STOP Aimlessly DRIFTING Through Your LIFE... Here's How..!

TODAY'S INSPIRATIONAL “MYTHOLOGICAL MAGIC”

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Over 70 years ago, Napoleon Hill wrote a book called “Outwitting the Devil”, yet it wasn't actually published until quite recently.  At the time of its crafting, he had already made quite a name for himself in the business world, especially from the success of his seminal tomb “Think and Grow Rich.” (If you have not read it, I suggest typing in Amazon.com in your web browser as soon as you are done reading this post!)  So why exactly did this particular vision from his inner mind lay hidden from public consumption for decades?!?  After all, Hill was the author of numerous books that transformed the cultural zeitgeist of a society that had been been fiscally stripped and spiritually annihilated by the horrors of the Great Depression.  He had made it is life's purpose to take on the near Herculean task of setting aside over 25 years of his life to uncover the underpinnings of life success and what nuances existed that separates those of us who merely survive from those of us who actually eat PASSION FLAKES for breakfast and thrive the rest of each and every day of their brief time here on the planet, fulfilling their Hero's/Heroine's journey along the way. He went so far as to partner with the iconoclast Dale Carnegie who assisted him as a mentor on this mission of a Lord of the Rings worthy proportion!  Frodo who?!?  :0)

“If you undertake this job, you should interview not only the few who have succeeded, but the many who have failed. You should carefully analyze many thousands of people who have been classified as failures, and I mean by the term failures, men who come to the closing chapters of their lives disappointed because they DID NOT achieve the goal for which they had set aside their hearts toward achieving.   As it is inconsistent as it may seem, you will learn more about how to succeed from the failures as you will from the so-called successes.  They will teach you what NOT to do.  Among toward the end of your labor, if you carry it through successfully, you will make a discovery which may be a great surprise to you. You will find that the cause of success is not separate and apart from the man/woman.  That is is a force so intangible in nature that the majority of men never recognize it. ; a force which may be called ‘the other SELF.’  Noteworthy is the fact that this OTHER SELF seldom exerts its influence or makes itself known excepting at times of immediate emergency, when men are forced, through adversity and temporary defeat, to change their habits and THINK their way out of temporary defeat."

~~ Dale Carnegie  (OUTWITTING THE DEVIL)

In fact, this New Age Nerd credits a portion of his found commitment to life purpose on the profound Re-membrance that was gifted through Hill's luminous prose that contains a radical template for the law of attraction that FAR pre-dates this generation's proclamation that “The Secret” is the cure to our feelings of lack of abundance, inadequacy, and disconnection from our authentic SOURCE.   The only real secret he could find for manifesting extraordinary success in one's lifetime came from finding and following your purpose and desire for being here, and doggedly pursuing it with a concrete plan that is backed by daily ACTION STEPS.  Basically, know where you are going, and bust your butt with no complaining or explaining to get there!  Funny that the real ‘secret’ to, well, ‘The Secret’ is that THERE IS NO SECRET!  Perhaps Sean Connery summed it up best in “The Untouchables” with his wicked quip to Kevin Costner's lawman tasked with capturing Chicago's shiftiest crime lord, “Yes, but what are you PREPARED TO DO to get Capone!”  That line can be applied to all of our goals and desired manifestations.  Because you will most often find that those that simply DO, practice the ART OF ACTION.  As my my pop used to implore to his students, in life there are only two distinct camps.  You are either ‘working hard’ or ‘HARDLY WORKING.’  Nuff said! 

Conspiracy theories aside, I believe the reason the Napoleon Hill estate was reluctant to release the contents within “Outwitting the Devil” is due to its narrative premise.  For it is written from the understanding that Hill had an actual dialogue with SATAN himself.  A sit-down for the ages to say the least!  And what exactly would one even dare to wear for such an occasion!  LOL  Even in our contemporary exploitive and sensationalistic media landscape, the announcement of such a journalistic coup would cause quite a furor of frantic frenzy.  So can you you even attempt to ponder the marketing of such a seemingly preposterous declaration back in the days before Marty McFly innocently donned his Calvin Kleins before their time?!?  Although, ironically enough, it does feel like we are having continued dialogue with the DEVIL himself with each and every Donald Trump media debacle!  Forgive me Father, for I have sinned...  ;0)

So while reading the book, I took a page out of the Michael Beckwith (The founder of Agape Spiritual Center in Los Angeles) self actualization playbook, and substituted the ideation of the Devil, into THE EGO.  During many of his fiery Sunday  soliloquies, he would often refer to the Devil as being No Thing less than our own EGO, and it's attempt to keep us feeling separate from our authentic selves.(More on this masterful application in a future post!)

And just as in my beloved “Conversation with God” series, I implore my fellow truth seekers to try and set aside their contemplations on where the information is coming from, and instead intently focus on WHAT in the narrative actually RESONATES with their intuitive feelings.  CAPICHE?!?!
Fantastic! 

What did I find from this Devil's philosophical musings and declarations from the ‘Dark Side of the Force’.  While nothing revelatory in nature, it can be summed up within the context of one potentially destructive paradigm:  DRIFTING!  Napoleon Hill fastidiously used a simple, yet nearly flawless indicator of a person's current probability of achieving stupendous life happiness and success.  Before beginning work with a new group of corporate students, he would line them up and one by one, ask them just two basic questions.  The first being “What is your life purpose?”, and the second being “What is your plan for achieving it?”  After working with tens of thousands of well intended, highly educated individuals, he found that LESS than 10 percent could answer the questions he posed to them.  Many of them staying in jobs they detest, and in relationships that have long passed their intended expiration date!  And this, my fellow New Age Nerds, is the epitome of DRIFTING!

