the saying 'no' strategy

So often heard:

• " I am having a lot on my plate' (personally) 
• " we are 'having a lot on our plate' (as a group/organisation)

followed by, 

• "so I/we now say 'no' to just about everything'

It sets of all my alarm bells as being a risky business.

This approach may on a short term seem a good idea, to survive the stress of getting all the tasks done that are now on your plate.
On the long(er) term, this is NOT a sustainable wellbeing supporting information and energy management strategy!

In my experience, saying ' no' to just about everything, as a surviving strategy of ‘what is now’ , is saying 'no' to living life.

This is not a at all a plea to say ‘yes’ to things you really don’t want to say ‘ yes’ to!
Also not a plea on thoughtlessly piling 'yes-things' onto your plate, in a linair (stacking them up) way, whatever falls of, falls of......

It is a plea to keep consciously assessing, BOTH what is now on your plate, AS WELL AS any new appealing opportunities arising (here, now).

Replacing the question,
“What shall I say ‘no’ to?”,
with
“I wonder how I can harmonise all the things I like to say yes to’,
opens up the co-creative re-arranging powers of you and the ‘Universe’.

Feel fully free to not choose following up on this advise.

I am honouring my highest truth.
If I am aware of someone walking into a direction, known to me to hold severe wellbeing threatening risks, I will bring the information of what I know to work better, to their attention.
One cannot choose what one is not aware of.
All within the context of knowing that all people have full freedom of choice. 

paradigm fun

Two people, walking the path of life, are having a turbulent conversation about the importance of caring for others, in order to make the most of life.

The ego-centric person exclaimed:
”Others? Why should I bother with others, if I can simply have it all?”
The altruistic person replied fiercely in horror:
” I wish someone could teach you a real good life lesson!”

Since they are both walking their path soooo closely to Joy, the purple sorceress picks up on their turbulence and miraculously appears.
“ There is a difference of opinion about dealing with others here, I notice?”

‘Yes, sorceress, PLEASE explain how it is impossible to have peace of mind if you don’t bother with others, at all.”

The purple sorceress looks really rather puzzled on this request.

Then she replied enigmatically:
“ Peace of mind might also be found when one sees how this holds truth:
BOTH the ego-centrics AND the fully enlightened will NOT see the purpose in bothering with ‘others’.”

The ego-centric smiles and walks on, boasting:” So, I am right then!”

The altruistic person pauses for a second, gazes with wonderment at the sorceress and then laughs with a new twinkle in her eye.
She thanks the sorceress for this Really Good Life Lesson, that opened her spiritual eyes.
Fully spiritually awake now, she walks on too, with a wide open heart and peace of mind coming now from the paradigm of being one, knowing all to be interacting parts within the inseparable one consciousness.

The sorceress giggles at the magic and wonder of playing with words :

Two answers to the very same questions can be exactly the same in words.... and yet coming from a completely different deeper understanding and intention, produce a completely different set of behaviour and perceptions on what makes 'quality of life'

There is freedom of choice, even in choosing your paradigm.

crossroads: happiness or joy?

Having a fair amount of misery left behind me….what to choose?
He, look, a cross-road in life! How convenient. Guidance on my path.

Let’s see……
Hum…… is  JOY not the same as HAPPINESS?

My own personal happiness, containing all the things that please me, is indicated to be the left.

Sounds like  a ‘joy’ to me…..
Why is ‘my joy’ then indicated to be to the right?

Oooooo...... is this supposed to be the point in my spiritual growth where I have to abandon all the things that please me, personally, to experience MY JOY?

That seems like a no-brainer to me…let’s go left… !
I can always try spiritual growth some other lifetime.

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• Why is this little playful purple sorceress staring so intently at me, freezing me in my tracks?
• Why is she pointing out that this whole website, where I am staring at this cross road,  is about being able to make both/and choices…not only either/or?
• Why would it be that those distant images of happiness and joy seem to have so much in common….?

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The sorceress:

Consider that soul deep JOY includes your personal happiness (BOTH/AND) , while pursuing your own happiness (on the expense of the freedom of choice and self-expression of others), is not heading for soul deep joy.

For your soul longs to resonate harmoniously with all ( not only the people you like better on face value than others, or find more palatable to interact with) ….knowing….. we are all one: blocking out another, is harming the (sustainable happiness of) self.

