JANU: Focused or one-pointedness in perception is useful when exploring the depths of a reality, but can be limiting when not taking into full account co-existing relationships. The same goes for social relationships or other general explorations. Even when it comes to one’s own thoughts and perceptions, for the object of a perception never stands still. Engaging life in this manner supports and encourages general wisdom. Being adept at one thing or another coexists with broad interest and engagement. The purpose of this perspective is to engage the entire being in living and in serving Life and minimizes the limitations of identity. Exploring the human need for identity can reveal its limitations. Choosing to be liberated from this is an expansion in consciousness and experience and beingness. We shall explore this from time to time and measure it. Namaste.
Aug. 31, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
Category: Miscellaneous Journeys
Commitment and flexibility
JANU: ‘Once and for all’ speaks of determination and unbending commitment. But potential and Life are broader than this. They blend so-called absolute commitment with flexibility, change, variation, reality with many faces, with such diversity there seems to be no direction. Yet, in the larger Truth of Life, all of these elements of embrace build experience, wisdom, reappraisal. A complexity of life with many themes. Diversity in commitment and engagement keeps life from becoming routine and boring. Your True Nature knows this, and allows this. This flexibility and diversity of interest, constantly changing, brings a richness that one-pointedness misses. Understanding the life path of others comes from diversity of interest, brings tolerance and patience through understanding that relates. This flexibility of life engagement, from time to time, allows for change that is needed to bring wisdom to life through varied experience. Your True Nature is rich in this way. Namaste.
Aug. 19, 2020 B Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
Why do we exist?
JANU: A valid question. Why be incarnate at all? Purpose, potential, service, evolution, consciousness, kindness, inspiration. All of these, and more, are part of incarnate life. Each with their roots in the Larger Life, as are everyone. The challenge of the veil is to encourage the building of a foundation for the quest of a larger experience and understanding. Without being aware of it, the gains in these areas, through living the incarnate life, benefit the Larger Life as well. Fundamental qualities of existence coexist and inspire each other through the revelation of mutual benefit.
Valid questions for everyone: “Why am I here? Where did I come from? And how does it all interact?” The mix is not the same for everyone, but everyone enriches life. The interactions with each other while incarnate are co-creative experiences, creating life patterns that coexist as well, that interact as well.
Other inquiries are: Who is doing all of this? What is true identity? How do individuality and coexistence relate? Is all of this possible peacefully? What is the source of the incentive to continue? Are we ever truly alone? Is there really a Family of Life?
Everyone has access to these understandings if they desire them. Let it be so. Namaste.
July 21, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
Inclusive identity
JANU: Salient points to be made regarding awakening. To be fully conscious while incarnate, balanced perspective, some might call sanity, is maintained by a deep sense that the two sides of life—incarnate and spirit—are an illusion as sides. They are one. Each with their parameters of existence, their potential, as with other realities that coexist in life.
Achieving this consciousness is gradual process, for living behind the veil creates life patterns of limitation and separation in identities that define experiences as separate things. When one looks back upon the history of experiences, one realizes that all of these have influenced current sense of identity, traits, character, preferences, perceptions, perspectives, identities. They all become one in the collective experience.
So the challenge and opportunity here, our brother, is to embrace the realities of life coexisting, including the elements of your own Nature. Teamwork, systems, coexistences, correlations, coordinations, organization of change, flow, realization of potential, all of these coexist as one. Your identity, if you call it that, includes all of these, and more. So, how can you be part of the ocean of Life and no longer be ocean? It is not possible, only by illusion, misperception, limitations of the veil. Let go of any sense of parameters of existence as a limitation or an identity. Be inclusive. Namaste.
July 13, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
The eternal quest
JANU: Rich indeed are these moments we share, bringing about that which belongs to the timeless tradition of conscious life. The consciousness we seek is a reality called life by those who know of it more than living as it. Any creation with consciousness is a product of life as a source and these terms are limited to incarnate perspective of identity with manifestations. But the life we speak of is far greater, yet includes these.
What is consciousness, then? Some would say being aware of reality. What is it that is aware? Can a creation know its creator? In varying degrees, depending upon the consciousness present, it can. The incarnate consciousness seeking after the truth of the Larger Life is not unlike the super-consciousness exploring greater things, realizing potential, and identifying with all of life.
So you ask, “What is enough? What is the purpose? What does it lead to? Where does minutia play a role in this scheme of life? And what is more significant?” These questions arise on the path of awakening, and awakening is not completed with the penetration of the veil. These questions will continue to arise through different levels of understanding and experience.
Living the Larger Life is endlessly rewarding. On the one hand, satisfying. And on the other, perplexing with more unanswered wonderings. Being at peace on this quest is more significant than one might imagine. Welcome to the journey we are all a part of. Namaste.
July 9, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
Experience life beyond words
JANU: We are encouraging this pursuit of happiness. The Archangels should be considered when appreciating life and the systems of life, for they are such. One of many. So, you see, peace reality is not limited to the individual experience, but collectively as well.
There are many systems of life far ranging and coexisting. These excursions into incarnate life have many forms. One being the birthing, the veil, the human journey. But this is only one. Many come and go, without this. Needless to say, with a different experience. Their parameters of existence are different, but they are there.
