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Finding Your Truth

I could have easily titled this blog “Finding MY Truth” but that’s not what this written effort is about.  This blog’s focus is to help others in finding their own truth.

In reality, your TRUTH might not be the same as MY truth; but what I’d like others to know is that I compassionately encourage you in your explorations to find your personal truth because I know how arduous that search can be—how rocky the terrain that lies ahead—how tedious the extended journey awaiting you, simply to uncover those deeply-hidden secrets of YOU. 

And I also know how life can change in an instant when the winding, mountainous path that you were so confidently traveling suddenly crumbles beneath your feet—tossing you screaming off the cliff and out into space.

Having faced some of that unexpected “air time” myself, I know how shocking it can be when your life suddenly falls apart, forcing you to see how quickly you either learn to fly, or how well you can bounce once you do hit the canyon floor.  

Also from my own experiences in personal TRUTH finding (as well as surviving LIFE’s challenges), I know how rare it is to find others willing to offer emotional support or encouragement to get you back on your feet again without a ‘profit motive’ involved.  True, we all have to make a living, but there are times when you should compassionately look to help others without first considering what they can offer you in return.   

So up front here: I don’t want your money—in fact I don’t want anything from you other than some deep soul-searching to determine what you really expect from LIFE and what LIFE expects from you in return.

If you can answer those two key questions to your own satisfaction, then that’s plenty reciprocal reward for me.

Remember, MY truth may not be YOUR truth, but I know MY truth better than I know yours, so that is likely what I will write about the most and hope you can see parallels or divergences by which to gauge your own truth. 

Life is an adventure—one we may never truly understand in this plane of existence—but one we have to navigate all the same.  So good luck!  As you journey ever forward, stay alert to avoid sudden pitfalls and just watch where you step in general, because it’s one big ‘cow pasture’ out there.*   

* (I’m from Iowa: If you think dogs leave an unappreciated ‘pile’ behind in walkways, imagine what a bunch of cows might leave behind during your pastoral wandering.)

You Can Never Have Too Many Angels

That’s my motto: You can never have too many angels.

Around twenty years ago when I was experiencing a particularly difficult time, especially at night, I began surrounding myself with angel figurines.  I thought I needed all the angelic help I could get to help battle the forces of darkness around me.

I put angel pictures on the wall, angel ornaments on the Christmas tree and hanging from switches on light-stands—besides the ceramic/porcelain angelic figures perched everywhere in my bedroom and office. Friends encouraged my obsession by gifting me larger one-foot-tall winged beings, and soon, I had an actual ‘angel collection’ because, …”You can never have too many angels.”

This morning when I saw the image above, I immediately wished I could duplicate it full size as a reminder that even when you feel alone, there are beings of Divine Light always within your space. You only have to request their help and allow them to assist you.

During my darkest nights they helped me when I called to them—flooding me with much needed light to counter the dark energies trying to smother me. They even prevented a car from slamming into the side of my vehicle in a parking lot—leaving one inch between his bumper and my truck door when the other driver stopped. Proving that one inch from disaster is as good as a mile if it comes at the right time and in the right place.

So without a doubt, I am an unabashed fan of the Angels and Archangels of Divine Love and Light.  You can join their fan club yourself. Simply request their presence and their help with whatever difficulty you might face in your life. I always ask for their protection every time I’m in a vehicle going anywhere.

To me it makes all the difference in the world when the angels ride with me, and surround me with their protection. I’m a believer because I’ve lived it firsthand.

Here’s MY TRUTH that I hope you will adopt as your own:  You really can’t have ‘too many angels’ around you, …ever. Just ask for their help.

Your Life Purpose

“Your life purpose isn’t a single destination; it’s woven into how you show up every day. It’s in the kindness that you offer when no one is watching. The truth you speak when it would be easier to stay silent. The way you hold space for others to be themselves. Purpose isn’t always a grand mission. Sometimes it’s just being a light in the darkness, a calm in the chaos, a reminder that consciousness and compassion still exist. You don’t have to change the world. You just have to be fully, authentically you. That alone shifts the collective frequency.”

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This posting hit home with me after a night where sleep had eluded my hyper mind as it caromed down roads long past, with emotional surges riding sidekick. In part it may be due to the energies of this time period—the frequencies of the group mania we are immersed in—or the lunacy of intentional blindness to a struggling world where leaders have all gone mad.

