Should we do something with our psychic information?

Have you ever had a dream or an intuition about something that you thought was going to happen? If so, do you keep the vision to yourself? Or did you share with anyone?

Does anyone remember the show The Dead Zone? It was a TV Show based on a Stephen King novel. When Johnny Smith, a high school science teacher, recovers from his coma he starts using his newfound psychic ability to go back and forward in time to solve crimes and do good. I don’t know how many people who watched that show later went on to actually develop psychic ability, however it seems almost universal that when people start getting information (myself included), we want to do something with it.

Perhaps it’s the Hollywood’s influence. Or maybe we have a instinctive drive to use a super power for good. Regardless of the impulse, it’s common to feel compelled to take action with the information we may start being shown. However, until we develop a deep rapport with God and our spiritual guidance, I highly recommend not doing much with the downloads at all. Instead, think of these hits as an invitation to really start paying attention and begin to investigate the source and purpose of the downloads.

In my intuitive development workshops I repeat ad nauseam that our intuitive ability will give us access to more information for us to work with and decipher. Decipher being an operative word in that learning to speak the language of intuition often feels like cracking a code. Intuition is mysterious and fluid. Intuition in the way I experience it, also seems to me tied to the essence of things. In the same way that the English word love and the Spanish word amor are sounds we use to communicate a dimension of our relational experience, dreams and visions are often symbols through which our intuition is communicating something essential.

In dreams and in client sessions, it is often a feeling, a knowing, a general vibe conveyed with those symbols that I am most keenly attuned to. And the visuals that come with them can be helpful in providing context or filling in gaps in my conscious awareness. Visions and dreams can be literal and I have my share of these for sure. More commonly in my experience, they are entirely symbolic and more like a metaphor for an underlying essence wanting to be addressed. For the sake of sanity and caution, I will first consider the majority of my dreams and visions as metaphorical.

While I have certainly become more discerning, my ability to recognize a psychic hit reflecting stone cold reality versus a metaphor or even a day dream is far from perfect. Which is why even after twenty-five years of meditation and intuitive investigating I first consider whatever coming in as curious information. I don’t take action. I don’t post to social media. I don’t pick up the phone and call the person I dreamt about. I simply sit with the information or investigate further in an intentional setting.

If the download is not a 100%, crystal clear deep knowing, then I will drop into meditation and ask God and my guidance what was the purpose of what I was shown. Sometimes it’s an awareness dressed as a metaphor. Sometimes it’s a lesson wrapped up with true insight. Sometimes, but more rarely, is it information I am supposed to pass along to someone. Here’s the really important kicker — sometimes there’s no other context provided. Maybe it’s days, weeks, months or even years, before what dropped in reveals itself in my experience or never at all. That happens plenty too. I’m telling you — intuition is mysterious :)

So, if you’re someone who is having a psychic awakening — intentionally or not — rest easy in knowing there is no urgency or rush to be sharing what you’re being shown or trying to save the world. Instead, I’d treat this as a higher spiritual calling to be answered, a budding dimension of yourself reaching out for attention. Turn your awareness to God, connect with your spirit guides or even an earthly spiritual guide and begin a dialogue. Treat the information as an invitation to expand your consciousness, to deepen your awareness of yourself and the world you live in first and foremost. After all, if you can’t learn to grow and empower yourself with this newfound information, is it ever really going to be helpful to anyone else?

-jb

Is the spiritual political?

How my psychic experiences have shaped how I view political life in America

I didn’t grow up in a political household. Sure, my working class parents dutifully voted every four years, but politics wasn’t a conversation at the dinner table. We talked sports. Shared about school. Perhaps unconventionally, we did talk about dreams and what they might mean. Much of those conversations were about dream symbols and what they could potentially be telling us about our own personal, spiritual growth. Then one day, I had a kind of dream I’d never had before:

My point of view was as if I was looking through a glass table up at all these men in suits gathered around me. They were powerful men of all different shapes, sizes, colors and creeds. There was a roar of chatter — some of which was in languages I did not understand. Men shuffled around the table, and there was passionate, spirited discussion back and forth. Suddenly, a big map was sprawled out over my point of view and I could faintly see the outlines of countries drawn on what was a map of the world. Some fingers pointed to a spot near the center of the map, what felt like Egypt to me, and suddenly a voice — in an indiscernible accent —very audibly pronounced, “He’s going to do it without us. It doesn’t matter what we say, he’s going to go in by himself. He’s going to do it.” - Awakening Soul Force, Chapter 4

When I woke up from this dream, it left a residual weight on my psyche I would eventually come to recognize as a “psychic” dream. As it would turn out, I had this haunting insight weeks before the United States unilaterally invaded Iraq without UN Security Council approval. When the invasion became headline news, the residual tension remaining in me from that dream finally released. That’s when I knew my night vision and the war were connected in a way I could not comprehend at the time.

