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Street Art from Laos

The Highway Shaman Wisdom

for August 31, 2020

I watched an eye-opening video this morning about NESARA, the National Economic Security and Recovery Act, and GESARA, the Global Economic Security and Recovery  Act. https://youtu.be/lH8rZasP_-w  Once enacted will usher in 1000 years of Peace and Prosperity. They say there is enough money in the world, if distributed equitably, would give each man, woman and child $1 billion each. Imagine that!! Each country who joins in with GESARA would get this money, but once they engage in war, it would be taken from them. NO MORE WAR!! No more nuclear weapons. There would be no more rich and poor, and those who take or steal for another will have theirs taken away. In other words, the Rothschilds or Sultan of Saudi Arabia, would be no richer than you or I, and if they devised some scheme to take more than their share, make masters and slaves again, it just wouldn’t work.

I watched a Netflix TV series called “Restaurants on the Edge.” At the end of every episode I cried – every single time. Why? Because it went around the world and showed the goodness and sweetness of ordinary people. When a common persons restaurant was transformed, when their life looked like it was evolving from struggle to prosperity, these people, rejoiced in their good fortune and the abundance that hadn’t even arrived yet. They cried and so did I. Most people are good hearted. And I think about GESARA and what if each person had a billion dollars – they would still need help in designing their restaurant, with upgrading the menu and figuring out how to get customers. Artists will still want to make art and sell it, musicians music and have people pay to listen to it. It will no longer be about accumulating more, but more about each person having the means to do what they love to do.

Hopefully with GESARA, the need for money will stop motivating people. People get sick and other people want to be doctors and nurses, and those who aren’t may want to be the staff. A persons comfort zone may be in being a janitor or truck driver. That driver will now have the best truck, built by people who love building trucks, and a great home to return to, not some shitty mobile home. Some people will buy mobile homes because that is how they like to live, not in a mansion on the coast. If I had a billion dollars I would simply own the little house I’m living in now, or buy a hacienda down the road. I would support artists until I had enough stuff, and buy my vegetables from the farmers, who will still farm and still sell. Not much would change in our worlds. Except the struggle for survival.

I’m a novelist. I spent eighteen years writing two series of novels. I would easily pay a gifted person to edit my books. I haven’t been able to afford a good editor, so my books just sit. There are people like me who love to write, are inspired by their story and there are people who love to edit these great stories. There are people who love to promote. There are Screenwriters who could make my Two Crows a hit series, because there will always be people who want good entertainment. But I would need to change the story, because  FIGHTING, the card I drew today, will stop being the theme. Maybe the urge to fight will persist, but a new theme will be that it’s time to stop fighting and Love one another.

The Reading

Knight of Clouds – FIGHTING – One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make – how much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred. Just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate – all that politics. And then the train comes and your are gone forever.

“We think that if we frighten people away, we can avoid being hurt even more. In fact, just the opposite is the By lashing out at others we keep ourselves from getting the love and nourishment we need. If this description seems to fit you, it’s time to stop fighting. There is so much love available to you if you just let it in. Start by forgiving yourself: you’re worth it.”

The Highway Shaman in 1969, before traveling around the world

The Highway Shaman Wisdom

for August 30, 2020

It’s another beautiful sunny day in Todos Santos, Mexico. I’m in a lovely secure home and I was thinking about the word “highway” in my shaman title. No, I don’t have a travel trailer to roam the highways in. I always thought I wanted one but couldn’t get myself to make the purchase. The truth is I really don’t like being in cramped or claustrophobic spaces. I gravitate toward wide open and expansive spaces. Toward the feeling of free floating in the heavens. I traveled a lot in the last ten years. I don’t imagine myself as an elitist in any way, and yet I could never stay in a cheap, damp or musty small motel room. I would pay $20 more for clean and comfortable, for a bed that didn’t squeak. I don’t like Motel 6. I deserve better. My parents never had much money when I grew up, and although I didn’t complain about any accommodations, I remember that I always felt that I deserved better. I shuffled and drew a card from the Osho Zen Tarot to clarify why. I’ve often thought about PAST LIVES, that I was definitely a monk or priest quite often, but I think more recently I was quite wealthy, abusive of power and money, and in this life have been given the opportunity to live on the other side of wealth and money. And yet the good parts of having abundance stuck with me.

