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As of late, I have strictly limited my television viewing to no more than a couple of shows per week, much better than previous times in my life. This has turned me onto another activity to fill the gap in my life–reading. I do not know if you all know what reading is, I know it has suffered a steady decline ever since the television came into fruition. Reading requires a longer attention span than television, as the plots are usually much more complex and the characters see some real development. It is an exercise in imagination. I remember what an avid reader I was in elementary school and into my middle school days, and then I just sort of tapered off. I started watching more and more television, mainly Comedy Central and the Fox network. I started shoving books to the side in favor of movies and television shows, and what happened was a stagnation, an atrophy of my imagination. It was like this for five, six years even, without me really noticing how much I lost in that timespan. Television almost became an addiction, but not to the extent that many others suffer with.

If you have ever watched television, and I believe many of you have, there really is not much on to really get interested in. A vast wasteland is what someone put it as. There may be a few shows, a few key shows that are truly interesting and thought-provoking, but otherwise, there is nothing of real substance, nothing really bound in reality, more of a fanstasmal way to live, if that is even a word. The “reality” shows that depict edited reality, which is so far away from reality that they should be called “fantasy shows.” And let us not forget the advertisements, which put most people in a state of desire, wanting all the new products that are advertised on the networks. Breeding a consumerist culture, allowing for mass destruction of our planet and many more. I am not saying that all television is evil, just that the majority of the broadcasts offer hardly anything of substance, are extremely biased, and I am sure you could find other more fulfilling activities to participate in than sitting passively, watching a screen simulate other people doing things you wish you could do.

After a long conversation with myself, I decided it was necessary to remove the television’s influence from my life, except for no more than five hours a week. There are certain shows I find original and creative, and are against the mainstream garbage I often see. Those are the shows I keep on my schedule. I have filled the time I cut out from not watching television with much more meaningful activities, such as reading, writing, and contemplating the meaning of my life and the meaning of all life in the universe. You do not see such activities on television. When you watch television, you surrender control to the network. Whatever is on there, you cannot control. It is almost like hypnosis. I used to feel that I wanted to turn the damn thing off, but I couldn’t. I spent many nights watching Law and Order marathons until I could barely keep my eyes open, wondering why I even cared about what happened to the characters. It wasn’t real. Why did I care?

Finally, I broke away from this sort of behavior, or lack of behavior and decided not to spend a good amount of my life in front of a piece of technology. Although I do use my computer quite a bit, it is more interactive and I am in the driver’s seat. I can choose what it is I want to do here. It is much more empowering than the television. Television is defining our culture through everything it conveys. And it isn’t really the television, but the advertisements and programs on the television. Those are the real culprits. Television can be used to enrich our lives or what it does now, turns us into passive zombies. And they are doing a good job. People are still watching. They want to see who gets kicked off the island on Survivor. They want to see the next episode of Desperate Housewives. And if that is entertaining to you, fine. But if you are only watching it to fill a void in your life, a void that could be filled with much more meaningful activities, then go for it. Do not surrender control of your life to a “box.” You’re worth more than that. You can do better. It is not easy to break the habit, but once you do, you will start finding better ways to occupy your time. Take up a hobby. Join a club. Exercise. There are so many positive things you can put in place of television. Take your pick.

Sometimes I wonder if I will be better off living in the woods. Maybe that is the place for me. In this past year, I have spent more time outdoors and have really listened to the world around me, not the manmade sounds, but the sounds that are provided by nature. It is like a soundtrack from Sounds of the Suburban Forest. Sure, there may be some car noises in the background, but the primary focus in on the chirping birds and the zephyr from the west. (A zephyr, by definition, is a west wind.) I find it very soothing. There is a certain continuity about it, an instinctive look at something that has always been there, at least as long as this planet has harbored life. And I cannot help but think what a short period of time we have been “civilized.” That being our domestication if you would. Our settling into a three bedroom ranch house with a white picket fence and a dog named Fido.

