Group dynamics when exploring 

JANU:   Rich, then, is the content of this day’s meeting. Symmetry of thought or perceptions suggests sameness, without controversy, challenge, or awakening to new ideas, new perceptions. Sameness does not produce breakthroughs. Exploration does not satisfy wonder if new frontiers aren’t being probed. Revelation feeds wonder to continue to explore.

Each one’s journey in this direction is to be honored and respected. Sameness is not what life is about. It is about diversity, co-creation, enrichment, the power of diversity and change. Yesterday’s evolvement is not a duplicate of today’s or there has been no change and life is stagnant. And, if it is stagnant, it cannot exist.

So, in your group meetings, explore many directions, open to new understandings or greater depth of current ones. Value and honor each other’s differences, uniqueness. Be true to your own Nature and respect each other’s. Namaste.

Dec. 6, 2019 B                                                                                            Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

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Moving beyond scientific exploration to experiential

JANU: Diagnosis, into the how and why of everything sounds scientific in approach, but there is so much more. The term ‘science’ can be expanded to include so much more. Learning about a thing is not as fulfilling as learning as the thing of interest. So let us reconsider our approach to exploration. No longer just observer, but experiencer. This speaks of the nature and essence of every part of life, including your own being.

So, how does one experience life, beyond the comparatively cold approach of conventional science? How a part of life works is one thing. Experiencing a part of life as it is working is another. So, choose to experience what interests you, but with the authority and wisdom of the True Nature, which takes patience and peaceful allowing.

Responding to experiences, rather than reacting to them, allows revelation or understanding. Wholeness that contains the elements of reality reveals, through experience and direct knowing, the systems of life, large or small, brief or long lasting, stable or changing. Everything is in motion, but not always perceivable. Namaste.
Dec. 3, 2019 B                                                                                              Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

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Did God create humans?

JANU:  Inertia is a dominant force in the quest for understanding. Not being conscious of something does not mean one cannot be. Overcoming inertia opens the consciousness to revelation. As we have said, all is known for life is conscious and more. And each one is part of that life.

Now, each level of consciousness has its parameters of existence and its need for understanding varies with each. But life is evolving, and so are its elements. Change is life in motion and consciousness is in motion. So, to answer the question “Did God create human beings?” The answer is: not the God that humans hold dear and imagine that they know of and understand.* But human beings were created and are still being created, as are other forms of physical life. The evidence of this creation is evident. So the focus here is source of original creation. It begins with energetic patterns, ever the result of co-creative forces that respond to thought.

Even the universe has its original source and comes into being with potential. These patterns of potential manifest according to their nature. So, you see, source is not a sentient being, as humans tend to perceive. But the source manifested this universe and many others. And potentials have imperative to create.

Another process of this includes countless parameters of existence, manifestation, mutual influence, and modifications. The product of coexistence and self-engineering, if you will, based upon experience and inherent wisdom gained. Almost seen as a creative experimentation to realize potential, the outcomes of which humanity is only a part. There are many other wonders of this creative ability and potential.

Exploring and understanding original source of any creation is an experience in consciousness enhanced by awakening to one’s own True Nature. Without this, the portion of consciousness that is incarnate is limited but expandable. Conscious reunion with one’s own Nature is part of the path for the journey of these larger understandings. Be at peace about this and life reveals itself to the inquiry. Namaste.
Dec. 2, 2019                                                                                                  Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

For further exploration of the concept of God presented here, beyond the link provided, please see Lifting human consciousness and What is Deity?  For an even larger view of ‘deity’, try Understanding Deity.

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Can life be defined? 

JANU:   The scope of consciousness is limited only by the scope of perception or identity. Does life itself have limits? Yes and no. Limits within its expressions, but not its potential. For how does one define life, in its fullest reality? Certainly not by dimensions, for there is life beyond these. Even ‘freedom to be’ suggests choices and identities, but life is beyond identity. What does ‘me’ mean?

There are reasons for limitations, no matter the reality, and for perceptions of identity, but there is life larger than these. Being ‘conscious of’ and being ‘conscious as’ is a spectrum of life, but not being limited by either of these does not negate their usefulness and their reality.

How does one ponder an expression of life and not be contained by it? What is life? Namaste.
Nov. 29, 2019                                                                                               Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

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Incentives to embrace the Larger Life

JANU: The bulwark of momentum to embrace the Larger Life consists of fatigue with the old ways of understanding in the presence of failing systems of social structure. Strong incentives are moments of insight, relief, and small gestures of change that uplift.

