To Errol is Human

Pre-Flight Instructions By Errol Strider Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain speaking I'd like to welcome you aboard flight one-for-all en route to Mt. Omega, with continuing service to higher awareness , unlimited possibility, and ubiquitous consciousness. We will be travelling at an altitude of as-high-as-we-can-get. Our in-flight magazine, Universe Traveler is located inside your mind. It contains interesting particles as well as information about the in flight leverage selections and a wide choice of mental faculties. To be assured that your mind won't run amuck, fasten your seat belt by inserting the mental tip when you buckle. You will find your mental tip at the outermost edge of your assumptions.. You have the additional option of tightening by grasping or feel more secure by letting go. To release your will, lift the mental flack where you last buckled. Feel free to take the mental tip with you as our gift.. Today's mental tip is "

I Need by Errol Strider I need to shed my longing in the spring; And bare my heart in the forlorn mist of lonely winters To discern in autumn the wisdom of death And in summer to remember the seasons of barrenness. I need to voice my yearning in the twilight, To affirm my identity at dawn To perceive that suns don't stand still at noon, Nor do stars wane in the blue of sleep. I need to be touched in the mid of morning, And to be recharged in the lull of afternoons; To be lifted out of myself when the sun begins to set, And to be made humble and thankful as first rays sift over the horizon. I need to engender a feeling of trust in the waking hours of men, And to not be deceived by sleep masquerading as death, But to grasp the erectness of meanings that stretch out into heaven, To know substance and essence well as behavior and form. I need to understand myself revealed in the faces of men, And to not judge them by their surface and shadows For in the finding of cause for behavior t

Text message from God: "When you step into the Do-duality, don't get it all over yourself.." I saw Michael Moore's movie, "Capitalism, a Love Story" last night. I can imagine many of us going, "Ooooo!" "Yuk" "They're awful." "What can we do?" Then we're taken over by a feeling of impotence or simply the distractions and the compulsivity's of our own needs and wants, and it becomes just another movie. And we become, like the guards at the doors of the big corporations that Mr. Moore approached… "Sorry, you can't talk to our CEO, let alone convert him/her." And what is the CEO or your consciousness? For most of us it is a false sense of who we are concocted out of our need to separate ourselves in order to know ourselves…hence…greed, denial, apathy, war/competition, dis-ease, etc. I suggest that we start by becoming a little reflective…rather than reflexive. Consider: We are unlikely to change

AWAKEN, The Conditioner by Errol Strider Is your life drab? Has your will lost its bounce, the sparkle, the luster? Do the highlights just disappear into the dark? Has your will become hard and brittle with divided beginnings…split endings, making it unresponsive to love, incapable of making healthy choices? Or maybe your will was abused by early conditioning… leaving it limp, stringy and depressed… Then you'll want to try our new life line conditioner, "Awaken". AWAKEN, unlike the old paradigm conditioners, doesn't harness, flatten, or deplete your natural will. It leaves it, silky, soft and responsive to the gentlest touch, the most sublime guidance. The old conditioners acted to subvert your will, making it listless, abrasive or stiff. And what is life with a stiff will? No joy, no resilience. No, you want your will firm enough to penetrate, but supple enough to receive. What you want is the flexibility and allure of a properly conditioned will. Remember when you

LOOKING AT LIFE THROUGH ROSE COLORED GLASSES--- MAKING A CASE FOR LIVING LIFE IN A BUBBLE. or… How to escape from the time/space continuum and turn your problems into punch lines or opportunities for soul growth. bub·ble – n. 2. a small globule of gas in a thin liquid envelope. 4. anything that lacks firmness, substance, or permanence; an illusion or delusion. 11. a sudden, small, temporary change or divergence from a trend: In May there was a bubble in car sales, with three percent more being sold than last year. 16. to seethe or stir, as with excitement : For my purposes, definitions 11 (a sudden, small, temporary change or divergence from a trend ) and 16 (to seethe or stir, as with excitement) are most accurate, although seen from the point of view of the disparaging "realist", they would probably define my bubble according to definition 4 ( anything that lack