Har-Money in Europe

Open letter to:

the main entities involved in representing, guarding and developing the system of European Values:

• Mario Draghi, the president of the ECB ( European Central Bank)
• Donald Tusk, the president of the European Counsel
• The parliament of Europe

C:C: all involved in the collective consciousness

Dear all,

With this open letter, I am applying for a function on the European team, as the Creative Head of Project Harmoney.

In this letter, I will outline the thoughts behind Project Harmoney and introduce myself.

About me:

I am a Dutch, 44 year old woman, currently living in France.
I am independently active as an advisor in sustainable community developments.
My expertise lies in a combination of fields: 

• I have a bachelor degree as a teacher in human interactions
• I have then years of experience as an information specialist in the public domain, with a focus on developing online information management systems online.
• I am an empath ( sensitive to what people really think and feel)
• I am a natural 80/20 thinker
• I have an affinity for seeing  practical simple, seriously playful, relatively ‘los cost’ ways on influencing the belief systems in the collective consciousness. Soulful ways, that are designed to : empower people to be able to invest their own talents, apply their own inner wisdom  and highest understandings of ‘quality of life’ smoothly in everyday life.
• Through active experience, I know three cultures from living with it and speak their respective languages well: Dutch (native), British and French.

With this combination of strengths, I am dedicating my life to supporting the social emotional and mental developments of communities.
Strengthening the inner strength of the social fabric, by broadening the perceptions horizons:

• from seeing increasingly problems and  ‘lack’ everywhere
  ( what people believe needs dealing with, by applying ‘more money’),
• to seeing increasingly opportunities for intra- and interpersonal growth
  (what both scientific and esoteric sources point out to be achieved by applying more truth in harmony)

The European Union

Founded on an understanding that peace and prosperity stand a much better chance, when nations are on speaking terms with each other and cooperate on important issues, The European Union developed in the decades after World War II.

In all those decades, turbulence and differences of opinion, have always played a part in the developments. These questions usually form the heart of those matters:

• ‘ what can the  people in Europe freely decide for themselves, in their own cultural ways’ and
• ‘ what would be better, for all parties involved, to be governed from Brussels and Strasbourg?’

Currently, there seems to be an reasonably strong current in the collective consciousness where the people of Europe are indicating that they need more freedom in expression their own ways and less ‘Europe’, less ‘adapting to others’., to thrive, to be happy.

Any ‘others’ that seem to take a bite out of our money-minded security,  are looked upon with increasing suspicions and a sense of threat  and the sentiments of desiring to protect what is ‘ours’ arise.

On those sentiments, the Brits have voted to leave, despite that most people who think twice about it, acknowledge that Brexit, separating into smaller units again, is not doing the overall stability much good.
The same sentiments are alive in other countries within Europe.

In the international field, more fascinating choices have been made recently.
Do people really want to step away from efforts of peace-keeping and open, calm dialogue in the world, by focussing on the ‘lack’ there is in their first world everyday life circumstances?

They say, if you are healthy, you have many wishes, if you are unhealthy only one.
The same, I guess is true for peace. If you live in peace, you have many wishes, if you are at war, only one.

Please understand me right here.
I am not saying that those issues, felt by so many people in the Western World are not true or valid!

Based on my experience, I am wondering if the core of the matter doesn’t lie deeper, in the social emotional dynamic systems. ( It usually does, the actual cause of this type of problems is hardly ever found in the world of appearances).

The majority of people in the Western World do not feel to live  in peace, which is why they feel they need to fight for their personal freedom.
They may see and appreciate that they live in a country where there is a fair amount of physical free trade, free travel and physical safety....
Within themselves, however, in their meta-physical world, they don’t see ‘peace of mind’ and feel many limitations placed upon themselves in free trade, free flow and safety to express their freedom of Being Who They Really Are.

The war, most people are in, on a day to day basis, is an internal war between Who They Really Are (a free spirit, a knowing man:  homo sapiens) and the rules and regulations of their own society, they feel placed upon themselves, that are at variance with their nature, their core values as a person.

Cutting the ties with your planetary neighbours is most likley not going to end such an inner war within people.

From my point of view, I think there is a chance here to serve both needs ( BOTH physical peace AND  prosperity and meta-physical peace and a sense of abundance) .

How?

By applying the resources of central government wisely… to increase the peace of mind of individuals in the community, gentle, playful ways that encourage people to do more meta-physical things ‘their way’… their natural, free spirit way.

About the project:

I have a very concrete idea in mind.

It is  based with one leg in the experiences gained in a major physical change in the collective European value system, all adults currently alive in Europe remember well: the introduction of the Euro.
The other leg stands in our collective understandings that money in the daily economic flow needs to be ‘real’ and ‘ whole’ and ‘clean’. So we are all familiar with systems being put in place to secure that only real, good standard money goes from bank to wallets to tills back to the banks again.