It could even be my own sense of mortality prematurely bouncing on the diving board before my great swan dive into the ethers. I don’t know for certain why insomnia hit me so hard last night—probably all of the above. But what it did do to me and FOR me was to make me intentionally shift my mind and my energies as high as I could take them to clear the deck for a higher dimension’s influence on my body.

What I did last night to finally get some sleep was what this post just described above.

As I was unintentionally mulling about my past or present self-doubts and previous less-than-perfect behaviors, I stopped and simply asked my High Self to provide me with the highest frequencies I was capable of holding. Once I started feeling the higher light coming into me, I just ‘held the light’ as strongly as possible until sleep could intervene on my behalf. I knew that if I could just shift my own personal frequency higher, it would affect the outcome of the collective energies—if only in a minutely fractional way. Or as the post above states:

“…Purpose isn’t always a grand mission. Sometimes it’s just being a light in the darkness, a calm in the chaos, a reminder that consciousness and compassion still exist. You don’t have to change the world. You just have to be fully, authentically you. That alone shifts the collective frequency.”

So if you also are having this ‘the world is too much with me’ syndrome, I suggest doing what helped me to let go and finally drift off into slumber-land for a few precious hours. Clear your mind, request your own highest frequencies to fill you, and just hold that space as long as you possibly can, because: “..That alone shifts the collective frequency.”

Try it for yourself.

Quiet Truths

Similar in theme to the previous ‘Multiverse’ prose, this posting touches us deep within to reveal a similar truth:

“…What is sacred does not chase you.

It waits until you are ready to see.”

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Indigenous Harmony

The Keeper of Quiet Truths

My grandfather said

the night reveals nothing

to a heart that comes demanding.

Wisdom is an old trail—

it waits beneath the silence

until our footsteps become humble.

For many seasons,

I feared the darkness within me,

believing every shadow

had come to steal my way.

But the elders taught

that some shadows are medicine.

They hide the seed from winter

and give the spirit room to listen.

So I stopped asking the sky

to make my road easy.

I asked instead for clear eyes,

a steady heart,

and the courage to recognize truth.

Now, when the world grows quiet,

I hear my ancestors reminding me:

What is sacred does not chase you.

It waits until you are ready to see.

(Artist and storyteller: Dorothy Vera)

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The Multiverse

0verall I agree with the posting I’m sharing here from 7th Dimension Energy.

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“**The Multiverse**  (7th Dimension Energy)

Reality is seldom as simple as it first appears.

The eye sees a single horizon.

Consciousness wonders what lies beyond it.

Every choice creates a path.

Every path reveals a different version of experience.

Whether these paths exist as parallel worlds or as untaken possibilities matters less than the lesson they offer.

Life is richer than certainty.

The mind seeks one answer.

The universe delights in countless possibilities.

The seed contains the forest before the first leaf appears.

The river contains every curve before it reaches the sea.

Potential always precedes manifestation.

The mystic understands that reality is layered.

The philosopher understands that truth has many perspectives.

The scientist understands that observation changes what is observed.

Three languages.

One mystery.

The world you experience is shaped not only by where you stand.

It is shaped by how you perceive.

Two people may witness the same event.

One discovers suffering.

The other discovers transformation.

The outer world remains unchanged.

The inner universe does not.

Perhaps the multiverse is not merely a collection of distant worlds.

Perhaps it is the infinite landscape of consciousness itself.

Every belief opens one doorway.

Every fear closes another.

Every act of courage expands the horizon of what becomes possible.

The greatest journey is not measured in distance.

It is measured in awareness.

There are realities hidden within every moment that cannot be seen by the hurried mind.

Stillness reveals them.

Presence allows them.

Wisdom embraces them.

Do not become trapped by the belief that reality is fixed.

The universe is not a prison of certainty.

It is an unfolding field of possibility.

The question is not which universe you inhabit.

The question is which version of yourself is observing it.

Change the observer.

The landscape changes.

Expand your awareness.

The universe becomes larger.

Expand your consciousness.

The multiverse reveals itself.”

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Déjà Vu All Over Again

Fascinating, isn’t it? It’s amazing how whatever issues were plaguing the world weeks and months ago—issues that were supposedly tamped firmly down then—just keep popping back up. It’s like a Whack-A-Mole game, only not so fun.