We are not really sure of life before civilization, as no one took the time to write it down in a way we could understand. Sure, cavemen painted on walls, but that doesn’t tell me who invented the wheel. And I am sure no one needed to get a patent for it. I do have this vision of an ancient patent office, Flintstones style. It would be something, wouldn’t it? I also wonder if the people back then kept track of the years, one of them like, “Hey, it’s 4567 B.C. I have this sinking feeling Christ is going to be born in 4567 years. Better keep that day open.” But it amazes me how we have started accelerating to the point of unsustainability. Consuming all of our resources is something that we may not have seen coming, but it is time to start consuming less.

Maybe the woods would be a great place for us to live. I researched Henry David Thoreau and found that he spent about two years in the woods in a small shack. I guess it was the defining moment of his life or something, and it gave him some newfound perspective on life, love, and consumption. I think that if we all pitch in and go back to our roots, we can live in peace once again. We are always fighting over land, resources, or whatever else is this year’s “hot button.” So I guess transcendence of society is something we can all get a part of by spending time in the woods, away from all of this. I don’t know, but ever since reading the book Fight Club, I find it that my responsibility is to do something every day to get away, at least for awhile. If I were to ever take an extended vacation, it would be to a private beach, an undiscovered paradise. Why go to a place where you are trying to relax, but the family or whoever you go with is saying, “Let’s go here, let’s go there, let’s see the [insert tourist attraction here].”

I know that we have evolved in a civilization-type manner much faster than we have evolved biologically and this is something that may or may not cause problems. I am not a scientist nor am I a firm believer in us being “the crown of creation” and that we should “be fruitful and multiply,” as I feel we have done quite enough of that for at least a few generations. It is not something you can deny. Our population will become unsustainable. How many more people can we pack onto this planet? And with the current obesity epidemic at large, that could also produce some interesting problems as well.

I came across a website called the Church of Euthanasia, a great website that has to do with voluntarily lowering the population to a sustainable level. I found the website both humorous and dark, but also mean at times. I am not going to condone anything they have stated, but some of it did make a lot of sense. I feel like if we keep letting the population grow, the woods and all other solitudes will be turned into multiplex cinemas or minimalls, something I could not bear to deal with. I might become the next member of the Church of Euthanasia if that happens on a global level. I pray that this does not happen. But you never know.

In all of this, I find peace in knowing I am conscious enough to realize these problems and that I can take steps, personally, to limit my ecological footprint, and encourage others to do the same. It is our battle to be won. I know we were kind of just thrown into this at birth, as we inherited these problems, from our ancestors. We just bought into this sort of lifestyle, and it can consume us all. I am not saying the complete extinction of humans would be a terribly bad thing, as the remaining ecosystem will still thrive without us. We are not integral to the world, and as a matter of fact, we have done more harm than good, but there still is some good in there. We need to get more of the good out, the helping hands, cleaning up this world, so that way I can buy a small plot of land and move into the woods. Come join me. You’ll enjoy it. I promise.

It happens every once in awhile that we have to “perform” for other people, if you would. We have to be “on.” I often joke with people I know when other people are coming to visit we have not seen in awhile that we’ll have to recharge our batteries in order to be “on” for that occasion. I guess it has to do with uploading your ego or something. Becoming the egoic personality that these people are used to seeing, or at least the egoic personality that you currently use in some situations. I am thinking of storing my ego along with my self-esteem in a wall-safe I am thinking about purchasing, so that when I need it, I know where it will be. It is not like my ego is very strong, it is just a humble sense of an ego, I am not someone who is the leader of the conversation, although it is often a comment I make that will drive the whole conversation. So, I am usually in control of the conversation, although I am not the person who contributes the most. I find it fascinating how so many people are invested in putting out their nuggest of information and not really listening to the rest of the crowd. That is a problem I have addressed within myself, as I have always been more of a listener anyway.