Only this time, the Europeans invite everybody to trade with the meta-physical currency of  Har-money, using personal style, as welle as modern means like a website and apps.

What if:......

Everybody is invited to work,  as a freelance ambulant ex-change officer, for the European Central Bank of Harmoney ( ECBoH), where various types of transactions ( in energy in motion… thoughts and feelings!) can occur in a slightly different mindset from being a powerless ordinary civilian.

For instance, as an freelance ambulant ex-change officer for the ECBoH:

• You can encounter a ‘stranger’ who is giving you his/her honest values.
  As a civilian in society, what this person wants to give you, may seem unacceptable to you, so in that function/mind-set, you may feel you have to say: ‘stop, wait, this value is not valid in my/our system, you MUST give me something I value’.
  But as a staff member for the ECBoH, you can accept his honest human values  anyway and ex-change them,  straight away, with a friendly smile, into the values you know to be of real and high value in your system. acknowledging that their notes/values do matter to him/her, in another, probably well working system.
  The energetical equivalent of physical Moroccan Dirham’s, Brasillian Reals, US Dollars or Russian Rubbles ,his foreign to you thoughts and feelings, are simply are released by you into the Central Banking System for international exchange. You, personally ‘ loose’ nothing of value… what you give out from the Har-Money wallet you carry all the time, will be replaced.
• You can encounter notes that vaguely look like real Har-money, but are all fumbled up, dirty, torn or incomplete.
  As a civilian in society, you may really frown upon receiving these. You may feel you have to make critical remarks about  the horrid shape or state of it.  You may even resist accepting them, insisting on receiving something more pristine.
  But as a staff member for the ECBoH, you can accept them anyway and ex-change them,  straight away, with a friendly smile, for whole, complete, clear and fresh notes. For it is easy for you to  acknowledge that these notes/values have served their purpose and it is time now for them to be taken out of the active flow, for recycling in the system.
  The incomplete dirty notes  are released into the Central Banking System. You simply, consciously and thoroughly wash your meta-physical hands before touching anything else and again….what you give out from the Har-Money wallet you carry all the time, will be replaced.
• You can encounter false notes. They may appear to be the real deal, they may even be shiny and smooth and really good looking, but…. being/becoming an expert on what highest truth vibes, real Har-money, actually feels like and looks like, you are pretty sure this isn’t it. It hasn’t all the traits of being really true.
  
  As a civilian in society, you may really reject receiving these, when you notice it. You know that when you starts handing those notes out anywhere else, it may get you in really big trouble!.
  But as a staff member for the ECBoH, you have a wider range of options.
  When you suspect that this person received these false notes somewhere else, without actually noticing the falseness of these well-appearing notes, you can simply accept them with a smile, helping a trusted community-member to complete the desired transaction.
  It is an exception and treated as such, without any fuss ( there are many phoney notes that look very real in rotation!). As part of the Clearing-Harmoniously-The-Whole-System operation, you simply label this note as ‘likely to be false’ and the Central Banking System deals with it.
  Again….what you give out from the Har-Money wallet you carry all the time, will be replaced.
  But sometimes, it occurs, that the very same person, regularly brings an awful lot of phoney notes under your attention.  You can still accept the notes and trade them for ones you know are real. But you may decide you want to act upon this  recurring pattern.
  Before you jump to the conclusion that this person is probably the source of creating those false notes themselves ( for their own profit on the expense of others)  and should be arrested and punished for it…. there is also the likely possibility that they are confidently tapping into another source they actually blindly trust and are simply not as trained in distinguishing real Har-money notes, from counterfeit produce, as you are.
  You may want to share your understandings, to raise real Har-money awareness, on the built-in-traits in real Har-money.

If you are afraid that in this case you might be dealing with a real crook, who is really trying to deceive you on purpose, giving you willingly phoney Har-money notes of his own making, abusing your wallet of real Har-money… then you can alert the ECBoH to get in touch with this person.Let’s face it, when the news is out that you always give out real Harmoney, you are like a honey-pot for crooks. But that is where the system takes responsibility for the wellbeing of her freelance ambulant ex-change workers.

