Spiritual Development with Intuisdom

What I've Missed

2012-01-01T13:29:00.000-08:00

Looking left and right I spin and stumble through the nightof discontent and disconnectthe elusive moment lurks,but not herethat is,not left or right I am the frozen balance pointcaught between a direction of momentsstaring at the walland not the hallboth hands pushthe immovable objectblind to the prevailing winds ofthe irresistible force yetin the quiet fatigueof forgetting what I knowthe left

False Pearls

2011-05-26T13:27:00.000-07:00

The negatives are false pearls flagging their missions attracting attention to the flipside the marriage of worlds apart in mind but whole when unfurled now just baubles on a dress tossed in a closet with the other things that previously mattered that made you you until you hatched and brought the naked to life I say thank you to false pearls to the shells of our world

Dance with the One Who Brung Ya

2011-05-22T11:22:00.000-07:00

When seekingopen your souland askbut accept no recorded answerswhat is the answer to my sufferingis not a questionlike in a conversationasking for a recipewritten on an index cardhanded down by a deitywho first burned a bushbecause it wasthe lingua franca of some yesterdayand somehowthat's proofsomeone knewbut not you When seekingopen your soul and askbut ask like asking for waterfrom the skynot

Chewing Yesterday

2011-05-07T08:57:00.000-07:00

Going through the motions like I was chewing real food between zero and one in a slender envelope of mood I can’t make out the flavor extremes are mitigated by the din of all these sounds that sound the same so I think I’m in skipping past emotions they’re going out of style driving down the map east to west to east again it’ll be a while sifting through the potions offered from the start

Mirror Mind

2011-05-06T08:37:00.000-07:00

The mirrored mind repeatswords as proofevidential featsof existence of a place, a stationan ordered universenot gifted with patiencewe flash the stars upon the wallmystery controlledsymbols loop and callus by namechaining each brainperhaps some diceto shake things upto think it’s freshbut that’s the edgetherefore the endof the partyand repeat~AEB

Hidden by the Signs

2011-05-05T14:02:00.000-07:00

Silence is never pure that’s not its role ever rippled weaving textures silence is eventful a backdrop to the whole silence is the context the underlayment of living the font of giving silence is rich composted yesterdays all the children know this place silence is never pure but relative to obfuscation by disoriented design silence is the place into which we heap the signs silence is never

And Then I Started to Cry

2011-04-29T11:28:00.000-07:00

When I realized I was alive now and not then that I was participating if only now and again then that my choice was in every moment to tap the river rising that is never spent and that one and every one freed me forever from when and then I started to cry tears of gold and diamonds flowers and singing birds of mysterious earthly elements in a rain of heaven meeting firmament all flung far

The Dreams of Your Dreams

2011-04-10T12:32:00.000-07:00

The dreams of your dreams are really the cracks in between are really the light of the sun are the source of the love are your undoings undone the dreams of your dreams are really the cracks in between the bars of your heart held so close like they’ll fall apart the dreams of your dreams are trying to get through there is no mystery nothing to do just let them in ~AEB

I Earned This Peace

2011-04-10T08:39:00.000-07:00

I can’t hold on to this lie I have been told to believe and I tried but it never worked out I never connected I never found what I believed and expected wanting to be heard to be understood to figure it out to do good Obvious things it seemed and yet it seemed they were only dreams I am letting go out of choices jumping from a window of the captive voiceless I land in my heart

Sweet Rustles Sing

2011-03-27T08:17:00.000-07:00

clear sweet chimes draw me out and inwardand thenpapery, rustling breathingdry-aged leaves caressing each otherlike leathery loversin a free concert of nuancetugs my heart and I veerover here here I hear the chordthe cordthe vibration that takes me thereinvoluntary smilewarm shudder moving througha contented while and in the endthe nature of the windis my love for youmy deepest, living love for

It's Not the Norm My Words are Born...

2011-03-05T09:24:00.000-08:00

It's not the norm my words are born like birds across the sunset sky like fish that frolic in dappled pools like tiny songs that fly Not every day can I find my truth to say with a heart clear and free my love for you bears an ocean's soul from sea to ever deeper sea ~AEB Happy birthday, my sweet love Sierra... (This never posted on the actual day, despite much pushing of virtual buttons and

If My Soul Could Sing...