From an early age, I was one to watch. My mother always told me, even as a child, when interacting with other children, I would first watch them, for maybe hours on end, before joining into their reindeer games. I was more observant than I was active. And I still love to watch people. I always get a good read on people just by watching and listening. I don’t even need to utter a word to get a full understanding of most people. I guess you could call this a gift, but I guess I take it for granted. I have never been much of a verbal person, up until a couple of years ago, when I had my brain tumor and I put everything in perspective, but I still do not talk as much as the people around me. I guess this means I do not activate my ego half as much.

The ego is very reactive. It always has to react to the situation at hand. If it doesn’t, then it is almost like it is letting itself down. People always expect your ego to have something to contribute to the conversation, no matter how pointless it may be. Sometimes I wonder why some people put all their energy into somewhat meaningless arguments about which brand of clothes is better or how much hairspray someone is using. To me, and this is just me, I would rather talk about the meaning of life or why society functions the way it does, or how to take down the evil corporations that dehumanize its workers and take over small businesses like a bully in the schoolyard. But that is just me. I like to talk about things that are bigger than just me, bigger than the immediate circumstances that surround me. I like to encite change in the world, not just in someone’s personal regime. I couldn’t care less if someone decides to switch their cell phone number because cell phones are likely to contribute to brain cancer in the long run, so I avoid them at all costs, already having been through that experience.

I have been trying to make sense of this society for way too long, and looking at it through the ego, it makes me feel like I am powerless to change it. Like what can I do, one person, to change the way the world works, with all the greed and corruption, and a host of everything else. But when I turn off my ego-personality, and realize I am connected with everything, then I start to think I can actually change the world, as a collective consciousness, by intending for the world to improve in the ways that I see fit. This sort of feeling allows me to dream big, because since we all are connected, I can bring forth a new change in the world, simply by bringing others on board through the power of inention and through some action as well. I find that turning of the ego and embracing the “we all are one” hypothesis, it empowers me to be able to change the world around me to fit my needs and wants, the way I want the world to be. I haven’t solved any major problems yet, but they are definitely on the horizon. Wish me luck and I wish you all luck as well. More power to the non-egoic personalities. Boy, does that sound awkward or what? It’s okay, it is the idea that counts.

Spending time with nature is one of the best things you can ever do. I can attest to this personally. The unbelievable beauty contained within this world is only seen through a certain lens, and if you are now carrying that lens, I encourage you to go out into nature and get a look at everything you are missing by spending hours a day inside, working at a job, or just spending time inside. One of my favorite things to do is to take an undetermined amount of time and spend it out in the wilderness. Where I am from, there is not much wilderness, so I guess a golf course will have to do. Even so, watching the animals get their food for the upcoming winter, the birds flying about, chirping incessantly, or the wind blowing the trees back and forth, back and forth, until you feel like this is where you are supposed to be, where we were meant to be.

I am a strong believer in coming back to our natural state of being, and I definitely feel that nature has a strong part to play in all of this. It is there from whence we came, and we shall return back to this natural lifestyle with epic proportion, soon enough, as so I hope. I feel that the more time I spend in that sort of area, the more centered I become, the less worried I feel, the more peace I can invite into my life. I feel that humanity, in a sense, has lost touch with our natural roots and are so concerned with technology and deadlines, not to mention fear of nature, that we completely neglect what is out there and focus primarily on what we have created rather than what has always been. To watch a tree, to know that it has grown for twenty, thirty years to get to where it is today, that there are whole networks of animals and insects, and whatever else could be contained inside that tree, living there, instinctively, intuitively, as if it came natural, without any rhyme or reason, except it is the only way for them to survive effectively. There is no logic behind this, it is all instinctive.

