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Life has often presented me with challenges that I've used to test myself. In fact, sometimes I've accepted challenges I didn't have to meet, like taking the hard way rather than an easy one that was equally accessible.

So much of our lives is spent dealing with others. But the one constant in all of those relationships is us. Or more particularly, our relationship with ourselves.

Most of the time we ignore it, and think little of how we treat ourselves, much less the processes that are going on inside us. Yet, don't they shape our attitudes and beliefs with which we greet everyone else?

Can you break free of the drama of your life to consider something more? Many people can't. The problem doesn't seem to be one of willingness, because in conversation I hear the urgency in your voices for our world -- and your lives -- to change. Instead, it's one of necessity. You're so caught up in what's been created you don't have much time or energy to think about creating anything new.

Once upon a time I saw myself through the various roles I played. Lawyer. Father. Husband. You know the drill.

As I get closer to my core, I now see myself less in terms of what I "do" than how I do it. In effect, my life has become more of a process through which I apply the skills I've developed to create experiences.

To borrow a phrase from Yogananda, life is a battlefield. And on it we're fightig the war of our lives. But for those on the path, the question is how? How are we to fight this war? And for that matter, who is the enemy?

There are many who would keep us locked in darkness through fear and self-interest. If we are to build a better future, they must be engaged at every turn. We can no longer abdicate our world to those who would keep us enslaved.

Cheney's Friendly Fire - [Rolling Stone]

Dick Chaney shot a guy? So what else is new? He's been taking shots at people behind the scenes for years.

I sense a resistance to awakening. Not an active one, with affirmative actions to stop it. But rather a passive resistance, where a deep-seated egoic reaction is causing some to pull back.

Some are curious about awakening and ascension. Others about what an enlightened community might offer. But few have connected what's going on in them with what we offer here.

Why all the channeled messages, particularly those that push the envelope so far? They're to help loosen the hold of what you believe to make room for something more. Not for blind adoption of what they say, but to put you in a place of conflict so you'll have no choice but to find your source of true knowing -- where not only will the truths you need be revealed, but also where you will be inspired into action.

Is there a duality of activity within -- a want or even need to act, vs. the urge to act? The feeling of want or need comes from the outer self, or as some call it, the idealized self. Usually so do our desires. The urge to act comes from an inner place where there is no must, no need, no urgency. Only creation.