Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and Spiritual Awakening for Success in Business, Art, and Life

The Visionary’s Insight sees beyond the Matrix.  And when we develop a Visionary’s Insight, we have consciousness, self-awareness, and a true spiritual awakening for success in business, art, and life.  When the knowledge of who you really are is incorporated in your consciousness, you become aware of your true and authentic self which is a real spiritual awakening.  To be awake, to walk the path of enlightenment,  and be conscious of who you really assures your success in business, art, and life.  You cannot fail.

Life, art, and business requires that you be awake in order for you to manifest what you truly desire rather than furthering someone else’s agenda.  Life is the process of being and becoming.  Art is man’s ability to demonstrate that something can come from “no-thing-ness” while business and entrepreneurship is about expansion of ideas, resources, and concepts which spreads wealth and prosperity. 

This holographic time-space-reality network is filled with programs and systems we’ve created ourselves and in the worst case scenarios we have forgotten this.  We have forgotten what we agreed to “create” while we are here.  We have forgotten that we are not stuck.  We have the ability and creative power to get ourselves out of any program or system that is no longer working for us and our vision of purpose in life. 

But many among us are afraid to hit the escape key because many of us have come to believe in the programs and system more than we believe in our true and authentic self.  It is Soul liberation when we awake and realize we are not limited to the program or system.  We can create something different. 

What we can create is business that promotes wealth and prosperity for ourselves and others.  We can create avenues of entrepreneurship which allows us to use our gifts and talents while providing apprenticeship opportunities (what we now call jobs) for others to grow in skills to expand their careers or start their own businesses.

Yes we can create art that demonstrates the power and effect of our imagination—art that inspires and reflects the beauty of life.  And there is so much beauty despite the images often shown in the media. 

Most importantly and significantly, we can create the life we want to live.  We can actualize our vision of purpose in life and be the “idea” and example of hope to others who truly desire to do the same. 

It is through consciousness, true self-awareness, and our spiritual awakening that we can express our true nature.  Our true nature is that of abundance and we are infinite creative potential.  When that potential is activated, it becomes creative energy, and when our creative energy is used, it is creative power. 

This infinite power organizes and it is how we are able to create avenues for success in business, art, and life.  All of us have a burning desire to “be” something great and to do something spectacular with our lives.  This is very much a natural desire for all of us. 

It is not always about fame, but remembers friends; it is good to be celebrated for who you really are and for using your gifts and talents to inspire others.  The applause is not for the ego, but for the beauty of life that is expressed through you. 

If we all just took a little time each day to appreciate our own Soul and listen to the voice of our Soul as it speaks to us and reveals who we really are, then we will find that we are increasing in consciousness.  That increase in consciousness produces a powerful self-awareness which allows us to live  and create in harmony and well-being. 

Unlocking the Mystic’s Chest Containing the Link Between Creativity and Psychic Phenomenon

How can a psychic phenomena and creativity be interlinked?  Is there some type of mystical paranormal activity that takes place in the creative process which produces an increased awareness?  It is all possible. 

We are more powerful than we know and our mental and spiritual powers reach beyond the realms of this time-space reality.  In fact, when we allow ourselves to use our authentic mind power, we will discover that our creative potential can reach beyond the confines of linear time.  With this, power we truly understand the “INFINITE” in our infinite creative potential.

Consequently, as we explore the above questions, we must realize that it may very well be a brave venture to ask such questions…I don’t know perhaps an inquisition of sorts.  But one thing is for certain the journey to discovering the power of our creative energy is an adventure we all want to take.  Although we desire to take this journey, we are often stagnated by fear—fear conjured by the illusions of the ego. 

Why are we often overwrought by fear even though we know that the power of our creative energy is essential to us creating the life we want to live?  We are often overwrought by fear because we are acting merely on faith.  Each time in the creation process there is something different realized.  Ask any artist and he or she will tell you.  He or she will tell you that in the creation process you have your intention and purpose, but something magical yet mystical happens.  You see, by allowing the Creative Spirit to move through us, sometimes things become more than you ever imagined or envisioned. 

For example, a good friend of mine who is a painter told me about the image he had in his mind of a woman on shore.  Night after night he would be awakened by this image of this woman on some seashore. 

In his dream the woman was singing a song.  The melody was playing in his head and he couldn’t get the melody out of his head. He’d sketched the woman out a few times, but never really painted her.  He told me, “Something in me knew I was supposed to paint this image I couldn’t shake, but I kept sketching the image.”

