(B02C01) Chapter 1: Basic Instructions Before Learning Everything (B.I.B.L.E.)

Easter Everywhere

“DISMANTLED DISTRACTION. NO LACK OF ATTRACTION. A JOURNEY OF FURY WHICH HAS NOW RECLAIMED CONTROL. GETS BIRTHED IN A HURRY, LIKE A HORSE TO ITS FOAL. JUST SIT WITH THIS SILENCE AND THE TRAVELING PATROL.” – “MANIFEST” BY JD STAHL

School itself didn't really seem that difficult for me. Breaking things down to their basic components—like my computer games—I very much enjoyed being introduced to new topics and subjects. By being indifferent to the similarities and differences, I was able to uncover the underlying patterns. After learning the patterns, every subject was essentially the same, only spoken in a different language of expression.

Instead of crowding my mind with a bunch of different subjects, I simply condensed them into a simpler language that would allow my mind to rest and focus more of my energy on deepening my mastery of each subject instead of feeling forced to memorize things that were essentially redundant from subject to subject. As a result, I could grasp new concepts quickly and efficiently without having much more than a basic introduction. Even if I wasn't specifically passionate about certain things, I could relate them to the things that I was passionate about, allowing me—at the very least—to complete the assignments and do well on the tests.

Even though I had yet to connect all the dots that would lead me to the final skeleton yet to open every single door, I had complete faith that one day I would beat each game, pulling different strategies from every branch of study and applying them universally to all of the subjects. Being able to work independently at my own pace made my learning environment much less stressful. I never felt forced to compare myself against any other student. And so, I never felt left behind nor did I ever consider my performance to be a competition with other students. All of my energy and effort, therefore, was channeled through me without diverting it into external distractions. Each day at school was exciting—a different level of a game that I was playing against myself—nobody else. This made every single day feel like a veritable Easter Egg hunt.

Easter Egg hunts, however, are quite easy when there are only a handful of people looking for the hidden secrets. However, just like any other game, the further you progress, the more difficult the levels become. These difficulties were not introduced by on-screen obstacles that I had to avoid, but more the absence of solitude that I felt I needed to maintain clarity. Whenever the conditions of my mental/emotional processing was not ideal, I struggled. This challenge, unfortunately, was not something that I could easily identify at the time, simply because I didn't have experience in alternative learning environments.

“YOU MUST BE SHAPELESS, FORMLESS, LIKE WATER. WHEN YOU POUR WATER IN A CUP, IT BECOMES THE CUP. WHEN YOU POUR WATER IN A BOTTLE, IT BECOMES THE BOTTLE. WHEN YOU POUR WATER IN A TEAPOT, IT BECOMES THE TEAPOT. WATER CAN DRIP AND IT CAN CRASH. BECOME LIKE WATER MY FRIEND.” – BRUCE LEE

At this moment in my life, my greatest strength was my ability to consider multiple levels of awareness in my mind at the same time. However, when that same strength was introduced to a very distracting environment, it became virtually impossible to ground myself in any sense of consistency or balance. Being able to master our internal kingdom is only half of the challenge that we face as children. The difficult part of this specific “game” is to be able to endure any external environment and still maintain the same command and access to that well of internal peace. It helps to consider that every strength can also be a weakness, given different conditions. For this reason, we should never attempt to identify ourselves in any singular identity or set of conditions, but instead be malleable to the different environments that we encounter from moment to moment. Allowing ourselves to change, adapt, and maintain consistency gives us the power to make the best of every situation.

As long as I was at Montessori School, I could almost guarantee that I would be able to retreat into solitude, recharge my batteries, and process any lingering questions that had arisen from day to day. As every new day changed into randomized levels of difficulty, the distractions became numerous. More and more, my focused concentration was becoming obfuscated by an infinite set of variables. Each different level related to a desire system that I would have to endure. Difficulty, therefore, was not solely on preferable conditions, but also conditions that presented opportunities to become attached or develop dependence. Essentially, both positive and negative days were potentially off-putting from a balanced perspective.

