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“The Conversation to Your Transcendence” by Author Jeff Cannon

The Conversation began as series of lucid dreams I had while on the island of Itaca.  They quickly became so much more.  They welcomed me to a level of awareness and consciousness that was meant to be shared.

I completed this book several years after my experience while recovering from my eighth brain surgery; a 14-hour ordeal, which left me unable to see, speak or walk.  It took months of recovery before I was able to edit my own story, but these dreams were why I wrote this book.  They are why I was compelled to finish it, and why I created this post; so that you can take a step forward on your own journey to your inevitable transcendence.

Each dream was a transference with what I can only call a native intelligence.  Together the  conversations answered so many of the questions we all have about Life, Death and the meaning to the Human Experience we are all a part of.  These dreams confirmed much of what we inherently know is probably true about Science and Spirituality, God and Evolution, Physics and Metaphysics, and the transcendence of the Human toward the Divine. To this day, they provide me a direction and a sense of growth, self-actualization and a level of awareness that continues to change my life for the better.

Just as they will change yours as well.

Here are the key lessons that I took away from my conversations with the divine that I wanted to share with you.

1. You are energy.

You are simply energy, floating in a sea of energy.  That is all there is to existence.  Your consciousness exists as a concentration of energy.  It floats within the eternal sea, in an endless ebb and flow that is all around you and passes through you. It is a part of you, and you of it.

2. Everything you experience is an echo of existence.

Like the ripples formed when a pebble is dropped into the ocean, when there is an occurrence in the sea of existence, your consciousness witnesses through these ripples. It is in the waves that you experience all that is.  Your perception is an echo of the event’s reality.

3.  Your consciousness created your human experience.

Your consciousness created the Human Experience you are now a part of.  It did so to gain a new perspective through which to experience existence. The filters your human form creates for you – your five senses, your emotions – distorts your view of reality based on your understanding of the world around you.

The experiences you are a part of are not good or bad, they simply are. How you perceive them is up to you.  It is why it is so important to release yourself from the experiences you are a part of and move on.

When you transcend your human experience you will rejoin your consciousness and see beyond your five senses, you will transcend and see reality as it truly is.

4. When you change your thoughts, you see reality.

The human experience alters your perception of reality. How it does this is based on the vantage point from which you experience the echoes of reality. Learn to change your emotional viewpoint, and you change your perception of everything. Each viewpoint gives you a new look at existence, until you can see reality.

5. There are no flat lines in existence.

Nothing in existence moves in a flat line.  Everything moves in circles.  Galaxies spin, planets orbit, storms turn, tides ebb and flow. Even life moves in a never ending cycle.  Birth, life, death and rebirth continue in an unbreakable cycle.  You cannot stop it, but you can transcend it. Let go of the humanity you have grown comfortable in and you allow the divinity within you to soar.

6. There is no death, there is no judgment.

Your spirit is eternal.  There is no death to your true self or to your consciousness. When the human body has done its job, your spirit is freed. It moves on. The moment it leaves you, there is only freedom.  There is no judgment waiting. There is no book of deeds to be measured by. There is only your spirit leaving your body with the love it has gained from the human experience you have been a part of.

7. Your only task is to Love.

Your only task while in the human experience is to learn to stay open to the energy of Love that is all around. Every time you learn to overcome hate and anger, you grow one step closer to your own transcendence. It is the reason your spirit chose to experience existence through the Human Experience; so that your spirit could witness existence from a new vantage point and see the Love that is through a new perspective.

8. The energy of existence is the energy of Love.

The sea of energy that is all around us, is a vast sea of endless Love.  Stop and open yourself.  It is there around you every day. When you open yourself up to it, when you learn not to close down to it, you can feel the direct channel to the energy of Love that is all around you.

You have felt the energy of a room the moment you walked in. You have felt the energy of those around you, sensing whether they are inherently good or bad.

The energy of existence is real. It is there for you to tap into, you simply need to stop yourself from closing down and from following your very human emotions. When you do, you will find how easy and natural it is to be a part of all that is.

Only when you learn to stay open will you be able to bask in your own everlasting light.  And that can happen right here, right now.

