Why Life is Set Up to Fail You

Some people think that life is largely against us, that life is the roll of the dice. As Einstein said, "The dice of God are always loaded." It means that life doesn't just happen, but life happens just. There is order. There is a certain pattern and lawfulness to life.

Chaos theory says if you step back far enough from what appears to be random chaos, you will see a pattern. You will see order. The Universe is not chaotic. It is chaortic.

What I really mean by 'why life is set up to fail you' is something I call the great betrayal, or the big betrayal. I talk about it in my Awakened Wealth work. It's best to tell you by means of a story…

The basic story is how years ago when I was first on a spiritual path, and I had pulled out of society for the most part to go on this inward journey. I was doing all of the right things. I was doing so much deep inner work, and there was a lot of great benefits for it, a level of peace and joy and creativity that was emerging. At the same time, as that was emerging my bank balance was submerging. It was collapsing. It was going away, and eventually I found myself broke, literally living on a prayer, and sitting in my meditation chair in the middle of the room with a bill collector knocking at the back door and the landlord knocking at the front door, on the verge of being evicted. Having no human means to support myself anymore.

I was, to be quite honest, pissed off at God. I had what I call my Gary Sinise moment. I don't think Forest Gump was even out at that point, but I know call it my Gary Sinise moment. Where he's in Forest Gump, and he's on the mast of the ship, and shaking his fist at the heavens and the storm and saying, "Bring it on, God." I didn't understand. How did all my efforts get me back to this place again where I was once again broke? I remember saying, "This stuff is either a bunch of BS, or there's something real here. One way or the other I'm not getting up from this chair until I know. I'm not going to go through this cycle again and again anymore. I'm done."

I sat in that meditation chair, and I sat and sat. Daylight turned to dusk. The crickets come out for their nightly chorus, and I began to wrestle my demons and get pinned to the floor.

At some point in the middle of the night this awareness broke through, and I don't know if it was a voice or a thought, but it was definitely Divine awareness of guidance. It said, essentially, "You made your savings account your God."

I had basically had a savings account, a nest egg, and I was leaving that alone as a form of security, but then putting all my extra things or whatever I was doing beyond any money that was coming in, if I needed more money I was just putting it on credit cards. I had built up this credit card debt, but I wasn't touching the next egg. Little bit by little bit it dwindled until it was pretty much nothing. It said, "You made that savings account your God, your Source." Essentially, thou shalt have no other gods before me. I half expected to turn around and see Moses there holding a tablet up, looking strangely like Charlton Heston!

As soon as that awareness broke through this peace came over me. It was like this pressure valve released, and all the stress drained away. The insight that came was that it's literally designed this way – that you don't put anything outside of you as your God, as your Source. When you make anything outside of you your Source of safety, supply, security, or support, it's designed to fail you.

The reason is because when you make something outside of you your source what starts to happen? You start to give away your power to that thing or person you think is your Source.

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The LIFT Practice

Essentially, the basic premise of Emergence is everything you could ever need to be all you were created to be, do, contribute, create, etc., is already within you.

Just like the oak tree is already in the acorn – there's a perfect pattern awaiting the right conditions, and when those conditions match the pattern within the seed, that inherent pattern of potential naturally emerges. The same thing is true for you.

There's a perfect pattern of your destiny that is already planted in the soil of your soul, and when the conditions are congruent with that pattern, it naturally emerges.

Another way to think of it is your favorite music is broadcasting where you are right now, amongst a bunch of broadcast stations, but you can't hear or experience the music. The music is not yet manifest, even though it's fully present and broadcasting. It's not manifest until you tune the dial of your radio so that your frequency matches the frequency of that broadcast. When you do that, when the frequencies match, then that broadcast that was already playing becomes manifest. You have found your manifest-station.

In the process of Emergence, the first step is to identify the seed that's seeking to emerge in your life. Otherwise known as the vision, whether it's in some area of your life, or your life in general. What is the vision that's trying to emerge in your life? There are clues for that all around you!

The LIFT practice stands for Living In the Feeling Tone, and this is part of the Emergence process. This is a simple method used to help engineer or design a way of life that is congruent to that of your grand vision.

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Quantum Healing: Getting Unstuck No Matter What

Nowhere in the Universe is anything stuck. Energy is always moving – always flowing. Even when it's stuck, it's moving; it's just moving in a very constricted spot.