In order to endure these situations without identifying myself with/as my environment, I instead looked beyond the details until the shining pieces of my archetypal models would reveal themselves. To ensure that I wouldn't lose my balance in a push/pull dynamic of desire or repulsion, I would embody these various models of character. Fortunately, since they were all different, no matter what situation I found myself in, I could channel one of them that would help me achieve equanimity and balance. However, I will admit that it was difficult for me not to get lost in periods of excitement. As most children do while they learn these boundaries, I occasionally threw tantrums when I didn't understand something. In any instance, I was just experiencing the effects of attachment, addiction, or dependency.

“THE CLOUDS ARE REALLY LOW, AND THEY OVERFLOW WITH COTTON CANDY...AND BATTLE GROUNDS—RED AND BROWN. BUT IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND. DON'T THINK YOUR TIME ON BAD THINGS. JUST FLOAT YOUR LITTLE MIND AROUND.” – “SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC” BY JIMI HENDRIX

I wasn't just developing addictive dependency on the things that I liked or preferred, I was also developing attachment to my own preferences. Many of these preferences caused me to push away or rebel against things that were good for me. In this sense, our addictions can be both physical and nonphysical. It is just as easy to get hooked on cotton candy as it can be to defend our preferences or get offended at how another person perceives us. Without acceptance, it can be very difficult to release the burdens that prevent us from growing, learning, and developing.

I was lucky; my parents were so different from one another. Because I loved them both equally, I learned not to place favor on either perspective. Whenever I could retreat into solitude, I would be able to (eventually) release my emotional reactivity and see who I was behind my preferences or proclivities. I was introduced to this strategy from the different shows and movies that I watched. All of my heroes showed me how to find resolution from every problem. From this perspective, nothing was impossible. More than that, the internal struggles and external battles that my heroes faced was exactly what strengthened each of them enough so that they could “save the day” for those they loved. Whether it was Dennis the Menace or Superman, each of my archetypal heroes faced both positive and negative situations—in various degrees.

No matter how difficult any situation is, as long as we set aside our preferences and opinions in service to love and peace, we can pass to the next level and “win” the game or become the hero of our own personal story. In addition to my on-screen archetypes, both of my parents had shown me that sacrifices were the easiest way to make a return to this unconditional love. Accepting people as they are—not as we wish them to be—is what fosters an ideal environment for any of us to be empowered beyond any doubt or fear we may have. Above all, the best gift that we can give someone is our “presence” in any moment—without conditions. On every level, we are the “final boss” that we must defeat in order to move onto the next lesson.

Welcome to Peace. With Love,

JD Stahl (12/19/2020) This presence that enters, inspires birth. Following creation is the factor of growth. Not only in the spaces that you can see, But on the uncharted seas of the infinity. Some have previously discovered lands anew. Within these few are some pioneers of spirit. Though many cannot perceive such great views. And cubes within cubes fall short, of the truth. Many have hinted at new knowledge, long before. Many have been sold old captivity, even now. Move into new freedom of dimension—new worlds. To know we are the same, is the key to the door. Your ability to believe is what will set you free. You could listen to me? Maybe? It’s all the same, you see. Close your eyes and tell me what YOU see? Invisible imaginary perimeters cage you. Far beyond the fragments of fear you think you need, Is a heaven that will release you from duality. This—even this—is a language that extends Information constructed on condensed form, Becomes the norm upon highest of firmaments. Like a ship’s blind decree to new distant sands. Like the learning of an excitatory humble man. Every day, to begin again. And again, and again, and again. I challenge those who define themselves as brave To break ropes upon docks they cling to today. Free your mind from being a modern day slave. Cease addictions to competition and secular games. Progression into the future requires your release Of comfortable simple systems and lower planes. This new land remains to be approached with peace. Simply put: it’s inside you. Start at three. Behind scars carved by the modern mistrust. Is the truth of the future—it requires no lies. But it’s your choice, you see—choose you must. Material possessions can’t outlast glasses of dust. A collective of One Love requires your bravery. To lay down your arms, your wars, and your guns Is a challenge that few are able to achieve. When you rise above in this feeling, threats will flee. Because in this lower dimension, it's illusory. No savagery. All family. No spite. All trust. Unity. The God you seek is larger than they’ve defined. Truth will no longer be undermined by teams. By those wishing to control the spark of masses. Great scholars all learn to abolish all classes. Without stepping foot outside their door, Or using words and symbols to design new cures. No, the unity required for expansion is much, much more. Yet it’s as small and as simple as a heart that is pure.

