Category: Illusions

Preconceived Notions - Pants Below the Butt

8/1/2015

During the November 1, 2011 Transformation Conversation, Joe Simmons and guests looked at our reactions about people wearing their pants below the butt, and considered whether our preconceived notions rob us of opportunities to see objectively, which could inhibit our ability to find more opportunities for fulfillment and happiness.This blog is a summary and lessons learned from that conversation. ~Joe Simmons

Preconceived Notions

Actually, there is an explanation for this. The issue of wearing the pants below the butt is dynamic. There is the choice to do it, and there are the reactions to seeing it done. Since we cannot control what others do, we can look at our reaction to seeing it done.

First, if we look closely, we will notice that the people in these pics are covered from the waste down. Two of the gents in the photo are fully clothed.

The problem is our relationship to the labels we put on clothing, and our relationship to the contexts of those labels. In this case, we have a label called "underwear" and the meanings and connotations that we attach to the term underwear. Additionally, we have opinions about

appropriate locations for clothing features.

I saw this very clearly while at work a couple of weeks ago. A client was wearing his pants down below his butt, and he walked like a duck. I thought to myself, “This guy is a complete idiot.” Then, I looked more closely. “Hmm…,” I thought, “That’s not underwear. Those are sports pants… like basketball shorts… the mesh kind.” To confirm, I asked the client about it. The client confirmed, “Yeah, they’re basketball shorts.” I thanked him and he waddled away like a duck.

We have opinions about the composition and/or style of clothing that is appropriate to cover the body. We are accustomed to a look that includes attaching the top of the pants at or above the waste. We are talking about the location of a particular feature of a particular article of clothing, which is one piece of the composition/design of attire that clothes or covers the body.

Is it underwear or is it a bathing suit, or is it shorts, etc.? What difference does it make? My waddling client friend was fully clothed. Notwithstanding the labels and the connotations/expectations/meanings that I attach to them, I saw very clearly that I was the idiot.

Of course, the consequences of the design choice are another and separate dynamic of the pants-below-the-butt style.

Namaste,

Joe Simmons
Metaphysical Visionary

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Divine Orchestration - A Perspective

7/30/2015

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"Actually all seeming errors are the result of thoughts ABOUT Ideas--Gods Ideas which are expressed as Creation. You can have thoughts about ideas but you cannot have ideas about thoughts. It's those pesky thoughts that got us into this mess we made up called 'the world'" ~ Trisha Darrenger

We might call the world a mess when we don't understand it. I entertain that we divinely orchestrate it all, which is a fancy way of saying everything's just flowing to balance the same way water flows to level when spilled. It's natural. Our being conscious about it isn't required. I suspect we desire to be unconscious where we are, for the experiences that are available in believing in and engaging with the illusions as if they're true. We like the way the water looks and feels splashing off the rocks and banks in the flow. It's beautiful and refreshing. We like it, albeit possibly unconsciously or at a "higher" (it's just different, another magnificent aspect of us) level of consciousness that we don't recognize. We want it all in order to feel the richness and spiciness of this experience we call life. Just thinking out loud. Thanks for the opportunity to look and remember.

Namaste,

Various Spaces of Consciousness

Joe Simmons
Metaphysical Visionary

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A Perspective on the Purpose of Abortion

11/11/2014

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"How do you counter such facts?" ~Jerry Villano

Here's a perspective to try on like a coat. Why not? We start to understand the entire notion and context of abortion by realizing that we're spiritual beings having a physical experience. That doesn't mean that we are spiritual beings who have temporarily become physical for a while by being born. It means that the physicality is a state of interpretation of conscious energy vibration that is us and that are the parts of us that give us a particular experience. That might sound strange. Please bear with me.

Maybe, we remain the spiritual (conscious energy vibration) substance and the experience of a physical life is an illusion. There is no real death, no real murdering. We exist eternally, "unkillable". The murdering, dying, etc., are just contexts that we've conjured in this state to keep the drama going. Why do we keep the drama going? We keep the drama going because of a particular experience that we desire that the illusion of life helps to provide.