On your initiative,  the person get’s an alert from the ECBoH, though e-mail or sms. Usually  you are that close to such a person, that you know those details. It will state kindly that it has been noted within the system that a pattern of giving out dubious truths has been observed.  Choices are given on how it is advised to proceed, with the aim to raise awareness on the negative (trust deteriorating) social emotional effects of passing on phoney Har-money notes has in civil society. An invitation is included to join the ECBoH, where your Har-money wallet will always be replaced with whatever real Har-money notes you truthfully express.

The latter eliminates the  need to be the producer of ….. what is usually referred to as ‘lies’ or ‘deliberately incomplete truths’… in an attempt to make non-fitting energetical ends meet, in a ways that destroys meta-physical peace of mind and structural integrity of the relations this person is having.

Such a seriously playful way of expanding the use of real Har-money, honouring spiritual, social and physical needs, applying insights on strengthening meaningful relations, as free spirits, respecting the various social context people are living in, would kick-start a positive development cycle. In Europe, of course, but he….. technically is real Har-money a worldwide accepted natural currency, recognised and accepted by all people…..

Will it need resources to create this?
Yes, it will need a fair amount of good old Euros to build such a website and the apps in a technically and aesthetically  high quality way, in all languages spoken in the EU.
It will take a fair budget to communicate clearly and widely about this initiative, so people do know about it and can choose to apply for being a freelance ambulant ex-change worker for the ECBoH.

First  of all, this idea needs thinking about!
Do you, as the leaders of Europe, consider using your resources and influence to actively raise awareness and support people in seeing what they can do themselves in the flow of Har-Money,  their unique way, to be a good idea?

It almost goes without saying, that I would love to be involved, from  answering questions you might have prior to making a decision, to being actively involved in the creation process, with my expertise on influencing the meta-physical layers of the physical world, wisely.

Thank you for giving this ( unconventional) idea appropriate attention and letting me know how it resonates with you.

Enjoy your day,

Esther Dageraad

advisor in sustainable cummunity developments
www.1ucompany.com

The apple: practical

The apple story continues.
Here is more Food for Thought, (a meta-physical puff-pastry) containing apple.

Where a good number of previous blog posts can be viewed as being rather abstract, this one is rather practical.

It is in a very practical way describing how you can familiarize yourself with using the glue WITH for you projects , without having to let go of the more familiar glue FOR (yet), that you are taught you need (have to apply) for your physical survival.
Using the image of the multi-dimensional cross-sections of the one apple.

You may find this blog post tasty and nourishing when you've got an appetite for boosting the quality of your life.


“ Yes, ...the quality of my life could really do with a boost”


First step:
Let’s check if you are making connections in your life using the glue FOR.

How?
By asking yourself a lot of ‘why’ questions.
Why am I investing time and energy in the things I invest my time and energy in?

Do your answers fit into this format?

• I do THIS, so THAT happens/ I do THIS to avoid THAT from happening.
• If I don't do THIS, then THAT happens/ If I don’t do THIS then THAT doesn't happen... 

Is that true?
Then the rest of this blog posts may be of interest to you as a simple way to improve the quality of your life.

As a side line, before getting practical, let’s have a look at what applying this format onto your life choices, says about the way you mind your palette of choice.

Implicitly it shows that:

• You have a preference for seeing those specific EFFECTS in your world and you make the desirability of the outcome leading in your choice process.
• That you are making predominantly mental LINEAIR (either/or) connections
• That you a pretty sure (doing) THIS to be the only way, to create THAT effect.

Which is fine! Don’t get me wrong. It works well in many situations.

However, if you can stay open to the possibility that this is not your whole palette of choice and other reasoning MAY also be (-come) valid (if for no better reason than that you don’t really enjoy doing the things you feel you have to do), than you can seize this as an opportunity to play with non-lineair interrelatedness.

Bewildered? Not having answers on how that can be done?
Good answers have a tendendy to come to the front on answering good questions.....

Second step:

The wonderment start here on this good question:

“ HOW ELSE could it be possible to see the EFFECT I like to appear in my world, in another way, than it is done now?”

Wonderment opens the valves of creative juices and new inspiration to flow into your world.

Let’s take the real life example brought under my attention earlier this week.
“ If I don't shop, we don't eat.”

Between the lines it clearly reads:” I don’t like doing the shopping much...but I sure like to eat something!”

