The Divine Eternal Frequency

The Felt, Experienced Energy(ies) of the Highest Ideals, the Great Principles, the Great Virtues, and the Transcendentals (“The Good, The True, The Beautiful”) - and the Unifying Energy of them All

It is a choice. You may question your own sanity, but it is still a (The?) choice you made or make. “When I forget who I am I Serve You. When I remember who I am, I Am You.” Praise Be To Hanuman

I do not know how this “happened to me.” I do not know how or exactly when “I was touched by G-O-D (D-O-G),” or when the full, undeniable, ineffable (Self) realization occurred. I look back now and there were certainly “profound, crystalline moments” that punctuated my stumbling, haphazard Spiritual Path and life in general, but I suppose there was – at least for me – an evolution or gradual succession of experiences that were (unbelievably, incredibly) bestowed upon me. I say gradual because I suppose the proverbial, instantaneous Manifestation of the Miraculous (of G-O-D / K-R-I-S-H-N-A) – as related in the Bhagavad Gita – would be (again, to me) utterly overwhelming and terrifying. Impossible to grok or contextualize – impossible to “Hold.” And I suppose that my “True Path” was revealed to me in just such an occurrence – although I was not consciously aware of it at the time. My “psychotic break” or complete disassociation in a Sacred Medicine Ceremony (La Madre Ayahuasca) sometime around 2011 / 2012 was – in hindsight – a watershed moment in a great many ways. And while I can only – still now – “apprehend” just bits and pieces of that night and of my “state” – I can now understand that I had to be HUMBLED before “The Gates of Awe” – in order to then “rebuild” myself – my psyche – my ego – my life. You could say it was my own “Great Reset” (!) And I don’t know why over the ensuing years since, I was repeatedly and brutally tested to the point of (repeatedly) begging for mercy. A protracted journey of purification? I don’t know why the “Energy” revealed Itself as at once nearly impossible to resist AND nearly impossible to “Hold.” A Great Teacher once related an appropriate metaphor; “the Impossible Force meets the Immovable Object.” (The incomparable Tim Miller of Ashtanga Yoga). Why the “lesson” of SERVICE was repeatedly beaten into me / ASKED / TASKED of me AND why I was repeatedly “tested” to “Hold” such a thing – tested for “worthiness” to HOLD a Sacred Vow. What I failed to realize for many years, was that this “embodiment / realization,” this “new found life orientation” or “Divine Configuration” or “way of being” or purpose (Sacred Vow) would not be understood, appreciated, respected, or reciprocated by others. No. This was (is) my Path and mine alone. I took many years and an ultimate (sad?) realization that I had to “Carry” this by myself – alone – even to the extent that not a single other person would understand or relate – except in some very broad, general themes / terms. Even those closest to me.

And, no, because it does not matter what others think in the "Grand Scheme" of things (your Life, your Spiritual Life, and your "Enlightenment"). The poetic irony of such a thing – in a world where “community” (and “relationship”) is incessantly celebrated and promoted – isn’t lost on me. Incidentally, I came to understand the “difficulty” in being a Hanuman Devotee (Ishvara Pranidhana / Bhakti Yoga) and one who follows the Karma Yoga Path (One of the Three Yogas) – and why many Hindus choose other Deities (Avatars of G-O-D) to worship due to the associated challenges and difficulties. Other Deities (and Paths) are ostensibly “much easier” or much less “demanding” than Hanuman-ji and the Holy Trinity or Trimurti He represents: “The Lover, The Beloved, and the Great Servant.”

Baba Ram Dass Maharaj eloquently spoke of the Karma Yoga Path and of being a Hanuman Devotee in this BRILLIANT Satsang from 1996:

PART I: https://www.mixcloud.com/zencast/zencast-90-serving-the-beloved-part-1-by-ram-dass/

PART II: https://www.mixcloud.com/zencast/zencast-91-serving-the-beloved-part-2-by-ram-dass/

So many Paths to the ONE Destination…

It did come to me as a “choice” of sorts (though not really). A choice whereby I’ve questioned my own sanity - but it is still a (my) choice. "When I forget who I am, I Serve You. When I remember who I AM, I AM You." Some on the Sacred Medicine Path advocate “surrender” as a sort-of panacea for the difficulties – the FORCE - the crucible of the Sacred Medicine (e.g. La Madre Ayahuasca). I do not. I would not and will not surrender that which I was placed here to learn to HOLD. Even the feeble attempt at it seems a worthy and noble cause. That which was revealed to me as my Divine Imperative. My Sacred Vow. As a wise, dear friend related, it’s not so much a complete, (naive) “surrender,” it’s more an “appropriate alignment.” The Sacred Medicine Ceremony simply became a reaffirmation of my Sacred Vow. A reaffirmation of my very life. A Blessing of that which was the only thing that ultimately made any sense to me – in an absolutely insane world.

“Sacred Ceremony simply became a ritual of remembering to remember. And that remembrance was (is) facilitated by the immersion in the Divine Eternal Frequency.”

It seems as though what was previously “exotic” to me or thought “profound” – or believed as some rarified source of occulted and esoteric “wisdom” was just so much “Spiritual Materialism” and “Spiritual Bypassing” on my part (and virtue signaling / hoarding). Necessary to be sure on my Path (and that of others), but not to be taken as the “Real Thing.” No, not at all. Spiritual propaganda is as ubiquitous (if not more insidious) as any other – and must be “worked-through” and eventually recognized.

“I believe that G-O-D “speaks” to us in ways unique to each and every one of us. It’s Erwin Schrödinger’s lesson on multiplicity. That we are all simply an aspect of The One Mind (G-O-D).”

I am forever grateful to Terence McKenna for many things, but His salient mantra of “the felt presence of immediate experience” was the one riff (lesson) that has stuck with me – and proved itself timeless and essential. A lifeline. His oratory style and capabilities as the “Great Bard” were nothing less than mesmerizing and He left us (particularly the “psychonauts”) all with a proverbial “breadcrumb trail” to be able to pick-up and carry-on. Essential and important markers in the psychedelic land(mind)scape.

I’ve tried to grok all of this – my impossible Spiritual Path and all the incredible, profound things I’ve witnessed and experienced for many, many years. This touches almost all my writing, but some particular “studies” (essays) come to mind e.g.

The Highest Art

and

Barry Fleming is Dharmabuilt

Temet Nosce. Amor Fati. Memento Mori.

Praise Be To “The Good, The True, The Beautiful.”

Praise Be To Hanuman
The Breath, Great Servant, and Hammer of R-A-M-A and S-I-T-A

#AllDogsAreBodhisattvas

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EPILOGUE:

I have come into the “habit” of replacing “Our Lord” and “Our Father” in my Prayers with that of “My Mother” or my Mother’s name (Joy Lynn Wiley Fleming Johnson). I don’t feel – in the slightest – that this is “blasphemous.” If anything, I feel that this is an evolutionary step along my “Spiritual Path.” I have Prayed to Lefty / Hanuman-ji in this way for many years now, and I now realize / feel that the (His) “Energy” is the same as that of my Mother – both revealed as Great, Cosmic Bodhisattvas. The “Underlying (Unifying) Current” is the same – or at least I cannot discern the extremely subtle differences (if there are any) in such a “High Vibration” – the “Highest Art.” The Divine Eternal Frequency.

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It makes perfect sense that Great Prayers are 'answered' "Experientially" so that They (the associated Lessons / Energies) are then appropriately Embodied.

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My late Mother, Joy Lynn Wiley Fleming Johnson. Always just there, “in the Beautiful Forever,” always just there in the Divine Eternal Frequency.