You lose the perception of a difference between the so called real problem and an imagined one, but that mindset is still too narrow. It is an attempt to break things down when they can’t be. Everything is interdependent. Reality is seamless. So the special case that any analytical thought requires, in order to retain its integrity, is automatically lost. Then we try to fix and focus on the problem when it occurred from a larger cause than what the problem would appear to be.

So problems are created when we break the world into parts and have to put it back together instead of seeing it as a co-arising whole? We can never fix it because the so called cause we’re looking for isn’t there? The cause both is and isn’t there. That’s a strange paradox, but I can explain. The reason we lose our grip on problem events is because we think the event is the source. Events are never sources. They are just halos of energy.

It seems the experiences humanity seeks right now break down the world. Why do we wish to experience the breaking apart of the world? Because we have decided we want to experience control, and the controlled heart is dead, doesn’t beat, doesn’t change. We want to experience control because it is currently what we define as prosperity.

But if the universal sea experiences this all, through us, why does it wish to experience this? Through us and as us. Because there are factors beyond the confines of our own world that also learn from this and will respond to it, and by beyond I don’t necessarily mean alien.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

Well, our conventional thinking doesn’t inform us on how to perceive the relationship between these seeds clearly. Desires and feelings and impulses that by themselves seem harmless, even innocent, when combined with the right set of other factors will reliably produce bad outcomes no matter how pure the original intention might have been. Compassion is one seed, but compassion combined with other attitudes that lead to forbearance can leave a violent person to feed a pattern of violent behaviour not only in their own lives, but spark violence in others as well.

So we all interact or experience differently? Yes. Though the seeds of our experience are universal in and of their selves, it’s like events have their own spirits. This is perhaps the intuition behind the word zeitgeist. It’s German and means roughly spirit of the age.

If we are all of the universal sea, are the varied experiences being truly experienced by the sea? They are, and we serve as the event horizon that allows that variation of the experience to occur. We are a unique voice in a grand chorus, having a depth and range that is powerful enough to echo throughout infinity itself.

Now we can change the notes we sing, the tone we strike. Our current note may be shattering the fragile matrix of events that we otherwise deeply desire. We may be defeating our most cherished hopes and dreams, because we believe that causes are the same as origination. We try to solve problems, but we cannot solve problems in the same state that we perceive problems. So how do we get into whatever our current state is?

Free will. Oh indeed, and the ideas that would lead us to believe our free will is restricted.

Aren’t limitations to our free will set by the belief of ourselves and others? Restrictions to your free will arise from the recognition of conditions in which this restriction is permissible.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

Energy. Anything expressed or only potential?

Expressed. Pattern. Do you know yourself outside of expression? I don’t.

Your consciousness can transcend this pattern? It can transcend the pattern and it caused the pattern.

What elements incorporate themselves into your pattern? What colors are there in your aura or spirit? You could apply any sensory descriptor, they would all have the same meaning.

Remember earlier, I spoke of coincidence? The third factor that arises between any two causes? When you have cake and want to eat it, can you have your cake and eat it too?

I lose the cake when I eat it. It appears that you lose the cake when you eat it, and that you cannot eat the cake while you leave it in its original form. Yet the cake exists in your sphere of experience because you can both have and eat the cake. When you eat it, you still have it, as it only returns to its point of origin. When you have the cake you have already eaten it, as that was the purpose for your creating it in the first place. I guess it’s sort of like the uncertainty principle. There appears to be linear cause and effect because we focus our attention either on the apparent cause or the apparent effect.

Don’t we change the pattern of the cake when we eat it into something else? We do change the pattern of the matter that was involved in the cake, but we do not change the pattern that originates cake.

The pattern is there to be used again? Yes, as are all patterns.

Like a mold for clay? Yes, exactly.

And don’t we constantly make new patterns? I would argue that we do not constantly make new patterns. We instead redefine or recombine originating forces or seeds of potential. What we work with, that shows up as a pattern, isn’t restricted to what the pattern looks like when it manifests. Every event, whether we judge it a successful intention or not, is still the manifestation of this process.

So the end results aren’t the pattern? No. The pattern is a transitory state.

Would the end results be creation? That which is created? The end result could be divine expression, or the song of consciousness.

Are archetypes a form of these patterns? Archetypes are a meta-pattern, a protoform pattern that gives rise to other more specific patterns.

Is a person a pattern changing with time and the progression of the pattern? No. A person is not a pattern. They express patterns. The events in their life are the by-product of the disposition of the person’s awareness. Where your attention is at, that is what defines what patterns you will experience, why things seem mysterious, why good intentions seem to lead to bad outcomes. It is actually not a huge mystery.

Is the pattern the experience? It is, yes.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

Have Goals

Once in awhile, it’s certainly pleasant to sit back and relax instead of working toward a new degree, saving to purchase a home or planning an extravagant wedding. However, staying in the status quo for too long eventually creates a stagnant life. In order to have a path, there has to be an end destination and not just an aimless meandering down a road. It’s also important to set realistic goals. Hoping to achieve a Ph.D. in a year or planning to lose 50 pounds in a month is only setting yourself up for failure. Take smaller steps – such as creating an overall healthier lifestyle or taking one class per semester – promises a better chance at success.