2011-03-04T10:20:00.000-08:00

If my soul could singanythingit would sing along the river banksit would serenade the beesit would careen between the hillsit would waft amongst the treesIf my soul could singanythingit would dance with brown dwarves,gas giants and nebulaeit would shimmer into faery densit would whisper there is a wayIf my soul could singanythingit would embrace the majestyit would entreat the choirto sing along

The Other’s Flaws are Not Your Solution...

2011-02-08T19:27:00.000-08:00

The other’s flaws are not your solutionfor the punishment you claim you wave in the air the cause of your ugly effectlike an angry picketer justified and frightened of tomorrow’s repeat held tightly like a lover’s sweet and sour revengebitter tastes like your only living senseso you choke it down because you think it’s realsomething to feel you fill the spaces between the rantswith anything that

The Smell of Everything

2011-01-30T18:15:00.000-08:00

Have you ever noticed that smell? Which smell? The smell of everything… How much of that part of our moment-to-moment experience is obscured by our thoughts, fears, expectations, hopes and dreams? How much do we miss of an entire range of our senses that is built to take in that very aspect of life and living? What kind of information (or just rhythmic energies) are we ignoring? We’ve been

Intuisdom Interview

2010-11-23T11:26:00.000-08:00

I had a wonderful time with Damien Senn during his hour-long interview of me regarding Intuisdom. What a wonderfully intelligent and engaged host he was! I go over the entire base of Intuisdom in the session and I hope you find it useful... Peace, Anton Elohan Click here for the interview audio track: http://www.peopleyoushouldmeet.com/index.php/anton-elohan-byers

Oil Spill--On Missed Opportunities of Consciousness (A Response to WAPO)

2010-07-12T20:22:00.000-07:00

What follows is my response to the July 12, 2010 Washington Post article by David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin entitled, "Historic oil spill fails to produce gains for U.S. environmentalists." You can read the article in its entirety here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/11/AR2010071103523_pf.html Oh, you missed it!!! I was sure you were going to put your

A Thousand Things, but One

2010-07-12T10:44:00.000-07:00

Transcending a thousand things to oneErupting from one to a thousand things Petals and balloons in textured rhythms, the thousand dance waving, lovely, fevered dances But one remains our true romance Anton Elohan Byers

Return Her Savage Heart

2010-06-20T13:32:00.000-07:00

Awaken, ye, with all your might and take back your savage soul with a lion’s heart let it share the mother’s thrumming, coursing, torrid pulse love and live dancing with abandon on her fruited plains surrender to her whispered secrets, ride her wild ride then give back what you take from her and give her all you’ve gotreturn the fragrance and the wonder

Radiant and Speechless, I

2010-06-11T12:50:00.000-07:00

Neither wave nor particle, but flood of life undaunted by what could be or should be Flowing unrepentant, visceral and alive even in dark days It slips the hold of the mighty and the few Radiant and speechless, I Witness the milk of life slip past the gate of thought into the freedom of the calling sky And return again as my beholding eye

The Oil Spill is a Crisis of Consciousness--Time to Wake Up and Act

2010-05-23T01:35:00.000-07:00

This is not the time to focus on blame, but the time to wake up and act. It has now been more than a month since the start of the BP oil spill at the in the Gulf of Mexico and the spill and its effects grow not just in scope, but in magnitude by the moment. The curious lack of priority coverage by the media has left us powerless to understand what is really happening or be a part of the solution

Mother

2010-05-22T11:40:00.000-07:00

I, alone once Kiss our mother, Earth and turn my ear to listen Her breath beseeches and bestows Asking and giving, minerals and love She gave me life, her cries are mine She asks in that moment Can I deny the divine? ~AEB //

From what to eat for dinner to oil spills, it’s all about consciousness...

2010-05-03T14:29:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) The single biggest spiritual lesson is always simply that that we each have choice to live a life that is more conscious, that we can participate in the world in healthy ways and help make that world a healthier place if we allow ourselves to be conscious of it. It doesn’t matter what the scale of our problems is--from a personal issue all the way up to issues that affect

A breeze on water...

2010-04-17T11:24:00.000-07:00

A breeze on water holding tightly, now let go quietly discern AEB //

How Messed Up Are We and What is it Going to Take To Fix Us? Your Answer?

