Sitting here in O’Hare on the way back home.  We’ve moved up our flight and now have only an hour and a half wait for the next flight instead of three and a half hours.  I know that several days from now it won’t have mattered much, but at this precise moment it seems like a really big deal.

It was a good vacation.  A lot that we expected… sun, surf, sand, snorkeling and lots of lounging on the chaise.  A lot that we didn’t expect… absolute minimal seafood, next door neighbors who could become friends for life, a  radio interview on New Consciousness, and really poor sunsets compared to what we get at home. Not having to go through customs was a really big plus.

Tomorrow morning it’s back to work, the grind, the routine, the usual.  But there will be a sense of starting anew, of energy, of purpose.  Let’s see how long it can last.

peace……ag

And so it ends.  By this time tomorrow we will be well on our way back to the City by the Bay.  No more snorkeling, no more lazing in the sun in shorts and a tank top, no more conch fritters, daily rum drinks, lizards, egrets, walking around barefoot, and going to bed without watching the nightly news.

We will be returning home both relaxed and energized, ready to put an all out effort into making next month’s lecture and workshop an absolute success.  We will also be returning with the experience of having been part of a radio talk show about consciousness and self-fulfillment and bonding with the show’s host who said he’d love to help us set up a workshop here on the island.  Wouldn’t that be nice!

Will it happen?  At this point, who knows.  However, with two people who believe in the power of visioning seeing it happen in our minds, unless the universe has something else in its mind, I think it has a pretty good chance.

peace……ag

It is raining this morning.  First time in the eleven days we’ve been here that it has been anything other than sunny with little puffy clouds.  A cruise ship pulled into port this morning for its one day stay.  For the people on the ship, their only memory of St. Croix will be filled with rain and grey.  For us, this day will fade into an insignificant background, hidden from view by the perfect weather we will remember.  Of course, if the roof starts to leak that’s something else… but let’s not go there.

Besides the memories what will I bring back with me when we leave in two days?  An ability to snorkel… a tan… the taste of conch fritters… the contents of a now empty rum bottle… the experience of driving on the left hand side of the road… new friends…  a love of cute tiny little lizards… and a deep feeling of relaxation and peace surrounding an inner energy just waiting to pour into my work when I get home.

But… no hurry.  If it clears up we’ll walk into town.  If it doesn’t?  There’s always a nap.

peace……ag

Up till late last night drinking beer, soaking in the warm Caribbean air, and talking with the couple in the next bungalow.  It’s so interesting how you can meet someone and in a very short time realize how much you have in common in terms of work and family experiences and hopes and dreams for the future.

It just makes sense.  We are all the Oneness, “I”, at our very core, all looking for the same fulfillment and love and satisfaction and purpose, each in our own way based on the particular set of characteristics and adjectives that surrounds us… that defines us as separate and different from someone else.  Neither better nor worse… just different.

Read the quote by Dr. Chaudhuri on the first page of this website.  Know it is real.  Know that it works.  Put it into practice.

peace…..ag

I seem to have fallen into a pattern.  One day swimming and snorkeling… one day lying on the chaise… repeat.  Today I am on day two of the cycle.  Today is also my wife’s birthday.  It’s not my place to share her age, but I can say she is somewhat older than she was when I married her 53 years ago.  Time flies when you’re having fun.  And that goes for lying on a chaise as well.

Back home, plans for promoting my workshop and lecture are proceeding without me.  The Institute contacted me to ask for a picture and write up for a Tuesday deadline.   We don’t have access to our stock photos here on the island so we’ll have to take a new one and send it to them.  I’ll have a tan. How bad can that be?

I truly believe that things will happen as they are supposed to if you focus on what you want and let the universe take its course. Not always easy to do.  Here on St. Croix for the next few days, easy… real easy.

peace……..ag

Went swimming in the ocean this morning before breakfast. About a half mile down the shore and back, weaving in and out past the rocks and caves and coral, checking out the brightly colored fish, and making sure to avoid the spiky sea urchins lounging on their back porches beneath the surface.