The Devil (EGO) said that this pattern of living energy is his greatest ally toward keeping people from a life filled with soulful expansion, peaceful platitude, and the ability to complete their Hero's/Heroine's Journey.  I can tell you from first hand experience that DRIFTING can become a horrible hindrance to any semblance of lasting happiness.  It's like ‘punching in and punching out’ of the time clock in life.  Living a surface existence instead of a deep, authentic, mindful co-creative process with life.  And it can touch upon and eventually erode what I call the PILLARS of LIFE.  Similar to the load baring posts that hold up any structural foundation, these pillars consist of personal support structures of our existence.  Relationships, jobs, health, fiscal abundance, spiritual practice; these are all the pillars that inform and maintain our sense of well being. 

When we drift in one or all of these areas, we are aimlessly sleepwalking through the precious moments of our days.  In the book, the Devil(EGO) specifically says, “A drifter is one who permits himself to be influenced and controlled by circumstances beyond his control.  He would rather have me occupy his mind and do his thinking rather than go to the trouble of thinking himself.   A drifter is one who accepts whatever life throws his way without putting up a protest.  He doesn't know what he wants from life and spends all of his time getting just that.  A drifter has lots of opinions, but none are his own......   I would advise him to WAKE UP AND GIVE.  Give some form of service to as many people as possible.  He must learn to give before he gets.”

So what can be done if you have found yourself in an habitual pattern of aimlessly DRIFTING through life?  I invite you to contemplate incorporating the following suggestions that can support you away from your EGO and it's treacherous temptations to keep you in a zombie like state of disillusionment, and bring back that ‘authentic swing’ that brings back the PASSION, JOY, and ZEST that makes life such a MIRACULOUS and Majestic experience!! 

1.  Decide what you want from life and what your God given talents might be.  The things that make time seem to FLY while you are participating in them is a great guidance system toward what those talents and passions truly are!

2. Create a plan for how to go about attaining your goal/purpose/mission.  Hiring a life coach is a wonderful way to start building a support team to assist you in this Journey in a compassionate, loving, and even fun manner!

3.  Analyze your past and present defeats or seeming failures.  (There are really NO failures, just ways that The Universe communicates constructive FEEDBACK .)  Again The New Age Nerd's definition of sin is to SUFFER without meaning.  Allow yourself to truly FEEL your feelings about the state of affairs in your life and ask Spirit for the guidance to help you understand the seed of equivalence in the form of an opportunity that is waiting to be discovered. 

4.  Become hyper aware of your daily habits and actions.  How much time are you spending surfing the internet, daydreaming, writing scripts in your minds for movies that will NEVER get made.  Anything that is actually keeping you away from tangible action steps toward your purpose. 

5.  Understand that FEAR is simply FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL.  It is the EGO's way of keeping you small, and is the biggest ally to the nasty nature of DRIFTING! 

And if all else fails, seek out your SEARCH and RESCUE TEAM.  Let them shower you with the Love and respect you deserve.  And don't be afraid to ASK FOR HELP.  Sometimes just breaking up our larger purpose into bite size chunks can help maintain the courage to step forward and simply BEGIN!  And a warm, trusting support team can be your own ‘Gateway to Narnia’ that initiates the start of a great big JUICY exciting chapter in your amazing new life!!

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

BE SUPER HEROIC!
LOVE - SERVE - INSPIRE

HOW We Will CHANGE/SAVE The WORLD..!

The path toward the realization of Actualized Self; the understanding that we are all a unique emanation of a FORCE that has always been and forever will BE is part of the authentic Superhero's Journey. Cosmic forces way beyond even the heightened of human senses cannot begin to capture the glorious rapture of the true SOURCE of our collective consciousness.  And anything of a collective nature shares a core semblance of TRUTH.  Of unity and commiseration. Of understanding and core strength that is impenetrable toward outside forces threatening any insidious actions threatening its very existence. 

The team of cosmic Superhero's I deem as  "The Legion of Love" (yes, that means all you New Age Nerds) are far more vital and needed NOW more than you may imagine. There is a scene in the film Rambo: First Blood Part 2 in which John Rambo believes he is no thing less than a pawn in the US military's machination for power and greed. And yet, through the soft, caring utterings of a Vietnamese refuge, he is reminded of how much his personal mission on this Earth matters:

Co Bao: Why did they pick you? Because you like to fight?
Rambo: I'm expendable.
Co Bao: What mean expendable?Rambo: It's like someone invites you to a party and you don't show up. It doesn't really matter. 
Co Bao: Rambo, you not expendable!

And like John Rambo, "YOU ARE NOT EXPENDABLE EITHER!" In fact, you are without measure. You matter so much more than you could possibly imagine. And spiritual soldier, "DON'T YOU EVER FRICKIN FORGET THAT!" But there is a question that must be pondered with undying certainty by each and every one of us as we rise from our night's slumber.  And it's exactly the way I prefer things to BE. Simple but oh so DEEP!  And I pray the answer has already been imprinted within the divinity of your SOUL! 

WHY ARE YOU HERE?! Seriously? Why do YOU feel you are walking along with this rest of us in this illusionary experience?!

Mock me if you like, but more importantly, answer the question with sincere authority for yourSELF!  I don't believe in absolutes, nor do I adhere to saintly musings that do not convey inner truths. Neither of which serve anyone's "greater good."  Wouldn't you agree?! 