2010-03-27T23:18:00.000-07:00

Over the last 40 years there has been a shift in self-help strategies from pop-psychology to pop-spirituality, but not much seems to actually be getting better. In fact, I personally know of no fundamental advancement in quality of life by any measure during the course of my lifetime. Even in spite of a relatively dramatic shift over the last 20 years in the availability of holistically-based

In All Things Spiritual, First Things First...

2010-03-24T23:37:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) All things in your life start with your experience of them. This means that the clearer you are, the more intimate every experience will be, the more potential you can access and bring to the surface, the less you will rely on external valuations of who you are and the more fulfilled you will be. So the first thing we work on in spiritual development is just becoming clear,

The Curious Notion of Purpose and Its Curiouser Source...

2010-03-22T22:55:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) The notion of purpose is really just a slightly abstracted version of connected (which, in turn, is a slightly abstracted version of integrated, which in turn...) In other words, the failure to sense what we are part of by abstracting reality and living inside that abstraction creates an experiential disconnection that hurts. And that hurt translates to us as a raw need,

Guidance by True "Wisdom" Must be Internal...

2010-03-21T22:51:00.000-07:00

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The Secret to Spiritual Development and Awakening (I Kid You Not) Is...

2010-03-20T23:35:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Entirely in perception. This is why it is possible for someone to awaken as a young child or without training. It is equally possible for someone to be stuck for years and have a sudden and profound breakthrough. Just as easily, it is possible for a beginning student to move to an advanced level in a moment. If you never come back to this site or learn another stitch

Missing the Soul of the Moment...

2010-03-19T23:50:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Where does the time go? Well, among other places (like into the past), time disappears into a void of perspective when we are not in it, when we are doing something else. Sure, seems obvious, right? The difference between what you are probably thinking and what I mean is that most of us have developed a habit of not being in the present even when we would swear we are.

LOA? When Abundance and Positivity Fail Because They Just Do...

2010-03-18T23:04:00.001-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Some things are hard to keep afloat--they simply take too much energy. It's nice when positivity breeds positivity; it's nice when believing things are good and good things will come our way does give us an edge in perspective. But sometimes things just don't work and it has nothing to do with fate or some unconscious flaw in our thinking that screws us up or "attracts"

Time to be Present...

2010-03-17T23:31:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com )The only difference between meditating to be present and just being present is the time we spend meditating. There is nothing wrong with meditating until it becomes its own distraction. The point to being present, to being in the moment, is to live. We can sit, stand, walk or talk; we can be quiet or rambunctious; just be here and not there. //

Help! My Metaphors Don't Play Well with Others!...

2010-03-16T23:47:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) The single biggest problem in spiritual development is the overabundance of different metaphor systems via different religious and spiritual traditions, different psychological models, different healing processes, different cosmologies, etc. And many, many modern teachers compound the problem by shoving them all together as if they actually all mean the same thing. Sorry

The Gift of Meaning...

2010-03-15T21:57:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) A very interesting feature of meaning is that you can't give it, tell it to other people or force it on them. They can only experience it by being connected, by the actual act of being part of everything, by removing the veils around themselves and participating. So, the gift of meaning is only received when it is opened, and the initial opening is done by the false self

Yesterday's Metaphors...

2010-03-14T23:04:00.000-07:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) are like moldy spaghetti... Why are we stuck on accessing our source through the antiquated and arcane metaphor systems of yesterday? Just like anything else that stands between us and the natural self, metaphors--and old metaphors in particular--are bridges at best, and walls otherwise. Let go of the past in all senses and embrace the now. Peace, Anton Elohan

Spiritual Development with Intuisdom Book and Course Giveaway!...

2010-03-13T14:27:00.000-08:00

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The Subtle Light of Awakening...

2010-03-13T14:14:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Learning to become the natural self is at first quite a bit like trying to navigate in a house in which you can't see anything the way you would normally. The light produced by the false self only illuminates objects of its own creation and we mistakenly believe this is the only way to perceive reality. In fact, the illumination of awakening is a subtle light, a light

Please Help Spread the Word About Intuisdom...

2010-03-12T23:12:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Today is a break from the normal posting due to a huge amount of work going into the new site, the upcoming online spiritual development course and two new books in the works. Please stop by the new site and register for our e-mail list to hear an audio version of the first chapter of my book, Finding Fulfillment with Intuisdom, and receive a copy of Intuisdom Guide to

The Mystery of Mystery Schools...

