Wisdom is essentially a deeper understanding of life and the world – and of ourselves – an outlook which can lead to more intelligent choices, more beautiful relationships, and more peace and happiness, and optimum living. It can promote more harmony amongst all people, leading to a world of peace, love and understanding.

I think wisdom can be very pivotal in bringing about a more enlightened world. After spending almost half my life, focused pretty passionately on life’s fundamental questions and answers, on philosophy and spirituality, I’ve come to see that together with all the other beautiful and powerful healing modalities and practices a lot of us are engaging in, it will benefit us hugely to deepen our understanding of life, and experience more clarity and wisdom,  bringing about a grander experience of life, and a more beautiful world for us all.

To serve this idea, I’m developing www.homeofwisdom.com (not displayed yet) as a home of all things wise and true.

These are some of the key features and offerings on the website:

• • a library of wisdom relating to fundamental aspects of life and the world.

  • a place where people can learn about the principles of life and share their own wisdom

  • a forum where people can discuss life issues and current situations functionality which enables people to rate ideas and theories, and get an idea of what more/most people agree on.

  • various offerings from world teachers in written, audio and video formats

  • an offering of self development, and spiritual growth courses.

Wisdom is not something that is ancient, or dying! It is today. It is here. It is now! Wisdom is alive and well, and growing, and developing.  I believe everybody has wisdom of some sort or the other. Homeofwisdom.com is a space in which to remind us that it is alive, to refine it, share it, and celebrate it. The basic purpose is to help humanity learn how to live enlightened lives and create a better world.

I have a dream… a simple, yet grand dream – Heaven on Earth in our lifetime.

If you’re interested to contribute, have a suggestion, or would like to be informed of the launch, leave your details below and I’ll stay in touch.

Every now and then you come across a truth articulated so clearly, that you feel compelled to spread it.

That’s how I felt when I read this little piece…

“Your moment of awakening can come to you at any time, and through any person. Therefore honor all times and all people, for the moment of your deliverance may be at hand. It will be your deliverance from The Illusion, the moment when you can be with it, but not within it.”

(this is from the book: “Communion With God” by Neale Donald Walsch)

I don’t only read these words, I feel them. Do you?

Some people say that our purpose in life is to serve God. Indeed some religions teach this.

This suggests that God is a needy entity, perhaps unhappy, and a being that created other beings to satisfy her own needs, whims, and desires!

Poor God!!

But once you come to a more accurate understanding of what God is, and who you are in relation to God, and of what life’s purpose is, you come to see that this is quite a mistaken idea.

We are not separate from God, and we are not separate from each other. Indeed nothing is separate from anything else! Separation is an idea born in the mind that misconceives the true nature of things. This can happen when the mind is informed by the senses alone, or by mistaken beliefs.

At deeper levels of existence everything is in exchange, interconnected, interpenetrating, everything is in relation, and at the deepest level everything IS ONE.

It is at this level of Absolute Oneness where there is no separation between the creator and the created. At this level you are not separate from the creative essence (or God.)

Indeed you are an extension and expression of the divine creative force (or God), and being such, your very existence in physical form serves this creative force. Through you consciousness experiences tastes; sounds; sights, feelings; thoughts; desires; new ideas and evolution into higher forms of being and greater levels of consciousness.

So your very existence serves God!

So free yourself from the idea that you HAVE TO DO anything else to serve God or any other agenda.

Find comfort in this knowledge. Find inspiration in this idea. Indeed find freedom in this realisation.

On the surface this may seem like it is promoting materialism. And a few subscribers wasted no time in letting me know!

However the experience of buying something or owning something is not materialism per se.  Materialism is only when one becomes attached to or preoccupied with material things. The dictionary defines materialism as “a preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, and comforts, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.” So it would be helpful for us to differentiate between materialism and –let’s call it – material engagement.

You and I grew up in a world in which religion and old cultural and spiritual ideas suggested (and some times dictated) that material engagement was not compatible with spiritual development. We fashioned our world according to this idea, and this resulted in monks, swamis and most of the spiritual fraternity living in simplicity and often in poverty. This type of thinking is still pretty much alive – wouldn’t you raise your eyebrow if you saw a man in his maroon buddhist robes get into his Mercedes Benz?!

True spirituality, though, has nothing to do with what car you drive or how much you have or do not have. It indicates a certain focus. Similarly with materialism. It indicates a certain focus, and you can have this focus irrespective of how much you have or do not have.

Right now a homeless person in Africa with almost no belongings could be content and living in faith and love. A New York millionaire could be harboring a sense of lack, insufficiency and disconnection from the flow of life. On the other hand the homeless person could be so overly focused on getting his next handout, that he loses awareness of his inner connection to all of life and of the grace of god. If he becomes preoccupied with this focus, we could call him a materialist.  Yet the millionaire who’s now sitting in his penthouse, moving on from his visualization exercise into his affirmation sequence in his effort to manifest a new jet (or that red Ferrari!)  could be doing so in full remembrance of his ‘perfect, whole and complete’ nature. If he sustains his efforts to remember and affirm this truth, this would make him spiritual.