Other ways of having the groceries in the house, without having to go out yourself to the shops to buy them, could for instance be found in wondering:

• Is there somebody else who simply loves to shop... who might be willing to do it for me? (For 'nothing', for money, or in exchange for something you are enjoying to give/share)
  
  Or
  
• Is there a way where it is indeed ME organising groceries to come to my home, but I am not leaving the house for it at all?
  (online grocery delivery services…) 

Whether or not these specific answers/options are workable for you, is not so relevant here in this context. They are here as examples, opening your mind for the realisation that it is possible to see things differently and to do things differently, while ( and that is important for your peace of your mind)….. still having the likeliness for creating the the same material results: groceries to eat in the home.

third step:
So, with a more open mind to seeing options for doing something a bit differently, I now go a dimension of living up. ( This is a puff-pastry ... it contains many layers ;-) )
I am connecting the dimension of the soul, the layer of your innermost being to the daily energy investments.

The practical steps, started with asking ‘WHY?’, where you would formulate your effect-related matching answera to the task you are performing.
You identify why you feel you have to do it.
You may think this routine task is limiting your freedom?
You'd rather do something else, something more fun, more creative, more rewarding……?

On your way to ‘more freedom’, I am suggestion you to add another layer/dimension of WHY, to the reason why you are performing this task and…..
I am suggesting to use consistently the very same answer, over and over again, alongside (= non-lineair) to the effect you prefer to see appearing.

"Why am I investing time/energy in this?"

They answer may look like this:

• “ FOR creating effect X (Y and Z) AND because it is an opportunity to invest and develop my strengths and talents”
  
  A bit shorter:
• “ FOR effect X ( Y and Z) WITH my talents”

In choosing to make the connection with both FOR and WITH, you are miraculously turning a ‘have to’ into a ‘want to’, a 'like to'.

You are emotionally stepping away from a task being a 'burden', where you don't have much choice... "it just has to be done."

You are emotionally energetically stepping into the joyful territory of deciding which of your talents you are investing and developing here and now with this time/energy investment.
Producing the desired material effects almost as a side-effect of seizing an opportunity.

side step to step 3:
Now you may wonder, “ What are my strengths and talents?”
If you don't already have a fair idea on that, I suggest you’d go to this website.

You've got to register ( it’s free) and then take the test called 'VIA survey of character strengths'.

In about half an hour of being totally honest to yourself, about yourself (important!) , answering 240 questions, you'll be presented with the 5 natural strengths/talents of your unique being.
It is a scientifically validated psychology test, created by Martin Seligman and his ( how-to-increase-wellbeing) research team.

By filling it in, you are providing valuable data to this research on human wellbeing too.

So, instead of only making a vertical cross-section of the apple-eating (energy consuming)  task at hand, seeing the half-heartedly, (resentfully-at-times, even) shape in your core.
Seeing “there is the task on the one hand side and the desired effect on the other and I just have to swallow it, since there is nothing else to be seen…..”

( the left panel in the illustration above)....

You are simultaneously making a horizontal cross-section in the very same apple.
Where, you see your unique 5 full-of-new-life-seeds you can saw into this opportunity for new developments. And a twinkle/ a star in the middel of your core.
( the right panel in the ilustration above).....

Freedom of choice, again. Hurrah!
You are free to simply pick 1 strength/talent from the 5...or combine several, stick them all in the fertile soil of this energy-investement opportunity and see what happens.

Chances are, you will be enjoying performing those tasks more, for... they become an expression of your Highest/Best Self.
The way you work, the way you shop, the way you wash laundry..... cannot be duplicated by any other person, the same way.....

In the process you get to really know and understand your own talents.

You are incorporating your soul (your being) into your doing.
In investing the best you've got to offer, to your best abilities, you are improving the quality of (your) life.

Not as a side-effect of obtaining the material effects at some point in time, by doing things in a half hearted way.

As an instantaneous effect (authentic happiness) of being the expressed best version of Who You Really Are, right now, right here, seizing more and more opportunities to be that, to know yourself as multi-dimensionally whole-hearted….. as the whole apple.

P.S.
Funny afterthought, play on words:
Some changes seem big, but are actually achieved with making small tweaks.

How can I 'apple' my (whole) self?
How can I 'apply' my (whole) self?

Apple is using an E ( Energy), it's a fruit of labour
Apply is a transformation of that energy WITH knowing why ('Y'), as a fruit of labour of .......

mix the letters of V O E L...--Dutch for feel--.... in any meanignful order on the dots ;-) 

:-)

Expo Basics

This ‘ apple painting’ analogy, is still with me.

Today, I am using the paintings again, but… like I love doing… I flip them around.

Why?
To explain something (rather obvious to me, apparently not to evident to everyone) basics on what works well in presenting your true colours and lively image in the exposition of ‘life’ we all form together.

For this thought experiment, picture yourself to be this work of art created by the Master Creator, in the original frame (of mind).

