The waters of Oak Creek ripple through the Verde Valley bringing the green blush of deciduous trees hinted at in the valley’s name. I sat on the bank of one part of the creek recently, dangling my feet in the chill water. Here, the water level was shallow, and my feet brushed against the rough gray stone below. I let my mind sink into the sensation, delighted for a moment’s respite from an always demanding schedule.

After more than thirty years of daily meditation and a mindful lifestyle, my mind easily opened to the natural feast for the senses around me. The steady rushing and trickling of the water over the rocky and uneven creek bottom, the numbing coolness of the water and rock against my skin, the fresh greenness in the air with the faint scent of spring flowers all embraced me.

My mind did not remain with my senses, however. Its awareness soon went deeper and wider, and I could sense the spirit and soul of the earth that underlies and animates its form. As I did, my own spirit and soul felt more alive and I merged with that of the earth. I rejoiced as the boundaries between myself and nature shimmered into nothing.

And then I became nothing. As my consciousness descended even deeper and wider, I dropped down to the origin, the center of all, where nothingness is everything. I was beyond the compilation of cells and experiences and ideas known as Ilchi Lee. I became consciousness itself—the ultimate awareness and source of creation. I could see everything in that nothingness; it was in harmony and balance. From that perspective, everything was without flaw.

At the same time, Mother Earth, Mago, called to me, and I felt the usual urgency. In that ongoing moment of fundamental peace, I could still feel the mission that had been burning in my heart for years, and I knew once again that everyone needed to bring their awareness to zero point, to nothingness, and become the creative observer that could view the universe with clarity and balance. Only with this creative observer consciousness could the citizens of the earth adopt a lifestyle that expressed the absolute and essential values that exist at zero point when all that is ephemeral is stripped away. Only with this consciousness could all of us work together to imagine the creative solutions for changing the systems we operate under to be in alignment with these values. Only with this consciousness could we all live with love, oneness, and peace.

The towering red rocks looked ever more majestic when I opened my eyes. I got up and began my work again.

We are standing at a crossroads—a moment of destiny in which one of two options must be chosen. Is humankind to come to an end, or will there be a new and great beginning? One by one, each of us takes a step forward choosing the path that we wish for our world, every action another step.

Currently, the greed of humans is leading us down the path of destruction. If we continue down this path the devastation of the earth is imminent. Greed begets fear, that fear becomes endless cruelty, and cruelty stirs up anger. Just as hot energy and cold energy collide to form a huge storm, collisions of human greed have shaped a maelstrom of anger, fear, and cruelty within the collective consciousness of the human race. It is a storm of death made by humans that could bring about the end of humankind.

However, inside of this storm, there is something that shines brilliantly. If you look with the eyes of the observer, you can see it—the possibility of a new birth, a great hope.

Both death and birth are an ever-present part of reality, and a choice. The right and responsibility to choose lies not with God, nor any saint, but solely inside of us. Within you is a great soul and divinity that wields this power of choice. If you exist in this age, in this time and space as a human life form, wherever you may be, whether you be male or female, whatever your years and whatever your position, you must choose by taking on the perspective of that great soul and divinity.

As a human being, you have the capacity to experience emotions that are both wretched and noble. The greatest gift of your humanity is that you have the power to rise above your victim mentality, your fear, and your arrogance to make a choice. Choosing your noble intentions becomes effortless when you bring your awareness to the zero-point, the place of neutrality, and think, speak, and act within the natural perspective of the zero point, which I call the creative observer, or your divinity.

From the zero point you have access to all of the wondrous and inherent faculties of your brain, and will experience the eternally unchanging divine value, which is your true nature, as the consciousness behind the controls. Your perception of the world will change. You will see the world with divine eyes, hear with divine ears, and perceive with divine senses. A beautiful world will be revealed before your eyes as you witness the great and holy divinity and soul in the hearts of all people. You will stand before the absolute truth that all human beings are one, their value is limitless, and all are equal. Your soul will tremble in ecstasy in the recognition of this truth, and you will have the strength and absolute conviction to put aside your fears and worries and act for the good of all.

Saving the world is a big job, but if we each do our part, the job isn’t as difficult. Change can happen in an instant. Choose and act right away, at this very moment. Small thoughts and small actions could build huge, great things or create great change. Sing of a new beginning from your soul. Choose new hope.

Throughout all of time, countless humans have come and gone from this earth. Living on the earth at this pivotal time presents a great opportunity for your soul to become one of the greatest, most sacred, and most beautiful human beings to be born. Crisis is great opportunity—being blasted by a storm forces us to turn to the peaceful divinity within. Be the first in your community to spark a collective wave of divine humans. Start a new culture of divinely inspired living. Choose to generate hope, share happiness, and bring peace to all people that you encounter. I wish with all my heart that you can experience being a great and beautiful human being who gives hope to the world. That is the greatest gift that you can give to yourself, and the world.