Finally, after dreaming about the woman for nearly two weeks, he let go.  “Yeah, I decided to ‘let the Creative Spirit move’ as you always say,” he told me.  He said when he sat down to paint it was somewhat arduous in the beginning because he didn’t really want to do it.  He said he had to calm the voices in his head that were telling him he would fail at what he was doing.  Then, he said, the melody started to play in his head. 

“For a few moments, I put down the paint brush and just closed my eyes.  For some reason when I begin to paint I feel insecure for a moment like I am about to mess something up, he said.  I don’t know why I feel that way.” 

He said, “But after I closed my eyes and heard the music and the melody, I felt the meaning of being a painter. I can’t explain it,” He said. 

“I know what you mean,” I told him.  “You felt like you were creating something beyond yourself that seem to have a life of its own.”  He nodded at my explanation.   

We went on talking about how creating in a state of true self awareness causes you to express yourself so effortlessly.  And now that I think about it, of course it would.  When you create any art form or artistic expression it is a form of true and authentic self-expression; therefore, if you are in state of true self-awareness and hearing from the voice of your soul (which your inner being speaking to you) then you will be able to express yourself effortlessly. 

The condemnation and “voices” discouraging my friend came from the resistance of the ego.  Sometimes as you are about to create your best works of art, the ego can step in and attempt to break the connection between you and Source Energy in an attempt to make you feel uninspired.  We know that when you are inspired—you are “in spirit” or in the Presence.  The ego feels uncomfortable with this connection because this connection robs the ego of its “separate identity from Source Energy or God” which it wants to maintain.

My friend did not allow the ego to overtake his creative flow.  This was the key that unlocked the mystic’s chest in which he discovered the link between creativity and a psychic phenomenon because after he completed the painting, something wonderful happened. 

He completed the painting and left it on an easel in his studio.  His studio was a guest house he had couple hundred yard from his house he had renovated just to have quiet place to work everyday. 

He told me that one day his girlfriend was looking for him and assumed he was in his studio.  “She waited at the house for a while but decided to just pop her head in for a second without disturbing me too much.  She told me saw the painting and she was mesmerized.  She said she heard a song playing in her head and went home immediately,” he said.  “I should tell you my girlfriend is a songwriter and she write her own music.”

About a week later, she had recorded the song in studio with another singer singing the song.  “When I heard the song, I had to tell her.  That’s the song that heard playing in my head when I was painting the lady on shore.  “Carmellita,” he said excitedly.  “It had the same jazzy punch I remembered. How did that happen?”

I told him exactly how it happened.  He embarked on the journey to discovering the key which unlocks the Mystic’s Chest containing the link between creativity and psychic phenomenon.  And at one point in time we have all taken or will take this journey even if we don’t realize it. 

On this adventurous journey, we discover that there is mystery chest which contains the bonding agent between our creativity and a psychic phenomenon.  The adventure begins with finding the key to unlock the mystery chest.  And just what is this key?

The key which unlocks the mystery chest of creativity and this psychic phenomenon is true self-awareness.  When we become aware of our true and authentic self by opening our hearts and minds to the voice of the Soul, then we possess the key which unlocks the mystic chest that contains the bonding agent between our creativity and whatever psychic phenomenon the Universe seeks to express through us. 

This psychic phenomenon is designed to promote inspiration from one person to the next in an attempt to remind us of the divine beings we truly are.  This psychic phenomenon can restore hope, perpetuate inspiration, heal both mentally and physically, spark the emotion of love, and build empowering relationships.  Think about it, have you ever heard a song, danced with someone during that song, and the two of you begin to have romantic feelings for each other.

Have you ever read something that triggered a memory or gave you hope?  These moments of psychic phenomenon are moments of psychic exchange between the artist and his or her audience and these moments should not be undermined. 

It most certainly should not be undermined because once you obtain this key, you have it for life.  You have the key for life; therefore, at any given moment in time when you choose to use your creative energy, it will trigger a psychic phenomenon.

And just how do we obtain this powerful key?  We obtain this powerful key by aligning our will with cosmic order.  What do we mean by aligning our will with cosmic order?  The thing that people fail to realize in the creation process is that our WILL is forming things.  Our WILL has volition.  When we unleash our WILL upon the unformed stuff of the universe (potential not yet defined or utilized) then we have the volition of our WILL to create a thing. 

Creating. Creating.  That’s just what I am about to share with you right now. We have already established that the key which unlocks this mystical chest is true self-awareness, but the interconnection or bonding agent between various psychic phenomenon and creativity is what causes a psychic phenomenon like the one my friend experienced with his girlfriend. 