In the short time after this revelation, I would find myself dreaming about American combat overseas at night, only to come across the same scenes in pictures and footage on newscasts throughout the week. Frankly, it was confusing. Echoes of explosions, the rat-tat-tat of gunfire — some mornings I’d wake up feeling like I had been right there on the front lines. Other nights, I felt like a passionless observer watching the action with a neutral, omnipresent eye. It was a lot to hold in my young mind. I was just a high school football junkie who had taken an interest in meditation and metaphysics for personal growth. I had no idea I’d be so quickly attuned to the collective psyche in this way.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this initial experience lately. Not just because it was the beginning of my now twenty-five or so year journey with psychic awareness, but because my intuitive path seems to have long been intertwined with American politics. And fortunately or unfortunately, there’s no burying my head in the sand at what comes through. I dreamt about Benjamin Netanyahu’s second rise to power in 2009, Obama’s reliance on the use of military contractors when we were keeping a ‘light footprint’ in Afghanistan, several mass shootings at home and abroad, Donald Trump’s first election, the January 6th attack, Elon Musk chaos, and as of recent, the accelerating threat of tech-juiced authoritarianism here in America.

I have had so many insights about collective events that have come to pass, it’s hard not to associate part of my psychic awareness with political power grabs, war and brutal violence. Having grown up in a quiet part of California in a safe and loving community, it’s been my connection to the unseen that has informed me of the darker horrors of the Earth plane. Has my physical body been to these wars, been shot at in a school or chased by vigilante forces? No. But these atrocities terrorize people around the globe daily, and strangely have the potential of touching my life and people I love in America today. Based on my psychic dreams, not to mention a general sense of empathy and reason, war and violence are not what I aim to cultivate as a lived experience for myself or anyone else.

In contrast, the same psychic awareness that would bring me visions of violence being perpetrated globally has also allowed me to personally touch dimensions of love and wisdom that I can only describe as divine. Through dedicated meditation and prayer I have felt my union with God, with Christ and my connection with all things. While my dreams at times bring the intensity of collective darkness, my spiritual practice often brings a serene and surrendered peace, inspired insights and a depth of connection with fellow souls that I simply cannot deny. Rather than violence and division, connection and cooperation are lived experiences I am interested in cultivating for myself and others.

I often think about the single garment of destiny Dr. King wrote about in his Letter From Birmingham Jail. His words, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” As I’ve gotten older and my psychic and spiritual journey has taken me where it has, these words hit in a remarkably different way today. Not just in an intellectual or philosophical sense, but in a lived sense. I know each one of us is a thread in a larger garment of shared experience. I know that war, violence and exploitation is a harm to the individuals involved and the collective soul of humanity. I know our oneness is inescapable. It is deniable to our detriment — but it is inescapable.

I think philosophically, we as a culture have a vague sense of justice. It’s a word we use, but may broadly speak of it in terms of equality, rights and wrongs, lawful or unlawful acts. But if I seek an anchor for justice in something spiritual, something larger and more enduring, it would be anchored in this inescapable network of mutuality that Dr. King speaks of. For if we are all children of God, the creative compassionate intelligence animating life, then surely we all have a right to live our lives in peace, to enjoy our freedom and autonomy, and to enjoy that in relationship to others. Even if we strip away the concept of God, we are all citizens of the Earth. The ground beneath my feet is the same ground that peaks in the Himalayas and plunges to the depths of the Mariana Trench, and touches every person in between.

Therefore, this oneness of mind I have psychically touched, and the oneness of physical experience I enjoy as a man of the Earth, has become my moral, spiritual and political touchstone. It becomes the North Star I use to check if I am on course or not, if I am living in alignment with a principle that is fundamentally true about human existence. To me that is a principle of oneness, the interconnected nature of all things seen and unseen. I could call living in alignment with this principle of oneness ‘justice’ and not living in alignment with the principle of oneness an ‘injustice’, and I can measure my actions and the actions of others against this principle. I do so not to make myself or anyone else right or wrong, it’s a matter of alignment, checking to see if the ship is heading toward the destination I feel compelled to reach.

In an effort to live a just life, I find myself constantly checking in with myself and this organizing principle: If oneness is the truth of my existence, how does that express itself?

How do I honor oneness and wholeness within myself? Can I do this fully for me without diminishing another? Can I fully honor another without diminishing myself? Is it possible finding synergy between self and other unlocks unrealized potential for us both?

How do I choose to communicate? Is it in alignment with the truth out of respect for myself and respect for another? Is it possible, that out of truthful relationship, we find understanding and shared reality?

How do I choose to make a living? Can I do so without being exploited? Can I do so without exploiting another? Is it possible to build, rise and expand, while also minimizing harm — together?

How does oneness impact how I approach conflict? Can I honor my own dignity in disagreement and also honor the dignity of another at the same time? Can our disagreements and incongruence potentially lead to our most ground breaking discoveries about what’s next?