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How To Treat Yourself as a Precious Gem

I hope as a reader of this blog you don’t tire of the Self-Love message that I constantly post. For some people it can be a little too much, I used to cringe at ideas like this myself so I understand. If it wasn’t so necessary and  important in this glossy world obsessed with outward appearances I wouldn’t feel the need, but… So here is another blog post about the importance of loving yourself unconditionally. Read an excerpt below and then continue on to the Treasure Trove blog for the full story.

I have come to learn, with the help of my Mama, my Aunt and Uncle, and many, many others that loving myself involves treasuring myself. That is, I should treat myself as a precious gem. Not just treat myself as I would treat others (or hope to treat the ones upon whom I would bestow my love!), but to carve out time to nourish my soul, body and mind. To be patient with myself; to infuse my mind with positive self-talk instead of bad-mouthing myself; to seek out time alone (not to be confused with loneliness) as well as with friends; to make the time to work on – or play around with – creative endeavors; to let loose of being productive ‘all’ the time and simply be.”…continue reading at the Treasure Trove blog

Confidence, success, happiness, and inner peace are all side effects of loving yourself unconditionally.

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The Stunted Media – Gender Stereotypes Limit Men and Women to Predictable and Unhealthy Roles – Take a Stand!

We act how we are taught, whether it’s specific lessons taught from our guardians and role models or subconscious ideals from mass media. As a society we’re slowly recognizing that this is damaging. Will you take the pledge to “challenge the status quo and ultimately transform culture, so everyone, regardless of gender, race, class, age, or circumstance can fulfill their potential.”

“I PLEDGE TO USE MY VOICE TO CHALLENGE SOCIETY’S LIMITING REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER.”

Raise your voice and tell the media to knock it off with so many damaging stereotypes and give us better entertainment. Therepresentationproject.org/take-action/take-the-pledge

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Learn From The Past, Don’t Live In It

Learn from the past, don’t live in it. I’m telling you this from my own experience of living in the past as opposed to dealing with the present. This blog post does a great job of explaining what the past is and isn’t good for. Enjoy!

In recognizing that the past cannot be changed, and by gaining a new perspective – whether it be by the release from a negative journal bonfire or by sharing with a mentor or a spiritual advisor – we are able to let go of yet more of that past pain, or hurt, or sense of injustice.

Putting the past behind us is not equivalent to sweeping it under the rug. If it is not dealt with, it simmers. Dealing with it comes with the advent of the new perspective that can be garnered by reading, writing, talking to a trusted friend or two, and then wholly embracing that this event is no more. (And if the event is continuing or recurring it is time for a change!)…” Continue reading at Christinageorgedotme.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/rewriting-the-past

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Inspiring Photos: A Challenge to End Racism with #EndWhiteSilence

Potographic inspiration abounds! The  End White Silence tag is taking off and creating controversy as it should. Let’s EndWhiteSilence together.

Pittsburgh Police Chief challenges racism at work.

“I was hired to restore the legitimacy of the police department. I did not seek these young activists out. I was stopping for coffee at First Night. Their message is not anti-anybody. It is simply a call for awareness. The photo was a great, spontaneous moment in time. Please join dialogue for community healing.” – Police Chief McLay (pictured above)

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More info is available at Fightbackpittsburgh.org

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15 Free Ways to Make 2015 Your Best Year Ever! Success, Health and Happiness Is Yours.

Planning a New Years resolution is usually about meeting a goal you’ve dreamed of, but you can also take this time of renewal to lay the groundwork for reaching a lifetime of goals. Success, health and happiness can be yours.

1. The Glass Isn’t Half Full or Half Empty, It Just Is. Do you find yourself complaining often? Do you pretend life is perfect yet feel unfulfilled? Life is a struggle, but it’s getting through those struggles that make life so amazing. You have a choice to see the world for all it’s beauty AND all it’s ugliness. Recognize that you are in control of your thoughts and actions while accepting that sometimes sh*t just happens.

2. Clean Out Your Closet. Having things is nice, decorating your home with what you love is fantastic, but clutter is not. It’s time to stop letting the “junk drawer” become packed so full it won’t open. Having a lot of stuff around you all the time is overstimulating. Your focus switches from living to collecting. Mark your calendar every few months to go through your closets and garage to donate or share items that you don’t use anymore. Life is about experiences, but it’s hard to enjoy those if your vision is blocked with stuff.