What he experienced is a higher vibrational frequency caused by allowing the Creative Spirit to move.  By allowing the Creative Spirit (function of the Holy Spirit or Oneness Blessing) to move, you are aligning your WILL with the Cosmic WILL and Cosmic Order.  When you align your WILL with the Cosmic WILL and the natural progression is true self awareness, but then the bonding agent between a psychic phenomena and creativity is at work.  And that connection—that bonding agent is love.

That’s right, when you obtain the key to open the mystical chest what you will find inside is love.  You will find self-love.  You will find love for what you do.  You will find love for your spiritual gifts.  You will find love for others.  You will find unconditional love.

Friends, get the key and open the chest today.

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Carmellita Brown, The Creative Director for Blue Lotus Living invites you to join our new community forum where you can discuss this topic and others.  You can learn more about personal development, spirituality, creativity, the raw food diet and more.

The Law of Attraction Asserts that Positivity Creates Productivity Because Like Attracts Like

It may be difficult to believe that the Law of Attraction asserts that like attracts like.  We have been told for so long that opposites attract.  However, we grasp a clear understanding of principles associated with the Law of Attraction when we look at the correlation between positivity and productivity. 

A positive mental attitude is a productive mental attitude.  You can really see the difference in a person’s life who practices positivity.  You can see the difference positivity makes because you will see many manifestations of productivity. 

So how does positivity and productivity work together?  Positivity and productivity are powerful energy currency which work together to attract and synchronize your steps in right action.  In other words, positivity draws productivity which creates order. 

Sometimes, those of us in the field of metaphysics, personal development, spirituality, and even self-help can haphazardly explain what positivity is and how it relates to productivity and synchronicity.  We explain it as in complicated rhetoric which may convey perfectionism.  Then some may explain it  as having a nice disposition, thinking positively and saying positive affirmations all day. 

However, positivity is much simpler than this but much broader in its cosmic affect in our lives.  Positivity, which draws productivity, is the choice to live your life from higher consciousness and as your true and authentic self.  There is something about living your life with positivity as your true and authentic self that draws wonderful synchronicities and order in your life.  Things just seem to work out for your highest good. 

And just how does this happen?  Can the Law of Attraction explain this magnificent phenomenon?  It may seem like magic, but the law of attraction can most certainly explain how positivity draws productivity and wonderful synchronicities in your life. 

Positivity is manifesting life from your higher consciousness and committing to expanding your awareness of ever-increasing good.  This commitment to expanding your awareness of ever-increasing good emits a vibration which is synonymous with productivity and order.  Productivity and order causes alignment, harmony, and peace.  Synchronicity happens because inspiration flows easily and without resistance where there is harmony, alignment, and peace.

 In other words, positivity makes it easy for good to flow in your life.  And when it is easy for good to flow in your life, you can be more productive at manifesting the life and reality you truly desire to live. 

Negativity is the opposite of positivity.  The Law of Attraction is no respecter of persons; so, if you are operating in negativity, you are not living from your higher consciousness or as your true and authentic self.  When you operate in negativity, you are ego-driven and living your life according to fear, fetters, and illusions.  As a result, you have to fight and struggle for everything you desire and often times; you will find yourself confused about what you truly desire. It is like spending your precious energy and powerful intentions chasing apparitions instead of creating and manifesting your true desires. 

It may all seem more difficult than what it is, but the key is to operating in positivity is spending time in prayer and meditation in order to tap into the field of higher consciousness which is God (Source Energy, The “I AM”, The ALL) in you.  And when we begin to live our lives in the Presence, we find that the inspiration to live life the Blue Lotus Living way…in full bloom.

Until next time, flow in positivity and remember to live well, live wise, live wealthy, and let the Creative Spirit move you. 

Flashbacks on Bulldozing My Way to Success – I Wasn’t Always on the Path of Enlightenment

You know, I wasn’t always on the path of enlightenment.  As a teacher, conscious creative artist, intuitive, and visionary, I know it is important to share insight into my success and failures.  It doesn’t make us any less enlightened to admit that we have had failures in the past. 

Now, on the path of enlightenment, we don’t have failures—we only have opportunities to take inspired action and either we take that inspired action or we don’t.  Before embarking on the path of enlightenment, we didn’t have the Law of Grace on our side to sustain us and direct us through negativity, non-productivity, anger, confusion, fear, and complacency.  In other words, because we are no longer focused on the Ego-trip and now focusing on awareness, the true and authentic self, creativity, and unconditional love, we have the power of Grace working for us. 