Distant Relativity

“WHAT STANDS IN BETWEEN YOU AND ME IS WHAT MAKES US FEEL WE AREN’T FREE. IT’S JUST DISTANCE IN THE TREE. A SIMPLE PHYSICAL ANOMALY. AN ILLUSORY DIVISION FROM A SINGLE SEED.” – “INTELLIGENT DESIGN” BY JD STAHL

Though my intentions were purely focused on love and truth, the world itself was not always so accommodating. However, without developing the ability to transcend my environmental distractions, I would eventually lose my ability to connect with others. The mere thought of being abandoned by my own intuition was traumatic. Without my youthful perspective and innocence, I would essentially be cast out of my kingdom, feeling abandoned by something that I could not even see or define. What I did not know was that I was far from the only person who had faced these types of fears. The difference was, however, was that I had not yet credited these fears to anything external. The only illusory “distance” that I created was all inside of me. Fortunately, after a short period of reflection, I could reconcile my internal conflict and return again to my Kingdom.

Whenever any of us experience fear, it is only because we have forgotten the unconditional nature of our soul. The fear and relative doubt create “space,” a non-physical “distance” between the creation and the creator. As our rational minds wrestle with an insoluble problem, the gap between our body and soul increases. The greater the gap, the more our world fragments into pieces. The more fragments we create from our personal lack of faith, the more (relative) time we require to reconcile the opposites. Time itself, therefore, has a relationship that is directly proportional to how well we are able to remain connected to the lowest-common-denominator (unconditional love) that gives life to all living things.

“IN TIME, THERE IS A RELATIVE GAIN. AND IT DILATES INSIDE YOUR EYES.” – “ZERO POINT” BY JD STAHL

This lowest-common-denominator, of course, is the vibratory energy of unconditional love—the spark of light that is channeled from within. When we allow ourselves to experience these feelings without fear, we transmit them externally into our environment—like an aura or telepathic messaging system. Out of our eye's iris, we send out converted light energy from an invisible frequency, planting seeds in the minds of others. The invincible energy/spirit of love speaks from behind the eyes—the windows to our soul.

Behind any of our differences is a reflection of ourself at our highest state of consciousness—pure awareness (bliss). This light, like the truth itself, cannot be claimed by any physical being, but can be through us, quantumly channeled from a “place” that exists outside the limits of both time and space. By matching the energy signature of unconditional love, we open up a gravitational wormhole or portal that connects us to a place of unlimited free energy, independent of any external provider or system. Beyond the event horizons of every eye's iris is a world where light has yet to be shaped by our imagination. Into this world we are drawn, ripped from the light that has confused us with its illusory distance.

Cleaning the Chakra Board

“IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, PROOF OF CHEMISTRY DRIVES SPIRITUALITY. MARKS ON THE LADDER GUIDE YOUR STEPS THROUGH TIME.” – “PROTECTED” BY JD STAHL

All of these ideas and concepts about love and light may seem quite superfluous in terms of physical reality. Often, we use them to explain poetic interpretations of emotions that we seek to embody. However, without being able to envision these concepts, it can be easy to write them off as a fantastical exaggeration that has no ground in our physical reality. Fortunately, the metaphysical concepts that underly sciences such as chemistry and biology can reveal the consistent relationships that can help us to visualize our relationship with invisible energy. Just because we cannot see something, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Similarly, just because we cannot hold time in our hands doesn't mean that we aren't subject to it.