A Spiritual Path

Whether you are a religious/spiritual person or not, trying to connect with God or other spiritual beings in which you believe can be a great source of comfort. When the path becomes rough, knowing that you are not alone provides strength and the determination to carry on. An article entitled “Spirituality and Prayer Relieve Stress” by Therese J. Borchard points to Dr. Roberta Lee’s book “The SuperStress Solution.” Lee writes, “[People who are more religious or spiritual are] better able to cope with stress, they heal faster from illness, and they experience increased benefits to their health and well-being.” Additionally, many people who pray feel that God inspires them to follow a particular route. Asking for guidance from God through prayer can open up a whole new set of possibilities. Attending church, temple or other religious services also helps struggling individuals to feel a sense of community.

Support System

Coupled with the idea of receiving support and a sense of worth from a religious and/or spiritual community is the importance of surrounding yourself with positive people. Some people may be jealous of your intended path in life, and they will try to deter you from accomplishing your goal. Bounce ideas off of trusted family members and friends so that you can receive true and unbiased advice. Depending on your goals, you may also want to consult with a clergy member, professor in your area of study or another type of professional in your intended field.

Stay Open Minded

An old quotation of unknown origin states, “People plan. God laughs.” Even if you have the most well crafted plan for life, there will most likely be some bumps along the road. A class that you were hoping to take might close or a religious retreat to your country of origin might fall through because of monetary issues. Try to have a backup plan if possible. For example, take a different class or visit a local house of worship to be more in touch with spirituality. In the event that no alternatives are possible, accept that plans do not always work out perfectly and find a new route to happiness and success.

Now that you have read some steps for finding your path in life, it’s time to put your plans into action. Everyone has different plans. Therefore, it is important to figure out what you need to do in order to make your specific and personal ambitions come into total fruition.

Donovan Tyler
Guest Blogger
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

Donovan Tyler writes about positive living, world travel & saving money at www.travelinsurance.org.

How do we know ourselves? How do we know who we are?

I am a unique snowflake. Indeed, but there was a set of factors that let you come into existence, and they have persisted and will persist after the event that is you transforms beyond its currently recognizable state. Yet we do perceive ourselves to exist, yes?

We mistakenly localize the self around a center that in and of itself doesn’t exist. If you visualize a vortex, like a chakra, a whirling collection of energy, having a definable form and observable behavior, can you find it’s center? Is there an object there?

The center is the absence of wind. The absence of energy. We perceive absences because we primarily perceive things as being material, but in fact, all the matter we experience has the same set of principles behind its own origination. The same thing that lets us perceive matter, as existing, is the reason it exists.

Its center could be anywhere away from that collection of energy? Its center is the omnipresent sea. If you look at a whirlpool in the ocean, you would have to trace every exchange of energy in that ocean, every surrounding tide, and every tide linking to that, and would you find one cause? One tide that started that whirlpool?

The sea? The sea is being, but we have events. We have objects in this field of universal being.

But it is the being of the sea that allows the events? Yes, allows rather than forces, permission and not mandate.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

A different set for different things? Oh, the number of possible sets is countless, but any given originating force can serve as an originating factor for a wide variety of things. Happiness can originate both compassion and foolishness. Insensitivity can originate cruelty and patience.

The set has to be in existence simultaneously? Yes, and where the originating set doesn’t yet exist, you can have the factors that would give rise to the factors that would then give rise to anything you might be considering. So the thing can exist in potential before it exists actually.

It’s all a big mechanical cycle? In essence, yes, though perhaps not actually mechanical. Shall I go into that?

Mechanics is largely dependent on linear assumptions, linear cause and effect, do this and that happens. But whenever two events occur or coincide, whenever a coincidence happens, the interrelation of those two events creates a third point that is also causal. So even though something comes into existence, you also naturally create the conditions in which it does not exist, or even further, that a counteracting force exists.

Its end is engineered into its beginning? Exactly, and even its restriction from ever occurring.

So it is an equalizing force? Yes, but for every restriction that is established, you enable something else.

Like splitting an atom into its positive and negative components to create something new. Indeed.

Side note. Recent discoveries have perhaps revealed that the so called perfect symmetry between matter and anti-matter may not literally exist, and anti-matter doesn’t necessarily annihilate matter. So if you can establish reason why unicorns do not exist, you reflexively establish the conditions under which they can exist.

I’ve never thoughts perfect symmetry was even natural. No eggs look exactly the same in the carton even though they are all naturally made things. Very true. Nothing is cookie cutter or mechanical, even our machines are not. Despite our best efforts to create the perfect machines, there is always a failing. The very reasons we can make machines create the reasons why they will break down.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

When you see Anubis, what would you say? When challenged by Cerberus, what would you do? Anubis has questions for you, and you may end up feeding the devourer if you attend poorly. Anubis’ questions are simple. He actually has three. That is the way according to Egyptian lore.

The two relevant to the topic of Night Guides are first he asks, “Did you know joy in life?” Then he asks, “Did you bring joy to one other?”

I guess the only poor answer is a false one. Yes. The only poor answer is a false one. Your heart is measured against a special feather. Your heart grows heavy only with lies.

The night guides all really carry one message. Do you know what it is?

Be true to yourself. Which means you will be the natural outgrowth. Be true to your inner spirit, and thus true to everyone.

It’s not a challenge to tackle in a short time. It is something that occurs over a lifetime, perhaps multiple life times. It was said that is what occurred for the Buddha, and is why all those stories of the shamans spirit journeys speak not of one challenge, and then they lived happily ever after. They encountered multiple challenges in their entire careers.

I hope there was something of value for you here. My thanks for your presence and interest.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~