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Reclaiming our humanity, may be the single most important task for our species in these times. As we adults re discover this, then it can be kindled in our children and consciously lived again. Darryl Pokea, Psy.D.
Each of our perceptions contains the lessons achieved, those lessons yet to be learned, and the order of those lessons to come. Darryl Pokea, Psy.D.
Thoughts for Autumn 2007 with Spring Upon Our Planet's Southern Hemisphere
Fear wants us saturated with indifference and all the distractions. Fear says "This is the easier way."
Dr. Darryl Pokea
The density of all matters in the flesh, gives our lessons great intensity.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Whatever we do not face and embrace now, we will face and embrace in the Infinite Now.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Our collective consciousness, in all matters now before us, is rapidly darkening with so much greed, hypocracy, violence, bullying and deception. These many forms of ill will, make so many bodies ill and affect everyone. We each are experiencing now, the matters of ill will that are wounding us and impose vulnerabilities upon our immune systems. We are simultaneously called to recognize, each our participation in these weakening immune systems, now within all life forms throughout the planet's diverse life sustaining ecologies. All ecologies, that include each our households, are responsible for attunement to the sacred balance within and everywhere all about. We are bodily participants with the planetary body who hosts us, as she continually renews and creates her protective atmosphere, an immune system for life everywhere.
As we are attuned to our experiences of the dwindling of our life sustaining energy, we may realize at the deepest biological level, that these urgent messages from our body and all bodies on the planet, are one and the same. They call everyone to wake up. We must awaken now and know that greed, as a defense, continues to cloud our collective minds as it deteriorates the ecos, the household, the atmosphere of the entire planet. It contributes nothing to our evolution, our lessons in harmonious survival that express the essence of our true spirit, the core strength of human nature, the spirit of
One for all and all for One.
As we are receptive and attuned to our spirits awakening us to these matters, we are guided through the depletions in our biological strength, by recognizing them as consequences for refusing to learn our collective lesson, that life can only be sustained in harmony with the sacred balance. These depletions, within our daily mental and physical energies, will continue proportionally to any unbridled abuse of the many forms of life supporting planetary energies. They are the symptoms of ill-will, that makes us ill, the "dis-ease", that is spread through any mental ills of greedy self-preoccupation that ignore the sacred balance within, as it is, all about. These ills of the psyche diminish life-sustaining energies while they congest both our minds and bodies. Further, they manifest the intense collective boomerang effect now upon us, that returns to us, what we have been doing to every body, all life form bodies, and the living planetary body who hosts us.
Our confluent lessons of survival and necessary evolution of consciousness are interwoven within the manifestation of these symptoms, that bring all of our attention to these matters, now. We can no longer ignore, even for a moment, what our bodies are telling us. The guidance from each of our spirits within invites us to heal and recover from the collective bio-psyche sickness, the pollution of ill-will that has saturated our minds and bodies. In choosing to follow that guidance, we may return to fully live the Sacred Balance in
one an other and the One within all others. Dr. Darryl Pokea
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Gratitude opens the mind to experience the Sacred Balance
Dr. Darryl Pokea
One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Joesph Campbell
Denial, Lying, and more Denial have become habitual and common place in our culture. For those who still care and are attuned to their spirit, be careful and filled with care in your heart. Your spirit will guide you and assist you to discern all who are stuck in this muck and want you there too.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb,a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher 1788-1860
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman
Fall is upon us and we may choose to fully participate in the many streams of this season's changes and cyles. When we allow ourselves to be driven without reflection, we must brace for a fall that comes from rigid formations in a hardening heart. The mind without free flowing heart, ignores the habitual actions that lead us into more blockages and destruction. Whenever we pause and reflect, we begin to recognize that our minds are continuously flooded with words and information that have only resulted in a trickle of the necessary heart-filled transformative actions required. In this binding state, we no longer participate in the free flow of our life lessons or those within the evolution of our species. Quiet contemplation and reflection (healthy Yin) washes our minds of any chattering words and buzzing information that have lead to the heart blockages and their expressions through destructive actions. We can then be gently guided by the strength of healthy Yin that returns us to an abundant flow of heart-filled actions (strong healthy Yang) within the seasons's cycle.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
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Thoughts for Summer 2007 with Winter Upon Our Planet's Southern Hemisphere
These days, spiritual authorities and experts in mysticism, are everywhere. Most have no genuine self-mastery or connection to the Divine within. The writings of Lao Tzu, being intellectually interpreted through another person's lens, replacing mutually shared experience, is not the Tao. Likewise, the written experience of any mystics, such as St. Theresa of Avila, capitalized upon, parroted and intellectually taught, rather than inwardly experienced, is not Mysticism.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface, but connected in the deep.