While the physical aspect of the next few chapters will tell of various childhood experiences that introduce different people who challenge my ability to remain connected to unconditional love in less-than-ideal conditions, my soul is engaging in similar lessons. While the rational mind matriculates through the school of internal/external balance, the soul engages in a reciprocal study of purity and transcendence. The two energies of our existence (physical and non-physical/spiritual) attempt to reconcile the opposites so that growth can be achieved through every experience we encounter.

“COME ALONG IF YOU DARE. TAKE A RIDE TO THE LAND INSIDE OF YOUR MIND. BUT PLEASE REALIZE YOU'LL PROBABLY BE SURPRISED. FOR IT'S THE LAND UNKNOWN TO MAN, WHERE FANTASY IS FACT. SO IF YOU CAN, PLEASE UNDERSTAND, YOU MIGHT NOT COME BACK.” – “JOURNEY TO THE CENTERE OF THE MIND” BY TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES

Between these two energies (electronic and magnetic) is our rational mind, discerning the difference between imagination and reality. Any ideas and concepts that we choose to believe so that we can discern the difference between these polarities eventually becomes manifest in our external world. Fortunately, this means that the more we believe and trust our intuition, the better our chances are to reach our full potential. On the other hand, we can also impose limitations on ourselves when we believe in things that create distance between who we think we are and who we truly are, beyond our rational mind's ability to accept while exposed to a world that exists in duality or separation.

An easy way to perceive this body/soul concept visually is to imagine that at the center of our body is a jellyfish. Behind our skin, bone, tissue, muscle, etc. is our central nervous system. This complex system of nerves is connected to our spinal cord, which then connects to our brain. The central nervous system (CNS) is essentially in charge of all of our base biological functions. Each impulse is sent through the body via electronic charges; each charge creates a signature frequency that is received by the body as electronic messaging. When the heart's magnetic charges combine with these signature frequencies, they form a unique electromagnetic field that radiates outwards from each point of convergence in the body. Each one of these points of contact is tantamount to a divine intervention which occurs at a micro level inside the body.

“GIRD YOUR LOINS AND LIGHT YOUR LAMPS AND BE LIKE SERVANTS WHO AWAIT THEIR MASTER’S RETURN FROM A WEDDING, READY TO OPEN IMMEDIATELY WHEN HE COMES AND KNOCKS.” – LUKE 12:35-26

Every single human being is the direct product of the marriage between light and body. When each of us are born, our lives begin in complete alignment with these systems. All of these energy points in our body are in perfect balance. However, much like the muscular structure of a newborn, our heads must be held until we adjust to the “heaviness” of our physical chalices.

One may consider our first lesson as human beings is negotiating this biological container in order to be able to maximize our potential. Until we learn to walk, our luminous faculties are channeled into the development of our physicality. It is only after we have achieved command over our personal chariots of light that we can begin receiving light from external sources so that we may graduate to the next level of education: adaptation to the physical world from the perspective of the Supreme Self.

“I SAID FLOATATION IS GROOVY. AND HE SAID. AND A JELLY FISH WILL AGREE TO THAT. YEAH, BUT THAT OLD JELLYFISH BEEN FLOATIN' AROUND SO LONG. LORD HE AIN'T GOT A BONE IN HIS JELLY BACK.” – “POWER OF SOUL” BY JIMI HENDRIX

We can achieve body/soul integration simply by focusing our attention on the marriage between the physical body (vehicle, chalice, skin, etc.) and the soul (driver, light, electricity, etc.). We can perceive this connection physically through the relationship of distance and time. When we are imbalanced or favor identification on our body, we create space that requires time (karmic energy) in order to reconcile the spaces between. Therefore, in order to be able to reach our destination (balance), we focus our attention on creating the energy of action (karma). However, when we are in balanced states of peace and bliss, no travel is necessary. When no distance exists, neither time nor space exists.

