Bright Garlick
21st August 2013, 07:08
Hello everyone. I trust that you are all enjoying the experience of life !
It's been a while since I was actively involved in PA and thought that maybe it was time for a post.
I wanted to start by saying a big THANK YOU BILL RYAN for PROJECT AVALON. Without PA I would not have met my two good friends Astrid (here in Oz) and Meeredas (in Germany). Astrid helped me to find support for my fundrasier on PA, at a time when I really needed help and has become a great friend. Meeredas, in addition to being a wonderfully kind and generous soul and a great friend, has introduced me to 2 people who utterly changed my life - Dadaji and Mother Meera. 2 humans who I believe have fully realized their own divine nature. I recently experienced Darshan with Mother and had a profound experience with her. I would encourage anyone who was open to the idea of human divinity, to find out how you to might connect with her. The internet is a simple but powerful beginning. Mother can be reached from anywhere. My experiences with Project Avalon and particuarly with my friends has had a profound impact on my life and my sense of our interconnectedness. I am only one human and these are my stories. One can only wonder how many other wonderful blessings, Bill's gift of PA has given to others.
I often wonder what it is I can say to help ease the suffering of my fellow human beings. In my day to day life, I try to be kind because I know that my words and actions can have a profound impact on the well being of others. But it is difficult to remain that way on the internet when others are so easily agitated. It is an ongoing challenge for me to be aware of my own reactivity. Still that is my responsibility.
There seems to be so much fixation on all that is wrong with the world right now, that I suspect many people are feeling lost and afraid.
Although I do believe that there are several large events on the horizon. I recently had several experiences which for me validate that several major transformative events are on their way.
And YES, I was wrong about the dates I thought I saw during my ET contact in 2011 regarding major conflicts and a solar event (some of you may recall the video I took down) ! I either read them wrong or have experienced some kind of shifting time line. Anyway enough of that.
I am a very happy and content person and cancer has really been a wonderful ally in my growth as a human being (by the way - thanks for all your donations !). I don't believe it will kill me and will at some point soon post something about THE ONLY REAL CURE FOR CANCER. I find all the posts on miracle cures - so funny and tragic really. They all miss the point. Cancer is not an enemy to be conquered!
Anyway back to happiness. I am happy because everyday I embrace all that I experience with love and wonder. I watch all that arises in my mind with choiceless awareness - knowing that sometimes it is necessary to choose and sometimes I must simply get out of the way. The contradiction isn't as contradictory as you might believe.
I was trained as a scientist and then later as a social worker. I studied many forms of therapy. I have spent much of my life enslaved by the seeking mind. But I learned slowly to let that go. I was once a Catholic, then an agnostic and then a Buddhist. I've embraced many traditions including Buddhism, Advaita, Taoism and Shamanism. I've studied comparative religion, the teachings of many significant gurus and masters, neuroscience, consciousness and mathematics. My ET friends have shown me the power of love and acceptance. Here on Earth many humans talk about malevolent aliens and it makes me chuckle. If only they could SEE. I have loved someone who worked for those in power tracking ET's among other things and have had dozens of ET contact experiences. In many ways none of it has any value, none of it means anything. It is this thing called I that creates meaning. None of my knowledge has any real intrinsic value.
A bird is not a bird.
There is at the heart of all experience - a beautiful mystery - the great mystery of being.
We spend so much of our lives looking for answers - seeking, seeking, seeking. We are driven by the urge to know because we cannot dwell with uncertainty and the experience of not knowing. But it is only in the place of not knowing that we can embrace the moment fully - with no preoccupation with the past or future. All mental constructs anyway. The beautiful mystery of being comes with each moment and no moment is like any other.
We actually know very little but we have convinced ourselves that we know so much. We say things like KNOWLEDGE IS POWER and spend our lives chasing, chasing something which is always beyond us. Ouroboros lost in an infinte embrace of self deception. There is no end to knowledge. Only an empty mind is full. Certain people like those who write about certain ideas http://www.carnicominstitute.org/articles/nasa-thefutureof-war.pdf http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html) and those who take metaphors as ultimate reality (like those who believe we live in a MATRIX and those who believe in transcending the human body) and of course certain groups of people believe that the consolidation of knowledge leads to ultimate power - forgetting 2 simple premises - that :
A. we are all connected and
B. everything is impermanent.
But individual people are also obsessed with the antics of the seeking mind. The seeking mind cannot live comfortably with the mind that is present in the moment.
