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Podcast Episode: Even on the Surface, Conscious Breathing has Great Depth

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Rough sea waves hitting rocky coastline with grassy cliffs and a lighthouse in the distance under dark clouds
Cloudy skies loom over rugged cliffs and crashing waves along the coastline with a distant lighthouse.

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the dolphins have lesson plans and the moon has opinions about your breathing.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse writes here at the intersection of natural cycles, embodied awareness, and the kind of inner work that tends to surface when the season is turning. Today we’re looking at conscious breathing, dolphin intelligence, and what the body already knows.

Pip: Let’s start with the breath itself.

Even on the Surface, Conscious Breathing has Great Depth

Mara: The post opens with animal wisdom as a frame for self-examination — dolphin as guide, tide as teacher, and the question of whether we’re actually paying attention to any of it.

Pip: The post puts it directly: “Do you need to pay more attention to your intellectual development, or communication issues regarding the psychology of self in relationship?”

Mara: So the upshot is that the dolphin imagery isn’t decoration — it’s a diagnostic. The question is whether your communication patterns, internally and outward, are actually working for you or just running on autopilot.

Pip: And the prescription is almost comically simple, which is maybe the point — pause, breathe, think before speaking. The Military-Industrial Empire gets called out specifically as something that could use a deep exhale.

Mara: The post frames feminine energy as building sustainable momentum “gradually, gently and softly” — a direct counterweight to the force-and-projection model it’s critiquing. Emotional cleansing, dreamtime, releasing old wounds — these aren’t metaphors to set aside; they’re the actual curriculum.

Pip: There’s a seasonal anchor too. A Full Worm Moon, returning earthworms, maple sap beginning to flow, robins arriving. The breath practice lands inside a specific biological moment.

Mara: “Altered states and New Dimensions are accessed when inner sounds reverberate in outer manifestations.” The rhythm of the post mirrors what it’s describing — breath in, breath out, the inner and the outer in sync.

Pip: Right. And the closing image — masculine and feminine energies swimming together in synchronized waves by Spring Equinox — earns its finish. The post signs off: “I hardly think a showcase of collective Olympic gold medals could touch that.”

Mara: That’s the stakes as the post frames them. Not performance, not achievement — just the actual turning of the season, met consciously, with breath intact.

Pip: Which is either very humble or extremely ambitious, depending on how you’re breathing right now.

Mara: The tides, the breath, the seasonal turn — these keep showing up as the real curriculum here.

Pip: More from Classroom Mothership Earth next time. Stay on your board.

Even on the Surface, Conscious Breathing has Great Depth

Podcast Episode: Fellow Luminous Souls Traveling Together In Collective Cosmic Consciousness . .

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Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the curriculum includes shamans, quantum leaps, and the in-sound from way out. Ari Joshua Bouse has been writing, and the assignment is consciousness itself.

Mara: This episode follows one extended meditation on collective awakening — what it means to move beyond the noise, find stillness, and recognize our shared ground. Let’s start with that territory.

Fellow Luminous Souls Traveling Together In Collective Cosmic Consciousness

Pip: The post sets up a lineage — shamans, the Buddha, the Christ — and asks what it looks like when a critical mass of people today actually follows that thread toward something beyond the ordinary channel of reality.

Mara: The piece builds toward exactly that possibility, and here is the spine of it: “A critical mass of people are now seeing through the smoke and mirrors that front as an illusionary curtain behavioral trap that is sold, bought and processed as everyday reality.”

Pip: So the claim is that consensus reality isn’t a neutral backdrop — it’s a product. And the work of awakening is recognizing you’ve been handed a script.

Mara: Right, and the post traces several traditions that have named this. Indigenous Australians held their Dreamtime as more real than the Western version of reality. The Buddha faced suffering directly rather than routing around it. The through-line is that the exit from the nightmare requires turning toward it, not away.

Pip: There is something almost counterintuitive about that — the way out is through, which is not the advice most of us get from the algorithm.

Mara: The post names what blocks that passage pretty specifically: “attached doubts, fears, mental tapes, concepts, and compartmentalized cognitions” — what it calls the Chattering Monkey Mind or the Reptilian Brain. The upshot is that identification with that noise is the only thing that makes us miss the boat.

Pip: And the destination, once you hop off the lily pad, is described as “free flowing expanding spaciousness” where joy and light become normative rather than exceptional.

Mara: The post closes with Unity Consciousness as the frame — the recognition that we are part of Cosmic Oneness, connected to each other and everything. It ends with a genuine question: “What’s your Light Language?” It also comes with a recorded guided meditation, Ari reading the piece aloud, which gives the whole thing a different texture than a written essay alone.

Pip: The page asks you to sit with it, not just scroll past it.

