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Two
Where two or more are gathered… It can be many. For this post, I'll use two. You and a friend. You and a partner. You and a stranger you'll never see again. Where two or more are gathered, there is the opportunity for Unity. Opportunity is the key word. Gathering alone is only a representation of proximity. It does not recognize the opportunity. Unity is what happens when those gathered actually meet in an understanding of Unity. Nothing Exists By Itself Think of it this way:


Three
The number of divinity. Many of you have been waiting for some of this information. And based on what you read below, you might understand why I have been hesitant to share some of this with you. But as of right now, I am being guided to share what is written here publicly. Please try to stay grounded as you digest what you read below. Three On the third anniversary of my NDE, I took to the high desert at night with another psychic and experiencer to fulfill instructions I ha


What's The Matter?
The view clouding your awakening. What matters? Is it the weather? The money in your account? The politics you argue about, the shape you're in, how many friends show up when you call? Is it how spiritual you appear to be, how many books you've read, how many retreats you've attended? Is it how much you serve humanity, or whether you serve at all? We spend most of a lifetime answering that question with the wrong list. Not because the list is evil, health matters, relationshi


The Beginning
"Tell us how our end will be." If you haven't noticed yet, things are changing in the world. And they will continue to change. You are witnessing the likes of something manifest that the world has yet to experience. The question is not whether change is coming. The question is: will you change as a result of the world, or before it? Most people will rationalize what they're seeing on the news or in their communities. They'll say something to the effect of: "Change always happ


The Excuse
The intellectual block keeping you from love. In my life review, there was one thing that was unmistakable and it may surprise you. There were no excuses. Not one. Not for anything. But it wasn't “judgement” that I felt during the life review. It was something else. It was unconditional love, but it was also truth. And the truth is, simply, that during the existence that had led to that review, all of the excuses created and used in that life were meaningless. They never matt


The Darkness
The Hidden Force Keeping You From The Light. This post has been a long time coming. For the most part I have avoided answering direct questions about this topic for quite some time as I was waiting for the green light before approaching it. And now, here we are. This will move some of you to look at things differently. Others have already seen. And some of you will feel a squirm because of it. As you read this, try and remember that you are love. The Opposition You know the v


Have You Served Humanity Today?
The difference between feeling love and being it. What have you done today to serve humanity? It's a trick question. The truth is you serve whether you are conscious of service to others or not. This is what I was shown on the other side. You serve everyone, every moment, simply by breathing. That's right. Your next breath is already an act of service. The fact that you exist here at all serves. Service is the baseline condition of being alive. Let that simmer for a moment. T


The Human Anchor
What’s keeping you from enlightenment. The closer you get to complete spiritual understanding, the less you can stay attached to certain things in your life. For example: who you are, and the roles you play. Even the things that have quietly supported your identity for years. This is the part no one wants to talk about regarding "The Path”. You want the knowledge. You want the access to something divine, something greater than yourself. But almost without exception, you want


Suffering
The tool of the divine. If you are reading this, you have suffered. You have suffered physically, mentally, and spiritually because to exist here in reality is to suffer. It isn’t a malfunction in the design. It is the design. That sentence is where most people get stuck. It is also where most spiritual teaching gets dishonest. When we see or experience suffering, we want the suffering to be an accident, a glitch in the world or our lives, or something a more evolved and ben


Orbs of Light
For those ready to see. I recently returned from a trip to Los Angeles, where I gave a talk. And once again, remarkably, they were there. In the hotel room the night before. In the car on the way. And in the room where I spoke. One of them appearing just above a woman's head as she asked me a question about her spiritual path. A basketball sized point of divine bluish-white light that brightened, held, and then was simply gone by the time anyone else could look. I don't ofte


People
Recognizing you in them. People have been people-ing since the beginning of time itself. People behave, act, move, muse, do, and reach for things and outcomes in life based on categories and motives which drive the action. Good people, bad people, smart people, sad people, happy people. The definitions and categories change, but the human animal generally does not. What does it really mean to be a person in the world, or "one of the people"? The Actions of Others Most people


Vulnerability
The dance between selflessness and protection. Most people live in fear. They fear success. Or failure. Or harm, injury, death, etc. These fears are real, but they are not the deepest one. The deepest fear is selflessness. It makes sense. Selflessness is the loss of identity and its protective measures. However, these are the exact things standing in the way of the deepest form of love, consideration, and service. So the fear of it is really a fear of love itself, or more pr


Joy
The gift you've been trained to overlook. I recently had an experience in the high desert in Utah and one of the messages I left with is: Joy is not optional for the spiritually activated. It is mandatory. And I see many spiritualists leave behind what they thought was “joy” to live a rather cardboard tasting life in the name of deep connection. But what I was shown runs contrary to that practice. Recognizing Joy When I speak of joy I am not referring to the joy you have bee


God Is Too Small A Word
Why our definition limits our experience with "It". I've spent the last few days teaching amongst the beauty in Sedona, Arizona. The landscape is unlike anywhere else I've been. Red rock that seems to hold light instead of just reflecting it. And yet what struck me more than the rock was the people. The ones who showed up to sit with me, to ask hard questions, to sit in silence afterward. There was a vastness in them too. A beauty that doesn't reduce to a single word. That's


The Work
The implementation of conscious living. The world is being redefined. You can feel it. It is in the instability of institutions, the fracturing of certainties, the sense that the ground beneath ordinary life is shifting in ways that cannot be reversed. Values are changing, degrading. And the world is shifting into a phase of destruction and rebirth. This disruption, although temporary, is a threshold. What you do at the threshold matters, especially now. "The Work" is what al


The Trinity
Unity as Love. There is something in every human being that recognizes incompleteness. Something of a signal. A quiet knowing that what you are carrying was never meant to be carried alone. That the love you are capable of is larger than what you have been able to express. Most people spend their lives explaining that feeling away, or filling it with things that almost work. This post is about what that feeling actually is, and what it is really pointing towards. The Desert O


Divine Communication
Recognizing Egoic vs Divine guidance I get asked this question often: "How do I tell the difference between egoic communication and divine guidance?" This post will help to clarify some of what you may experience when I suggest people close their eyes and ask to be guided. There is something that became incredibly obvious on the return from my NDE. The Divine communicates. Constantly. Not metaphorically. Directly. Recognizably, and with a precision the ego cannot manufacture.


Connection
What moves through the opening. What I found on the other side of the threshold of death was not separation. It was the opposite. A union so complete it made every boundary I had ever believed in feel like a joke I'd been repeating to myself. When I came back, I came back knowing one thing above all else: we have never been disconnected. Not once. Not from each other, not from the divine intelligence in the room, not from love itself. And yet. Here you are, guarding yourselve


Doubt
The sticking point between you and freedom. In two days it will be three years since I died. I do not say that to be dramatic. I say it because everything I am about to share comes from that side of the experience. What I know, I know because I have been where doubt cannot follow. And I have spent three years watching doubt keep people from what I know is real and available to them. This post is for those people. The Invisible Stall Something happens at a certain point on t


Why Are You Here?
The question of your lifetime. As old beliefs fall away and the scaffolding of a life built on accumulation and achievement starts to feel less solid than it once did, a question surfaces that no amount of achievement can answer. Why am I here? This question is arriving more and more. I receive it in emails, podcasts, Zoom talks, audience events and it isn't slowing down. Most of the time the question sneaks in with a quiet or even silent desperation. The usually unsaid or wh
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