No matter what situation you're in, the reason why you think you're stuck – the reason you feel stuck is that you have (A) an expectation of what the outcome should look like, (B) an expectation of what you should be like, of what you should be able to do, be, have, or create in that moment or under those circumstances.

Because of your expectations or perception that something or someone outside of you has to change in order for things to happen in the way that you want, you feel stuck. We hear things like, "I don't have the money right now so I'm stuck", "I can't feel happy and joyful and grateful when I'm at a job that I dislike, so I'm stuck", etc…

On it goes, where you're putting the locus of power outside of you – in people, places, things, and conditions, even putting it in your current mental-emotional patterns – as if the current energy level, emotional pattern, or mental pattern is power over you: "I can't write today because I'm uninspired", "I don't have the energy to exercise, so I'm stuck".

At whatever point you feel stuck, there's always something you can do to get the energy flowing in the direction that you want to be going. Whether it's taking some action, having a conversation, acting regardless of how you feel, or doing some prayer or meditation around it, you can always do something.

Begin to activate the qualities of what it is you want to do or who you want to be. You are a Divine power plant – and a power plant doesn't receive energy, it generates it. So, you don't wait for inspiration, you generate it. How? By acting like a person who is inspired. You want to act from the point of knowing that you are the source of it, and then it generates.

Feeling stuck is an opportunity to discover just how powerful you are, how resourceful you are, and to develop your own wings so that you can fly into a much larger reality.

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Are You a Do-Gooder or a Good Doer?

This is a really important concept to contemplate and to consider in your life. In the most basic sense, so many people are out there trying to do good, but they're doing it from a consciousness of fear, of separation, or of projection. It's like an unhealed healer, or an angry activist. This is the key here. They've been wounded on some level early on in their life.

That core wound really is a core initiation, and it really is pointing them in the direction of where they are meant to get stronger and ultimately make an impact in their life or in the greater world.

For example, let's say you were abused as a child, and you grow up having such pain around any form of violence or abuse. Your reaction to it is anger, sadness, bitterness, contempt towards those that perpetrate it, and you have very little, to no, compassion for those that are so caught in their own darkness that they would perpetrate such violence.

You're still the wounded little child that now just perhaps inhabits an adult body. In all kinds of ways, it's made you feel like a victim, and perhaps you've then put a mask on top of that, because, in many cases, the last thing an abused person wants to admit is that they're a victim. So you might put a mask on top of that to try to act independent and to be strong. You might have tried to compensate by building up these superstructures of your ego that made you actually more separate from others, more distant, more arrogant, elitist, self-righteous, any or all of these qualities.

When we embrace these parts of us that we're projecting outside of us (the "bad capitalist", the "bad politician", the "bad lawyers", the "bad perpetrators" …or even just in our own family, "the bad parents", etc.), when we embrace those things within ourselves, now we have real wisdom. We have real power, and we are a healing agency as we move back out into the world.

If we don't embrace those, we often are driven to try to stamp out or get rid of those things in the world, whether it's in our family, in our business, or in the larger global culture, and we become a do-gooder. We enact movements and strategies and practices or legislature, laws, and we wonder why we've been doing that over and over again and it doesn't change things.

When you look at where real change starts to happen, real evolution, real growth, it's because someone somewhere caught this vision, and they became less focused on the problem and more focused on the vision. They stopped merely trying to save the world, and tdecided to start serving the emerging possibility, the emerging vision, and they worked on themselves. It's the difference between a Malcolm X before his transition, and a Martin Luther King, Jr.

This is what you must do. You must look at that and notice where you're fighting and resisting – being do-gooders – and where you're actually creating more pain and more problems in your wake, if not for others, then for yourself. You want to take full responsibility for your emotions, your pain, and your projections, and recognize that real transformation is not about setting things right, but about seeing things rightly.

It is the consciousness of wholeness that heals, and when you can see through the appearance of the victims and the victimizers to the truth, to the true principle – the true vision of possibility - then both victim and victimizer are healed and become servants of this higher possibility.

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Co-Dependence, Interdependence, Independence: The Journey of Inner Freedom

When we talk about and celebrate Independence Day in the United States, or in any country, it is a celebration of an outer change that led to people being free physically and materially, and that's a wonderful and beautiful thing.

But what we're coming to understand in this work, is that real freedom can never be attained through changing some outer appearance. It is only attained when we become free of the bondage, slavery, oppression, and the repression of our own inner empire, of the ego reigning like a dictatorial leader.

That's why there's plenty of people living in a "free" country that are in bondage. I remember listening to Nelson Mandala, who was in prison for 26 years, I believe, but he had become free long before that. (And because of that, he was able to set the country free.)

Ultimately, you want to become "inner-dependent". This is where you're no longer leaning on the interactivity of the world, or looking to someone else. You're no longer manipulating and adjusting yourself. Also, no longer leaning even on your own human goodness or human capacities.

It's important to know the different kinds of dependence, as these are the stages you typically move through to become inner-dependent: Letting go of co-dependence, coming into independence, growing through interdependence, and ultimately move to inner-dependence.

There's co-dependence, where you are not able to feel okay about yourself unless you can make someone else feel okay about themselves.

There's independence, where you're free within yourself, individually. You can be financially independent, independent from relationships that you might have been caught in, or independent from your family values and morals.

There's interdependence, where you lean and depend on other people and things. You can recognize the value of duality to have other people and other things; humanly you are in an interdependent relationship with nature and with each other.

Moving into inner-dependence is learning to lean on the Source beyond your own human capacities and capabilities.

Do you truly depend on that presence within you, or are you leaning on what you know from yesterday? The Bible says, "You cannot live on yesterday's manna. If you try to hold onto yesterday's manna it rots in your hands… the manna falls freshly from Heaven every day" – this is symbolizing this knowledge, intelligence, substance. It's always pouring fresh in this moment.

You want to go back to the well every day, and throughout the day – every time you're about to start something. Let go of all of your ideas of what "should be". Let go of your attachment to what was. Let go of all of your opinions, preferences, agendas, goals, and throw yourself wide open to the power, presence, the love of God – to the Divine impulse in this moment – which is always a revelation, and always new.

I see in my mind the image of Niagara Falls, which is one of the wonders of the world. The water is gushing with just unimaginable power, velocity and volume, and yet it's never the same water! All of that is flowing fresh and new in every instant, inexhaustibly, but it's not coming from that spot called Niagara. That spot called Niagara is just an opening. It's actually coming from Lake Erie, this massive body of water that's flowing over the falls.

If it was to try to hold onto that water and say, "This is me; this is mine. I depend on this. If I let this just flow over me, I'm going to run out and go dry!", it would end up cutting itself off from Lake Erie, and it would eventually run dry. Instead, it depends on Lake Erie, and it never runs dry, and it's one of the most powerful waterfalls around.

The same is true with you. When you learn to have inner-dependence, not co-dependence, not interdependence, not even just human independence, but inner-dependence, (beyond your own thoughts, your own ideas, opinions and preferences) and lean back into that body of consciousness, it can begin to flow into your life like a mighty river rushing downhill without a boulder in sight, and it's always fresh, and always new.

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As you begin to grow in this awareness of the Emergence principles and how life really operates, you start to discover that what you do in and of itself is not going to determine the outcomes you get.

Ultimately, as the old metaphysical axiom says, to he or she who is right in mind they can do all the wrong things, and it will often still turn out right, but to he or she who is wrong in mind they can do all the right things, and it will still turn out wrong. We see that even as Einstein said, "You cannot solve a problem at the level of thinking that created it."

We understand in metaphysics and quantum physics, that the frequency or the vibration that you're at is what actually determines the outcome. The good that you want, the answer, the solution, the opportunity, the abundance, etc. it's already here. Much like you are inundated with radio broadcasts right now, and in the midst of those broadcast somewhere your favorite music is playing, but it's not yet a manifest part of your experience. When you tune the dial of your frequency so that that receiver or frequency matches the frequency where that music is playing, that station becomes manifest. You have what I like to say a manifest-station. The music was already happening, but you had to make it welcome. You had to dial into that same frequency. The distance between you and your music is a distance in frequency.

The same is true for your solutions. For whatever challenge you face, the solution is a reality that already exists, but it exists at a higher or different frequency than the frequency of the problem.