But given the precious clicks on a clock that continues to move with our own time in its precarious grasp in this Earthly experience, continuing to run without any hesitation, do you not agree that it's a question worth pondering?! 

Before you succumb to any anxiety over your answer please understand that I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT LIFE IS A TEST.  There is no Pass/Fail final examination. I only ask that you search for the musings within your own SOUL. The part of you that is a spark of pure divinity. Obscured from EGO. Reticent toward the accumulation of short term contentment. Resolute in its absolve to attain happiness from that which is oh so short lived.
For within THAT space has been placed the answers that you truly seek! The solutions to the unadorned peace and joy that has escaped the ravenous hunger of the most rapturous galactic soul seekers of this spiritual realm.

For those who wish to gleem into my own lifetime ponderings of this proclamation, my answer may seem all too simple. I believe we are all here for only ONE REASON! 

TO BRING MORE LOVE INTO THE WORLD.....................

Everything comes back to this simple epithet, no matter how much deep pondering my own mind grinds its muscles. I come back to the exact same template of resolute belief. And as simple a task as this may sound written down and/or even spoken aloud, putting it into practical measures is something we still have much to learn, understand, and re-member!

Just today alone, can you think back to something you could have done, delivered, professed, or emotionalized with more LOVE than what you actually did?! Again, sans any judgment. THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS POST IS ABOUT! It's about raising our own collective consciousness back toward the vibration of deep resonating connection to the understanding that WE ARE ALL ONE! Separation is an illusion my New Age Nerds. May I please ask that we finally start treating this earthly experience in that manner. Too much of a good thing is starting to become our very own undoing. The sweet nectar of believing in our own separate GREATNESS is causing a dilemma of delusion that is threatening our combined efforts of gracefully saving this planet from its very demise. 

One of my own Superhero's for the ages is the great Albert Einstein. Before his passing, he wrote his only daughter a little known, but quite prescient letter, that has become a daily beacon that far surpasses any of his scientific pontifications on the reality of the Universe:

”When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me, and what I will reveal now to transmit to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice in the world.

I ask you to guard the letters as long as necessary, years, decades, until society is advanced enough to accept what I will explain below.
There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us.

This universal force is LOVE.

When scientists looked for a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most powerful unseen force.

Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it.
Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others.

Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity not to be extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love unfolds and reveals.

For love we live and die.
Love is God and God is Love.

This force explains everything and gives meaning to life. This is the variable that we have ignored for too long, maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will.

To give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution in my most famous equation.

If instead of E = mc2, we accept that the energy to heal the world can be obtained through love multiplied by the speed of light squared, we arrive at the conclusion that love is the most powerful force there is, because it has no limits.

After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with another kind of energy…

If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.
Perhaps we are not yet ready to make a bomb of love, a device powerful enough to entirely destroy the hate, selfishness and greed that devastate the planet.

However, each individual carries within them a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.
When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will have affirmed that love conquers all, is able to transcend everything and anything, because love is the quintessence of life."
From Albert Einstein.........................


In all that we do, if it is served with a helping dose of lavish LOVE, the end result would be spellbinding. Ethereal!  Grace filled! The exact same frequency that have propelled to historic highest,  the words of Jesus the Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr, Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Joseph Campbell.

LOVE is the most ferocious force in all the Universe. It absolves all ill-wills.  It is the unifying strength that fortifies us all. It pacifies all of our needs. It supersedes our greatest dreams. And under its forgiving grace, it has the ability to transcend the the most formidable blocks to the greatest miracles that heaven has placed within our most treasured dreams. 

Please never underestimate the CALLINGS of another's soul. We can only unify as the collective ONE if we have belief that every prayer under our unified vision is held as sacred. 

We LOVE!
We ASPIRE!
We TRANSCEND!
We ARE ALL ONE!


BE SUPER HEROIC!

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

STOP FORCING Your FAITH.. Learn How To LET LIFE FLOW..!

Back in the late Summer of 1997, I decided to finally pull the trigger and move from the Washington, DC area back to my birth home of Los Angeles.  I had been wanting to move back toThe Land of Angels for years.  I had spent the previous 18 months recovering from major Crohn's disease surgery (colostomy bag et al.) I figured having my colon taken out, followed by a hellish and completely unexpected and elongated recovery period gave me a lifetime Universal "get out of jail free" card to do whatever the hell I damn well pleased! And so I placed my now homeless colon in a large jar and headed out to find "The Adventure of a Lifetime!"........  I'm kidding...   The doctors wouldn't let me have my own organ. THE VERY NERVE...   LOL

Plus, this decision was far from being impetuous. No! Far from it. One night, well into my several month stay at George Washington Hospital, I had another ethereal experience that continued the crack in my consciousness. One that truly deepened/quickened my own  spiritual awakening.  It came in the form of a second visit from my Spirit Guides.  I wrote about it in a past post, but I am quite aware that many of you New Age Nerds never read it. So I am posting a portion of it's potent prose now:

The Elders did indeed appear in my room, and took the exact same positions around my bed as the first time they surprised me with their presence.  But this visit had a much more tangible reason for being.  As in the first visit, they each stepped toward me.  One by one, and laid out a single outstretched hand to rest on my body's core. The first one told me the Journey here in the hospital was about to end.  And that I would soon be going home with no further complications.  And to have FAITH in that.  The second Elder, at the head of the bed, then reached forward with a message of his own.  Again, all through finite FEELINGS. (We communicate through  feelings on the other side) He said that I was 
to- get this- move to Hollywood, CA.  And that the next step in my calling required me to be in Los Angeles, where I was born.  Certainly his declaration of a move to Hollywood was far from expected. Perhaps India, Nepal, or Peru.  But Hollywood?!   