William James
As we are experiencing our greatest fears, that is the moment we may choose to plunge into the Infinite, the unknown within as it is all about.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
The foundation of all mental illness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
When anyone treats Earth matters as non sentient, they consume ruthlessly. As they take from the planet without reverence for all life and matter as sacred, their consciousness is clouded. In their ignorance they ignore that they are pilfering themselves as they do to every form of being. Dr. Darryl Pokea
We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. The Heart of Matter, 1950
To think that we can have a viable human economy by destroying the Earth economy is absurd.
Thomas Berry
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
Carl G. Jung
We are witnessing the illusion of function without humanity. The appearances of function masks all the dysfunction. The cloaking of dysfunction is accomplished by forcefully and inhumanely marketing an illusion of function into many minds, treating people as programmable automatons. Matters remain chaotic and dysfunctional whenever relief and change are promised without substance, as emotions are continuously exploited and manipulated. We will remain separate from what truly matters as we avoid living humanely by supporting our connection to One an Other. Attunement to our spirit's invitation within, illuminates any dysfunction, including any conditioning, that we have permitted in allowing ourselves to be treated as automatons. Through courage from our spirit within, we may freely choose to dissolve all the dysfunction, preserving our own and everyone's humanity.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say:" This is my country." - Benjamin Franklin
The more there is of fear, force and control, the less there is of the Creator, Creation and Creativity.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Spirit is.
In the mind, the darkness, illusion and ignorance provide contrast for re-cognzing Spirit's radiance in all being. Having a body (flesh) intensifies our experience of the Spirit's complementary formations within mind/body being. Consciousness of Spirit guides living participation with all that is. Spirit forms, manifests and invites through the experiences of mind & body, throughout all Light sharing Being. Every moment of our lives is precious learning as we awaken to Spirit's guidance within and all about. Each of us may ask: Have I fully followed the path of my spirit today, fully experiencing the many lessons that my spirit came into this mind and body to learn?
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton
Each of us is Divine Consciousness witnessing Itself. Every moment of attunement to this is a gift. Acceptance of this gift is the practice of conscious choice.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
We are awakening to the sobering, inescapable reality of many matrices of our entangled illusions, misperceptions and erroneous belief systems imploding upon themselves. All the self-centered thoughts throughout our many belief systems will eventually dissolve. The judgmental, hardened, and frozen thought missile projections that we continue to throw at each other like automatons, will melt so that the waters of genuine experience and truthful pursuits of knowing may flow freely again. All rigidity is impermanent and the fear that drives it will disperse. The many self-centered illusions and those parrotting words that have no authentic substance of enlightenment will show themselves in the Light. The forced, inflexible belief systems will shatter with cracks and fissures from within them that will let in the Light. Collectively and individually, we are in the process of learning that hyper and hypo manic actions drive us like an automaton, pressuring and surrounding ourselves only with more of ourselves. As we aimlessly race and become so full of ourselves, we have lost awareness and participation with all the Oneness that is within us, as it is One with Oneness everywhere around us.
