. For example I am very visual and for me most of this experience will be visual. Others might be auditory and hear speech or other sounds which are more necessary in order for them to create this experience. Remember, you are focusing a portion of your physical consciousness and using it to expand into this other space of natural consciousness, thus consciously joining with Nature. Please note that this act should always remain under your own conscious physical control; do not cede this control to anyone or anything other than yourself.

Your potential in this state is literally limitless. You might be in a kind of light trance and able to flow mentally into all life around you because it is also entirely connected to that tree and thus to you as well. This ‘Web of Life’ is your Mother, the place from which your earthly being-ness comes when in a physical body. Part of your being, a part of your non-local consciousness, is lodged inside this Earth Mother so you can be physically expressed here in this place.

There are very specific reasons my siblings and I were taught to focus on Nature. It is part of Her, the creator of this Earth, and the only real entity we ever need to connect with. She is always with us and without Her we are not truly alive at all. After all each of us is, literally, physically created from her Earthly body as well as energetically inter-connected with everything and everyone through Her.

For me the Earth represents the physical body of a great Entity of Generation who created us and all other life on Earth. There is no religion involved in this concept. The Earth is simply Life itself, manifest as a material body. The Ultra-conscious entity who inhabits this body is our Mother in this place, but only a tiny portion of her is actually in the Earth. The Earth, and all else here, is of Her - as are we.

When we connect to Nature we are connecting through our own personal part of Her and can then experience other parts of Her. This allows us to experience Her through a deeply moving, timeless moment of being joined with someone who loves us so completely and unconditionally as one of Her children that there is no sense of separation from Her at all. Through this connection you can learn of your larger non-physical nature and begin to remember this is not only your birthright, but also your natural state of Being.

Your Earthly Mother is always with you and present in all life around you. There is no humanly-constructed omnipotent male ‘God’ figure sitting in the sky that made you or created any life on this Earth. Any conscious connection you have to any other part of Nature will show this to you in an instant. The true ‘male’ consort of the Earth is the Sun, whose energy pours down on the earth and gives all of Her creations the power to function and live.

By using the simple exercise given above you can reconnect with this larger part of yourself and get a little feel of the ‘Infinite You’. But do remember: everyone is different. Everyone will have a different and very personal experience of this. I have no experience at all with any forms of meditation. To me they all seem directed at some predetermined end or goal and this has always felt wrong to me. My only intention in this exercise is to connect to my Earth Mother and to the larger part of me.

Also, many meditation practices are part of some larger religious experience and I have never connected with any organized religion. I could never follow any religion’s direction at all so I have never based my personal methods for this exercise on any of the usual meditation practices. Connecting with my greater Self through Nature and the Earth was always enough for me.

The important thing to remember is that your estrangement from this larger part of you and your connection to Nature is an artificial state caused by our conditioning in this modern place. Every person on Earth should be effortlessly able to do this kind of expansion of consciousness into Nature.

Remember that everything we need is already inside us. This connection to Nature will allow you to experience it instead of being cut off from it.

Expanding vs. Altering Consciousness

I purposely called this discussion ‘Expanding Your Consciousness’ as I never want to use the description ‘altered consciousness’. For me, we should expand our consciousness to include the parts of us we are not normally connected to now in Modernity. What is really a condition of ‘altered consciousness’ is the strange, pathologically-restricted view of ourselves we currently believe in and follow while living in Modernity. This is as altered a state of consciousness as is possible to achieve on Earth; and it is very pathological, very sick and quite insane.

Expanding our consciousness is the birthright of every person born on Earth. Being able to connect to Mother Earth is an ability thus guaranteed to every one of us. It is not special at all. No one who can do this should ever hold themselves up as ‘special’ in any way or be viewed as such. Avoid anyone who holds themselves up as enlightened or holy or deserving of special honors because they seem exceptional for having ’unique’ or ‘spiritual’ gifts.

