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I had not expected to receive such a clear indication that 2024 is destined to be a happening kind of year. I have a habit of meditatively tuning into the energies of a new month – or a new year – to see what I can feel. January 1st came

Serious physicists puzzling over certain serious questions have recently been taking a fresh look at the notion that the Universe is like an expanding balloon. That postulation explains (among other things) how it is that stars and galaxies are somehow all moving away from each other: all matter is on

The proposition that we are experiencing our “Earth Game” lives within a simulation has one fundamental significance: it means that, by definition, there is a “more real” reality out there somewhere. To illustrate, think of playing a video game. There is a playing character – an “Avatar” – representing you

Jimmy Buffet has moved on – gone to some great Margaritaville in the sky. Consciousness is eternal, of course, so nothing is ever truly gone. But the Avatar that was the physical “Jimmy Buffet” is gone, never to return. I had thought that if any of us would live to

Once in a while a motion picture moves beyond being a hit and becomes a phenomenon. When that happens – especially if the particular movie seemed an unlikely success in the first place – it makes ripples in the Zeitgeist. Yes, an element of brilliance in filmmaking is undoubtedly part

Free will: the “Prime Directive” here within “Earth Game”. You get to make choices and decisions. More fundamentally, you get to choose what to pay attention to; from moment to moment, you choose your thoughts. Including, beyond knee-jerk reactions, your reactions and responses to events that occur on the stage

In my most recent article (“Earth Game as God’s Stories”), I presented the perspective that your life here within “Earth Game” is your individual story, played out against a background of successively broader and grander stories – including Earth’s story, the story of our galaxy, and the creation story itself

We love stories. Television series, movies – almost always they are stories. Books, often stories (whether fiction, biographies, or histories). Think of how consistently we look to stories to entertain ourselves. Indeed, the “Hero’s Journey” written about by Joseph Campbell and others is the foundation for so many of our

In the course of the series of books initiated by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, author Douglas Adams introduced a “Total Perspective Vortex”, which unequivocally showed to one of the characters in the particular book that he was the most important being in the Universe. As it turned out,

There will come a time – you might even be there already; or perhaps right now it seems lifetimes away – when there is no more “Old Business” on your Agenda. Karma, life lessons, “Soul contracts” – all wrapped up, concluded. No wounds left to heal, nothing left to forgive.

Fascinating, I find, is how our human-designed “video games” mimic the design and structure of “Earth Game”. In each case, the reality within the game is pixilated. The basic building blocks in each case are ones and zeros. Information is thus stored in “digital” format. As the player of the

Describing our Earthly reality as a “simulation” does not mean that it is not “real”. Rather, it means there is something beyond the simulation that is more real. Correspondingly, we are “real” beings within the simulation. But there is more of who you are beyond the simulation. You are inside

We Earthlings are not alone in the Universe. By many accounts, our galaxy teems with sentient life. Fading in credibility is the almost-silly notion that life exists only on Earth, and that the starscape we see in the night sky is akin to decorations on the ceiling of a child’s

You are more than you think you are. When you (enthusiastically) signed on for your current round of “Earth Game”, you knew that not all of you would be coming here. That is, not all of you would be able to squeeze into the four-dimensional “human suit” that your avatar

The true test of any path or program of study of applied metaphysics (aka spirituality) is how well it actually works for you in your day-to-day living. The thesis of this article is that the simplest way to enhance and improve your experience here in “Earth Game” is to focus

Delight – such a lovely word. But before I get into a discussion of the spiritual meaning of the word, I need to introduce the word “Involution”. I marvel at having only recently come across for the first time the notion of “Involution” (thank you, Ken Wilber). Its meaning, in

Which is better, breathing in or breathing out? Trick question, of course; you need both. Short snapper #2: Is light a particle or a wave? The factual answer is … both. Short snapper #3: Which has it right, classical (i.e. Newtonian) physics, or quantum physics? Here again … both. Short

Polarity is the stuff of density. As such, it is fundamental to the construction of the physical plane, i.e., the denser reality that necessarily follows from being confined to three dimensions of space and one of time. At the one end of any Polarity is the real – or at

Children are naturally curious. About the age (which may vary from one child to the next) when they are starting to wonder about who they are and where they are and how they got here and why, wouldn’t it be good to tell them a story about all that? That

Ego is separation personified. That role is neither bad nor wrong. Rather, it is essential to engaging in the physical realm. Underpinning the creation and design of “Earth Game” is the desire of the creator – “Consciousness” – to know itself. To do that, an element of separation is necessary.

