Metaphoratarian

This world is going through a lot. It's easy to look around, at the news and at our hectic lives and feel overwhelmed. There are so many problems. One's mind is often thrown about from side to side in the emotional chaos that surrounds us. How can we change it? How can we make a difference, as a single person? It's important to take deep breathes and remember to care for ourselves. The more peace we bring into ourselves, the more peace we bring into the world. When we are still living at a point in our own lives, where we are easily thrown off balance, and feel like we loose our strength again and again, we can't do much for the world. We have to start small.. with OUR world. Small steps forward. Planting seeds for tomorrow. There are many little things you can do today to make tomorrow better, like meal preping some healthy food, getting ahead on your chores, writing your to-do list ahead of time, cultivating awareness of the beautiful things in your life, resting prop...

An original work of  fiction entitled "The First Story" by Lua Angelique "The fall ain't your fault, it was just one step" by James R. Eads Mother Earth in all her benevolence and generosity has graciously accepted us, the intergalactic wanderers, the lost little experimenter, the cosmic explorers, as guests on this planet. Millions and billions of years ago we dedicated ourselves to a journey. This journey had one fierce goal: Experience.  It was an extreme challenge but as the daring explorers that we are, we took up the call:  “I have decided that I will live out every last possibility that existence has to offer,” you said. Yes, that was you who said that. And I. All of us. You see, back then we were one. Just one little point of consciousness, one little eye, one little speck of awareness: The I Am. Now, I’m sure you’ve heard of the I Am many times. The mystics have alluded to it, the religions try to pawn it as their own. But the I Am is...

"Art of Judgement" by Victo Ngai The Light of awareness is not an emotion.  The Light of awareness sees emotions. It sees what is there. Light is not the same as bliss or joy or ecstasy. When the life coaches tell you to ‘follow your bliss,’ it’s not the same thing as following the light.  The issue here on this planet is that we are 7 billion souls living side to side, and none of us are here to learn the same lesson. This is why we are dissatisfied with most of our schools systems in the West. The industrialized model of schools tries to make everything fit an exact mold. And while there are basic things that everyone should know, we are also incredibly different. We have different talents and strengths.  A good leader or teacher is the one who knows how to identify those strengths, see them in his students or employees and get them the proper training or set them to the proper task. In this way, both the group and the individual receive benefit. The individ...

This life is so magical. Its such an amazing opportunity to be triggered by outside appearances and decide to go deeply into ourselves to find the truth. The truth is who we really are, our eternal source, our perfect unchanging self. That magical spark of source :) Many, many humans have searched for that center point, but the strange thing is it’s actually not that hard to find. As children we do it so easily. So why do some people continue on these never ending journeys and never seem to be satisfied? Why don’t they seem to be able to find an end? Why do they always return to their belief in their own smallness? It’s because the spiritual journey is not a set track, it’s a moving target. That eternal moving target: consciousness expanding In an infinite eternal universe, there can never be an end. But does that mean we will always keep falling back into despair and separation? No. That is what many people experience, but this is not how the case should...

As a child I was incredibly fearful. I was shy and quiet and a bit afraid of people or making new friends. I was also afraid of ghosts, monsters, sharks, bugs, fish and especially the dark. I attribute this fear to that fact that I was incredibly imaginitive. I could always see stories and scenarios play out in my head very vividly. I could turn the world around me into anything I wanted and set the stage for a beautiful play. But this was also true of the images I found most disturbing. If the thought of a ghost or monster (or tiny brutal dinosaur from Jurrasic Park) came into my mind, I thought I had no control over it and I became terrified. I believed in and experienced my imagination so vividly and believed that my beautiful games and princess fantasies were real, that when a monster creeped in I thought I was powerless. And I would curl up in a ball and cry. At some point around 7 or 8, my mind decided it was necesary for me to adopt the belief that I could not create these ...

A poem: A War Against Productivity- This incessant need to show you are worthy, Prove you are something, An asset they won't downsize. God forbid you don't produce. God forbid you don't give them the only thing they want from you: Your productivity, Your incessant work, That need to do, To just get something done. You're a robot with no program, No prime directive, And yet you actually view your freedom as a curse, A defect, a malfunction. The saddest brain washing that ever was. No matter how hard I try This brain washing can't get me clean, Can't remove these blood stains, Can't keep me from feeling dirty. Who let them do this to us? How did this robotic fluid fill my veins like the machines in their factories? Even in my leisure I'm a slave to their screens. Witnessing torture and deceipt, blood, gore, lies, betrayal. And I fail to see how we distrust our own humanity so much that we no longer look each other in the eyes. I...

Today I finally fulfilled a very big dream of mine, which was to make YouTube videos! I, like practically everyone in our generation, love YouTube and have grown up on it. I've laughed, learned, and awakened in a lot of ways thanks to the video sharing platform. So for a long time I imagined myself making and sharing my own videos with others, being creative and connecting with people through internet community, but like a lot of us I held myself back. I over complicated it for myself. ---No longer! Here it is. Till next time, LL