The Art of Being Fully Alive

You opened this book because there is a knowing deep inside of you. In the stillness of a quiet moment, when the busyness of life calms down, you can feel it. You may not be able to explain what it is, but you can feel it. That knowing inside you is your heart, your soul, your very essence speaking to you. Do you ever wonder what life is really about? Do you ever feel like something is missing? Have you ever asked yourself; What am I doing here? Is there is a purpose to life? Do we just live and then die? Is death a final darkness and never ending emptiness devoid of light and awareness? These questions are calling you to the truth. There is more to you, and more to life than you are aware of. Pay attention to those deepest feelings of knowing, you’re starting to remember who you really are!

Biologically and intellectually we understand conception, gestation, birth, existence, and death. Beyond our biology and intellect there is a deeper part of us. More than ninety percent of the human family feels no connection to their deeper self. When they feel that stirring or hear their inner voice, they don’t pay much attention to it, they never give it any energy. People who are actually paying attention, look to religion, philosophy, psychology, or science to answer the fundamental questions of life. Initially these societal institutions can be helpful in leading us deeper into ourselves. After all, they were created by the desire to answer these very questions. However, after a time, they stop helping and become limiting. They strengthen the mental traps of the intellect and the ego. We get caught in an endless maze of more and more questions that take us in the opposite direction of the answers to the original questions. I’ve gone all the way down these avenues. I know from experience that the answers cannot be found in these false maps of reality. I’ve spent my entire adult life on a quest pursuing the answers to the fundamental questions of life. I’ve learned a great deal over the years in this pursuit. I eventually found the answers to life’s greatest questions. I also found the key to love, happiness, peace, freedom, truth, wisdom, and my purpose in life. I’m writing this book to share with you what I’ve discovered on my great adventure through and beyond the matrix. I cannot wait any longer to share this information with you because we are at a critical point in human history. Time is of the essence. The survival of the human family is at stake.

This book is not for everyone. It is a call to adventure for those few people who genuinely want to know how to be fully alive. Adventures are fun. They can also be challenging. On rare occasions they can surprise you so much that your whole life is shaken to its core. This book may be one those times. This is a deep dive into the essence of life. A journey that goes far beyond science, psychology, philosophy, and religion. Most of all it’s a deep exploration of you. You will learn how to free your heart and mind from the matrix, and find your own answers to the fundamental questions of life.

Life is like an iceberg, the deeper you go beyond the surface the richer and more interesting it becomes. It is no accident, nor coincidence, that you are reading these words. You are different, you are paying attention to that deeper part of yourself and giving it some vital energy. You are still open and full of wonder. I wrote this book to reward you for your curiosity and perseverance. The intent of this book is to cut through all the illusions, dogmas, misleading information, and misguided attempts at bringing you to the truth. It is going to save you decades of time seeking love, happiness, and answers. If you are up for a good challenge and a great adventure, you’ve come to the right place. Now is the time and this is the place to explore a deeper, more fulfilling life. Here are a few rare insights about life that most people never come to know. Further into the book we will go into these insights in greater depth. 

The First Insight is: Life is a game and you are here to joyfully play it. Knowing that life is a game transforms our perception of reality in a profound way. “Play” is a key ingredient in the art of being fully alive. There are many spiritual traditions that claim life is a school. That we are here to learn lessons so our Soul will evolve. If you believe that, the matrix has its grip so tightly wrapped around your mind that you will spend lifetimes, maybe even eternity, trying to free yourself.

We are pure energy. This pure energy comes from original source and has full awareness and profound intelligence. As such, we already have access to all knowledge. There is no need for life to be a school because there is nothing to learn that we don’t already know. Within the first year and a half of life all humans forget everything they know. It’s called “earth amnesia”. Playing the game of life will give us experiences that will help us remember who we truly are, what we know, and what we are here to do. We remember best by playing, not by sitting in a classroom, not by struggling and working harder or being overly serious. “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.” Light hearted play opens us up to an expanded vibrational state called joy. Joy is a shorter, simpler way of saying unreasonable happiness. It is being happy without needing to have a reason. Joy is an internal state of being that does not require an external reason or situation. Being a perfectionist or overly serious is a contracted vibrational state. Serious people are too attached to the drama of life, which causes them to contract rather than expand, they tighten up and narrow their perception. Being serious causes stress and  blocks our memory. We can be sincere without being serious. We can be sincere and playful at the same time. Experiencing life through joyful play is how we recover our memory.

The game of life is not a zero sum game. In order for you to win, someone else does not have to lose. This game is not a competition or a war like sport. Life is not a competition between people. There does not have to be any losers at all in this game. In fact, cooperating with others is a real advantage. We are all brothers and sisters in the human family. When we treat each other with this kind of love, the game becomes much easier. It’s a team game that does not require you to form a team. This game is a dance of exploration and adventure in worlds within and worlds beyond the matrix. Worlds without restriction and limitations. Worlds of infinite possibilities. This is a game of memory, awareness, energy, imagination, intention, intuition, joy, and discovery. Once you finish this book you will know exactly what this game is and how to successfully play it with joy and deliberate intent.

The Second insight is: We are born with a life purpose. This is our reason for living. There is a universal and an individual aspect to our life purpose. Healing our amnesia and freeing our authentic selves from the consensus reality is our universal purpose. Our individual purpose is to find and express the unique genius that lives deep inside of us. “Ondinnonk” is a Huron term that means the sacred wish of the Soul or Eternal Self. Joseph Campbell called it “following your bliss”. Healing our amnesia and bringing our genius into full embodiment and expression is the Art of Being Fully Alive.