3. Create Playlists. Music has amazing power to change our mood. Listening to upbeat music can cheer us up while sad music can deflate our moods. Create a playlist of songs that perk you up, songs to wind down and relax, a power mix to get you working and all time favorites to remind you of the fun life brings. When you need to change your mood all you have to do is push play!

4. Ditch the Diet and Make Every Day Healthy! The days of only eating “healthy” when we need to lose weight or get in shape are gone. It’s important for us and our environment to eat healthier. Fast food isn’t really convenient, but instead increases your chances of high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes. Commit to eating more veggies and fresh food that isn’t full of preservatives. Go organic whenever you can and keep an eye out for GMO foods which we don’t know enough about yet and are already looking like a bad choice. Pack snacks like almonds, veggies and fruit in your purse so you can make it from work to home without going through the drive through or buying sugary snacks at the store.

5. Keep a Journal.  Make a point to start or end each day with a moment of reflection. You don’t have to write a whole page each day. Some days you might just want to write an affirmation or even illustrate what you’re feeling. Journaling can help with everything from depression and breakups to grief. It also gives you a record to look back on, much like a photo album, but just for you.

6. Be Choosy With Your Friends. Spending time with people who are different gives us a broader and more accepting view of the world and is also great for networking, but certain people can make our life worse. This year take some time off and spend less time with friends and family who are consistently negative, self-absorbed, disrespectful, into drama or violent. Spend more time with those who make you feel good and who support your goals and dreams.

7. Go Natural. Spend more time outdoors. We spend so much time indoors at work, home and the gym. Move your meditation under a tree or on the beach. Take your workout to the park or your backyard. Find scenic places to walk in your area, plant a garden, pick up litter or start a walking or running group. Think of things you love that can be done outside instead of indoors.

8. Volunteer! Giving back to your community or supporting organizations around the globe is a win-win. It’s not just great to help others, but it feels good and can be great networking! Everybody has a skill they can offer in service to others. Find an organization that fits your interests though the Change is Up To You Project.

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9. Get What You Give. The daily grind can be rough on anyone so it’s important to spend each day with a solid base of self-love. By loving ourselves we can more easily show love towards others. When you accept and are patient with yourself you can accept and be patient with others. The more love you share with the world the more you get back. Start now by joining the Self-Love Challenge.

10. Laugh a Lot and Often. Humor is a super stress reliever and it’s FUN! Make a YouTube playlist of your favorite comedians or funny animations, hang up comics at home, work and in your car. Keep funny memes and images on your phone so you can laugh wherever you are.

11. Share the Love Via Snail Mail. The art of letter writing may be old-fashioned, but a physical message or package is more powerful than a Facebook “Like”. Send a Thank you card to someone you visited or who took you out to lunch. Surprise your family or friends with a small gift when it’s not their birthday or a holiday.  Travel around your state and send postcards to everyone you know instead of buying a lot of souvenirs.

12. Start a Year Long Project. Is there something you’ve always wanted to do or a challenge that you want to overcome? Start a project that you work on throughout the year and record your progress with photos, videos or a words.  Whether you choose daily, weekly or monthly if you really want it you will find the time.

13. Sit or Stand Still. You don’t have to meditate for hours everyday, but you can probably take 10-30 minutes each day to take a break from chores, TV, your tablet or phone. Just watch the world go by, sit on a bench in the park, people watch downtown, draw a labyrinth in the sand or close your eyes and daydream. It’s amazing how fast the world spins and how tie flies, but there’s no universal law that states we have to ALWAYS be in motion. Just being in the moment can be healing, restful or energizing depending on what you need.

14. Create an Attitude of Gratitude. You are your thoughts, so take control by forging an attitude based on gratitude. When you wake up say something you are grateful for. When someone cuts in front of you in line or cuts you off in traffic instead of getting angry get grateful. There will always be things to upset you and piss you off, but you always have a choice in how you react.

15. Map Your Future. Do you want a new career, to live in a new state or country, return to school, be a foster parent, write a novel or just reorganize your life? Draw a map. Start with your end goal and go backwards to where you are; what steps do you need to take in order to get from point B to point A? You can write out your map, create a chart or even cut out magazine images and create a fun map to hang on your wall. It’s your future so dream BIG!

Share your thoughts about what you want and need in 2015 in a  comment below.

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Share Your Story of Overcoming Obstacles. Inspire Others and Get Published.