Do you feel lonely and empty inside, even when you are with your loved ones? Do you wonder who you really are and what your purpose in life is? If that is the case, then you probably are missing yourself in your life. Somehow, you have left your true self out of your life. It means that you are not connected with your soul—your true, unchanging, eternal essence—and your soul is not connected to the divine nature we all hold in our brains.

The depths of the feeling we experience when we encounter the beautiful souls within us is the first great discovery of our lives. That alone, however, is not enough. The genuine great discovery of our lives is encountering our divinity. The source of genuine power is inspiration from our own divine nature. Divinity is a zeroed state of nothingness; in a zeroed state without any memory or identity, there are no limitations. Infinite creation is possible.

When we are not aware of, or when we do not have a steady feeling of our soul and divinity inside, it is often because our countless thoughts and emotions are cluttering our awareness. There are the thoughts we perceive, the ones that fly through our conscious minds, and there are the thoughts we don’t perceive, the ones that simmer in our subconscious minds. We are only conscious of a small portion of our thoughts and what influences us from the outside. Before something happens to us, our subconscious already knows about it, but we can’t see it. It’s as if there are many cards prepared in our subconscious mind based on our old memories, habits, and programs that announce the future. They are lined up and ready to go. Then an incident stimulates our conscious minds, which brings out one of these cards. The cards create something in our lives such as an illness, unhappiness, or the resolution of an unfortunate situation. These cards determine our lives and enslave our souls.

However, we don’t have to be slaves. We have another aspect of our minds, the superconscious mind, which is able to see the big picture—the oneness and divinity of which we are all a part that exist beyond our individual selves. From our superconscious minds, our conscious minds can receive inspiration from divinity and can perceive our souls clearly.

We have the power to choose whether to live according to the inspiration delivered to us by our superconscious minds or according to the memories and habits stuck in our subconscious minds. To do that we need to take 100% responsibility for our lives and clear the codes embedded in our subconscious. When our subconscious is clear and pure, our subconscious, conscious, and superconscious minds can be connected. With this integration, we can feel our souls and access divine inspiration. Our souls become free of the shackles of the past and we can design our own futures.

Meditation and breathing can purify our subconscious—in essence, we need to send it LifeParticles. The minute we call to mind LifeParticles our brains begin to change. Purifying our subconscious is an ongoing process involving clearing everything we are holding onto, whatever it may be. For this process, it is tantamount to believe and trust in ourselves.

My hope is that you can trust and believe in yourself enough to experience these concepts in your own life.

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According to psychology, our consciousness has three parts: the conscious, the subconscious, and the super-conscious. All of the memories and information that you’ve accumulated over your lifetime is stored in both your conscious and subconscious mind. Those are the things that shape your current reality. When you see or hear or feel something and respond to it, it’s not your eyes or your ears themselves that are responding. Your response to external and internal stimuli is based on the information in your mind. Therefore, all of the responses and thoughts and actions you’ve had are what shape you. Your future will be shaped by everything that’s being recorded right now in your mind.

If we had only positive information stored in our consciousness, then that would be great. But there’s also negative information there—information you really want to forget. Sometimes there are moments in our past that give us chills when thinking about them. You might want to erase those memories. But some people live with those memories and hold on to them their entire life. Then when they are working hard and trying to live their life to the fullest, often it’s those memories that hold them back.

But it’s not just our own memories that affect our lives. Each of us has an individual subconscious, but there’s also a collective subconscious. Although it may seem like individuals are separate and distinct, when you enter the world of the subconscious mind, you find that we are all connected. Just as your external environment affects your energy, the negative information of the subconscious mind of someone who is really close to you can influence you. That’s why it’s necessary to know ourselves and the information we have in our subconscious.

Meditation, especially energy meditation, enables us to look deep into our consciousness and get to know ourselves. Energy meditation takes you into a state of consciousness that’s deeper than when you’re asleep, except you maintain the awareness of when you’re awake. In that state you can pull out all of your negative memories and ideas from the past. In the process of doing that, you discover the strength and power to control your emotions and feelings, which means you can control your energy and manage your life. That power is an innate function of your brain; it doesn’t come from anything outside of you. Therefore, as long as you’re awake, you can make positive, healthy energy anytime you want. That’s something only you can do. Nobody else can do it for you. That’s one reason I wrote The Call of Sedona—to share energy meditation so people can find themselves and manage their energy.