2010-03-11T22:27:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Here's the mystery: How are they teaching something so completely simple and calling it a mystery? Real spiritual development is about as far away from hocus pocus as you could possibly imagine. The magic is that there is no magic, no special words, no secret hand signs. The real mystery is only that we can miss it in plain sight. But we don't have to. It's right in

Change is Change...

2010-03-10T23:21:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) We can make it so difficult! How we experience it is purely a perceptual matter and everything that can come with it is either tossed aside or lived with simple perceptual differences. So what is it composed of? Does it require we undergo something? Must we suffer? Does it have to be a breach birth every time? Is it a monster we run from because it is so problematic

Jumping at Shadows...

2010-03-09T21:49:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) In our everyday world we so often feel that we have to take a stand in how we perceive things, that we have to find and apply an orientation that is US to what might otherwise just be something flowing by. This tendency not only colors what we think is coming at us with our own projections, but, more importantly, reinforces the impression that we live in a world that

It's All in a Word...

2010-03-08T22:49:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )Actually, nothing could be further from the truth--nothing is really in a word at all. Words are just pointers, and yet we have managed to let them become us, to take the place of what we would otherwise live in, what we would otherwise actually be. Yes, poetry and even prose can be beautiful, but this beauty is a relative thing. When those forms of language help our

From a Word to a Moment in Space and Time...

2010-03-07T23:26:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Over the last several posts I have talked about the simple nature of the perceptual shift necessary to move from the false self to the natural self. This shift is essentially from focusing on what you and the world around you are as objects or abstractions or fixed things (e.g. "I am good" or "I am bad" or "I am a carpenter" or "I am in pain") to the environment those

In the End There Was the Word...

2010-03-06T23:29:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) The start of the process into spiritual development as the natural self is identifying the line you draw around you, the border, the definition. The initial and the most important wall to breach into spiritual reality is the abstractions, the beliefs, the words that only refer to who you are, but aren't actually who you are. What stands between you and the natural self is

Perspective Shifting...

2010-03-05T23:53:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Shifting between the perspectives and perceptual modes of the false self and the natural self is as simple as shifting focus from an object to the room the object is in, from the thing to its environment, from the boat to the ocean. To do this you only have to realize that no thing exists only by itself or possesses a single and fixed definition, that what creates the shape

The Natural Self and Immersion in Flow...

2010-03-04T23:25:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) The natural self is completely unlike the false self. The natural self has no perception of itself and the world around it as things, as abstractions, as fixed entities. To the natural self life is a flow of textured energy and it interacts with that energy as a fish would swim in a river. It lives inside the energy and is a part of the energy; it senses life as an

The False Self and the Threat of Change...

2010-03-03T23:14:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) When we see things through the lens of the false self in the false world, change is a disruption, or a gap between discrete abstractions, an impossibility, really. Thus the false self resists going where it perceives nothing is (which is understandable). To the false self this basically represents or feels like impending death. Change threatens the false self and it

The Rain Falls Through Me...

2010-03-02T22:58:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) When natural rhythms run through everything but us we miss life itself... The rain falls through me to the earth. The grass grows through me to the sky. Peace, Anton Elohan

The Doorway and Limitations of Imagination...

2010-03-01T12:31:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Imagination is larger than the false world and a doorway beyond it. However, the natural world is infinitely larger than imagination. In spiritual growth imagination is only a teaser and must be released to discover the full truth. Peace, Anton Elohan

The Nature of Abundance...

2010-02-28T22:32:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Abundance is merely potential actualized; it is not a gift until you receive it, grow it and give it to someone else... Peace, Anton Elohan

A Typical Day Enriched...

2010-02-27T08:05:00.000-08:00

What is a "typical day"? It most often means a day like any other, a day bereft of much more than routine, a day we live through so we can find other days that aren't so "typical." If a typical day had the same structure in time as any other day, but was filled with meaning and growth, would it be typical any longer? If you were sipping a cup of coffee at work while pondering your agenda and

The Color of Here...

2010-02-26T08:10:00.000-08:00

If we are here we will know its color, its temperature, its meaning, its relationship, its place... not abstractly, but actually. Ahh... does here have no color, no meaning? Are you here enough to know? If I said I could touch your consciousness in this moment on this page written before you got here, would you believe me? If I said this exchange could alter your perceptions forever, would

Making Time...

