Our psyche (Unconscious) is a "very present help in time of trouble." Carl Jung thought that we participate in a Personal Unconscious and in a Collective Unconscious, across the species, and that dreams can be sourced from either the personal Unconscious or the Collective Unconscious.

The Psyche is a mystery at the edge of physical reality. We can experience psychic occurrences but we struggle to find words to explain what we experience, and cannot begin to understand how our sense of things beyond explaining works.

Intuition is a psychic experience that we all are familiar with. Synchronicity is a common encounter. The "Uh-Oh" feeling when we walk into a room, or a restaurant, and know we better walk out of there NOW, is another.

Alan Watts thought that people who lived out of their "inherent intuition" were thought of by their friends as "being lucky."

We can deepen our connection with our psyche by spending time regularly and frequently simply sitting in emptiness, stillness and silence (One thing, not three) and opening ourselves to what we perceive/realize/experience there.

By attending our dreams and exploring them as a mirror-like reflection of what is going on in our life here, now.

I dreamed last night that I found the Elder Wand and used it to become fluent in seventeen foreign languages. I took that to be a reflection of my current interest in the psyche as a magic wand of sorts, and learning its language is synonymous with being fluent in really all the foreign languages there are. I took the dream as psychic encouragement to continue exploring the world just beyond this world of concrete and steel.

The contents of the Bible were not closed until late in the fourth century. That gave the Church of Rome 397 years to get the script right in having the Bible say what the Church needed it to say, namely, “You all are sinners and are going straight to hell if you don’t do what the Church tells you to do!” That, and the fact that there never was a Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve (Where do the dinosaurs come in?) Original Sin, Need for Redemption, etc., X’s out the need for Jesus to die to redeem us. We have all been scammed. Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son says all that needs to be said about heaven and hell. The Prodigal’s father welcomed his son just as he was with, “Get out of here with your litany of confession in the search for forgiveness! There is no place for that here! For you once were lost and now are found! We’re dead, but now you are alive! And that is what greets everyone at Heaven’s Gate.

According to Martin Palmer's translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, "The path that can be discerned as a path is not a reliable path." We can find the path that is a reliable path only in hindsight. No guides are helpful along the way that is the way, or they are helpful if we use their guidance to direct us away from the direction they suggest we follow.

Jesus talked about blind guides, and Palmer would have us hold all would-be guides as suspect. Which puts us in the position of having to trust ourselves in learning to read the signs and choose the way. Experience will come in handy in that knowing the ways not to go will shrink our available choices and give us things to not consider. From there, it will be a matter of learning to hear, listen to and trust our intuition, our "sixth sense," our "inner eye," and sit in emptiness, stillness and silence waiting to see what arises/emerges/appears there to suggest options for us to consider in "letting the Force be with us," here and now along the way. 

Doing what is called for here, now, in each situation as it arises, all our life long, is all there is to it. No? Why is that hard?

We maintain/sustain our balance and harmony by remaining grounded/centered/focused in a way of life and being that nothing can knock us off of. It is the way of "Peaceful abiding here, now," in each moment that comes along, looking for what is called for in each situation as it arises, and doing what needs to be done there, when, where, and how it needs to be done with the gifts of our original nature, our innate virtues (the things we do best and enjoy doing most, our inherent imagination, our intrinsic intuition, and our psychic affinity with that which has always been called God.

We are all one with God in this way. There is no God other than the God at the center of our psyche. This the God Jesus was speaking of when he said, "When you have seen me, you have seen the Father." We are all one with God at the center of our psyche. We don't have to believe this for it to be so. We know it to be so by dropping into emptiness, stillness and silence and waiting for confirmation.

And rising to do what is called for, when, where and how it is called for--using the gifts available to each of us from the psyche we share in common with all people.

This the truth of how things are apart from all theology, doctrine, beliefs, creeds, religion, faith throughout the cosmos and across time and space. This is who we are. It only takes listening in the silence to know it is so. And then what? We do what is called for in each situation as it arises all our life long.

PS. If you don't think God is snug in our psyche from the beginning, ask yourself what came first the Bible or the Church?  

The Church came first! The Church made up the Bible! And the God everybody talks about is the God of the Bible which the Church put there. But the God beyond theology, creeds, doctrine, etc. was already in our psyche from the start.

Sit with it long enough and you will know it is so.

The flowers of spring do their thing where they are whether anyone is there to notice and rave or not. Spring flowers don't depend on anything going their way to do what they do best. Doing their best is what they are here for, anyway, nevertheless, even so, no matter what. And I was there to witness that, and to bear witness of it long after the event had disappeared into those annals of time.