When I asked why, the final Elder stepped forward and said that they could not disclose that information.  Because the wisdom and KNOWINGNESS I needed was to be found along this JOURNEY.  They each told me how much I was LOVED and CHERISHED. Then, once again, without warning, they disappeared.  Communication with them was like being in a trance filled with tranquility.  And when I broke free from that vibration, I once again felt my heart racing.  Uncontrollably so!  I pushed the emergency button next to my bed and two doctors and nurses flooded into the room.  They rushed me down to the cardiologist department and ran several tests. And once again, found nothing!  
The following morning I felt refreshed and even had a little bounce and pep to my step.  My nausea was completely gone.  And for the first time in months I even had an appetite.  I actually desired food!  And NOT from the continuous IV bag that had been slowly dripping packaged nutrients into my skeleton of my earthly body. (I had lost 50 pounds from an already frail frame the previous 6 months.) Hell to the yes, and can I get an AMEN up in this hospital room!  ;0)

After months of agonizing pain and suffering, one week later, I received my release papers. And for the first time, they were not short lived promises; quickly abated by yet another emergency ridden trip back to the same hospital bed for another visit, with an open ended release date!   For after this final visit from The Elders, I never did return to George Washington Hospital.   Their professed promise held true and steady! 

My dad had just purchased a killer convertible and on this warm summer day, I asked him to put the top down on the ride back home.  Tears flooded my eyes as I felt something so simple as the wind blowing through my hair and the sun's lovingly warm touch on my face.  There were several times in the hospital in which I seriously pondered my future. And whether I was destined to experience such simple magical moments ever again.  Yet, here I was, feeling spectacular and heading back to my own heavenly haven!  They say the greatest things in life are FREE, and in my experience, that should be the mantra for the world!

As we pulled up into our driveway, my mom assisted me in getting out of the car and helped me in walking down into the basement where I stayed. My dad went straight to quell one of his favorite earthly activities; GETTING THE MAIL!  ;0)  (I know you all have dad's who are the exact same way!)

I had just sat down on the sofa when my dad burst through the door calling my name.  “Oh my goodness gracious,” I thought.  "What NOW," I pondered with anxious emotions engulfing my still fragile state of being.  He came charging down the stairs and handed me a postcard.

“Look what came in the mail for you today, Jeff?”, he said.

It was a postcard with a Gi-normous picture of the HOLLYWOOD sign plastered on the front.  I quickly turned the card over. It had been sent from an old friend I had met through an International TV and Radio fellowship we had been awarded straight out of college.  We were roommates in the program and had promised to stay in touch upon the fellowship's ending.  Of course, as is typically the case, good intentions quickly morph into wonderful memories as life goes by. His name was John Wood and he had just moved to LA.  He was working for E! Entertainment and the postcard was basically an open ended invitation for me to visit.  I got the most intense case of what I like to call the Godbumps.   The ELDERS had told me to move to Hollywood.  And here, on my very first day back home, I get a card in the mail from someone I hadn't heard from in five years, inviting me out to LA no less. Talk about signs from the Universe! This was more akin to a real life "Monopoly" card stoutly declaring my next  planned move according to Spirit. Imbued with a magically resolute assurance of its appearance. Wouldn't you concur?! 

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Quicker than a torrential twister, I grabbed the phone and called the number written on the back of the postcard. And in five minutes, our five year non-declarative disconnection instantly dissipated into the same bond John and I had shared while in our IRTS fellowship!  With a valiant verve, I told him that despite my current state of a much needed full body makeover,  I would be in Los Angeles within the next three months; and indeed, nearly three months to the day, I showed up at his E! Entertainment offices ready to begin whatever Superhero's Journey lay before me!

Little did I know of the deep constraints that began my less than auspicious first year in The City of Angels! Here are the high (or lo) lights in proper fashion:

I had my just purchased bed stolen from the top of my SUV as I sullied into Seven-Eleven to grab a drink. I had tied the entire ensemble to the top of my rig just before leaving the mattress store.  Yet, as I sauntered out of this local convenience store, I saw several guys WITH MY BED, running down the street, with short stubby legs flailing as if their pants were on fire. 

I took off after them, but just before I caught up, a non descript, red pick up truck pulled up beside them. And within seconds, both the bed, and the- ahem - "gentlemen" I had been chasing were safely packed in the truck's back flatbed and quickly zoomed off to God knows where! Lesson number one in Los Angeles' apparent protocol. Beds are at a high premium and in short supply; act accordingly and buyer forever beware! lol

Soon after another trip to the mattress discount store, I moved into my very own pad! And of course I quickly moved to the next item on my check off list. It read, "Get a Dog!"  Because bringing in another live being into my barely burgeoning LA life was the perfect and completely sensible thing to do, right?!  Um, yeah! Not so much...........    lol

The very next weekend, after perusing the local paper's classified ads, I came across someone who was fostering a three year old yellow Lab .  By later that afternoon, "Harley" was in the back seat of my SUV as heading back to my apartment on the busy 405 LA freeway.  Super excited, I was blasting late 90's rock music when I heard a quick, sharp scratch. Thinking it came from the car just to the left of me, I leaned over to take a gander, yet saw nothing. Then, my heart started pounding. Was....that...sound...what....I thought ..... it was?!?!   

