Into The Now

Into the Now

The poetic alchemy of one man’s journey into the mystic. Drawing on the perennial wisdom at the root of all world religions Into the Now seeks to deliver afresh the good news of Ontological Oneness through a raw and rambunctious poetic tapestry. The mystical core of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, diverse wisdom traditions, and indigenous thought all share a timely message of hope for a planet drowning in the illusion of ‘otherness’. In that spirit we journey. Into the now.

  1. Why the hell are we now perfuming trash bags?

    05/24/2023

    Why the hell are we now perfuming trash bags?

    Why the hell are we now perfuming trash bags? Come on now. Are you telling me that on self-destruction we are just so hell bent. We compulsively multiply consumerism’s chemical footprint. By mindlessly destroying with all our toying Earth’s environment. We show no respect for our home. And we’re overdue with Earth’s rent. I wish I could end this one hopeful be more song less lament. But we are trading away the only habitable planet we even know exists. In exchange for trash-bags now featuring a “Fresh Clean” chemical scent. Humanity looks to have ordered hell… and added on super-sizing. We’re spending our last days cooking up chemicals for refuse-stench disguising. At least the future smell of the dead planet will be slightly less putrefying. Because marketing companies now make the trash bags full of some shit that’s odor neutralizing. And yet… From the quantum of individual self-sacrificial decisions hope against hope is arising. So, I’ll hang up this pen stop wasting time philosophizing. Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

    2 min
  2. 52. Into the Now

    05/17/2023

    52. Into the Now

    52. Into the Now I for One… want to ‘Be’ present. To shake the dust off ‘Just What Is’. Because here and now God is calling for our presence. Like a smiling childhood Friend. And this Friend has all the good toys. New eyes, new ears, a burden light, and a big smile …just like a child! Eternity is made-up of Our moments so we’re growing ‘Heaven’ wild. And We human beings, We have the capacity to consciously create it. We know now thoughts create forms. We each manifest as lives march forward. Jesus Christ knew something we’ve forgotten and into the now, His life, Love poured. Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

    2 min
  3. 51. Home Grown

    05/10/2023

    51. Home Grown

    51. Home Grown There is no such thing as the future! …ok I came right out and said it. The future is a myth, so is the past. Present moments are all we’ve ever known. That means ‘Heaven’ is here and now. Not out there… somewhere-else, some-place, some-time unknown. I don’t think we are waiting on admittance beyond some clouded throne. It must already be taking shape as what it is destined to one day be. The inevitable singularity of Love… What Must Be will one day set us free. But if we stay caught up in separate egos, and within thought patterns spin. Imagined sufferings and pleasures increasingly become our focus as games of preferences, we try to win. The egoic “fruit of the knowledge of good and evil”* has grown like this since the garden of Eden. But, then Jesus Christ came along and told Us, “the kingdom of heaven is inside you”.** But I’m not sure we know just what that means. Could it be that from the quantum of conscious moments? We actively manifest what Heaven will be? And if we can lay aside separate preferences. We’d all find another way from the inside. From a place called Love that feels like Home. Heaven will be home grown. *Genesis 2:16-17 **Jesus of Nazareth: Luke 17:20-21; Matthew 10:7 Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

    3 min
  4. 50. Miracles

    05/03/2023

    50. Miracles

    50. Miracles Do you want to hear about a miracle? And I don’t mean a miracle that’s satirical but literal. Even though as typical it will come out a little lyrical. First of all, it’s a miracle if these words have reached… you. These words’ve had a bumpy ride on their way to meet you. If you have listened this far, that is miraculous! These words became vernaculous. Along the way, though these words will have transcended a legion of opposition. They came to me like a hurricane. A veritable obstriction of diction. But that’s not really the miracle I sat down to write about. But a little extra I must acknowledge a gift of God, I must point out. The miracle I wish to speak of is a hope From dystopia it’s our way out. We are not yet damned!!! Mankind is not yet over a barrel! A harmonious, fulfilled, free, humanity… The singularity of Love is… just inevitable. Though the path from here to there may take hard years to escape these perils. Because power-systems now mandate domination. As human hostages now live in virtual prisons held-behind electronic bars. Installed by corporations who’ve purchased our nations. In my country our cages are adorned with pretty trinkets. The miracle I speak of though is about how we do life and that blessed day when we rethink it. Rethink it and realize the fact, that all these separate preferences that fill our brains, are just well-crafted games… Games that promise joys and deliver chains. Custom built to maintain control and profit shackling the world to more of the same. Thus, humanity staggers drunk… drunk on the froth of assigning blame. Prisoners to preference, plastic-egos, and electronic fame. Though cultural conformity and cancelations will not remain for eternity the borders of life’s frame! It will not be this way forever, so don’t succumb to their lies of “never”. The times we live in are ripe with child. Pregnant, with the miracle of a future birth. A miraculous arising up of ‘Heaven’. Christ Conscious Us re-making Earth. Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

    4 min
  5. 49. Consciousness and...

