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This is the third and final part to my personal mantra: “Keep it Simple, Keep it Childlike, Keep it Naked”.  (Be sure to read the previous two parts as well to get the whole picture).

This is also the hardest part to write and I have been putting it off for at least a couple of years.

Why?

All the usual reasons:

• fear of going against the crowd (REALLY Renegade!)
• fear of moving into my place and purpose on the planet which will also deliver my message to the planet
• fear of getting really “naked” with myself and my readers.

But the time has come and here we go……..

First, I am using the word “naked” on purpose to not only get  your attention but also to make a point.

Second, some/most will have all sorts of negative reactions to the idea of nakedness because of the way we have been trained.  Some may accuse me of being a sexual pervert or may think I am talking about sexual behavior.

Let me assure you, I am not a sexual pervert, I am not talking about sexual behavior, and I have also had all the same negative reactions because of having had the same training.

But, in the final analysis, I can’t escape the concept called “naked”.  As a physician become a massage therapist, I have realized that the willingness and ability to get “naked” spiritually, emotionally and even physically is crucial for true, deep and lasting healing of ourselves and our planet.

This must all begin with a story.

The state of Florida required that all seniors take a course on Americanism vs. Communism.  As part of that we of course studied Marx’s The Communist Manifesto.  We had a great teacher who explained that at least part of the reason for Marx’s communist philosophy was an attempt to discover or build a Utopian society and that this was just another in a long line of philosophies and attempts to do the same.  (Interesting isn’t it that Marx had a very religious upbringing!

(I should add that his ideas were taken by others who turned them to their own ambitions and thus made them something totally different and harmful.  I am aware that this could easily be done with what I write here.)

Something inside me clicked and I thought: “That’s it. That’s the whole point of being on the planet.”  And I was caught from that moment on, though it has taken me this long to realize and articulate how impactful this was for me.  From that moment something inside began to look for a “Utopia” brought to this planet from a spiritual source that would bring Father back into prominence and us back into an Eden experience.

Imagine how affirming it was to hear a “guru” say recently that within each of us is the desire to return to paradise, to the Eden of the Genesis story.  Llife lived there was total freedom, lived at a high vibrational level, naked and unashamed, in the constant presence of Father who regularly and continually and intimately dialogued, instructed, and involved Himself completely in the life of His children.

Then, when Adam chose to control things on his own, the picture became one of covering up – completely.  He was hiding from Father – in the bushes.  He was hiding from his wife and from himself – blaming her for his error and failing to take responsibility.  He was hiding from his body – covering it with whatever he could find (a very uncomfortable choice, by the way). 

No doubt his body then looked and felt different than originally.  Father confirmed this when He pointed out that from that point on Adam would beliving at a low vibrational level, ”caught” in Body – living by sweat (and not from “flow” or intuition or Spirit) and in pain (from thorns and in childbirth, the expression of the expansion of Life).

By trying to be God and taking control of himself, Adam dropped into a low vibrational level, away from the higher level depicted by the words “naked and unashamed” and in doing so he brought the rest of humanity with him.

So “naked” means living again at a high vibrational level, completely and totally open, at all levels: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as individuals and socially, politically and economically as a culture.

Adam was sent out of Paradise/Eden, but the desire to return there has persisted in the deep heart of Man, for to this we were born and for this we were created.

Fast forward several thousand years and a Second Adam appeared, Yeshua, direct Son of Father-God.  This one said, “I have come to seek and to save that which was lost.”  He showed us what Life lived with Father, back at the high vibrational level, looked like: Loving, Dialoguing, in total Oneness and Openness with Father and others, cutting across cultural, social and economic barriers. 

His body was naked at birth, at baptism and at death, for all the world to see and at those times he was most vulnerable and most powerful.  He may have been naked while he worked in the carpenter shop as well, and likely was so in the garden at his resurrection, and perhaps for the forty days after that he remained on the planet in a body.

He openly loved and wept and connected to people emotionally.

He openly and simply prayed and spoke to Father for all to hear and learn.

And at his “end” he said, “It is finished.”  He had accomplished the rescue he came to perform.  The barrier was removed, the veil was rent, and the way back to Paradise was opened once again.

Fast forward another two thousand plus years and look around.  We still do not believe that Yeshua actually did what he said he did.  We still live our lives on the low vibrtional level, under the cover of facade, appearances, religion, performances, false perceptions and, yes, even clothes.  We still think life and dis-ease and everything in between is all about Body and sex and pain and sweat – though some do throw a bit of spirituality in on top.

Most of us still don’t live in Spirit, in flow, in openness, in truth, in integrity to ourselves, our feelings, our dreams, that which we know is within us to be and to do.  Most of us still don’t love in constant dialogue and intimacy with Father as His children.