Out of imbalance eventually comes balance, equalizing the imposing pressures. As we decentralize from self-preoccupation within, we will also recognize that there will be a necessary decentralization of our ego swollen, exorbitantly large institutions. They no longer serve and protect us locally, as they hide their real greed and self-serving interests far from us in the distance. They have forgotten the close, heart-filled intentions from people that allowed them to form for healthy product and service. The dissolutions of all consuming, ego-centric governments, corporations, institutions, schools, products and services are already upon us. As we awaken, we will live again, in purpose and prosperity that serve One an Other. We then may realize that we are not dots and blots haphazardly splattered on a fragile temporal canvas of consumption. We are artists, painting our lives upon an interwoven fabric that receives all of our participation with a holographic portrait of Divine Consciousness within, as it is all about. Collectively and individually, our heart-filled voices sound and resound these contributions to the Divine symphony, vibrating the many colors of a Universal picture. While we watch the parade of dysfunctional governments, corporations, institutions, and schools capsizing from the weight of their leaders out of touch, who have lost attunement to their spirit and Spirit guiding purpose, we may know that Wisdom transcends all the implosions.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Thoughts for Spring 2007 with Autumn Upon Our Planet's Southern Hemisphere
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Wanting results in suffering. Practicing gratitude reliquishes both.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb,a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher 1788-1860
Our lives are not a dress rehearsal. Every moment, every decision and
each experience matters.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Attention is the natural prayer of the soul. Nicolas Malebranche, Seventeenth Century Philosopher
The most rudimentary lesson in spiritual development is our learning to let go of any attempts to control one as an other. Controlling another is antithetical to Spirit, freedom & learning to love both self and other, as One. A Master Teacher reminds us of this by words that are to be lived in the flesh:
Love One an Other as you love your self.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
All that we witness and experience, cultivate the ground of our being
for the seeds of our lessons to sprout. In expanding our mind toward
a bigger picture, can we consider that our spirit chose life lessons
before we came into this form and were born? Then our life path
would draw us toward the very experiences within life, the situations perfectly crafted to learn and eventually master those lessons. Perhaps when we feel stuck, we may realize that we have not yet awakened
all the dimensions within our self. When we open to our spirit, we are guided to fully attend to all our experiences. The Light of Spirit
illuminates the lessons and sprouts all the seeds sown before our birth,
so we may tend to and fully develop our garden. Dr. Darryl Pokea
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
Advertisements have been disrupting our attention to the matters essential to our survival for some time. Marketers compete for our eye balls, as they keep us off balance and formulate "ad"versity through a massive attention deficit disorder in competition with each other by how much we buy. The important matters of life suffer as we become become overloaded with misinformation and are distracted from our senses as so much non-sense is thrown at our minds. We can know that our mind is under the influence of their insane control, whenever we are outwardly driven to look only for "good buys," while starting to say "good-bye" to our inner sanity and humanity.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Imagination is more important than knowledge... Albert Einstein
We are manifesting now, the malformation of our many mind matters upon the Earth, affecting all her beings and our being with one an other. We have encircled ourselves with many traps that we have placed around us through the mistaken beliefs that our collective minds have followed. Our spirit guides us to recall where those traps are hidden along our path of evolution so we may dismantle them and dissipate the erroneous information and beliefs that formed them. Then we may walk supporting the fullness of space and place with each other and every being that includes the planet who hosts us.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
The radiance of Light melts the frosted lenses of the mind so we may clearly recognize the path of our spiritual growth
Dr. Darryl Pokea
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer
We are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun
and stars, plucked from its stem and expected to keep on blooming
in our civilized vase on the table.
DH Lawrence
The crucified planet earth. Should it find a voice? And the sense of irony might now well say of our abuse of it. Forgive them father, they know not what they do. The irony would be that we know what we're doing. And when the last living thing has died on account of us, how shapely it would be, how poetical if the Earth could say in a voice floating up, perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon; It is done.
Kurt Vonnegut
The pollution that clouds the skies and waters of the planet who hosts us, mirrors the clouding of our collective human consciousness.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
If everyone lived at the standard of the industrialized countries, it would take two planets comparable to the planet Earth to support them, three more if the population should double, and, if worldwide standards of living should double over the next 40 years, twelve additional "Earths." ...We have been obsessed by thinking, hoping, deluding ourselves that we can somehow go on forever with business as usual, but [we] simply cannot.
Dr. Peter H. Raven
Note: Dr. Pokea has been utilizing early Compact Florescent Light (CFL) technology since 1989. Currently, he and his wife, Jan Jennings, are happy to announce that they have changed all incandescent bulbs to CFL's throughout their entire home. His wife's office and art studio, as well as his own home office, are now solar powered. They both have made plans to expand their current solar system to eventually power their entire house with solar. You may view his popular eco-minded article here:Let There Be Light: Change the World With a Light Bulb
All things are connected like the blood that unites us.
