Dylan

Lately, I keep listening to old Dylan songs.Seems to be a perfect soundtrack to life as an ex-pat gringo surfer losing his Human form in the warm water and green jungle lands of central Mexico.

I was 12 in 1968 when I first realized there was some power in the sounds and feel of Bob Dylan's music. At 12 I wouldn't have put it like that but that's what was going on. I could feel it then. That vibe resonated with what was happening in the world at that time...frequency melding, mirror to the world, as one singer-songwriter saw it.

The next generation of that vibe, the present day energy of "somethin's happening here"...although there's no "Man with a gun over there"there may be a camera or a listening device from the stars watching you now....point is the paranoia sure hasn't paled with age...these days the paranoia is the forte of the media and our political leaders. They aren't even stoned and they feed on that stuff like a great banquet.Worse than that, we eat it..like junkies going crazy for something they know deep inside ain't good for them and they do it anyway. Addiction...the humans are seriously addicted to the frequency and emotional energy of fear and anger, judgement and self -importance.

Watching the world go around I can see what I think I remember seeing in the late 60's. The life that was once upon a time normal is disintegrating into the truth. Dylan tells a lot of personal emotional truth. All the qualities that were so cool about his music then are back.

I've learned something over the last few years...when the truth is coming to town a lot of shit is going to hit the fan. Well, it's not really shit, more like all those distorted lies and stories that have no truth too them, they hit the fan. Can you imagine if the truth was to walk into our American Dream and all the lies, all across the board, were called out ? Of course it would have to start in our little homes and communities, we the people would have to be willing to be the change we were looking for.

Levon Helm sings about it in The Bands "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down"..."Virgil Cain is my name and I served on the Danville train"....So Your gonna have to serve somebody, got any new ideas for life in the 21st century cuse the 20th century version can't take on much more water till that ships going down..Swimming with the rats ain't much of a future...

The good news is we humans create realities with each choice, action, thought and belief so it's only resistance to the coming of the truth that will bring more pain, fear and suffering. We can bring heaven to Earth, will we? Como no..It's All Over Now Baby Blue...I Shall Be Released.....Vaya con Dios, Lee

Carousel

My experience in life shifts and stretches, appears and vanishes, it's all so etheric and compelling. I love showing up, I ask for more life, more living and always more comes until I say "this has to slow down or get more focused". The little things continue to be the most meaningful and the big things seem not so real or interesting.
I live in the flow of the world and I hear from far beyond where this world would seem to end.
As I've come to realize the power in taking myself apart and looking at Me and asking all the questions that I ask about me and what I think I know and where I think I am, I continue to find that I'm not what I want to believe about me. I don't have a definition of what it is I would say I believe I am. Somehow my interest disconnected from being interested in how I think about myself.
The world spins like a Carousel. It's a lot of work trying to spin with the world. It's a lot of work trying to spin with me, my wife says it a lot, my little girl told me last week she's tired of travelling all over, "Can't we just stay in one place for a whole time Daddy?"
If you stop and looked back through your life can you see how you inherited a particular wave and motion that you've carried on. It's a frequency of legacy and it is definitely heritable. I can see mine and I smile and wish I could give my Dad and A.D., my step Dad, a hug. They gave me this intense appetite for living and doing and being as good at whatever I'm doing as I can be.My Mom taught me to see the beauty in the world. She also taught me to not take no for an answer..that ones been tricky..and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
My Mee, that's my wife, last week she went through the medical maze of American medicine. I'm grateful for it but sometimes it's too much too fast without a lot of stepping back and seeing the whole picture first...but that's what makes the insurance, medical testing, hospital staffed biz go round. A lot of people doing great work but it is a bit manic between waiting for hours to see the doctor.
I thank this amazing creation we call life for putting me and Mee in the same orbit together. In some ,sometimes, bizarre way we are a great match but you'd never see that based on your standard personality or census questionnaire. We are not a rational fit, we are a magical fit, way better for the both of us.
Having her need all the medical assistance woke me up to the memory of mortality. We are both here until we're not and I would miss her more than I can imagine if she was not around to love me and sometimes drive me crazy....that's life isn't it.
So maybe stop a minute and consider that there's no one in your life that is guaranteed to be here in the morning. You might send them all your love and gratitude , it only takes an eternal moment and it's as real as the floor your sitting on.In fact the love we share goes on forever and the floor , it only lasts til the real estate values make it obsolete.
Thank you for this day Father and thank you for this Heart of mine Mother...and thank you for never leaving us alone here....Saludos, Lee

In GOD We Trust

IN GOD WE TRUST

It has always amazed me to read this legend in the coins of
the US. And even if I lately have learned to admire and like
this country in many ways, I think there is nothing that is
farther away from the truth, not meaning that in my country
is different, but here I don’t read it in every coin,
reminding me of where we put our trust.

If we trusted God we would not have the need of trying to
control everything, we would know that He or Life is a
greater intelligence than we are and would enjoy what is
there instead of suffering for what is not.

If we trusted God, we would know that her creation is
perfect, complete and divine, that we are part of this
beautiful art and we would not compare, judge and criticize
everything and everybody.

If we trusted God we would know that we have always been in
his heart and just have forgotten who we really are. We have
always rejoiced his heart and are home in him, playing for a
while in forgetfulness.

If we trusted God we would know that this beautiful Earth
is a paradise where there is enough for everybody if we
don’t create hell ourselves.

If we trusted God we would know that we can remember our
divine essence if we learn to listen to the content of our
mind and decide which thoughts I want to believe and which
are only chatter of the normal functioning of an amazing
instrument.