There are many different methods that may be used to expand your consciousness. The method I have described is a type of self-hypnosis focused on a tangible aid, i.e. a physical part of Nature. You might use natural drugs, drumming, chanting, rhythmic repetitive movement or hypnosis instead. Any of these can work - but some will take you to places of concern for me. As I mentioned in the prior essay on protection I would prefer someone with no experience in this approach towards expanded consciousness stay inside yourself and Nature in your initial attempts. It is important for you to stay physically awake, conscious and in control at all times. If you don’t, you might reject your experience as if it were a dream - and we are conditioned to discount our dreams. Or, something might occur that puts you at risk. Be careful and conservative if you have no experience with this process. Go slowly, and immediately return to your usual state of consciousness if you encounter anything at all uncomfortable or disturbing during your explorations.

 

Varieties of Personal Experience

Every experience of expanded consciousness is different for each person because everyone always starts at a different point of awareness. Allow Nature to direct you, to envelop you and to show you what it wants you to see. Your experience can be graceful and peaceful and gentle - or it can be so expansive and overwhelming that it is life-changing.

If you do this exercise often enough, you will discover parts of you that you never knew existed, huge parts of timeless, expansive experience and strength. You will experience how connected we really are to all living things on this Earth. You will see it is really impossible to tease apart separate objects one from another. The consciousness of one animal will flow into another and you will see this happen. The energy of one object will flow into another, blurring the edges so that finding separate objects becomes almost impossible.

You could also feel the awareness of what you usually think of as inanimate objects - rocks and streams and waves for example all have their own energy and a type of consciousness you will be able to feel at an experiential level. It will be incredibly beautiful. You will be able to directly and very personally feel your connection to this life of Nature. You cannot avoid feeling you are a part of it; and once you do, you will never feel separate and alone again.

Remember: the word ‘natural’, which represents our true state of Being, derives directly from the word ‘Nature’. Talk about things being hidden from us in plain sight! Here is a perfect example of the degree to which we have allowed ourselves to be separated from our true state of Being.

There is no right or wrong at this level of connection. Every person will experience what he or she needs to experience.

Usually we will not connect at first to any non-physical entity, but simply to the forces of natural life all around us. Later, if one does this enough, we might be contacted in one of these expanded states by a non-physical entity. Usually this will be one of the assistants we always have with us in our current physical manifestation. If such an entity makes itself known, remember to use the techniques I discussed in the previous essay on protection before you willingly engage with them. If your ‘visitor’ is truly one of these assistant-beings, they are there to help you. This is their job and they take it very seriously.

If you do this enough, and they feel you are ready, I suspect they will assist you in traveling all over the universe, both the physical and the non-physical. When you do this you will get a real experience of what it means to be infinite. Your view of the physical world will never be the same again. The Lies of Modernity will fall from you. You will be reconnected to the larger part of you, the one from which you truly originate - and you will never again ‘forget’ how that feels and what it truly means.

The most important thing you will experience from this sort of expansion of your consciousness is to become intimately aware of the fact you are a timeless being who is mainly located outside this physical place. Once you know this, really know this in the depths of your physical being, the main fear of life within Modernity will fall away from you: the fear of death.

You will no longer be afraid of death because you will understand that you, the larger non-physical you, will never and can never die. The entire system of socially conditioned controls we blindly accept as humans living here now will become meaningless to you. You will never be tempted to give up your sovereignty to any agent or agency attempting to lie to you by claiming they, and they alone, can provide or take away from you something you already have - and could never lose anyway.

All of the many Little Lies of Modernity are based on this One Great Lie.

 

An Open Invitation

I encourage everyone who wishes to comment here to describe any method you might use to expand your consciousness and what you experience when that happens. A forum on Two Ice Floes has been set up for this discussion. We all need to understand the usualness of this thing and the fact it can happen for anyone. There are as many ways possible as there are people, and all are valid - but some come with built-in risks. Please try to avoid the risks. Do this slowly and carefully - and with great enjoyment and lightheartedness. More than anything, this marvelous experience should be both fun and educational for you. As people of Modernity we are so stunted and restricted and afraid. Our ancestors would laugh at us for not knowing how to do this sort of thing easily and naturally.