This is the concept I am talking about here, our instinct, our intuition, our sense of knowing without having to justify it. Things that just feel right. For the most part, humanity no longer relies on its intuition, except in some very rare circumstances. We have lost trust in our inuitive senses, spending so much time away from nature, and it has denied us a very powerful tool. I find that the more I get in tune with nature, the more I feel trustworthy of my intuition. I think what scares most people about nature is it is not logical in any sense. There is no math equation that can describe nature. And if there is, I don’t want to know what it is.

I know that the way we are currently living, with the destruction of nature, our original home, our overconsumption of resources, our complete disregard for animal rights, and our high stress environment workplaces. That is not a utopia. There is nothing there that even resembles a paradise. We need to get back in touch with our roots, people, and I sure hope that it starts happening fast. We have turned our backs on our place of origin in the pursuit of “progress,” whatever that means, taking more and more natural resources out of the Earth and further depleting the very clean air and water we need to survive. And when you spend time in nature, you will wonder why we allow this outright destruction of such a beautiful thing. It is only because we have lost touch and now this nature has become the enemy. We fear what we do not understand, and until we once again understand nature, we will fear it, and be ready to destroy it. That is all I have to say about that. Good day.

Comedy has a way of finding me time and again. I had gone so long just dwelling on philosophy and spirituality lately that I had almost neglected my comedy career. I’d been so busy with everything else that it kind of went on the back burner. I feel kind of sad about that, but I have gotten back into the groove as of late. Tonight, I rewatched the Comedy Central Special, When the Leaves Blow Away, featuring Steven Wright. It got me back into the mode I needed to be into and I thought of at least five or more new jokes, not to mention the rewording of three to five other jokes to make them much, much funnier. Now I can finally focus on putting together a good set, an amazing set, so that I can go out and perform. I have to scout open mike places down here, as there are very few, as far as I know. This is the South, so I am kind of worried my brand of humor may not stick well with some of these country folks, but you never know.

I guess you could call it bizarre, somewhat intellectual humor with a very concentrated delivery. I am low-key by nature, so I am not a Dane Cook or Lewis Black. I am not an angry person, so I do not express anger in my comedy act. I just have to develop my persona more, to the point that I am exactly what the audience expects. There are so many comedians out there now and there has to be a way to stand out from the rest. I do not want to be the stereotypical comedian, talking about stereotypical things. Like the gym, the bank, their wives/girlfriends. I am not that kind of person. I intend to have much deeper comedy about life itself, about all sorts of topics most others do not cover.

I guess the best thing I can possibly do is be myself. Otherwise, I may get arrested for identity fraud. If I can develop a set, which is the most challenging thing for me at this current moment, then I will be all set. I also have to work with spacing out of the jokes, timing they call it. The most important thing is getting the jokes in some sort of order that is both easy to remember and works well with the audience. I have to also realize that I am not for everyone, some people will dislike my comedy. And I can live with that. I’ve been living with it my whole life.

Even the best comedians of our time are disliked by many. Many people have said they do not like Jerry Seinfeld. Others say they cannot stand Chris Rock. And even though he is popular, I do not like Dane Cook. Just watching him sucks the energy right from my body. No offense, Dane.

One thing I should do is my spare time is create a joke shrine, where an abunance of jokes keep flowing. It will be a nice way to reinforce what I am going for. Anyway, I believe I am back to being funny at least some of the time, depending on your taste in humor. Good night.

Well, if you remember my post on taking a vow of silence, you would not believe what has happened to me. I have been forced into a vow of silence, even though I did not expect to at this time. It is not for spiritual or ethical reasons, the fact of the matter is I have completely lost my voice. Now I’ll get to experience the vow of silence in the way that someone would use a trial size of toothpaste to see if it tastes good. It will most likely last for maybe two to three days, but after I am done this trial-sized vow of silence, I can move forth to see if it is something I would ever do. Silence is golden, at least sometimes.