People try so hard to create realities internally and externally but there is no greater reality than now. The reward for now is infinite. We spend so much of our day dredging up the past and imagining a future - we constantly project onto the world and interpret what we experience to be true. We rarely if ever, SEE the world how it really is. Can you imagine how a being with infinite love sees our world and how such a being sees you ???
The moment in which the experience of being fully present creates the greatest possible power. Attending to all that arises in the moment dissolves the sense that there is a separation in the 3 sources of reality - the sense of objective reality (reality out there), the sense of subjective reality (the internal reality of thoughts, feelings, emotions, ideas, concepts, values etc) and the sense of projective reality (reality that arises from language structure) - creating a sense of one reality with infinite expressions of consciousness.
Being, in all its forms - is so completely unfathomable and utterly beyond human comprehension. Pure awareness (the ground luminosity as Buddhism would say) that is at the foundation of all that we are, is the greatest mystery of existence. What it is, how it arises, how it manifests from divine consciousness, how it is inseparable from divine consciousness, it's multidimesnional nature (both in terms of physicality and consciousness) - all of these things are so utterly beyond human comprehension. Much as we might struggle and work hard towards finding these answers and try to build a coherent picture of reality - we cannot !!!
Let us instead embrace the beautiful mystery of being - in all of it's infinite forms and experience the joy of being. That wonderful experience that arises from a divine sea of processes that collectively lead us to experience the reality of being in a beautiful human body. Rather than seeking so desperately to understand everything (and believe me I know that way of functioning well), it is infinitely more rewarding for us to embrace not knowing and feel a reverence for the experience of not knowing. If we ALLOW it to, mystery creates TRANSFORMATION. If we embrace not knowing and enter it with awe, we grow. We grow in ways that none of us can predict.
In abiding in the beautiful mystery of being, we open ourselves to love and compassion and a kind of surrender that says ""Whatever I take my self, this "I" to be, I acknowledge that it is completely at the will of some greater force. I cannot know know what is beyond my own comprehension and trust in the will of the one who understands all." Of course not everyone gets this and not everyone is ready for it. I guess it comes with age, experience and degrees of suffering.
For me, the beautiful mystery of being can be found in the simplest of things - a flower, a blade of grass, a cat, a hill, a shade of light, a rainbow, the breath, the feeling of feet touching the ground, the touch of water. All of these things are ultimately unknowable and infinitely beautiful in their simplicity, complexity and manifestation. How can we not experience complete awe and surrender to the infinite intelligence of a god which created all that we experience ???
Really there is only ONE MAGIC - THE GREATEST MAGIC OF ALL ! All those who run after power through magic in all of it's forms have missed the ultimate magic ! That is the magic of being !!!
All that we know has arisen from emptiness and to emptiness will ultimately return. All that we know has arisen from the singular divine intelligence and has never been separated from it and will one day return. All other magic pales in significance to the magic of being. And yet there is an infinite number of expressions of this divine magic. Expressions that permeate our reality every single day. Expressions of magic that for the most part are ignored. So many beautiful things, like :
* The smile of a child. Have you ever tried to make an unhappy child smile ?
* The look from someone who loves you unconditionally.
* The feeling of a monkeys hand in your hand.
* The unconditional love of an animal.
* The feeling of the sun's golden rays entering the body.
* The process of life and death.
* The magic of the human mind with all of it's thoughts, images, sounds, smalls,
tastes, feelings, emotions, projections, ideas, concepts, dialogues, aspects of self
and myriad processes and expressions of clear seeing, delusion and self deception.
* The love which gives life and death and all other forms and formless states of being.
* The myriad manifestations of human personality.
* The utterly unfathomable transformation of the body and mind through age,
disability, illness, healing, all of the emotional states, dying and death.
* The magic of the 5 senses.
* The magic of the senses which connect us to our boundless true nature.
* The magic of light and the magic of energy in it's countless forms.
You create your perception of reality by how you focus your attention. If you continually focus it tightly on a small band of your internal or external world in a process we call concentration - you will only see a small view of reality. A reality that will be jaded by whatever arises in that narrow beam of concentration and by the beliefs that lay behind the seeking process. If on the other hand you allow your attention to be aware of all that arises, you expand your view of reality and remain open to all that arises - whether it tastes good or it doesn't. Better to see with open eyes that embrace the beautiful mystery of being rather than closed eyes that that think they see all and kill the mystery of being with ignorance and stupidity. Better to experience the mystery of being with love and gratitude than to try to conquer your life with knowledge and live in fear and anger.
I for one embrace the mystery of Project Avalon !