Some might want to talk about the sleeping mental voice, which is something else that can be used to experience expanded awareness. In this essay I am focusing only on an awake experience, either in a light trance or as an awake, aware experience. The sleeping experience is much more complex and the subject for an entirely separate discussion.

Please feel free to ask me anything about this exercise in expanding your consciousness or to discuss the entire topic in all of its aspects.

 

Written by On The Beach

20 July 2014

Iba, Zambales, Philippines

A Series of Essays

By

On The Beach

Essay Four: How to Protect Yourself

Essay One: "The Introduction"

Essay Two: "The Antidote"

Essay Three: "Starting The Antidote"

Essay Five: "Creating Expanded Consciousness"

Essay Six: "What To Do Now"

This might seem like a strange thing to write an essay about, but recent online articles I’ve read lead me to think it is not silly at all to talk about personal protection when discussing expanding one’s consciousness.

So, before I go on to talk about expanding your consciousness in my next essay I would like to discuss the subject of protection. I do not think it is appropriate to address a subject that might open a person to increased risk, regardless of how small the chances are, without first talking about how we should protect ourselves while doing so. I know most physical humans living now have no idea they are even a part of the non-physical, much less there are non-physical entities out there who would take advantage of us given half a chance.

As a physical human we would know better than to walk down certain streets in certain cities at certain times of the day. And we would be knowledgeable enough and experienced enough to know how to at least reduce the risk we might experience if we did decide to do so. But as humans conditioned to blissful ignorance in today’s World of Lies, we do not know we are surrounded at all times by a myriad of entities, some of whom are trying to gain our attention and draw energy from us. You may know about the physical world - but it’s likely you have no idea about the non-physical one.

These beings, physical and non-physical alike, all have something to ‘sell’. That is their right as beings operating in the universe by the same principles that govern our own activities here. However, some of these things they want to ‘sell’ us are most definitely not in our best interests. Please know this: we always have complete free will to say “OK” to them, even if we are not able or willing to see the ramifications of what we are agreeing to when we do. That is the power of the conditioning we are under right now.

The whole point of this series of essays is 1) to give you the understanding that this is the nature of your true reality - and 2) to do my very best to give you some essential tools to learn discernment in your thoughts and actions while living a physical life as well as how to protect yourself if you ever directly encounter such non-physical beings, either in the physical or in the non-physical.

 

Bathwater and Babies

TwoIceFloes.com (TIF) recently posted a wonderful essay entitled ‘Two Perspectives’. I had never read anything by this author before this article, which is short and describes the ambivalence he feels in knowing that everyone now present on earth is here for their own personal reasons because they need the experiences this place provides at this particular moment - while he also knows that at this time this place has also been corrupted by outside predators with very evil intentions. On the one hand, he knows it is worthless to shout out about the reality of the situation; but on the other hand, he really wants to shout out about how dangerous it is right now and to tell people to awaken and protect themselves.

To me, this seems like a very thoughtful and well-reasoned position to take in this extremely challenging time.

One TIF reader of the essay commented in the TIF article thread that he liked it - and so felt encouraged to go on to read another essay by this author. In that essay, the author laid out some of the identities of the predators. The reader was shocked by these descriptions and felt this was all nonsense: no one could really take seriously the description of non-physical reptilian-appearing predators enslaving mankind!

I read this other essay and could see why the reader might be upset if they had no prior experience with issues of human predation. (Note: While I believe such predation is in fact the case here on Earth, it is a complex subject for another time and another discussion.) But I found myself more immediately concerned and appalled by another opinion that I read in the same essay, an amazing opinion that seemed very out of context with the understanding this writer displayed in his “Two Perspectives” essay as well as other essays posted on his website.

