MODERN MYTH MESSAGES: THE HOBBIT….!

 

The Hobbit is the precursor to the Lord of the Rings saga. It tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a kind hearted, but fearful Hobbit whose dreams of grand adventures outside of his village (The Shire) have gone homeless. Now completely content in staying stagnate, his life has become a mundane routine of caring for 'the things' he has slowly collected. However, he is given the opportunity to forever change his destiny by joining a ragtag group of 13 dwarves who are intent on taking back their homeland from a giant, fire breathing dragon called Smaug! 

As is most often the case, this 'Reluctant Superhero' is at first slow to accept the challenge, scared to leave the comfort zone of a life that he thinks is keeping him safe from emotional, physical, and spiritual harm. 

In one final attempt to awaken Bilbo from his own slumber, he is met by the grand wizard Gandalf. For when the Super Hero is ready, the teacher will always appear! And Bilbo is about to discover that he is much more willing to accept his life's CALLING than he ever realized!



GANDALF: You've been sitting quietly for far too long! Tell me! When did doilies and your mother's dishes become so important to you? I remember a young Hobbit who was always running off in search of elves in the woods. And would stay out late. Come home after dark, trailing mud and twigs and fireflies. A young Hobbit who would have liked nothing better than to find out what was beyond the borders of The Shire! The world is not in your books and maps. (pointing to a huge, painted, stained glass bay window) It's out there!

BILBO: I can't just go running off into the blue! I am a Baggins, of Bagend! 

GANDALF: You are also a Took! Did you know that you're great, great, great, great Uncle Bullroarer Took was so large he could ride a real horse. Yes! Well, he could! In the Battle of Greenfields, he charged the goblin ranks. He swung his club so hard, it knocked the Goblin King's head clean off and it sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit hole. And thus the battle was won. And the game of golf invented at the same time. (sly smile)

BILBO: I do believe you made that up!

GANDALF: Well, all good stories deserve embellishment. You'll have a tale or two to tell of your own when you come back. 

BILBO: Can you promise that I will come back?

GANDALF: No. (two knowing beats) And if you do, you will not be the same.

From New Line Cinemas: The Hobbit



Everyone is a SUPERHERO!  And I do mean EVERYONE!  No exceptions granted. Yes, even you 'reluctant superheroes.' Especially all you 'reluctant superheroes!' Those of you who are still playing 'hard to get' with the Universe. You know who you are!  For there is a deep uneasiness within your very being that constantly shows you whispered signs of a CALLING yet to be fulfilled. A mission so majestic in scope that it scares you!  So you are still refusing its call. And that's OK.  FOR NOW! But get ready, for it won't be long before you will be called off the sidelines of life into massive action. Just sayin'!

For all of life itself is a Superhero's Journey. An experience of radical spiritual transformation. In which the Universe expresses itself through and as US! The Grand Creator seeks to expand always and in all ways. It's the very nature of God herself.  And as the late legendary physicist Stephen Hawking discovered, "The boundary condition of the Universe....is that is has NO boundary."  No boundary and that means NO LIMITS!  You chose to come here to carry out a CALLING that was Divinely Devised.  You carry a divinity spark of pure SPIRIT that is 100% heroic!  Part Martin Luther King Jr., part Yoda, Wonder Woman, and Captain America, but all Christ Consciousness!  By fulfilling your unique Mission, the byproduct is assisting and adding to the expansion of the Universe.  Which ultimately means creating more heaping buckets of LOVE!  The core component of all that is.......

The extraordinary spiritual teacher and master coach Martha Beck, in her book, "Finding Your Way in a Wild New World," describes all of us SUPERHEROES this way:

"Most of us feel a sense of mission involving a major transformation in human experience; a strong sense that whatever that mission is, it's getting closer in time; a compulsion to master certain skills in preparation for this half-understood personal mission; high levels of empathy; an urgent desire to lessen the suffering of humans, animals, and plants; and a loneliness stemming from a sense of difference, despite being generally social. "

She calls this group of Superheroes 'The Team.'  I call us The Legion of Love!  If you would like to officially join this team, just let me know and your t-shirt and pin will be in the mail, pronto!  ;0)

We aren't here so much to save the world as we are to SHIFT IT!  If you are here now, it means you were 'tagged' by the Universe to discover and unleash your Super Heroic Higher Self on this planet!  And you chose to accept this 'Mission Possible', because THAT IS WHAT SUPERHEROES DO!  We seek the grandest of adventures.  BLISS is our birthright!  And we devour any chance to experience it in all its magnificence! When we are summoned into 'being of service', we don't walk, we eventually run toward our CALLING!  

As the master of myth magic himself, Joseph Campbell said, "It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time- namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.  When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say,  follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." 

Our government is in complete turmoil, climate disruption is threatening our way of existence, the middle class is shrinking by the day, and fear and hate have created one of our countries, if not the worlds, greatest periods of divided disconnection.  And while there are many who have awoken from their slumber, still others are stuck in choosing spiritual sides.  Either stay in the darkness, where it's safe, or have the courage to be reborn into a new identity.  That of a Superhero!  The Superhero everyone came here to be!  