Mara: The thread running through all of this is permission — permission to step off the default reel and into something quieter and wider.

Pip: Next time, we’ll see what else is traveling in from that direction.

Fellow Luminous Souls Traveling Together In Collective Cosmic Consciousness . . .

Releasing Old Stories, and Reworking New Scripts Revisited

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Hiker with backpack standing on rocky cliff overlooking ocean and sunset
A hiker stands on rocky cliffs overlooking the ocean at sunset.

“The early Buddhist texts view death not as a final end, but as a transitional gateway within a continuous cycle of existence (samsara). The Buddha taught that while grief is a natural response to the arrow of loss, true transformation occurs when we stop fighting impermanence and recognize our deeply interconnected nature.” 

Moreover, a growing body of scientific research is further reinforcing the old spiritual truth vis a vis the quote above; as you will see in the video clip below:

Furthermore, notice that the Imbolc will be happening in the Souther Hemisphere in early August.

Remember that the Imbolc is the approximate halfway point between their Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. Some folks celebrate the Imbolc on the first or second day of the month, while this year some focus on August 7 as the sacred date.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Llamas will be honoring the approximate mid-point between the Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox at this time.

Given that Mercury is still in Retrograde till July 23rd, check out the revisited related original past poetic prose by clicking on the link below.

Releasing Old Stories, and Reworking New Scripts

Additionally, in much the same way as meditation, Pete Seeger’s pro-humanitarian civil rights protest music recognized that a good folk song can get the job done without the frills.

Together, we can co-create a more welcoming, accepting and fair and just society for everyone when we unplug from old scripts and co-author new narratives:

And just yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker that featured a picture of a Monarch Butterfly with the accompanying lyrics, “the only orange monarch I support.” Got a full bellied laugh out of that one!

Photo by Steven Purdy on Pexels.com

Keep in mind that spirituality as a way of life embodies a playful, light-hearted, and healthy felt sense of detachment from the heaviness of the world.

We are all interconnected.

Besides, the heavily orchestrated shadowy program that parrots that we are separate from one another is merely a finely flat tuned illusionary chorus, if you’ll pardon the music pun.

May all Beings be free from suffering, and awaken to Unity Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, God Consciousness, Universal Pillars of Love and Truth, Inner Peace and Diversity within Unity!

Till next time,

Ari

Podcast Episode: Orbs Of Light Meditative Poem Revisited

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Cross-section of Earth showing crust, mantle, outer core, and glowing inner core beneath a forest and village
Cross-section of Earth showing layers beneath a thriving landscape

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where climate prophecy, cosmic meditation, and the occasional UFO all share a zip code.

Mara: Today we’re looking at work from Ari Joshua Bouse — a meditative poem that moves from climate grief through the zodiac and out to the edges of the universe. Let’s start with the poem itself and what it’s reaching for.

Orbs Of Light: A Meditation on Expanding Awareness

Pip: This poem isn’t just a meditation exercise — it’s a cosmology. It opens with climate grief and the suffering of sentient beings, then pivots toward something like a spiritual antidote. The question it’s asking is: what do you do with that grief?

Mara: The poem sets up the movement from darkness toward light early, and then delivers the actual practice: “Picture a growing golden white orb of light illuminating your soul and then let it travel with your consciousness outward — first filling the room, making its way through your home, community, region, planet and then to the edge of the Universe and back to the home of your breath.”

Pip: So the meditation is literally a scale exercise — you start in your chest and end at the edge of everything. That’s not a metaphor for healing; it’s the mechanism.

Mara: Right, and the poem frames that expansion in physical terms too — “Feel expansion and then contraction of the Universe” maps the cosmos onto breath. The inhalation and exhalation become a model for how awareness moves.

Pip: There’s also an astrological scaffolding underneath all of this — Aries, Pisces, the Aquarian New Age — which positions the meditation inside a larger turning of ages, not just a Tuesday morning breathing exercise.

Mara: And then the poem directs that orb outward with real specificity. It names Ukrainian and Russian people, Black and Indigenous people, whales, dolphins, USOs and UFOs — and then reaches further: “Send it to mythical creatures of folklore. For on some level, they too exist and deserve an equitable passport in sovereignty.”

Pip: An equitable passport in sovereignty — for creatures of folklore. I respect the commitment to leaving no one out of the universal health plan.

Mara: The closing line pulls it together: “We are Starseed Children of the Creator. Humans are part of a universal tapestry. But we are not the only ones.” The poem ends not on human centrality but on plurality — a shared cosmos.

Pip: Climate grief in, cosmic solidarity out. That’s the arc.

Pip: From grief to orbs to folklore creatures holding valid passports — the range here is genuinely its own thing.

Mara: The throughline is expansion: personal breath, planetary care, universal belonging. Worth sitting with.

Orbs Of Light Meditative Poem

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

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Full moon rising over fields and a country path with a farmhouse nearby
A glowing full moon rises over a peaceful countryside at dusk

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: 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.

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: 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.

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: 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.

Are You Dogon Sirius?

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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.

Ari

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

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“Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.”

–Eckhart Tolle

“In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren’t divisible.”

–S. Kelley Harrell

Now more than ever, our resiliency needs to show up in our everyday humanity.

We all have the capacity for resiliency.

Resiliency doesn’t come from having a charmed life, not having to deal with stress, nor facing obstacles that get in our way or living in a bubble.

Rather, it’s something that we cultivate, like building energy for better strength and conditioning.

In much the same way as the Taoist idea of Investing In Loss, imagine the darkness you face is like a ghost that you are playing with rather than fighting.

Just as an example, 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. Your mindset of losing shifted, like the saying, “if you had fun, then you won.”

That’s Investing In Loss in a nutshell.

Because you remained open, let go of perfectionism, and learned that it’s the process that matters along the way.

As you are shadow boxing in front of a mirror, imagine yourself awakening to shades of your hidden self.

Perhaps blind spots will be revealed when you allow the light to come in, and shine brightly on your soul.

Just as an example, do you remember learning how to ride a bike or how to swim?

Some of us never did learn how to do either for different reasons.

But most of us who did learn how to ride, and swim know that novel learning curves didn’t come without falling off our bikes or getting water up our nose.

Somehow, most of us made it through learning a sometimes painful new skill without losing a limb from the bike accident or drowning in the water.

And most of us got back on the bike, and back in the water without developing PTSD from falling or sinking.

So how do we allow ourselves to be mindful of the present moment in everyday life?

I remember an old High School teacher who recommended a book called The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, during my Senior year. I didn’t read the entire book till after I graduated from college. But I remained intrigued, and never stopped looking forward to reading it

In fact, the Peaceful Warrior message resonated so much that I read some more of Dan’s books after that, and then watched the film adaptation many years later, after it came out in 2006.

Check out the short video below that reinforces his mindful approach to life’s everyday moments:

May all beings be free from suffering, awaken to Inner Peace, and open up to the realm of Cosmic Consciousness,

Ari

Scuba Diving Into An Expanding Sea Of Consciousness

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As we dive into deeper waters, things can get murky. Many of you are familiar with the Dark Night of the Soul experiences.

Yet paradoxically, here we are in the throes of an enlightening Spring Eclipse season.

It’s Pisces time of year, the last sign of the Western Zodiac.

Also, Mercury in Retrograde happens today, February 26th and will remain there till March 20th, the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemishphere.

In the meantime, a Full Worm Moon Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd will further amplify meditative, and expansive soul traveling opportunities.

Remember that Full Moons during Eclipses are like regular Full Moons on steroids.

Of course the spiritual path and the energies we encounter on it are not all unicorns, sunshine and rainbows, so to speak.

Dark forces are coming out of hiding big time, rising to the surface, and asking for further examination.

But if Eclipses can be looked upon as light sources that shine on shadowy caverns, they do give us the eyes to see what has not yet appeared to have risen to our awareness.

Deeper spiritual wisdom emphasizes experiential learning through metaphorical scuba diving into the depths of our subconsciousness to bring back Sacred Medicines that can support us in living more consciously.

When we do this, it’s hard not to become inspired to use these Energy Medicines during our day to day interactions with ourselves and each other. For some, it’s the other way around.

When we honor that the most important person that we should pay mindful attention to is ourselves, we are always led back to a personal place of power.

In this spaciousness, we can discover meaningful and lasting changes that come from the inside out.

Vibrations are happening at different levels.

Do they exist whether humans see them or not?

Waves are vibrations of light that make up everything. These waves move at different speeds. Like seasons, these speeds can change.

If only we can harmonize with, surf and ride these energetic waves of light during our everyday interactions with one another.

Do you remember the old story of the tortoise and the hare? Check out the short read aloud version at the clip below to jog your memory, if you’ll pardon the pun:

Looking back on this classic story, the message reawakens the convergence between science and spirituality. Everything is made up of energy.

Sometimes we vibrate slow and sometimes we vibrate quick.

Energy is energy. It’s what we do with it that counts.

Be careful of getting seduced into a sense of urgency to run the hurry up offense on the spiritual path.

Our greatest power is being present in the here and now.

In this eternal moment, may we allow presence to unfold as it is with radical acceptance, a felt sense of empathic compassion, and radiate a heartfelt loving kindness from within, and then outward expansion toward others in our collective orbit.

We are all interconnected with each other, and we all have a role to play in co-creating A New Earth together.

May all Beings be free of suffering and experience Inner Peace,

Ari