2010-02-25T08:00:00.000-08:00

Today is my beautiful wife's birthday. And that reminded me of the phrase "making time" and how we so often "set aside" or "squeeze in" time to make something special. And yet the most special thing we can do is just allow ourselves and those around us to be what they are in every moment. Ultimately, life is not about appreciating something in retrospect. It's not about memories. It's not

Glass of Water Half Empty or Half Full or Something Else?...

2010-02-24T23:28:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) The old saw about the glass of water being half full versus half empty as a way to see how we have a choice of perspectives is useful. As far as it goes... In spiritual life and growth this model limits our experience to negative or positive and fails to take into account that something else may be possible. In growth we usually experience the negative as our first limiter

Leaving it Behind...

2010-02-23T23:07:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) So much of spiritual awakening is in the direction we orient ourselves to in time. When we focus on what we can't control, or the dramas around us, or how we screwed up, or the swirling clutter of minutia available to distract us in the false world we are essentially focusing away from the present. That is, we are focusing on things that are no longer actually in the moment

Feeling for the Pulse...

2010-02-22T20:47:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Our consciousness is generally tuned to what people around us are tuned to. We have believed our entire lives how they perceive the world is more or less how the world is meant to be perceived, is the only way for the world to be perceived. Now by this I don't mean conservatively or liberally, black or white, right or wrong. I mean the vast majority of people (not just

Choices in the Stream...

2010-02-21T18:30:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Imagine the entire universe is a bubbling, frolicking stream and you are a choice--your entire self is a choice to sink or swim, to shield yourself from the currents or to participate in them, to live by the rules or to be fully alive. Since you are that choice, the choice is present in every moment and the results are available in every subsequent moment. Here they

An Experiment in Projection...

2010-02-20T22:01:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Today's post is an experiment to see what stands between you and truth, between you and awakening in this moment. You have come here looking for something. What is it? Is it truth or an excuse for not finding truth? Whatever could have been written below is going to be replaced with only the truth, which has no words. You will see one of two things: Truth or what you

At the Heart of the Matter…

2010-02-19T13:33:00.001-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )The simple heart of spiritual awareness and development is that it is simple. The irony is that it is simple. The struggle is that it is simple. We miss it because it is so simple. We walk right past our spiritual connection every day. Its opportunity knocks in every moment, tough and easy alike. But we are focusing on the negative, the abstract, the details, like so

The Beginning and End of Words...

2010-02-18T13:31:00.001-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )Words are the beginning and the end of our experience; well, actually, they just seem like it. Language is only the medium of abstraction we have chosen to use as a currency of consciousness of sorts. Words are an artificial layer with which we isolate our consciousness into a flattened sheet that largely perceives through only how it communicates, how it thinks, what

Idea Traps...

2010-02-17T23:17:00.001-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) Ideas are like the sky until they become little, tiny boxes we are trapped inside of. They start as things that we can expand into from a smaller space, things that give us latitude and a new freedom for a while. They are opportunities to relax limitations and open up to new horizons. But too often we stop our growth as our awareness expands to the shape of the idea and we

False Balance...

2010-02-16T21:28:00.001-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )Balance is not achieved by all things being in equal measure. It is not perfect at any one point of time, space or composition. These ideas are born of a containing and compartmenting psychology, an expectation of human dominion, an experience of separation by believing in separation. Balance is accomplished by allowing energy and energy currents to move through us at

The Sea in Me...

2010-02-15T22:47:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )Many of the things around us in the natural world illustrate well the dynamics of the way energy moves through the larger natural world, but the sea does so with a wonderful synthesis of power, complexity, integration and an amazing grace. The currents of the sea run deep, dark and mysterious with things unknown and unknowable. It is full of life and death equally, frisky

The Altar of History...

2010-02-14T09:54:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )We have this subconscious idea buried deep within our cultures that the past carries some kind of mysterious and singular connection to reality that we must tether ourselves to if we are to uncover that which is the source of our spiritual selves. This idea is similar to many that suggest there is a distinction between us and what is spiritual, a distinction that we try to

Archetypical Undoing...