Becoming a Superhero isn't easy. Far from it!  That fancy cape must be earned!   You must leave behind the world of comfort you think is protecting you from pain, to step into this New World that holds the truth of your Supreme Power.  And you know at times,  it's gonna hurt.  But aren't you in enough pain already? If you aren't already following your personal CALLING, I'm sure you are experiencing periods of listless low energy, disillusionment, being directionless, or the burning knowingness there is more to life than 'this.'  Perhaps your life feels meaningless and devoid of emotional zest.  Maybe you've even put your desires back on the bookshelf of broken dreams.

Hiding from your authentic self isn't the answer you seek.  It never is!  Superheroes are built for anything and everything this world can dish out!  The very process that birthed us into this reality caused your mother a great deal of suffering.  (And that's why everyone knows mom's are all Superheroes!)  Any birthing process causes suffering. My very definition of the word itself is:

Summoning our
Ultimate
Fears &
Frailty
Encouraging
Rebirth

But please remember that you don't have to take one single step of this Journey by yourself. Again invoking the sage words of Campbell, "Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.  The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had though to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world."

And the world needs its Superheroes now more than ever! There is a strong disturbance in the Force/Source of the Universe.  And it's causing a mass crack in consciousness.  One by one, souls on this planet are beginning to awaken to the SUPER HEROIC AGE that is now upon us. Why do you think Superhero movies have completely resurrected and transformed Tinseltown's creative juices? Since the beginning of time, art has always played a vital role in its reflection of our current cultural distinctions.  As Harold Goddard states, "The destiny of the world is less determined by the battles lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in." And right now, we all love stories about Superheroes!  Wouldn't you agree? Like all great mythology, these stories are helping us remember our own heroic nature.  

When the student is ready, the teacher will always appear.  So I suggest you take a close look around. The signs are everywhere.  In the song on the radio, and the book you are currently reading. On the next TV show you watch or the next blog you read! (wink, wink) LOL  

Just as we are all Superheroes, our collective purpose is also one in the same.  We are all here to be of LOVING, bliss filled service to ourselves and each other! BOOM! Period and exclamation point! Our individual CALLINGS are the vehicles through which we deliver that form of service.  And your CALLING has just as much to do with what you are being as what it is you are doing with your life.  Think of it this way.  Your purpose is the beingness and your calling is the doingness part of your Superhero's Journey!  And by that I mean being kind, compassionate, patient, joyful and loving.  The doingness is the divine assignment you came here to fulfill!  Together, they combine to join forces like two BSF's.  Best of Super Friends!  And in tandem, they create the love filled expansion the Universe desires........

And for all your Super Heroic efforts, you get to experience all the abundance within the Universe! All the wealth, health, joy, laughter, light, LOVE and BLISS in the Cosmos!  As you ask, so shall it be given. That's a pretty fair trade off, right? I say Hell yes!  

The issue isn't IF, but WHEN will you decide to make that leap of FAITH?!  That very first step into the Heroic Life that is still awaiting you.  Worry not if you are still on the sidelines of life.  For your CALLING is very patient............ 

Please Be Patient With Me....

As My CALLING Has Been Patient...

And Your CALLING With You...

As CALLINGS Are Non Temporal...

Eternally Obedient...

A Contract Written With Remnant Tears...

From The Times They Were First Imagined..

And Birthed through JOY's LOVE and Laughter...

They are INTUITION Made Tangible Guide...

Sealed With God's Knowing Nod...

And So It Is........

Jeffrey Louis Martinez 

The Universe is starting to nudge you toward pure KNOWINGNESS!  For every season has its time, and for the Superheroes of this world, the clock closes in on midnight. The hour of heroic spiritual transformation is upon us all!

As it states in the revelatory book 'God I Am,' "There is no single path that leads to the realization of the Oneness of all Life.  Each soul has to walk its own path.  However - all roads lead to the same homeland.  In truth there is no road to travel, for what we call a path is but the awakening of a soul from its deep slumber. But, when our destination is in sight, you may find it was the grandest journey you have ever undertaken, because on this journey we are homeward bound."

So finish that book! Start that business! Open up that art studio! Become a teacher! Design that daringly new swanky building! Direct that movie! Write that symphony! Get up on stage and speak, sing, or dance your heart away! Whatever you do, please Do Not allow the gifts you came to unleash out into this world perish within your earthly body! Because THAT my friend, is the real definition of a SIN!

And please always remember there is only ONE thing to ever be afraid of.  And that, my New Age Nerds is 'Father Time.' Because not one of us knows when our time will be up!

BE SUPER HEROIC!

LOVE - SERVE- INSPIRE

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

TIPS To Find And RECLAIM Your Set Of Superpowers …!!