My eyes quickly shot toward the rearview mirror. I saw Harley behind my SUV, coming to a rolling stop in the middle of the freeway! He had jumped out the window! I had made sure to leave the back windows down just a few inches for just a scenario. Yet, somehow, I found one of the few rescue dogs in Los Angeles with an apparent suicide wish! Holy smokes!

Thankfully, Harley miraculously survived the fall with just a chipped front tooth. I do believe it took me much longer to emotionally recover from the ordeal than it did for his obviously mentally unstable psyche....lol

The following week, I returned home from the talent agency gig I had just secured to find my entire apartment ensconced in thick plastic. Didn't make ANY sense! Upon opening my door, a geyser of ghastly hot air shot straight out like a heat filled missile. By the time I had walked into the kitchen to put down my wallet and keys, I was soaking wet with sweat. The thermometer read way over 100 degrees. And the apartment had NO air conditioning. Seriously! Plus, I'm a "Lover," not a "sweater!" ;0)

I immediately called my landlord and discovered that the city had enforced them to do some remodeling on the entire building from bug damage.  It seemed illegal to me! Yet peppering the local city ordinance's did little to help the situation.  So Harley and I sweated out the next month like a Yogi in a swarmed steam pit of hell! 

Was THIS the "Grand Vision" my Spirit Guides had in plan for me with their bristled notion of me moving to Los Angeles?! To no one's surprise, I started having daily doubts about this life choice. If THIS is Heaven, then what must Hell feel like?!

But then, serendipity stepped in. And through a series of Spirit touched circumstances, I soon found myself out of that hellacious apartment! And life started to transform in many wonder filled ways. Including a bevy of new friends, a new (much more desirable) home on the other side of the Hollywood Hills, and several forms of spiritually like minded places and people that truly laid the foundation for my current life's mission! Guess my Spirit Guides knew the pertinent path I needed to pave to strengthen the parts of my SOUL that needed to be stretched and healed.  Places where light and love still needed to be applied with knowingness and compassionate care. And through this sometimes arduous process, many light filled Miracles helped shower me with exactly what I needed in order to birth them!

SUPER HEROES IN TRAINING TAKEAWAYS 

As they say, the truth is in the pudding.  And I have personally witnessed the power of SPIRIT that floods into our existence when we suffer from what I deem as a Break Open!  When we hit a period of absolute ROCK BOTTOM, which if truth be told, more of us experience than we are willing to admit!

And if this is the direction in which our life has taken us, oh too many surrender to our Ego and look for a way out of our PAIN!

Yet, if we just have the courage to SURRENDER to our authentic self in the form of our Divine connection to SOURCE energy, we can begin to rebuild our lives.  All with Divine Purpose. As we begin the process of finding our true CALLING! For while I DO NOT believe in ABSOLUTES, through 25 years of personal self actualization, we often hit a time period of ROCK BOTTOM that coincides with our unique Break Open!

To quote Gabrielle Bernstein from her transformative memoir SPIRIT JUNKIE, "Hitting bottom and surrendering was the best thing that ever happened to me.  It cracked me open and led me to hear the voice of my ~ing again.  The willingness to hear this voice was all I needed to receive the guidance .  The Course(in Miracles) teaches that with the slightest willingness you will receive guidance from you inner guide.  Our relationship with our~ing is like having a mentor or teacher.  The ~ing's sole purpose is to guide us back to love." 

SUPERHEROES IN TRAINING TAKEAWAYS!

And THAT my fellow NEW AGE NERDS is what this post is really ALL ABOUT!  LOVE!
And re-membering to always stay in a state of non-resistance to your very own birthright. Which is limitless and BLISS filled abundance in every conceivable form. WISDOM, PEACE, JOY, LIGHT, COMPASSION, and LOVE! Which when added up together, form the ultimate emotion of pure BLISS! The piece de resistance of the Universe! 

I often hear others discussing the meaning of RESISTANCE. And rightfully so. For it is a crucial part of the Universal equation toward our constant connection to The Grand Creator. 

My belief is that anytime you are in a Mind-Set with even pinches of spiritual filled emotions of self doubt/worthlessness, fear/worry, anxiety, limiting beliefs, and/or blocks of self love, you are aligned with the EGOIC Mind. And completely cutting off the natural FLOW of abundance that is seeking to express itself through and AS YOU! YOUR SUPER HEROIC HIGHER SELF! And albeit insidiously slowly, depression and despair slowly find their spiritual based pleasure within your psyche. You feel as though everything in life is happening TO YOU; rather than FOR YOU! Which is the secret spiritual sauce toward a life filled with unadulterated BLISS!  As you begin to feel as though you are somehow separate from SOURCE. The guiding light of creative energy and the very place your SOUL calls home! 

For when you truly in a vibration of ALLOWANCE, when life's torrential down pours have brought you down to your nightly knees, it is actually the greatest opportunity for you to have the Courage and Faith to Break Open!  And TRUST me when I tell you I speak from personal experience!  The process of surrendering to Spirit and allowing yourself to completely Break Open is perhaps the most transcendent of experiences that the Universe provides us in this dense realm!  For when we lean into this experience with all our heart and soul, the only thing that pours out of us is the willingness to love ourselves and others! I'm not saying it's a painless experience, but nothing worth while ever is on this side of SOURCE!!

Yet, if you are HERE, NOW on this planet, please KNOW it is because you have a very important role to play on this stage called LIFE! You had the spiritual fortitude to answer the beacon call for Earthly BLISS! A job for only the best and bravest soul's traversing the multi-verse! SUPERHEROES who run toward, not away from the greatest of challenges that arise throughout the cosmos! You've been TAGGED IT by GOD! 