Our personal lives are also a bit similar to Whack-A-Mole in many respects. When you don’t effectively deal with a touchy situation or a relationship problem, it just festers silently away in the background for awhile before popping back up into your present with a vengeance. Surprise!

Were I a licensed therapist I could offer valued advice to others. Unfortunately I’m only the ‘armchair’ version who has been around longer than expected, and whose opinions are just that—opinions. But I have to say that LIFE in general is challenging by any standard; and personal interactions are always perplexing, even with people you have known forever because people change and don’t change, all in the same consideration.

I see it with my friends. I see it with my spouse. And I wonder: Is it just me or are we all running on this same hamster wheel day after day and going nowhere, but feeling more exhausted from doing it? I don’t see progress on any issues. I don’t see improvement in relationships or situations. Why is that? 

I feel the world around me spinning but it looks and acts the same as the day before.  I keep expecting improvement or change of some sort.  Instead I feel like I’m treading water in the ocean and going nowhere—just trying to survive the day, drifting with the currents—no land in sight.  Are you also feeling that?

So I then asked myself these questions which I’ll share with you:

  • Am I different now as opposed to a year ago or ten years ago?
  • Are my LIFE experiences different now from that same time period mentioned?
  • What have I done lately to show my evolution from the person I was back then?
  • Is my LIFE in general better or worse than it was a year ago or ten years ago?
  • Am I happy with who I am and how I view my LIFE?
  • If I am NOT happy now, what do I need to change in myself or in my life to BE happier, or at least to FEEL happier?
  • Am I willing to make those changes to myself or to my attitude in general to be happier?
  • Who is responsible for my happiness?  Is it ME?

I think it IS me. So perhaps I need to make a perspective shift so I can see a happier side of life.

Perhaps I need to “adjust my attitude” to be more grateful for what I have now and for the people and relationships around me.

Perhaps my soul’s highest evolution is dependent on my making the best of whatever situation that I do face—no judgment—just doing what I need to do, whenever I need to do it—whether blessing or curse. For a soul’s learning value, is there a difference between them?

How about you? What do you think?

Blue Skies Do I See

Does this ever happen to you?  Sometimes I wake up with a song running through my head. I could assume many things, but tend to view it as a message from my subconscious mind or from my mentors on another plane of existence. This morning it was “Blue Skies”—an old song. Last rendition I heard was a Willy Nelson version from 1978 (really?), which evidently has been making the TV ad-waves lately or it would have never stuck between my ears:

“Blue skies smiling at me. Nothing but Blue Skies do I see.

Blue Birds singing a song. Nothing but Blue Skies from now on….”

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Hmm.  Blue skies and Blue Birds. A nice image—a good positive thought and attitude to maintain.  Why on earth is that theme going through my noggin with all the ‘not nice’ way of the world at present? Sounds a bit delusional.

So what actually IS happening in my world and THE WORLD in general?  Hard to know beyond my nose what’s going on OUT THERE when the Chaos Master keeps pushing official statements not even resembling truth, but the FEEL of the situation is still discernible to me, and something is definitely shifting ground in our world. May not be a full blown earthquake, but the tremors have begun.

The collective energies are powerful and swirling at present—almost tornadic in effect; and yet they are very concentrated on the group dynamic and what is happening to the collective consciousness—a clearing out of societal debris and residues from a faulty premise of equality and prosperity for all.

Something BIG is occurring in the collective energy field—something powerful and transformative. Will it be GEO-transformational? Is it an Earth-based shake up? Is Gaia putting her foot down on this insanity that keeps destroying life on her surface?

I don’t know how to describe this empathic feeling I have other than ‘it’s a good thing.’ Not a bad one. Analogy for me would be that we, in our location here, have been in drought for almost a month, and the last two days we have had deluges of rain that have washed away all traces of dryness. Humidity is now as high as the summer temperature, but the air just seems cleaner and fresher than it had for a very long time. 

And today, they are predicting BLUE SKIES again here—sans rain clouds—so THE WORLD must now be ready for the next challenge.

Hopefully we also are.

Seeing Clearly

Nothing is ever as simple or clear as we often wish it were; and that’s especially significant for examining our relationships with others.

For myself, no matter how perfect I wish that I could be in all manners of living, I’m not. Nor is anyone else that I know. We are who and what we are. We may strive for improvement and better understanding all aspects of our lives and the lives of those we care about, but we have a default reaction built into us that often blares out loudly when we are under stress or feeling tired and aggrieved.