The particular experience that we desire is to feel the love that we are, as we flow to balance. So, why do we have those things that seem to contradict love? Because, we also know that in order to experience a thing, we must be able to compare it to something else in order for it to come into our experience, or in order for us to notice it.

Go ahead. Try to notice anything without the things around it that are not it. There is always a comparison. We need those things that appear contrary to love in order to notice the love. So, here we are feeling love by having compassion for the "lives" that are "taken". It's a perfect science. All of it is intended, divine and perfect. Thanks for the opportunity to look and remember.

Lovingly Namaste,

Joe Simmons
Metaphysical Visionary

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Human Consciousness and Physical Reality

4/19/2014

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Sibhan Ciresi - Author, Show Host

"This is a big one in spiritual circles I find. The claiming that we are creators of our reality. This is not quite the case. Let's be clear and authentic. We are co-creators. The life force that powers all is the actual creative force. We've been designed such that our thoughts mold our experience. So we co-create with this force. But not one of us has recollection of creating the physical universe on our own . Stop taking credit for what is not yours. Have a humbling of your heart and mind. Recognize what is here and has been here without your help. Tell the truth to yourself and you will be more in awe than ever of this whole life experience" ~Siobhan Ciresi

Thank you for sharing this, Siobhan. I'd like to concur and propose an answer to the question in the illustration, "If human consciousness creates the physical reality, how is it that the Earth and the Physical Universe (were) here before human beings existed?" Stepping back, or looking at a bigger picture we can surmise that the Earth and the Physical Universe were here before human beings were on the planet because the experience of human being is just a spec of all experiences we (the One) have that appears to be physical. Imagine the possibility that there is no true physical plane. There are only energy vibrations and interpretations of the energy vibrations. Now imagine that each interpretation, also known as a thought, which in and of itself is a creation, sets off whole new worlds and infinite realities, while each thought creates new thoughts each reflecting off another.

Additionally, let's consider that time and space are illusions of the physical domain and that, therefore, there are no true before and after, then and now. There are only now and the stories we attach to it in the experience of human being. This idea presupposes, additionally, that the notion of there being a beginning of it all, such that an ultimate (separate) force or supreme creator outside of our collective self was the original creator of something within which we exist, is a human-centric perspective as there is no ultimate beginning or end of existence. Along these lines, rather, there are only conditions of is-ness that are in a perpetual state of becoming. See "The Phenomena of the Physical Plains" for an attempt to describe how the physical plane is a product of interpreting energy vibrations.

We interpret and create at every spot of us. That's a lot of spots, given that we exist infinitely inward and outward ad infinitum. Now, imagine that every spot is at the center of it all, as it must be since we exit inward and outward ad infinitum. This is an indication that we (the One) are all at the center of it all and that we are individually and collectively the co-creators of it all. It's also an indication that we co-dwell and co-create in spaces of infinite worlds.

Regarding our ability to create and whether or not we create or have created anything is not contingent upon whether we can recall doing it, or whether we are conscious about it during the physical experience or at any time.

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We tend to be inherently distracted by the physical experience, albeit by design. Typically, in the physical experience, we are not aware of what we create because we are somewhat blind about the Universal powers and tools. That's what's changing, transforming as we transcend or become more conscious. It's a part of our waking up - knowing what we are creating and learning to create intentionally in our spot of being and realizing that our creations effect all other creations.

Regarding claiming credit for reality, the good news is that there is no need to claim credit for anything other than to claim accountability for our actions/thoughts/intentions, also known as creations in the space we "stand" because our creations effect other creations whether or not we are aware of it. This is a way we co-create. This discussion entails and encompasses distinctions that are not necessarily apparent on the surface, however, are fodder for other metaphysical discussions. Click here for "The Phenomena of the Physical Plains" Thanks for your partnership in the exploration. Namaste ♥

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With God's Blessing

2/15/2012

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Janice Pickett, author, intuitive counselor, healer, actor, film and TV producer and friend asked the following question...

"I believe God gives us energy which is our direct connection to him. Man has power through energy and can achieve anything when he knows how to apply it to his life. So when we pray we ignite that energy and in fact create our own solutions with Gods blessing. Do you agree?" ~ Janice

Thank you for the opportunity to explore here. Putting our thoughts to words subjects us to semantics. Please forgive me for the matters of semantics that might follow.