 

Once you make a firm declaration to the Universe of  'Who You Now Choose To Be'....  lest you not be surprised if many of those special spirits in your life start to transcend back into their own darkness (Egoic-self); away from the bright, blinding, beautiful glow emanating from your personal love light! The loss of friends and family members who are chosen to be loved from the 'other side of the room' can be an incredibly painful process. I promise it has nothing to do with YOU~ And by that I mean the sacred shard of your soul that is a part of The One God Mind! NO! They are simply not in the same space within their own spiritual process to receive YOU exactly as you are currently choosing to show up. 

And that is A-OK! (Why do you think Jesus the Christ taught his shrewdly chosen disciples the practice of communion?! It was all about the practice of receiving your fellow brethren EXACTY AS THEY ARE! Not to receive just HIM, but rather all those who carry the Christ Consciousness! Black, white, brown, and mixed. Catholic, protestant, Baptist, Jewish, and Hindu. Gay, straight, lesbian and transgender. Democrat, republican, independent, socialist, or libertarians. If I forgot anybody, hit me up on Instagram; under Fellow Brothers from any other Mothers!  lol )  

For one of the basic tenets to spiritual growth is the following:

Everyone deserves the dignity of their own spiritual process........
(Followed closely by the commitment of NEVER giving others unsolicited spiritual advice. Oh, don't even get me started on that one...Lordy, lord! Thank you God that you never gave me a spiritual sword!  LOL)

Know that this 'Spiritual Scrubbing' is a painful and immensely challenging part of the process of your own SOUL ascending back toward the space of all encompassing LOVE. 
For you have overcome the dense experience of partial spiritual 'AMNESIA' that once served you well. The space in which your EGO eternally resides. The temporal and illusionary feeling that you, and everything apart from you are separate from each other. The greatest Con-Job ever created. And the most effective! For consciously choosing to forgo an eternity of joyful cosmic frolicking to enter a realm that temporarily denies you from your own birthright is downright disorienting; harrowing, and scary as well...  HELL! ( So much as Hell even exists. Again, another story for another post, keeping you from worry!)

Which brings us to another basic spiritual tenet: 
Remember everything occurring on this heavenly plane of Earthy existence is happening For You.  Not TO YOU!  Big difference.......

And boy does the Good Lord, informed through the Christ Consciousness, know I am well aware of this transition. At times over the past decade, I've felt like I've been in the middle of a vicious, turbulent storm being thrown around like a flimsy rag doll! And no doubt......   IT HAS BEEN BEYOND PAINFUL! New friends can often be made quickly, history cannot..........

And so too many of my days were spent asking the following non-fruitful questions: 

I wonder what people are thinking about me now?!
Is it all me?! 
What did I do?!
It must be all my fault!
Maybe I really am crazy! (Still up for discussion!  lol)
Rinse and Repeat!     lol

But then, I came to KNOW, through deep prayer and mediation, that I had been asking the wrong questions. It had nothing to do with what I was doing. And everything to do with what I was NOT doing! 

For instance, I was no longer allowing others to take my friendship for granted. 

I was NOT being a by standard towards any form of judgment or prejudice towards me or my fellow brethren.

I refused to condone any belief system that held me hostage from any physical, mental, or spiritual malady that had become a part of my Earthy being! For I remembered that my greatest Superpowers drew their strength from the most fervent pain points I had been courageous enough to battle through! 

I was no longer participating in what I now call a '90-10' relationship! Meaning I showed up 90 percent of the time, and 'The Other' 10 percent or even less. (Not a judgment, but a declaration for sure, of how I now value my own sense of SELF!)



The Universe had always been in charge! Guiding me through these many Earthly challenges, as well as the enormous amount of pain and suffering these experiences brought into my life. All to serve my greatest good! And as a byproduct, the highest good of all earthly beings! For the true definition of a SUPERHERO is to be of service. 

The word itself was born from the greek HEROS. Meaning Two! 
That which I do for YOU, I do for mySELF! And that which I do for mySELF, I do for you. ALWAYS! It was later shortened to the singular, HERO. TO BE OF SERVICE! PERIOD! The lexicon now borrowed from the world's greatest thinkers alike. 

Such as one of my own personal Superheroes, Martin Luther King, Jr.  who wrote, in my opinion, one of the greatest speeches of all time, called 'The Drum Major Instinct.'  As we all know, the God given talent he had for using parables as a way of teaching his message were unmatched and very evident in this speech that still sends chills up my spine every time I hear or read it!  It truly speaks to the topic of living a life of SIGNIFICANCE and LOVE.....  Here is just a tiny excerpt that I hope INSPIRES all who read it......