The shaman part fits in that I have spent my life going deeper; a meditation of understanding; looking for the truth of all things. Most people find some sort of acceptance with their lot in life. I guess I have too and at the same time I’ve always wanted something else, something different, something which would give me a greater understanding of this world we live in and why I’m here. I’ve never allowed myself to be content and fall asleep in my doing something, being somewhere, for more than three years, before moving on to something else. And at the same time, where many people want to understand this dimension of reality, it’s the shaman, like me, who wants to know and understand the multi-dimensions of reality – to live in the 3rd, 4th and 5th dimensions simultaneously. To be able to glimpse into the Past, Present and Future.

The Reading

PAST LIVES (The Moon) – The child can become conscious only if in the past life he has meditated enough, has created enough meditative energy to fight with the darkness that death brings. One simply is lost in an oblivion and then suddenly finds a new womb and forgets completely about the old body. This is a discontinuity. This darkness, this unconsciousness creates the discontinuity. The East has been working hard to penetrate these barriers. And ten thousand years’ work has not been in vain. Everybody can penetrate to the past life or many past lives. But for that you have to go deeper into your meditation, for two reasons: unless you go deeper, you cannot find the door to another life; secondly, you have to be deeper in meditation because, if you find the door of another life, a flood of events will come into the mind. It is hard enough even to carry one life.

“A glimpse into the eternity of our existence is a gift, and understanding the function of karma is our lives is not something that can be grasped at will. This is a wake-up call, the events in your life are trying to show you a pattern as ancient as the journey of your own soul.”

The Moon card in the Good Tarot says:

“I may not see the workings of spirit in the invisible realms, but I know there is great activity “behind the scenes.” It’s important to trust the mystery and remember the material realm is an illusion. Current conditions are not necessarily a reflection of the truth of what’s really going on in the present. Great opportunities lie in the shadows, awaiting the perfect time for illumination.”

The Highway Shaman Wisdom

for August 29, 2020

Last night as I lay in bed ready to sleep at midnight, I did a meditation exercise where I brought divine energy into the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet. I visioned energy flooding into my body, and when more relaxed, into my pituitary, into my higher consciousness and my connection to All That Is. When I woke it was 10 am. Apparently I was engaged in a lot of other realm work. Instead of writing, I started in and finished this fun Highway Shaman drawing. The listening, being in RECEPTIVITY, allowing my right brain feminine artistry to take over, without question, has become smoother and more natural. Doing the work such as higher consciousness meditation, is vital to Self-Realization.

The receiving of cosmic energy, that feeling of surrender and openness, is what led to my drawing the Queen of Water. Allowing the flow of feminine goodness in. I went to the Good Tarot and this is what it says: QUEEN OF WATER – compassion, emotional security, generosity, self-love and self-care, healer.

“I am comfortable in my own skin. I love, cherish and nurture myself. I am the best friend to myself. My relationship with others reflect my security in knowing I am always worthy of love and respect. I heal myself so I can be the change I want to see in the world and so my compassion can inspire others.”

The meditation I did, and will do as often as possible, is vital to my Self Healing. I need to think that as I heal, so do others in the USA and the world. If there were a billion iterations of me healing, what a glorious world this would be.   

I am now reminded that I Receive that which I think and say, therefore it’s most important to be aware of my words, especially “I am.” I am poor creates more poor. I am sad creates more sadness. I am lonely creates more loneliness. I am sick creates more sickness.  Conversely, I am love creates more love. I am abundant creates more abundance. I am happy creates more happiness. I am healthy creates more good health.

Reading

Queen of Water – RECEPTIVITY –

Listening is one of the basic secrets of entering into the temple of God. When you lister you become just a passage, a passivity, a receptivity, a womb – you become feminine. And to arrive one has to become feminine. You cannot reach God as aggressive invaders, conquerors. You can reach God only – or it will be better to say, God can reach you only when you are receptive, a feminine receptivity. When you become yin, a receptivity, the door is open. And you wait. Listening is the are for becoming passive.

The Queen of Water brings a time of unboundedness and gratitude for whatever life brings, without any expectations or demands. Neither duty or thought of merit or reward are important. Sensitivity, intuition and compassion are the qualities that shine forth now, dissolving all the obstacles that keep us separate from each other and from the whole.