Well, I’ll let you know how it goes and hopefully I can get rid of this cold/flu/sore throat that has been bugging me for the last week. At least I have my books and websites to keep me occupied, and I may go for a long walk later, I just hope that I don’t see people who might want to strike up a conversation with me, because I simply will not be able to speak. Either way, I guess seeing the positive side in this situation will not hurt. I have the next two days off from any obligations, except maybe one, so this will give me the time to get over this flu and experience silence once again, listen to the birds and the wind, and not be so prone to opening up my mouth. Have a nice day.

Something as of late has provoked me to becoming more organized. I don’t know what it is, but it has reaped some enormous benefits so far and I am looking forward to the culmination of complete organization. I have thrown away quite a bit in the last month or so, things I thought I would need someday, so held onto, and never used. I am still not all the way there, but it is an ongoing process. Eventually, I would like to strip everything down to the bare minimum, with just a couple of extras, like my laptop and a couple of DVDs I actually use. The rest is all going to be either sold, given away, or tossed out, depending on if I can find ways to better dispose of them.

Here is what I have been noticing when it comes to clearing out clutter: You feel better, you are more focused, more relaxed, less agitated about clutter. Clutter can be very distracting, especially when you are trying to do something like write a blog post there is a gigantic mess staring you in the face. I believe the key to organization is giving each and every one of your items a home, a place where they belong, and be sure to keep placing them back in their home after you are done using them. This has two benefits: One is that you will always know where your things are, and two is that those things will not be all over the place, impeding your mood and well-being.

I find getting rid of excess items to be a rewarding process as well. This is especially true if you give those items to others. I remember a saying that goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” I agree with that statement to the degree it has worked for me. I am going to start giving away some of the things I do not use regularly because getting rid of them will free up more space for either other things or more oxygen in my room. Oxygen is probably the most precious item for me to have around, so having more room for it is a definite must. The key for me is to figure out which items I will probably never use again, and which ones I will definitely use again. But what is the difference anyway? None of the things I own, besides my laptop, is worth over $100. Every other individual item is worth less than that. So, if I ever need another one of something I have thrown away, I can always get another one, for a nominal fee.

One of my plans is to probably sell some of my DVDs on eBay or sell them to used movie stores. A lot of the movies I have bought seemed like a good idea at the time, but I feel like every time I feel like watching one of them, I say, “Well, it is going to take two hours. Could you possibly put those two hours to better use?” And the answer is usually yes, so I feel like these movies are not really satisfying their space on my desk. The same goes with my bookshelf. Probably more than half the books on there I will never, ever read again, so maybe it is time to make a trip to the library and donate them. I don’t even know why I own books that aren’t something I would use at least once a month, as having them just sit there is a colossal waste of space. All in good time I will bring myself to get rid of the ones that no longer serve me, and if for some reason they do after I get rid of them, I just have to go down to the library and take it out.

It is all a matter of what you need, what you want, and what is just not worth keeping. Then there is a way to systematically organize the things you own into those three categories, trashing the latter and keeping the two first ones, then working on different methods of organizing the things that remain. I think it is a good idea. I have heard that in office buildings, often a person with a messy desk will not get a promotion. The whole thought on that is messy desk, messy life. Your clutter is a representation of who you are, and by clearing it out, you clear out a part of yourself to invite better things to come in its place.

Now where are my keys?

Working hard at fulfilling my mission, and that is being the change I want to see in the world. I want a world less focused on war and greed and more focused on peace and love. I want a world less focused on ratings and more focused on content quality. So I am moving myself, my consciousness, towards these ideals I wish to see in the world. I believe doing this will have enormous potential as I have seen some decent results with this approach when I stay consistent with my thinking, which is a challenge from time to time. Working towards this goal is what makes my life worth living, as I have always been one to see a challenge I would like to overcome and then try hard to overcome it.