With this in mind, let me get back to my flashbacks of faltering.  I remember how competitive I used to get when I wanted something.  Specifically when it had to do with status or anything I felt I had a “right to.”  No, it was not a winner’s continuity I had, that would be deemed a positive thing.  Instead, it was more like a bulldozer or pitbull’s continuity. 

During those unenlightened days, I would literally “run your ass over,” if you stood between me and something I wanted.  And to be honest, I would do it with a smile.  It was not a good way to live and ultimately whatever “I got”, I was bored with shortly thereafter.

As I have now grown on the path of enlightenment and my soul looks back and wonder, I understand why I got so easily bored.  The things that I was so competitive about were not my true desires, but instead, they were temporary soothers for my burning desire. 

Yes, can I tell you that a true desire unrealized will become a burning desire that cannot be quenched by temporary soothers?  My burning desire to be creative and help others discover their creativity, brilliance, beauty, and true self was a desire that could not be quenched by excelling in the corporate world or excelling in the non-profit corporate world—neither appealed to my soul. 

When I let go of the ego and turned my focus to my inner-being, the greatness that I was searching for outside of myself…well, I found it within my true and authentic self. Now with the Law of Grace working with me as I co-create my reality that fear, confusion, and anger that was driving me to bulldoze my way to success has changed. 

Today, I am a person who knows how to love my way to success.  Today I am a person who knows how to create my way to success.  Yes, I guess you can say, “I’m a lover, not a fighter.”

The Pure Potentiality Of Love: My Unfolding Quest

In my spiritual growth and personal development, I began to explore my discomfort with the terms, “all you need is love” or any philosophy that always talked about love.  As I probed deeply, I uncovered something extremely vital and life changing about my personality.  I uncovered a behavior that I was unaware of.  It was a behavior in which I practiced for years.

 You see, years ago I was not the most emotionally expressive person.  The most emotion that I had ever shown, outside of anger, was when my father passed in 1995.  That was the most devastating time in my life.  (Surviving Katrina was the next, but the grief and hurt I felt for the situation outweighed most of the anger that arose later on.)  Before my father died, I could count the number of times I cried or displayed any type of emotion in terms of compassion.  I felt very deeply for people, cared for people, and even at the tender age of 14 began to ponder the meaning of life and existence, but I was too “hard” to show it.  My heart was nearly hardened with the thought of displaying any type of compassion.  For me, saying that you loved someone was a sign of weakness.  I could literally never make myself say it.  And there were so many times the urge to say the words, “I love you,” would come upon me, the urge to show it would come upon me and I would resist it each time.  I didn’t want to be weak.

 But as time passed, I discovered that I did become weak.  This resistance had spiritual and physical consequences.  Of course, when you’re 10, 19, 24, years old you don’t begin to understand the spiritual consequences and detrimental physical manifestations that result from resisting love and devotion.  The spiritual consequences manifested as surface relationships that had little depth. The physical consequences manifested as reoccurring digestive disorders.

 During those years I grew to understand that the universe orchestrates situations that will give you opportunity after opportunity to give and receive love.  And friends I must tell you that there are boundless opportunities presented. 

 Now, I don’t resist.  I allow love to flow through me unconditionally.  I do not stop the flow of love to me and through me.  Ultimately, I stopped resisting. 

 Have you at one point in your life or another resisted the urging of giving or receiving love?  Discover the path of love and devotion as I urge each of you to stop resisting and start living.

 Until next time, Live well, Live Wise, Live Wealthy, and Let the Creative Spirit move you.

The Pure Potentiality Of Love

“All you need is love;” is a well-liked phrase and song made popular by 60s British Band sensation the Beatles.  The title of this song has been used in pop culture for decades.   

 I used to believe that phrases, such as “all you need is love,” was in essence, pitiful, sappy, and unrealistic.  I still thought it was the most insincere thing that I have ever heard.  I thought to myself, “I need more than that” and “People will say anything to get what they want.”  

 Even as I was introduced to a broader spiritual philosophy, I recognized the immaturity in that thinking, but I still felt as though, “the all you need is love” talk was insincere.   How could people who are proponents of these “love teachings and philosophy” actually mean what they said?  From my point of view at the time, there was too much anger and heartache in the world.  And just as I had “believed” at the time, I would continuously find the hypocrisy in the individuals and become extremely disenchanted.  Now, as I have grown on the path of enlightenment, I understand why I would always see the hypocrisy.  I would always see it because it is law.  By way of the principle expectation and the law of attraction, my vibration was not aligning with love but with finding the hypocrisy in those who say, “all you need is love.”  I would find hypocrisy, because I was looking for it. 