WATCH OUT FOR THE MEDIA! IT' NOT ALL THAT IT CRACKS YOU UP TO BE           One of the things we most appreciate about the media, especially comedy TV shows, is that it cracks us up. But Beware:   The media literally cracks you up…it puts cracks in your psyche…separating you from aspects of yourself, and cracks can easily develop into craters, chasms and canyons…given the right set of pulls, pressures and problems. Then it's just a hop, skip and a fall…into crators… an easy misstep that will drive you into chasms (especially cata-chasms), and an unconscious stumble that will get you lost in canyons of self-deception. The craters grow from common misconceptions, the chasms from mutual delusion…and, the canyons from the rivers of denial. Here's the punch line…this should crack you up… We, then attempt to solve our manifold problems from the fantasy space stations we created... Our agreed upon assumptions, fed by our collusion with the media in creating never ending

I'D LIKE THE "SURRENDER/TRUST COMBO, Please" Not easy words, eh? Trust…hmmm…trust what, trust whom…why? When? See? …tough words…lots to consider…and why even consider it? Benefits of Trust…what's in it for you? You can relax… Life flows more easily Everything goes on sale at once…and you can afford it. Benefits of not trusting You don't get hurt as easily Ward off loss… Get out of life with fewer scars, disappointments and betrayals. Who should care? People who are suffering People who know people who are suffering People who want to reduce suffering Telemarketers Downside of Trusting: Have to let go of your addictions Have to let go of your contrived self-identity Have to become more attractive. Downside of Not-Trusting… Ever reducing universe options Fear squelched existence. Ultimate isolation and less fun. What else does trust do? Lubricates the pathways of interpersonal exchange. Makes the ground of existence more dependable and buoyant. Saturates all trans

While we are madly scrambling about to avoid as much pain and gain as much pleasure as we can, consider the benefits of stopping to share some mutual recognition. As I observe the human condition...most of us are busy trying to get something, go somewhere, attract or avoid someone...eats up a lot of energy and often leaves us frustrated in terms of achieving our goals...money, security, sex, comfort, knowledge, power, influence, health...those sorts of things... Here's the irony...what we actually want and more often what we need is very likely right before us waiting to be mined from our relationship with another, specifically, through our mutual recognition. If we really knew who and what was standing before us in any given exchange is the opportunity of a life time...even the opportunity of an eternal life time. Life is all about making exchanges...nothing comes about without an exchange from the tiniest particle to the biggest ego. The more deeply and thoroughly we exchange wit

We've all heard the expression, changes starts with us as individuals. In spite of the compelling call of this admonition, we often are tempted to address change by trying to fix something outside of ourselves. This is understandable. Sensual data comes to us from "out there." Yeshua has told us that "the kingdom of Heaven is within"...ergo, if you want to get to what is fundamental and where fundamental change takes place...check out the Inner you. Years a go I wrote a very brief essay that appeared on Celestial Seasonings Spearmint tea box...(I was hoping to get Morning Thunder, but I like Spearmint ...so I took it.) What I shared then, and my mind hasn't changed much since then is the metaphor that if you want to change one element (oxygen, hydrogen, etc.) into another you must fuse them at the nuclear level...Then real change occurs. Otherwise you're just manipulating the particles at the surface level and nothing fundamentally changes.

Hey Partner...there's a lot of stuff going on out there and in here demanding my interest and attention...how about you? Stuff that feels good, looks good, and stuff that's challenging my fight or flight reflex... Victim? Oppressor? Intermediary? What's your choice? Okay, let's start by going to whatever conflict that you can influence directly, hold hands with the Spirit of Union, jump in and mix it up...that seems to be the call from the All Knower All Being... Bottom line..the problems that we face look a lot different from "The Now" than they do from the past/future matrix...tempting though that is. Are you ready/willing to change? And if so, into what? If you could pick any place on the evolutionary spiral, where would you place yourself? Where you are now, for instance? So here's a little poem I'd like to share with you...to get us re-oriented: (By the way, ACIM (A Course in Miracles)suggests that the first step is to strengthen our motivation

Welcome aboard, Partner. This universe is filled with a vast array of particulates...all vying for importance in our perception...generally prodded along by pain, pleasure or curiosity. If you're experiencing any of these or would like to...along with a "Sense of Human" then please join me on this ride, while we consider things like...what is meaning and how much is it? Can you get it on sale? Can you get wisdom without living it? Who's in charge? How much does he charge? What do I do to shift from a limited dualistic perspective to an eternal vision. Where do I get on? Etc...so let me start you off with a couple of poems I've written so that we can begin to get acquainted... "We're all gathered in a wash... like bubbles... clinging... and then...cleansed by each other... helping to explode our shells... each le