To remove negativity from the world is another change I would like to see, but I am not going to overload myself right now. I will work towards peace and unconditional love at first, and then when I become accustomed to that process, I will add the positive approach to all of this, which I am already doing somewhat, but not to the extent I find acceptable. Perceiving the world as peaceful and full of joy and love is something I am doing more often and my experiences are starting to back me up. Of course, these are all subjective to my perceptions, as any sort of view of reality is, in general. I am just trying really hard to do something that is finally starting to come full circle and I am getting more excited each and every day as my life unfolds to enormous potential. But it is not just about my life, it is about the lives of everyone, as we are all one, collective consciousness and by changing my way of life, I intend to inspire the rest of the world to follow suit.

This is a lifelong mission and the only thing I can really do is keep at it and progress to the point of total responsibility for everything in my reality, knowing that it was my part in creating it, and that I always have the power to make it better than it currently is. So, by making a lifelong mission to improve the state of the world, the universe, all of existence, to the point of joy, peace, love, and absence of fear, I feel that this would be a worthwhile contribution to the world in general. I also would like to put more emphasis on experiences and less emphasis on material possessions. I tend to value experiences over my things, my possessions, and I hope to see a trend that goes to this extent as well. I just need to work on how to get these messages out in an efficient manner.

I intend to live a simple life, with rich experiences that inspire others to do the same, and see the joy that is contained within living a life that is filled with peace, love, and absence of fear. This is my mission, and I hope others move towards making this their mission as well, or at least something vaguely similar. This purpose has brought my thinking to new levels and I now have a baseline for every decision I make, as I ask myself: “Is this taking me towards or away from my mission?” If it is taking me towards, it is the right decision. If not, then I may have to reconsider. But I love how passionate I am becoming about getting into this sort of work, this sort of lifestyle that I cannot wait to write about it again. I am one with the keyboard, one with the world. Have a nice existence.

We all dream sometimes. Actually, we supposedly all dream every night, although many people do not remember their dreams. Over the last year, since last March, I have kept a pretty steady dream log, although I sometimes went, twice, without writing for maybe a month when I started forgetting my dreams once again, but putting out the intention to start having vivid dreams once again, right before I go to bed, has proven effective in having rich and vivid experiences even while I am dozing away in my most comfortable place. Some of my dreams are very normal, filled with the usual things. Others have a certain mystic effect about them. In at least three dreams, I have used the power of intention to manifest money right before my eyes. Recently, I had a dream where I could move things and people with my mind. So the experiences are getting much richer and much more fulfilling.

I don’t know if anyone here who reads this is familiar with lucid dreams, but that is a dream where you are conscious that you are dreaming, and now take complete control of the dream. I have had a couple of these such dreams, but what happens is as soon as I realize I am dreaming, I wake up twenty or thirty seconds afterwards and am not able to do much with them. I have heard many stories about lucid dreams and how wonderful they can be, and since I am already having a wonderful experience dreaming as of late, I figure it is not a bad idea to try and influence myself to have a few lucid dreams every month or so. It’s not like I’ll be doing anything better while sleeping. It will give me something to do while I essentially lie lifeless on my bed.

The thing that amazes me the most about dreams is absolutely anything is possible, anything out of the ordinary can happen, and if you are not a lucid dreamer, you accept it as normal. Because when we dream we are still in the dream mindset, we adopt our dream character’s mindset and no matter where we are, whatever happens makes sense from that perspective. However, if when we wake up we remember the dream, much of it will seem distorted and unplausible to real life situations. This is another reason why I would love to work on lucid dreaming. It would give me the opportunity to do things I could never do in real life, ever, well maybe I could, but right now I do not see a way to attain it. Flying is one example.

I wish I would have numbered the dreams I had, but even that would not make much difference, just to have a running tally, because I know that just having them down in reality on paper gives them that extra credibility that other dreams do not get. Often, if I wake up right after a dream in the middle of the night, I will write down some key words to remember the dream, just in case I am to forget it. The unbelievably strange thing is that if I write them down, I remember them, even if I do not look at the paper I wrote them down on. I guess using the mind, the hands, and the eyes one time, as three ways to remember it, will burn it into my mind and it will no longer need to be looked at after that.