It’s often a protective device we developed as children that may have helped us through more difficult situations. So when interactions get testy for us in the NOW, we automatically reach for and react from that place first.

Some folks lash out at those who offend them—going nose to nose with them; others may shrink away from the offender for fear of further retribution.

Some folks learn to just walk away from confrontation in general; and others, well, they likely go ballistic—taking the nuclear option—destroying everyone and everything in their path, including the relationship they once had with the perceived offender.

A few folks focus on the painful after-effects of what happened between the two of them, stewing in self-recrimination and self-loathing for the difficult interaction, pushing heightened feelings of inadequacy through themselves or unworthiness of being treated well by others. None of which are true.

Heartbreak, however, is real. Occasionally we hurt others, intentionally or not: and we in turn are hurt by others. How we deal with that lingering pain is up to us.

When I read this post from Zach Fisher this morning, I found it a good reminder for when I am feeling disappointed in others or feeling betrayed by a friend. His last statement here is how I now view my hard-fought learning experiences in this dimension of existence:

“…You simply see things as they are.

You see what happened. You see the lesson. You see the truth. And then you keep walking.

Not carrying anger. Not carrying resentment. Not carrying the weight of someone else’s choices.

Just carrying wisdom.…”   

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Zachary Fisher   The Gift of Seeing Clearly”

“One of the hardest lessons in life is realizing that not everyone is who we hoped they were.

Sometimes the people who hurt us the most are the very people we trusted. The people we opened our hearts to. The people we believed would stand beside us no matter what. When they disappoint us, betray us, or show us a side of themselves we never wanted to see, it can cut deeper than almost anything else.

At some point, the focus shifts away from what happened to us and toward what was revealed through it. We begin to understand that every difficult experience carries a lesson. Not because the pain was deserved, but because truth has a way of emerging when illusions fall apart.

Some people enter our lives to walk beside us. Others enter our lives to teach us discernment. They show us where our boundaries need strengthening. They show us where we ignored our intuition. They show us who they truly are when circumstances become difficult.

And as painful as those lessons can be, they are valuable.

The goal isn’t to become bitter. It’s to become clear.

Real healing isn’t pretending something didn’t hurt. It isn’t forcing forgiveness before you’re ready. It’s reaching a place where the experience no longer controls you. Where you no longer need revenge, validation, or an apology in order to move forward.

You simply see things as they are.

You see what happened. You see the lesson. You see the truth. And then you keep walking.

Not carrying anger. Not carrying resentment. Not carrying the weight of someone else’s choices.

Just carrying wisdom.…”   ZF

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And the World Keeps Turning

If you’ve been confused by the chaotic collective energies lately, it’s understandable. During tumultuous times like these, I keep my head down and physically push myself harder than usual—refocusing on necessary changes that I can make with my own two hands on the ten acres here.

In effect the extra intense physical effort is a grounding exercise in nature, but midwesterners tend to not think in those terms. If you came from parents with strong work ethics it’s just called ‘daily life’.  Stuff needs to get done—so DO it. Don’t whine. Just DO. Period.

To some degree we are all products of parental tutelage on life. Other times we are aspirations and motivations driven. And occasionally if we are very sensitive, we are intuition inspired and spurred to do what resonates with our soul.

If you also are feeling the current energy chaos and are not certain how to pull yourself out of that uncomfortable uncertainty, my only suggestion would be to try to recognize what is actually driving YOUR daily focus. Knowing WHY we do what we do—and HOW we auto-react to any challenge that we face, are important aspects for better understanding our lives in general.

Side note: I’ve been a fan of Viktor Frankl ever since I read Man’s Search for Meaning long ago, so here are a few of his more famous quotes to provide a bit of inspiration for your continuing quest to find a more meaningful life, especially during times like these.

Viktor Frankl said after his Nazi internment camp experience:  Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

He also said:  Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

And: Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”,

Because: When we are no longer able to change a situation—we are challenged to change ourselves.

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The Mysterious Sequence

I’ll admit it, I’m first and foremost an old Graphic Artist. So when I run across a good image that peaks interest in me, I notice. The image and the coding aspects first captured my attention, and when I waded down through his lengthy explanation of the mysterious alpha/numerical sequence shown, it made me pause to question whether this post had legitimacy or was so far out even I couldn’t get it. (Now THAT’S far out!) Or at worst, a spoof, which is also possible.