Because they are reminders to me of what I am to be about. I am a spring flower called to do my best in the time and place allotted for my life. I don't get to pick my life, choose my point of origin, and my parents, and my socio-economic niche. I wake up and here I am. Am I going to do my thing or not? Maybe because the lighting isn't quite what I had in mind, or the weather is too humid, or whatever...

We are to be our best here, now because this is where we are, and this is where we have to do it if it is to ever be done. And it would be such a tragedy if it were never done.

Hitler had the Jews, Trump has the immigrants.
Somebody to hate and fear.
Getting rid of of the immigrants will MAGA!

And putting a stop to all of the people draining our money with Entitlement Programs! Like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security (Yes, Social Security is an Entitlement Program, though we contributed to SS with monthly allotments throughout our working lives--and Major Tax Cuts to the Wealthy is not an Entitlement Program! Who gets to say what's what here? Why, the President of course!) will increase the wellbeing of all those who deserve it for long years into the far distant future!

Empty promises, steady lies, capsule the Trump administration from the start, with no end in sight.
With Congress and the Supreme Court doing his bidding,
there is literally no end in sight,
and a Forever Reign is as likely as the sun coming up in the morning.

With Elan Musk appearing to be the unlikeliest challenge to the Trump Extravaganza, everyone is left wondering what will happen next. No?

When we lack the resources and opportunities to be engaged with our life, we are going to be depressed. And live from one escape to another. Diversion, distraction, denial are all that is left to us. Generally in the form of drugs, sex and alcohol. Hope and prospects are not in the picture.

That is what this picture depicts, reflects, exhibits, declares, proclaims. Life is one day after another here, there, with nothing changing ever.

And the people party as they are able, "passing a good time," in the service of diversion, distraction, denial, generation after generation. Life as we have known it throughout the ages, with "the Blues" and "Jazz" and "Rock and Roll" being historical markers on the trail of the same old same old over time.

Interest, enthusiasm, zeal have to be sought and served, deliberately, intentionally, to prevent the hungry ghouls of aimlessness and depression from moving in and taking over, carrying us all away.

Poverty is another name for not having the resources to pretend we are alive.

I have nursed a recent realization into being: God is a psychic reality, not a spiritual being.

Which means, of course, that we are God. We bring God to life, or not, in the way we live.

We don’t “believe,” we DO! Or, do-not.

And it is not great and grand things that we need to do.

It is “a cup of cold water” kind of things, daily, all of the time, as God would do it, if God were real, and here, now.

Just doing here, now right. The way here, now, needs to be done, is all it takes to raise Jesus from the dead again.

Jesus got it about God, and did it. And called us to follow him.

And we have refused to do that, failed to do that, big time.

We talk about BELIEVING and leave DOING undone.

We TALK, TALK, TALK, TALK…

And never once DO!

God is a psychic reality and not a spiritual being.

We bring God to life in our lives, or not. Here, now. Every day.

God is a psychic reality, 
not a spiritual being.
God is a psychic presence,
not "God the Father Almighty, 
creator of heaven and earth."

God is present on earth in and through us.
What God does,
God does through us.
We are the arms and legs,
hands and feet of God.

Prayer aligns us with God,
and should be thought of as silent communion
and not words.
To pray without ceasing is to live out of the silence
day to day.
Live as though this is so and you will know it to be so. 

Think of God as being closer to our intuition than to being The Lord God Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth. A lot closer. 

God is much more like our original nature, our inherent imagination, our bodily knowing where we belong and where we have no business being, our innate virtues (the things we do best and enjoy doing most), our intrinsic intuition, our ability to resonate with some things and not with other things...

God is more internal with us than external to us. God is much more Psychic Reality than Physical Reality, and we access God through emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three) more completely and more often than through the Bible, hymns and churches. The "still, small voice," and not the earthquake, wind and fire. So that if we were going to connect with God we would more likely be able to do that in emptiness, stillness and silence, in nature, with trees and waterfalls, lakes, ponds and oceans than with catechisms and books of doctrine.

We are one with God in that God is apparent and known in God's presence, goodness and truth and we sense that with our body, not with our mind or our thinking, but with our knowing in our body that God is here, now, without knowing how we know.

Belief in doctrines and dogma has no validity in comparison with the knowing that is beyond belief and believing and is self-validating and undeniable. Where does God stop and we start? That place does not exist. There is no separation, and never has been, and never will be. If we are going to believe anything, let it be that, and live as though it is so, because it is!