Transformation

Imagine exploring "enlightenment" without understanding transformation.

of course you may be an enlightened being - so you would not be exploring - you would have better things to do with your time.

But if you are exploring enlightenment you may need some tools.

My first discourse was on the 15 senses. I believe this ordering of the senses may be helpful in recognizing what you are experiencing. It may only be an emotional experience. Which is not to diminish the emotion - but that may not be considered "enlightenment.

I always found the term rather pretentious.

I remember my first meeting with a person who called himself "enlightened". I did not really approve of the designation - and for myself - I do not really approve of the designation - but I may be able to assist people in developing that capacity within themselves.

It is not me that needs enlightenment nor am I seeking it - i am seeking to share what I have found out, that I know, that I intuit, that I have come to experience.

SO now that the ground rules are in place we ought to understand that every transformation has 4 particular qualities. How you relate to those qualities is up to you, but I trust that the first step is to know where you are starting from.

From where?. I ask the traveler to write down, record, or draw a picture - whichever way you are best able to describe where you are starting from. This is a must as a beginning point. The next step - much more difficult - is to identify where you are going. You may not know how to describe it. That will make the process more difficult. What some teach. They ask you to describe one of your "highest" moments. When you have felt the most complete. When you have been in that time and space where you felt connected to your "g-d self". I used to describe this as the feeling I got when I did something really well. Scored a goal. Connected with another human being. felt at one with the universe. The most profound time for me to describe this feeling (sense) was December 12, 2000, at 12:12:12 PM. I was playing my Unity Drum in Madrid, at King Juan Carlos University just prior to making a presentation to the Inaugural meeting of the Foundation for A Culture of Peace. The setting was astounding. I was playing my drum - overlooking the campus of the university and my drum began to sing - it played itself as it had never been played - I was on a wave of energy that moved me into another time and space - I call it the Yud Hay Vuv Hay - the space in between my human self and my go-d self. This was a moment that connects me to the endless. Whenever I desire that connection I go back to that time and space - and I am immediately there. each of us has something like that - maybe not quite as profound - but there none the less.

I am there right at this moment of typing. trusting I am able to share that moment in time with you the reader to have you understand that everyone has that moment.

I am reminded of another - the moment of the birth of my child. I remember that moment so vividly. It is a connecting point as well. We all have them.

That is the "to what" we are all going to learn to experience in a more lucid sense of our personal realities.

The next step - assuming we still need some language to move ourselves along the path, is to get our personal individual attention on what it is that we are doing. Getting ones attention is always difficult. Training in focusing ones attention is a good training - take any one of your senses and focus attention on it for varying lengths of time. that is a discipline that will be necessary. Very difficult for those that have ADD and LD - but can be done. The attention can be shifted with focus. Try it on a few of your senses. As you do this you will see that it is not difficult.

The next stage of the process is to focus your intention on what it is you are going for. What is your transformation about - what do you want to achieve? Intention. It is the most easily forgotten aspect of transforming - to hold to your intention.. The last step is not easy. It is the creative process. Here many need assistance. I remember an artist who could not paint unless he was also cooking at the time. It was the using this sense that opened his creative process. It was this that caused his work to reach its full potential. I always say the creative process is attached to a breathing cycle. This is likely true most of the time - not all of the time. Some it comes naturally to. For myself, I need to pay conscious attention to my breath and then in spite of myself I experience that which I need to experience in real time.

You may call this transformation - or you may call it what you will it to be for yourself.

Duplicating the experience is not difficult - but you must bring it "home" and internalize the experience - or as one of my teachers says - it is like mental masturbation - it feels good - but does not accomplish much.

So when you explore your own transformation - look to where you want to be and once there - take hold of it - own it, make it part of yourself.

That state of being is yours - and yours alone. Going there with another - well that is another story, and the subject of my next discourse.