Podcast Episode: A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

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A student gazes out at Earth from a high-tech space classroom

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This podcast version of 1 of my more recent writings stars 2 AI created characters named Pip and Mara.

Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the daily writing prompt is “come up with a crazy business idea” and the answer turns out to be: civilization, but better.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse takes that prompt seriously, and today we’re following the thread — from a vision of shared consciousness and cooperative economics to what it actually looks like to clear space, inside and out.

Pip: Let’s start with the business idea itself.

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A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

Mara: The post opens with a genuine question: what does an economy look like when the underlying operating system shifts — when interconnection is the default, not the exception?

Pip: And the answer isn’t a product or a pitch deck. It’s a paradigm. The post lays out what falls away when people genuinely feel their connection to each other.

Mara: The list is specific: “the institutionalized isms, trashing the park, wars, violence, gang banging, organized crime, the so called legitimate maximum-economic profit capitalist conditioning, economic strangulations, and the need to control each other fades away, and is released into a black hole in the Universe.”

Pip: That’s a sentence doing a lot of heavy lifting — and the point underneath it is real. The argument is that these patterns aren’t permanent features of human nature; they’re symptoms of a particular kind of disconnection.

Mara: Right, and the post is careful to say it doesn’t get killed or die — it transforms. The balloon metaphor follows: letting go of a thought form so it floats away, rather than fighting it.

Pip: There’s a friend in the piece who’s been sober from the news for over a year and reports genuine levity — less charge around politics, less reactive energy. That’s offered as a small proof of concept.

Mara: The post connects that to The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield’s intention, quoted directly, was to inspire readers to “reclaim their power from dominant authorities and dysfunctional relationships: not via political or legal action but through a personalized spirituality that portrays life as a meaningful journey toward self-actualization.”

Pip: So the crazy business idea is essentially: skip the legal filing, go straight to the consciousness upgrade.

Mara: The post also gets concrete about physical space — imagining trash compressed in a way that literally opens up room, turning what looked like a landfill into ground for new growth. It’s the same logic applied materially.

Pip: And the T’ai Chi section earns its place. Professor Cheng’s instruction to “be like a ghost” — to create spaciousness — maps directly onto the economic argument: lead, follow, listen, don’t force.

Mara: The upshot is that cooperative competition, in this frame, isn’t naive. It’s more like push hands than a zero-sum match — sensitive to the other’s energy, not trying to overpower it.

Pip: Which makes the closing meditation clip feel less like an appendix and more like the actual deliverable.

Mara: That thread — from inner clearing to outer structure — is what the whole piece is building toward.

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Pip: Clear the space, transform the pattern, don’t fight the balloon — it’s a coherent through-line once you follow it.

Mara: More from Classroom Mothership Earth next time.

Please enjoy the original post that inspired this new podcast version at the link below:

A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

Podcast Episode: A New Moon in Gemini, Solstices, Full Strawberry Moon & Mercury in Retrograde

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A glowing full moon rises over a peaceful countryside at dusk

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This podcast version of 1 of my more recent writings stars 2 AI created characters named Pip and Mara.

Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:

Pip: Gemini season, a solstice, a strawberry moon, Mercury going sideways — June is apparently doing a lot.

Mara: This episode covers one post from Ari Joshua Bouse, mapping the celestial events of late June and what they invite us to pay attention to — new moons, seasonal turning points, a full moon with Indigenous roots, and a retrograde worth taking seriously.

Pip: Let’s start with the sky.

A New Moon in Gemini Through Mercury Retrograde

Mara: June opens with a New Moon in Gemini on the fifteenth, and the question this post is really asking is: what does the sky this month want from us, and how do we work with it rather than against it?

Pip: The post frames the Gemini New Moon as a prompt to balance thinking and feeling — and it puts it plainly: “Harmonizing with our heads and hearts helps support effective communication.”

Mara: That’s the throughline for the whole month. The New Moon opens a window for setting intentions, connecting socially, and letting communication projects move more freely. The post specifically names storytelling and sharing topical truths as things that can come to life with greater ease right now.

Pip: Then June 21 arrives carrying two things at once — the Summer Solstice and Father’s Day, a pairing that won’t repeat until 2037.

Mara: The post draws a real contrast there. In the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice carries what it calls Grandfather Sun-Yang energy — outward, expansive, growth-oriented. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the opposite: the longest night, Grandmother Moon-Yin energy, a turning inward.

Pip: The planet literally experiencing opposite seasons at the same moment — that’s the kind of thing that makes the phrase “duality of living on this planet” feel less like a bumper sticker.