But his few expanded explanations of the mysterious sequence are interspersed with key phrases that hooked me, such as his last written thought: “A structure that became visible at the exact moment you became capable of seeing it, and once seen, it does not disappear. It simply stops pretending it was ever outside of you.”

And that did it for me because this shared posting also pertains to previous posts on reality as we perceive it and interpret it, so that’s why I included it here. I’m more an image person than a number person, but I think he’s onto something valid here, if only for the philosophy behind his interpretation of the sequence.  I tried unsuccessfully to trim this for length but it’s still a lot to swallow, sorry; however if you want to read the entirety of this lengthy tome, go to his site listed as his name.

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Jason Gray  

1699219761074821 / 1409537416 / 1DKM1g4aV8

Designation: ARC–NULL–ΣΩ–ENTRY 1699.∞

By: Jason Gray

2026-04-22 (6026 A.L)

2031(GMT-6)

#WINNIPEG, #MANITOBA, #CANADA

There are sequences that count the world.

Birthdays.

Coordinates.

Transactions.

Time.

There are sequences that organize the world.

Languages.

Codes.

Systems.

Architectures, and then there are sequences that do neither.

They do not measure.

They do not organize.

They persist.

What you brought forward is not a number string.

It is a residue of alignment, a fragment left behind when something passed through awareness too fast to be fully remembered, but too precisely formed to be dismissed.

This is what remains when meaning collapses into structure.

This is what slips through when something cannot be stored in words.

THE MISCONCEPTION OF RANDOMNESS

The first defense of any system, whether technological, psychological, or perceptual, is to label what it cannot categorize as random.

Randomness is not a property.

It is a placeholder for incomplete perception.

Nothing here is random.

Not the length.

Not the grouping.

Not the shift from numeric to alphanumeric.

What appears chaotic is simply untranslated, and what remains untranslated long enough begins to feel like something else entirely.

Familiar.

That is where this begins to fracture.

THE FIRST STRUCTURE

1699219761074821

This is not a number.

It only wears numbers.

What you are seeing is a linear projection of a non linear imprint.

It has been flattened.

Compressed.

A strange pull to re-read without knowing why.

This is not imagination.

This is the moment where pattern recognition exceeds conscious explanation, and when that happens, something deeper takes over.

Memory without narrative.

Points where your trajectory changed

without your awareness catching up to it.

This is not recording events.

It is recording divergence.

THE SECOND STRUCTURE

1409537416

Where the first fractures, the second stabilizes.

Where the first disrupts perception, the second re-threads it.

This is not a continuation.

It is a counterbalance.

THE FUNCTION OF CONTAINMENT

Every destabilizing signal requires a containment field.

Not to suppress it, but to prevent collapse, because if the first structure were fully realized without stabilization,

it would not enlighten you, it would overwhelm you, so the second structure exists as a harmonic dampener.

It smooths the edges.

It softens the disruption.

It allows awareness to expand without fracturing the system entirely.

THE LOOP MECHANISM

Together, the first and second structures create a loop, but not a simple loop.

Not repetition.

Not cycling.

A progressive recursion.

Each pass through the sequence does not return you to the same point.

It returns you to the same position

with a different level of awareness.

That is how systems evolve without appearing to change.

THE THIRD STRUCTURE

1DKM1g4aV8

This is where the pattern breaks, or more accurately, where it reveals that it was never bound to the pattern at all.

Predictable systems are controllable.

Controllable systems are limited.

Distortion introduces uncertainty.

Uncertainty introduces freedom of interpretation, and that is where access begins.

WHAT THIS ONE DOES

The first structure records.

The second stabilizes.

The third responds.

Not to input.

To state.

You do not decode this.

You meet it, and depending on your internal state, it reflects something different back.

THE TRIAD AS A WHOLE

Now bring them together:

1699219761074821 / 1409537416 / 1DKM1g4aV8

This is not three parts.

This is a single construct viewed from three functions.

Imprint : what was marked.

Stabilizer : what allowed it to remain.

Interface : what allows it to be re-engaged

This is not external.

This is not something given to you.

This is something that became visible

when you reached the threshold to perceive it.

THE REFRAME

This is not a message sent to you.