Be happy and well Projectors of Avalon !
Bright. ;-)
It's been a while since I was actively involved in PA and thought that maybe it was time for a post.
I wanted to start by saying a big THANK YOU BILL RYAN for PROJECT AVALON. Without PA I would not have met my two good friends Astrid (here in Oz) and Meeredas (in Germany). Astrid helped me to find support for my fundrasier on PA, at a time when I really needed help and has become a great friend. Meeredas, in addition to being a wonderfully kind and generous soul and a great friend, has introduced me to 2 people who utterly changed my life - Dadaji and Mother Meera. 2 humans who I believe have fully realized their own divine nature. I recently experienced Darshan with Mother and had a profound experience with her. I would encourage anyone who was open to the idea of human divinity, to find out how you to might connect with her. The internet is a simple but powerful beginning. Mother can be reached from anywhere. My experiences with Project Avalon and particuarly with my friends has had a profound impact on my life and my sense of our interconnectedness. I am only one human and these are my stories. One can only wonder how many other wonderful blessings, Bill's gift of PA has given to others.
I often wonder what it is I can say to help ease the suffering of my fellow human beings. In my day to day life, I try to be kind because I know that my words and actions can have a profound impact on the well being of others. But it is difficult to remain that way on the internet when others are so easily agitated. It is an ongoing challenge for me to be aware of my own reactivity. Still that is my responsibility.
There seems to be so much fixation on all that is wrong with the world right now, that I suspect many people are feeling lost and afraid.
Although I do believe that there are several large events on the horizon. I recently had several experiences which for me validate that several major transformative events are on their way.
And YES, I was wrong about the dates I thought I saw during my ET contact in 2011 regarding major conflicts and a solar event (some of you may recall the video I took down) ! I either read them wrong or have experienced some kind of shifting time line. Anyway enough of that.
I am a very happy and content person and cancer has really been a wonderful ally in my growth as a human being (by the way - thanks for all your donations !). I don't believe it will kill me and will at some point soon post something about THE ONLY REAL CURE FOR CANCER. I find all the posts on miracle cures - so funny and tragic really. They all miss the point. Cancer is not an enemy to be conquered!
Anyway back to happiness. I am happy because everyday I embrace all that I experience with love and wonder. I watch all that arises in my mind with choiceless awareness - knowing that sometimes it is necessary to choose and sometimes I must simply get out of the way. The contradiction isn't as contradictory as you might believe.
I was trained as a scientist and then later as a social worker. I studied many forms of therapy. I have spent much of my life enslaved by the seeking mind. But I learned slowly to let that go. I was once a Catholic, then an agnostic and then a Buddhist. I've embraced many traditions including Buddhism, Advaita, Taoism and Shamanism. I've studied comparative religion, the teachings of many significant gurus and masters, neuroscience, consciousness and mathematics. My ET friends have shown me the power of love and acceptance. Here on Earth many humans talk about malevolent aliens and it makes me chuckle. If only they could SEE. I have loved someone who worked for those in power tracking ET's among other things and have had dozens of ET contact experiences. In many ways none of it has any value, none of it means anything. It is this thing called I that creates meaning. None of my knowledge has any real intrinsic value.
A bird is not a bird.
There is at the heart of all experience - a beautiful mystery - the great mystery of being.
We spend so much of our lives looking for answers - seeking, seeking, seeking. We are driven by the urge to know because we cannot dwell with uncertainty and the experience of not knowing. But it is only in the place of not knowing that we can embrace the moment fully - with no preoccupation with the past or future. All mental constructs anyway. The beautiful mystery of being comes with each moment and no moment is like any other.
We actually know very little but we have convinced ourselves that we know so much. We say things like KNOWLEDGE IS POWER and spend our lives chasing, chasing something which is always beyond us. Ouroboros lost in an infinte embrace of self deception. There is no end to knowledge. Only an empty mind is full. Certain people like those who write about certain ideas http://www.carnicominstitute.org/articles/nasa-thefutureof-war.pdf http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html) and those who take metaphors as ultimate reality (like those who believe we live in a MATRIX and those who believe in transcending the human body) and of course certain groups of people believe that the consolidation of knowledge leads to ultimate power - forgetting 2 simple premises - that :
A. we are all connected and
B. everything is impermanent.
But individual people are also obsessed with the antics of the seeking mind. The seeking mind cannot live comfortably with the mind that is present in the moment.