The Law of Karma

Goddess from temple in Bali

The Highway Shaman Wisdom

for August 28, 2020

My Osho Zen Tarot card for today is CELEBRATION. To me its fascination that yesterday I drew Flowering for the first time in 103 draws and today I pick Celebration for the first time. I have much to celebrate about beginning with this lovely home in Mexico, with plenty of good food to eat, a great car to drive, and now a new computer. I also celebrate the love of my son Alan in getting me this computer, and the fact that my two sons, with Aaron, are both healthy and happy with their lives. I’m also celebrating the increase in my strength to speak my truth, which I will include in this sharing below.

The Reading

3 of Water – CELEBRATION – Life is a moment to celebrate, to enjoy. Make it fun, a celebration, and then you will enter the temple. The temple is not for the long-faced, it has never been for them. Look at life – do you see sadness everywhere? Have you ever seen a tree depressed? Have you see a bird anxiety-ridden? Have you seen an animal neurotic? No, life is not like that, not at all. Only man has gone wrong somewhere, and he has gone wrong somewhere because he thinks himself to be very wise, very clever. Your cleverness is your disease. Don’t be too wise. Always remember to stop; don’t go to the extreme. A little foolishness and a little wisdom is good, and the right combination makes you a buddha.

“When you choose this card, it indicates that you are becoming more and more available and open to the many opportunities that are to celebrate in life, and to spread this by contagion to others. Don’t bother about scheduling a party on your calendar. Let your hair down, take your shoes off, and start splashing in the puddles right now. The party is happening all around you every moment.”

Shaman Wisdom for Today

I’m always looking to find my footing in all this political stuff. My years of doing readings for others have always been right on, so I ask my Spirit Guides for a clear and clean view of what is really going on in the US political arena. I always come up with the answer that “feels” right, which rings true. It’s not an answer that is acceptable to most people I know, especially not my left wing family. Thankfully, I get plenty of confirmation from other sources.

Like, the other day, I listened to a Lorie Ladd video re. her message from the Galactic Council. It was the exact SAME information that I have been downloading from my Spirit Guides. I’ve been being told this same thing for the past 40 years. As we move into another dimension/frequency of reality, from 3D to 5th dimensional consciousness, into the Age of Aquarius, there has to be dynamic changes, which will take the world from darkness to light. From control by the Satanic forces, into Divine Inspirational Reality. 

During the past 70 years hundreds of millions of “Light-workers” were born, who are now in various stages of awakening, who will hold the vision of a more just and loving world. Among the legions of Light-workers there are those who are more awakened and willing/able to inspire and lead the Light-workers: these are the Way-showers. What the Galactic Council says through Lorie, despite his personality and human flaws, and because he does have them, Donald Trump is evolving into the most powerful Way-shower the world has ever known. He is the one person who is not swayed, who can stand in the arena of millions of people hating him, and not lose focus, remain as brave as any warrior leader in any battle, as he helps usher US into the Golden Age.

This is the information which kept flowing through me, and why I couldn’t accept all the anti-Trump rhetoric. Yes, he’s a flawed man who had, like all of us, made personal judgment errors in the past, but now, more every day, he’s clearly aligned with his purpose. And that is to open the opportunity for All the People to have a life of abundance and freedom, safe and secure wherever they are. 

I put myself in his shoes and ask: if I were President, in the face of all opposition, what would I want for all the people and what would I do to get it. My answer is why I align with this man’s purpose and agenda.

The Galactic Council also said that this isn’t about Democrats and Republicans at all. It’s a most significant war of Good vs Evil. Up until the time of Trump in 2016, the evil was winning, and his chances to defeat the Satanic Cabal were insurmountable. I believe his win over Clinton in 2016 was because of Divine Intervention. The dark forces have done everything in their power to cancel him, and yet he’s still doing it – calling on, awakening more of the Lightworkers to support his mission.

So, I can look at the coin as Good on one side and Evil on the other. I can be here in my isolation, with no one to debate with, secure on the side watching it play out. And, I respect my emotions – how do I feel about one thing or the other? I can ask, what direction is my emotions and energy flowing? My Life of study and my heart Naturally goes in the direction of all that is Good, Godly and Holy. Not that which I see as evil and dark.