Mara: The Full Strawberry Moon follows on June 29. The post traces that name to the Algonquin and other North American nations who connected the wild berry harvest to this moon, and notes that other cultures named it for whatever mattered most to people on the land at midsummer.

Pip: History embedded in a calendar. That’s not nothing.

Mara: June 21 also opens Cancer season, running through July 22. The post frames Cancer as a softer emotional register — nourishment, self-care, reconnecting with feeling. Then Mercury stations retrograde on June 29, lasting through July 23, and the post treats that as a genuine invitation: slow down, reflect, and pay attention to subconscious patterns.

Pip: So the month ends with two overlapping energies asking for the same thing — quiet and inward attention.

Mara: And the psychic and dream life, the post says, can surface real insight during that window if you’re working with it intentionally rather than just waiting for it to pass.

Pip: Which points straight toward how we actually tend our inner lives day to day.

Mara: A month of thresholds — new beginnings, a solstice, ancestral moons, a retrograde. The invitation seems to be: meet each one with some awareness.

Pip: More sky ahead. We’ll see what it asks for next time.

Please enjoy the original post that inspired this new podcast version at the link below:

A New Moon in Gemini, Summer Solstice, Full Strawberry Moon & Mercury in Retrograde at the End of June

Podcast Episode: Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave

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An empty classroom with wooden desks arranged in a circular formation bathed in sunlight.

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Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:

Pip: There’s a site called Classroom Mothership Earth, which is either a philosophy blog or the most ambitious field trip ever conceived — possibly both.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse writes here about education, consciousness, and the ideas that stay with you long after the bell rings. Today we’re following him back into a high school classroom and into Plato’s cave. Let’s start with what that cave actually meant.

Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave

Pip: The post opens with a prompt — describe something you learned in high school — and the answer isn’t a formula or a date. It’s a philosophy class that apparently rewired the writer’s entire sense of reality.

Mara: The Humanities course had a teacher who, as the post puts it, “embodied his humanity” — theatrical, philosophical, running the room like a group rather than a lecture. The layout shifted between rows, clusters, and horseshoe configurations to keep energy moving through the space.

Pip: So the room itself was part of the pedagogy. The furniture arrangement wasn’t aesthetic — it was functional, designed to open something up in the students.

Mara: And what got opened up, specifically, was Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The post describes it this way: “the metaphor of humanity being asleep and trapped in own own darkness lit a fire in my neurons and energy field.”

Pip: That’s a sentence doing a lot of heavy lifting across several centuries of philosophy.

Mara: What it means in practice is that the allegory didn’t stay abstract. It landed as a personal reckoning — the post connects it directly to protective instincts, survival dynamics, and what it calls “death and rebirth” taking root in the psyche. This wasn’t intellectual exercise; it was identity-level disruption.

Mara: The class also covered Plato’s Republic against Pericles’ Democracy, the teacher’s own Theory of Good, and Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha. The curriculum was genuinely wide.

Pip: And the post notes that metacognition and superconsciousness weren’t yet common language — but that didn’t stop anyone from having those experiences. The concepts came later; the experiences came first.

Mara: The image that closes the reflection is the teacher drawing a diagram of the Cave on a blackboard, and the writer connecting that chalk sketch to ancient cave art. The visual form of the idea outlasted the lesson itself.

Pip: Turns out the cave has good acoustics for anything that echoes.

Mara: The throughline is that a single classroom encounter with one allegory can reorganize how a person understands consciousness — and keeps doing so long after graduation.

Pip: Shadows on a wall, seating arrangements, a teacher with chalk — small things that turn out to be load-bearing.

Mara: Next time, more from the mothership.

Please enjoy the original post that inspired this new podcast version at the link below:

Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

Podcast Episode: Embodying Paradox, Change & Humor In The Everyday Moments Of Life

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Swirling water streams intertwine with glowing geometric crystals in an abstract composition.

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This podcast version of 1 of my more recent writings stars 2 AI created characters named Pip and Mara.

Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the curriculum includes falling off your bike, losing on purpose, and calling all of it wisdom.

Mara: That’s actually a fair summary. Ari Joshua Bouse has a new post up exploring resilience, paradox, and how everyday stumbles become the practice itself. Let’s start with what it means to stop fighting the dark and work with it instead.

Embodying Paradox, Change and Humor In Everyday Life

Mara: The central question here is how resilience actually gets built — not by avoiding difficulty, but by changing your relationship to it. The post argues that resilience is cultivated, not inherited, and that the everyday moment is where that cultivation happens.