But now the problem is, it is the drum major instinct. And you know, you see people over and over again with the drum major instinct taking them over. And they just live their lives trying to outdo the Joneses. (Amen) They got to get this coat because this particular coat is a little better and a little better-looking than Mary’s coat. And I got to drive this car because it’s something about this car that makes my car a little better than my neighbor’s car. (Amen) I know a man who used to live in a thirty-five-thousand-dollar house. And other people started building thirty-five-thousand-dollar houses, so he built a seventy-five-thousand-dollar house. And then somebody else built a seventy-five-thousand-dollar house, and he built a hundred-thousand-dollar house. And I don’t know where he’s going to end up if he’s going to live his life trying to keep up with the Joneses. LOL

There comes a time that the drum major instinct can become destructive. (Make it plain) And that’s where I want to move now. I want to move to the point of saying that if this instinct is not harnessed, it becomes a very dangerous, pernicious instinct. For instance, if it isn’t harnessed, it causes one’s personality to become distorted. I guess that’s the most damaging aspect of it: what it does to the personality. If it isn’t harnessed, you will end up day in and day out trying to deal with your ego problem by boasting. Have you ever heard people that—you know, and I’m sure you’ve met them—that really become sickening because they just sit up all the time talking about themselves. (Amen) And they just boast and boast and boast, and that’s the person who has not harnessed the drum major instinct.

And then it does other things to the personality. It causes you to lie about who you know sometimes. (Amen, Make it plain) There are some people who are influence peddlers. And in their attempt to deal with the drum major instinct, they have to try to identify with the so-called big-name people. (Yeah, Make it plain) And if you’re not careful, they will make you think they know somebody that they don’t really know. (Amen) They know them well, they sip tea with them, and they this-and-that. That happens to people.

And the other thing is that it causes one to engage ultimately in activities that are merely used to get attention. Criminologists tell us that some people are driven to crime because of this drum major instinct. They don’t feel that they are getting enough attention through the normal channels of social behavior, and so they turn to anti-social behavior in order to get attention, in order to feel important. (Yeah) And so they get that gun, and before they know it they robbed a bank in a quest for recognition, in a quest for importance.

And then the final great tragedy of the distorted personality is the fact that when one fails to harness this instinct, (Glory to God) he ends up trying to push others down in order to push himself up. (Amen) And whenever you do that, you engage in some of the most vicious activities. You will spread evil, vicious, lying gossip on people, because you are trying to pull them down in order to push yourself up. (Make it plain) And the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

But let me rush on to my conclusion, because I want you to see what Jesus was really saying. What was the answer that Jesus gave these men? It’s very interesting. One would have thought that Jesus would have condemned them. One would have thought that Jesus would have said, “You are out of your place. You are selfish. Why would you raise such a question?”

But that isn’t what Jesus did; he did something altogether different. He said in substance, “Oh, I see, you want to be first. You want to be great. You want to be important. You want to be significant. Well, you ought to be. If you’re going to be my disciple, you must be.” But he reordered priorities. And he said, “Yes, don’t give up this instinct. It’s a good instinct if you use it right. (Yes) It’s a good instinct if you don’t distort it and pervert it. Don’t give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be first in love. (Amen) I want you to be first in moral excellence. I want you to be first in generosity. That is what I want you to do.”

And he transformed the situation by giving a new definition of greatness. And you know how he said it? He said, “Now brethren, I can’t give you greatness. And really, I can’t make you first.” This is what Jesus said to James and John. “You must earn it. True greatness comes not by favoritism, but by fitness. And the right hand and the left are not mine to give, they belong to those who are prepared.” (Amen)

And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. (Amen) That’s a new definition of greatness.

And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, (Everybody) because everybody can serve. (Amen) You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. (All right) You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. (Amen) You only need a heart full of grace, (Yes, sir, Amen) a soul generated by love. (Yes) And you can be that servant............

Martin Luther King, Jr.

And a precious two days later, Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in cold blood.  Yet I truly believe he had lived his CALLING and spread the Gospel he came here to deliver!!

But if like me, you came down to Earth at this particular point of spacetime, then it is because you are a SUPERHERO and have a grounded knowingness that your task would be, like Martin Luther King's, far from easy! And yet, you still agreed to this 'Mission Possible.' All for the grand experience of love filled understanding that shall birth us into the next expanded state of Collective Consciousness. 

Over the past 5 and 1/2 years, I have been writing about many of these topics within several posts on my spiritual, transformational blog, The New Age Nerd. (For anyone reading this who has not yet visited my site, please go to www.TheNewAgeNerd.com)

Through decades of intense metaphysical studying with mentors, reading the words of spiritual masters, and securing my own individual certifications in Spiritual Leadership, I know beyond any shadow of a still darkened face that all of your collective pain in shared Consciousness is now ready to be displayed on the WORLD's STAGE! To be seen, understood, and healed! 

So stay strong and resolute my fellow New Age Nerds! For the opposition of misguided fellow space travelers are filled with their own darkened agendas. As they always have been throughout the very etches of creative freedom this realm affords us all.  And this World of polarized and very disparate SPIRITS can only permanently succumb to the tyranny of needless pain and suffering once we refuse to take up a sharpened blade! Not for the idealization of blood thirsty desires, but rather the courage to defend all those who have neither the voice nor necessity to do it for themselves! For that is the true calling of a Cosmic Superhero! And one that needs our firm commitment RIGHT NOW! No more 'One day'er' mentality! The time is upon us, the only question being asked: "Will you declare yourself to be a part of the continued problem, or part of the eternal solution?"