Looking down at this “simpler” form of life, who is to say that I am any more developed or evolved than they are?  Yes, I am more “complex”, but isn’t it possible that thousands of years from now… assuming humanity can even survive till then… we will be far advanced in our abilities and understandings and consciousness beyond where we are now… while sea urchins may still be just as they are today.  Wouldn’t that mean that as of this moment they have already reached their evolutionary potential while we are still in elementary school?

Unfortunately, this is the type of thought that goes through the minds of consciousness researchers as they float in the Caribbean.  Fortunately, from several feet below, I feel this energy saying, “Chill man… just enjoy the view, look for food, and don’t get eaten.”  Makes sense.

peace……..ag

Today we are sitting around doing nothing… which according to my wife, is exactly what she wanted to do on this vacation all along.  Actually, to be perfectly honest, we are reading and I am writing this blog and thinking about the talk I’ll be giving at the Fellowship after we get back home.   And, of course, we have made coffee and eaten breakfast, and talked to the family in the next bungalow, and gazed at the horizon, and admired the birds and the lizards and… come to think of it, I’m exhausted from all this activity.  Think I’ll take a nap.

peace…..ag

Made up for yesterday.  Awoke, staggered onto the back patio, grabbed the snorkel gear and, get this… even before coffee!!!… went in the water and floated face down for an hour or so in the blue Caribbean.  Not a bad way to start the day.

Also should mention that last night we met our upstairs neighbor who lives on the island and is a massage therapist… much to my wife’s delight… and also hosts a weekly radio show about of all things… the New Consciousness.  I am booked as his guest on next weeks show which is broadcast on St. Croix as well as via podcast around the world.  What are the chances?

You will remember that this entire year long blog is to chronicle how far one can get setting a goal, focusing on it, and letting the universe do its thing.  My goal was to get my work on New Consciousness out into the public eye.  Sitting here, looking out at perfection, watching things unfold as they are, we seem to be heading in the direction we wanted to go.

I, of course, wish you the same on the path to your goal.

peace…….ag

Woke up this morning torn between two diametrically opposed desires.  Do I continue to lie here and do nothing… or go out on the chaise on the patio and do nothing… really the same option… or… do I put on my snorkel and flippers and go in the water?  There were positives to doing both.

Doing nothing, of course, is always an easy choice because, well, there’s nothing you have to do to do it.  However, there is no question that once my wife wakes up I’d like to be able to say, “Oh, hi there, honey.  I’ve already been in the water. What have you been up to?”

But then again, going into the water takes effort… and I could drown and unless she knew where I went under she’d never find my body, and I’m thinking, “My God, what a wuss I am”.

So I made a pot of coffee so she’d have some when she awoke but also to delay having to make a decision and then as I set my resolve and started to actually put on the rubber shoes to head down to the water… the pool man showed up and since you can’t lock the villa from the ocean side and my wife was still sleeping, I decided to stay here and write this blog and now she’s up and he’s gone and I know I made the right decision… but I still haven’t been in the water.  Sigh.

peace…..ag

It’s February 29th, the day that comes around once every four years.  At least that what the calendar says.  Otherwise, it simply feels like… today… and that’s a day that comes around every day.

We’ve gotten rid of the rental car and are planning to spend the next week here in Paradise just sitting around, floating in the pool, snorkeling in the ocean, and doing virtually nothing… except being happy. In fact, isn’t that what Paradise is supposed to be about, after all, just being happy?

Yes, I know, bad things happen to good people, and there is an awful lot that happens in the world that we cannot control.  But isn’t the pure joy of Being what existence is meant to be?  So many religions and philosophies say so. We have just let so many other things get in the way that we are lost in a maze of needs and ‘have to dos’ that blind us to the ultimate goal of what creation is all about.  What a shame.  Will we ever find our way out?

peace……ag