The nature of reality – Time Travel Rescue

Manifesting…. YOU

What would you like to manifest?

For what reasons would you like to manifest, it?

Many of us would manifest money, respect, love, children, and power. “Life would be better if only I had _____,” so our mind says. Sure, I would love them too!

Nothing’s wrong with external phenomenon. “Other” people and things. Anything that’s not “me”. They can make us feel good, very good in fact, and sometimes even elated.

But will they truly make us happy? For how long can we put off the search, the yearning, for something or someone “better”?

How about if we just bypass these intermediaries, money, love, and reputation, things that we think will bring happiness, and go straight to the source and directly manifest happiness?

You see, instead of chasing after the people and things that we think will bring happiness, and finding out later that we’re still wanting. Why not just figure out what happiness means to us, what it requires from us, and work from there?

So first, figure out what happiness looks like and means. To you.

Wisely choose how we define it. The lower the threshold the happier we become. The higher the bar the worse we feel.

A wine novice enjoying their box wine feels happier than a wine afficionado complaining about their vintage Bordeaux.

To the novice, any box wine, and perhaps no wine at all, can help induce laughter and other merriment. To the expert, no wine can ever be good enough, if “good enough” requires meeting some unobtainable criteria for perfection.

What we define to be “good enough” determines how good we feel. It’s not just our job, mortgage, or relationships, that determine our life quality. The way we think has so much to do with it, so much more perhaps.

We are responsible for and the generator of our thoughts. That means WE have the power to lower the threshold for achieving happiness, and therefore the power to make ourselves happier.

If we want to be happier more often, and who doesn’t? Then let’s lower the condition for happiness. Be happy when it’s sunny, and be happy when it’s rainy. Be happy when we get a raise, and be happy when we don’t.

Don’t let external circumstances determine when and if we get to feel happy.

Allow ourselves to feel happy.

Let our happiness depend on nothing and no one.

For me, happiness can just be a deep sense of wellbeing. When it’s quiet inside. It doesn’t need to require reliving my first love, college graduation, or any other memorable life events. Or gaining a better home, career, reputation, and love in an imagined future. Actually, when it’s quiet inside, I can enjoy anything. And when I can enjoy anything, I feel happy. Don’t you feel the same way?

If happiness depends on nothing and no one, then what is left?

YOU

So, YOU, and maybe ONLY you, have the power to provide true happiness to yourself.

And who is the “you” to be manifested? That is a question worth considering. In fact, we must answer that for ourselves. Figuring out and answering that question may be one of the reasons for being here in the first place.

YOU can time travel and change the past.

The past lives only in our minds.

While we can’t physically move ourselves back in time to redo the past, we experience the past in our minds.

But the mental experience, now, after the fact, is as real as we get to relive the past.

The past can be a tough place to occupy. Full of regrets, anger, and hurt.

That’s not the past I wish to experience in the present. The present is all we have. We don’t want to spend time in the present being upset about the past.

We can change the past for the better. When we change how we see the past. Reinterpret and recomprehend the past. Then the past changes.

It’s time traveling.

If we learn to reinterpret and recomprehend the past in a more constructive way, then we can literally change the past. For the better.

That’s what Time Travel Rescue is about.

Why music?

Who loves music? It seems everyone does. I know I do!

I just attended a symphony concert. The first piece of music felt like the dreams of a summer afternoon. Fragmented. Ethereal. The second, watching the ocean from above refracting sunlight. And the third a meditation under a moonlit night and crashing waves. * (links below)

All my cells still shake from the concert. The concert hall is my temple. Where I commune with the Universe.

The sound! The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conjured what felt like a magnetic field with a golden halo. The field synchronized with me, enveloped me.

Music is kinetic. Directed energy.

The sound waves literally vibrate all our cells and penetrate our entire body. Not just through our ears. The vibrations, in a sense, merge with us, as explained here:

https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/physics-sound-waves-feel-music.php

Unlike paintings and sculptures, for example, that reach our inner world through sight, music can stir our soul through sound and vibration.

Maybe that’s why music is so important in mythology. Perhaps, a sacred art.

What kind of music moves you? Have you lost track of time, forgotten who and where you were, remembered a special time in your life, set sorrow and tears free, entered altered consciousness, and/or simply come ALIVE?

Have you seen how music can resurrect the memories and joys of dementia patients, literally transporting them to happier days? Music is a time machine.