    04/26/2023

    49. Consciousness and...

    49. Consciousness and… Breath at last will one day cease. Consciousness and… pass on, into peace. When from there we look back on this life will we mourn lives, we traded for trife? Possessions, things, our treasured baggage, houses, cars, and clothes, remembered as garbage. Consciousness and… will ‘Be’ in ‘heaven above’ Consciousness and… present moments magnetic Love. Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

    2 min
  6. 48. God Saves Through Self Emptying

    04/19/2023

    48. God Saves Through Self Emptying

    48. God Saves Through Self Emptying Sitting in my daily morning meditation I caught myself in a forced smiling frown. The kind I have to will up to resist tears that promise relief by escaping my eyes and falling onto the ground. I learned right before I sat down of the passing-away of a visionary. The last day. Of the great teacher Thay. Christ Consciousness just lost a giant. Thich Nhat Hanh, the friend of Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King Jr. Thay, last night passed away. But he’s now being "called by his true names".* In this morning’s sit, came to me a rephrasing. A Name. As another way to say. “God Saves – Through Our Self Emptying” is “Jesus-Christ” reinterpreted today. What else does the name above all names say? But to convey kenotic love in sheer dramatic display? An Incarnation spent as moments of loving awareness poured out upon Just What Was. With no account for separate preferences cost. Just smiling, breathing, Being. All the way to the old rugged cross. Thay, through mindful breathing somehow "tamed the tiger within".* The Holy Spirit moved him to "Interbeing".* Thay’s life was breathed as "peace in every step".* So, his passing left me sort of reeling wondering if there are any more giant’s left.? This planet is desperate for meaning. We need a modern day Ram Dass, a Buddha, a Jesus, a Thay, Because our ears are all stopped up with profits. Materialistic-consumers busy lining our pockets. Tuning out and killing off all the prophets. That Just What Was in sacrificial love sent our way. Who is left? To teach us to live "in the here and the now"?* In the turmoil of Heaven growing wild? So that the next "twenty-four-brand-new-hours"* will be conscious moments chock full of loving smiles. Who will tell us the next time we lose our conscious smile to "remember the dandelion has it"?* And God saves through self-emptying trials. *Thich Nhat Hanh – various writings, quotes, and teachings. Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

    4 min
  7. 47. There is something made of Love up next

    04/12/2023

    47. There is something made of Love up next

    47. There is something made of Love up next. It has got to just feel mental to stare into your own impending death. Death’s goodbye, sure makes us fearful. The abyss opening up after breath. What is next? Will we float or will we stand? Is Someone waiting reaching out for our hand? Will we sink into fear? Will we breathe into faith? Or will we hide in depression’s dark lands? Because my time at the precipice will soon arrive. Human life is so cosmically brief. Or should I’ve said comically brief? So before God draws this soul from its sheath. I’ll speculate. Take a guess before my grave wear’s a wreath. There is something made of Love… up next. And there are things here, that make me sad to think to miss. Marriages and births to be witnessed. Laughing at friends when they trip. The electricity of a kiss. Picking up fruit, drawing it close, taking a whiff. But there is something made of Love up next. And there has never been ‘nothing’ – anywhere. In the same way that steel pouring out of a foundry is sub-atomically still mostly air. Matter is just a field of perceived spatial boundaries. And yet there is no emptiness anywhere. Out to the farthest corner of the Cosmos nothing… nothing just plain old does not exist. There is Spirit, movement, potential in the quantum. In the fractal field of the sub-atomic there is no bottom. The light after the darkness insists, it is Love. It is Infinite. It is Heaven. There is something made of Love up next. Where Our purpose will be manifest everywhere. It is the land of Union. Communion. Where we’ll Be… after laying down cares. Though the flight from here into eternal reunion. It does not come with a map. So, it falls to each of Us to smile, let go, release. “God is Love”* and will fill in our cracks. Provide courage, faith, vision where we lack. So, as you fly Home don’t turn and look over your back. Your circuitous flight into the singularity of Love will always remain eternally on track. *1 John 4:8 Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

    4 min
  8. 46. The Physicist's Key

    04/05/2023

    46. The Physicist's Key

    46. The Physicist’s Key Physicists are presently seeking a fundamental pattern of division. They postulate if they can find the fractal pattern that grows division. Humanity could escape the earthbound three-dimensional prison in which we’re living. As a key to a lock, this understanding could birth creation. But with such power over things would we end power-systems? …Or just remake them? I for one, do not think we are ready, as in the sorta… “this is why we can’t have nice things” kinda way. Watch for yourself, on tonight’s news. Watch us accuse, watch us bruise, watch us judge, watch us weigh, watch us peruse the divided highlights of yet another divided day. It’s a spinning fractal vision of division. Souls torn asunder as internal combustion we’ve become the fuel. And we’re being driven into their engine. Power-systems preach “worry”! About “other”! And bow down to power, just don’t awaken. Just focus on this year’s must have ‘things’. Things, we are trading Earth away in making… Unconscious profit chasing, and social faking. With Corporate-Politicians behind the wheel we race to hell… and we’re not braking. Maybe this pattern, of fractal division… is our ticket? Maybe we sink the full court shot of saving Earth. Maybe we brick it? That kind of math though is well above my limit. Instead, I’ll work with my moments, try to be present to those I’m given. To bring unguarded loving awareness to life has been the key from the beginning. So, I’ll meet you in the now forgiving ‘thisness’ in fractals spinning. Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

    3 min
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The poetic alchemy of one man’s journey into the mystic. Drawing on the perennial wisdom at the root of all world religions Into the Now seeks to deliver afresh the good news of Ontological Oneness through a raw and rambunctious poetic tapestry. The mystical core of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, diverse wisdom traditions, and indigenous thought all share a timely message of hope for a planet drowning in the illusion of ‘otherness’. In that spirit we journey. Into the now.

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  • Creator
    Into the Now
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    54
  • Rating
    Clean
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