Problem, when you understand it means emblem - it's a symbol. A problem or challenge is a symbol of a state of consciousness, a particular frequency, and you can never solve a problem, any more than you can solve a frequency.

If you're turned into station K-LACK, and it's playing the blues all day, or it's gossiping and complaining and talking about all this negative stuff in the world, making you feel horrible, that's a problem. You can't solve that problem at that frequency. You can't solve that frequency. That's what's playing on that station. So, how do you solve it? You have to tune up the dial to station K-RICH, to a higher frequency.

When you tune out of K-LACK into K-RICH, the problems you are experiencing on K-LACK they're no longer there! That particular music becomes unmanifest. It goes back into the invisible, inaudible state that it was to begin with, and the music that you really want to hear, that beat of abundance, that symphony of success, now becomes manifest. It becomes a part of your experience.

So a problem cannot be solved. It exists. It's a frequency. Just like ice cannot be solved at the level of temperature where ice exists; 32 degrees Fahrenheit or below, you have ice. No matter what you do to get rid of that problem, you'll still have the problem if you're still living at 32 degrees. You can pour hot water on it, but what's going to happen? It's going to become more ice. You can chip it away. What's going to happen? Condensation will produce more ice.

So how do you deal with it then? You must rise above that temperature. When you rise above 32 degrees, what happens to the ice? You don't solve the ice - the ice dissolves.

When you tune to a higher frequency on the station you don't solve the problem or change the station of K-LACK. That's still broadcasting, but it dissolves out of your experience, and what manifests is that higher frequency you're now tuned into. That's also why Einstein said, "Arrows of hate have been shot in my direction many times, but they no longer can touch me or hurt me, because they come from a world I no longer inhabit."

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ASK DEREK: Karma, Environment, & Feeling Good When Things Look Bad

Today's episode covers your questions submitted on the topic of k>arma, environment, and how to feel good when things look bad.

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Time, Health, Wealth, Work, and Relationship Freedom: The Path of Liberation

Do you know that 99.99% of the world is run by the belief that if we could just change conditions, we could become safe, secure, significant and free?

It's a 180 degrees opposite of what the great teachings taught. The fundamental teaching of Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Quan Yin, Shankara were not about improving your human experience in order to be free. They were exactly the opposite.

As long as we're trying to manipulate the world to be happy, safe or significant, we are slaves, prisoners, ruled over by an empire of human beliefs in lack, limitation, and separation.

Freedom won't just come to you. It has to be earned by right of consciousness. Jesus taught, don't try to save and improve your life. Let it go and seek a deeper connection. Buddha taught, do not engage in craving and aversion, which is basically the incessant need to try to get or get rid of it in order to be free or happy (in other words, manipulating appearances and conditions.) Buddha's whole teaching was based on an idea of the whole false self, that all suffering is based on this part of us that is seeking to manipulate conditions in order to be free.

There's no freedom in thinking you have to get something or get rid of something, change something in order to be free. That's not freedom, that's enslavement. Freedom is an inside job. When you can be in a place of peace, regardless of conditions, you're really free.

When we drop down a little bit deeper into these life structures – time, health, wealth, work, relationships – you can begin to see how this applies in these areas of your life.

It's important to understand that all human experience is a relative projection of our limited perception of infinite perfection. Time is a relative expression of eternity. It's completely relative, bendable and flexible. That's why if you're with somebody you really love, an hour might feel like it went by in a minute. If you're doing something you really hate, a minute feels like an hour. As Einstein described in his theory of relativity, time is relative. It's just a construct. Eternity is what's real.

So, if you're trying to base what's real and true on what's in time and space, you're already completely lost. You're as far away from as if truth didn't even exist because time and space are not real. There's a bigger idea that is infinite and eternal. It's trying to emerge as your life, as the world right now. That idea is what's real, not all the relative expressions of it that are sometimes very chaotic, very disturbing and very challenging. None of that is truth or substance. None of that is governed or maintained by Divine life, law or power which means it has no power at all. The only thing governed and maintained by life, law or power is what is true, what is real, what is spiritual – which means it is eternal and unchanging.

You want to continuously seek a greater realization of the eternal unchanging truth of our being, or of any of these life structures -time, wealth, and health – to move into a greater state of well-being.