2010-02-13T22:34:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )Archetypes of warriors, healers, wizards, jesters and so on can be fun and even useful to some degree in the process of identifying elements of your personality that need to be developed or heard. But remember that wizards aren’t any more real than plumbers are (as archetypes). Even warriors are really just people and all of us need to identify as the natural self, as a

The Nature of Wisdom…

2010-02-12T20:45:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )Wisdom is not something that you gather in the way someone gathers books or knowledge. Rather, it is something you develop in the way someone develops a musical ear or a discerning palate. Wisdom is the capacity to sense the natural world at levels deeper than most people can go, and to do so without thinking about it. It is a clarity of connection, not a mastery of

Inverted Consciousness…

2010-02-11T23:44:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) We are born into a culture that tells us that consciousness is about thinking things, that awareness is about keeping track of as many of those things as we can at one time, that life is about putting up with the inescapable frustrations and suffering everyone else deals with until we die. And even when we think we are different than the average bear, we proceed to really

The Wrong of Right and Wrong…

2010-02-10T20:25:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )When we move into the natural self, into the moment, into the flow of life without distractions, notions of right and wrong disappear because they are irrelevant to that flow, because they are not naturally a part of reality, because they don’t actually serve a purpose. It’s not that there isn’t a structure to reality, but that we move away from whatever that is as we define

Living Energy…

2010-02-09T20:34:00.001-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )The natural self is the doorway to the energy that flows into us from the natural world, but where does that energy come from? The source is everywhere… It comes from the seen and unseen, physical and metaphysical, beauty and grit, love and strife, comfort and challenge, compassion and disaster alike. It comes through food, water, plants, air, minerals, animals and sunshine

Truth is Best Served Naked...

2010-02-08T18:59:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )When it is dressed up, it may make a good date, but it isn’t worth taking home. If we do not carefully peel off the layers of what has led us to truth, we cannot actually experience it intimately. Peace, Anton Elohan

Inside is Outside...

2010-02-07T21:18:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) The energy flow of life that comes through the natural self and brings everything with it is accessed inside, by allowing what is to be; however, the source of this flow is actually everywhere, the natural world. We seek and find successfully by opening and allowing rather than demanding or forcing. The flow slows when we close off the natural self or when we attempt to

Rhythms in Flow...

2010-02-06T15:27:00.001-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com ) The flow we find moving through the natural self from source to expression tends to have rhythms, something we can recognize in the quiet, something that comes and goes, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, sometimes from this direction, sometimes from that direction, sometimes from a feeling, sometimes from a murmur. These rhythms can seem hidden behind the trappings of

Priming the Expression...

2010-02-05T19:45:00.000-08:00

( www.intuisdom.com )Activating your potential and sending that energy back out as expression and contribution is a vital part of the process by which the natural self functions and integrates with the natural world. This part of the energy exchange dynamic is simple enough to understand, though putting it into motion can be challenging. Part of that challenge is in allowing the energy to move

Why Does Everything Have to be So Complicated?...

2010-02-04T17:18:00.000-08:00

(www.intuisdom.com)The answer to that question is actually not that complicated... As the false self, we perceive reality through the lens of abstraction, and everything around us and in us is experienced as if they were a zillion post-it notes all tacked up on the cubicle walls of our consciousness. In this false world there is no intrinsic relationship between these aspects of life and us; we

Is it Natural or Just Familiar?...

2010-02-03T13:13:00.000-08:00

www.intuisdom.com Stop for just a minute and listen to what is around you. Can you hear cars in the distance thrumming by? Is that the refrigerator humming? Could it be the heater or air conditioner? Or the hard disk of your computer storing antiseptic bits of information? What’s that smell? Is it carpet deodorizer? Fabric softener? A hint of Lysol? Slightly burned dust from the heater

A Rocky Perspective...

2010-02-02T15:08:00.000-08:00

www.intuisdom.com There comes a point in your spiritual development where you tend to look back and wonder how it seemed so difficult and uncertain at the outset. To say that that original perspective is a result of looking through the perspective of the false self is a little too simple. Abstraction is a critical problem, no doubt, but exactly how does this affect our growth and why does it

Following "Who Am I?"...

2010-02-01T13:01:00.000-08:00

www.intuisdom.com When we ask “who am I?”, at first we answer with “plumber” and “engineer” and “homemaker” and then we move to “sister” and “father” and “friend” and then we move to “art” and “expression” and “love” and then we move to no thought or idea or sound at all--we simple allow what we are to be. Peace, Anton Elohan www.intuisdom.com

Trying Too Hard...