I hope you understand and respect that I don’t need to be convinced that Trump is really evil, manipulating everyone. That is one point of view, but not mine. I am praying and rooting for all that is Good, Godly and Holy, for peace and prosperity for all. If Trump is taking us in that direction, then that’s Wonderful! I support that. But if he proves to be a fraud, that will be revealed by the Galactic Council and the God-aligned Pleiadians – by my Spirit Guides to me. So far none of them are saying negative things about Donald Trump. The Galactic Council is saying that the whole political system of this world was going in the wrong direction, led by the wrong people, and it had to be dismantled sooner or later, and required a strong leader, who could fight off all attacks, to defeat the dark forces and bring this world back into the Light. That person in the current President of the USA.

Osho Zen Flowering

Shaman Wisdom Reading

for August 27, 2020

My old computer finally died. It took me three weeks to get a new one, thanks to my son Alan. It looks just like the old one, except it’s brand new. My first option was to buy what I thought I could afford; a rebuilt cheap PC for $300. At that “I need to get a computer now” moment, I thought I certainly couldn’t afford what I really wanted, a new Apple iMac. But I’ve been using the Apple brand for years, I’m used to it, and for all the hours, months and years i’ve spent writing my novels on this computer, I certainly deserved a “this or better” replacement. So with my money and his, the “or better” is what was manifested and what I’m now writing with. Yeah!

I’m always fascinated with “habits.” It takes at least 21 days of repetition – doing or not doing, having or not having, to develop a new habit. After 17 days without a computer, I could begin to feel what my life would be like without one. Not having felt a bit sad because I would never complete my novels. This inspired me to get back into my novel writing, if my brain complies.

I was looking back at my very old blogs and there was another time, I think in the late 90’s, when I would draw an Osho Zen Tarot card every morning, as I’m doing now. There was one month of 30 days where i drew the card FLOWERING ten times. The chances of that happening were astronomical. And now this year, with 102 previous readings, i hadn’t drawn that card once, until today. Regarding my new computer, it begins with Zen wanting us to live in abundance, not in lack.

READING

Queen of Rainbows – FLOWERING:

Zen wants you living, living in abundance, living in totality, living intensely – not at the minimum as Christianity wants you, but at the maximum, overflowing. Your life should reach to others. Your blissfulness, your benediction, your ecstasy should not be contained within you like a seed. It should open like a flower and spread its fragrance to all and sundry – not only to the friends but to the strangers too. This is the real compassion, this is real love: sharing your enlightenment, sharing your dance of the beyond.

“The Queen of Rainbows is like a fantastic plant that has reached the apex of its flowering and its colors. She is very sexual, very alive, and full of possibilities. She snaps her fingers to the music of love, and her zodiac necklace is placed in a way that Venus lies over her heart. The sleeves of her garment contain an abundance of seeds, and as the wind blows the seeds will be scattered to take root where they may. She is not concerned whether they land on the soil or on the rocks – she is just spreading them everywhere in sheer celebration of life and love. Flowers fall on her from above, in harmony with her own flowering, and the waters of emotion swirl playfully beneath the flower on which she sits. You might feel like a garden of flowers right now, showered with blessings from everywhere. Welcomes the bees, invite the birds to drink your nectar. Spread your joy around for all to share.”

Made, fired and painted “Spiritual Warrior” by Dakan

The Highway Shaman Wisdom for August 9, 2020

It’s three in the afternoon and I’ve napped off and on most of the day. This is a time where I realize how sensitive I really am. It appears outside, weather-wise, that this day is like every other day, but the energy is different. It’s heavy. Checking in with Astrology – for a while now Mars has been in Aries. This weekend the Moon has entered Aries, in a Black Moon phase. The Black Moon evokes the ‘shadow side” of things – that which is unseen and has been hidden. The deceptions have surfaced during this pandemic, with the lockdowns and shutdowns and isolation. The Far Left, countered by the Far Right,  will continue to engage in a battle for our minds and souls. To me, they are the dark side, the “shadow side,” which has been causing mass confusion. I know, we all should be aware of their agenda, of the Deep State, of Operation Paperclip, the New World Order, of human trafficking – the ruling Cabal which is subjugating and enslaving the people. These Dark Forces are now ramping things up, which can be seen astrologically with the position of Mars in Aries. This is the placement of “WAR,” which is now amplified with this Black Moon. This weekend on, those agitated political people will become more aggressive, playing out their shadow sides, with more projections, unhinged judgments, criticisms, negativity, aggression, discord and chaos. These are the emotions and expressions which I personally wish to avoid. Without my guard up, this sort of negative energy upsets me, emotionally devastates me, if I’m not isolated and prepared. I’ll ask my Spirit Guides to tell me how to prepare. I pulled the Osho Zen Tarot card MIND and the Good Tarot QUEEN OF WATER, followed my the Elements SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS..