Pip: And the frame for all of it comes from a Taoist concept the post calls Investing In Loss. The setup is direct: “you might lose a game 99 times out of a hundred. But if you lose 99 times and you are paying mindful attention about your partners moves, you can learn their tricks, and spring the trap to win the 100th game.”

Mara: So the upshot is that losing, done consciously, is actually data. The mindset shift the post is pointing at is the difference between defeat and apprenticeship — same outcome, completely different relationship to it.

Pip: The bike and the swimming pool make the same case more viscerally. Most of us got water up our nose and fell off the handlebars and somehow did not develop lasting trauma from either. We just got back on.

Mara: Right — and the post uses that to ask a genuine question: how do we stay present in everyday life the way we were present when we were learning something genuinely new and a little scary? That’s where Dan Millman enters. The Way of the Peaceful Warrior gets name-checked as a long-running personal touchstone — a book recommended in high school, not fully read until after college, but never forgotten.

Pip: There is something quietly honest about admitting the book sat on the to-do list for years before it landed. Delayed absorption counts.

Mara: The post opens with two epigraphs that frame the whole thing. Eckhart Tolle on bringing in light rather than fighting darkness, and S. Kelley Harrell going further: “bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren’t divisible.” That’s the paradox the title is naming — not resolving the tension, but inhabiting it.

Mara: The shadow-boxing image the post offers — awakening to shades of your hidden self in a mirror — suggests the inner work and the outer stumbling are the same practice, just different angles.

Pip: Lose on purpose, get back on the bike, and hold the light and the dark at the same time. Straightforward advice, if you don’t mind the bruises.

Mara: That tension between difficulty and openness seems like the thread worth pulling next time.

Please enjoy the original post that inspired this new podcast version at the link below:

Embodying Paradox, Change & Humor In The Everyday Moments Of Life

May all Beings be free of suffering, and awaken to God Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Diversity Within Unity, Inner Peace and the Universal Pillars of Love And Truth.

Podcast Episode: What’s In It For Me? A New World If You Can Take It.

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Complex network of glowing interconnected lines representing neural connections

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This podcast version of 1 of my more recent writings stars 2 AI created characters named Pip and Mara.

Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:

Pip: Mercury is in retrograde, paradigms are shifting, and somewhere a crocus is bravely breaching the frost — welcome to Classroom Mothership Earth.

Mara: This episode follows Ari Joshua Bouse into questions about consciousness, imagination, and what it actually means to navigate a world in transition. Let’s start with the post that frames all of it — what’s in this for any of us.

What’s In It For Me? A New World If You Can Take It.

Pip: The post opens with a provocation: we are collectively in transition, between paradigms, and the question is how you hold yourself together while the scenery changes around you.

Mara: The grounding line comes from Amit Goswami, who the post cites as arguing that consciousness is “the foundation of existence that causes the wave function to collapse into a single experienced reality.”

Pip: Which is a dense way of saying that what you believe about reality shapes the reality you experience — and that science and spirituality are, as the post puts it, converging in waves.

Mara: The post builds that convergence from several directions. Indigenous oral traditions — the Hopi origin story gets a specific nod — carry accounts of Sky People and humanity’s relationship with Mother Earth that predate modern frameworks by millennia.

Pip: And then there are the credentialed dissenters: Colonel Phillip J. Corso, author of The Day After Roswell, and Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack, who wrote Passport to the Cosmos. Both decorated, both professionally established long before they started talking publicly about UFO and ET phenomena.

Mara: The post treats them as contextual witnesses — people whose prior credibility makes their later accounts harder to dismiss. The through-line is that stories about where we come from are not fixed. They shift the way seasons do.

Pip: The Mercury retrograde framing earns its keep here. The post compares it to The Twilight Zone — that liminal, slightly disorienting space where the usual rules feel suspended and perception gets elastic.

Mara: And the practical counsel the post lands on is this: stay playful, stay light-hearted, maintain a healthy detachment. The warning is against fixed thinking and fear-based framing — what the post calls “doomsday scenarios” and “war-mongering mentality.”

Pip: Einstein opens the whole thing — imagination over knowledge — and by the end you understand why. Knowledge consolidates what already exists. Imagination is what gets you through a paradigm shift without calcifying.

Mara: The post closes with a reminder that we may not control what happens, but we do choose our attitudes. Spring is arriving, crocuses are coming up, and the work is staying open to what’s next.