If oneness is the truth of my spiritual experience, how does this inform the type of agreements I enter into with my family, friends, neighbors, collaborators? Can I find a balance between sovereignty and sacrifice that honors the best and highest of all involved?

These questions reflect my impulse to live a just existence in my own right, one that reflects the balance and harmony of life expressed through the principle of oneness. My desire to shift insight and understanding into known experience is precisely how the spiritual becomes political in my mind. As soon as another person is introduced into relationship with me, my spiritual understanding becomes political through relational expression. How I conduct myself, how I speak, how I handle conflict, how I collaborate with another all become a testing grounds to demonstrate the depth or lack of my spiritual understanding.

Participating in the messy act of finding the balance between sovereignty and sacrifice in personal relationships, in work, in my civic life, that’s been the meat of my human experience. Life is a clunky and often unsexy creative process as we fumble and bumble through our own personal growth that is inextricably linked to a collective growth process — whether we like it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. If my psychic life is any indication, the dual nature of human consciousness sprouts everything from the terror of war and violence to the transcendent bliss of oneness with all that is. What a weighty polarity we’ve chosen to carry — both consciously and unconsciously.

So, here I am — here we are — all living together somewhere on the spectrum in-between. And the questions we are all called to answer is, what is our North Star? What’s the guiding principle we’re using to organize our lives? Globally, we are 8 billion people on the planet, with 8 billion perspectives shaped by unique life experiences. Here in the United States we are more or less 330 million people. So how do we find unity in our diversity? How do we balance sovereignty and sacrifice at such scale? It starts with us and how we choose to live.

For me, I have landed on this principle of oneness. It’s the only principle that anchors me in something that feels undeniably true about the nature of our human existence, while at the same time providing a guiding light for how I ought to organize my life. It informs what I strive to create in my shared experience with others. History shows I’m not the only person who perhaps arrived here. After all, the official motto of the United States can be found, held in the beak of an Eagle and printed widely on all our money:

E PLURIBUS UNUM
Latin. It translates as out of many, one.

Interesting.

Maybe the spiritual really is political after all…

-jb

Did you ask?

The most important step to unlocking your intuitive insight might be the simplest

“When you asked us to visualize all those things, I saw all of them.” one attendee stated. "When you asked what do we need to hear, the word ‘heal’ popped in my head. But when you asked me what it felt like to sit next to someone I trust, I didn’t feel anything. What does that mean?”

"I don’t know.” I replied. “But if I were you, that’s a thread I would pull on.”

Questions like this pop up often when I chat with folks about intuitive experiences. Other similar refrains: I keep seeing the number 11 — what does that mean? Sometimes when I fall asleep, I see an image of Abraham Lincoln pop into my mind — what does that mean? Every time I hear (insert favorite politician) talk, I want to have a bowel movement — what does that mean? Ok, fine the last one might not be too hard to figure out. You get the point.

My response these days is often, “Did you ask?” And usually, I get kind of a puzzled look, as if I’ve completely disregarded the fact I’ve just asked me THE question. “Did you ask God, your guides, the sensation itself — did you ask it what it means or what it is trying to tell you?” After a loud pause, the answer more often than not is a sort of adrift and trailing ‘no’, a subtle acknowledgment the thought never even crossed their minds.

Learning to speak the language of intuition, to expand our dialogue with the soul, our psyche and the greater intelligence all around us, comes down to continually asking questions. To me, this is what “seeking” is all about. It’s about learning the art of simple questions. “What is this? Why is it showing up? What is this trying to tell me?” This goes for those spontaneous images, words or impulses that pop in and we don’t know what to make of. These are the obvious ones.

In the case of my dude at the workshop, where we eased into meditation for the sake of intentionally connecting with our intuitive senses, it works for what doesn’t arise as well. In his case, he noticed no sensation. If he were to stay with his meditative flow and ask guidance, “Hey, I am not able to access this feeling, why not? What is this trying to tell me?” I’d be extra curious to hear what response comes in next. This is the juicy juice of the process. And in the arc of our growth over a lifetime, it is far more valuable for us to ask this question to ourselves and integrate the response, rather than outsource an answer to someone else.

And here’s the really challenging part…

Sometimes, we don’t know. Sometimes, there’s not a clear cut answer. Sometimes, it’s the asking of a simple question that begins a slow psychological, emotional or spiritual unraveling of a tightly knotted thread that will reveal its true nature over time. Sure, you can go on ChatGPT and ask the stupid robot (it’s stupid, it’s a computer, a probability machine, it’s not intelligent I don’t care what anyone says) “What does this mean?”, and it will spit out a belligerently confident answer at the stroke of a key.

But we’re not computers. I don’t think this experience is a computer simulation. More and more everyday I come to view the expansion of our intuitive awareness much like the growth of a tree — a process of slowly becoming over time, a process of making unconscious things conscious. What starts as a simple sprout, grows into a stalk, turns into a few leaves, evolves eventually into a thick trunk with copious branches growing upward and outward. What drives this growth? Light.