Then keep listening, singing, and dancing! That’s what we are here to do. An important purpose of life is to come alive by doing what makes us feel alive. It’s no idle leisure. The good energy you generate, the good vibes, help raise our collective consciousness and improve the world we live in.

* The music from this evening…

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Daphnis et Chloé

Scheherazade

We live in The Matrix, Part I

The Matrix tells the story of humanity tricked into thinking that they live in a vast computer-generated virtual reality that is created by satient machines. The virtual world is set in late 20th century. The main character, a hacker named Neo, took the Red Pill in order to see the world as it truly is.

The Matrix is a modern day cave allegory of Plato. We see the world, and ourselves, based on information that comes through our senses, not necessarily reality. The prisoners in Plato’s allegory thought the world contained only the shadows projected onto the wall that faced them because they’re chained and the shadows were the only things they ever saw.

In a sense we also live in The Matrix, although not necessarily in the same way as presented in the film. Instead of a virtual reality made from ones and zeros, our Matrix is constructed, at least in a major way, from the bundles of beliefs and ideas that govern how we move through, perceive, and experience life, both internally and externally.

Many assumptions disguise themselves as beliefs and are experienced as personal knowledge. These disguised assumptions often take the form of “should” statements. For example, many of us believe that in order to be a valuable person, we should get a good job, which means we should get a good degree from a good school. We also believe that we should have a romantic relationship, marriage, mortgage, kids, etc. at various milestones. All these beliefs determine what we do, don’t do, say, and don’t say, and pretty much create the lives that each person experiences.

Most of these beliefs lie deep in our subconscious that we may not even recognize their presence. Yet they run our lives and pretty much determine how happy or unhappy we are. These beliefs determine our perceived reality, just like the simulated reality world in The Matrix.

Our beliefs comprise our reality, our life, and our world.

Our work of life is to become aware of those beliefs, evaluate them, and release (let go of) or reprogram them if they are illusory. When we release or reprogram our false beliefs, we see the world as it truly is, not seen through a distorted lense. That’s like taking the Red Pill in The Matrix.

Except that in our case, taking the Red Pill wakes us up, sets us free, and gives us bliss. Whereas taking the Red Pill in the movie put Neo in a post-apocalyptic world.

For example, I used to believe strongly, or rather I used to KNOW that I needed to be all those things to be valued as a person, for example having a college degree, getting a highly respectable job, and climbing the corporate ladder.

Although I’m very blessed and happy to have my degree, my work, and professional achievements, I now see that the connection between my value or sufficiency as a human being and all the things I thought I needed to obtain or achieve is just my belief and the society’s. But the belief or assumption about that connection has completely shaped my life and how I value myself.

I now wish to release the connection between my personal worth and material or professional achievements. The new belief I want to instill is that I am good enough and I deserve love, simply because I exist. Relying on external circumstances to demonstrate my worth, as a very wise person pointed out, would subject me to their whims and fluctuations, which can be unreliable and unstable.

And so are you. You are valued, and you are enough, simply because you exist.

This new belief might evolve into that I’m happy and content just because I exist, and it doesn’t even matter whether I’m “valuable”, “good”, or “enough.” I don’t mean to suggest that I’m quitting my job to wander the world. Although I love my job and I am grateful for my life situations, I don’t need to define my self worth with them.

What are the beliefs that may be running your life? Can you imagine how your life would differ if you released the connection between your self worth and these bundles of beliefs?

Thanksgiving

“The quality of our thoughts equals the quality of our lives.”
– Papa

I used to check the news and emails every morning when I open my eyes. Guess what? Stress immediately filled my mind. Cortisol pumped into the bloodstream. And that’s before getting out of bed!

What thoughts fill your mind as you wake up each morning?

Instead of filling our thoughts with the news, what if we woke up every morning filling our minds and hearts with gratitude?

We can use our calendars to remind ourselves every day. At 7 am, get a reminder to thank the Universe.

Thank the warm bed that we sleep in. How nice does it feel during these winter days? Roof over my head? Awesome. A good night’s rest? How about good health? Loving family and friends?

Too mundane? Try imagining our lives without them. Do they feel more special now?

“Desire the things that we already have.”
– Stoics

And what about YOU? You have a good heart? Care about others? Diligent at work and life? Then Go You! Thank yourself for being a good person. Thank yourself for trying something new. Thank yourself for being you.

If the quality of our thoughts equals the quality of our lives, and we want to be happier and feel better, then let’s try changing what goes on inside our minds and hearts for the better.

Happy Thanksgiving! May all your days be filled with gratitude.