First we were attacked by an insidious pandemic that has killed millions of people around the planet. Followed closely by the biggest social justice upheaval in 60 years. Then we were pounded into submission by ravenous storms that continue to tear through our country. (amongst so many others) Leaving millions without not only a home, but an entire town to return to! Yet another dire warning, directly from this planet and its furry inhabitants, that being here is a privilege, NOT a right. Climate disruption is REAL, and turning a cheek just won't cut it anymore! (Animal justice is yet another crucial, much less compassionate topic for another post)

And as we all know,Russia began an entirely unprovoked WAR against the always docile country of Ukraine! The horrifying nightly pictures running roughshod across tv screens, displaying the blasts of bloodshed and loss of life, is often way too much to emotionally rationalize. And downright devilish in nature! All led by a despot who is starting to remind us of another devilish figure, Adolf Hitler!  And we all know the everlasting physical, emotional, and spiritual damage which was caused by allowing him to much wiggle room before stepping up to the plate to displace his power and pain, with a loving might and resolute determination to MOVE TOWARDS MASSIVE ACTION!  

For even Jesus the Christ was never considered a Boy Scout. NO!! He was feared as a rabble rouser in his land. Often the first to raise a Heavenly hand to overturn the tables of corruption that dared to singe a stranglehold over those who had no real voice! 

So in these uneasy times, please hold those truths in your own heart! Jesus taught us that it is not only your God given right, but your purpose to stand up against any form of unconsciousness. (in the form of hate, prejudice, disenfranchisement, inequality, or misogyny) As Albert Einstein said, "The World is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look and do nothing." And let us be honest, who wants to argue with AB, (Albert Einstein) emma right?!  ;0)

So when you decide to draw that line; the one that is born from the darkened blood of your own right to live a life free from any form of indignation, KNOW WITHIN YOUR HEART THAT AS MANY MAY FREE THEMSELVES FROM YOUR OWN LIFE........    THAT I (Amongst so many others) WILL FILL THAT INTERNAL VOID WITH A LOVE THAT WILL TAKE A BILLION LIFETIMES TO BURN THROUGH..........   For the entire Cosmos truly 'Sees You!' They adore you, and are beyond thankful that you had the courage to come here during this true tipping point! All towards a World that will continue to breathe life for the billions of SOULS who have yet to experience its beauty, brawn, and miraculous connection for Eons to come.........!

For although we have come so far....  OUR SUPER HEROIC JOURNEY is still just beginning! So I ask you, are you prepared to give up the pain from the myriad of your own personal losses, and channel it into acts of service? The planet is wilting from pain. (Remember, Earth is a sentient being. It is a living system and uses nearly the same mechanisms all living creatures use to survive) Just look around. I mean TRULY look around your daily environment. I believe you will see a plethora of ways to be of service! After all, in the end, we all become nothing but stories. So......what story will you write through super heroic acts of LOVE!

BE SUPER HEROIC!
BE LOVE - SERVE  - INSPIRE

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

The UNIVERSE Is Always Sending Us SIGNS.. But Are You LISTENING?!

 

In the Summer of 2005, the real estate market in this country was on FIRE. Individuals were leaving their 'day jobs' to become buy and -quick flip- house hunters.  Especially in the 'City of Angels.  And I wanted in on all the action.  As did one of my best buds.  When the student is ready, the teacher will appear! And our real estate instructors were coming into Long Beach, CA for a two day seminar on the art of buying, fixing, and flipping houses for a ton of dough.  Heidi ho, heidi dough!   LOL!

My partner in crime and I made the hour long trek down to Long Beach one early Saturday morning. We had already digested a handful of books on the subject like two, true, New Age Nerds. We were waiting and ready to receive whatever SPIRIT had in store for us that weekend.  

The first day's seminar was broken up into two parts.  Both four hours in length.  The two of us were so busy jostling down notes in our real estate journals that we barely thought about food. But suddenly, a co-facilitator of the event walked on stage and announced it was time for our one hour lunch break.  The event planners broke the audience of hundreds up into groups of four.  They desired each group to act as a mini-mastermind. To spend the hour not only eating, but 'dreaming and scheming' with one another.  For where there are many, acting as ONE, the fruits will always be multiplied!  

Our fearsome foursome consisted of me and my buddy, as well as a dashing gentleman in his late 40's and an enigmatic woman of Middle Eastern descent approaching 60. (my guess) Small chat amongst us began in earnest as we walked across the street toward the culinary delight filled TGIF restaurant. LOL  

Given the crowd soon to come, we were fortunate enough to be seated quite quickly. Our preferred choices daringly decided, small talk resumed as we awaited our food. I chimed in to ask if everyone was open to sharing a quick story about themselves. A great ice breaker I thought!  And the team was more than obliged to take part.  

My friend and the gent now seated to his right, told stories about their family.  Both obviously married with kids. And then, our Middle Eastern friend slowly began to spin her tale. Through a thick accent, and a powerful essence, she had us hooked with the first word "well."  What followed was a story for 'All Ages!'  MIND BLOWING in substance and nature!