 After more growth on the path of enlightenment, I soon discovered the true source of my resistance in opening my heart and life to love.  My problem was that I was too busy looking at other people.  I expected people to live and proclaim within their own lives what they said and when I found any inconsistencies (I found inconsistencies because I was looking for them) then I latched on to these inconsistencies as a “reason” for me to close my heart to love and devotion.  But as I have grown to learn, what others do or don’t do, has nothing to do with me.

 Now, I have learned to love.  The message of love is one of universal order and Divine flow.  It brings about the harmony, peace, justice, and order which the Ancient Egyptians called MA’AT.  The Ancient Egyptians believed that MA’AT balanced the scales of life and with this balance; mankind and womankind could overcome the fetters of the ego and become “lighter.”

 Love, peace, harmony, justice, order…these are the things I wanted to experience in life.  In the past, I didn’t understand the source of my resistance because I didn’t know that on this earth plane, we have an ego that must be overcome.  No one is perfect 100% of the time and unfortunately some allow themselves to be absorbed in negativity and non-productivity.  And this is where the ego will take you.  The ego will take you in the direction of negativity and productivity because the ego operates in fear and complacency.

 Hence, even if we are not perfect 100% of the time, it still, in essence has nothing to do with how we should treat one another.   Each of us has a mandate on this earth to give and send, with all the passion of our being, love.  God, the Source of all Creation, has pure love for all creation.  We were created from the vibration of love and it is the energy of this unconditional love which holds this universe together.

 Join me for part #2 in this series entitled, The Pure Potentiality Of Love: My Unfolding Quest

Until next time, Live Well, Live Wise, Live Wealthy, and Let the Creative Spirit Move You.

Debunk the Economic Downturn & Choose to Live & Love To Live Holistically: Part 2 – The Choice

In the previous section, entitled-Debunk the Economic Downturn & Choose to Live & Love To Live Holistically: Part 1 – The Sacrifice, I talked about the traps of, “settling” into a mentality of lack by reacting to the perceived economic crisis. One way that mentality is constantly reinforced is by believing that one has to make unneeded lifestyle sacrifices.

Unfortunately, “sacrifice,” “just enough,” and “lack” is a lifestyle for many. We have all witnessed how many individuals refuse to aim high for fear that they can’t reach, have, or attain something greater than their reality has dictated.

I was watching the film, “The Truman Show.” In that film Truman, portrayed quite well, by funnyman Jim Carey, spent his entire life reared in a “reality-tv” world created by Christof, the creator of the Truman show. Unbeknownst to Truman, his entire life, that was created for him, was broadcasted to the world since his inception. All is well in his world until a series of subtle mishaps begin to occur. These mishaps force Truman to question his reality. Throughout the film, we watch flashbacks of a young Truman wanting to step out of his comfort zone and explore a larger world, only to allow fear to keep him trapped where he was.

As the film progresses, we watch as his desire for his true love forces him to propel out of his known reality and discover a world beyond what he grew to know.

If you have never seen The Truman Show, I highly recommend it. It’s an older film, but I can tell you that when I first saw it 11 years ago, I didn’t quite appreciate or grasp its message the way I have in recent years. It’s message is as relevant today, as it was a decade ago. There is a line in the film, spoken by the character of Christof, played by actor Ed Harris, that’s embedded in the latter part of the film. His character is asked why Truman never tried to leave the island. His responds, “You would be surprised at the reality someone accepts.” It may not have been in those exact words. Hey, go see the movie to hear the exact line, but the words that character spoke at that moment is the theme which saturated the entire movie.

Truman, as many do, accepted his world, his reality, because he was told to. Everyone around him, everything he heard and observed told him to accept the reality which was his life. All reinforced this belief except his true love.

In the film, Truman’s true love represented a girl he fell in love with during his youth. His desire for wanting to find her drove him to question his current reality and ultimately create a new world for himself.

His vision of his true love is analogous of our true desires, while Truman’s friends represent the entrapment of the ego. Truman’s vision and desire for more, ultimately set him free

What is your true love? Family, our true love is our purpose in life. Once discovered, you will embark on a wonderful exodus of uniting with your true and authentic self. You will be continuously guided along your path of enlightenment as your purpose; the love of your life continues to unfold before you.