“MIND”

This is the situation in your head – I see cycle-handles and pedals and strange things that you have gathered from everywhere. Such a small head . . . and no space to live in! And that rubbish goes on moving in your head, your head goes on spinning and weaving – it keeps you occupied. Just think what kind of thoughts go on inside your mind. One day just sit, close your doors, and write down for half an hour whatsoever is passing in your mind, and you will understand what I mean and you will be surprised what goes on inside your mind. It remains in the background, it is constantly there, it surrounds you like a cloud. With this cloud you cannot know reality – you cannot attain to spiritual perception. This cloud has to be dropped. And it is just with your decision to drop it that it will disappear. You are clinging to it – the cloud is not interested in you, remember it.

“The Page of Clouds is telling you that somebody, somewhere, is stuck in a “head trip”.  Take a look and make sure it isn’t you.”

“QUEEN OF WATER”

Compassion, emotional security, generosity, self-love and self-care, healer.

• I am comfortable in my own skin. 
• I love, cherish and nurture myself. 
• I am the best friend to myself. 
• My relationship with others reflect my security in knowing 
• I am always worthy of love and respect. 
• I heal myself so I can be the change I want to see in the world 
• and so my compassion can inspire others.

“SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS”

I’m asking what the lesson in all this is. With the Elements Tarot I pull SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS reversed. It says that I must remain attentive to spiritual guidance and influences – to listen to my inner voice and Spirit Guides. To use my capacity for channeling. To remember that all this confusion, turmoil and chaos can happen out there in the world, but it’s not mine. It doesn’t need to affect me in a negative way . . . because I am a Spiritual Being who cherishes, nurtures and loves myself, every hour of every day. I do have compassion, emotional security, generosity, self-love and self-care. I am the healer of myself and of a world in disharmony. 

I am a Fifth Dimensional Being here observing a Third Dimensional rebirthing. 

700 years in the future painting found in a chamber of a remote Arizona cavern

The Highway Shaman Wisdom for August 8, 2020

It’s rare that I get any feedback on my blogs, and I did gets one yesterday from my dear wise sister Chandiji. Here is what she wrote – “Congratulations on your 100th blog! I forgot that you were born with a caul. How appropriate! If we were a tribe you would be so honored and respected. But no worries – the “veils” are being lifted off everyone’s eyes. Keep doing the work without needing the evidence from your work. You come from the future. You work in other realms and those creations seep thru always building the architecture for the new experience, and as the cauls are removed people will see you for who you are. Be at peace in our green heart brother. Deep love chandiji.”

With that in mind I pulled my Osho Zen Tarot card for today. Page of Water – 

“UNDERSTANDING”

You are out of jail, out of the cage – you can open your wings and the whole sky is yours. All the stars and the moon and the sun belong to you. You can disappear into the blueness of the beyond. Just drop clinging to this cage, move out of the cage and the whole sky is yours. Open your wings and fly across the sun like an eagle. In the inner sky, in the inner world, freedom is the highest value – everything else is secondary, even blissfulness, ecstasy. There are thousands of flowers, uncountable, but they all become possible in the climate of freedom. 

“The dawn of a new understanding – that the cage has always been open, and the sky has always been there for us to explore – can make us feel a little shaky at first. It’s fine, and natural to be shaky, but don’t let it overshadow the opportunity to experience the light-heartedness and adventure on offer, right there alongside the shakiness. Move the sweetness and gentleness of this time. Feel the fluttering within. Spread your wings and be free.”

