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Wheels within Wheels, Mysteries upon Mysteries.

With two eyes, I am distracted by your vision and my reflection. But can I see my original face?

Welcome to my bit of narcissism.

I like stretching out my arms during windy days and feeling the wind wrap around me and go through my fingers…

I don’t know who I am really. Am I a collection of memories? Am I the footprints of my history?

I’d like to think that who I am runs a bit deeper than that.

I look around and I am always utterly amazed - Struck by beauty in every place. I couldn’t have dreamed any of this.

Especially the platypus…and maybe rhinos. They get me every time.

You see, I think we all since we were young felt that bit of spark, like something weird and wonderful is happening and we're here for a reason. And that reason is big.

What happened to that spark? Some people keep it going, stoking it with dreams. Others give into that other part of themselves that...well...just wants to feel comfortable to some degree, and therefore toss aside those aspirations because it requires to much effort, and asks us to leave our comfort zone. It's ironic though, how comfortable we can be with our misery.

I'm interested in meeting those who really want to do something or simply want to truly be. Something that lives up to what that spark in their heart is urging them to do. I mean, why not? Life just seems boring any other way. Why would I want to cordone myself when that spark says that there is so much more.

Throughout my life, I have viewed technology not just as a necessary tool but as a creative outlet and an evolutionary catalyst. Technology, especially the internet, can bridge many of the cultural and social gaps that prevent people from seeing their lives in a larger global context. It can help break down the barriers of separation if applied properly, and make people realize who they really are.

My passionate interest in transforming the planet and evolving consciousness has lead me to follow the teachings of Andrew Cohen, and other spiritual philosophers such as Ken Wilber and Brian Swimme. Furthering the first cause of creation, and vowing to never relent until all is awakened.

"Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial. Our mission is to jettison those pointless preoccupations and take on once again the primordial cargo of inexhaustible ecstasy. Or barring that, to turn out a good juicy cheeseburger and a strong glass of beer."

– Tom Robbins

" In a series of books (e.g., A Sociable God, Up from Eden, and The Eye of Spirit), I have tried to show that religion itself has always performed two very important, but very different, functions. One, it acts as a way of creating meaning for the separate self: it offers myths and stories and tales and narratives and rituals and revivals that, taken together, help the separate self make sense of, and endure, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. This function of religion does not usually or necessarily change the level of consciousness in a person; it does not deliver radical transformation. Nor does it deliver a shattering liberation from the separate self altogether. Rather, it consoles the self, fortifies the self, defends the self, promotes the self. As long as the separate self believes the myths, performs the rituals, mouths the prayers, or embraces the dogma, then the self, it is fervently believed, will be "saved"--either now in the glory of being God-saved or Goddess-favored, or in an after-life that insures eternal wonderment.

But two, religion has also served--in a usually very, very small minority--the function of radical transformation and liberation. This function of religion does not fortify the separate self, but utterly shatters it--not consolation but devastation, not entrenchment but emptiness, not complacency but explosion, not comfort but revolution--in short, not a conventional bolstering of consciousness but a radical transmutation and transformation at the deepest seat of consciousness itself."

-Ken Wilber

"How truly liberated is our own mind? How vast is our perspective? Is our interest in enlightened consciousness so inspired that we always seek for a way of seeing that is free from unexamined assumptions? As much as we may believe we want to, we'll never be able to truly evolve in hell. Do you know what hell is? Hell is not even knowing that we are lost. Hell is being unconscious, adrift in the inner world of isolation and suffocation that is created by a self that is enslaved by the separate ego. And unless we become aware of how bad it really is, we'll never find the courage or the inspiration to do whatever is necessarily to finally liberate ourselves here and now in this very life. I can't emphasize enough how urgent this is. So few of us take the possibility of our own liberation deadly seriously. And the main reason for this is, once again, that we just don't know how bad things are."

-Andrew Cohen

We don't really know what these cometary knots are headed toward. The guess is that they will grow cold and dark and will then dissipate. But sometimes when I'm staring at them I pretend that they are in fact enroute to becoming solar systems all by themselves. It helps me remember that throughout the Milky Way there are clouds of such gas collapsing, even now, into new solar systems. All of it via the same dyanamics that created our Sun and Earth. That's the great thing. The same creative energy is at work in the cometary knots, as in the birth of new stars, as in our bodies as we wake up and drag ourselves down to Starbucks and wonder about the day. We are that same energy with the added burden and privilege and knowing that in fact we are the creative energy of the universe."

-Brian Swimme