Pip: Consciousness as foundation, imagination as the tool, and a crocus as the unlikely mascot of paradigm change.

Mara: The territory here keeps expanding — next time, more from the edges of what we think we know.

Please enjoy the original post that inspired this podcast version at the link below:

“What’s In It For Me? A New World If You Can Take It.”

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

Happiness As A Way Of Life Does Not Mean That You’re Happy All The Time

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Daily writing prompt
What’s a common misconception people have about happiness?
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I remember when I worked with a single parent who said, “I just want my son to be happy.” Regardless of where they are at in their life cycle, that’s what most parents want for their children.

But there is a difference between getting what we want, things not going our way and experiencing happiness as a way of life.

Awareness of the truth that we all suffer and that desire and attachment are the root of suffering is key to unlocking a common misconception about happiness.

Happiness as a way of life recognizes that an open, passive attitude and mindful approach by allowing the present moment to unfold as it will (regardless of what feelings we’re being visited by), is what’s up.

Moreover, it is freeing to be present with softening our sense of craving that often accompanies happiness (like any other state of being)- pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.

We often crave moments to happen or not happen . . . Or by wishing them to begin or end in ways opposite of what’s really going on.

Moments are what they are. We are the one’s that project our “stuff” onto them. We’ve all done it.

Truly, these moments are what they are, and will be nothing more than fleeting or transient.

Might as well be curious about these moments as they arrive, and surf them as they happen, like riding a wave with the grace of a swan.

Just as an example, the pursuit of happiness is a setup in our constitution, if you’ll pardon the multidimensional-revolutionary pun.

Pursuit connotes suffering. Like striving, being in pursuit of something is really just another unattainable craving because the pursuit of something (such as an attached mental concept) never really happens.

Or if it does happen that you manifest, reach your goal or get what you want . . . chances are that you missed the magical moments of the process as they unfolded because you were still in hot pursuit of reaching your lofty ideal.

Perhaps you identify with a dystopian view of your lowest self portrait. Comedian George Carlin captured the sentiment in my favorite one-liner by stating, “if my goal is to fail and I succeed, which have I done?”

Happiness is seeing beyond the smoke and mirrors, bells and whistles, and bling in the world of 10,000 things.

Happiness is the radical self-acceptance that an interplay between form and formless are always flowing together. Happiness as a way of life lives in a space that transcends the clinging and grasping to our judgments, justifications and mental concepts.

Like the old saying, it’s the journey not the destination.

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

Remembering Feeling Inspired By An Old College Professor’s Wisdom

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Daily writing prompt
What is something you wish you could tell your 20-year-old self?
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As this writer reflects on this writing prompt, he looks back on the time when his 20ish year old self was hearing prophetic wisdom from one of his favorite teachers during his tenure as a college student.

Mr. Easton was an English professor, a writer and a charismatically eccentric man. And I have come to believe, as he did, that everyone has a writer living within their Being.

Further, during an Advanced Composition class; it was late in the Spring semester, and for many of us, our college careers were winding down. Because Mr. Easton was a very present person, he probably sensed our anxieties about our prospective unknown futures, saw the teachable moment, and deviated from the class lesson plan.

Footnote: Unlike most of the professors at my Alma Mater at that time, Easton did not have his Ph.D. And yet to many of us, he was among the smartest and most engaging teachers on the faculty.

Back To School . . . Near the tail end of one particular class, Easton elaborated on how we should “hang in there, I promise . . . you’ll see that in your 30s, it starts to get better.”

Of course that’s true and it’s not true. There are no guarantees. If we don’t work at our mental health, then our mental health issues just don’t magically go away.

Speaking of Polaroids, another Kodak moment featrured Easton encouraging us to “take lots of pictures” at various family events, “because people get older and you never knew who would still be around at the next gathering.” He emphasized that the gatherings were important experiences, as well as good opportunities to capture moments through pictures, and then tell stories to remember our connections and loved ones.

Since that time, Easton’s wisdom still sounds true. Moreover, I serve it up to my 20 year old self; as well to all of the 20 year old selves out there making the track through life. While it’s cool to be in the moment, it’s important to have a longitudinal view in life.

Keep in mind that there is something to be said for hanging in there. Get up. Stand Up. Find your passion. Nobody else is going to do it for you. But everyone needs a little hurdle help sometimes. We’re hear to lift each other up rather than tear each other down.

Or like the Beastie Boys sentimental anthem, you gotta fight for your right to party!

And you can’t to that in this incarnation unless you are still breathing!

