Spiritual moments (2019)

Being

• Fingers crossed in Awareness
• Jo Dispensa meditation
• Oneness blessings and workshop
• Music daily
• Mantra each day

Wisdom

• 3 pillars: Spacious, aware, surrendered

Gratitude

• A sense of intense gratitude for life arising during my daily gratitude prayer.
• "Thank you Life for awareness, spaciousness, surrender."
• Thank you for awareness, spaciousness, surrender

Love

• An intense spasmic feeling of love, bliss and peace that I felt as a heart orgasm on one of my nightly walks at the park.
• Wishing Leon well and feeling love during my session with Marion. Leon used to emotionally bully me at school.

Surrender

• Praying "Your will Life" and feeling it so strongly.
• Meeting Aimee at The Botanica. She said some souls are happy to be below the radar, be of service, be a vehicle. Be the valley and not stand out.  I felt so strongly that yes, that is what I'm here for.

Dad's visit to Aimee

• I met Aimee at The Botanica and she said that my dad (who passed away in 1995) visited her the night before. She said Dad was anxious but then relaxed. He said he loved me, was proud of you and the work I was doing on Wisdom Trove. He said he now understood what life is about, and said that heaven (the between lives realm) is amazing. Normally I would have been a bit sceptical of Aimee's experience of my dad but after experiencing the intuitive wonders of Marion, I was open to it. I cried and felt love for dad. Since, then I think of him often and have had a sense of great gratitude that he visited Aimee. I later heard from Aimee's mum that she heard someone climbing the stairs to Aimee's room and she wondered who it could be.

Chills to music

• Very intense leg chills while listening to music or having profound thoughts.

Priceless moments (2019)

Editing

• Botanica working, especially Aimee’s book

Wisdom Trove

• Wisdom Trove vision slide-deck
• Session with Tanya
• Tania Sappho book store

Nature

• Devil's Pool in Zambia
• Chobe National Park on the boat
• Elephant's Eye hike

Outings

• Sydney CBD with Meet Up
• Contemporary Art Museum

Slideshow

• Sue slideshow for funeral

Movies

Non fiction books read (2019)

Consciousness

• One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters (Larry Dossey)

Idealism

• The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (Donald D. Hoffman)

Nature of the self

• Why Buddhism is true (Robert Wright)
• The Ego Trick (Julian Baggini)

Physics and spirituality

• The Tao of Physics (Fritjof Capra)
• You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters (Deepak Chopra, Menas Kafatos)
• Reality Unveiled: The Hidden Keys of Existence That Will Transform Your Life (and the World) (Ziad Masri)

Evidence for God

• A Quantum Case For God (Dennis Zetting, Randi Zetting)

• The Case for God: What religion really means (Karen Armstrong)

• The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist fundamentalism and the denial of the divine (Alister McGrath)
• Why There Almost Certainly Is a God: Doubting Dawkins (Keith Ward)

God and physics

• God and the New Physics  (Paul Davies)
• The God Franchise: A Theory of Everything (Alan H. Dawe)
• The Physics of God: Unifying Quantum Physics, Consciousness, M-Theory, Heaven, Neuroscience and Transcendence (Selbie Joseph)
  
  

Advaita Vendanta

• Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment (Scott Kiloby)
• Vedanta: A Simple Introduction (Pravrajika Vrajaprana)
• Why God Permits Evil and How to Rise Above It (Paramahansa Yogananda)

Course in Miracles

• A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (Marianne Williamson)
  
  

Creativity & Wisdom

• 100-WHATS of CREATIVITY: One-hundred "What-if?" questions to spark your creativity, unmuck your mind, and break through your mental blocks. (Don The Idea Guy Snyder)
• The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead (Warren Berger)
• The Best Advice in Six Words: Writers Famous and Obscure on Love, Sex, Money, Friendship, Family, Work, and Much More (Six-word Memoir) (Larry Smith)

Habits

• Atomic Habits:  (James Clear)

Spiritual Moments (2018)

High

• Spiritual high (consciousness primary, it’s all God)
• Milson’s Point: It’s all God, Godding
• Working on Life is God's experience.