Her magnanimous story began nearly 40 years prior. When, as a 19 year old, she began to have fainting spells.  Apparently, she had fainted over a dozen separate times; many down the stairs, and even once while behind the wheel of her SUV.  Her doctors were completely flummoxed! They couldn't find one single thing wrong with her.  Despite the visitation of one specialist after another, she received nothing more than head scratching frustration. 

Until one morning, when she fainted while walking down her home's tall staircase and tumbled straight down into the basement!  Thankfully, her father happened to be home from work at the time and urgently rushed to her side.  She explained to us in great detail what occurred next.

She could feel her SOUL leave her body as she watched from above as her father tried his very best to arouse her!  She saw him crying with desperate tears.  "It's OK dad," she attempted to shout.  "I'm alright.  I'm right here!"  Before she could muster the strength to utter another word (on the 'other side', we speak through our emotions, but THAT is for another day)  she was suddenly whisked through time and space! She described it in great detail.  It reminded me of the scene in the Jodie Foster film Contact. (If you have yet to see this movie, place it high on your Netflix binge list) When Foster's character is placed in a pod built from extra terrestrial intelligence and sent cruising through the Cosmos; a vortex of vibrant lights bending into a matrix of delusionary images.  Spinning tunnels of SPIRIT filled abundance, wrapped in clouds of pure consciousness!  

And then, she espoused, everything came to a jarring stop!  What she uttered next still resides deep within my own inner being.  An energetic form, too beautiful to accurately describe, slowly approached her. And although the face of this sentient being never fully actualized, she fervently believes it was the essence of Jesus the Christ!  The closer in proximity this 'being' became, the more she described being bathed in UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.  A warm glow of "UNADULTERATED JOY" washed over her, she gushed.

Communication between the two radically began.  Resolute with each and every word, she said, "I was told that I would be returning, healthy and whole, to my human body.  And now had a MISSION to be fulfilled. I would be given an ability.  A special gift. The superpower to KNOW when someone was NOT following their own personal CALLING.  And it would be up to me to help them re-member."  We were all quickly jolted from our trancelike sensation, woven by this glorious gal, by the waiter delivering our tasty treats. 

Looking at the clock, we noticed our one hour lunch break was quickly coming to a close. So we scarfed down our food and began to divvy up the check.  My buddy had to use the rest room, so he hurriedly shot off away from the table.  And then, just as I was turning to walk toward the establishments door, this Wisdom Warrior softly tugged on my shirt. In her thick Middle Eastern accent, she softly uttered, "Jeff, will you stay back with me for a bit?"  

"Absolutely," I said.  And the next five minutes changed the course of my life FOREVER!

She moved in very close to my 'personal space.'  And looked me dead in the eyes before explaining, "Jeff, you KNOW why you are here, don't you?"  

"Of course I do!  To learn to buy some real estate and gobble down some of TGIF's finest vittles," I chuckled.  

She remained super stoic. "No.  You know why you are here on Earth?" she questioned.  "Jeff, you are here to be a great spiritual teacher.  To help change the world.  And I know you understand this.  But why do you not do, what you came here to do?" she said with great intent. Tears began to flow down my cheeks. It was hard for me to maintain eye contact. She was telling the truth!  And I did know it.  I had since I was 17 years young.  Yet, 20 years later, I was still dabbling and circling my CALLING.  Never committing to it.  "I still don't feel ready," I told her.  

"You are more ready than you allow yourself to believe," was her sage advice.  

She grabbed both of my hands with a soft caress.  Touched my chin, and gently lifted up my face so that our eyes could connect.  "There are not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of people that you are here to assist.  You must follow this path.  The world is waiting for you.  I am here to share this remembrance with you. But it is you who must keep your promise."

My tears became something more akin to leaky faucets. It struck me as so truthful. I felt this prickly feeling that grew into BLISS.  It felt as though my own SOUL was 'Jumping for JOY.'  "Right on, Jeff!  I'm here, for you, and as you, for us all,"  I garnered from this inner, yet otherworldly sensation!  

I hugged her tight and she wouldn't let me go.  At least not before whispering into my ear, "Keep your promise."  Our embrace came to its close and I spent a few minutes trying to compose myself. Looking at the clock, I was already five minutes late to the second half of that day's seminar.  I dashed back across the street and took my seat alongside my good friend.  At the close of that day's event, I searched and searched, but could not find this Super Soul Saver, anywhere.  In fact, I NEVER SAW HER AGAIN!


SUPERHEROES IN TRAINING TAKEAWAYS

I wish I had a dollar for every time I have heard the utterance, "I wish life came with a guidebook!"  Well, it actually does!  We are often just too distracted to actually receive it. 
The Universe is constantly communicating directly with you. Sometimes it is quite subtle in nature. It may whisper its messages through the next song on your Alexa playlist. Or the children's television show you have watched for the 100th time. Yet during the 101st replay, you are relaxed and fully present. And, BOOM, it jumps out at you. Just what you needed to hear!  It was always there! (slap to the forehead)  

Remember Dorthy, from the Wizard of Oz. Her lesson is OURS!   That's why that film will continue to transcend its place in time forever!  Her 'super powers,' along with all the answers she was searching for were right there with her; the entire time.  She just needed to be remembered of them. That's what we are all doing here my dearly beloved New Age Nerds! Assisting one another in remembering 'Who We Really Are.'  