Fast forward to watching the 2019 Golden Globe Awards.  Near the middle of the program, the customary Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award went to the great and very deserved Jeff Bridges!  And during his exceptional acceptance speech, he began to tell a story about Being Tagged IT by life. I would like to share it in full:

"One of the great, great Directors I was lucky enough to work for was the late great Michael Cimino. I can remember going into his office before the first day of filming and saying, "Mike, man, I think you have made a terrible mistake.  I'm not feeling this guy (his character) at all.  I feel so inadaquate.  I feel bad because I'm giving you such late notice.  But please fire me."  And Michael looked at me and said, "Jeff, you know that game TAG.  Well, YOU'RE IT!"  I said, 'What do you mean, I'm It?'  And he said, "You are the guy.  You couldn't make a mistake if you wanted to.  The life of this character is coming through you.  It's a done deal."  I thought,  that is a wonderful vote of confidence and a great new perspective to look at this thing.  And I used that in the film and use it now in all the other movies I've gotten, as well as in my life.    I've BEEN TAGGED!  I guess we all have been TAGGED.  We're alive!  Ya know what I'm saying.  I look at my life through the filter of movies.  I find directors and fellow actors all over the place in my life and one guy, he had nothing to do with the movies, but I have taken a lot of direction from him.  His name is Bucky Fuller.  Bucky made this great observation about these ocean going tankers. He noticed the engineers were particularly challenged by how to turn these things. They have this big rudder that took too much energy to turn the ship.  So they came up with a brilliant idea.  Lets put a litter rudder on the big rudder.  The little rudder will turn the big rudder.  The big rudder will turn the ship.  That little rudder is called a Trim Tab.  And Bucky made the analogy that the Trim Tab is an example of how the individual is connected to society and how we affect society.  And I like to think of myself as a Trim Tab.  And ALL of us are Trim Tabs!  We may seem like we are not UP TO THE TASK.  But we are, man, WE ARE ALIVE! We can really make a difference.  We can turn this ship in the way we want to go.  TOWARDS LOVE! Creating a healthy planet for all of us.  So, I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for TAGGING me.  And I want to TAG you all!  You're all Trim Tabs!  TAG, YOU'RE IT!"  

Do any of you reading have what I call GODBUMPS?  I sure did and still do!  And Mr. Bridges story is so poignantly powerful.  Every single one of us is here NOW because we have been TAGGED by the Universe.  We are all SUPERHEROES on a Journey with a unique, divinely devised Calling that absolutely No One can fulfill but......   Y...O...U!  You are that special, that amazing, and the God Given Gifts that have been bestowed upon you for this grand adventure are desperately needed by the World;  RIGHT NOW!  No more excuses.  NAP TIME IS OVER!  It's time to fully awaken into your Divinity.  

Just like my own personal story about being TAGGED, I'm not professing that the Journey will be easy.  Life isn't meant to be easy.  It's meant to be meaningful.  And Transformative.  You will be asked to face your fears and undoubtedly will be gobsmacked down to the mat more than once!  Just as I was that summer night over 25 years ago.  But PLEASE do not let that stop you from answering the Soulful Ringtone that is trying to awaken you to your calling.  Bless that sound in every form it arrives within your experience.  Be it in the next song you hear, or the next blog (wink) or book you read.   That music is just your own Soul seeking back it's dance partner.  Re-member, you are not doing any of this alone.  Within each of you is a Super Heroic Higher Self!  Don't be afraid of stepping out of your comfort zone and pealing off the Illusionary Veil of a former self that no longer serves you.  As scary as I know it can be.

What if I told you that everything that has ever rested deep within your heartfelt desires is awaiting you on the other side of all your Fears, Self Doubt, and Pain?  Would that give you the courageous push to finally Ignite your Super Heroic Higher Self and start living from that New Illusionless Identity?    And in addition, the byproduct of transforming into this Miracle Makin' Machine was nothing less than widening the flow of LOVE, WISDOM, COMPASSION, and BLISS back into the World! Being in Loving Service to all while wielding your own set of Super Powers. As Mr. Bridges said, we are all 'Trim Tabs!'  And there is no more time to waste.......   

And through this process of 'Breaking Open' to our authentic selves, we find that on the other side is what I call Blissful Boosts!  It's a process. It doesn't happen overnight, but trust me when I say that IT DOES INDEED OCCUR!  For as soon as you make that shift from Fear (EGO) to LOVE, MIRACLES begin to flood into your daily existence.  And life begins to take on a feeling of MAGIC!!  People who are in a similar energetic pattern begin to seemingly appear out of thin air!  New business opportunities show up as we take daily action steps toward what we desire.  And this experience we call life no longer feels like a daily slog!  Rather, it becomes a daily opportunity to experience pure BLISS! A sharing that feeling with the World! After all, isn't that what we are all seeking...


Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez

BE SUPER HEROIC!
LOVE - SERVE - INSPIRE 

PROOF That You Are A MIRACLE MAKIN MACHINE..!

The official definition of a MIRACLE : a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.