Psychologically, spiritually, it is the light of awareness that grows us upward and outward as well. When we stumble into our blocks, like the feelings or sensations we can’t access in a moment of reflection, we can intentionally bring light to that area of our lives and see what’s hiding there in the dark by asking, “What’s this? What’s there? Show me what’s behind this”. And sometimes, the light of awareness reaches out to us — beckoning to engage in a discourse. A word, an image, an inspiration — reaching out to see if we’ll notice, if we’ll ask, if we’ll choose what it hopes to reveal to us about ourselves and our world.

So, the next time you get a spontaneous insight or find yourself seeking insight to no avail, ask the simple questions: what’s this? Why this? What is this word trying to reveal? What is this vision trying to show me? What is this silence trying to tell me? Then listen. The answer will come. Maybe not exactly in the moment. Possibly over a considerable amount of time, but it will come. As Jesus said, ask you shall receive, knock and the door will be opened.

Just ask the questions…

-jb

P.S. If you need help with asking questions, consider working with me by booking an introductory session :)

New guides — who dis?

I remember the first time I had an experience meeting my spirit guides. As a psi-curious teenager, I laid on my bedroom floor and hit the eject button on my sticker covered boombox. I removed a copy of Metallica’s Black Album on cassette and replaced it with Unleashing Your Psychic Potential by the medium John Edward. My folks regularly watched John’s show Crossing Over on SciFi, and had taken an interest in his work. I was no exception.


I too was intrigued by what he did. While I didn’t find myself talking to passed loved ones as a kid, I had always felt a deep connection to spirit and felt the presence of Jesus as child. I wondered if these guided meditations John recorded could be helpful to me. Did I have spirit guides? Could I meet Jesus? Most importantly, I needed to know if I did have guides, did they have any tips to help me grow taller so I could be a viable D1 quarterback?


As it would turn out I did have spirit guides. And no, they did not and still offer no insight into helping me grow taller :) In fact, my first interaction with my guides was pretty brief and in some ways more underwhelming than I’d imagined it might be. After a peaceful, guided journey up a spiral staircase and into a beautiful landscape led by John’s voice, I came into contact with two spirits: a Disney-like spirited raccoon and a spirit guide that came to me in the form of an older African-American gentleman named Ralph.


These guides didn’t come to me as disembodied spirits or apparitions ghosting about my bedroom like Casper. The experience was internal. To help you get a sense of what it was like — just take a second yourself to imagine an old pet you had in your mind. Visualize them in a familiar space you used to play with them in. Imagine them circling around your feet, looking up at you, running back and forth. Recall their energy — either their excitement or the comfort with which they interact with you. This little day dream you’ve created? That’s pretty close to how the experience played out.


The difference between our short thought experiment above and my experience, was the frame that was set prior to the journey. In John’s tape, he helped me engage in a deliberate guided meditation to enter a relaxed state, create an divinely protected container and intentionally connected me with my guides. This framework is important because the nuts and bolts of this particular experience would eventually become the staple of my own spiritual seeking practice that has been guiding my life for decades.


So, what did my guides have to say?


At first, not a lot.

Initially, the raccoon emerged from the trees in my vision and slowly approached me with ease. There was a feeling of safety and innocence in his presence. I asked him if he was my animal guide.


Without words — he responded, “Yes, you can call me Roger.”


I then asked what message he had for me.


“To help you know when you’re in the right place.”


With that came a subtle understanding that was not put into words, so I asked for clarity, “What do you mean?”


”When you see raccoons, you will know you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.”


Considering raccoons are known for digging around in the trash, I was a little concerned about where this was going ;) A fun fast forward to the future: Roger would pop-in and out of my meditations for a few years, before this message of being in “the right place” would be made known in the physical world. When I moved to Santa Barbara my freshman year of college (a very key season of life in my awakening journey), guess who I would see skittering about outside my bedroom window at night?


Back to the initial story…


Roger then asked me to follow him. My trusted animal guide, Roger the Raccoon, led me to an area where I would then meet Ralph. Ralph greeted me by my full name Jeffrey (my guides have always called me by my full name) and asked me to sit with him. I asked him if he was my spirit guide.


"For now”, he said.


"What do you mean?”


"You have many guides. I am with you now.”


I asked him to explain more.


"You have a whole group of guides. Some of us are with you for short periods, others will be with you your whole life. I am with you for now, until it is time to learn more lessons.”


I then asked, “What are you here to teach me?”


"This. I am here to help you connect with your guides. You can ask me questions.” he replied.


Oh man, did I have so many questions. As if no time had passed at all, I recognized John’s voice winding down the meditation.


“It’s time to go.” Ralph said. “Please, come back anytime. We’re here for you.”


I said my thanks to Ralph and Roger, then began the journey of bringing my awareness back to my bedroom floor I was laying on. When I returned, I scribbled some notes down on a little yellow note pad that was on my computer desk. I felt so at peace. The interaction so brief, yet so powerful.


Then, my Virgo rising kicked in. Was that a day dream? Am I crazy? Did I make all that up? Why did everyone’s name start with an R? Hmmm. Roger the Raccoon. That alliteration is way too good to be true. Creative. Memorable, but a little fishy :) While I had many questions, something unique had transpired. Real or imagined, I had an experience. An experience that left me feeling comforted, safe and supportive. That meant a lot no matter where it came from.


After years of working with this dimension of consciousness and guiding others on their own journeys, I can look back and see this as pretty standard case of a first intentional interaction with guides. A subtle, slightly unusual but distinct encounter. The messages simple, clear and just enough to leave an impact, but not overwhelm me.


The clarity, the lack of intensity — that’s the most important piece I want to emphasize. My interaction with the creative compassionate intelligence that is here to guide us on our journey often comes in the form of very quiet, simple and gentle experiences. That line between intuition and imagination is also very thin. All this considered, it can be easy to miss, disregard or bypass our ability to connect to higher guidance because it’s truthfully a very quiet movement in a very loud world.


In my experience, the most profound guidance is often the most simple. A word. A phrase. A feeling. And in a world where we often confuse complexity with relevance, a message as simple as “come ask questions…we’re here for you”, might be all we need to remember in even our most trying times.

-jb

Spiritual Technology

Hello my friends!

It’s been some time! Life and my intuitive offerings have really shifted quite a bit since I took myself offline a couple years ago. I am living in Austin, TX now, where I’ve been working with a good friend since fall of 2024 to establish our small business consulting firm called alesce, while quietly taking private intuitive sessions when time allows it. However, I am answering the call from my guides to ramp up my availability, and to be of spiritual service more broadly once again.


There’s important work to be done, and I feel it coming up often in recent readings. I’ve had the privilege of continuing to serve those of you who have stayed in touch and continue to reach out for private sessions. A handful of you even joined me for a retreat in Mallorca last June – which was absolutely one of the most incredible life experiences I’ve ever enjoyed. (I’ll be co-facilitating The Inner Compass Retreat Oct. 30-Nov. 3 if you have interest in coming to Spain!)


For many others receiving this notification, it’s been awhile since we’ve touched base. Much of that loss of contact has been due to the fact I completely stopped using Instagram and Facebook to facilitate my work in 2023, and the old soul force email has since expired. I suppose it’s a testament to just how much we rely on technology to stay connected when we’re not sharing the same physical space. Which brings us to now…


Amidst the AI craze that’s taken this country by storm, I am firing up an old fashion blog/newsletter of sorts on the only platform my guides OK’d here on Substack. I’m getting back to my favorite medium (the written word) to remind us of the much more ancient, time tested and existentially essential intuitive “technology” imbued in all of us. I’m here explore the biological, emotional, spiritual wiring that connects us to life, to one another and to higher dimensions of God’s creative, compassionate intelligence.

My intention is to communicate and share as I am compelled by spirit. I might share personal insights or channeled messages, I might ask questions or try on new ideas. In all, I hope this newsletter can serve as a gentle, but persistent reminder for us to deepen our own awareness, to remind us that our highest thought wants to have a physical experience in the body. That’s what we’re here to do right? To have a conscious experience? To know ourselves, to know each other, to understand our power, to realize our potential as living, breathing expressions of loving consciousness?


From here on out, I will drop into your inbox as a force for higher good throughout the month. Unsubscribe or opt-out anytime you feel like our time has run its course – no hard feelings :) Until then, I hope my communications will provoke thought, inspire reflection and encourage you to engage in an evolving dialogue with yourself and all of life, so that you may realize the truth and the wonder of who you came to be —who we came to be—on this Earth.


As always, thanks for being here my friend. I look forward to sharing more in the near future.


Onward,


Jeff


P.S If you know someone who might enjoy these musings, tell them about this newsletter…


P.S.S. If you’d like to book an intuitive guidance session, you can do so at https://www.jeffbomberger.com/intuitive-guidance-readings

The Loving Christ

Brothers and sisters in Christ, it is time to rise.

It is time to shine. It is time to awaken from your slumber and beam the loving light of awareness that exists in your heart. It is time to embody your unrelenting conviction in goodness at an intensity and scale that you have been reluctant to embrace.

Now, I understand these are chaotic and confusing times. I understand the world’s problems often seem insurmountable, that the clouds of darkness in our skies seem too powerful to ever be lifted. But my brothers and sisters in Christ, you are children of God. And it has been said that if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can move mountains. That means we, together, can move mountains with the love of Christ in our collective hearts, let alone dissipate darkened clouds.

But it is up to us, all of us. It is up to the collective we that makes up the living body of Christ, that gives lasting power to Christ’s love in this physical form to bring about this movement. Because it is this collective we that are Christ resurrected. It is the collective we that makes up the living body of Christ today, here, now in this present moment.

It is your mother and father that make up the left and the right side of the body of Christ. It is the builders and the workers and the healers that make up the heart and the hands of the body of Christ. It is the artists and the musicians, it is the laughter of children that make up the voice of the body of Christ. It is the teacher, the nurse, the caretaker, that make up the lungs of the body of Christ.

It is the therapist, the philosopher and the mentor that make up the mind of the body of Christ. And it is the farm and field workers, the bus drivers, the public servants, that make up the legs that keep the living body of Christ moving forward. It is the collective we that represents the light of Christ’s love in today’s world. And today’s world really needs that light.

Today’s world needs your open heart. It needs your curious mind. It needs your healing touch. It needs your precise insight. It needs your creative thought. It needs your unified vision, the one that sees all of us as an essential cell in this vibrant, dynamic, living and breathing body of Christ.

Make no mistake about it, there’s a lot of reasons to forget that we are all brothers and sisters. There’s a lot of reasons to believe that nothing is going to change anytime soon. And that is because the chains of injustice have weighed down so many for so long. But brothers and sisters, we can break those chains. We can break those chains. We can lift each other up if we do it together, if that is our intention.

We can split those shackles and we can release those chains, we can free each other, if we choose to look out beyond ourselves. If we look out beyond ourselves and we embrace our brotherhood, we embrace our sisterhood as children of God, we can free one another. Because you can see the shackles on me that I can’t see, and you can help free me if I am so willing, and I can see the shackles on your that you can’t see on you, and I can help free you if you are so willing. So together, with loving intention, with effort and persistence, we can choose to liberate one another, to give rise to the living body of Christ.

We are children of God. And because we are children of God, we are entitled to life. Because God gave us life. And as children of God, we are entitled to food and to shelter, and to medicine, because God provided us an abundant earth, one that provides all of those things and more. It is important to remember God provided long before men divided — don’t ever forget to remember that.

As children of God, we are entitled to safety and freedom, the kind of safety and freedom that allows us as brothers and sisters to know God for ourselves. We’re entitled to the freedom to explore philosophies and expressions and works of art and life’s experiences that bring us closer to God because that is God’s greatest wish. That we would know God and that God would know us. And that we would know one another as a single, unified family in Christ.

These are the promises of a just and loving God. And these promises will never be fulfilled by unjust and miserly men. Therefore, it is our duty to each other, it is our duty to our children, it is duty to our children’s children and generations to come, that we bring about fulfilling these promises, the promises that a just and loving God made to give us a just and loving experience.

It is our duty that we work together as brothers and as sisters to create a culture of conscience and wellbeing, to create a lived day-to-day experience where the love of Christ isn’t just an idea espoused in hollow halls, but a vital principle known, a visceral experience felt, a truth that is lived in the flesh. It is our duty together that we bring about the manifestation of Christ’s love in this way, not just for ourselves but for each other and future generations.

It is our duty to give ourselves and each other the means, the time and the freedom, to look inward and to discover, to discover that the light of Christ is in us. And it is our duty to ourselves and to each other, to allow the love of Christ to move through us freely. It is our duty that together we commit to build that experience, not on empty words, but with love filled intent and consistent action.

In all it is not just our duty, but it is our destiny to recognize that we are Christ’s loving mind incarnate. We are Christ’s fiercely compassionate heart. We are Christ’s healing hands. And now is the time to rise for a love that is felt and known. For a love that takes powerful form in your kindness, your generosity, your duty and your accountability to something bigger than yourself. Now is the time to give rise to a love that gives breath, that gives meaning, that gives life to Christ’s resurrected body in this historical moment.

It is not enough to just talk about Christ love. It is time for us to be Christ’s love in motion. To begin that journey, put aside the time each day to go inward, to meditate and pray, and ask The Loving Christ to show you directly how you may be a vessel for this transformative love. This is the call. Will you answer?

- jb

How to Define and Live Your Loving Spiritual Truth

This video is an invitation to define your own loving spiritual truth!

In the book I share a Pledge of Peace.

This pledge is my commitment to my loving truth.

But this journey is about you.

For this final prompt, let’s return to where we started.

When you have time, drop into a deep meditative space – in your own way – and journal your answer to the three questions posed in the very beginning of our time together:

Who am I?

What is my loving truth?

More often than not, am I living my life in alignment with my loving truth?

Remember, there are no right or wrong answers here, only what is true here and now.

Look at the answers you’ve written down now compared to where you started.

What has shifted?

What has changed?

What experiences do you feel inspired the moment you now find yourself in?

Reflect on the path you’ve walked and the growth you’ve enjoyed.

Thank you for being here with me!

Share your loving truth by living it in the world.

Onward!

-jb

Automatic Writing: A Meditation Technique to Access Your Inner Wisdom

This video is an introduction to the practice of using meditation to facilitate an automatic writing session for yourself.