Haven't you ever wondered why this extraordinary planet is filled with so many amazing creatures?  Yes, its partly because all of nature is where the garden of 'Awe and Astonishment' is nurtured.  But it is also because it gives the Universe the most unimaginably wondrous ways through which to communicate with us!  As when a recently passed member of your tribe promises to communicate with you once 'on the other side.'
And the love of birds or butterflies that you both shared is the very sign that begins to show up on a regular basis!  

As for me personally, I wouldn't have it any other way!  Forget the guidebooks.  Give me the serenity of season's change. The sense of emotionally charged power and ONENESS that imbues my heart and soul when synchronicity graces me with its magic! The wonder of NOT KNOWING, until suddenly, YOU DO!  All because someone carried a seed meant to be ever so gently caressed and then planted within the unique emanation of the ONE GOD MIND.  

Once the few begin to commit to awakening the many, our current opioid epidemic will be vanquished back to the land of the lost.  Because once you taste the sweet nectar from the chalice of your Super Heroic Higher Self, the high from any foreign substance will feel emotionally barren. I promise!  ;0)

So I think it's time for all of us to make a commitment to ourselves and others. I pledge allegiance, to the flag......ummm  no no no.  Wrong pledge!  LOL!

Seriously, what would it feel like to commit to becoming a fully self actualized Soul on this planet. Declaring to the Universe that you are ready, willing, and waiting!  You won't even have to do all the heavy lifting.  Because in leaving all the 'HOW's' to the Universe, you will be free to see with fresh eyes; listen with eager ears. For all the magical manners in which the Grand Creator herself will impress upon you the soft signs, intuitive hunches, and in your face wallops of wisdom from many corners of your daily experiences! Leading you to all your own answers. And blessing you with the directions and plans to fulfill your personal CALLING. And then never ending abundance in all its forms suddenly floods your daily experience; all for you to share these gifts in loving service with the world.  Sound groovy?!  It sure does to me!

BE SUPER HEROIC!
LOVE-SERVE-INSPIRE

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

The ONE THING To Do And Completely TRANSFORM Your Life In 2024..!!

 

Now that I have finished my Master Life and Leadership coaching program, I feel an immense sense of accomplishment and pure JOY!  It's something I have desired for over 15 years and to have it finally come to its fruitful and abundant fruition, I ponder the path it took to complete the feat while maintaining a full time job, several coaching clients, and running The New Age Nerd concurrently.  While it certainly has not been easy by any stretch, I have NEVER felt a deeper sense of SOUL purposed connection!

During the past 9 months, I have had a daily barrage of inquisitive individuals inquire how in the hell I was able to juggle all these tasks and stay sane!  So I thought it would make a perfect post topic to share with the New Age Nerd community in the hopes that you all can incorporate my process into your daily duties to accomplishment your heart's most deep felt DESIRES!  And I promise I am going to keep my method to the madness as a KISS (Keep It Spiritually Simple) Paradigm! Deal?!

The Secret Sauce to my success came from one single change in my daily routine. And that has to do with CHANGING MY DAILY HABITS! As they say, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. In order to experience new things, you must incorporate new action steps into your daily routine! We are so conditioned to live like robots, carrying out each and every day as though we are in the movie GROUNDHOG DAY. Our lives on complete autopilot, with daily routines that alter very little. Sound familiar?! I'm more than willing it does!  And please DO NOT judge yourself for that behavior.  Society as a whole has an intrinsic conditioning pattern that we follow like rats on a wheel. That's why so many of us say we are living ‘The Rat Race’.  Because WE ARE! And it's time to wake up...........

In one of my favorite books, ‘The Four Desires’ by Rod Stryker, he declares that the single most powerful thing anyone can do to drastically change their life is to start changing their daily habits. Here is an excerpt from the book that is so transformative, I felt urged to share it in its entirety:

“There is, in fact, power in learning to let go of even a single habit, a kind of power that can generate real momentum toward achieving either a specific desire or simply more of the life you truly want. 

In my book, “The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity and Freedom,” I detail a simple yet profound process for increasing your capacity to positively shape your future and, more specifically, for achieving your intentions. I developed this process based on the ancient teachings and a simple truth: One way to affect real change is to break a habit — not necessarily a habit that seems related to the specific change you want to achieve, but simply any habit that you recognize as being unhelpful or counterproductive. 

I call the first part of this process, in which you simply refrain from doing a “less-than-constructive” habit, Departure Point. I call it this because the very action of ceasing to engage a particular habit allows you to depart from the momentum that has shaped your life until now. The next step of the process is Seeding the Gap. Applied in conjunction with Departure Point, it refers to “planting” an intention into the mental and physical “space” that opens up each time you avoid indulging in the habit you have chosen to give up. 

