Dave Brisbin 4.25.21
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about death lately. Things seem to come in cycles, and this apparently is that cycle. In the past week, I was asked about death from an eighteen-year-old girl and a sixty-eight year old man, so it’s on all our minds. What happens at death? What happens after death? What does the bible say about death? But between all the questions, what is it we really want to know? The central, mother of all questions? We want to know whether we continue as ourselves beyond death…right? Will we be known and know others as we are now. Eric Clapton famously sang: would you know my name, would it be the same, if I saw you in heaven? All the rest is commentary. We want to know if we’ll recognize each other, historical figures, ourselves, or will we, as Buddhists suggest, return as a drop to the ocean—our consciousness absorbed back into the great universal, collective consciousness?

Why do we fear death? It’s a question of identity of course. Everything we think we know about ourselves, who we are, our sense of ourselves as individuals at all, is contained in our conscious minds. Our egoic minds. And it’s not just the body that ends at death, but those minds as well. Who are we if everything we know about ourselves is taken with our mind? Of course we can never know for sure in a way that will satisfy our minds’ craving for certainty. Scripture doesn’t tell us, once we’ve adjusted for cultural and idiomatic sayings, but there are fascinating clues. Especially telling is an encounter Jesus has with a group of Sadducees, a powerful first century Jewish sect that didn’t believe in afterlife at all. Jesus’ answer to their mocking verbal test gives us possibly the best look behind the curtain we’ll get. Ultimately it is up to each of us to become convinced of what we’re convinced of. But to become convinced of a view of death that allows us to live life fully and abundantly, even as death become clear and present, requires more than just mental agreement with the beliefs of another. Jesus’ Way of living honors life’s paradox not by questioning our death, but by questioning our identity. Once we have experienced that who we are is not anything that can be taken from us, that our identity runs as deep as the Father’s love, we realize we are what cannot be taken. And with that knowing, we can face any question.

That Is The Question

Silence … like freedom in a cage 
mind wanders a gypsy, but you don’t know what to say. 
so, you cry (cry)… 
words just stay inside.
silence … in a quiet state of rage 
a civil war of feelings in a battle that you wage.
(where) no one wins.
no matter how you try.

GOD KNOW …you’d love to leave this world.
FLY AWAY and never to return.
BUT YOU KNOW …you’re not ready to be free.
You’re silent in a freedom …you can’t leave. 
Silent, like freedom in a cage 

thankfully recorded by https://soundcloud.com/tevecarborough ... check him out here

Silence Like Freedom In A Cage by Doug Roossien

I am silence in sound
I move with stillness
Reaching my mind ever out
Stretching thought boundaries
Before speaking stillness sounds
That wise voice in my head
Filtered not through chords
Formed not into words
But raw, pure in essence
Settles me in expansive love
Bold, brave, endearing love
Nearly staying silent still
Though prompted to speak
To put pen to paper,
Fingers to keys.
For what is wisdom if hidden
Our voice must be heard
So let that silence sound
Injecting emotion in words
To help, to heal, to hearten
Livening the space around
Fluttering vibrations abound
Maybe your words are those
Another eagerly waits to hear
Let stillness sound not merely
For oneself, but for those
Who seek this silent sound
This emboldening virtual voice
Bringing through vibrant vibes
Words full with feeling
Sighs light with healing

Silent Sound

I have been thinking a lot about the Water Protectors and other honorable people who often do heroic and often boring things to make this life better for all of us.

MOS - Contemplation - MAIN

We have started to understand that we need to re-look at everything entirely in life. At some point in our lives there will come a time when we need to be born again to life. Our first birth is only where it stated. It is incredible how everything in the world and the universe has two parts to it. Including ourselves. Our task in this life is to emerge from the physical into the spiritual. From form to no form. From the egoic to the divine that is within us all, but is only deeply known later in life.