For the next few weeks, try this routine at least once a week.

Grab a pen and paper and practice a soul-force field meditation to connect to your source of loving awareness.

When you get into that quiet peaceful space, simply ask divine loving awareness the following questions: “What do I need to know today for my highest spiritual good?”

Clear your mind, put your pen to the page and just write what comes out.

Next ask, “What action can I take to express my highest spiritual good in the world?”.

Let the words flow.

Finally ask, “What is the spiritual lesson I am working on right now?” 

Once you’ve finished writing, give thanks for the opportunity to connect and give thanks for any wisdom that may have come through.

Read what came through back to yourself and see how it resonates and feels.

Consider applying the insight and wisdom in your life and see where it takes you.

Repeat this process as often as you feel serves you.

I appreciate you being here.

-jb

Soul Force Healing: How to Tap Into Your Body's Intuitive Healing Power

This lesson is an introduction to energy healing and how we can tap into the healer in all of us!

You can use this healing practice for general healing and balance throughout the body. But next time you’re experiencing acute physical pain or discomfort, consider using this meditation to consciously supplement whatever else you’re doing to heal up.

Give yourself ample time and space to move through this process without distractions.

Intuitively feel into how long and how often each healing session lasts.

Reflect on, journal or share your experiences with the community if you feel called.

Experiment, explore, record your results and repeat as much as you feel called to on your healing journey.

-jb

Dream Analysis 101: How to Use Your Dreams for Spiritual Insight

This video is an introduction to dream analysis and how we may use our dreams to gain deeper insight into ourselves, our psyche and our spiritual journey!

Before you go to bed, start setting the intention to remember your dreams.

Keep a dream journal and write down the dreams you remember in the morning.

Early on you may recall just a few general feelings and impressions of the dream, but over time you will begin to retain more and more specific details.

Use the dream chapter in the book to reference general symbols and see if you can apply those concepts to your own dreams.

Good luck with your astral adventures!

-jb

Creative Self-Expression as a Spiritual Practice: What It Reveals About You

Make some time to get into some creative play: craft a little, redecorate, take some photos – whatever your heart desires.

See if you can lose yourself in the process and be very present with what you are creating.

After you’re done, reflect on, journal or share what the experience was like. How did it feel to get creative again?

What was the process like? What kind of thoughts and feelings did you experience?

What did the creative process reveal about yourself today?

I recommend making a habit of taking time for a little creative play.

Keep an on-going journal and jot down reflections or revelations as they arise.

See what you can learn about your creative self as time goes on!

Share any reflections or revelations in the comments...I appreciate you being here!

-jb

Written Thought Observation: A Journaling Technique for Emotional Clarity

This video introduces you to written thought observation, an exercise I've used to channel my thoughts and become an outside observer of those thoughts once they are written down.

Try setting a timer for fifteen minutes. For the first seven or so minutes just begin to write what’s on your heart and mind without censoring yourself. Don’t hold back. Don’t judge. Let it flow.

After seven minutes, take three big energy clearing breaths. Then, go back and read what you wrote as objectively as you can with the rest of the time. This helps train you to become more objective with yourself.

Just read the words and try to see them in a way you would if you read another’s writing.

What do you notice about the energy and emotion of the handwriting, the language and the flow?

In addition to this exercise, another good practice is to try applying this writing technique the next time you’re having a difficult time focusing or if you’re emotionally aroused.

If you can, identify when you’re in this state and try to take a ten or fifteen minute break to allow yourself to free-write your feelings.

Read what you wrote back if you feel compelled, but do so with the intention to observe and analyze the sentiment rather than emotionally re-engage.

Thanks so much for being here!

-jb

Witnessing Meditation: How to Observe Your Thoughts Without Judgment

This lesson is an introduction to a witnessing meditation practice and an observational approach that I found useful on my spiritual path!

Set a timer for ten to fifteen minutes.

Drop into a soul-force field meditation and allow your thoughts, feelings and physical sensations to come and go.

Be with them and aware of them as they arise, but remain in a neutral state without naming, judging or engaging with them.

Just be a witness to them -- hence the name 'witnessing meditation!

See if you can simply inhale and exhale from one moment to the next, feeling these sensations, acknowledging them and then letting them go.

The same goes for thoughts. Simply inhale and exhale.

Let a thought come in, witness it, acknowledge it and then let it go.

Once your timer goes off, practice remaining in this neutral state for as long as you wish and/or can.

Answer for yourself, what does it feel like to be in your witnessing meditation?

Can you keep a neutral mind?

When is it hard to remain neutral?

When is it easy?

Journal or share what you find...I appreciate you being here!

-jb

Mindful Meditation for Beginners: A Simple Daily Practice for Self-Awareness

This is an introduction to a simple mindful meditation practice that has helped me on my spiritual journey.

