THERE FOR ME? The veils of resisted grief were evident upon his face. “I learned that people are not there for me.” How revelatory those nine words. How packed with programming and imprinting and pain. Oh, me too my friend. Me too. I have learned from multiple examples in my own experience is that it isn’t so much people aren’t there for me. People are just frequently not there. In a culture as pain aversive as is ours it is not surprising to me that others often don’t show up when I am experiencing pain or turmoil. Most people in our world will do almost anything to avoid their own pain. We have become masterful at denial, deadening, and suppression. I personally believe this has far reaching

I AM GLAD YOU ASKED Tweet: The power of personal commentary to obscure what actually is astounds me! Commentary can shroud what is real, true, beautiful. It leads me to do battle with what is. Am I truly seeing life as it is, or only what I am making it mean? Empowering question for this day. Response: How do you stop the commentary? I am glad you asked. The above is one of my Tweets from this past week, and a question that was posed by a reader. The exchange not only inspired me to answer the question from my perspective, but also gave me an idea for an extension to this blog. I AM GLAD YOU ASKED. What feels truer for me with every passing day

CHOOSING CHOICE “It’s a choice.” “You chose that.” “Life is an out-picturing of your choices.” Is it? I so often hear people comment on the circumstances and challenges of others with some rhetorical version of the above. It most often sounds and feels dismissive. While at a level I would agree that our life experiences are indeed a reflection of our choices it is not as tidy as the surface mind would have it be. Over ninety percent of consciousness is in actuality unconscious. That is a staggering number. Which means ninety percent of our choices are being made from an unconscious level. That number decreases as we begin to spiritually awaken. And the truth of the matter is that all of us are living with the

THE ART OF SOULFUL CO-CREATION DAY 3 So I previously posted and sent Days 1 and 2 of my 40 Daily Reminders from THE ART OF SOULFUL CO-CREATION. Here to celebrate this summer solstice is Day 3. You can review if you choose the previous days on my web-site taylorestevens.com Or just read and savor this one. Or skip altogether. I give unattached to what happens with the gift. Co-create a wonder-filled summer! As embodied beings in this realm of physicality, we experience space in relation to what it seems to contain. The mind thinks of space as “something.” In actuality, space is no-thing. This is no mere concept. In the Universal Essence, which is the Source Is-ness of creation, space could not be measured based on

THE ART OF SOULFUL CO-CREATION DAY TWO Day Two of my compilation. If it rings, read and enjoy. If not, bless you. The Universal Essence of OHM is the Source of all sentient beings and of everything that is. It is in Essence a common frequency that then differentiates via an informational matrix. Everything in form is energy that is quite literally in-formed. It is all energy in the Field of One, vibrating at particular frequencies, which then manifest as experiences and objects. To speak of Oneness is to refer to this Universal Essential frequency, pre-conditioned in Its Is-ness. To know Oneness is to go beneath the level of form to that which is formless, that which is unconditioned. This cannot be seen by the eyes or

SOULFUL CO-CREATION DAY ONE I wrote a series of 40 Daily Reminders some years back that I have yet to publish beyond a workbook version for a class I taught at the church. The book is called THE ART OF SOULFUL CO-CREATION. For some reason I felt compelled to share the first installment with you today. Maybe it will nudge me forward to publishing the finished volume. In the meanwhile: enjoy. There is a Universal Essence that precedes and yet permeates everything that is, has ever been, and will ever be. It is a pre-conditioned Is-ness that is imperceptible to the intellectual mind, yet gives way to all thinking and to all thought. It is experientially a vibration, a frequency that is beyond description, and yet unmistakable

MAYBE TONIGHT? I have been triply blessed in my life to have had a wonderful father, step-father, and father-in-law. Only my step-father remains on the planet, but the relationship with all three is vital, evolving, and very much alive. My relationship with my father was complicated in many ways, partly because he developed early onset dementia when I was still quite young. He didn’t know who I was by the time I was fifteen. As heart-rending as that was I know it was a necessary part of my human evolution. I know it was part of a bigger picture. I have had numerous opportunities in my life to find resolution with that pain. Two of those opportunities have included my relationships with my step-father and with my

THE HOURGLASS My grandmother used to say that she had an hourglass figure, but that most of the sand had run to the bottom. I so relate. That does not refer to my physicality. It refers to my incarnation. Having recently added another digit to my age I am keenly aware that I have lived far more years than I will continue to live. I know many people for whom that notion induces stress and even dread. Not for me. I feel it as an opportunity. As a wake-up call. As a chance to come off auto-pilot and direct my remaining sand in conscious, creative, and contributing ways. I want to spend my remaining time on this planet leaving it better for my having been here. Maybe

LOVABILITY My parents worked so very hard to make me lovable that I didn’t know I was. I do not fault for them for that. They wanted to be sure I fit into the world. That I was accepted and acceptable. How could they have known that I would grow into an adult for whom fitting in was not a goal? That being accepted by a world that was governed by values contrary to mine was not a priority? My life path has been about learning that I am lovable as is, even though I frequently make mistakes that are a result of loveless perception. The efforts to be acceptable and lovable are rooted in the false belief that we are not already that. Those efforts result