But the tide is changing.

Thought leaders in areas of business, religion, spirituality and even politics are starting to use words like “open,” “authentic self,” “consciousness,” “integrity,” and “awareness.”

I would suggest that those words, taken to their logical extreme, mean “naked” in its fullest sense.

Most writers and thinkers do not want to go that far, but why not?  This desire for utopia within each of us demands that we do.

This post is getting long enough already, and this is a topic which obviously could generate LOTS of discussion, but here are a few reasons why we should be naked:

1. Economically ”full disclosure” (naked business) uncovers all the hidden agendas of using money.
2. Politically “naked politics” would have candidates be truthful, getting the dirt (that we all have) out early, saving lots of time, energy and money on having to cover it up or dig it up, leaving the entire time to spend on dialoguing about real issues.
3. Socially “naked relationships” would put all the deceit and hidden motives out on the table and allow couples to actually get to know each other earlier instead of later, saving lots of heartache and disappointment and broken lives.  One spiritual life coach discusses ”naked dating” where she talks about this very idea.
4. In the religious arena Wayne Jacobsen has written a book called The Naked Church in which he calls us away from the business, glam and “fig leaf” of religion today and back to intimacy with Father.
5. Physically the quantum biologists tell us that first and foremost our bodies were made to “feel”, that the sensation of touch is the major starting point for hormonal release and body control of all our bodily functions such as pulse, respiration, blood sugar, and even emotion.  What better way to feel than to be 100% open to the possibility of sensation?
6. Also physically, Vitamin D has been linked to helping/curing many serious illnesses.  What better way to maximize the amount of vitamin D manufactured than to be completely exposed to sunlight?
7. Emotionally, being physically naked (nudism or naturism) has actually been helpful for men caught in pornography and for women who have been sexually abused.  Perhaps we could explore this further in the future, but for now explore Jeff Bowman’s concepts of Good Nudity.  (It was at his spa that I had the sensation of being like a child once again – see my last post on ‘keep it childlike’).

Sure, there are practical issues like weather and safety when it comes to being physically naked, though perhaps less than we think.  However, probably the only practical issue about being emotionally and spiritually naked is to decide to be that way or not.

(There is also the issue of nudism as recreation.  I have no issue with that and perhaps we could open the discussion about that at a future date, but what I am talking about is a step above that as well.)

In summary, then, my mantra is “keep it simple, keep it childlike, keep it naked”.  And really, “naked” sums up the whole mantra.

You can’t get more simple than open, honest and naked.
Children are innocently naked, not confused by pretense and deceit.

Let’s learn to live at the high vibration. Utopia may even be on the horizon if we do so.

Blessings,

and remember,

“Keep it Simple, Keep it Childlike, Keep it Naked.”

Dr Jon

I was at a spa a couple of years ago and jumped out of the hot tub and ran down the sidewalk.  As I did so, the overwhelming feeling of “wow, this is like being a kid again!”

That feeling is like no other, a sense of freedom, of aliveness, of everything is OK with the world.  It is free of cynicism, fear, doubt, grief, disappointment and scheming.

Yeshua at one point said, ‘Unless you become like a child you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.’

Obviously then there is someting key here about being/feeling/thinking/acting like a child.

Adam, in his book The Path of the Dream Healer, on pg. 131 says:

As children, we see life only in the present moment.  Consequences for our actions can be envisioned only as some obscure possibility in a vague and distant reality.  Children feel a certain way and react intuitively in the here and now.  They have not yet developed an analytical process which interferes with intuition.  By the time they are adults, they will have had years of societal training which limits imagination and dictates acceptable beliefs and behaviors.  This is achieved through parental role modeling, the school system and other cultural, social and religious practices.  These influences mold our reality.  Prior to this conditioning, everything and anything is possible. 

We have all been young children – that is, spontaneous beings – at one point in our lives.  It is important to regain that boundless imagination that we all still have within us.  The ultimate in flexible thinking is allowing ourselves to know this.  The most important aspect of remembering our spontaneous selves is, as with our emotions, to forget what we have learned and remember what we have forgotten.

So the mantra is building:

Keep it simple, Keep it childlike, …

Blessings,

Dr Jon

My son and I were out mowing yesterday (he owns a lawn mowing service 30DollarCuts.com) and talking while driving.  His large deck riding mower died last week and he is running behind, trying to mow with smaller machines that take much longer.  Nor does he have the cash flow to buy a newer, large mower and doesn’t want to go further into debt to buy on credit.

We got into a discussion about economics and debt/credit and cash and this led to a discussion about how Father God plays into the mix.

He pointed out that “sin” is very simply the failure to TRUST Father to care, lead and direct us in the way best for us.  I totally agreed and use the word CONTROL to say the same thing (have posted previously about this).