Even traditional holidays and their symbols and ceremonies are more and more superficial, and the depths of meaning become more and more subtle. So holidays are an opportunity to reexamine these things and explore alternatives. The discernment for such lies once more on the true inner reality of being, rather than the symbols of life and artificial representations of meaning.

Remember the times when joyous celebration was intrinsic to the struggles to survive, the values of family, both personal and community. Humanity can come together once more, but in a much larger way, as they identify with the Larger Life. Namaste.
Nov. 26, 2019                                                                                Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross
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A Christmas message

JANU: Christmas, then, speaks of celebration of life, not just the one it is named for but for everyone. For each one in their own right is the true spark of life, the Light in the darkness, the creators of the future. The tradition older than the holiday, you see. “What is the larger purpose of the holiday?” you may ask. It is the coming together to reaffirm cherished ideals, qualities of the True Nature, and not just for the people but for all of life, all the creatures, all of the life expressions.

The message of the Christed one was not to separate himself, in the minds of the people, from their lowly estate but to awaken them to the Christ in them, which is their heritage and reality. Worship, if you will, the Christ in each other united in the Light of truth. Not just on one day, but always. Namaste.
Nov. 20, 2019                                                                                               Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

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Celebrating life

JANU: Charged is the vitality that brings essence to the surface for expression. What is this magical charge, then, that brings light to the human consciousness, to its understanding?

It is a deep love of life. An occasional rejuvenated sense of its presence and your oneness with it. A sense of home, always returning to its peace, to its naturalness, to its illumination, its wisdom and its love. At last, a way of life, a way of living that can be trusted and lived without fear. Always nurturing and revealing the true nature of existence. Never withheld, always available. Rich beyond imagination. A common ground with others.

Celebrate life as you may. Let your example inspire another. Let them know they are worthy of freedom from ignorance and that their life is larger than what they are aware of. Namaste.
Nov. 26, 2019 B                                                                    Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

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The symphony of life

JANU:   Progression along the line of consciousness enhancement belongs to the domain of the synchronicity of consciousness with the larger realities of life. These emerge like a symphony: many instruments, unique in sound and nature, coexisting and creating to the larger consciousness a symphony of collaboration, coordination, harmony. The Larger Life can be approached with this understanding, as a living symbol, if you will, of infinite relationships.

The flow of life is a symphony of all of the elements of existence, in all realities. Each person, each being, is a symphony in this way. Consciousness raising moves in this direction of the appreciation of the wholeness of being, of the True Nature. Let there be, then, on this journey of awakening, an appreciation that is deepening of the symphony of life, what it represents, and your own Nature. This includes everything and everyone.

For some, experiencing music touches on this reality and is in harmony with it; thus, the upliftment, the peace, the nourishment, if you will, of inner harmony. Others approach this differently. But the desire and the results are similar. Namaste.
Nov. 19, 2019                                                                                               Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

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A Thanksgiving message

JANU:   Seasonally speaking, the requests for enlightenment exist more often at these times for there are many who wish enlightenment for humanity, thinking that a time of thanksgiving is a reminder of what to be thankful for.

Life promises abundance, but only when open to it. And this is what gratitude is for, energetically. Gratitude attracts abundance, for life responds to opportunities to enrich itself. Life invests in all of its creations, and prospers when these creations flourish. Co-create and express life’s potential. So find peace in the promise of life that it will continue, evolve, and cherish its creations. Namaste.
Nov. 28, 2019                                                                                Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

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Love making

JANU:  That is correct. The theme is ‘making love’ but in a much more cosmic sense. The question arises: What is the nature of love?

Love is intimacy. It is connection. It is blessing. It is continuation. It is oneness. Making love with first life itself, your True Nature, then with others whether human or not—with the Earth, with the creatures of the Earth. Intimate blessing, intimate caring, infinite support, upliftment, patience, and endurance that they all thrive, realize their potential, and help enrich their lives and each other’s.

Elements of this are understanding, awakening, patience and compassion, giving and, yes, receiving, bringing balance. A ‘love making’ consciousness is a bond with Life. Together we are strong and we are your friend. Namaste.
Nov. 7, 2019                                                                                  Copyright © 2019 by Joshua Ross

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