Nowadays, I use meditation to time travel back to my old self by envisioning peaceful, calming thoughts; coupled with a gentle and soft heartfelt approach of self-compassion that includes a forgiving attitude of gratitude and radical acceptance for what is.

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

Time For A Siesta

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Daily writing prompt
What’s a cultural tradition from another country that you wish existed in yours?
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“America Runs On Dunkin’.”

With no disrespect, the above quote is a bold and telling commercial mantra that’s not something to brag about.

Speaking of programming, how clear is it to everyone that societal conditioning, or in this case the power of corporate propaganda, is captured in the above quote?

Then again, consider the source and the message brewing behind it, if you’ll pardon the pun.

This writer really enjoys allowing for paradoxical thinking to percolate on the truth that just because I’m pro-rest does not mean I’m anti-caffeine.

Consider the cultural tradition of the Spanish word Siesta.

Moreover, further exploration of siesta’s lineage derives from the Latin phrase hora sexta.

Because in the ancient Roman system, the sixth hour was roughly considered the middle of the day.

Ah, Rome . . . The Eternal City. “When in Rome.”

Historically, siestas are common in warm-weather zones like the Mediterranean (especially Spain), Latin America, the Middle East, and parts of Asia

Often taken after a large midday meal, siesta is a cultural practice designed to avoid the intense heat of the afternoon and recharge for the rest of the day

In many towns that observe the tradition, the workday is split. Businesses and shops close for a few hours in the early afternoon, allowing workers to go home, share a large meal, and rest before returning to work until the evening.

Personally, I have a strong value that supports the value of rest. No need to fight against being tired. We all need down time where performance isn’t the focus.

And while any good value shouldn’t necessarily be mandated, the idea of taking a Siesta should be encouraged, incentivized and integrated within the framework of a systemic, developmentally healthy program design and paradigm.

I have always been intrigued by the idea of taking a siesta, catnap or what modern researchers call the power nap.

Furthermore, many of us have heard stories that align with modern pro-health research that concludes that a short 20-to-30 minute power nap can significantly boost cognitive function, reduce stress, and improve alertness.

Back in early Elementary School, I remember when we experienced a version of siesta that was generally part of our daily routine. After lunch & recess (my favorite part of the day), we would reintegrate back into our classroom to rest in a designated personal space, where the lights remained off and we were expected to be quiet.

In fact, some of us had fun pretending to be asleep, maybe some fake snoring or real farting, you get the drift. Funny, some of us pretending to take a nap actually ended up falling asleep without realizing it.

Social Learning Theory in action. Imagine that.

People weren’t calling it teaching siesta as a healthy transitional form of co-regulation back then. And yet, that’s exactly what it was.

Interestingly, the siesta is a time-tested tradition that remains a working cornerstone of cultural heritage.

Of course globalization and modern work schedules have caused the daily multi-hour closure of businesses to decline in larger cities.

There’s nothing wrong with taking action, performing tasks or drinking caffeine.

And yet building in rest and downtime into our everyday routine carries with it a power not to be underestimated.

Time to take a Siesta!

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

A New Moon in Gemini, Summer Solstice, Full Strawberry Moon & Mercury in Retrograde at the End of June

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A New Moon in Gemini on June 15th welcomes new beginnings with manifestation of changes and spontaneity streaming through the airwaves. Safety lies in thinking about our feelings and sharing them with others.

It’s hard to go wrong with a cool head.

And yet, a cold heart can be a good relational repellant, not to mention coming across as callous to others.

Harmonizing with our heads and hearts helps support effective communication.

Tuning in to the energies of this new moon gently aligns with guidance around setting intentions for the months ahead. It’s as if the Universe is encouraging us to lighten up, be playful, and have fun along the way.

Tis the season for connecting with friends, organizing social events, and storytelling. Perhaps communication projects may come to life with greater ease, or communicating topical truths. Tapping into healing vibrations can be a real felt sensed experience during this timeframe.

On most places around the planet, the Summer Solstice and Father’s Day both fall on Sunday, June 21. This is a rare occasion, and will not happen again till 2037.

Peak sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere is associated with Grandfather Sun-Yang energy, where outward expansion, frolicking and growth seem organic.

In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s Grandmother Moon-Yin energy where the darkest days reaches their Zenith, and then we turn inward, journey into the soul and sit with the darker aspects of life.

Ah, the duality of living on this Planet reflects the interplay between the Yin and the Yang.