Allow your true and authentic self to guide you during these times of uncertainty. While pop culture is uncertain, know that you can be certain that you have the ability to prosper in all times.

Until next time, Live Well, Live Wise, Live Wealthy and Let the Creative Spirit move you.

A Guilty disposition & Scrumptious Flax Seed Crackers

As individuals growing on the path of enlightenment, we sometimes struggle with consideration for the next person, as it relates to our fulfillment of selfish desires. In other words the term, “wanting what we want, now;” in other words, “immediate gratification.”

I was pondering this when it came to the subject of food. A while ago, Carmellita made a tray of flax seed crackers. Earlier that day, she made a delectable salad filled with tomatoes, avocado, and bean sprouts. In the meantime I was attempting a fast. I say attempting because my mind wasn’t completely ready for one that day. When I looked at Carmellita’s salad, well all my attempts at fasting went out the window. I said to myself, “Well, maybe tomorrow.” Well, Carmellita was kind enough to share her dish with me, but I ended up eating about ¾ of her crackers. She stared at her nearly disseminated tray of crackers, let out a slight sigh, and proceeded to finish her meal.

Well in that moment it really hit me—“oops,” I cried, feeling slightly embarrassed. Now, I did not and I repeat I did not intentionally set out to devour my best friend’s flax seed crackers. I did feel really bad about it – after it was done. I know some of you are thinking, “It’s no big deal. You got carried away. You weren’t paying attention.” But allow me to stress how bad I felt after it was done.

Allow me to submit that those of you who feel that it was no big deal have never been on the opposite side of the offense or are probably the ones who have taken advantage of a person’s kindness. Now, I’m not saying this to pass judgment or to condemn, but I cannot say that during the process, as I was breaking large pieces of her crackers over the salad that she was nice enough to share with me, a little voice didn’t sweep through my mind saying, “not so much. Maybe Carm will want more.” You know why I can’t say that I didn’t hear that “little voice,” because I was busying arguing with it. “She’s fine. She’s through.” Yea right I didn’t know. That was my little voice; and can I tell you that when the voice of your Source speaks, it doesn’t argue with the selfishness of the Ego. Our intuition says what it has to say and that’s that.

So why did I not stop or why had I chosen to ignore this voice—because my wanting of what I wanted ignored and overrode the voice of pure consciousness. That’s when I later began to think about how we must be and show consideration and generosity at all times. A lack of consideration shows spiritual immaturity. Spiritual immaturity blocks our spiritual growth and development. As co-creators, we create everything. The point wasn’t what it was—flax seed crackers. It was the energy behind it. And believe me; no one wants to invite negative and low vibrational energy into their lives.

Family in all your actions be aware of the energy of your intentions behind it. Remember that inspired action is right action. I was “inspired” to slow down. If that inner voice says, “stop,” “wait,” “no,” or whatever it may be—Don’t argue. Just follow.

Until next time, Live Well, Live Wise, Live Wealthy, and let the Creative Spirit move you.

Creating the Life We Truly Desire

Again, there is abundance all around us.  And we must know who we really are.  There is abundance in us.  By choosing to live as co-creators, we are a part of and in partnership with all that is in the Universe. The same abundance, Infinite Creativity, Infinite intelligence, and Infinite Organization that dwells in the Universe also dwells in us. It dwells in us as the Creative Spirit moves through us helping us to actualize our hopes and dreams. 

Because abundance is a Universal Law and we are woven into the fabric of the Universe, we have a right to live abundantly.  In fact, we are abundant.  We were not meant to live in scarcity and lack.  The ALL, Source Energy, God has given us the power to live in  abundance.  However, we must abide by the principles and Laws that govern abundant living.  We must learn the gift of converting the unmanifested into the manifested.  Hence, this will require us to tap into our higher consciousness and not rely solely on what our 5 senses tell us.  For then, we become susceptible to the ego.  We cannot live life from the outside in.  We must live life from the inside out.  Once we realize the voice of our soul, we must have faith that the voice of our soul will not veer us off the path of abundance and greatness.

Our five senses can be enhanced by the wisdom and knowledge of Infinite Intelligence or we can allow the ego to distort our insight and feed us full with illusions. 

For example, in ego, your five senses tell you that if you do not eat fat you will lose weight.  However, nothing could be further from the truth.  With wisdom and knowledge from the voice of your soul, infinite intelligence will guide you to the proper information on this subject matter.  You would be led to discover that the key is to avoid eating animal fat, hydrogenated oils, and cooked fats.  Furthermore you would have the wisdom of knowing that raw plant fat gives you energy and helps you to burn and metabolize stored fat in the body.  Cooked fat, hydrogenated oils, and animal fat is unstructured and the body cannot utilize or metabolize it effectively.