This past Friday morning began on a similar daily note of gratitude; with a heaping side order of knowingness that I didn't manifest into the human condition to allow life to happen to me. No 'Siree Bob!' Like a steely, gracious galactic gladiator, I came here in order to HAPPEN TO LIFE! To punch a gaping hole in the sky with a billion buckets of LOVE! All with the pure intention of restoring the natural flow of expansive growth from the 3rd to the 5th Dimension that the Universe now desires and declares as our next collective evolution toward pure BLISS!  That's just how I roll! ;0) 

Little did I know, that on this day, the Universe had more than a simple magic trick up its spiritual sleeve. I'm always one to ask the Grand Creator herSELF to astonish and surprise me with HER magical wand of awe and wonder. And she doesn't disappoint! I've found this to be the most productive manner to create true MAGIC in my life! And let's call a spade a - well, a spell of sorts- as your every thought, word, and action creates the reality you see before yourSELF! Your outer experience is a direct reflection of your INNER REALITY!! Please allow that to sink in for a moment. For you may be able to temporarily deceive yourSELF and those around you. But please TRUST me when I say that you will NEVER be able to deceive the Universe.  Do not pass Go! Do NOT collect $200.00. NO Boardwalk or Park Place for you! (Says the Wisdom Waiter of the Universe - where else do you think Seinfeld's Soup Nazi got his inspiration - lol) 

So after an early morning visit to hit the heavy weights at my local gym, I headed back home to begin my day. One gi-normous protein shake and super supply of supplements later, I went into my backyard to pick up the leftover limbs from the eradication of a 40 ft tree the day before. Hotter than a fritter on a frying' pan, I scurried back into the cool confines of my Washington, DC based home to write my daily blog post. 

After a liberal toweled wipe down of the sweat conversing my entire body (especially before it transformed into the dreaded 'Swamp Butt') I headed straight toward the awaiting keyboard of my five year old MacBook Air. All so I could do my daily medicinal meditation of communing with Infinite Intelligence. The "Wisdom Waltz" with a dance partner who could give 'Dancing with the Stars' a true run for their mojo! A connection I constantly still yearn for even years after perfecting its delicate dalliance. 

However, on this particular morning, as my fingers began to find their appropriate place on the keyboard where so many of my daily posts had been born, the computer sizzled in a WHIZ, BANG sort of manner. And not the notes from a perfect professor, but rather the noise that shakes the conscious connection I had so adored the past 4 years into a state of utter confusion! 

WTF!! No, really, WTF!! No juice, no power, no shirt, no dice! 

For the next 45 minutes, I desperately tried to get my computer to re-boot in any fashion possible. NOTE TO SELF: External hard drives are 'Mastro's of Miracles' in this technological age of information overload! Just a quick 'word to the wise.' If you don't have all your precious programs backed up by an external device, run, do not walk, to your nearest hardware haven of protection! And get that data nailed down pronto! Thank me latah gatah!  ;0)

Within an inch of the 'Grinch' who stole Christmas, I grabbed my computer and swiftly headed to the nearest Apple Store. I had already prepared mySELF for the nasty news that might be uttered from the alcoholic free zone of the Apple Genius bar. And after nearly an hour of trying to recisitate "My Precious," I was bluntly given the final proclamation! 

"Sir, your computer is completely fried! If you have three hours, we have an opening for one of our data specialists to remove the hard drive and see if we can possibly save any of your data. But, its a long shot and so expensive, it may not be worth the effort." 

"Exqueze me, ah baking powder! Come again!" I snorted.  

"Might be time to start thinking of your next computer," the 'Genius Officer' at the "GENIUS BAR," softly ushered. 

"Really, bra! Um, not exactly what I though a frickin' GENIUS was going to offer me as emotional support!" I shot out. 

To be fair, I was freaking out! After all, every single piece of important information I had been hoarding the past five years seemed to be eternally lost! Perhaps in the same unknowable Universe that steals your socks and underwear from the weekly wash! Feel me?!

But it was at that precarious moment that a true MIRACLE was about to be born into my personal experience! I slowly closed the computer screen and oh NOT so softly began to tune my personal SGS (Spiritual Guidance System) into direct communication with SPIRIT/SOURCE/INFINITE INTELLIGENCE! 

I was beyond resolute that I could, not unlike LAZARUS in the bible, literally bring my computer back from the dead! The key ingredient here my fervent followers of the New Age Nerd is KNOWINGNESS. I didn't think, believe, or wish for this to occur. HELL TO THE NO!!! Just as Morpheus ushered the truth to NEO in the MATRIX, you must not follow the path, but KNOW THE PATH!! Big difference.....................   TRUST!

And so I immediately went into full out communal mode! As I walked back to my SUV, I started to connect with the ONE GOD MIND. Slowly, softly and with delicate intention. At first! The subconscious mind, while 30,000 times more powerful than the conscious mind, it only 'comes to life' when wooed with utter awe and wonder! Like any spiritually attuned suitor, it must be coerced with utterances of pure BELIEF that it is being used for purposes of LUSCIOUS LOVE!! The very reason for its BEINGNESS.........  For when that form of "Purpose and Power" is fed to its hungry heart, the results are truly OTHERWORLDLY!! 

For it is only then in which the most outrageous of your inner desires become manifest into tangible form! And you will no longer have to believe in MAGIC! For you will come to understand that YOU ARE MAGIC! In fact, in time, you will come to know that you are not just a drop of the ocean of Universal Miracles;  you are THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN A SINGLE DROP! Please read that last sentence one more time............  ;0) 

So as I opened the door to my ride home, I placed the MacBook Air onto the passenger seat. And began to meditate. I not only asked, but began to DEMAND that SPIRIT work through and as me! I began to renounce any form of FEAR, and called on the energy FORCE/SOURCE that governs the entire pulse of the MULTI-VERSE! 

