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Perception

This man was sitting on the side of the road, on a calm spring morning. Stupefied he looked to the passers-by, many walked around. Men in suites, women in dresses and people walking their dogs. He kept searching for something, deep in his cart of only he knows just what. For a bit almost frantic, at other moments perplexed. What was wrong, what was the matter? I couldn’t help but say to myself as the people walked on by never giving him a second look.

To many I am sure he appeared crazy, why would anyone choose to live this way? Some may think he is irrelevant, a burden on society, but all I see is a man. Lost, in need of a simple human touch, a kind word some recognition that he is still valuable. So I walked up to him.

Sarasota is a unique place in the world. People come here from all around, we have theater, we have art, we have culture, extravagance and a 98% saturated rental market with the highest per-capita homeless population in the country. The homeless have been herded by the wealthy in the community and swept under the carpet in an area of town where there is spartan many empty lots and little development and an abundance of condemned homes. Many of which are havens for the homeless.

Just on the other side of this man are 3 condemned buildings which the city is demolishing this week. So I go up to him and I say:

“Sir, excuse me, do you need anything, can I help you?” at first he did not recognize that he was being spoken to. His leathery skin peering up from below cap and hoodie. Bearded and distant was his face as he finally realized I was speaking to him. Shaking he said to me… “I will be on my way in a minute.” As if to say I was rushing him off.

So I assured him I was not there to usher him off and out of my way… I asked him what he was looking for. “Safety pins, they fell out of my cart, a man gave it to me yesterday, I didn’t steal it…” He looked agitated. Frantic, almost fearful.

I reached out my arm and touched him on the shoulder and looked in his eyes and said. “That’s okay, I’m here to help. Do you need your cart fixed?”

“Nooo… it’s okay you don’t have to trouble yourself.” So I watched for a moment as he attempted to hold his cart together with these tiny safety pins, barely large enough to hold a piece of paper to a woman’s blouse. So I said to him: “Wait a moment I’ll be right back. So I hobbled off with my cane and took off to the garage.

When I came back he was frantically packing up and rushing off, fearful I was going to call the police. I caught up with him and handed him everything he needed to fix his cart. Exactly the right amount of washers and cotter-pins he needed, the exact amount of them I had in my jar of spare screws and bolts.

I handed him the parts and asked if he needed some help putting them in, he was frail and shaking when he said. “Thank you sir.”

To which I replied, “That’s alright but my name is Mark. Nice to meet you sir.”

I saw him today walking his cart by my street, smiling with a pep in his step.

So you see, sometimes when you are lost all you need is a leg up, not a hand out.

Consciousness-Continuity-of-Life How does one put into context such an abstract concept as the continuity of life?

What does this mean? The universe, creation whatever you want to call it is by our own admission beyond the ability for our earthly minds to grasp. So we deem it eternal, infinite, everlasting. We call the unknown, out of fear, heaven or hell and put a value on a concept we do not have words to truly express. This concept of the continuity of life is simply an expression to put into terms the nature of human existence. Life does in fact continue after the transition called death. And from our very beginnings on the road to consciousness we attempted to find proof of it.

Spirit communication, mediumship, near death experiences, past life regression, modern science, quantum mechanics, and yes… religion, are all describing the same phenomenon. That the consciousness of an individual survives the transition called death. The very nature of this expression of the divine has been debated for centuries. Even Plato and the ancients debated the depths of this most basic trait we all share called consciousness. It is what separates us from the rest of the animals on this planet. And since we achieved this distinction we have been on a long quest to understand why.

We are the who, we see the what, we keep track of the when, and we are perpetually bound to the where, but it is the why that drives us. Why do we see things that our rational minds ascertain are not there? Why has there, in recent times, become such a huge surge in paranormal interest, in metaphysical understanding, and in experiences where we are being shown that there is life beyond the grave. Why?

Why indeed?

More to come, I will continue to post my thoughts on this concept… check back often!

It’s amazing to see today how much of what I imagined the future would look like has come to pass. As an example of just how manifesting works, I see in today what I imagined would happen in the world when I realized that spirits walk among us. I imagined when I was young that all of the “evils” of the world were just misunderstandings.

Misconceptions that people would have for themselves in understanding the concept of death. This idea has come into question for many lately. People are questioning the very idea of death.

I see what people once thought were demons and such are being understood now. In that I have always seen them hanging around, popping in here and there throughout my life it is interesting to see the manifestation of understanding happening all around me. Mainstream media is for the first time embracing the continuity of life. People are now starting to understand that the transition called death is nothing to be feared.

I always imagined a world where people would not be afraid of death. And now I see that idea being diminished around the world. People are coming together and sharing experiences with out the fear of ridicule. The days of the witch trials are over and long forgotten. Society at large is embracing the truth of our existence.

There have been mediums in recent times that have proven the continuity of life through various souls that have come forward to share their wisdom concerning the here after. Mediums and psychics such as: Edgar Cayce, Abraham Hicks, Tony Winninger, John Edwards, James VanPraagh and Richard Schoeller all coming forth with messages proving the continuation through evidential mediumship.

So when I look back and see how what I have known to be my own truth coming to light in what many perceive as mankind’s darkest hour, it brings with it a message of hope. The understanding of the continuity of life shows us that all our pettiness, all our greed, hatred, and most of all our fears are unjustifiable… un-real… false.

Man has always feared death, man has always looked to the future with the prophetic belief that all that is good will one day pass. It is simply a date of a paradigm shift in consciousness. An ending to one way of thinking and an opening or an awakening to a new one. As an example of how something like this is misinterpreted look at the tarot card of Death. To the person receiving a reading they often see it as bad because of the imagery and the word, but in all reality the medium or psychic performing the reading understands the card as meaning simply… change. Part of this paradigm shift is the acceptance of our own immortality and divinity. That what we choose to be our reality is what becomes. We are the architects of our future, we co-create alongside with the creative source itself and there is nothing to fear.

In remembrance for a man who changed the world.

Mr. Steve Jobs.
February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011

From his 2005 Commencement speech at Stanford

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”