He stated that all beings of light were probably fake; i.e. frauds pretending to be something they were not so as to entrap unwitting humans into a sort of spiritual slavery. He opined that the ‘beings of light’ encountered at physical death were most probably all fakes and were to be avoided. In fact, he said that all beings encountered in non-physical places were probably fake and should be avoided.

This is such an extreme statement and such an unenlightened position considering the other very knowledgeable statements he made that I decided to take some time to try to figure out where this idea was coming from. I read the author’s personal story, his autobiography of spending years in Hindu and Buddhist schools working to become enlightened, only to become disenchanted with the whole organized structured-religion thing. He seems to have finally found himself through a conscious connection with Nature while on a walk in the California mountain forests.

His story seems very straightforward - but how is it possible that someone who spent more than 20 years in spiritual study does not seem to have any idea of how to determine good from evil when it is right in front of him? What were his teachers in these Eastern schools doing - or more to the point, not doing? How did he decide that all ‘beings of light‘ were probably fake and should be avoided? What was all this really about?

So I read the works of lots of other New Age people writing on the Internet. I found one gentleman who called himself the ‘Lightbearer’ who had recently recanted all forms of expressing light - and also stated that any entity showing light as part of its quality was to be avoided as most probably evil.

Then I found there were several other individuals out there saying the same thing. I guess it’s now fashionable to discount what they were originally saying back when they were enthusiastically espousing the New Age stance of ‘spreading their light’ around. It seems they have now realized the foolishness of practicing such behavior and are not only stopping that, but also saying any being of light is to be avoided as a fake and most probably evil. I think this is a classic case of throwing the baby out with the dirty bathwater.

It is an amazing stance to take, especially when you consider that when you open yourself up to project light energy or love or care out of your physical body, you yourself become a being of light. Should you reject yourself? Does it make any sense to make a statement which seems to say that the entire universe is inhabited 100% by evil non-physical entities, all with evil intent - except for you?

Responsible Teachings

From my perspective any so-called teacher of enlightenment who would say such a strange thing clearly reveals lots of confusion in their beliefs. It tells me they may never have had direct personal experience of, or any real encounters in, the non-physical with non-physical entities - and they certainly have not directly confronted either real evil or real good in a non-physical entity at all.

Perhaps they are simply repeating some New Age dogma, mostly coming from Eastern sources, without any real understanding or personal experience to back up such statements. Before they start to act like teachers regarding the good or evil nature of any non-physical entity, they really need to know about something like this first-hand and to have had some real, direct experiences with the non-physical.

My teachers, all of them non-physical entities, would never let my siblings and I close to any expanded consciousness situation without first teaching us what to avoid and how to protect ourselves. For a teacher of anything akin to expanded consciousness not to know and not to teach these protection techniques right up front seems utterly irresponsible and unthinkable to me. This is utter foolishness and potentially dangerous.

For instance, we were taught by these non-physical entities never to show our spiritual strength or energy in any situation not created specifically for the practical display and use of that energy. I was amazed and appalled the first time I heard a New Age teacher tell a crowd of students, “Now I want you all to visualize loving, caring light coming out of your heart and flowing out to everyone in the room and then out into the world. This way we will increase the love and compassion in the world.”

I was taught never, ever to do such a foolish thing. To open yourself in this way was to shine a beacon out into the non-physical, attracting who-knew-what to you, i.e. entities that would want to feed off all of that light energy you were so freely giving away. Sure, you could do this thing; but could you deal with the consequences? We were taught not to do this unless it was a necessity, one required by the situation and fully under our and our protector’s control.

We were taught specific acts of defense and how to protect ourselves in many different situations. You would not unthinkingly wander into a dangerous neighborhood unprotected - and you should not wander unthinkingly into the universe without taking a few precautions also.

It only makes prudent sense.

So I was amazed at this turn of events in the New Age community. First, the predators convince unwitting New Age practitioners to willingly and freely, of their own volition, open themselves energetically to anyone and anything out there. Then when these New Agers realize what a dangerous thing they have done, they react by casting out not only those with evil intent, but the only real allies they might have had in that non-physical space as well.

This is just flat-out crazy and a clear sign that these New Age folks have never really done anything in non-physical spaces. Believe me, the ‘bad guys’ are gloating, now that they know these foolish New Agers will not bring their back-up protectors or assistants, i.e. the real ‘beings of light’, to any future confrontation.

Living on Earth is not so easy. Every single physical human has a host of assistants constantly helping us to manifest in the physical. Without these entities’ help we probably could not even walk upright while we are here. And, as every single one of our assistants is a being of pure energy, they could all manifest themselves as ‘beings of light’. So now the suggestion is to turn our back on all beings of light? These assistant-beings are here to help us!

The author of the ‘Two Perspectives’ essay says that in the end, we alone are responsible for ourselves - and since this is true I would agree with the self-responsibility aspect of his statement. But to imply that all entities in the non-physical are bad guys out to threaten or hurt us and thus should be avoided is just plain wrong.

How about learning to be discriminating and how to identify the characteristics of a bad guy? That would seem like a valuable skill to have and something any teacher of expanded consciousness should be teaching. This ability might actually be good to possess while we are still a physical entity here on Earth.

 

How to Identify a ‘Bad Guy’

Here is my list of ‘Bad Guy Characteristics’ as taught to me by a ‘being of light’ when I was about 6. It outlines a few very important things to know that will allow you to be able to instantly recognize an entity that does not have your best interest in their mind or heart.

1. They will give you their name.
2. They will tell you what to do.
3. They will mention the name of any god or holy man ever used on earth as proof of their own veracity.
4. They will tell you they have a way to salvation or truth, or that ‘They’ are the way to salvation.
5. They will claim to be affiliated with master teachers or a hierarchy of spirits - or tell you that they are friendly space aliens.
6. They will tell you by name they are a family member of yours (but they will be unable to answer a single question about that person’s life).
7. They will give you the creeps.

These are each a dead give-away (sorry about the pun) you are talking to someone you should not be talking to at all. Just leave: walk away, fly away, run away, whatever your situation. Do not be polite, do not be rude; just leave. Try to memorize the feeling of the entity’s presence so you can recognize them again in the future.

Some brief explanations of the items in the list above:

1. No entity that really wants to positively connect to you will tell you who they are. They will want you to make the connection yourself. You are in the inferior position and they know it and do not wish to push you into a relationship by mentioning who they are. They want you to do your best to recognize who they are, and only when you do can you then begin a relationship with them. If you are too wild in your guesstimation of who they are, they will correct you by just telling you “No; please try again”. Any entity that says a name first is probably lying.
2. No entity that truly cares for you will ever tell you what to do. Your path and truth is your own and only you can find that path. They might review your options with you to make sure you understand your position, but they will never tell you what to do. They will give you a range of opinions and options, but they will always tell you the ultimate decision for action is up to you.
3. All earthly ‘gods’ and so-called ‘holy men’ are frauds if a humanly-initiated physical religion has been developed around them. There are no gods that have created any system to show anyone ‘The Way’, or to save anyone. The real ‘gods’ want you to find your own way. Nothing more, nothing less. These real ‘gods’ are not omnipotent or omni-prescient, nor do they claim to be. They are purely generators of life and do not pretend to be gods or ‘God’. They do not want your worship at all and they do not need it. The fake ‘gods’ want and need your worship; they feed off the emotions of adulation and praise and fear you send them.
4. The only way to salvation is through your own hard work. There is no other way.
5. Once again, there are no masters; no rulers in the universe. That is physical earth nonsense. Each conscious entity in the universe is sovereign and has as much status as any other. The real originators and generators of life in the universe are the most humble and simple beings you can imagine. Their only desire is for each conscious entity to reach their maximum potential, even if that consciousness is as a rock.
6. An entity claiming to be your relative but unable to prove it through ‘inside knowledge’ is a self-evident fraud.
7. Trust your intuition and your feelings.