When Chandiji said I was from the future, it reminded me of the Wingmakers, who came here from seven hundred years in our future. Their vocabulary is elevated and not everyone can read it, or translate it, even though it’s written in plain English. I’ve been writing about what it means to be my “Authentic Self,” to live life at the highest level of integrity. I resonated with this small Wingmakers offering –

WINGMAKERS

”As the human instrument becomes increasingly responsive to Source Intelligence it will gravitate to life principals that symbolically express the formative principles of prime creation. There are wide ranges of expressions that can induce the transformational experience of the Sovereign Integral and liberate the entity from time-space conditioning and external controls. Inasmuch as the expression can vary, the intent of the expression is quite narrowly defined as the intent to expand into a state of integration whereby the human instrument becomes increasingly aligned with the Sovereign Integral perspective. There are three particular life principles that accelerate the transformational experience and help to align the human instrument with the Sovereign Integral perspective. They are . . .

• Universal relationship through gratitude
• Observance of Source in all things
• Nurturance of Life

When the individual applies these principles, their life experience reveals a deeper meaning to its apparently random events – both in the universal and personal context.”

With this so-called pandemic, people everywhere subject themselves to the pull and control of apparently random events, such as the provably illogical dictates to isolate, social distance and wear useless masks. I am eternally grateful for my relationship with my Spirit Guides and the Creator God, the Source of all we see. My work is to first nurture my body and soul, and then all life, holding, hopefully elevating, everyone and everything on earth with/in my deepest prayer. I’m aligned with and part of all creation, therefor it is up to me to treat everything in my reality as my precious baby.

Clay fired and painted wall plaque by Dakan

The Highway Shaman Wisdom for August 7, 2020 

Today is my 100th blog in this series

From the moment of my caul birth, my mother knew, I knew, that I was to be a “Spiritual” person. She believed I was destined to be her family priest. It ended up that I was a sensitive child who grew into a sensitive adult man. In retrospect my major life decisions were always more spiritual than pragmatic. I moved my whole life, quit jobs and ended relationships as soon as my “spirit” felt trapped. As early as age twenty I began my conscious journey of Self-Realization. My “Spirit” would never allow me to get trapped in religions, spiritual or political beliefs. I studied all the religions, dabbled in them and all the political dogma from democracy to communism – the socialist,  libertarians, democrats and republicans, but I was never a joiner – not even a voter. I am and have always been a “spiritual observer.” When I stated writing historical fiction in 2002, I became an investigative reporter, always seeking the truth. In the past year I have observed what I consider bad 3D political drama – a battle of ignorance – people taking sides on a dung pile throwing shit at each other. To me, right or left, it’s sad to witness. 

I wrote my first Zen book five years ago. The teachings are to live in the moment, in the here and now. To calmly sit on the bank and watch the river flow, knowing the flow is always perfect. MOMENT TO MOMENT.  Zen practice is also about living life in the highest levels of Integrity possible. Engagement in the political arena is filled with antagonism, hostility, anger, resentment, blame, condemnation and arrogance – all forms of low and “out of Integrity.” That’s not an arena I wish to play in – an arena I refuse to play in. Life is indeed a struggle of maintaining a high level of Self-Realization and Integrity, but daily I pray to be a Messenger of Love, to be empowered with goodness, curiosity, wonder, innocence and as much happiness as I’m able to bring into my life. The enemy of all that is biased news like CNN, which instills all those low integrity notions in a person’s consciousness. The 5D enlightenment message is to turn off the damn TV and go smell the flowers, pet the animals, feed the fish, and send love to all those in need. The world can go to shit all around us, but that doesn’t mean we have to go to shit with it. I refuse to as I send my prayers of peace, love and happiness to everyone in the world.

The Osho Zen Card for today

2 of Rainbows – MOMENT TO MOMENT

The past is no more and the future is not yet – both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now – wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now. That’s the only right direction. Only such a man can enter into the golden gate. The present is the golden gate. Here now is the golden gate, And you can be in the present only if you are not ambitious – no accomplishment, no desire to achieve power, money, prestige, even enlightenment, because all ambition leads you into the future. Only a non-ambitious man can remain in the present. A man who wants to be in the present has not to think, has just to see and enter the gate. Experience will come, but experience has not to be premeditated.

“This card challenges us to move away from our preoccupations with other spaces and other times, and stay alert to what is happening in the here and now. Life is a great ocean in which you can play if you drop all your judgments, your preferences and the attachment to the details of your long-term plans. Be available to what comes your way, as it comes. And don’t worry if you stumble or fall – just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, have a good laugh, and carry on.”