You have three brains. If you are like most Earthlings, you may be mostly using only one of them. We’ll talk here about how to get your other two brains working for you. By “you”, I am referring here to the consciousness that is who you really are – i.e.,

Years ago, I came across a suggested exercise that I would recommend to anyone: Describe yourself in six words or less. In roughly six seconds, I came up with the following for myself: He knows there is another level. I am (or at least I believe I am) in hot

We should all want to build our reality out of the vibrational energies of joy and love. Sometimes, though, fear storms in, breaches the gates. What to do when that happens? When fear intrudes into your adventures here in Earth Game, the intrusion instantly (although temporarily) severs your connection with

If you want to have a feel for the lay of the land, sometimes it helps to climb a hill. Perspective changes everything. Catching even a glimpse beyond the illusions baked into the physical experience within “Earth Game” does change everything. Here in the noise and bustle of life on

I heard a while ago the notion of a “quantum strong force” and a “quantum weak force” – paralleling in a sense the nuclear strong force and the nuclear weak force. My ensuing fascination with this notion (and the potential parallel) has led me to engage in speculation as to

Everything breathes. Day yawns into night and back again. Moon waxes full and wanes; tides come in, go out. Summer drifts into fall; seasons turn from yang to yin and back again. We breathe in life itself, then breathe out to ground experience. Beyond this binary rhythm, there are so

Do you have a friend who may think you are a bit off your rocker because of your interest in things metaphysical? Or perhaps you are the friend who thinks someone you know may be stirring the crazy pot? Either way, wouldn’t it be nice if there were a “primer”

When I was a young man, a slightly older friend whom I considered to be somewhat wise once expressed to me the view that “Only about 5% of people actually think.” That “statistic”, like many, was no doubt pulled out of the air. However, the older I get, the more

According to the “Many-Worlds Interpretation” of quantum physics, everything that could happen does happen in some reality. Put another way, every possible timeline manifests in some universe. Yes, that sounds wacky, but for many scientists it is less intellectually disturbing than the notion that observation somehow causes wave functions to

In Earth Game: The Evolution of Consciousness, I postulated that we are players inside a brilliantly designed game, a science experiment. In effect, a simulation devised by a greater consciousness (i.e., by “Consciousness”, or “God”). There are four common misconceptions, explored in this article, that sometimes generate a knee-jerk response

If you have had even a little experience with meditation, you will know something about “monkey brain”. That expression refers to the jumble of busy thoughts that sometimes intrudes into the stillness when you seek to quiet your thoughts in meditation. Here is the disturbing part: “monkey brain” is likely

Think of that delightful state you have found yourself in when vacationing in some far away and perhaps exotic locale. You are paying attention to everything. Sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes. You feel so alive. And so in the moment. Let’s call that “Tourist Mode”. You are in the moment

In Earth Game: The Evolution of Consciousness, I briefly mentioned the selection of an “Enneagram” personality drive as one of the choices to be made in the course of planning and designing a lifetime within “Earth Game”. Because that book was purposefully short, I resisted the temptation to include an

In the classic movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur arrives with his knights at castle walls and invites the French inhabitants of the castle to join the search for the Holy Grail. The sentinel high on the castle wall responds, in a ridiculous French accent, “We already

Let’s recap: your thoughts generate your emotions, which generate your frequency. Your frequency constitutes the “stuff” that will be precipitating into your reality and finding form in your physical world. To attempt a slightly scientific (albeit simplistic) description of how that works, it is your frequency in relation to a

Elon Musk was famously quoted as concluding that “we are most likely in a simulation”. The principal premise of Earth Game: The Evolution of Consciousness is that we are in fact avatars within a meticulously (and brilliantly) designed simulation / game / experiment. One common, knee-jerk response to the above

So much talk of late about 3D, 4D, 5D; can’t tell the dimensions without a program, it seems. Let’s take a moment to sort all that out. What we call “Spacetime” is three dimensions of space and one of time. The reality we know is therefore four-dimensional. Let’s call that

Abstract: When you push against anything you see in your world, that tends to get you more of it, not less. Not only does it not work; instead of pushing it out of your world it actually pulls into your reality more of what you are trying to push away.

I have been accused of “quantum mysticism” (by my own brother, PhD, no less). I don’t know whether I should be offended. As a starting point, the definition of “mysticism” (you can look it up) is, well, mystical – or at least all over the map. As for “mystic”, as

Into the mystic. If it is your time, you know. The wake-up call is unmistakable. Either you just know there is something more. Or you can feel that something is missing. Or you’ve (finally) had enough of watching a movie (i.e., your life) that just isn’t working for you. And