An interesting challenge, to recondition the incarnate mind to touch other realities. These journeys into the Larger Life continue, whether incarnate or not. Our communication is conditioned by the human connection. Using words of one language is quite limited, but this is the mind’s conditioning at the time. So much seems just out of reach, but the conditioning limits the reach, you see. So these brief introductions of perspectives are part of the re-conditioning.
Be conscious without words. Just decide to know. Experience life. Be one with it. See beyond the words. Namaste.
June 12, 2020 B Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
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A larger reality of being
JANU: We are ready to proceed with the organization of consciousness to include the many elements or systems of being and the so-called structure of Life that includes all the dimensions, all realities. What we reach for here is an understanding and experience of the coordination of all of the elements of Life, all realities, including the reality of consciousness.
Consciousness is the great connector. Where the attention is, so is the connection, and the communication, and the coordination, and the realization. The unenlightened limitations of the human experience no longer dominate. Reality without limitation made possible by integration and coordination, intimate relationship of all realities. The human ego consciousness is not accustomed to, based upon societal experience, limitlessness. But part of the Nature is. So, awakening, you see, includes transforming human consciousness into a larger reality. This means letting go of the confines of human identity.
The Larger Life refers to your own as well. Allow your consciousness to experience expansion, inclusiveness, knowing, creativity, peace. True Nature is a useful expression. The human experience or journey is only part of this. Namaste.
June 11, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
Living blissfully
JANU: Wholly without rest is the pursuance of integrity, consciousness, desire to know, creativity, peace, engagement through service and enrichment, understanding the nature of Life itself, its motivation to continue and evolve, the evolution of its potential, the coexistence of countless realities, the freedom to be. Rest does not mean the absence of any of this, but the harmonious existence and relationship of it all, even though always in motion, changing, re-creating. Even in restful sleep of the body, all systems are rejuvenating, realigning, rebalancing, renewing.
Peace and rest are active elements of life and exist always. Even during the waking hours, peace and rest coexist with the systems of life. Some call this ‘bliss.’ Living blissfully is profitable. Attune to, align with, blissful peaceful existence within the systems of your being, alert and conscious, gaining wisdom through experience and insight. Namaste.
June 5, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
We are life systems
JANU: Exploring systems, then, may we suggest that one see oneself as a system of life, the human experience and consciousness being only part of a larger system. “So, how large is that system?” you ask. By this, you mean: “How much does it include? What are the elements of the system?” A few are known to the human consciousness. Some of the physical, a very few of the energetic, a little of the spiritual, and not much of the overall consciousness and its range, its depth. Our journeys have skirted around the issue, but the human consciousness longs for more; therefore, the need for a systems approach to research and exploring life.
The human body has a pulse, a circulatory system. In its own way, the spirit does as well. It’s in harmony with the larger pulse of life. Definite inbreath and outbreath corresponding to the respiratory system. The larger system has sensory capability, as does the physical. Desire, joy, peace, a sense of balance or equilibrium, also knowingness. Glimpses of this larger knowingness come in the form of insights, direct knowing. Some say they only go by the facts, but what are the methods, the paths to become conscious of all of the facts?
The spiritual life has similarities to the human experience, incarnate consciousness, but not as limited. When one is conscious beyond time/space, perspective changes. Relationships have potential, outcomes, movement, flow and change, memory, recognition, and mutual support. Goal orientation but not regulated by a clock or a calendar or finances. Yet there is an economy of energy and productivity, through sharing of knowledge, combined explorations. And there is love, with countless expressions.
And, yes, there is music, harmonies, rhythms, enduring patterns, a Symphony of Life. Music is not limited to incarnate life. Creativity is universal.
Life is rich, no matter its reality of expression. Awakening reveals this, even while incarnate. Life is a living system that includes so much more than physicality. Systemic understanding and experience touches everything. Namaste.
June 4, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
Happiness and co-creation
JANU: Happiness. What does it mean? What is its source? What is its endurance? What is its origin? How does it communicate? Happiness is not only contentment with what is achieved, but confidence in what can be achieved. Continued happiness, without change, breeds complacency and boredom. So even happiness, you see, has evolutionary change. So choosing to be happy is a co-creative reality, as is complacency and boredom, dismay, discouragement, endless repetition.
So if choosing to be happy is a reality and has existence, what is its nature? Is it more than the human condition? Is it founded in the structure of life? Or is it only a creation of desire and consciousness? What does it serve? And why does it seem temporary and only circumstantially available? It is a function of co-creative choice and the freedom to be. Any relationship with life, under any condition of consciousness, any state of being, and it is by choice.
So, when surveying your existence, your experiences, your circumstance, you choose happiness or wait for it. Enlightenment can be seen the same way. It is a co-creative choice, with its own reward. Mis-emotions fall into this category, you see. Freedom is powerful in the sense of the exercise of co-creation. Co-creation without disadvantaging others or manipulation or interference, but being part of the circumstance of their happiness, their freedom, brings a joy and a contentment. Namaste.
May 28, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by Joshua Ross
This is an expansion of the concept of happiness presented earlier in Happiness: allowed not created, and Awakening: Happiness, among others.