The Highway Shaman Wisdom for August 6, 2020

Today is exactly one year to the day when I was coming to stop at an intersection in Vancouver, WA. and was rear-end by a Peterbilt Semi-truck. The impact rocked my head and initially I believe I was in shock. It was later I realized I had a concussion and would need help. The first six months were trying since I had lost quite a bit of my physical, emotional and mental balance. Sessions with three Doctors of Neurology proved that I did have a traumatic brain injury, and I was supposed to get the final results of my insurance settlement on Monday. I think not knowing the results have put me into a form of depression. I woke up at 9.30 this morning and napped throughout the day. Let’s see what the Osho Zen Tarot has to say. Ace of Rainbows –  MATURITY 

It says, “When you draw this card, know well this moment carries a gift – for hard work well done. Your base is solid now and success and good fortune are yours for they are the outcome of what has already been experienced within.”

The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as between you not knowing that you are a buddha, and the moment you know that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise. Buddha is completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals, have come to a completion . . . Certainly, to be full of spring yourself. Is far more beautiful than the autumn dews falling on the lotus leaves. This is one of the most beautiful things to watch: when autumn dews fall on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real pearls. But of course, it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises, the autumn dews start evaporating. 

The temporary beauty cannot be compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look back as far as you can and it has always been there. You look forward as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being. Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to shower on you. This is spiritual spring.

The real cover of my real novel

The Highway Shaman Wisdom for August 5, 2020

This is the morning after I pulled the CREATOR card. What will I create next? A month or so ago I had the idea of putting together slate and cement bonsai cactus planters. I finished thirty-two of them. They’re worth at least $10 each. Prior to that I finished making 40 necklaces, worth at average $75. What’s next? I’ll draw my card for today.

BEYOND ILLUSION (Judgment) –  This is the only distinction between the dream and the real: reality allows you to doubt, and the dream does not allow you to doubt. The capacity to doubt is one of the greatest blessings to humanity. The religions have been enemies because they have been cutting the very roots of doubt, and there is a reason why they have been doing that – because they want people to believe in certain illusions that they have been preaching. Why have people like Guatam Buddha been so insistent that the whole existence – except your witnessing self – is just ephemeral, made of the same stuff as dreams are made of? They are not saying that these trees are not there. They are not saying that these pillars are no there. Don’t misunderstand because of the word ‘illusion.’ It has been translated as illusion, but illusion is not the right word. Illusion does not exist. Reality exists. Maya is just in between – it almost exists. As far as day-to-day activities are concerned, it can be taken as reality. Only in the ultimate sense, from the peak of your illumination, it becomes unreal, illusory.

“This card reminds us to not look outside for what is real, but to look within. Drop your opinionated mind and move within. There, you can relax into your own deepest truth, where the difference between dream and reality is already known.”

This has meaning to me regarding my creations. I have spent ten years working a novel series, which nobody has read. It sits in space, in my computer. Is it real? Only to myself and only because I say it is. I could print it out and hand it to someone, but that person will only think its real if they have some reason to believe it so. If not, they will put it aside or throw it away – validate it unreal since it has no value to them. I have a pile of 40 necklaces. I can give them value. I can make them seem real. But they only have value as a dream – the dream of having value to someone else, a buyer. I will have to somehow Create a buyer, to convince this person that my dream is real and has value. The process of turning illusion or dreams into reality isn’t that easy. I suppose this is why I’ve chosen to be a spiritual person, because I can “say” that I’m this amazing God being – “relax into my own deepest truth, where the difference between dream and reality is already known,” and be content there. At this place there is nothing tangible  I must create and convince another to like or dislike, to buy or walk away from. I don’t need to prove my value to anyone except myself. It almost seems too easy proclaiming to be Divine, to separate oneself from the struggles and pain of life. Maybe this is the cosmic irony or joke. If it is all a dream, an illusion, or Maya, then why not turn away from the struggle and choose peace and serenity?

Because . . . we need money to buy the dream, which is marketed to be bigger and better and more expensive. Marketing has given the dream value. Society forces me to be a salesmen to convince people to buy my books and necklaces. I must struggle doing unnatural things, like trying to be a salesman, or I go without. Fail.

I am the Highway Shaman because I listen to the guidance of the unseen world around me. I sit at the feet of the beauty of nature. My life is over-flowing with air, water and food. I have been given the basic tools to stay healthy and thrive as a Creator. In these ways I am living in abundance.  Grateful and Loved.