If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?
A circle of meditators gathers beneath a glowing celestial vision in the desert nightView all responses
In much the same way as the old Hopi saying asserts that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for; awakening to communication with ETs is a real perceptible experience intended for We The People.
That being said, they’re already here and have been around a lot longer than we have.
Akin to the end of the recent Steven Spielberg film, Disclosure Day, it isn’t about what I would ask them, it’s more about heeding their invitational callback by stepping into our power by stepping up to Cosmic Consciousness . . .
Listen.
And you can’t listen if you’re talking at the same time. It’s a cold hard fact of life.
Telepathy and empathy go together.
If we listen and are open to what the present moment has to communicate with us, then an interdependent form of coregulative and collaborative communication will take place.
Truly, a Harmonic Convergence, so to speak.
Or like encounters with animal spirits, this happens when fear is not present. Otherwise, they will leave us alone.
Besides, seeing animal tracks reveals that the animals are around; if not directly as evidenced by our field of vision. Same with ETs.
Many of you already know what they would say to us:
As in, our future selves only exist so long as we survive and make the quantum leap into our next level of consciousness by walking into the reality of planetary and universal peace.
What we do to one strand affects the whole Web of Life, as American Chief Seattle said.
Or like the story told about the ET that responded to the late Army Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso’s query, “what’s in it for me?”.
To Wit: the ET responded by saying, “a new world if you can take it.”
May All Beings Be Free From Suffering And Awaken To Planetary & Universal Peace. And So It Is And So It Will Be.
As we take a deep dive into the season of Virgo, may its grounding energy create a sense of order, structure and routine amidst the plethora of chaotic tidal waves manifesting in the theatrical 3D realm.
Virgo season started on August 22nd and will last till September 22nd; marking alignment with the equinoxes taking place on Planet Earth at that time.
When body surfing the waves on the crest of the last eclipse of the season on the Full Sturgeon Moon on August 28th . . .
Keep in mind that Full Moons during Lunar Eclipses are like Full Moons on steroids.
Remember that, during these rapidly shifting ebbs and flows, meditation on resiliency is a trait that humans can awaken with the energy medicine of Sturgeon.
If you can dig on rocks & gemstones…it’s always a good idea to recharge them outside under the Full Moon cycle which lasts a few days before and after the actual Full Moon.
Perhaps a little sea saltwater bath to cleanse and energize them at night during your sleep cycle will support your soul development during the Dreamtime.
Are you noticing how these powerful energies are triggering emotional releases, helping unearth hidden truths and perhaps serving as catalysts to breaking toxic patterns or relationships?
Eclipse seasonal energies and their aftershocks can be felt consciously by a growing body of people; as well as feel powerful and intense.
May we surf these energies so as to feel inspired to let go of stagnant habits, emotional baggage, and limiting beliefs.
And yet, it’s as if Great Spirit prefers providing a gentle nudge to return to our soul purposes.
Truly, it can be hard to perceive that in the throes of Climate Change, not to mention the militaristic and fear mongering cabal that still clings to a Planet of the Apes mindset.
Make no mistakes about the truth that humans are capable of creating beauty and showing our better angels with our humanity.
But we all know the factions of hidden hands that repress free and clean energy, shoot down ET crafts, and then lie to the general public that human made, reverse engineered technology are somehow a demonic threat from another planet.
Besides, people who have been reading this blog know that I don’t demonize demons. Inter-dimensional beings, like demons, don’t fly in spacecrafts or require clean up crews or autopsies after crashes because they aren’t sentient beings.
But if you’re listening to the raving lunatics that are looking for some false flag holy war, then that’s exactly what you’ll hear parroted by the likes of the current American Yale Law School Grad & Vice President from the MidWest.
A New Moon in Virgo on September 11 awakens feelings of safety relating to order and clarity, even in emotions. Tis the season to get organized, and get down to the nuts and bolts of everyday business affairs.
Try being more tolerant and accepting of life’s imperfections. It is better to trust life and let it follow its own path. Not everything must be according to our expectations.
The arrival of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere or the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere will be on September 22nd.
Depending on your planetary location, movement towards cooler temperatures and shorter days or warmer temperatures and longer days will be playing out, respectively.
Energies in the Southern Hemisphere will intensify till climaxing on the Summer Solstice; while Northern Hemisphere energies will turn more yin-ward till reaching their zenith on the Winter Solstice.
Near the end of September, a Full Harvest Moon will happen on September 26th.
Native American and Asian traditional activities include moon-viewing dinners outdoors, harvest blessings, candle-lit gratitude circles, and a Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes at this time.
Spending time in meditation, focusing on positive energy, abundance, hope, etc., will be incredibly powerful and healing, not just for ourselves, but the entire planet.
Meditating in a sacred space on a consistent basis builds a growing energetic morphic field.
Group meditation in this way amplifies a field of collective energy.
The power of every individual and groups deepens and heightens our work with cocreative energies that are in alignment with planetary and universal peace consciousness.
Everyone has bias, and of course this is part of the human condition. It isn’t about setting aside our biases, beliefs or judgments.
Rather, it’s about moving beyond them.
Perhaps humanity’s violent and militaristic tendencies are waking us up.
Wars, plotting and scheming, abusive language, temper tantrums and micro-aggressions or even giving someone the cold shoulder are stale old dysfunctional ways of relating to each other that are ready to die and burn in a funeral pyre.
That’s why there is a growing trend of non-violent communication workshops out there so that we can wake up in the ways we relate to each other.
We don’t need to draw our swords and go to war with each other.
Keep in mind that changes in ages are like changes in seasons.
Everything is ephemeral and transitory. And yet, all life is energetic and sacred nonetheless.
Have you noticed the squirrels, and chipmunks scurrying about, and foraging like mad in their preparation for winter stockpiles?
It must run in the family, because groundhogs are gorging before they go to sleep when consistently colder temperatures arrive.
I saw some wild turkeys on a hike the other day, and was reminded of their tendency to steal the winter storage cache of squirrels.
Perhaps they weren’t tickled about turkey’s thievery. But in their industry, squirrels don’t seem preoccupied with vendettas or the dark and stormy days ahead.
We can stand to learn from them in that way; as in how squirrels balance work and play.
May all Beings be free from suffering and awaken to Planetary and Universal Peace,
A winding forest path strewn with various feathers leading into dense greenery
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the blue jays are spirit guides and the curriculum runs from inner wizardry to planetary consciousness, which honestly sounds like the most interesting school district on Earth.
Mara: Today we’re covering territory from Ari Joshua Bouse — one post that moves between personal spiritual practice and some very large questions about power, disclosure, and what it means to wake up in this particular moment.
Pip: Let’s start with the blue jay.
Awakening A Felt Sense Of Wizardry With Blue Jay As A Spirit Guide
Mara: The post opens with a striking tension: the gap between how advanced our technology has become and how spiritually underdeveloped we remain as a species — and what it costs us to ignore that gap.
Pip: The post puts it plainly: “energy is energy — it’s what we do with it that counts.” That line is doing a lot of work, sitting right next to a discussion of weaponized technology, governmental coverups, and the demonization of whistleblowers.
Mara: The upshot is that the same human capacity that built atomic weapons could be redirected. The post isn’t just making a spiritual argument — it’s making a political one about who benefits from keeping people spiritually asleep.
Pip: And the Blue Jay enters here not as a cute woodland mascot but as a specific kind of medicine — a crow’s-eye view, the post calls it, that helps people access what it describes as their “true inner wizardry.”
Mara: There’s a real distinction being drawn between spiritual pretenders and genuine mastery. The post asks directly: “Would you rather be a pretender to the throne or a true master?” That question anchors everything else.
Pip: The Wizard of Oz reference lands harder than you’d expect — the man behind the curtain isn’t just a metaphor for self-deception, it’s a stand-in for the Military-Industrial Complex specifically.
Mara: The post connects that to a broader argument about consciousness and cooperation. It closes with a vision where free clean energy ends wars and famine, where universal healthcare and public education are treated as rights, and where the ET presence — framed as spiritually evolved and non-threatening — is part of that larger awakening.
Pip: So the Blue Jay is the entry point, but the destination is Unity Consciousness and a co-creative New Earth. That’s quite a flight path for one bird.
Mara: The post frames it as a personal and collective process both — the Blue Jay within, as it puts it, reveals how to use power “properly and effectively.” Inner work and systemic transformation aren’t separate projects here.
Pip: Which leaves the real question sitting with the listener: what does it actually feel like to start?
Mara: The thread running through all of this is that awakening isn’t passive — it’s a practice with real political stakes.
Pip: Next time, more from Classroom Mothership Earth — wherever the curriculum takes us.
A Spiritual Traveler Encounters A Blue Jay Illuminating A Moonlit Forest Path.
A growing body of humans are awakening to the reality of the sickening rise of religious extremism, fascist thinking and the seductive underbelly behind the secrecy of the global cabal.
Likewise, our technology has far exceeded the spiritually evolved state of consciousness that we are capable of and need to awaken. As the old saying goes, energy is energy…it’s what we do with it that counts.
We all know there’s a lot of fake news out there; including the dog and pony show about ET disclosure, illegal private corporations and governmental coverups, and the spending our tax dollars illegally and without reserve. Without skipping a beat, this provocatively abusive and deeply engrained behavioral patterns are always cited under the guise of National Security.
As usual, whistleblowers who are trying to expose systemic injustices are being demonized instead of being encouraged and protected for telling the truth. It’s a dangerously developmentally delayed system, where wisdom needs to be seen and heard.
Otherwise, we can all use our imaginations to envision the catastrophic consequences of reinforcing this old paradigm.
But as we trek forward, remember that the powers that be are terrified of the spiritual powers that our meta human potential embodies. When we change the way we look at ourselves within the context of the 3D realm around us, the world around us literally changes before our eyes.
Enter the wise spirited guidance of working with Blue Jay energy medicine in the positive.
Would you rather be a pretender to the throne or a true master?
You already know what the hidden hand of the man behind the curtain is banking on, if you’ll pardon the Wizard of Oz & Military-Industrial Complex pun. Why do you think Hollywood invests billions on romancing an establishment of gifted pretenders?
Meditation on the energy of Blue Jay give us a Crow’s view of feathering the embers of our true inner wizardry. Our healers, guides, teachers and coaches are valuable resources to us as helpers along our way.
But at the end of the day, the Blue Jay within facilitates the process of getting in touch with a deeper and higher part of our souls that reveals how to use our power properly and effectively.
Our modern world showcases many dabbling spiritual pretenders out there that front being wise gurus. Of course the Empire’s Imperial friends in Congress prefer to go unexamined by keeping us distracted with handsomely paid experts hustling the god of opinion. But don’t be fooled by the man behind the curtain.
Geopolitically, This current criminal paradigm peddles the idea that We The People aka the rascal multitude are children that should be seen but not heard. There is great fear, particularly among our leaders, that the people have all kinds of crazy leveling impulses to “Form A Perfect Union”. Fear is the trump card, if you’ll pardon political pun.
The elitism and accompanying arrogance that flies within this energy field feels entitled to control the public mind behind closed doors. Because our friends at the top of the food chain are as indoctrinated as anyone. It’s hard to feel motivated to tune your frequency to a deeper and higher tune when you’ve got access to unlimited funds, coupled with entourage of really smart people doing your dirty work for you. Who payin’ you?
While “appetite comes with eating”, does this kind of hierarchical, patriarchal and linear thinking really reflect best business practice? Of course, it’s hard to prove otherwise to the movers and shakers of the highly lucrative and a slickly well oiled machine.
But the masterful illusion that the “ends justify the means” is merely a smokescreen. It’s a put on, vis a vis a false flag coverup to true wizardry of a budding and co-creative New Earth that is peacefully in alignment with Planetary and Universal Consciousness.
The Crow’s view of Blue Jay’s perch reveals that a mysterious and magical everyday abundance is available to all of us because there is enough and we can all win. We can experience living harmoniously on our Planet and beyond. The spiritually evolved ETs that are in alignment with God Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness are here to support us and are not a threat.
Looking back, after we detonated the atomic bomb; we certainly got the ETs heightened attention. Keep in mind, they could have wiped us out immediately. If they wanted to take us over, they could have done it long before that. Game over.
As if shooting them down with reversed engineered technology that humans have secretly weaponized weren’t enough; capturing, torturing, abusing them in secret underground facilities, and then proliferating disgusting black opt programs that make it look like alien abductions, cattle mutilations, etc. weren’t enough. We then have disrupted their way of life (as well as ours) by creating and detonating these criminally insane weapons of mass destruction.
I am reminded of a wise psychologist that once said, “there’s more than one reality . . . (and) denial is a primitive but powerful defense mechanism. And it ain’t just a river in Egypt either, if I might add.
Fear is a tired old way of motivating people to stay complacent and keep the blinders on to maintain the status quo. It’s time for this stale mental box of compartmentalized thinking to be released and let go of, like the back peddled, fake weather balloon media demonstration that fronted as the Roswell crash in 1947.
When you want to sell the public on war mongering, you create an enemy that needs to be dehumanized. Of course the rise of armageddon fanatical thinking is happening now because the dominant dinosaurs in power are terrified of losing their grip.
But as we all stand up to this tyranny with courage, the noose of their grip will fade into the ghosts of yesteryear.
Wars, famine and poverty will end on this planet once we have free clean energy. When humanity awakens to a more cooperative cultivation and sharing of resources (like those at the top do with each other), then the disastrous idea of maximum economic profit is gone with the wind. Moreover, the devilish fighting over resources fades into an infinitely sealed black hole in the Universe for a light mulching composted form of transformation.
Universal health care is a right. Everyone should have equal access to clean air, drinking water and safely habitable shelter. Free public access to quality education is the hallmark of a free society that values “fairness, honesty and integrity”, like Grandfather would say.
During this process of systemic transformation, holding democratic principles in our awareness is a challenge and an opportunity. Being less disposable and more mindful of our daily consumption helps us awaken to Unity Consciousness and celebrate our diverse expression of Great Spirit. We are all cut from the same cloth.
In this writers experience, a real felt sense encounter with an ET or any Being in alignment with a spiritually evolved state of consciousness; humans included…stir something on the inside, and reveals another way of life that is worth supporting and expanding exponentially.
For this reason, role models like Lord Buddha and Lord Christ show us how to awaken our own Lordship and access the Kingdom of Heaven within.
May all Beings be free from suffering, and awaken to Joy and Light within our Collective Consciousness,
Sunlight beams illuminate neat rows of young plants in a rural field at sunrise.
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the astrological, the political, and the deeply personal all share one frequency, and somehow it holds together.
Mara: Today we’re working through a piece by Ari Joshua Bouse that moves across a lot of terrain — political transition, the Aquarian Age, disclosure, and the spiritual calendar between winter and spring. Let’s start with that overarching question of where we actually are right now.
We Are Only One Song Away From Spring
Pip: The frame here is a moment of overlap — a political transition happening inside a much larger cosmic one, and the question of how those two timescales interact when you’re trying to stay grounded.
Mara: The post anchors that overlap in the seasonal calendar, and near the end it lands on Groundhog Day specifically: “Meditation on the in between times, mystical, mysterious energies, inner planes, echoing silence, void, and heartbeat” are offered as the right callbacks for this moment.
Pip: So the upshot is that Groundhog Day isn’t a punchline here — it’s the midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, and the post treats that threshold as genuinely instructive about how change actually moves.
Mara: Right, and that’s the structural argument running through the whole piece. The political relief of a new administration fades fast — the post is direct about that — because the chattering monkey mind starts up again quickly. The deeper shift is astrological: a move from the Pisces Age to the Aquarian Age, measured in millennia, not election cycles.
Pip: Which is a useful corrective to anyone who thought January 20th was the finish line.
Mara: The post makes a careful point there about the people on different sides of that political moment. It says that most Trump voters “are not Nazis, Klan members or racists” but have been shaped by a divisive mindset that pushes everyone toward an us-versus-them frame — and that neither progressive nor conservative values hold a monopoly on the way forward.
Pip: And then it pivots — genuinely pivots — into UFO disclosure, which lands as less of a detour than you’d expect, because the argument is that ET concern for Earth is tied to humanity’s development of nuclear weapons. The stakes are planetary either way.
Mara: The post treats disclosure as a process, not an event. And it closes with something practical: I-messages, feeling statements, the right to say “I feel offended by that comment” and stand there without having to defend it. Personal authority as the ground-level version of the same sovereignty the post argues for cosmically.
Pip: Spring is underground. It’s firing, just not visible yet — which is maybe the whole thesis in one image.
Mara: The thread through all of this is the in-between — politically, seasonally, cosmically. The darkness isn’t the destination; it’s the passage.
Pip: You can’t get to the light if you won’t go through the dark. We’ll be back with more from Classroom Mothership Earth.
An old, worn book is partially submerged as ocean waves wash over it on a beach.
Hi Folks! Mercury in Retrograde goes back direct today. As my wise old spiritual counselor Leo would say, keep in mind that the mental fog tends to lift & clear up over the next 10 days or so. Also, be patient with left brain cognition & machines as they come back online during this time. In the meantime, please enjoy this new AI 2 person podcast as an appetizer for my newest book:
Ladies and Gentlemen…Introducing AI Podcast Characters Pip & Mara On Ari’s Multimedia Writing:
Pip: Climate grief, ancestral memory, and the kind of soul wounds that don’t show up on an X-ray — Classroom Mothership Earth is not pulling punches this week.
Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse has been publishing through Edge of Humanity Magazine, and the work lands squarely on climate change, trauma, and what we carry from those who came before us. Let’s start with the new published material and what it’s actually doing.
New Published Material
Pip: The through-line across these pieces is a question worth sitting with: what does climate change cost us emotionally, spiritually, and across generations — not just ecologically?
Mara: The series is titled “A Novel Read into the New Shorelines of Climate Change,” and the post announces it plainly: “Please see my newly published writings via Edge of Humanity Magazine.”
Pip: That framing — new shorelines — does real work. Shorelines shift. They don’t vanish cleanly; they encroach. Using that as a metaphor for what climate change does to inner life as much as coastline is a choice worth noticing.
Mara: The series spans three distinct pieces. The first is a poem called “Overcoming Deep Traumatic Soul Wounds” — which puts psychological injury right alongside environmental upheaval, treating them as the same conversation.
Pip: Which they arguably are. The literature on climate grief has been making exactly that case for a decade, and here it’s arriving as verse rather than a journal abstract.
Mara: The second piece, “Weathering Changing Weather Patterns,” shifts register slightly — the title itself is doing double duty, the literal and the internal sitting on top of each other. And the third, “Remembering Our Ancestors,” is another poem, this one pulling the lens back to lineage and what prior generations understood about living with a changing earth.
Pip: So you have trauma, adaptation, and ancestral knowledge — three movements that together make something closer to a full emotional map of the climate moment than any single essay could.
Mara: All three sit inside a larger project that Edge of Humanity Magazine is running under that “New Shorelines” banner, which suggests this isn’t a one-off but an ongoing body of work finding its public form.
Pip: Poetry as climate literature — not the most obvious delivery mechanism, but possibly the most honest one.
Mara: The shoreline metaphor keeps expanding the more you sit with it — what’s eroding, what’s being redrawn, what we’re trying to hold onto.
Pip: Next time, more from the edge. Worth watching where those shorelines move.
Please enjoy the previously published poetry excerpts from my latest book at the link below:
A magical lion adorned with glowing flowers sleeps peacefully in a mystical forest at night.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Please enjoy the following videos below that capture the sentiment. Perhaps listening to them together in peaceful alignment, will be music to your ears, if you’ll pardon the pun . . .
We Shall Overcome
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.
Also, 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.
A colorful New Moon in Cancer rises in the skies on July 14, 2026. Cancer season continues till July 22nd.
As always, new beginnings are in the air. And specifically, the new waves coming into the shores bring back feeling safe in family matters of the hearth, and other related activities like cooking and gardening.
Crabs are known to weather their emotional fluctuations. Might as well be mindful of co-creating a sense of belonging in the world.
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.
Remember there is God in forgiveness, and it can be good to get out of our heads; especially when getting seduced into negative self talk narratives.
Or perhaps merely an atheistic appreciation the mysterious forces of Nature are enough to be shelter from the storm.
Looking ahead, a Full Buck Moon will happen on July 29. This Moon gets its name from the Native American observation that male deer antlers began growing in late spring and reach peak growth in July. Many Native Alaskans called this moon the Salmon Moon for its timing with salmon runs.
Whereas in Celtic culture, this moon has been known as the Wyrt (Wort), Mead or Herb Moon because most herbs can withstand harvesting by July. And in Anglo Saxon lineage, this moon was known as the Hay Moon. Bees buzzing out and about reinforce that honey is the elixir of life.
It is important for all humans to remember our shared history. This includes our lineage connections to our indigenous ancestral roots that are part of our planetary history before Colonization. This has impacted everyone and continues to do so.
Of course knowing our spiritual roots connects to that truth as well. Because we all have stardust in our DNA, not to mention oral traditions passed down about our cosmic connections to the Sky People.
Speaking of cosmic connections, a growing body of people are talking about Disclosure these days:
Late July’s full moon cycle amplifies a strong need for emotional freedom that can heighten emotional complexities.
Whether you’re an ET, human or otherwise; the resonate point is that harmonizing with groups can be challenging for everyone till you get into the right vibe, if you’ll pardon the multidimensional pun.
Moreover, Aquarian energies that also constitute July’s full moon cycle can intensify in those of us with strong rebellious streaks, our need to assert ourselves, and can make getting along in groups feel more challenging.
But then again, that’s just part of the human condition.
Speaking of the human condition, fear, anger and jealousy aren’t particularly healthy emotional cravings. And yet, all emotions are fleeting and transient, so we might as well see them as they are; no more or no less.
Besides, the power of community shows that people can be good mirrors for each other to reflect on what triggers us, and can shed light on better understanding of our humanity.
Finally, the tides of Leo season roll in from July 22-August 22. Tis the season to broadcast radically confident self-expression through the heart chakra, and a friendly reminder to nurture our inner child. Leo’s energies encourage movement out of the shadows, and stepping into the light with courage and passion.
Of course dominating the spotlight and always stealing the show can be blinding; as is self-stimulation as a form of meddling into the affairs of others. Besides, it can come across as an arrogant form of defensive pride.
Truly, the 3D realm we live in still carries a strong identification as an outer directed culture. Might as well see this reality as a friendly reminder that we stand in a deeper and higher personal authority when we stop chasing after happiness in the form of “praise, likes, or applause.”
May all Beings awaken to God Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Diversity within Unity, Inner Peace and the Universal Pillars of Love and Truth,
Complex network of glowing interconnected lines representing neural connections
Check out this newly created experimental AI Podcast feature that aligns with my writing, compliments of WordPress.
Full Disclosure: Truly, I do take pride in my writing, and have yet to use AI for the written word. However, I have been having fun with playing around with AI for illustrations.
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:
Since the birth of this blog back in 2011, we have explored expanding consciousness together.
I remember when I was in social work school and living in Miami, and the need to learn how to meditate was calling out to me loud and clear. Like most of us, I white knuckled it for most of my life beforehand. Yeah, I had learned some effective coping strategies, but nothing like the consistent mindfulness practice that helps me stay in the flow, zone or alignment today.
Back in my Miami days, I had developed a nice connection with a teacher at my second internship who knew that I had started meditating. And he was excited to tell me about a hypnotherapy session that he had gone to with a licensed therapist who specialized in clinical hypnosis in his practice. After hearing about it, I wanted in, as did some of my social work peers.
Subsequently, the hypnotherapy session was the first time where I had a direct perceptible experience where I clearly glimpsed my soul’s essence. As in the formless part of my consciousness that was the deepest part of my identity that I had ever experienced till then. What was also clear was that I recognized that the formless part of me was also part of a collective consciousness that we are all part of.
And then many years later, I had a similar experience in a tai chi workshop; when I closed my eyes and saw both my formless self, as well as the formless selves of the other students in the workshop. Colorful prisms of the rainbow were also part of the experience.
Like the hypnotherapy session, I got feedback that I had “gone very deep”. The best part of the experience was that it wasn’t coveted or scripted because I did not have a sense of expectation, was in a really open place on the inside, nor had any idea that I could experience such a thing. Both experiences were spiritual awakenings, and a portal into deeper and higher form of consciousness.
At the end of the day, we have a choice to be a teacher of suffering or a teacher of presence. For those of you who have tried on both hats and know the difference, you already know the latter is the preferred way to go. If you find yourself arguing with that, then hopefully you’ll awaken to the truth that you are reinforcing the point.
But then again, suffering is always a catalyst to opening portals into consciousness, and being present with what is. From that perspective, the curse becomes the blessing or the blessing itself is the curse.
Or like George Lucas said about the Star Wars story, “the Empire is the Republic and the Republic is the Empire”.
During Mercury in Retrograde, and this Pisces season, we truly are fish in water swimming in a larger sea of consciousness, including soul travel.
Just as my old spiritual counselor would say about Pisces, “it is the best of signs and the worst of signs.”
What he meant by that is like all energy, we can work with it in the positive or negative. At its best, Pisces best trait is empathy. At it’s worst, their energies can be like sacrificial lambs.
A fish going with the flow and swimming downstream is a very different experience than fighting the current and swimming upstream. I’ve done both, and prefer to swim with the current rather than against it.
Or like Colin Hay (from Men At Work) sings, “My, my, my, it’s a beautiful world . . . I like to swim out beyond the white breakers, where a man can still be free (or a woman if you are one)”.
Through the echoing channels of Spirit, I can hear my old Teacher saying that we all have the signs of the zodiac within our being, in much the same way as we have the entire Universe within us.
Pisces energies are unique, in the sense that they are the tail end of the zodiac- so just as all rivers and lakes eventually empty into the oceans, all signs eventually flow into Pisces.
Just as an example, science has revealed that we all have stardust encoded in our human DNA.
Interestingly, Starseeds are said to descend from various star systems that incarnate as humans or are perhaps visited by ETs or trans-dimensional beings in the form of downloads in consciousness.
Stories about dolphins and whales are said to originate from watery Sirius:
To Wit: Have you heard the one about the treatment facility for dolphins with major mental health issues?
It’s called the School For Intensive Porpoises.
When contemplating human spiritual DNA, lineage or ancestry, consider the African Dogon Tribe’s connection to ancient Egypt, and Sirius in the Dog Star constellation.
What a long, strange, trip it’s been:
Regardless of where we come from, were we are going or what lifetimes we have lived; when you get down to it, it’s the now, the eternal moment or presence that really matters. It Is What It Is . . . Everything else is really just chatter. And while you’re at it, “keep hope alive”.
May all Beings be free of suffering awaken to the dimension of Inner Peace, and Cosmic Consciousness.