People try so hard to create realities internally and externally but there is no greater reality than now. The reward for now is infinite. We spend so much of our day dredging up the past and imagining a future - we constantly project onto the world and interpret what we experience to be true. We rarely if ever, SEE the world how it really is. Can you imagine how a being with infinite love sees our world and how such a being sees you ???
The moment in which the experience of being fully present creates the greatest possible power. Attending to all that arises in the moment dissolves the sense that there is a separation in the 3 sources of reality - the sense of objective reality (reality out there), the sense of subjective reality (the internal reality of thoughts, feelings, emotions, ideas, concepts, values etc) and the sense of projective reality (reality that arises from language structure) - creating a sense of one reality with infinite expressions of consciousness.
Being, in all its forms - is so completely unfathomable and utterly beyond human comprehension. Pure awareness (the ground luminosity as Buddhism would say) that is at the foundation of all that we are, is the greatest mystery of existence. What it is, how it arises, how it manifests from divine consciousness, how it is inseparable from divine consciousness, it's multidimesnional nature (both in terms of physicality and consciousness) - all of these things are so utterly beyond human comprehension. Much as we might struggle and work hard towards finding these answers and try to build a coherent picture of reality - we cannot !!!
Let us instead embrace the beautiful mystery of being - in all of it's infinite forms and experience the joy of being. That wonderful experience that arises from a divine sea of processes that collectively lead us to experience the reality of being in a beautiful human body. Rather than seeking so desperately to understand everything (and believe me I know that way of functioning well), it is infinitely more rewarding for us to embrace not knowing and feel a reverence for the experience of not knowing. If we ALLOW it to, mystery creates TRANSFORMATION. If we embrace not knowing and enter it with awe, we grow. We grow in ways that none of us can predict.
In abiding in the beautiful mystery of being, we open ourselves to love and compassion and a kind of surrender that says ""Whatever I take my self, this "I" to be, I acknowledge that it is completely at the will of some greater force. I cannot know know what is beyond my own comprehension and trust in the will of the one who understands all." Of course not everyone gets this and not everyone is ready for it. I guess it comes with age, experience and degrees of suffering.
For me, the beautiful mystery of being can be found in the simplest of things - a flower, a blade of grass, a cat, a hill, a shade of light, a rainbow, the breath, the feeling of feet touching the ground, the touch of water. All of these things are ultimately unknowable and infinitely beautiful in their simplicity, complexity and manifestation. How can we not experience complete awe and surrender to the infinite intelligence of a god which created all that we experience ???
Really there is only ONE MAGIC - THE GREATEST MAGIC OF ALL ! All those who run after power through magic in all of it's forms have missed the ultimate magic ! That is the magic of being !!!
All that we know has arisen from emptiness and to emptiness will ultimately return. All that we know has arisen from the singular divine intelligence and has never been separated from it and will one day return. All other magic pales in significance to the magic of being. And yet there is an infinite number of expressions of this divine magic. Expressions that permeate our reality every single day. Expressions of magic that for the most part are ignored. So many beautiful things, like :
* The smile of a child. Have you ever tried to make an unhappy child smile ?
* The look from someone who loves you unconditionally.
* The feeling of a monkeys hand in your hand.
* The unconditional love of an animal.
* The feeling of the sun's golden rays entering the body.
* The process of life and death.
* The magic of the human mind with all of it's thoughts, images, sounds, smalls,
tastes, feelings, emotions, projections, ideas, concepts, dialogues, aspects of self
and myriad processes and expressions of clear seeing, delusion and self deception.
* The love which gives life and death and all other forms and formless states of being.
* The myriad manifestations of human personality.
* The utterly unfathomable transformation of the body and mind through age,
disability, illness, healing, all of the emotional states, dying and death.
* The magic of the 5 senses.
* The magic of the senses which connect us to our boundless true nature.
* The magic of light and the magic of energy in it's countless forms.
You create your perception of reality by how you focus your attention. If you continually focus it tightly on a small band of your internal or external world in a process we call concentration - you will only see a small view of reality. A reality that will be jaded by whatever arises in that narrow beam of concentration and by the beliefs that lay behind the seeking process. If on the other hand you allow your attention to be aware of all that arises, you expand your view of reality and remain open to all that arises - whether it tastes good or it doesn't. Better to see with open eyes that embrace the beautiful mystery of being rather than closed eyes that that think they see all and kill the mystery of being with ignorance and stupidity. Better to experience the mystery of being with love and gratitude than to try to conquer your life with knowledge and live in fear and anger.
I for one embrace the mystery of Project Avalon !
Be happy and well Projectors of Avalon !
Bright. ;-)