We did not weave the web of life. We are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. Chief Seattle
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis of Assisi
The prosperity we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
Aldous Huxley
While we appear to be witnessing a profound scarcity of justice being served in the human realm, there is an abundance of justice in the Infinite. Dr. Darryl Pokea
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you,"
that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really
true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright, 1871-1948.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Innocence is a state in which we are open to the experience of truth. It is the unclouded perception of what is. It is the limited thinking mind that hides our innocence. P. Raymond Stewart
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran
Thoughts for Winter 2007 with Summer Upon Our Planet's Southern Hemisphere
The greater the publicity of any of us, the more our spirit quietly nudges us towards humility for visibility of inner and outer balance.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
A mind driven in intellectual pursuit of knowledge without learning and emotions expressed through the body, blocks attunement to Spirit. The ego drives such a mind towards an endless cycle of Seek and Do Not Find.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
...We are beginning to realize that we cannot fix on the outside what is broken deep within the human heart and psyche.
John O'Dea
There is an epidemic in the belief that others are merely a means to an end. This leaves all of the participants in such a belief, alone and disconnected. They start becoming mean to their end. Practicing kindness and caring dissolves the meanness and reopens perspective. Everyone may realize again that we are all interconnected and never alone.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall-
think of it, always!
Mahatma Gandhi
Compassionate participation with every one expands consciousness and together, compasssion and consciousness, are freeing.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Anyone who is habitually occupied with meaningless thoughts, will have a view of their world that is mean and meaningless.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
A world view of separateness creates the seemingly insurmountable problems that we are now facing. Separation is destructive and antithetical to creativity and Creation. The separations and disconnects we experience with one an other manifest in some topsy-turvy adversarial forms. In these self-impeding forms, we externalize in the outer world those conflicts which have not yet been addressed in our inner world. As we erroneously label the experience of someone else as adverse and attempt to separate our self from them, we do not always recognize that we have displaced through them, the adversity and separation we experience within our self. Contempt towards our self is surfacing in the very moment of our perception that we are contemptuously experiencing someone else. The more widespread crimes against each other's humanity, that clouds our consciousness, will persist until each of us tend first, to weeding our own garden within. Every adversarial reaction, contempt and attempt at separation towards someone's self/Self, is a reminder that we are postponing our own lessons with our self/Self. In all of our daily experiences, each of us must be reflective and introspective in asking this question:
Have I fully followed the path of my spirit today, harmoniously and creatively, with the lessons about self/Self that I came into this existence to learn?
Dr. Darryl Pokea
For expansive views on the above thoughts you may read Dr. Pokea's articles: Meditation: Going Beyond Ego Barriers
Meditation: Steady as We Go
Imposing an ideology, faith or belief system on any one negates our experiencing the best features of them before there can even be dialogue. The light of humility dissipates the fog of hubris that clouds genuine exchange. In humility we are invited to remember that we are all dealing with the same stuff on the inside beyond any imposing appearances on the outside. Our species is in the midst of learning these lessons which have been postponed throughout human history. Invitation rather than imposition; humility instead of hubris; these are the lessons. Dr. Darryl Pokea
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and error.
Thomas Jefferson
Personality disorders have become the norm for our society and its leaders.
A personality disorder is a defense against insanity. For the person with their personality disorder, the insanity doesn't go away.
It just gets passed on to everyone else.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
The more there is of ego the greater the pain. Too often, the pain only accumulates in our pseudo attempts to avoid it. Ultimately, the discovery of True Self is impeded whenever processing the pain is postponed by the habit of surrounding your self with more of your self.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
Chronic stress and violence have been enslaving us for some time. They are endemic to the massive attention deficit that is now manifest in instant gratification, unmitigated consumption and careless short term interests which are consuming us. Stress, violence and the resulting attention deficit, limit the unique combinations of thoughts and emotions that make possible the formation and implemention of a wide range of pragmatic solutions. Each of us can resolve the many disruptions we, ourselves, have generated.
Pause;
Quiet the mind;
Let the body relax.
Invite creative ideas with pragmatic solutions to flow again.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
For expansion of this thought you may read Dr. Pokea's recent article: Choosing Happiness Instead of Stress For Your Body
Being a participant in Higher Consciousness, in the flesh, automatically becomes part of collective human consciousness.
Dr. Darryl Pokea
The heart of Being, within all of us, perseveres even when the mean status quo attempts to dissolve it.
Dr. Darryl Pokea As these thoughts have benefitted your healing process, as your finances permit, you may make a donation towards Dr. Pokea's continued service at the following link:
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