The ego makes decisions based on deduction, not according to true knowledge and wisdom.  It believes this must be so because well…this is not so.  Thus you tend to perpetuate illusions.  A fine example of such illusions would be, if you are in debt, your five senses in ego would tell you to get two jobs and you will make more money to get out of debt.  Again, nothing could be further from the truth.  Most people miss about 20% of their income before they even get their paycheck due to taxes, Medicare, social security, insurance and other deductibles.  Furthermore, with every purchase, you are charged a sales tax of about 9%.  Meaning, each dollar you earn is only worth about 91 cents.   Let us say that you earn $1,000 per week from your job.  In actuality, you only earn about $700 per week. When you factor in food, clothing, transportation, shelter and all that comes with it, you are only working to keep working.  

Is that abundant living?  Absolutely not.  Your five senses in ego can only manipulate current resources and  materials.  It cannot see, touch, taste, smell, or hear the workings of the immaterial—the Spirit realm; therefore, it cannot access the unformed stuff of the universe in order to co-create more and become more.

But, friends, as our true and authentic self there is in our connection with the Universe unformed substance that when tapped into will help us create the lives we truly desire.  This unformed substance cannot be bought with money.  It is unused potential waiting to be formed.  It is the x or y of every equation of the mind over matter.   It is all which is unknown to us waiting to be known.  It is Infinite Possibilities and this is the possibility for anything that is possible. 

The realm of Infinite possibilities is built on the principle that there is endless abundance in the Universe ready to be utilized by us.  Science has discovered that 74% of the universe is “dark matter” or unused potential.  The realm of Infinite Possibilities is than unused potential ready to activated.  It is how something can come from nothing. It answers how a man or woman can hit rock bottom down to nothing and spring up with unlimited resources and opportunities.  Once this potential is activate, the flow is on. 

It is the unformed stuff from which everything is created.  The energy behind its use determines its outcome. 

Ego Tripping the Destroyer of Flow

When we operate in ego, we don’t have access to infinite organizing power, because we have decided to separate ourselves from Source Energy.  In ego, we are limited to what we can “figure out” ourselves, so if we were not born into privilege and want wealth and success, we have limited resources.  But, when we choose to become a co-creator as our true and authentic self (the only way to be a co-creator), then we have partnered with the universe.  The universe is held in the mind of the all, it is mental and therefore it has infinite intelligence, infinite organizing power, and infinite possibilities.  Our partnership as a co-creator gives us access to it all. 

However, to gain access we must choose to be co-creators and swim with the flow of abundance and not against it.  The ego is blind to the Great Vision because it seeks to be separated from the whole out of fear.  The ego is deaf to the soul because it is afraid of the uncertainty of what it hears. 

In the flow, we follow our bliss and passion in life because we can hear the voice of our soul instructing us from infinite intelligence.  We are being guided, protected, and love by the Holy Spirit—Oneness.  This comfort and protection helps keep us in the flow of abundance.  The ego is a distraction or dis-attraction because it disconnects us from the flow through its desire to be separated from Oneness.

Often times, this is what exacerbates our fear.  The ego fears the flow of abundance because in the flow we are becoming more of our true and authentic self.  This takes the ego right out of the driver’s seat.  With diminished capacity to rule our lives and direct us away from oneness, the ego subsides in a sub-servant role and simply carries on its functions of perception, personality, and identification.  With ruling capacity, the ego takes on the tyrannical role of judgment, paranoia, defensiveness, and competitiveness. 

The ego trip can be short or it can be long.  It is our hope that through Abundance Training for Co-creators, each member of the Blue Lotus Living Community will find it a very short trip.  The good and potential for greatness that is in all of us must be cultivated in order for us to be the success we desire in life.  Letting go of the fetters of the ego and illusions of the ego happens when we become dedicated to actualizing our true and authentic self. 

We must give ourselves the opportunity to be ourselves and live life from our true self-concept instead of from something we created in reaction to our disappointments, pains, and hurts from life.  As co-creators we can have passion, joy, love, good fortune, empowering relationships, adventures, youth vigor, and a sound mind.  We become more active in our lives and we let go of the passive default reactions to life which cause us the pain we seek to avoid.

Be Empowered – Experience Soul Illumination and Get out of Your Own Way

Once we begin to experience the transformation process on the path of enlightenment, we become co-creators with the universe. This enlightenment is Soul Illumination. 