We are born with a heart that from the get-go says, “I’m OK, I can deal with this, thank you,” and put it upon ourselves to take care of ourselves.  We don’t truly or deeply believe that Father a) really cares about us, b) has our best interest at heart, or c) is capable of doing anything about it if He really did care.

This is exactly the message with which the serpent deceived Eve.

This is exactly the response with which Adam responded when given the choice for Eve or for Father.

Adam did not truly believe that Father meant what he said when he stated “it is not good for a man to dwell alone.”  He did not believe that Father, having gone to the extreme of doing surgery to bring Eve to him the first time, would or could also do something extreme to make sure Eve would be able to remain with him.

No, he saw the predicament that he was in, that Eve had been disobedient and had caused a conflict, and rather than talking it over with Father and letting Him direct and provide and discuss solutions, said “I’m good here, I can handle this, I’m in control.”

Failure to trust led to failure to communicate and loss of relationship and that in turn led to living life on a lower plane.  Now there was sweat with labor, pain with childbirth, thorns from the earth.  Now there was covering up, blame, guilt, loss of relationship, living primarily in the physical with a little spirit thrown in (instead of the other way around) and death.

Now there was living by using our head, our knowledge, to figure things out, to be logical.

And guess what.

I and you and we still do it this way all the time!

I am especially bad with living this way when it comes to money.  The car needs a repair, I don’t have the money.  Out comes the plastic.  I can’t believe that Father will somehow provide.  So I am in debt and have become a slave to the creditor.  The rest of my life is on hold until the debt(s) are paid.  I cannot fulfill my greater purpose until what I owe everyone else is covered.  That is death.

We do it in religion.  While we say all the right words, we don’t really trust Father will provide for a life of fellowship together, so we build mausoleums we call “churches” and organize to make sure everything works out alright and set up rules of conduct and behavior to keep everything under control (that word again!).  And it is killing us deep inside.

And it is all so subtle, and so pervasive.  The quickest way to be enslaved in your heart once again, after having found some freedom and after having finally started to truly trust Father once again, is to hang around a religious person once again, as wonderful as they may be.

This control thing, this failure to trust, this thinking we can do it on our own is so deep that it needs a surgery to get it out.

This is exactly what Yeshua did.

His life showed us how to stay in relationship, in listening mode.  He did nothing that wasn’t first shown to him by Father.  His death was the surgery required to fix this deep-seated, inbred problem.  His resurrection was the healing, the bringing forth of the “Eve” that will complete us, and his Spirit sent after is the power that enables us to live the same way.

This Spirit, this life, will be one of Communion with Father, of Trust, of restoration of relationships, of openness/nakedness, without shame, without guilt, living once again from spirit and not just stuck in physical.

I want to live that way, how about you?

And my son’s lawn mowing?  Perhaps if the money for a bigger mower isn’t available it means Father is directing him away from cutting grass and into that which is even nearer and dearer to his deep heart.  Or perhaps there are some life lessons he needs to learn, some actions to take to generate the cash.  Either way, by listening and trusting like he has never done before, he will be drawn into Father’s heart – and his own.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

This question came from a friend yesterday:

Why do you think we are put in situations where we are stripped of our own selves?  Is it out of God’s goodness so we do not rely on our own resources but switch over to His?  I feel like I have been stripped over and over again of my sense of “self”. 

Here was my response:

[Friend],
Now we are getting into the good stuff.

Forget ALL the theological “crap” you have ever learned/believed/studied. It is not “bad”, but it detracts from the “naked truth” about Father.

Go back to the beginning. Father who is the I AM, the ONE, the ONLY – get that? the ONLY; there is really not US or ME! – made man in his imagination, his image, a hologram, an illusion but in which He could experience life in an infinite number of ways as extensions of Himself. Hence you and me. But this is really Father’s life we are experiencing so there is really not ‘ours’. I know, that is a hard one to get our head around.

He put us on the planet naked and unashamed so that a) we would all be one without symbols and concepts that separate and b) we would FEEL and EXPERIENCE maximally the physical expression of his thought. In other words, He wanted to get the biggest bang for his buck, maximize his investment.

He also gave “us” FREE CHOICE to either experience all that we could for him or go off and be independent and play with the “bad” boys down the street (which are also part of His expression, part of the story that all turns out OK in the end).

Over all this is the idea that LOVE will be the cohesiveness, the agent, the medium, the force that woos and draws and brings us into His Oneness again.

We, however, in our choice, like scaliwags given access to the candy store, like to go play in ways that are less than attentive to Father. So He is constantly putting “tests” in front of us, constantly reminding us there is an easier way to get through the current experience, ways of living that are more intimately associated with Him.