The Departure Point technique is based on the principle that by giving something up, you create space and, as I have said, you separate yourself from the momentum of your past. In the process, you create the possibility to see, think and act differently, and to attract new opportunities. 

Here’s why: Each time you pause and choose not to indulge habituated behavior you enter into clear space, a “gap” which is, by definition, free from the distortion of your unconscious. The instant you do this you create an opportunity to link to sacred and sublime intelligence. Experiencing this, if only for an instant, connects you to boundlessness, a place free from the doubts, contrary beliefs, and/or misapprehensions that oftentimes obstruct you from taking greater control of your life and even achieving your goals. 

This point is essential. From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny. From the perspective of the ancient traditions stillness is a far more compelling force to influence and attract, and thereby help you fulfill your desires, than is desperation or even willpower alone. 

Break free of old patterns enough times and you will create a new and different future. This may sound too simple to be life-changing, but I’ve seen people accomplish incredible things, achieve profound changes in their life, simply by letting go of a habit and placing new, positive, life-affirming intentions into the space once occupied by their habit.”

And I am a true testament to the MAGIC of putting habit changing into practice.  I am not an ‘early morning person’. Yet, in the last six months, I started a NEW HABIT of getting up at 6 AM every day, including the weekends.  At first, I'll admit it was pure torture!  I mean, a “You've got to be frickin kidding me, its still the middle of the night” kind of feeling the first couple of weeks that the alarm went off at its new set time.   But that new habit alone has continued to have a ripple effect over my entire day.  I use the extra time to write my daily blog, and then go to the gym, all before my day job begins!  I have put on 20 pounds of muscle and written almost 800 pages with the extra time afforded me by making this ONE CHANGE!  And from this one shift in my day, my blog has gone from 20 readers a day to over 1,000! I then began receiving invitations from self improvement/spiritual podcasts-YouTube shows to be their eventual guests.  Not only that, I was invited to be a VIP guest of Bob Proctor's at his three day event ‘The Paradigm Shift’ in LA in October!! All byproducts of making a single habit change! It really works folks!!

This is such a terrific transformative tool, that I am including Rod's six step process to habit changing below:

“The following is the six-step process I developed for creating a Departure Point and Seeding the Gap

Step 1: Choosing A Habit to Give Up: Your Departure Point
The habit you are going to give up needs to be one that you deem non-constructive and that you are prepared to let go. It also needs to be something you do on a regular basis, perhaps once or several times per day or at least that you think about doing several times a day. 

It’s important to know that giving it up is doable and that you’re willing to give it up. Giving up a habit that is deeply engrained and has a powerful sway over you will give you maximum leverage if you succeed — but if it’s too hard, you may fail to give it up. 

You know best which habit will be the most effective for you to give up. Examples of habits that students have successfully given up include sugar consumption, excessive internet use, fingernail biting, gossiping, high-fat foods, coffee, pornography, wine, shopping sprees, listening to talk radio, “salty snacks” and watching too much television.

Step 2: Using Your Departure Point to Seed the Gap
After you have decided which habit you are going to give up as your Departure Point, here’s how the Seeding the Gap method works.
1. At some point in the day, you will have an impulse to engage in your habit. 
2. Rather than satisfy the impulse, stop. 
3. At this instant, turn your attention away from your impulse to engage in the habit and toward to a higher source: either an inner source of peace and calm, an infinite intelligence outside of you, or, if you prefer, God, nature, or even a remembrance of the love and support of people to whom you are closest.
4. For an instant, rest in this experience. Relax. Surrender into it. Be nowhere other than right there. 
5. Now, mindful of that experience of a higher source, remember your resolve or goal — think and with full feeling invoke the sense of a new and better future. Have the certainty and confidence that this intention has already been fulfilled. 
6. Give thanks.

This is the entire process of Seeding the Gap. Its six steps should take you less than a minute and can be done any time, any place; no one ever has to know you’re doing it. Simply repeat the steps each time you find yourself thinking about or craving the habit you’ve chosen to give up. It is ideal to do this a minimum of once or twice each day, more often if the impulse toward your habit comes up more often. 

Granted, giving up a habit is not necessarily easy, but the fact that you may feel some resistance to stopping it is also a signal that there is untold power in sacrificing your habit for the sake of something better, something you really, really want. As simple as it may sound, the technique of Seeding the Gap makes you increasingly capable of achieving your goals and shaping your destiny by one, helping you break free from the negative pull of your past two, enabling you to more effectively engage the power of resolve and three, by providing you with leverage to regularly remember and to connect to your source — a refuge of boundless power, possibility, and Grace. ”

Excerpt adapted from The Four Desires by Rod Stryker. 

So I hope this is all proof positive that we could all greatly benefit by applying this life altering tool into our daily practice!!  I'm Super Excited to hear about the AMAZING changes that start to manifest into your experience if you choose to start CHANGING YOUR HABITS!

BE SUPER HEROIC!

Serve-Laugh-Love-Inspire

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez