It's time to step into our next evolutionary stage. People everywhere are coming into a vital realization of their creative god-like powers. Technology is driving us to new ways of seeing ourselves and our unity. As complexity increases and things speed up, we place a higher premium on simplicity.
Still, much of our high-tech consumer-driven culture remains soulless and spiritually bereft. The tired, over-stimulated masses are seeking solace and part of the remedy is to be found in a shift toward more simple lifestyles.
Minimalist lifestyles are far from simplistic. They often require real discipline and resolve. Anyone who has let go of personal items not used in the last few years or who has labored to cultivate a home garden knows that Minimalism takes real commitment and devotion.
Simple, elegant living is about clearing space to make room for new expressions of abundance to emerge. We create space for our needs to be met thru the talents, gifts and resources found within ourselves and in those around us. Those who embrace the zen of minimalism are the artisans of the emerging paradigm of self-reliance.
This minimalist approach is about reducing the background noise of an ever-accelerating technology-driven culture while at the same time entering the zen silence of the all-providing Cosmocopia. It is about needing/buying less and creating/ producing more. It is about shutting our ears to the siren call of ads and commercials. We simply do not need what they say.
It is both cleansing and liberating to do without. Let us prioritize how we will spend our money and our energy. Let us resist the temptation to try to fill the spiritual void within with anything less than real spiritual substance. Let us learn to say no to that tyranny of convenience that seeks to overide the voice of conscience.
Simplicity and minimalism give us more time to enjoy the best things in life. Less really can be more. Why not leave the clutter of consumerism behind once and for all to embrace the elegant and simple? After all, it really is a simple choice, isn't it?
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Twittering Towards Enlightenment (13 Big (but succinct) Ideas for Mass Proliferation)
As we race toward the Singularity (Kurzweil) or The Grand Attractor at the End of Time (McKenna) or the Omega Point (De Chardin) or whatever it is that we are evolving towards- information exchange will rapidly accelerate as it informs the growth and development of newly-emerging systems. We can help facilitate this expansion process by saying what we mean to say in as few words as possible. The wildly-popular phenomena of twitter as a social network demonstrates our developing penchant for "headlining", or saying more with less.
It becomes a unique challenge, almost like a game- to say with clarity, intelligence and wit all we mean to say in 140 characters or less. Twitter forces us to condense and optimize our thoughts in a way that makes the greatest impact- much like haiku (hey, there's a thought, haikuitter). It is as much what we say as how we say it.
At Cosmocopia, we have respect for the techno-spiritual. We embrace technology as a legitimate means of grace. Digital sacraments can make us holy as they make us smarter.
I wish to share 13 Cosmocopian ideas that have been taking up much real estate in my mind lately- I will share them in a way that would make my fellow tweets proud- in 140 characters or less. Here goes:
1) The Cosmocopia is a living, responsive and intelligent entity whose totality of consciousness is concentrated in every point of space/time. (135 characters)
2) The Cosmocopia flows from an evolutionary impulse to introduce the new and unprecedented to maximize the potential for enjoyment of life. (137 characters)
3) The Cosmocopia is designed to process spiritual transformation and to move Creation into increasing levels of perfection. (124 characters)
4) The Cosmocopia invites and involves human participation in the Creation Process and finds pleasure as Self-recognition inside of us. (132 characters)
5) The Cosmocopia finds it's high point of expression thru individual human volition (will). (89 characters)
6) The Cosmocopia functions under the Law of Supply and Demand and furnishes Supply to meet the corresponding Demand of the human will. (132 characters)
7) The Cosmocopia becomes more specific and refined in it's manifestations as it is informed and focused by human intelligence. (124 characters)
8) The Cosmocopia is infinitely amenable to suggestion and can be molded on-the-fly because of it's quality of Cosmoplasticity. (125 characters)
9) The Cosmocopia flows abundantly into human experience and is increased as the human agent models the copious generosity of the Cosmocopia. (138 characters)
10) The Cosmocopia is reproduced in scale by the Human Creative Process which results in copious out-flowings into the human plane (126 characters)
11) The Cosmocopia eliminates ignorance and limitation and teaches humanity to expect and declare the highest. (106 characters)
12) The Cosmocopia increases human manifestation potential in pace with human receptivity towards evolutionary unfoldment. (118 characters)
13) The Cosmocopia Self-celebrates through individual human beings in order to give laudatory expression to the grand fact of being. (128 characters)
Feel the Cosmocopia existing thru you AS you today!
It becomes a unique challenge, almost like a game- to say with clarity, intelligence and wit all we mean to say in 140 characters or less. Twitter forces us to condense and optimize our thoughts in a way that makes the greatest impact- much like haiku (hey, there's a thought, haikuitter). It is as much what we say as how we say it.
At Cosmocopia, we have respect for the techno-spiritual. We embrace technology as a legitimate means of grace. Digital sacraments can make us holy as they make us smarter.
I wish to share 13 Cosmocopian ideas that have been taking up much real estate in my mind lately- I will share them in a way that would make my fellow tweets proud- in 140 characters or less. Here goes:
1) The Cosmocopia is a living, responsive and intelligent entity whose totality of consciousness is concentrated in every point of space/time. (135 characters)
2) The Cosmocopia flows from an evolutionary impulse to introduce the new and unprecedented to maximize the potential for enjoyment of life. (137 characters)
3) The Cosmocopia is designed to process spiritual transformation and to move Creation into increasing levels of perfection. (124 characters)
4) The Cosmocopia invites and involves human participation in the Creation Process and finds pleasure as Self-recognition inside of us. (132 characters)
5) The Cosmocopia finds it's high point of expression thru individual human volition (will). (89 characters)
6) The Cosmocopia functions under the Law of Supply and Demand and furnishes Supply to meet the corresponding Demand of the human will. (132 characters)
7) The Cosmocopia becomes more specific and refined in it's manifestations as it is informed and focused by human intelligence. (124 characters)
8) The Cosmocopia is infinitely amenable to suggestion and can be molded on-the-fly because of it's quality of Cosmoplasticity. (125 characters)
9) The Cosmocopia flows abundantly into human experience and is increased as the human agent models the copious generosity of the Cosmocopia. (138 characters)
10) The Cosmocopia is reproduced in scale by the Human Creative Process which results in copious out-flowings into the human plane (126 characters)
11) The Cosmocopia eliminates ignorance and limitation and teaches humanity to expect and declare the highest. (106 characters)
12) The Cosmocopia increases human manifestation potential in pace with human receptivity towards evolutionary unfoldment. (118 characters)
13) The Cosmocopia Self-celebrates through individual human beings in order to give laudatory expression to the grand fact of being. (128 characters)
Feel the Cosmocopia existing thru you AS you today!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
In a Cosmic Sense- Anyone Who Does Not Wish to Grow is Done For
I don't mean to come off as doom and gloom- but it is important for each of us to realize that, in a cosmic sense, if we do not love the idea of our own growth and perfecting- we're finished. The Cosmocopia cannot abide a stand-in-the-way.
All things are moving towards their desired ends. People who are stationary misjudge non-activity (death) to be "the life"and are declining in vital activity whereas the advancing and passionate are lifted higher toward their ends by the wings of the gods. In a power-evolving universe, the sleepers are superceded and eclipsed by the aware.
Growth and expansion is the primary evolutionary impulse. Variegated and multiform expression is an act of joyful creativity for the Cosmocopia- the universe is ever in play-mode. Your head and hands and feet give expression to this cosmic evolutionary impulse. Indeed, it has not been more truly stated than this- "Variety is the Spice of Life"!
Set your intention for CQI- continuous quality improvement. To stop improving is to stagnate- which is to die.
We, as beings fitted and fashioned for the deepest experience of the full-range of the riches of life, must play by the rules of the cosmic game or we will be benched. Get off your ass and dance. Embrace growth and change. They are your teacher-servants on the road to your own perfection.
All things are moving towards their desired ends. People who are stationary misjudge non-activity (death) to be "the life"and are declining in vital activity whereas the advancing and passionate are lifted higher toward their ends by the wings of the gods. In a power-evolving universe, the sleepers are superceded and eclipsed by the aware.
Growth and expansion is the primary evolutionary impulse. Variegated and multiform expression is an act of joyful creativity for the Cosmocopia- the universe is ever in play-mode. Your head and hands and feet give expression to this cosmic evolutionary impulse. Indeed, it has not been more truly stated than this- "Variety is the Spice of Life"!
Set your intention for CQI- continuous quality improvement. To stop improving is to stagnate- which is to die.
We, as beings fitted and fashioned for the deepest experience of the full-range of the riches of life, must play by the rules of the cosmic game or we will be benched. Get off your ass and dance. Embrace growth and change. They are your teacher-servants on the road to your own perfection.
Friday, May 8, 2009
3 Little Words Sat On My Window (and they told me I don't have to worry)
Close eyes. Ready? Ok, I have a surprise for you that I think you will like. It is precious idea- one that changes everything- ready? Don't peek. Take a deep breath-K? That's good... Ready, here we go:
Thou -Art -God.
Let it steep a bit and try not to let any prejudice color the moment. Just breathe deeply and feel yourself as totally, obviously, utterly and ridiculously divine...............................Breathe in the divine air that flows through the divine capillaries in your divine lungs, transferring divine oxygen into your divine bloodstream pumping through miles of divine veins and arteries to innumerable divine cells, each a universe unto itself, which constitute the vastly greater universe of high-functioning soft, wet components that comprise the divine miracle of life that you call (your name here).
Again:
Thou- Art- God.
This is no slight but rather a tribute to the All Pervading Intelligence that many call God. If earthly patterns are any indication of heavenly ones, I point to the Child. The Child is an incarnation of the love of it's parents. The Child is the embodiment of the vital energies that are created by it's parents. The Child is not to be confused with the parent and we do not confuse ourselves with the All Originating Source, but in the same way that the Child does, we too share the qualities of the parent and literally embody the life-principle that is seeking expansion and expression in the cosmos. As the Child can say, "I am human because my parents are human", so too can we say, "I am Divine because my Parent is Divine."
So once again, and this time out loud: "I AM Divine- I AM Divine- I AM Divine!"
Thou Art God- now go and act like one.
Thou -Art -God.
Let it steep a bit and try not to let any prejudice color the moment. Just breathe deeply and feel yourself as totally, obviously, utterly and ridiculously divine...............................Breathe in the divine air that flows through the divine capillaries in your divine lungs, transferring divine oxygen into your divine bloodstream pumping through miles of divine veins and arteries to innumerable divine cells, each a universe unto itself, which constitute the vastly greater universe of high-functioning soft, wet components that comprise the divine miracle of life that you call (your name here).
Again:
Thou- Art- God.
This is no slight but rather a tribute to the All Pervading Intelligence that many call God. If earthly patterns are any indication of heavenly ones, I point to the Child. The Child is an incarnation of the love of it's parents. The Child is the embodiment of the vital energies that are created by it's parents. The Child is not to be confused with the parent and we do not confuse ourselves with the All Originating Source, but in the same way that the Child does, we too share the qualities of the parent and literally embody the life-principle that is seeking expansion and expression in the cosmos. As the Child can say, "I am human because my parents are human", so too can we say, "I am Divine because my Parent is Divine."
So once again, and this time out loud: "I AM Divine- I AM Divine- I AM Divine!"
Thou Art God- now go and act like one.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Your Life is a Twitter from the All Pervading Consciousness
I just signed up for a twitter account. It is ridiculously flattering to gain and to have followers- I wonder if that makes everyone else feel like Jesus? Anyway, greetings from the Cosmocopia- where everything is a metaphor for everything else.
So I, an admitted latecomer, am intrigued by the twitterverse. I can see it's a way of staying connected. It's not so much about conveying info as it is about reaching out and feeling that strong undercurrent of life and communication that normally is beyond our awareness. When we "twit", it forces us to ask ouselves important questions like, "How am I really feeling?" " How shall I reprezent, (yo)?" "What is the best and briefest way to say it?" This is good training for us all.
As the Cosmocopia expands and approaches Omega Point, it is fitting that we see the emergence of this new style of communication. Everything is becoming better-faster-stronger. We are on a psychedelic roller-coaster careening at break-neck speed toward the Grand Attractor at the end of time. Our collective lives are like so many "tweets" flying succinctly and gracefully through the endless ocean of cosmic energy. The All Pervading Consciousness is busy force multiplying helpful and coherent information to build the Cosmocopia. Do your part- be a Tweet.
So I, an admitted latecomer, am intrigued by the twitterverse. I can see it's a way of staying connected. It's not so much about conveying info as it is about reaching out and feeling that strong undercurrent of life and communication that normally is beyond our awareness. When we "twit", it forces us to ask ouselves important questions like, "How am I really feeling?" " How shall I reprezent, (yo)?" "What is the best and briefest way to say it?" This is good training for us all.
As the Cosmocopia expands and approaches Omega Point, it is fitting that we see the emergence of this new style of communication. Everything is becoming better-faster-stronger. We are on a psychedelic roller-coaster careening at break-neck speed toward the Grand Attractor at the end of time. Our collective lives are like so many "tweets" flying succinctly and gracefully through the endless ocean of cosmic energy. The All Pervading Consciousness is busy force multiplying helpful and coherent information to build the Cosmocopia. Do your part- be a Tweet.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Unthinking the Untrue ( a re-education in first principles and a warm cup of Green Tea)
This being my first-ever blog, I want to start out by saying thank-you for taking your time to explore the crazy-sexy-beautiful world that I call Cosmocopia. Since I decided to unlearn a few untruths in order to access the vibrant realm of the Cosmocopia, my life has taken on a whole new quality that has become the basis for my eager desire to arise before the crack of dawn to engage the Cosmocopia over a hot gourd of Yerbe Mate.
The Cosmocopia is the simple understanding that the entire Universe is a Grand Cosmic Horn of Plenty. It stands in polar contrast to the pervasive race meme that perceives the Universe as a purposeless phenomena where scarcity and death are the norm. This "scarcity-mindset" results in a scared-shitless urge for self-preservation which degrades potentially magnificent human beings into greedy little ego-bundles whose whole lives blast the infantile inanity "MINES!" repeatedly over the course of their diminished existence.
In the Cosmocopian reality though, the fundamental quality of the Universe is Benevolence, and the Cosmocopia is designed to supply endless benefit and increase to all it's component parts- meaning you and I and everything around us. (take a long draw of that Green Tea). Well, I've gotta cut this first post short to go teach a Yoga class at the Y- but realize that you can make the choice in this moment how you wish to perceive and experience the Universe. Perception is everything and it all starts with the decision to unlearn the untrue.
Namaste
The Cosmocopia is the simple understanding that the entire Universe is a Grand Cosmic Horn of Plenty. It stands in polar contrast to the pervasive race meme that perceives the Universe as a purposeless phenomena where scarcity and death are the norm. This "scarcity-mindset" results in a scared-shitless urge for self-preservation which degrades potentially magnificent human beings into greedy little ego-bundles whose whole lives blast the infantile inanity "MINES!" repeatedly over the course of their diminished existence.
In the Cosmocopian reality though, the fundamental quality of the Universe is Benevolence, and the Cosmocopia is designed to supply endless benefit and increase to all it's component parts- meaning you and I and everything around us. (take a long draw of that Green Tea). Well, I've gotta cut this first post short to go teach a Yoga class at the Y- but realize that you can make the choice in this moment how you wish to perceive and experience the Universe. Perception is everything and it all starts with the decision to unlearn the untrue.
Namaste
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