To answer the question, I agree. However, I don't feel that God gives a blessing, per se. I believe that we're inclined to give God human attributes and conjure contexts in order to relate or to try to make sense of things. We’re human-centric, so we can’t help but to relate everything to the human experience. For example, when I am larger from gaining forty pounds, the people and chairs around me look smaller to me. When I lose forty pounds, the people and chairs around me look larger to me. Hence, we perceive and understand everything through the scales of human being.

Please bare with me...

In my puny human-centric opinion, God is energy vibration flowing to balance, unattached and impartial to the stories and sentiments as we experience them. God is a category of energy vibration that we experience as love in the category of experience that we call life in a physical domain. I feel that we, the human beings, are an aspect of God through which we can feel the flow to balance that we are, a.k.a. the love that we are. One way I describe it is that we are conduits through which Love/God flows. That's the best I can do in most conversations because I see that everything is energy vibration and every spot of the energy vibration is conscious and perceptive. The perceptions, e.g. all things that we experience, are "thought"; which is a label we attach to another category of energy vibrations.

In a nutshell, there are two things going on.

Everything is energy vibration occurring, and
We perceive the energy vibrations dynamically.

We make up the realities by adding and validating contexts... a bunch of perceptions upon perceptions that perceive and experience collectively. Yes, the perceptions are perceiving. Ironically, We can't even really say collectively, because we're One and to say "collectively" implies that our individuation is also true. Our individuation is not true. It's all an illusion. To be clear, our individuation is real to the extent that we actually do have the experience. The experience is present. In other words, it is true that the experiences occur, albeit the experiences are illusions.

In my puny opinion, the idea of receiving God's blessings is a primitive human-centric perspective, an ego trip. The is-ness that is God occurs beyond anything that we can imagine or fathom, certainly a tad more dynamic than existing in a capacity to give blessings in a fashion similarly to the way we little humans approve or disapprove anything.

Still, I’m comfortable to use the term blessings to express gratitude. I feel that you are a blessing. You bring joy. You enrich us. You are a blessing to us. While I recognize and embrace the gift that you are, you and I bless, fortify, contribute to, enrich, make whole and invigorate me. We do the blessing together as a team. Likewise, God, e.g. the magnificent is-ness of it all is a blessing to us. I believe that God blesses us with the gift of God’s magnificence, parts of which you and I are. I feel that we, including God, bless each other and ourselves by seeing/recognizing the gifts that we are.

I don’t feel that God is a third party that determines worthiness, judges and provides approvals called blessings. I believe that we receive or experience blessings the same way we experience beauty, gratitude and love. We choose them.

Thank you for your partnership in the exploration!

Lovingly Namaste,

Joe

Metaphysical Visionary & Speaker

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"The Root Causes of Greed, Intolerance, Injustice, Inequality, Distress and Conflict..."

12/7/2011

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"The root cause of all of these is the illusion of separation. "We are organically one" is the "The Earth is round" of our time..."

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Tony Praill: The whole world, deep down, realises that nothing is more important than human and social evolution in harmony with our environment. We know that it is crucial that we advance integrated solutions that address the root causes of greed, intolerance, injustice, inequality, distress and conflict, and that we do that through co-operation and co-creation rather than coca-cola! ;-)

Tony Praill: Consider a world inspired to fulfil each person's unique potential to liberate mutual completeness in abundant variety. A world with an effortless, entire awareness that our varied needs to flower co-operate to harvest the fruits of truth, harmony, peace and bounteous, beautiful creativity. Now is the time to consider, intend and co-create this magnificent world....this is why we are here! ((( ♥ )))

Joe Simmons: The root cause of all of these is the illusion of separation. "We are organically one" is the "The Earth is round" of our time.