And let’s say you’ve been selected by the museum of life to be visible to the public.

a.k.a. you are alive.. paintings that are ‘dead’ are not gone forever,  simply stored in the central archives of the museum of life, to come back another day, in another setting, for another exposition

Then, there are a couple of pointers on ‘what works best’,  in no matter what context you are in:

• Regardless of how many other paintings are mounted on your current wall,
• Regardless of how publicly accessible your current wall is,
• Regardless of how many people look at you….
• Regardless of if you understand why you are part of this exposition-space, what the theme here is and if you see the beauty in this overall setup…..
• Regardless of if you know yourself to be a small painting or a large one……

BE PRESENT IN YOUR FRAME

BE ON YOUR INTENDED LEVEL

FACE FORWARD

With physical paintings it is soooooo obvious, that if the panel comes loose of the frame, or is set in a frame that doesn’t fit,  TLC is needed to fix that first.

Then the painting is put on a wall, on a level that works for it to be seen. Not too low, not too high and in an ecstatically pleasing composition with the other paintings on the wall… in such a way that they can all be seen in this context.

The picture side is facing the inside of the room, the backside is facing the wall.

As an advisor in  what works best to enjoy life, personally and collectively, I see that many people look to solve their enormous problems with life anywhere … except, in these three basics. 

This is where I transfer this very image to the meta-physical world, the world of our thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

Mark: I know none of us is flat, or static. Most of us are hanging on various walls on the very same day (at home, at work, in social gatherings…etc) Despite those differences, the analogy works well.

Simply observe:

AM I PRESENT IN MY OWN  FRAME ?

Am I standing straight, feeling centred, at peace in my mind?
If not….. TLC: to the body, to the mind….. do what is needed (to yourself!) to fit, without tension in your own frame.

AM I ON MY INTENDED LEVEL?

Am I feeling levelled, at the right emotional height in this context?
This is a little bit more complicated to discern… for you can be on your intended level, and another painting on the same wall may have shifted, so the relative position isn’t as intended anymore.

Check first if you feel sad/angry in yourself, about yourself:

• Feeling angry: you strings are too tights, you moved higher than you are intended to be.
• Feeling sad: you strings are too loose, you fell lower than you are intended to be.

Still sad/angry, but now about some other paintings position in relation to you:

• Communicate about the interrelation, within this context.

FACE FORWARD

Last but surely not least.
The wall, in my meta-physical understanding within this analogy, can be understood as ‘the past’.
It is solid and… it doesn’t move or change.
It is what is behind you, the accumulation of what mattered in your experience, that is holding your hook of the here and now in the right indented position, in this context.
Your frame of mind, should best, with it’s string at the backside, under the right tension, be on that hook.

You are in the here and now, gently strung to your past, facing forward., into this here and now situation, showing your real deal artwork to whomever is laying an eye on you.

In my experience, most people experiencing problems with life, put their picture out there, facing the wrong way, looking constantly at the past. 

Showing what?
Their real colours or the reproduction of their real artwork? Who knows….. ?
Becasue what is visible in the only real exposition room of life, the here and now, is the energetical back side of this work of art of life.

The painting/person is out of order: “ Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause”

The person is either twisting his string into strange high tension bends, in order to succeed hanging there in reverse.

Or, like in the illustration above, the string has broken and the painting is simply standing there, facing the back wall, wondering why life was so good in the exposition halls in the past and has turned so dark now.

It hasn’t, apply some basics and you'll see.

Turn your attention to the here and now, the context of the exposition hall you are in now, relating to the people who are curious to see what stories life has to tell with your presence in this context.

No painting next to you on the very same wall, looking at the very same here and now context, at the moment? He, you may be the first to be put out on this wall, in a new exhibition area.... or..... the only master piece to admire on this wall, for telling an important aspect of life all by yourself?

And yes, you are right if you observe something to be a bit odd here.
This is where the paradoxes of life start to give an interesting dynamics within itself….. .
Every person is intened to be simultaneously both the work of art, on the wall and the visitor walking past. Both the observer and the creation, moving constantly the walls of the exposition, in the process.

Mindboggling? Amazing? Fascinating?

In any case, both work of art, or visitor..... not by staring at the walls.

Simply allow them to form your here and now context, in which you are all aspects, observer, creation, creator.

Just start (and keep regularly an eye) on the basics on being a part of an interesting lively exposition.