You may ask though, why would the millionaire want more if he sees that he is already whole? (And in the same vane – is not all seeking of material engagement anti-spiritual, as it were?) The answer brings forth a very important insight. The movement towards more is a natural quality of all of life. Yet this does not spring from incompleteness or insufficiency. The Divine Creative Essence is all. It is content in and of itself. Yet it does not sit still! It follows a continual impulse to become more – more beautiful, more complex, more conscious, etc. And this motivation is planted firmly within you and I, manifesting as our desires and our motivation to become more – more knowledgeable, more powerful, more balanced, more evolved, more aware…

God does not manifest universes because she feels incomplete, but to be more. The forest doesn’t grow more leaves and trees because it perceives lack, but to be more. You too are not separate from God or Divine Essence. And even as you seek to be more or have more, remember to affirm your wholeness. In this wholeness, in your oneness with all that is, all is you and all is already yours. (This is the basis of affirmation as a manifestation technique.) And you would be wise to focus on being more, rather than on having more. And whatever it is you seek to attract in your life, it would serve you best to focus first on being the one who is powerful enough or abundant enough to have it. Its manifestation then becomes a natural result of this state of being.

Being is primary. Doing or having is secondary. Therefore, BE IT FIRST, always. And when you find yourself wanting more, remember always to BE MORE…and more and more…

Have you noticed over the last few years that there are more and more inventions aimed at self development and life enhancement actually claiming to bring us spiritual growth and happiness, and even greater enlightenment?

This off course raises the question: is it possible that a machine can actually aid in our peace, happiness or enlightenment? The answer lies in understanding what technology really is, in the greater scheme of things.

If you think about it, technology has been with us for millennia already. When caveman drew figures on the rock as a means to visualize a successful hunt, he created and used a technology. It progressed from there to spears and hunting tools, to shovels and farming tools.
Somewhere along the line we had the abacus and ships, telescopes, wagons, pens, cars, and airplanes. Then we had all manner of manufacturing machines, even calculating machines, which led eventually to the mighty computer. This set the scene for us to get finer and more subtle in our technology – with the advent of software. With new software and hardware technology being released every month, who knows where it will take us next?

Because most of our technology currently takes the form of metal, plastic, glass or liquid crystal – mostly inanimate objects, we see them as something that is essentially separate from who we are, and certainly separate from the spiritual world.

Probably still the dominant belief amongst us, although fast changing, is that we are not as spiritual as God is. We believe that God is Spirit, and all of nature is directly connected with God – the heavenly bodies, trees, rivers and birds. We would thus readily use natural objects – fruit and leaves etc in any spiritual ceremony.

When it come to our own relation to the world of spirit, humans have over many millennia, engaged consciously or unconsciously in the ideas pertaining to who we are, what life is, who God is, and what this ‘whole big story’ is about. Collectively, over time, we’ve come to believe that we are removed from the spiritual world – separate from each other, separate from life, and separate from God. This is a mistaken belief, which does not even stand the test of clear reasoning, but from this we have inferred that anything we create must necessarily be even further removed from spirit.

In fact, if you take the view that we are separate from God, and that our inventions and technology are also separate, then you would conclude that God cannot make computers and man can!! Hence your next conclusion may be that humans are more powerful than God!! Closer to the truth is that God can make computers, and did – through us.

Humans are not separate from the divine creative force, but are beautiful extensions of it. And we reflect the creative nature of the universe in our lives and creations. As above, so below. So too with spears, cars, violins, airplanes, computers and i-pods – they are all extensions of who we are, and they can serve to enhance our abilities.

So, can a machine actually aid in our spiritual growth, happiness or enlightenment? Well it is helpful to remember that you cannot produce enlightenment, peace or self realization. You can only remove the blockages to it. Blockages can take the form of mental blocks (ideas), emotional and energetic blockages, or physical blockages. And this is where technology can certainly help, whether it takes the form of surgery or medicine, massage or magnetic plates; movies or mediation music, light or color therapy; biofeedback or brainwave entrainment.

I think it’s a blessing to have such an abundance of well-honed technology that can help us reach greater states of being with relative ease. And it’s certainly an exciting time to witness our ingenious species create subtler, even more intelligent technology which can produce enormous change in the nature of our experience on the planet, possibly reaching all the way into the subtler, heavenly realms! Perhaps the more important question of the day is not whether technology can help spiritual progress, but whether we will we see it and embrace it for what it is?

Will you?

Whether you’re looking to experience powerful self-confidence, or get rid of your fear of public speaking, or lose a few inches from your waist, or maybe even if you want to be the next president of the United States! – here’s a technology that can aid you to get there.

Subliminal Power flashes unobtrusive messages (which you program yourself or choose from a pre-written list) onto your computer screen as you work — and literally starts to reprogram your mind so you can achieve whatever you want in life. You can even control for how many ‘milliseconds’ each message should flash. So while it is running, you probably won’t even notice the messages, or they are too quick for the conscious mind to comprehend…but your subconscious mind will still pick it up.

So the messages are sent directly to the impressionable subconscious mind, where they’re rapidly absorbed and used to create positive, lasting change. They bypass the critical conscious mind, which may filter out positive affirmations and thereby reduce the chances of success.

To provide a literal definition: Subliminal means “below the threshold of consciousness” – and sending subliminal messages means to send messages in a way that cannot be perceived consciously, only subconsciously. (Here’s an article with proof that it works)

Today, subliminal messaging is a popular method of self-development. Individuals have realized its ability to program their minds directly – and gurus such as Anthony Robbins, Tiger Woods and Darren Brown have done much to promote its effectiveness.

If you’re serious about your goals, you’re probably already using affirmations, motivational audios, journalling and visualization sequences. Now you can use one more powerful tool to bring your closer to achieving them – your own subconscious mind.

Click here to read more about Subliminal Power.