More

• Reading about consciousness (inner experience)
• Handel Messiah on Sony Headphones
• Rupert Spira books and Youtube
• Flight music, love and insight.

Mystical experience: There is nothing but God. It's all God, Godding.

I was driving past Milson's Point train station in Sydney, quite close to home.  There were a number of people walking along the side-walk. I saw them and felt love. A powerful and sudden gnosis (an indisputable intuitive knowing beyond words) arose in me that each person was God. Each person was God having a human experience. God was looking out into the world through each person's eyes.  Everyone was God.  Everything was God. There was nothing but God. There was nothing but God Godding.

This mystical state and knowing lasted for several days.  There was an immense sense of oneness, connectedness, wonder, peace, love and euphoria.  Also, my mind felt it was more connected to universal intelligence than usual.  There were a series of deep insights and revelations.  There was deep mental clarity. 

In the midst of this, I met up with Aimee at The Botanica. There was a beautiful sharing of insights. At times, as I shared, I felt such love and wonder that tears streamed from my eyes.

I went to 5 Rhythms Dancing. Deep insights kept arising and I kept going off to write them down on my phone.

In the days following this experience, I felt inspired to write essays entitled "Life is God's experience" and "Why would God choose to experience objective experience?"  The words just flowed through me.  

I also started collecting quotes on the topic "Life is God's experience" for Wisdom Trove. This reached its climax in Mauritius.

Synchronicity: "It's like a movie, right?"

I was walking to the post office in North Sydney.  As I walked down the Princes Highway, my mind turned to my favourite metaphor; "Life is God's movie." I had some beautiful thoughts about how relevant this metaphor is and how life feels just like a movie."

As I neared the post office, a man and a woman walked past me.  At the very moment they passed me, I heard the guys saying "It's like a movie, right?"   There is absolutely no way I imagined this.   I heard it so very clearly. 

A sense of wonder at the synchronicity arose in me.  Life felt dream-like and pregnant with meaning.

Priceless moments (2018)

Creating on a spiritual high

• Writing Life is God's experience and Life is God's movie

Connect

• First Eckhart night. Beautiful home.
• Spacious clarity with Aimee
• Talks with Aimee

Wisdom Trove

• Aimee feedback on Wisdom Trove home page (large owl)

Meds

• Down to 2.5 pills - feeling great
• Day 5 and 6 of no pills - energy back

Movies

Insights (2018)

12 focus areas of my life strategy

• Aware, Surrendered, Spacious
• Connection, Wisdom, Wonder
• Exercise, Diet, Rest
• Vision, Strategy, Process

More

• Consciousness is inner experience. Consciousness is the ultimate mystery.
• World of perception, not matter
• Purpose, Vision, Values (Inner verse Outer purpose)

Non fiction books read (2018)

God experiencing through us

• The God Theory  (Bernard Haisch)
• The Purpose Guided Universe (Bernard Haisch)

Idealism

• Beyond Biocentrism (Robert Lanza)

Science and the universe

• The Science Delusion (Rupert Sheldrake)

Evidence for God

• God's Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe (J. Warner Wallace)

Experiencing God

• How To Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries (Deepak Chopra)

Advaita Vedanta

• The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter (Rupert Spira)
• Being Aware of Being Aware (Rupert Spira)
• Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness (Rupert Spira)
• The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience (Rupert Spira)
• Collision with the Intimate (Suzanne Segal)
• Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu A Translation: An Ancient Philosophy For The Modern World (Dennis Waller, Martin Ash)
• The Upanishads  (Eknath Easwaran)

David Hawkins

• Dissolving the Ego (David R. Hawkins)
• Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality (David R. Hawkins)
• Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment (David R. Hawkins)

Mysticism

• The Wisdom of the Christian Mystics (Tim Freke)

Thank you poem

A beautiful poem Aimee wrote to say thank you for helping her with her site.