Do you have a story to share?  Share it here and inspire others!

If you have overcome something or learned a valuable lesson than your story needs to be heard. ImpowerYou is all about empowering individuals and what better way than to share your story as a guide for others. Your story will be part of many that celebrate the personal, communal, and innovative accomplishments of people around the world. Storytelling is an ancient tradition prominent in all cultures around the world. Sharing your story gives the world a chance to celebrate the similarities of everyone and cultivate compassion, acceptance, and inclusion. We all have a story to share.

  • Have you overcome abuse, addiction, depression, violence or a failed system.
  • Have you improved your community despite numerous obstacles?
  • Did you learn a valuable lesson that allowed you to grow, heal, or become healthier?

 

Submit your story on the What’s Your Story page.

 

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From Journalist to Hero – Ruchira Gupta

There’s no telling how your career choices can lead you to be an agent of positive chane.

Ruchira Gupta was a journalist in Nepal in the 90’s when she learned about the human trafficking and sex slavery of young girls. Inspired to stop this inhumane practice she created a documentary focusing on the Nepalese girls who were sold into slavery, The Selling of Innocents. She continued working for change by cofounding Apne Aap Women Worldwide to empower women which teaches women and girls to “resist and end sex trafficking by organizing marginalized women and girls into small self-empowerment groups, where they work collectively to access their legal, social, economic, and political rights.”

Are you reaady for a change? Check out her inteview on Women Lead Nepal and be inspired. “When I want back to the brothels to show the selling of innocents, after the Emmy, the 22 women in prostitution who had told their stories in the documentary said they wanted my help to change their lives. They had four dreams: 1. A school for their daughters to save them from the same fate as themselves 2. A job in a office, where they could work fixed hours, nobody would beat them, where there was old age pension and 3. A room of their own: where nobody could walk in when they wanted, where they could sleep as long as they liked and where their children could play safely and 4. Justice -severe punishment of those who had brokered away their dreams by selling and buying them and those who failed to protect them from being trafficked or when they tried to escape.”…Continue reading at Womenleadnepal.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/inspiring-woman-leader-spotlight-ruchira-gupta/

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Americans Lose Their Constitutional Rights: No Trial, No Jury, No Judge; The Death Penalty on the Street

Misdemeanors and felonies aren’t supposed to be deserving of the death penalty, yet that’s exactly what police are hashing out to citizens across the streets of the USA.

Professor Jelani Exum explains what’s missing from the deaths of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, and the other 400 people killed by cops each year. Watch her Ted Talk below.

Justice is a terrible thing to waste. Nobody deserves to be shot and killed because they resisted arrest, stole cigarettes or various other encounters. We should be able to trust the police, but instead we worry whether or not a police officer will shoot and kill anyone, even a young boy carrying a toy gun.

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The Importance of Comment Moderation:Comment Sections Have Become Troll Heaven for Harassment and Ignorance – Trigger Warning

I just read a great blog post “Never Read the Comments (Trigger Warning)” The author asks you to think of responses to the most commonly used ignorant or hateful comments that are found on almost every article about important social issues, in this case rape. I’ve shared some of her comments below in bold italics with my responses afterwards.

#19: This wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t for FEMINISM. FEMINISM tells women it’s fine to put themselves in vulnerable positions by partying and being promiscuous. Look, I don’t mean to excuse these boys but I don’t let a ROBBER into my HOME and give him the code to my SAFE and then get mad when he TAKES MY DIAMOND.

I’ve heard #19 so much it just sounds ridiculous. I can’t help but laugh at such an ignorant comparison.

15: #14 NO! Newspapers can’t just print these things and ruin these boys’ lives, it’s just not right. And don’t tell me to “check my facts” this is America I can say whatever I want

#15 isn’t much better, “I can say whatever I want” is so childish, it’s not even a discussion.

6:  #3, a friend of mine was falsely accused of rape in college, he’s a good guy I know he didn’t do it, you should think about the lives you’re ruining

As for #6 I feel physically upset at people defending a possible rapist by talking about false accusations, that I can hardly think of a good response. Research shows false rape accounts are hard to prove and many women are just dropping charges rather than be continually harassed and scrutinized by the police and media.

Read the full post and share your own responses at Minneapolitanmademoiselle.blogspot.com/2014/06/never-read-comments-trigger-warning.html

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