Start setting aside five minutes a day to just sit and see what thoughts come in and out during your mindful meditation practice.

Set a timer for five minutes and just be with yourself.

In these quiet moments what do you notice arising? What comes to the surface? What thoughts? What feelings? What sensations?

Journal and reflect on what immediately tends to come up when you get silent.

Is it stress and anxieties or hopes and dreams? Sometimes both?

Use this practice as a way to become more aware of your internal life on a day to day basis.

Mindful meditation is a great teacher on our path to self-awareness!

Thanks for being here!

-jb

How to Decondition Old Beliefs That Block Your Spiritual Growth

This video walks you through the process of deconditioning or unlearning.

For me, questioning my thoughts, ideas and beliefs about humanity, myself, God, the world and where those beliefs come from, how they serve me (or not) is a critical and ongoing process on the spiritual path -- as far as I can tell :)

Be sure to work through the questions in the book to help you move through this step to get the most benefit. As you continue this journey forward, start making a note or journaling a reflection when you notice yourself bumping up against an old idea, belief or sponsoring thought that does not serve you and your highest good.

For example, this would be like becoming aware in a moment of self-judgment if you start to talk down to yourself because you have this idea that you’re not lovable. This could also be aware of projecting a judgment onto another person without fully being open to experiencing the nuance of who they are in a given situation and context.

Write down and reflect on any moments like this that come up and then write for yourself a new script about how you’ll handle yourself the next time a similar thought or situation arises.

Thanks so much for being here!

-jb

Chakra Balancing Meditation: Clear and Restore Your Entire Energy System

This lesson will guide you through a total chakra balancing meditation.

The practice can help you clear, re-energize and revitalize your chakra centers. Commit as best you can to practicing the chakra balancing meditation at least once a week – if not multiple times a week – for the next month.

Journal your experiences working with this practice including how you feel before and after the meditation, what energy centers seem to be more balanced and which seem to be regularly in need of support.

Also, pay attention to any memories, emotions and thoughts that begin to surface during this time as this can be an indicator of energy moving and healing.

Take your time with this practice. Use your intuition to find your way into and through this practice.

Over time, begin to make it your own.

I hope this work is of service to you on your journey.

Thanks so much for being here!

-jb

Crown Chakra Meditation: How to Deepen Your Connection to the Divine

Today’s lesson is about the crown chakra!

Enjoy exploring the realm of the crown chakra and journal about your connection to the divine.

This is a great time to contemplate your relationship to the divine within you and all around you.

Journal about any experiences where you felt connected to a powerful, loving form of intelligence.

Reflect on any times you may have felt abandoned by a loving God or spiritual presence.

Look deeply at any previous thoughts or beliefs that may be inhibiting your connection to the loving awareness within.

Ruminating on this subject can help you gain more insight into the energy of your crown chakra.

I hope this is helpful for you in some way. Stay tuned so we can talk about how to bring balance and harmony to this entire system of energy centers.

I appreciate you being here!

-jb

Third Eye Chakra Meditation: Awaken Your Intuition and Inner Vision

Today’s lesson is about the third eye chakra!

Spend some time meditating on your third eye chakra  and journal about your own intuitive and psychic experiences. Look at any dreams you’ve had that symbolically or perhaps very explicitly gave you insight into your life.

Reflect on moments when you had an intuition about something and it was right. What did that feel like? How did that information arise?

Also, journal about moments when you had an intuition and didn’t listen? How did THAT feel?

This is a good time to reflect on how your relationship with meditation has evolved over time and how this course may have already impacted your third eye chakra at this point.

Take note for yourself any insights or progress you notice and stay tuned so we can dive into the crown chakra together.

Thanks for being here!

-jb

Throat Chakra Meditation: How to Speak and Listen in Alignment

Today’s lesson is about the throat chakra!

This week, also work with your throat chakra and journal about your ability to communicate in alignment.

How would you describe your ability to speak up and give voice to how you feel?

When you listen to someone are you able to “hear” more than just their words?

Think about the kinds of conversations you engage in: are they event oriented and fact based?

Are they stories shared with a little added exaggeration for dramatic value?

Do you tend to speak more from personal experience, in hypotheticals or speculative gossip?

Explore these questions for yourself. What do you find?

Thanks for stopping by to learn more about this powerful center.

Next lesson we’ll be getting into the Third Eye center!

-jb

Heart Chakra Meditation: Open Yourself to Giving and Receiving Love

Today’s lesson is about the heart chakra.

This week, spend some time working with your heart chakra and reflect on your ability to give and receive love. Journal your thoughts on how willing you are to offer help and support to others. Also consider asking yourself these reflective questions:

How good are you at receiving gestures of love and kindness from others?

How loving are you toward yourself?

What is your relationship to drawing loving but firm boundaries?

Looking at these questions and answers honestly can help you understand the energy of your heart chakra.

I hope you enjoy looking around your heart center. See you in the next video!

- jb