2010-01-31T16:40:00.000-08:00

www.intuisdom.com Legitimate personal and spiritual development requires we actually find something real, something fundamentally true about ourselves, something with value we can feel and use. But as the false self, looking for answers is a matter of digging and pulling from what seems like a void. Where to turn and dig next is usually just a random effort and the results are hit and miss. And

Avoiding Nature At All Costs…

2010-01-30T11:09:00.001-08:00

www.intuisdom.com Windshield wipers going, radio burbling nonsense not quite loud enough to understand, we seek a parking place close enough to the coffee shop. External noises are muffled, though we can still hear the whoosh of cars driving by us in the rain, car doors slamming, the chirp of car alarms being set. We find a spot, bring our parallel parking skills to bear, drive slightly over

Return to Stillness...

2010-01-29T10:40:00.000-08:00

www.intuisdom.com Return to stillness as practice. Return to stillness as living. This moment is found in stillness. All life is found in stillness. Your life is found in stillness… this stillness right now. Peace, Anton Elohan www.intuisdom.com

Infinitely Nested Flowers…

2010-01-28T17:38:00.001-08:00

www.intuisdom.com The natural movement of energy in life moves from the natural world through the natural self and back out into the natural world again in a beautiful cycle. We might think of it as an infinite nesting of flowers, each blooming into and through the next. The natural world is like an ever-blooming flower with its petals opening broadly as it emits the source of life into

Emptiness Isn’t Empty…

2010-01-27T18:59:00.000-08:00

www.intuisdom.com When you hear or read about a teacher or author talking about focusing on emptiness in meditation or in the moment you should understand that they don’t mean the moment is empty; they don’t mean there is nothing inside or in the moment, they don’t mean we should be complacent, that we should ignore responsibility or shun work or not plan. When we refer to “emptiness” we are

Young or Old...

2010-01-26T16:07:00.001-08:00

…this moment is still the same. The young tend to fill their heads with dreams and the old tend to fill their heads with memories. But only if they miss this moment. No matter your age or circumstance, this moment is still available now—right now. Life is not what we fill our heads with, but appreciating and becoming what this moment brings us. Being here and now is only a matter of focus,

The Necessary Art of Engagement...

2010-01-25T17:24:00.000-08:00

www.intuisdom.com Engagement can seem like a difficult thing to bring ourselves to do, especially when we have yet to find nourishment from within. It can seem like an expense of energy we don’t have for little perceived future return. But engagement is as necessary as breathing. Engagement is a curious activity. It seems to have an active base, and yet it has both passive and active

From Underneath and Within...

2010-01-24T09:28:00.001-08:00

www.intuisdom.com In the tiny cracks we find in the false world the natural world sprouts alive and undaunted. Perhaps we see these glimmers of nature, but we usually miss the depths of life moving deeper, currents streaming myriad tendrils of nurturing energy, penetrating the sidewalk, the tarmac, the foundations, the carpet… Rising like the tide, slowly, surely, inevitably. Can we miss this

Intuisdom Guide to Meditation...

2010-01-23T18:01:00.000-08:00

Today's post is a departure from the ordinary, but it serves the same goal as my other posts. Today I am releasing my brand new e-book called Intuisdom Guide to Meditation. It serves as a more in-depth set of instructions to flesh out how meditation is practiced within the context of Intuisdom. Though it will serve as a good companion to my first book, it is not necessary to have purchased

The Moment Is Pure...

2010-01-22T12:20:00.000-08:00

It has no emotions, no reactions, no anger, no despair, no expectations, no needs, no regrets. It is bare and pure. It is infinitely more than a conduit of life—for us it is the experience of life itself and everything that can come into it. When the moment is clouded over by our perceptions and the distractions we bring to it our experience of it dims and shrinks. It is not the moment that

What Will the Day Bring?...

2010-01-21T17:00:00.000-08:00

We can never know unless we live it. We tend to orient, however, to the negative, to the resistance and difficulties we expect and fear. We set ourselves up to recoil instead of embrace, to tread timidly instead of openly, to hide instead of seek. One of the problems here is that we often approach each moment in a success or failure mode, as if we only have the two options and it’s a roll of

Are we smarter than plants?

2010-01-20T16:30:00.000-08:00

A plant wakes up and participates in its own way every day of its life. It pulls what it is available through its roots, orients itself in the direction of incoming energy if possible and participates with its environment by exchanging gasses. Even when it dies it contributes its components back into the natural world. Of course, it has an advantage over humans in that it appears not to be

Value Exchange...