Before the transformation process, we created out of default, but now as a co-creator, we create with the universe. Ultimately, this means that we have caught the vision of God or Source Energy. What is the vision? The vision is God or Source Energy as you. With this realization, you get the answer to…who am I, what is my purpose, and why am I here?

Experiencing the power of a co-creator brings magnificence to life. One of the most enriching experiences of the co-creator is discovering there are no stumbling blocks for success. Once we have gotten out of our own way–meaning once we have diminished the power of the ego–the illusions of stumbling blocks, hindrances, scarcity, and lack diminish as well. Yes, we realize stumbling blocks are all illusions.

What is the first step to experience the power of a co-creator? The first step is overcoming the emotion of fear projected on to us by the ego. Yes, the first step is to get out of our own way. Then, we will discover that success is not fleeting, wealth is not fleeting, and abundance is not fleeting. We will discover that wealth and success are not just for some, we all have a divine right to live in abundance.As a matter of fact, Wallace D. Wattles, one of the greatest and most prolific New Thought teachers of his time, says in the Science of Getting Rich…

“Talented people get rich, and blockheads get rich; intellectually brilliant people get rich, and very stupid people get rich; physically strong people get rich, and weak and sickly people get rich.”

With this rather colorful knowledge, we understand there is no environment that can prevent our success; the only thing that can prevent our success is getting in our own way.

So how do we get in our own way? We get in our own way through our inability to envision our true desires because we are not allowing our true self in the driver’s seat. When an individual allows the ego in the driver’s seat, illusions about lack and scarcity prevent the attainment of one’s true desires. Only the true and authentic self understands and knows our true desires. Otherwise, the ego hinders our own advances and subconsciously puts stumbling blocks in our way because of fear and complacency.The truth is fear will cause us to stop in our tracks. This is dangerous for our growth and evolution. Why? It is dangerous for our growth and evolution because we live in a moving, growing, and expanding universe. If we refuse to move forward, then we have no other option than to move backwards. If we refuse to grow, then we die.

The advancement of our soul development requires that we expand and grow spiritually. Allowing the illusions of stumbling blocks to hinder our growth is not living in abundance, it is living in lack. And that’s a place where one can truly lose their soul.

Be Empowered – Success and Courage in the Face of Fear

The power of a co-creator is an enlightening experience in itself. As we experience the transformation process on the path of enlightenment, we discover just how our role as a co-creator will empower us to succeed. Accordingly, if we get out of our own way, we can catch God’s or Source Energy’s vision for our lives. That vision is our purpose and answers the questions…who am I and why am I here.Unfortunately, when we allow the ego in the driver’s seat, we lose our footing as a co-creator because we are not living as our true and authentic self. Allowing the ego to take control hinders our growth and we make decisions out of pain, fear, and confusion. As such, the ego will always refuse to grow and advance. This lack of growth and advancement causes disruptions in the flow of abundance, wealth, and success.

Take a look at any advancement a person refuses to make in his or her life. If a person refuses to advance his or her career by leaving a dead-end job, then instead of moving forward, that person may be fired or forced into early retirement. When speaking with such individuals, they usually say: “I should have left sooner.” And with this regret is a long list of opportunities they allowed to pass them by.

Another example of refusing to advance could be a person who refuses to eat more healthful foods. Consequently, this individual’s health may start to deteriorate, physically and mentally. When stricken with a degenerative disease, the individual usually says: “I wish I’d starting eating healthier sooner.”

Often times in life, we want to blame our failures on lack of information or resources; however, in most cases our failures are related to complacency and fear-the entrapments of the ego. If we can develop the courage and wisdom to embody knowledge when it is available to us and to advance in the face of fear, then we will have more successes than failures. And this is the stuff that makes truly successful people. With this commitment to the true and authentic self, we progress on the path of enlightenment. We operate on the creative plane instead of the competitive plane.

Sometimes it is hard to believe, but successful people are not born. Successful people do not have some all powerful gene you didn’t get. One is successful not because he or she has no failures; one is successful because he or she has more successes than failures. Moving forward and choosing to advance in every aspect of our lives is success. Does it mean that one would not be scared or afraid? Certainly not!

In fact courage is doing a thing in spite of one’s fear. If there is no fear, there is no courage. And in time, with more successes, there will be less to fear. With less to fear, one learns to live a courageous life. Consequently, a courageous life is the crown of every successful person. A co-creator wears this crown and advances towards purpose and living in abundance.