The Third insight is: Part of our earth amnesia includes eight extra ordinary abilities that have atrophied because we forgot we have them. Remembering our extra ordinary senses and bringing them back to life is a huge part of being fully alive.

The Fourth insight is: We all have the same desires in life. We are all born with seven universal desires. Once our basic survival needs are satisfied, the pursuit of these universal desires will free our hearts and minds. Following these desires will lead us to the truth, help us remember who we are, and remember our extra ordinary abilities. This has a positive effect on all of us as a human family and the planet we live in. These desires are the essence of the Art of Being Fully Alive.

The Fifth insight is: Everything we have been taught to believe about who we are, what is real, and what the truth is, are illusions. It can be shocking when we realize just how vast the illusions are. There are so many illusions they actually form a matrix. Former medical professor and biologist Bruce Lipton once stated; “The Matrix film is not a science fictional movie, it’s a documentary.” The “matrix” is a metaphor for the consensus reality of a society and its’ culture. This matrix is the collective beliefs, values, opinions, attitudes, and habitual group thinking regarding the nature of reality that everyone in that society agrees upon. This consensus hallucination is like mass hypnosis. Creating a suggestible state of mind allows the matrix of illusions to control the perception of everyone who lives in that society. For us to be fully alive and live the life of our dreams, we must unplug emotionally, energetically, and mentally from the matrix. Detaching from the matrix takes tremendous discipline, focus, awareness, commitment, and courage. If we are unwilling or unable to unplug from the matrix, we will live the dream the matrix creates for us. From the point of view of a person with amnesia, it may seem like a pretty good dream at times. Ignorance is bliss. From my point of view, the matrix is a nightmare that we need to free ourselves from. 

Remaining plugged into the matrix means remaining ignorant, naïve, completely unaware, and never really alive. When we do not unplug from the dream of the matrix, we think and act like slaves to the institutions of society. We believe we have choices, but we have been conditioned to make the choices the matrix wants us to make. We think we have free will, but our will is socially engineered by the matrix. The vast majority of domesticated people remain deeply under the influence of the consensus hallucination. This industrial, technocratic, machine society has led to the degradation of the very habitat that allows for human life to exist on earth. If this destruction continues, the human family is facing extinction. We are facing a life or death decision. We either unplug from the matrix or go extinct. This is a crucial moment for the human species. There is an urgency to make a decision because time is running out. The choice to heal our amnesia and be fully alive is one we face every moment of our lives. No species would deliberately choose extinction. The matrix wants us to remain in a state of amnesia so it can continue to control every aspect of our entire lives and mine our vital life source energy. If enough of us start to remember who we really are, it will create a critical mass and the whole human family will heal from our amnesia and begin to thrive. It is critical that we, as a human family, remember who we truly are, unplug from the matrix, and live as free and genuine human beings right now before it’s too late.

Two thousand four hundred years ago, Plato wrote The Republic. In that book was a section titled “Allegory of the Cave.” The Matrix film is a futuristic retelling of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The cave is a metaphor for the mind. The chains and shackles that keep us in the cave are metaphors for the illusions we believe are true. Plato felt human beings were resistant to change. He knew that the average person had too much fear of the unknown to do what was necessary to free themselves from the chains and shackles that enslaved them. Plato was right. Two thousand four hundred years later the human family is still enslaved by illusions.

When I was 13 years old I had an insight. I realized that I didn’t want to live a life like all the adults I knew. Every day was the same routine. Drinking a cup of coffee first thing after getting up in the morning, getting in the car and commuting to work, working all day for someone else, commuting home, eating dinner, watching TV and then going to bed. This was repeated again and again each and every weekday. On weekends, people either worked around the house doing repairs, maintenance, and chores, or they got in their car and drove somewhere for a short vacation. Amidst all of this eating, sleeping, driving, and working, they managed to get married, have kids, buy a house, get a promotion or a better job, put their kids through college, get divorced, remarry… or not, get sick, take a bunch of pharmaceutical drugs, which alleviated their symptoms but the side effects created a new illness that required surgery. They eventually died broke because their medical bills devoured their life savings. 

Most people never think twice about their lives. They never pay attention to the genius stirring inside. They never remember who they truly are. They are never fully alive. Maybe they feel good about their lives, maybe they don’t. What is the point of living your whole life with amnesia? It never made any sense to me! It seemed insane. I would rather die than live like that. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life but I knew with an excruciating passion that I didn’t want my life to be like that. So I took the road less traveled, the road that leads to freedom.

That knowing you feel inside you may be a soft whisper or it may be a loud roar depending on where you are in your life’s journey. Your genius is communicating with you. It’s telling you to break free, to escape from the matrix and remember your authentic self. You are being called to “anamnesis”, a term that means remembering the true intelligence and knowledge that belonged to you before you were born into this life. This is the intelligence and knowledge of the Eternal Self. Anamnesis is the complete healing of earth amnesia. A life of freedom and authentic power, with abilities beyond your current awareness is waiting for you.

The principles, concepts, and truths conveyed in this book are all based on personal experience from 50 plus years of in-depth investigation into life, love, ancient wisdom and infinite awareness. Don’t blindly believe anything I have to say. Take it into your heart and do what you need to verify if it resonates as true, or not. Begin your journey to freedom by taking response- ability for your life. After all, you and you alone are the author of your life. 

Morpheus offered Neo a choice. Take the blue pill and stay trapped in the matrix or take the red pill and become fully alive in the real world. Reading this book is the equivalent of taking the red pill. You will begin to understand life on a completely different level. Are you up for a great challenge? Are you ready to play the game? Do you accept the call to adventure? This decision will change your life forever. It’s your choice!