CAN YOU SEE IT? - How to see reality as it really is

NADA1 Master2 - TOM WILD 2021

EPISODE 4 - L'ENNUI 🕸️
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Dans cet épisode 4 on vous parle d'ennui, de ces moments de vides, de la nécessité de ne rien faire pour se ressourcer, s'écouter, créer, et méditer. On se pose la question de la possibilité de s'ennuyer dans un monde de l'information, des réseaux sociaux, du tout tout de suite, et des grandes villes...etc. Et on vous partage aussi nos coups de coeur culturels (dont les références sont juste en-dessous) liées à la notion d'ennui 🎉
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On espère que cet épisode 4 vous plaira et que le sujet ne sera pas trop... ennuyant !😝N'hésitez pas à nous écrire pour partager vos ressentis sur le sujet ou vos impressions sur l'épisode 🙏🏻
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Retrouvez-nous sur instagram (@6eme_etage_sans_ascenseur) et sur toutes les palteformes d'écoute !
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Références "coups de coeur" :
-"Gris", jeu vidéo par Nomada Studio
-"Terrace House", télé-réalité japonaise (Netflix)
-Les dramas coréens
-La réalisatrice Sofia Coppola (Virgin Suicides, Somewhere)
-"Je veux juste en finir", réalisé par Charlie Kaufman 
-"Fight Club" réalisé par David Fincher 
-Le réalisateur Andreï Tarkovski
-L'écrivain Christian Bobin
-Charles Baudelaire
-Les œuvres de Tich Nhat Hanh sur la pleine conscience

Episode 4: "L'Ennui"

Dave Brisbin 5.2.21
What kills our ability to trust our lives to the action of unseen spirit? Our fears, of course. We fear death because of the ultimate unknown it represents: whether anything we imagine ourselves to be continues. We fear God’s judgment and hell because we’ve been taught to look at God legally and hell literally. But that is not what Scripture teaches. Corrected by context, Scripture presents a heavenly God, connected, always unbalancing the scales of justice in favor of the beloved—the living definition of grace. And of the five words in the bible that have been translated as hell in English, none of them mean the hell we imagine—a word borrowed from medieval Germanic tribes and a concept borrowed largely from Dante’s fourteenth century poem, Inferno. The closest the bible comes to our notion of hell, the Aramaic word gehenna, like Catholic purgatory, is a temporary place for the wicked dead where the fires are more for purification than punishment. When purified, even the wicked move on.

Does this mean there is no hell? Of course not. But it does mean that if God is not a legal God, then hell is not what we think it is. Hell is not so much a thing as the absence of a thing—the way cold is absence of heat and dark is absence of light, hell is absence of…heaven. We’ll never have a healthy understanding of hell until we understand heaven. Scripturally, heaven and God are the same: to know the consummate oneness and connection of God is to know/enter heaven, right here and right now. The oneness of heaven is the reality of our universe, but our conscious minds create the illusion of separation; our minds create hell and keep us there as long as we identify with our minds more than each other. But once we’re fully involved in life, we stop fearing death, and once we’re fully involved in heaven, we stop living in hell. We have learned to imagine heaven as a place of ideal circumstances. But what if it’s not? What if heaven is the learned ability to see our circumstances as ideal? Connected. Unified. Anywhere. Anywhen. What if, at the end of all our searching, we find that heaven is portable? We don’t go there, we carry it with us wherever we go.

A Portable Heaven

By the Sea

YOUTUBE VIDEO......"FIELDS OF QUIET SOIL"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyYHjxPPBgc 

1987 WENT TO Nashville for a “short week” Music row to make the big time … wow … nobody listens in lawsuit land in those days. 1988 WENT TO NASHVILLE for 3 days (surely, I would crack this puzzle and become famous …) so many on benches in front of churches. Frustrated, didn’t sing publicly again basically for 25 years. (after all, where would a singer/song writer, make a name for himself in Karaoke land).
2010 discovered open mics (new world begins). WRITING SINCE …a lot! Had someone to produce me in limited acoustic style for a couple years…I think a few were damn good “Fields of Quiet Soil”. Had a lot of offers to write lyrics and/or sing for a lot of other artists here. (but no recording capability …let alone a decent computer for my own. TODAY, THINGS CHANGE …I’m here to make an impact (got 4 new ones under my belt recently) …plus some old ones you will not be disappointed listening to. Welcome old music fans and artists., potential serious collabs.
I’m locked and loaded this time!
FB Doug Roossien/Douglas Roossien

Audio podcasts delivered at theeffect church in San Clemente, CA. theeffect is a community of imperfect people working together to find the emotional recovery and spiritual transformation that is theeffect of God’s love by unlearning limiting perceptions, beliefs, and compulsions, and engaging a first century Jesus in a non-religious and transforming way. See more at theeffect.org.

True North with Dave Brisbin is a podcast about the things that can bring you back to center, whether God, spirituality, community or family or all of them. Never esoteric or abstract for its own sake; always practical and full of common sense, we’re interested in exploring the effect of what we believe on our lives and questioning what we believe in light of the deep connection we’re meant to live. Dave Brisbin is an author, speaker, coach, and songwriter. He is the teaching pastor of theeffect, a faith community and recovery ministry in San Clemente, CA and executive director of Encompass Recovery, an addiction treatment center in San Juan Capistrano. For more on finding deeper spiritual expression free from limiting beliefs and behavior, go to davebrisbin.com.

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