Even in darkness, there is light. If you look to Nature, you will see the fluidity of these energies at play and the way they are always seeking balance.

Additionally, a Full Strawberry Moon on June 29 reflects lineage connections to the Algonquin and other North American nations who noticed the connection between the wild berry harvest to this Full Moon.

And depending where you are around the world, the other names of this Full Moon reflects what mattered most to humans on the land during mid-summertime.

We will also be shifting gears into Cancer Season (June 21-July 22).

Cancer the Crab is a time when we are encouraged to focus on nourishment, self-care, and our emotional health that breathes in a softer tone that supports reconnecting with ourselves and our hearts. Crabs reflect emotional sensitivity and tapping into the feeling realm.

How you can integrate self-care into your daily routine?

How can you integrate a sense of safety and security into your life?

Furthermore, Mercury will be in Retrograde on June 29 – July 23. These energies are in alignment with slowing things down, reflecting on the past, and focusing on the here and now.

Energetically, Mercury in Retrograde is a good time to be mindful of subconscious thoughts, including past programming. These energies can be a healing and highly intuitive time when we work with its energies intensionally.

Moreover, our psychic abilities and dreams can become triggered so that we can tap into deeper insights by working with our subconscious minds in ways where the unseen realms yield useful information to light our way.

Please feel free to echo my reading of the Great Invocation Below. Consider speaking the lyrics aloud, telepathically or any way that you want to amplify the sentiment to co-create Heaven on Earth. Doing this embodies becoming the change you want to see in the world:

May all Beings awaken to God Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Diversity within Unity, Inner Peace and the Universal Pillars of Love and Truth.

Ari

Facing Our Fears & Self-Doubts

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Facing our fears and self-doubts is not always easy.

But then again, I’m sure that fits into the no shit category.

Speaking of fecal matter…without it, there would be no compost to mulch in the gardens of our inner tapestries.

From a consciousness perspective, we have to be willing to get our hands dirty, get down with the stink, and venture into the cave’s darkness so that we can awaken the light to experience the sustenance of life.

This cyclical process is the power of alchemy.

Furthermore, it is even harder to avoid facing our fears and self-doubts head on by getting seduced by our projections of them.

What I mean by that it is that scarier to think about the mights that tend to rise to the surface of our consciousness when we entertain our fears and self-doubts.

Just as an example, saying to yourself, “if I do this, then the chips might fall here or there and that will be terrifying, out of my control and I can’t have that.”

Like a toddler, the experience makes it tempting to close your eyes and say, “I’m not listening!”

From this place, spiritual bypassing appears to be a preferable path of least resistance by avoiding facing our fears and self-doubts and examining them directly.

But with faith and trust, sometimes we just need to surrender to the Universe and let the chips fall where they may for growth to occur.

However, at the end of the day…it takes more energy to put a band-aid on the wound of fear and self-doubt than it does to examine their origins with radical curiosity, empathy, forgiveness, and self-acceptance.

It is possible; as well as a real felt-sense experience to be kind to our minds, and learn to be gentle on ourselves.

As humans, we all get insecure.

Of course, it does appear easier to fear what we don’t understand.

That’s why self-examination and awareness are key dynamics to allowing the light to illuminate the shadows.

Just as an example, I know someone close to me who made a conscious choice to “stay poor” as a way to mitigate his greed.

But greed is merely a part of the human condition and an emotional reality that visits us periodically.

And yet, to deny any emotion or feeling just energizes it; as in what we resist persists.

Like any thoughts, we don’t get rid of greed by pretending it isn’t there, pushing it away or trying to throw it in the trash.

Moreover, these have been institutional isms, or ‘Good Ole Boy’ forms have been set up by the Establishment to protect forms of oppression. Denial of them just perpetuates more oppression. The Code of Silence is designed to keep them hidden and therefore unexamined.

Truly, I remember thinking that way when the voice of trauma was more in control of my life. Identification with that voice became a security in my consciousness, like a pacifier or binky that helps an infant soothe themself when their neurological system is compromised. It’s that experience that many adults know that is captured by the statement, “I don’t feel safe!”

That line of thinking begs the question…

Do I want to merely exist in a bubble during my time here or do I want to really live?

Moving past our clever excuses and getting out of our comfort zone promotes the Constitutional Preamble’s General Welfare of experiencing life’s bounty.

Happiness as a way of life recognizes that all the reflections in the mirror are revealing the wisdom of awareness.

May all Beings be in alignment with God Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Diversity within Unity, Inner Peace and the Universal Pillars of Love and Truth.

Ari