If we trusted God we would have more fun and play, knowing
that we are taken care of and are loved without conditions,
that we don’t have to try so hard, that we don’t have to
justify our existence and that being our selves is not only
enough, but beautiful.

If we trusted God we would not be afraid of crises and
change, we could be able to flow and not suffer imagining
horrible possibilities that will never be.

If we trusted God we would know that the divine purpose of
our existence is to let Life be through us and to be every
day more like our original design.

If we trusted God…we would be in heaven already here and
now.
Let us grow in trust for our own freedom and happiness.
Trust in God, in Life in us!!!



This was sent to me by my dear friend Mahru Ahumada, a beautiful person and good friend from Mexico City.
Sometimes all this work we do seems seperate and out of touch with the world. Like being happy and grateful are just not that easy. Well, grateful and happy are easy, it's the not complicating everything that's not easy. Because we don't know how to live life without complicating everything we do and then we call that "normal" and "the way it is".
We will do whatever is necessary to make ourselves "Right" because right is more important than happy or grateful . Right is even more important than the truth. We are not interested in the truth, we're interested in what we think because we believe what we think is so important.
Already the simple message of living with gratitude and being happy are complicated by all the words. If you want to be happy then maybe you don't need more money or better sex or more clean time or ....maybe all you need do is stop ..stop...stop....
Right now put all your attention on someone or something you have unconditional gratitude or love for and be with that feeling and energy for one minute...there is peace there with that thought...in one second your thinking will take over again and happy and grateful will be too complicated again so you'll do what we have all been taught to do, look for more or less or something,anything outside of ourself to fullfill you. It's a habit , break the habit and you will find happy and grateful already in you where it's always been.....Peace, Lee

So Much At Once

I read a story the other day from a guy who channels some beings called the Hathors. I have no idea what that means, who "they" are or if channeling is real, not real, whatever. You see I am picky about what I choose to Believe these days. To say "I Believe" is an automatic attachment to whatever is connected to that belief and we humans are way over attached to our beliefs and this resulting world we live in. In the piece I read there was what felt like a great truth. The Hathors said that in this time we will live with an unprecedented array of situations all seemingly occurring at once. This is directed at not just the "world" but toward our personal lives as well. Ok, from a big perspective this world has economic melt down, outrageous unbelievable political chaos, corporate[ the great strong hold of American faith]dishonesty and greed being unveiled across the board, collapsing housing values and market, the car makers can't give cars away, our food supply is so contaminated and genetically twisted that nutrition is second to manipulation and profit which leads to unparalleled medical issues such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease etc...You get the picture. Oh yeah and the Ozone hole over the poles is growing much faster than the scientists expected which also leads to the ice caps melting and sea levels rising faster than expected so our global weather patterns will be more erratic and challenging than anticipated and that's also happening now, not ten years from now.
Then I read about how screwed the Polar Bears are , they have become so desperate from loss of habitat that they are eating each other to survive which is not really survival at all but self inflicted extinction.
We are the Polar Bears...we are still killing each other over oil, diamonds, defense contracts, drugs, greed and religious arrogance and stupidity.We are just another link in the food chain and guess what, we are in up to our ears in extreme, long term, reality altering, crisis.
So as we say in the language of the Toltec Masteries,"Where is your Attention"? What are you feeding with the energy of your thoughts and beliefs, your fears and desires? We created this world we live in and if this world is going to be something other than what we are doing now, or worse, then We have to begin to look in the Mirror, at our self, you, me ,us. "They" don't exist. "They" waited in New Orleans for "somebody" to save them. They think the Good Ol' Boy U.S.A. is still out there some where. "They"say that change will come with a New President, "they" tell us it's the "terrorists" that we need to fear, "They" Do Not Exist.The terrorists in this world are corporate greed and stealing disguised as profits and return on equity as God.We have lost our love for life and each other and replaced it with our demands and expectations of more and the way it's supposed to be as an alternative reality.All the above exists because we have made it so. We have chosen to live our lives the way we do and we are the only ones who can do life another way.
Yes, it is all happening at once , or appears to be, because we have chosen to only see what is right in front of us, literally, and have in doing so given free reign to "They".When you are addicted to a drug to get clean you have to go through detox. Heroin addicts will tell you they are so terrified of the misery of detox that they will keep using even when they know it's killing them.The cure appears to be worse than the prognosis, so they die.Fear, greed and power are much more addictive than Heroin.
All this is happening like it or not, guilty or not, good, bad and indifferent. So many things coming at us Humans at once. This is what it took to get our attention. We demanded that the script play out exactly as it has and will.
The Hathors also said that if we are to survive then we will need to wake up and take responsibility for how we live in this world, each of us as individuals, then all of us collectively.It doesn't take a channeller or a multidimensional being to figure that one out.
So all at once where is your attention? Are you looking at your world and asking what you might do for real to make life less complicated and to be more responsible in each day with each action you take? I am and I will to the best of my ability.
"They" have Hell to pay and will because "they" see themselves as in power here."They" have so much to try and control and defend that new possibilities will be limited to having to fit into their perception of power structure. I am not responsible for them and I am responsible for me and my family. My attention will be on living each day with love and gratitude and treating others as I want to be treated to the best of my ability.
There was a time in my personal life when it all seemed to come down at once and that is what it took to get my attention and it worked. I fought long and hard at change coming into my life and change came anyway because change is the truth of life and creation and I eventually just let go.
The way "it's" been is history, now we get to create what will be Now. Life goes on with us or with out us..So where's your attention?
VAYA CON DIOS.