BE PRESENT IN YOUR FRAME

BE ON YOUR INTENDED LEVEL

FACE FORWARD

For the same goes for being an actively involved visitor ;-)

For the same goes for being an actively involved co-creator ;-)

And: if you do want to apply for a co-creator function in life's expo-hall, being trusted with the responsibility to (co-) decide what is happening.....ask yourself:

Would you hire yourself for that task if you are not showing that at least you are able of putting your own authenitic painting up 'comme il faut':

• straight, horizontally and vertically alligned

• fitting a suitable frame,  

• the string attached, with the appropriate tension, 

• (actively) facing the here-and-now

• on a level that works well, given the context you are in?

The Apple Story of Consciousness

Yesterday, I introduced the idea of using a diptych/triptych  to tell a coherent story in parts. Each part can be seen separately and shows already a complete picture. 

But where the different parts are seen together, fully and wholly present at the same time in the same place, as intended, they convey a higher truth, a broader understanding. Each panel then silently broadcasts even more meaning, in the unseen, for being in this multi-perspective context.

The images I used, of a triptych of an apple, actually form a great metaphor for telling a story about one meta-physical ‘apple’ of life:  being one multidimensional consciousness.

Let me first tell the story while looking at a physical apple, the top triptych in the illustration above.

Each of the three parts, tells individually the tale of an aspect of this apple, where only one actually depicts the whole apple.
You might think that the overall picture would already ‘do’ it, if you are after seeing an apple.
But, you can’t fully understand what this apple IS, without being aware of the structures on the inside.
Looking at the cross-section of the apple, being cut vertically, a world of understanding suddenly opens up about previously invisible aspects of this apple.
It apparently has a core, that contains seeds. It apparently is divided in two halfs, both containing a seed.

We already know by experience quite a lot about an apple, so this isn’t an enormous surprise to our minds, to find a core and two seeds on either side of the middle line.
But imagine for a moment that you didn’t know already what was inside…. and realise: It could be anything!
But, there is more to this work of art, since it is a triptych!
This  series of three also contains a cross-section of the apple cut horizontally, right though the middle, on seed-level.
Again, since you already know quite a lot about an apple from your experiences of eating them…. it may not come as a huge surprise to find 5 seeds in a star form.

Can you see, that technically, based on two perspectives only, (the outside appearance of the whole apple and the vertical cross-section), you cannot fully understand the setup of an apple?
You cannot know the actual shape of the seeds, nor the length of them, nor the sum total amount of seeds, until you have a third perspective.
If you had a real half apple in your hand, you could obtain that information by peeling one out and look, to find out…. ( adding the third perspective of ‘looking at the seeds’, peeled out of their context ‘in’ the apple)
But still…..you wouldn’t have an idea of the natural relative position to each other and the rest of the apple.

Who cares….. ? Most people are not interested much in the seeds or the core anyway, being only apple consumers: seeing the soft sweet tissue as ‘usefull/food’ and the rest as waste-material to throw away?

It is the horizontal cross-section image that is completing the story on the apple inside and out.
With your imagination, you can deduct from looking at these perspectives , all there is to know about the setup and structure of an apple.

Now, I am taking this real apple into a more abstract level, the apple triptych on the second row tells a  story about (human) consciousness. Not very different, based on the very same apple, simply outlining something more abstract.
I am going to illustrated this also on quite a personal level…
The next part reveals some of my experiences in life, as a part of a diptych/triptych work of art, I understand myself to be in relation to my twin soul.

The centre piece, is the whole consciousness. The all that is, as is, complete and whole.

I am a part of that one consciousness, telling mainly the story of being open to the abundance of seeds for new developments, new generations of consciousness, that is within the perfect circle of the whole and it’s non-linear position within the whole. I am the cross-section, straight through the apple on seed level. The panel on the right, in the picture.

My twin soul,is telling this part of the story of this triptych.
He is not the other half of the same apple. He is not the other horizontal cross-section of the same apple, we don’t fit seamlessly together.
That would, within the purpose of telling a story, that raises  awareness on consciousness also not be the most evident choice.
Together we do, however, depict/form the complete understanding of the setup of the whole apple. (That may sound very confusing, but stay close to the apple-story, bear with me.)

It is my understanding , as you can see in the picture, that he is a vertical cross section, straight through the middle of the apple.

He tells a story of being split in half and within that half, being for a great deal split in two halfs again, with two seeds on opposing sides, ‘right’ and it’s opposite side. 

Culture seems to have a preference of  calling that other side/seed ‘wrong’. Nature would have a more kind and more relative observation on that : ‘left’ for instance, or ‘the mirrored side’. 