"Leading-edge information and growing consciousness bring us a step beyond the planting of seeds. They root the plants of freedom, love, abundance, wholeness and empowerment. For example, it took over 200 years to believe the Earth is round, but when we finally believed it, our experience of life changed quickly and dramatically. Up next, we are One, organically. We are exiting the period that will be known as 'The Age of Insanity - the time when we believed the illusion of separation was true'. We will be shocked and brought to our knees from the remorse of what we had done during the profound unconsciousness of that time. We will be moved, relieved and grateful for the abundance, peace and wholeness of remembering that we are One and Love" ~ Joe Simmons ♥

Tony Praill: Idealism is the new reality! ;-)

Joe Simmons: Our being one is as much of an ideal as is the Earth being round. We just can't see it because we believe that the illusion of separation must disappear before we can realize our oneness. We can embrace the illusion of separation the same way we can embrace the illusion that a movie is made from individual still frames playing in sequence, which we cannot detect with our human tools for perception. The Earth is round, and we are One, organically. This is absolute - regardless of our ability to recognize it. ♥

Tony Praill: True, though as you say, the recognition is the 'warp- speed' for human evolution. :-)

John Halderman: Yes, before any human descriptions and explanations about life, we were One . . . ARE ONE! We allow ourselves to go down the specific rabbit holes loosing sight of our Oneness. :)))

Joe Simmons: Tony, the good news is that our thwarting or resisting the realization of our oneness, for however many years we may do it, does not change that our believing that the illusion of separation is true is what makes all strife possible. Name it... starvation, homelessness, poverty, war, greed, intolerance, inequality, distress and conflict are all symptoms of our believing and operating as if we are separate.

Knowing that we are One, whenever we act inconsistently to that, we are operating insanely. Hence, we have dis-ease. This is true no matter what we think or no matter how we might rationalize our unwillingness (for whatever reasons) to surrender.

Until we do, we will remain in "The Age of Insanity, the time when we, the humans, believe that the illusion of separation is true." The love that comes from realizing our oneness is the cure for all of it. Actually, it's the only cure. Any other study or exploration for answers is futile and foolish, insane.

More good news... As more of us entertain Oneness consciousness we are building momentum, like a snowball, to reach a critical mass of awareness. Eventually, we will get it like a light going on in our heads. We will say, "What the? Of course, we are one! What the hell were we thinking?" ♥

John Halderman: agree Joe, seeing our Oneness is the way. When we know our Oneness we stop acting in selfish fearful ways seeking to fill the void created by the perceived separation. We then act in unity seeing how what we do benefits the whole. :)

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A Human-Centric Perspective of Ascension

10/4/2011

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Hello Folks,

Thanks for reading this blog post. Firstly, I have to acknowledge that the title of the this blog is almost an oxymoron because "human-centrically" is the only way that we can perceive anything.

The image below is a screen shot of a Facebook picture shared by 11:11 Awakening Code. According to the sharer, the graph represents galactic wave movement. The sharer states, "This is what's in store for the Human Race after October 28th, 2011 and into 2012. It is the end of Wave Movements or the gradual settling of an advanced sustainable 'Garden of Eden'. Thank YOU Mayan Calendar!! It all makes sense Now!"

For the purpose of this blog post, let's give us (the humans) the benefit of the doubt and give ourselves something about which to celebrate. We deserve it. Life is a conversation, anyway. It's all made up.

Is Altruism, Service of One's Fellows, Desirable?

8/3/2011

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I'm remembering that in some respects, ideas and contexts of altruism are abused as a tool to covertly enslave us, the human beings. As we are one, we've elected to enslave ourselves, of course. There are many perspectives - my favorite being Jainism, "...an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation...." ~ Wikipedia

When applied deceitfully, altruism exploits our innate drive and inclination to serve each other as we know, spiritually, that we are one.

We know, on important levels, albeit more unconsciously than not at this point in time, that to serve you is to serve myself. Inequality is not required. A desire to love unconditionally and the insight and awareness to realize personal fulfillment in the engagements is required. However, by questionable definition, this is not altruism, because altruism includes selflessness for the betterment of a third-party group, e.g. governments, a God, etc. at the expense and/or detriment of the servant.

Given that we are one, all acts of love-inspired service and gifting are divinely "selfish" when we realize, feel and embrace that we are fulfilled and made whole (Holy) in the engagements. When I serve you, I serve myself. My/our accountability is to serve from a place of divine inspiration to determine appropriateness.