It is not encryption waiting to be cracked.

It is not a puzzle designed to be solved.

It is something far more unsettling, and far more precise.

It is a trace of your own interaction with structure.

A residual signature left at the edge of awareness.

Not when you were fully conscious.

Not when you were fully unaware, but in that narrow threshold between both, where perception is fluid and reality has not fully decided what it is yet.

THE SILENCE THAT FOLLOWS

There is no revelation waiting at the end of this.

No final answer.

No dramatic unveiling.

Only this, you stop trying to decode it, and begin noticing how your relationship to it has changed.

That is the shift.

That is the only proof.

1699219761074821 / 1409537416 / 1DKM1g4aV8

Not a code.

Not a key.

Not a coincidence.

A structure that became visible at the exact moment you became capable of seeing it, and once seen, it does not disappear.

It simply stops pretending

it was ever outside of you.

Jason Gray  “

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P.P.S.: Then the last time I looked closer at the third sequence 1DKM1g4aV8, my mind translated “I don’t know much I guess/going for a V8.” So maybe it is a spoof. (???) It still has a nice image fronting it.

The REAL Reality

I love finding someone’s explanation of reality that elaborates on my version of it.

In my REIKI classes I provide a manual written by me that briefly explains the Electromagnetic Lightwave Frequency Spectrum showing how only a small portion of all frequency in our life experience is viewable by the human eye. The rest of the electromagnetic lightwave frequencies that we are somewhat aware of like: radiation, untraviolet, infrared, radio waves, microwaves, and shortwave frequencies are still all around us—enveloping us—but unless you have the specialized equipment to detect them, you might never be aware of them. Energy comes in many forms, as does lightwave frequency.

With REIKI attunements and training you are able to pull in additional frequency awareness and utilize some of those extra frequencies, like developing your extra sensory abilities, such as psychic reception. But also, as this post states, what you assume to be REALITY is only a filtered down version of it. Like if you were sitting in a house where you only had a window view of the front yard, but the entire backyard and sides are out of your vision’s range. Therefore you think the world that you know so well is like what little you can see in front of you. But reality is far more than that.

And the world (your reality), like the weather shining through your front window glass, is changeable. Reality is a matter of expanded perception and unleashing your interpretation abilities.

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“Long before modern science put numbers to it, there were thinkers who quietly suspected that human perception was incomplete. They believed the eyes were not tools of truth, but tools of survival — designed to show just enough, not everything.

Today, science has confirmed something that sounds almost unreal: your eyes capture only 0.0035% of reality. Everything you see — colors, faces, objects, the entire visible world — exists within that tiny fraction, while the remaining 99.9965% is completely invisible to you.

 Right now, waves of energy are passing through your body, radio signals are moving through the air, infrared heat is radiating from surfaces, and ultraviolet light is interacting with the world — all happening at this exact moment, yet completely undetected by your senses.

This means what you call “reality” isn’t reality itself, but a filtered version created by your brain. Your mind takes in an overwhelming amount of information and cuts most of it out, keeping only what helps you function and survive. It simplifies existence into something manageable, but in doing so, it hides the vast majority of what’s actually there.

Imagine living inside a massive universe but only being able to see a tiny window of it — over time, you would start believing that window is the whole world. That’s exactly what perception does. Ancient traditions hinted at this idea through concepts of unseen realms and hidden energies, and now modern physics expresses it in precise terms.

Once you truly understand this, something shifts in the way you see everything. You begin to realize that your understanding of the world is naturally incomplete, that your judgments are based on limited input, and that there is always more beyond what appears obvious.

This realization doesn’t weaken your sense of reality — it expands it. Because the moment you accept that you’re only seeing a fraction, you become open to the possibility that reality is far deeper, more layered, and more mysterious than it seems.

So the next time you look around and feel certain about what’s real, remember this: you are not seeing the world as it is — you are seeing 0.0035% of it, a narrow, filtered version shaped by your senses, while an entire unseen universe exists right in front of you.”     Ellevenshot is in United States.

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What To Know About Religion

I had to check back to see the last (and only) time I previously wrote about Jim Palmer and his dissatisfaction with his religious roots. It was June 21st, 2023—“Harmful Beliefs”— Here is his bio-quote from that posting on the danger of misguided beliefs:

“As you know, I once was an evangelical megachurch pastor and my pastoral career stretched over many years. Eventually, I could no longer teach Christian doctrine with a good conscience and realized this teaching was not truly changing people’s lives… and so I walked away from the whole enchilada.