2010-01-19T15:28:00.000-08:00

Over the last few days I have been talking about the natural exchange dynamic that occurs when you allow the false self to dissipate and the natural self to emerge, which then allows the natural world through the natural self as incoming energy and potential and back out as outgoing expression and participation. Another way of looking at this energy flow and exchange is as value. We find value

Tick, Tock, Stop the Clock...

2010-01-18T15:42:00.001-08:00

We live without alignment to anything much other than the clock. We attempt to force our perceptions through the off-kilter rhythms of the false world and we accept the results because we don’t know any better. Our bodies naturally attempt to move and align in response to the natural world, but our minds override and ratchet up or down, in or out to the machinations of the false world. Stand up

Exchange Expanded...

2010-01-17T17:08:00.000-08:00

(This is a follow-on post to yesterday's, which you can read here.) As we awaken to the flow from the natural world as source moving through us back to the natural world as expression, we would do well to take note that this dynamic is part of the inherent makeup of all people and all things. This is an important opportunity for a new horizon of growth... Whether those around you are conscious

The Art of Exchange…

2010-01-16T09:31:00.000-08:00

There are two main points of exchange with the natural world that arise as we discover and inhabit the natural self. One allows energy in and the other back out again. The first is in the tapping into the source of who we are, which rises from the natural world through us. This provides us our potential and brings all things into us by direct knowing. The second is in the engaging and

This and That Are the Same...

2010-01-15T14:31:00.000-08:00

Sinking down between this and that, we find this and that are all the same. My problems and your problems are just different colors. This abstraction and that abstraction just have different names. In meditation we find that a noise, a thought, an expectation, a self defined and limited are all the same. We allow and open. Everyday life is no different whatsoever. Peace, Anton Elohan

A Flowering of Your Choice…

2010-01-14T15:07:00.001-08:00

Do you ever have the sense that what is right in front of you is not fully real? Do you feel a lack of authenticity in the everyday? Do you feel there are shadows behind the objects you see that perhaps mean something if you could only reach them, if they didn’t flit away when you tried to focus directly on them? Do you feel hollow in the street and full in the forest, but not know why? Do

Each Day, Each Moment... the Power Rises...

2010-01-13T13:12:00.000-08:00

Each day is filled with an unending moment of opportunity. Every day that goes by that we fail to inhabit the moment is opportunity gone. But in each succeeding moment we can regain that opportunity by allowing life to flower and flourish in it and through it. As we allow the clutter and clatter of ordinary life to dissipate through practice and through exposure to natural rhythms that retune

Language Is the Ugly Stepchild of Reality...

2010-01-12T14:10:00.000-08:00

Okay, before you literary types flood me with hate mail, let me explain... Within the context of the world as we are normally accustomed to it (i.e. the false world), language can be beautiful, sublime, illustrative, emotional, evocative, transformative and intensely expressionistic--not to mention meaningful and useful. And within that same context, those who know how to use it in those

The Lack of Synergy Is More Interesting Than Synergy Itself...

2010-01-11T17:35:00.000-08:00

We have this common notion that if we understand parts of things we can understand the whole. This is what drives science and has led to technical abilities to create amazing feats of engineering and medical "miracles" and has changed the lifestyles of the human race radically over just the last several hundred years. And we have been taught to admire the effects of analyzing parts and

What Determines Your Future?...

2010-01-10T09:35:00.000-08:00

Everything about your future lies in this moment--this moment right now. When we set goals and try to stretch ourselves into the futures we want, we often forget that the future comes through every present moment. And if this moment (and the next and the next...) is not as open and allowing as it can be, the future will be likewise limited. Consider how powerful this truth is... The most

Give It Enough Of A Chance...

2010-01-09T12:45:00.000-08:00

We don't need massive discipline to start to see change--just enough. We seek the value that lies just on the other side of making the changes necessary to get there, but we often quit at the first sign of resistance. Then we decide it either wasn't worth it or we didn't have what it takes. Either way, we lose. Usually, living with our common troubles isn't enough of an issue for us to muster

A Different Post--A Post On Differences...

2010-01-08T14:29:00.000-08:00

A simple note on mental health, art and discrimination: A recent conversation with a new friend, Patrick Connors, a spoken word poet and officer of the AAMH, gave rise to this post. As my mother is an artist (www.jeanvincent.com), I have had art around me most of my life. I came to feel early on that art (in any form) is a most fundamental and natural expression of self and regarded myself