I saw mySELF in my home office, pounding away at the very computer that had just been pronounced as completely fried by the so called "Geniuses" at the Apple Store! I used the power of my imagination to carve out every conceivable detail of this new reality I desired to manifest in pure, perfect tangible form! I simply refused to be in allowance of any resonance of EGOIC energy to permeate this vision! 

"I am ONE with the Force, the Force is within me! I am ONE with the Force, the Force is within me! I am ONE with the Force, the Force is within me!" I declared with a fervent intention as I placed both my hands on the closed top of the computer for 30 seconds.

As I opened my eyes, I slowly lifted the screened end of my MacBook Air. With complete, resolute certainty, I pressed the Start-Up button.  And the computer instantly began to light up and load all the data from its presumed 'dead' hard drive!! In fact, it started up all of its pre-programmed data twice as fast as it ever had in my previous five years of ownership! 

I KID YOU NOT! And three days later, (now backed up with a newly purchased external hard drive thank you very much) the computer is working better and faster than it ever did pre-destination 'dead zone.'

SUPERHEROES IN TRAINING TAKEAWAYS:

WOWSA! Right?! My message today is that just as Jesus The Christ stated after any of his earthy Miracles, "This and so much more, one day, you too shall do," each and every one of you precious souls are MIRACLE MAKIN MACHINES!! If you only knew who walked beside you at all times, there is absolutely nothing you would be afraid of! The Universe has life completely, 100% rigged in your favor! Even if at times, it FEELS the complete opposite.  That's totally okeedokee! 

Always be in full allowance of your feelings. For not only are they the guideposts to your SOUL, but repressing them only denounces the very spiritual lessons they came to bare!  Once your feelings eventually match up with your desired reality, it's totally off to the races! And you will come to understand that you can literally 'Bend Reality' to your very preferences of desired circumstances! And your life will never feel or be the same again.....
For as my story of bringing a piece of spiritual software back from the dead proves, you can do the EXACT SAME THING! I promise you............ Oh the wonders hiding just beneath the realm of what you choose to believe is possible for you to create....   Re-member, what you 'PAY' attention to eventually becomes your reality! When you 'PAY' attention to anything, you are literally buying that very experience. So please begin to choose wisely what is on y0ur weekly spiritual shopping list! 

As I have stated before, the Universe is currently desiring a grandiose form of expansion! Which requires all of us SUPERHEROES to DO and BE our part in this Mission Possible! It's an arduous task, but also one that will give all of us the great challenges we so crave and live for. If you're here, NOW, it's because you were "TAGGED IT" by the The One God Mind! Many were asked, and yet very few were willing to answer this Galactic Beacon Call! But all of us currently traversing the planet said "HELL TO THE YES! I AM -  SO IN!" And so it is, as it ever shall BE!

So I lovingly urge all of you New Age Nerds to grasp the TRUE PERCEPTION that is right before your energetic eyes! Time is a precious gift in this realm. And "time it is a ticking for us all." So there is now 'NO TIME' to waste. Your wings are ready. It is time for you to soar to heights previously unimagined and thus not held in a space of your own allowance.  The sky is NOT the limit; it's just the beginning! BOOM!

So now, go and spread the "Great Word," to all ready to receive it. And start to gently and lovingly nudge those who are not yet awakened. Trust me, they will eventually re-member who they really are and LOVE YOU FOR THE JOLT! Promise! ;0) And their favorite band will become Aerosmith because as they sing, "I just don't want to MISS a thing!"  And miss a thing they will not if we start to DO and BE what we promised.  Which is of course, no thing less than being of loving service to ourSELVES and all others! Keep it eazy peezy por favor! K?! Simple, but deep! Always........ Simple, but oh so very deep!

So go deep within and trust what you FEEL! And pray (a prayer is an energetic thank you note to the Universe) for the KNOWINGNESS of this great adventure! And YOUR part in it! Warm up them vocal chords and start to belt out your own unique "Heart Song!" Re-member, you incarnated with a Soul Pod. And many of them are still searching for you. And you for them! So please DO NOT allow anyone to tame your freak flag. As Freddie Mercury from Queen taught us, becoming a LEGEND requires you to BE unapologetically you. Be weird, unique, and especially NERDY! (wink) Your Soul Tribe will NEVER miss you that way. 

RELAX and KNOW that we are already well on our way to this "New Earth." In Tuesday's New York Times, there was an awesome article declaring that the Universe is expanding more rapidly than ever believed possible!! See! IT HAS BEGUN!! Heck YES it has!!! Wooo yooooooooo.............

So my suggestion is to stop being afraid.  Re-member from the post earlier this week, your best friend is Frankie FEAR! You CANNOT fail. Failure is just constructive FEEDBACK from the Universe. The world is completely rigged in YOUR favor! ALWAYS! And Frankie is just a loud mouthed bestie who is showing you all the places to go so that you can become a fully self actualized version of your Super Heroic Higher Self! It's that simple! So no more "One Dayer" mentality. Your day is NOW! Everything has been put into its magnificent imperfectly perfect place. All so you can joyfully PLAY in this matrix of energy that can be bent and twisted beyond the reaches of time and space to create ANY REALITY YOU SO DESIRE! How frickin cool is that?!

Again, no pressure. But the entire galaxy is watching. In complete awe and astonishment of what we chose to come here to BE and DO! Ok, I gotta scoot. Tons of fellow peeps to be of loving service to....... 5th Dimension Here We Come!!


Nerdmaste,

Jeffery Louis Martinez

BE SUPER HEROIC!
LOVE  SERVE  INSPIRE