He knows himself to be love (heart shaped), outside and in.

human habits

Now, just as much as people have a preference for cutting apples in half the way depicted in the first row of the triptych,  it seems that consciousness  usually gets sliced in vertical perceptions too, in every day life.

What then happens in human interactions, the meeting of parts of consciousness, is that it is very easy for two vertically sliced apples to relate to each other and feel the joy of how life mirrors their take on it. It is very easy to come to the conclusion that this must be the way it was ‘meant to be’.
Pleasure is ‘seeing the same’ reflected in the outside world.

Now… is pleasure the same as love, as experiencing full life fullfilment?
Pleasure may tell a part of the story of life and consciousness, but does ‘the pleasure of seeing/being/liking the same’ tell the whole story?

Having been on this planet now for 44 years, I know, from experience that I am, apparently, not having the pleasure of being ‘normal’, according to cultural definitions/habits.

I am aware of the presence of more seeds (opportunities for development) than most people and fly ‘life’ from a very different perspective. I tell stories about the possibility to choose from more than two options and that they don’t intrinsically oppose each other… and I get the blank stare from most people. For  that is "not possible".

Read: for they cannot relate to that concept, never having sliced their consciousness right through the middle in the other direction.

As long as I stick to telling less than half of my story, culturally strictly vertically cross-section minded people, only think I am possibly a bit funny ( for no two seeds within me are each other’s exact opposite). But being with me is also a bit mind-boggling and results frequently in feelings of being unsettled in the centre.
As long as I stick to showing only 2 seeds, I am close enough to their perspective on life to not form a complete threat to their take on life. They simply hang my non-levelled 2 seeds straight on the wall of their mind’s eye ( or tell me I am not seeing it straight) and all is well in the world of our encounter.  

At the age of approx. 6 years old, I decided for my own social survival, I had to limit myself to showing only 2, almost opposing seeds of my collection,  in public,  for I couldn’t deal with the rejective responses of the public eye on revealing anything more of my true picture.

Example of me cloaking my real picture to match,
at quick glance,
to please a vertical cross sectioned person

Yes, it does look like an alien staring at you though a hole    ;-)

When I do reveal more parts of the real deal: like the magical appearance of seed number three:

Is that an  angry alien
' coming to get you'
peaking through the worm-hole?

(or even 4 or 5 simultaneously)

..... and joyfullyexplain their intrinsic relation to each other and the whole, of which I am sure because I see it in myself as clear as day….then OMG!
When I tell the tale of being perfectly round on the outside and a star in the middle, and no… there is no heart shape to be seen… FGS……then the conclusion ‘ I am not love’ , ‘ I am not what most people are’, 'I am not acceptable/good enough/normal'  is quickly drawn, in a most minds.
What I am, gets kicked out, at the speed of light, not matching their take on the reality of life at all.

Well, fellow parts of the one consciousness……I am love (like you).

But please, don’t expect all love to show up in your inner or outer reality as heart-shaped!
I am at any given time what everybody else is:  a cross-section of the meta-physical apple, of consciousness, of ‘LOVE’ as the esoteric sources call that wholeness.

That I am a horizontal cross-section straight through he middle on seeds level, doesn’t make me a better part or a worse part then a vertical cross-section or any cross-section on another level than in the centre.

It probably does make me a reliable source on knowing about, understanding and applying  abundance of seeds for new developments within the whole consciousness.

Where I also know that this consciousness is not a static, nor flat, phenomenon. (But ever changing, mulit-dimensional) . And there are strong clues that we might even individually get to choose how we desire to slice it, see it, in our reality…. (once we realise to be one consciousness, we can explore being whilst growing, under all angles.)

So, to broaden your awareness of consciousnees ( the bigger totoal picture of what you are):

On the next apple you slice....try cutting it in half over the horizontal line, before you enjoy its taste.

See. Really LOOK and understand.

And then.... on the next encounter you have, with an unconventional person, see if you can determine which cross-section of the consciousness-apple this person shows…

P.S.
There is a strong link to this blog post too....

If you are the apple (the whole consciousness)....

• How do you see the horizontal cross-section picture of abundance of seeds within yourself... ?

Your inner eye is situated quite high: by looking down onto your inner self.

• How do you see the vertical cross-section picture of two polarised halfs, complete from top to botttom...?

By looking straight ahead into a mirror of the outside world with an open heart/mind

There still is, however, no need what so ever, to reverse your electro magnetic direction, for being able to see the whole pure sharp undistorted vertical cross-section, as intened by the Master Creator.