You can completely renew and restore each of these structures of your life forever, to the extent that you awake into this truth, because your body, wealth, work, health, and relationships arespiritual, infinite, immortal, eternal ideas and activities that never diminish, that never run out. The more free you get in this truth, you'll be able to reveal an ever-increasing expansion and capacity in every area.

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ASK DEREK: How To Find Your True Talent & Deal With Work You Hate

Today's episode covers your questions submitted on the topic of How To Find Your True Talent & Deal With Work You Hate.

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What You Really Came Here For (And What You Didn't)

You came to this planet to use this dimension of duality and contrast to awaken more fully to who and what you are.

You're here to paint your unique masterpiece of love, life, and light onto the canvas of time and space so that others can see it and be liberated and awakened to their own greatness, joy, and genius.

Whether you call it painting on the canvas of life or performing your Divine drama on the stage of life, you came here because you have gifts to bring, and you have something to learn.

That's where the very definition of human comes from, a Sanskrit term that means the dispenser of Divine gifts. As we talk about in the Emergence work, and really what all the great masters taught, everything is already within you – all the power, presence, life, and love of God, all that you could ever want. You're not really even in the world, the world is in you. You have everything, and so this world can't give you anything, except for a reflection of where you're living in consciousness and a place or an opportunity to grow and to give.

There's a unique way that shows up for you. It might uniquely show up as a writer, teacher, dancer, singer, author, healer, doctor, plumber, parent, architect, politician, lawyer. Yes, even a politician and lawyer! Although not everybody is living the Divine purpose within their profession, we all came here in a very unique and creative way to realize the life and the light of our true being and to shine it in a unique, gifted way that helps others to awaken and to do the same.

What didn't you come here for? You didn't come here to shop, to win an argument, to prove anything to anybody else, to win anything, to get a job even. You didn't come here to get anything, to get a bunch of money, or real estate, to defeat the enemy, to get approval, validation or love from anybody.

That doesn't mean that you don't get a job, get into a relationship, don't get a new car, or you don't get some clothes. That's all beautiful and wonderful, but you're not here to get those things.

You get into the relationship so that you can have an opportunity to awaken to who you really are and give more of the love within you.

You get that job so that you have an opportunity to awaken to who you really are through the challenges and things, and to give of your giftedness.

You get a new car so that you have the transportation in this dimension to travel to the places you need to give of your love and give of your gifts.

You get a new home so that you can create a sanctuary and an environment where you can love each other and create, meditate, grow, play, sing, love and release more of your imprisoned splendor.

You go into the lands of the world so you can cultivate, nourish and honor them. To create works of art and structures that support the awakening, loving , playing, sharing and the healing of our soul.

No matter what it is, whether its relationship, health, wealth, work, or personal development, we've been conditioned to believe that all of these things we need to get is the end game. The end game is to get and acquire the perfect home and the perfect job and the amount of money you want, the right relationship, and the piece of land. That if you get all that you've won the game. No.

You've only just begun it. That's not the end result – that's the preparation. Each one of those is like a plank in the platform from which now you can launch off from and give of your true life, your true gifts and your true purpose.

There's some simple ways to test this: Can you take any of that stuff with you when you leave this planet? If you can't take any of it with you, does that make any sense that you would have come here to get it? Think about that. If you can't take the money, the houses, the cars, that person, then what can you take?

You can take the love that you activate. You can take the joy and the bliss that you active from giving of your heart and your gifts, being of service. You can take the wisdom you've discovered and developed and activated. Not necessarily the human knowledge, all that you learned about how to sell and make great business deals that will have no real value in the next dimension, but what you learned in terms of integrity, loyalty, service, love and honor, that translates into any dimension.

I invite you to contemplate this: once you leave this earthly place, will what you've done in this moment, what you're striving for or arguing for, will it matter to the people you leave behind, to the world you leave behind?

As you begin to discover your ultimate purpose, some of the things you thought mattered, will fall away.

Your values will begin to shift, and it won't be as important to do certain things. It won't be as important to acquire stuff you don't really need that aren't truly opening your heart and mind and allowing you to give your gifts. It doesn't mean you can't have a big screen TV. You can have a home theater, but you'll have a vision way bigger than that, and the vision will have something to do with truly awakening your heart, your mind, your soul, your creative genius, your loving, and helping others to do the same.

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