Mangrove Mountain for new year

Highlights

• Swims in the river till discovering the chance of bull-sharks
• Coffee smuggled in by Sharon
• Dancing
• Khirtan

Priceless moments (2017)

 

Connect

• Aimee site
• Martin & Kate

Home

• Internet working at 100mbs (thank you Martin!)

Wisdom Trove

• Design (template and owls)

Cambodia

• Cambodia island: Reading and summarising "I Am That"
• The lost city in the jungle
• Doing my photos in the restaurant

Movies

Spiritual Moments (2017)

Spiritual moments

• Expanded perception at airport.
• Blessing (especially after judgement)  Bless Sharmista.
• La la Land genius.  Joy and sorrow
• Sense of being in the now between two infinite gulfs. What chances?
• Deep presence lasting all walk.
• Changing images on the wall in bed.
• Abstract documentary. Platon. Architect.
• Ants. Spiders. Love.
• Spiritual high ("work of art” with Aimee)
• Dad release after dancing
• World Atlas in Blue Mountains
• Feeling awful at S21 prison in Cambodia, then saying Ho'oponopono prayer bringing release.

Aimee connection

• Conversations with Aimee in car.
• Aimee shared movie experience, then on my balcony

Being

• Mindful walks increasingly mindful
• Mindful swim at drumming
• Walk early morning Warrenbungles, kangaroos 

Wisdom

• I Am That  (Reading and summarising in Cambodie)
• The Surrender Experiment
• The Untethered Soul

Love

• Massive love release (after universe series)
• Looking into girl’s eyes at dancing, feeling love. 
• Deva Premal love - flute, looking into Jane’s eyes
• Spider and web - watch spin
• Bless mum. May she have a long, happy, healthy life.
• Bless all in IKEA dining room. Great love and oneness.
• All is well my baby.
• Tremendous self love, self tenderness. Self embracing. 

Synchronicity

• Rain stops
• Lydia tells me re Jeff Foster (movies, self acceptance)
• Light on wall
• Got to 607x bus just as came
• Consciousness in book on train
• Train after Nic not 30 mins. Only 2
• God is behind me (behind back.). Near death experience "Do not turn around.")
• In your hands life: iPhone charger in Bowral.

Insights

• Atoms and space. And Awareness.
• Complete surrender to life beyond mind.
• Complete embrace of self as I am. A human experience.
• Open up around pain. Relax heart and shoulders. Don't close.
• Relish pain coming up as opp to let go of stored pain. 
• Consciousness = inner experience = the ultimate mystery (Rupert Spira, Sam Harris etc.)
• Spacious. Aware. Surrendered.
• Voices.  Sergeant Rushmore etc.

Insights (2017)

•  Did not rush into telling Srini to leave
• Rush to tell Sharon re Yogi without planning it
• Did not rush into threat with Sharmista.  Sent her blessings.
• Mal Plumber under immense pressure - took personally. 
• Interplay of Essence and Substance
• Make decisions using Consciousness ladder
• Surrender - no agency, nothing personal

Non fiction books read (2017)

Idealism

• Biocentrism (Robert Lanza)

Science and the universe

• The Holographic Universe (Michael Talbot)
• From Science to God (Peter Russell)
• The Self-Aware Universe (Amit Goswami)

Waking up

• Deep Awake: Wake Up To Oneness and Become a Lover of Life (Tim Freke)
• How Long is Now?: How to be Spiritually Awake in the Real World (Tim Freke)
• Lucid Living: Experience Your Life Like a Lucid Dream (Tim Freke)
• Soul Story: Evolution and The Purpose of Life (Tim Freke)
• Waking Up (Sam Harris)
• Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make them Permanent (Steve Taylor)

Free will

• Free Will (Sam Harris)

The power of awareness 

• The Untethered Soul ((Michael A. Singer)
• The Surrender Experiment (Michael A. Singer)
• Here Now (Ram Das)

Advaita Vedanta

• I Am That (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
• Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became (Mooji)

Technology (and consciousness)

• Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)