I am not certain, but I lean towards thinking the dream is an alternative universe where my consciousness goes to when my body is no longer conscious. It is a place where all things are possible because I go in there wilh no expectations that anything will be held constant. I am starting to suspect that real life is also a dream, but it has limitations because we are told this from a young age about how you can’t do certain things. There is no one in our dreams telling us we can’t do things, unless you have dreams riddled with limitations. I think maybe if we relax our beliefs about reality a bit, we could most likely do all of the things we do in a dream and more, but it will be a gradual process. I view reality like this: We are having a dream, and when we go to sleep, we have a ream within a dream. I know this is possible because I have went to sleep, had a dream, then went to sleep in that dream, and had a false awakening, where I woke up in the dream, but I was still asleep, so I went into the first dream I was having. So it is not entirely ridiculous that we are living in a dream world. It is just interpreting this dream world that will pose the real challenge.

Until next time, happy dreams.

We all long for a place we like to call home, a place where we feel secure, and nothing can harm us. Home is where the heart is, as well as the spirit. But where is home? And how do we get there? I am not talking about the place where you grew up, more of a spiritual home, a place where you feel at rest, in total harmony with everything around you. I guess it is hard to describe in words, as it is more of a feeling. A place where we feel at peace with everything. I wish I could describe the feelings I have about this place, this destination, that we all long to go to someday. Could it be a heaven of sorts? Maybe. I know such a place exists, I just have to experience it firsthand. And the process is going on now. One with the world and all of that good stuff.

Here is the thing. Once you realize you are a spiritual being having a physical experience, it should put some of your fears to rest. I guess it is hard for some people to conceptualize this, as they constantly look for proof. I say the proof is within, an all-knowing self inside every one of us. This is a tool I am using to try and rid myself of fear. If I look at my physical body as simply a vehicle my spirit is using temporarily to experience the world as it is today, I can somewhat let go of the whole mortality thing, and just allow myself to experience life as it comes, do what it is I want, and pass onto something else when my vehicle “runs out of gas.” If you view life in this way, or in a way like it is some sort of dream, which is also a possibility, you somehow are no longer afraid. Nothing can really harm your spirit, the only part of you that it eternal, so everything you do and experience is less fearsome.

However, I would not recommend behaving too recklessly at this point. Do not do things that will have negative consequences in physical reality because that will only inhibit your spiritual progress. I believe we are all here for a reason. Maybe we do not know what the reason is, but we do know inherently right from wrong. We can make decisions that will lead us towards progress or we can go on a destructive path. Every thought, every action, is a choice. And once we realize that, it makes choosing to live an ideal life easier. It still is not simple, but it gets easier every day.

Knowing that no matter how bad your physical body becomes in terms of condition, that your spirit remains immortal is a key to everlasting prosperity. Look at people like Hellen Keller and Steven Hawkins. These are people who have been dealt some tough lives and yet still have made a difference in the world. There is something inside them that allowed these people to make a difference in the world. Some internal force that we still have not come to understand completely, except on a completely intrinsic level. I believe “going home” symbolizes the complete realization that we are more than just our physical bodies, that life, or existence, does go on after our physical bodies pass away. Otherwise, what is the meaning of life but to peddle products and keep the world turning?

There is a part of you that is spiritual in nature and one of the best things you can do is get to know that person. Some people call it their higher self, others intuition, but whatever you call it, it is something special to get it touch with this part of you. If you don’t believe in this sort of stuff, then that is exactly what you will percieve. But if you open yourself up just a little bit to this idea, you will start to “get it.” These words may be here in the physical world, but they were spawned from the spiritual realm, a collection of subconscious thought and spiritual wisdom that only my higher self and I could have possibly put together. I encourage you to do the same, as it has worked wonders for me. I am still not 100% on the whole reality theory, but every day I seem to get closer in closer to thinking that reality is almost 100% subjective. We shall see. Good day.