Our ability to perceive physical distance in our environment is proportional to far we have distanced ourselves from our supreme state of divinity—holiness or wholeness. To be “whole” or “holy” is to maintain the Brahmanic state; the Supreme Self, Fool, etc. To exist in a potentiated state of everything, we must also satisfy the balanced opposite of becoming nothing. Without limitation, stagnation, or static identification, we identify with that which is forever malleable—infinite. While both polarities are balanced, distance, time, or karma is unnecessary.

When we are capable of identifying ourselves as that which cannot be restricted by the constraints of physical time or space, we will eventually transfigure ourselves to the energy within which is faster than the speed of light (mathematically represented as “c”). Similarly, when all of the colors of light's spectrum are combined, pure white light is produced. This is the highest vibratory state of visual light. In order to be able to unify all fragmentation, the light requires balance with its environment.

“HOLD ON TIGHTLY. LET GO LIGHTLY.” – RAM DASS

As human beings, none of us are really any different in that regard. In order to be empowered by our unconditional love, we are asked to unify all aspects of ourself and perceive them from a state of balanced awareness. This state is called “The Witness.” Simply observing objectively, the Witness claims no bias or preference, only existing so that it can manifest an internal environment that will create an opportunity for each of to renegotiate balance—if we channel our free will to do so, that is. In this way, it can be virtually impossible to transcend our physical environment unless we can reconcile our own internal balance between all possible polarities.

Though it is not impossible to find moments of peace without internal balance, it becomes much easier to become dependent upon external resources, variables, substances, relationships, etc. in order to do so. When we are capable of reaching harmonic states in solitude, however, the external world is seen through the eyes of the observer. From this perspective, everything and everyone around us appears to be a projective representation of a part of ourselves that we must attempt to love unconditionally. The Witness state can only exist when we are not reactive to our emotions—the tool/weapon that our ego/persona/identity uses as a means to prevent itself from being eliminated from the equation.

“HEAVEN AND HELL ARE YOUR STATE OF MIND. SEARCH THROUGH YOUR SOUL AND GOD YOU WILL FIND. DON'T LET THE WORLD WRAP YOU IN CHAINS. ADDICTIONS ARE PREDICTIONS, PULLING THE REIGNS. IF YOU CANNOT SEE, YOU WON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. BLINDNESS AND HATE NEVER LEAD TO YOUR DREAMS. THE ANSWERS AND LOVE AWAIT ONLY YOUR RELEASE. WITHOUT KNOWING YOURSELF, YOU'LL NEVER KNOW PEACE.” - “OPERATION RAINBOW” BY JD STAHL

When we are younger, this fabricated identity has yet to solidify; therefore, our identities are significantly more malleable. This means that as children we have a greater ability to shape ourselves to our environment while still remaining connected to a part of ourselves that is infinite and not conducive to the restrictions of the physical world: pure energy.

This means that we can take a bunch of different roles and occupy numerous personalities and identities throughout our day. However, in order to remain connected to this pure white light energy, we have to remain conscious of our periodic transformations. It would be tantamount to an actor that plays a bunch of different characters. The actor rarely loses themselves in any character to the point where they are unable to change from character to character on the various stages. Instead, the skilled actor embodies them all so well that the audience is caught by their performance. As soon as the act is complete, they shed the character completely so that they can purely embody the next.

As children, we practice these transformations constantly, rarely ever being consciously aware of doing so. The older we get, we are taught that being an “adult” means we must reduce our options down to a few—or one. We are taught this by our environment so that they may feel more comfortable with our predictability. And so, we limit our own potential and “dim our light” in order to be accepted by the external world. Unfortunately, in doing this, we create a sense of scarcity that leads us to compete against one another for energy—all of which is sourced from unconditional love. However, unless we can love ourselves with conscious awareness while transforming into various characters, we will never ever reach the necessary state of unconditionality which is required for us to transcend the internal/external duality.