In all of the above cases, learn how to ask for help. It is there for you, but you must ask. Don’t go it alone; take help with you as soon as you know how to connect to your assistants.

 

The Whys and Wherefores

Most of you who might come into direct contact with non-physical entities will do so through some sort of a medium or channel. Always remember that the level of awareness of the medium will color the experience. Some are quite gifted - and some are not. There is nothing special at all about being able to do this sort of work. Where the medium is in his or her life experience will be expressed in some way in every entity or communication that comes through him or her. Anything else does not make much sense. Also, in the case of a real materialization medium fakes are rare. Fakery at this level is very difficult to pull off.

Always remember this process of connecting to the non-physical is not special at all. We Moderns think of it as special and we attribute specialness to those able to do it only because we have no knowledge of it as a process we ourselves are perfectly capable of doing. The person doing the medium work or channeling does not have to be ‘higher’ at all. Anyone can do this kind of thing if they just know how, and a very large part of this is simply knowing it is possible at all.

But you are on entirely different ground if you meet a non-physical entity in the physical, in a dream, or in an out-of-body experience. In those cases you must be aware of what you are doing and remember the rules above. What happens is your responsibility. Hopefully you will already have made contact with some of your own helpers and they can get in front of you. Just be unyielding and make the entity prove itself. A truly friendly entity will have no problem with that. Someone who is used to bullying physicals around will not be happy at all and you will sense it. Walk away.

The connection I have said I would like to see you make to Nature does not involve a connection to any specific entity. For example, you will probably not connect with any entity at all when you connect to a tree, except for the tree - and trees are usually quite harmless. You might become aware of Nature around you in more direct, non-verbal terms. Information can come into you in your connection to Nature. This is usually done in the form of an instantaneous transfer of a gestalt of feelings and knowledge.

It is usually very difficult for physical beings to take in all of this non-verbal information at once, since we are used to listening to our awake mental voice speaking one word at a time. Don’t be overwhelmed by this new experience or feel the information passed to you will be lost because you could not think it through quickly enough. It is all inside of you, and other parts of your consciousness will be working on it and will bring it up into your physical awareness when you are ready for it.

But you might connect to a non-physical entity - and I want you to be ready if you do.

Since most Moderns have no experience in this at all, there is no way to tell ahead of time what might happen. Also, there is the chance some of you might use psychotropic drugs of some sort to open your consciousness. I personally have no experience with these. My concern is the person choosing this approach might not be ready for what might happen and the setting might not be carefully controlled energetically. There might not even be any controls or assistants at all. In these cases there is no telling what might happen. No group truly experienced and responsible with these drugs would ever allow this kind of situation to happen. But a Modern person is so potentially unaware they might wander into something they have no power or control over and find themselves in serious trouble.

I don’t wish to alarm anyone about expanding his or her consciousness into Nature. But I would like to seriously recommend you stay at a modest level of expanded consciousness until you have more control over yourself and what can happen. It is naive to think there are no bad guys in the non-physical. There are bad guys here in the physical and we learn how to avoid them. But there are also bad guys in the non-physical and we need to learn how to identify them and avoid them - or how to deal with them.

Use your connection to Nature to learn about your personal assistants. Learn how to connect to those beings. Learn how to hear them speak directly to you. Learn how to ask them to help you. They will keep you out of trouble if you know how to contact them and how to use their power.

It is very important not to bind your will or your trust to any entity you are not 100% sure of. Make them prove themselves to you. Your life is your responsibility and you have power over it that cannot be taken from you. Don’t entrust your well-being to anyone who doesn’t meet the standards of the checklist above.

 

Written by On The Beach

13 July 2014

Iba, Zambales, Philippines

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