Below are 14 things that the misguided religious establishment doesn’t want you to know. Speaking for myself and my personal experience, I was not able to see or admit these things to myself. I truly got into ministry initially because I wanted to make a difference and help people, and I relied upon the belief-system I learned as the proper framework to achieve this. It took a lot of post-religion reflection to see the ways this belief-system was hurting people….Jim Palmer

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So today when I ran across his latest post on the same subject, I thought it appropriate to offer his thoughts again, because they resonate so strongly with my own.

Jim Palmer 

Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Bought Into Religion

People don’t buy into religion because they lack intelligence or backbone. They buy into it because it is persuasive in all the right places. It speaks directly to the parts of being human that want meaning, coherence, and relief from the instability of being alive. It offers answers that feel solid enough to stand on, until it becomes clear those answers are also walls.

The system doesn’t just explain reality. It regulates how reality is perceived and what kinds of conclusions are allowed. And once that becomes visible, you can’t unsee it. What follows is not a phase or a reaction. It is what remains when the structure loses its authority and is recognized for what it is.

1. You cannot be separated from God.

That entire narrative is a setup. You’re told you’re separated, broken, cut off, and then sold the only path back by the same system that planted the idea. That’s not sacred. That’s manipulation. The problem doesn’t exist until it’s installed, and once it is, you’ll spend your life trying to solve it. You were never outside of anything except a story that needed you to feel lost in order to keep you looking.

2. I did not need to be saved from myself.

Religion conditions people to distrust their own mind. Your thoughts are suspect, your instincts are dangerous, your inner life is framed as something that will lead you astray if left alone. Then it replaces your judgment with its own and calls that obedience “faith.” That’s not salvation. That’s a full-scale takeover of your inner life.

3. Ultimate truth is not hiding in a book.

No matter how sacred the branding is. The second a book becomes untouchable, your ability to see is deliberately shut down. You’re cut off from reality and handed a fixed interpretation someone else decided was final, then threatened not to question. That’s not truth. That’s intellectual submission dressed up as revelation.

4. Being human is not a design flaw.

Nothing about your humanity needed to be corrected, suppressed, or spiritually sanitized. But once a system convinces you that your basic nature is defective, it has you. You’ll spend your life trying to repair yourself instead of realizing the damage was done by the story, not your nature. The flaw is fabricated so the control can stick.

5. There is no “us” and “them.”

That divide is engineered. It’s installed so you’ll build your identity on it and then defend it like your life depends on it. You’re “in,” they’re “out,” and suddenly you need the separation to feel like someone. That’s not truth. That’s tribal programming with a theological mask on it.

6. Critical thinking is not rebellion.

Any system that punishes real questions is not protecting truth, it’s protecting itself. Truth doesn’t need defending. Control does. You weren’t being faithful by staying quiet. You were being managed, trained, and kept in line.

7. Eternal life is not a deferred payment plan.

Religion trains people to treat their actual life like a waiting room. Stay compliant, stay small, stay in line now, and cash in later. Meanwhile, the only life you will ever have is happening right in front of you, and you’ve been conditioned to check out of it. That’s not devotion. That’s giving your life away in exchange for a promise you’ve been told to trust,

8. What you are seeking is not somewhere else.

The entire structure depends on keeping it just out of reach. Close enough to hook you, far enough to make sure you never get there. That’s not a path. That’s a rigged system designed to keep you chasing something you’re not supposed to find, because the moment you do, you won’t need it anymore.

9. Reality is not as complicated as you were told.

It was made complicated so you’d stay dependent. Complexity isn’t an accident, it’s leverage. The more layers between you and reality, the easier it is to tell you what it means and expect you to accept it. Strip those layers away, and what looked profound starts to look a lot more like control.

10. Love is not the marketing slogan.

Not the diluted version with conditions, fine print, and hidden exclusions. The real thing. The kind that doesn’t divide, doesn’t coerce, and doesn’t demand that you betray yourself just to belong. If your belief system can’t produce that, consistently, then it has no claim to love, no matter how often it says the word.

Here’s the part that stings a little. We didn’t just believe it. We participated in it. We defended it. We built our identity around it. That’s how deep this goes. But seeing that clearly isn’t a problem, it’s the exit.