In the experience of human-being, we entertain and believe that Heaven is a place to go upon an experience that we've labeled "death." We've added that we must be a certain way in "life", in the eyes of a third-party Supreme Being who makes a judgement and determines whether we've earned a spot in a separate place called Heaven after death.

This context is dogmatic because we misunderstand it. Paradise and Heaven on Earth are attainable always by states of mind or consciousness. Heaven is Heaven. We made up that a lot of hard work and an experience called death are required to be judged worthy and enter Heaven on a different plain of existence. Our oneness includes everything that is, including the Supreme Being.

Heaven is a choice that exists everywhere, always, eternally. Realizing the manifestation for ourselves begins with a word and a declaration to have and experience Heaven now - right here on Earth, while still living. There is no place to go. There is only a way to be to enter Heaven today.

Thank you for your attention and for the opportunity to look and remember! ♥

Lovingly Namaste,

Joe Simmons

Metaphysical Life Coach & Public Speaker

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Why Call Him God?

11/26/2010

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I came across the following Epicurus (341–270 B.C.) quote in a Facebook comment:

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" ~ Epicurus

First, I want to be clear that I am exploring and sharing a perspective in the context of the entire quote, not just, "Why do we call God, God?" I am sharing a perspective based on why we call him God withstanding the conditions that Epicurus presents.

Perhaps we call him God because we feel like adding meaning to things and labeling things. Ironically, the labeling is insidious, e.g. we're predisposed to perceive a category of "separate" or "third party", hence we refer to and apply a “He” when there is none. Maybe we simply exist in a being or a becoming state of is-ness that is God. Hence, there is just an is state. I know that may sound strange. Of course, there is only one is. Imagine we might decide to distinguish, categorize, define, judge, label and count is’s. Actually, that’s what we do.

Finally, let's consider that the label “evil” and the descriptors, e.g. “malevolent” are fictitious. We apply the labels “good”, “bad”, etc. to our opinions of a thing and call it true, when it is not. In this case, therefore, we hold the fabrication labeled “He” accountable to the opinions and the labels that we attach to them. Uh-oh, then who is accountable? I declare that I am accountable with the collective I's (is) that we are.

Thanks for the opportunity to look!

Lovingly Namaste,

Joe Simmons
Metaphysical Life Coach & Public Speaker

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The Phenomena of the Physical Planes

10/8/2010

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Try this on like a coat. The experience of there being a physical plane is an illusion. It is real only to the extent that we apply the label "physical plane" to categorize a domain of illusions that we perceive and entertain. In other words, illusions are real; however, they distract us from what is true.

To illustrate, let's call this image a conglomerate - just one of infinitely existing conglomerates. The phenomena of the physical plane are illusions formed by infinitely created and configured conglomerates of perceptions layered upon perceptions. The sources of each are energy vibrations also called intentions and/or thoughts, which set off unique conglomerates ad infinitum. An example of a new conglomerate is a thought or opinion (which are both energy vibrations) about the shapes reflected on the tube. It's how thoughts become "things."

The perceptions are not limited to those "originated" by the constellations of conglomerates called human beings, animals,

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Illustration of A Conglomerate

birds, fish, bugs, etc. The senses, e.g., sight, taste,smell, touch and hearing are experience-able through and are products of the layered and co-mingled interpretations entertained by the integrated constellations of conglomerates and their parts. All the parts of all things, animate, inanimate, matter and non-matter are interpreting and co-creating simultaneously, including the parts of the conglomerates themselves.

Therefore, we can surmise that the content of the physical plane is an illusion, albeit real to the extent that we actually experience it. Imagine the perceiver behind the illusions is the only non-illusionary entity except for our inability to realize it. Ironically, we are illusive to ourselves - lurking in the silence behind the noise; we play with the looking glasses. So amused, submersed and distracted by what we perceive, we believe the illusions are true and forget who and what we are.

From a human-centric perspective, we are One and Love, the Co-Creators.

In another discussion, we will explore that love is merely a label that we put on certain categories of perception and experience, such that even love is an illusion.

Lovingly Namaste,