Greetings and Salutations to You All,

One of the subject matters that has engrossed me my whole life has been –– for want of a better word –– the Metaphysic. Or, Study of Reality. Or any other way you want to use English words to describe how people respond, react or deal with Life (probably would be easier and more productive if we just drew pictures or told parables, which a lot of the ancients did with myths handed down from various cultures...)

I'm always on the lookout for authors and speakers who can "describe what can't be described" about how Life "is." Two of my favorite are Alan Watts and Aldous Huxley.

I've found another author, Barry Goss, and his Ebook "The Manifesting Mindset" which you can locate on www.ourunion.org/. It's about 52 pages with double-spaced lines. A bit long, parts of it kind of corny (YOU try and take a stab at writing about how the Intelligence of Life works...I have, and it's hard...), but overall I highly recommend it. Print it out on some old recycled paper you have lying around, take it with you and when you have time, slowly go through it. I don't know anything about Mr. Goss, but my hat's off to anyone trying to help illuminate "The True Path."

Whether or not happiness and success finds you in your life (and you thought you were trying to find it?) depends so much on your mind. How do you think? with it? If you daily "reboot" your mind and refreshed head out into the morning –– compare this method to continually grinding day-in-and-day-out thinking old thoughts or memories from yesterday, last week, last year. Or thoughts of the future, events of which you couldn't possibly know unless you had a knack for reading crystal balls or traveling through linear time.

Probably the best and most reoccurring symbol that many mystics, shamans and aesthetics have used and continue to use to describe this invisible but very feel-able Force –– is a watercourse way, or a river. This symbol and the overall Force is being more scientifically proven by burgeoning studies and discoveries of quantum physics.

When you begin to walk across a river, it has been said that you can never step in the same place twice. That is also true about everyday Life. It flows around us constantly like a river. We can't physically see it, but one can feel it. It is power always on the move. It doesn't stop for anyone or any thing. Yet it is infinitely loving and supportive. You can lean on it, let it caress you, let it empower you. The Force's power is Infinite. We are all children of the stars that birthed our world.

What we "think" might be permanent really isn't. It's a trick (how fun would Life be if it was all predictable?) Because it doesn't appear Life was designed for someone to take a perch off to the side unnoticed. Life is about motion –– doing things, playing and getting involved in what's going on. Living your life in the Moment will take practice, because for now we live in a culture obsessed with the past and future. You can better measure things that have already happened, an obsession with many humans.

Unfortunately, most of us don't use the power of our minds appropriately to match the Force. We use it instead to retreat, withdraw and shrivel our lives away with past memories of what has happened to us so far. The mind can summon up these regurgitated thoughts over and over again, like a spell put on us by an evil, clever witch.

The Ultimate Reality is the Present Moment. Because that's where it's all happenin'! Like stepping with bare feet into a gurgling creek on a hot day, don't try and anticipate or predict what may happen NOW by the use of past or futuristic thoughts. If you take this approach (and one can certainly choose to if arrogant enough), you will miss out.

On what? Things like true storybook adventures such as meeting interesting people, finding fascinating types of work, discovering things or encouraging actions to aid the Common Good, traveling to all parts of the globe and amassing both monetary and spiritual riches beyond even your grinding mind's wildest conjuring.

In this new millennium, some say humankind is poised above a trampoline of a leap in Consciousness that will far surpass humans' recent technological wonders. The Internet's unprecedented capabilities of linking people together with words, pictures, movies and real-time video cams will probably be one of the biggest innovations responsible for ushering in a new Age of humans interconnecting together.

Only time and people's participation (or not) will tell.

So take a read and report back to the group about what you've learned. Enjoy the adventure. I certainly have, thanks to all of you in my immediate and extended families who continually lift me up~~Steve