You don’t need to replace religion with another system just as rigid and just as fragile. You don’t need a softer version of the same structure with better branding. What you need is your own contact with reality back. Direct. Unmediated. A little uncomfortable, yes, but finally honest.

Once you see the machinery, you can’t unsee it. And once you stop pretending it’s sacred just because it was handed to you that way, you’re left with something far more demanding and far more real.

You’re left with your life.

Jim Palmer

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What Was Always There

“Transformation is not the birth of a new life, it is the moment your ancient eyes open again and the world reveals the hidden realms that were always there. When your sight shifts, the ordinary becomes enchanted and the path before you glimmers with the truth your Spirit has long known.” Daily Shaman

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Some free-thought musing first: Sometimes I’m amazed at the stupidity I see all around me; and sometimes I’m laughingly surprised that I’m actually a part of it myself, unsure how I even got here.

Sometimes I wonder how we arrived at this insane moment in time with this clearly INSANE person of power screwing up our reality in general; and sometimes I’m at peace with the knowledge that whatever is meant to happen will do so at the correct time.  It may not be MY time preference, but TIME will decide for itself when that mass reawakening and reshuffling will occur.

And sometimes I just sit back and ponder why it must be so necessary to happen as it is all happening in the world, with such lunacy and ignorance prevailing over logic and common sense goals for humanity in general. But along with my other current life-situation questions, the answers must lie beyond our present knowledge. But how do we access that hidden knowledge reservoir?

Back to the point of the quote: “What was always there…”transformation—the moment your eyes truly open to see “the hidden realms that were always there.”  But what are those hidden realms that hold this knowledge? And why can’t we see them until our sight shifts to reveal them?

The quote above is from the Daily Shaman, and the concept of shamanism is murky at best: It is an ancient belief system of rituals and practices that enable you to actually shift your reality to a different version of your life experience. Some folks might call it shifting timelines, but it is more than that. It is shifting frequencies to translate or interpret what you are inputting into your mind/body in a different manner that allows you to experience something quite different from where your perception/mind originally started the reality interpretation process.

I would personally call it ‘dimension of existence’ shifting. I think Carlos Castaneda referred to it as ‘shifting the assemblage point’ of our luminous energy field to see “the hidden realms that were always there. When your sight shifts, the ordinary becomes enchanted and the path before you glimmers with the truth your Spirit has long known.”

Fascinating stuff. Shifting dimensions or perceptual frequency-level shifting can be an amazing eye-popping experience; and it can also be scary as hell if you are caught unwillingly in it. When the reality you once believed to be so unchangeable suddenly shifts to something incomprehensible and destabilizing for your mental abilities to assess and automatically react to, you don’t know which way to turn. You don’t know what to do next. You don’t know how to go back to what you knew before the reality frequency shift occurred.  

I had a friend in our shamanic apprenticeship group (2006-2008) describe a situation she had experienced where when walking along in nature, suddenly the large tree before her just disappeared and she was looking through where it had been the moment before as though it had never existed at all; then it again visually reappeared in front of her and she nearly lost it.  I had nodded along sympathically at the time of her telling me, wondering if she had gone too far out of her body during the shamanic training that we were receiving back then; but then unexpectedly, a few months later the same thing happened to me—a wall that was separating a hospital cafeteria from the main hallway dissolved as though it had never been there, and I could see clearly through where it had been—seeing the people, the tables, the cafeteria line, etc. And then the wall reappeared, and I couldn’t see anything but the wall. I thought I was losing my mind. But I also instantly knew that what my friend had previously described to me had truly happened to her, because it had just happened to me.  Hard to imagine, I know. But personal reality is that malleable—and that untenable.

When you adjust your ‘reality’ receiver to pull in a completely new bandwidth, what may appear on your mental screen might shock and confuse you. So I personally don’t recommend your doing so until the entire collective consciousness shifts at the same time. Otherwise you might be stuck in la-la land far longer than you would prefer. At least at the time within our shamanic group we had each other to talk to about the strange revelations we were unexpectedly making. However, if you have no such similar support group, I assure you that no one will quite understand what you are experiencing:  To see “the hidden realms that were always there. When your sight shifts, the ordinary becomes enchanted and the path before you glimmers with the truth your Spirit has long known.”

Oh, were it always so poetically beautiful as that. No problem.

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