Yeshua exemplified this for us and cut right through ALL the religious, social, cultural, and gender structure that kept people separated from themselves and each other and Father. He called it living life more abundantly. We could call it stripped of our own selves.

All of this is just to say, yes, Father will “strip us of ourselves” so that we will intimately, nakedly, unashamedly return to that place where He can speak and we can listen and do and experience Him in the deepest places of our heart, and His! It is so that His imaginations, His images, His creations will bring Him Great Pleasure, just as Yeshua did.

“This is my Beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Yeshua is the first of many to whom it will be said, “Well done!”

I personally want to be in that group, want to let Father experience through my image of him ALL that He wants to experience through me (it will be but a fragment of the Total!). I find it most often and best occurs when I can “let go” of myself, be stripped of myself, and be that naked and unashamed one, free to really just listen and follow the wind, the spirit, that comes from no one knows where but whose effect can be seen by the trail it leaves. That really is Life and Breath.

Hope this makes sense.

Love you,

Jon

Weird, I know. Inverted, as Gerald O’Donnell calls this planet. Confusing. Bottom line – Listen to Father, Lose “me” to gain the eternal.

Blessings,

Dr Jon
 

In a “flash” of inspiration, or something, I realized the other day what it will take for healing to occur.

First, CHOICE.

Yeshua asked, “Do you want to be healed?”  Direct and to the point. To the heart.  No ifs, ands or buts.  No excuses.  In spite of all the excuses offered – no one here to help, too many get there first, etc. – these were discarded, ignored, and not allowed to enter the conversation.  It was simply a matter of Desire.  Want to.  He told the Canaanite woman, “You get what you want.”  We can choose to want healing or we can choose to live in excuses and blame, thereby wanting to stay unhealed – whatever that looks like.

In the final analysis, perhaps choice is the ONLY thing required for healing.

Second, SARNO

John E. Sarno, M.D. has written several books about and practiced a technique which gets you to admit that you have repressed rage which is expressed in your body in some form of dis-ease.  His rationale is that the mind is designed to keep emotional trauma at a manageable level and does so by subconsciously shunting the feelings into physical symptoms that may or may not have actual anatomical correlation.  On the surface this sounds pretty crazy.  The healing comes when you consciously break the shunting process and don’t allow the emotion to manifest in the body.  Instead, you deal with the emotion.  This is powerful and places the source of much if not most physical dis-ease squarely on the shoulders of emotion (where it belongs!)  The conscious effort required to use this technique takes us back to choice once again.

Third, GET NAKED

Naked, vulnerable, transparent, open, honest, real – all words that mean the same thing.  Naked carries the extra connotation of applying the concept to our physical body while the other words apply the concept to our emotion, attitude, and words and leave it at that.  However, unveiling the physical body requires a choice that is a bit more intense, in our culture at least, because we carry so much fear and inferiority and shame and disdain for the body.  We have let the sexualization of the body and the exploitation of that warp our thinking about the body, its worth and beauty, and we have decided that bodies are nasty and ugly.  However, to truly get to a place of openness, even with our body, requires that we release the protection, the fear, the failure, the excuses for being less than “perfect” and thus are open for healing.

So we again come back to choice.

Yeshua, I believe, somehow in asking questions of us and somehow in touching people as he healed them, takes us to the naked place within us where there is no longer any protection or any fear or any shame.  This was the Eden experience and to this he has provided the way of restoration if we will only so choose.

Let’s be healed!

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Having briefly outlined the Cosmic Experiment, or perhaps better called the Cosmic Battle, into which Adam plunged our planet, and the resulting Consequences in our previous posts, we come now to the question of what does this mean in daily life, and is there a solution?

As I alluded in the last post, I don’t think any of us truly understand how completely we are overcome by this need to control.  Every fiber of our being is dedicated to it.  We have to control EVERYTHING and we find all kinds of ways to do so, at times actively and at other times passively.

Those of us who are really good at controlling tend to do so forthrightly.  Domineering men and women who have every “i” dotted and every “t” crossed are obvious in their ability and need to control.

Those of us who are not so good at being so forthright have developed a mastery of using passivity and “shrinking” to manipulate our situations and people around us.

Relationships totter and fall, crash and burn around the issues of control and passivity, be they marital, friend or business relationships.  Hint: if you are struggling in any of your relationships, ask where the control issues are.

Business, religion (yes, even the “Christian” church), politics, law, medicine, education, entertainment, the media and every other human organization are all designed to control.  In spite of all the wonderful verbage about how much these aspects of life are set up to help people, they become a monster in their own right, dictating to people what they must and must not do to maintain approval and good standing.

Last weekend I saw a church sign telling the community to “Give the best you have to God.”  That sounds wonderful and who will argue that it is not a good thing to do?  But the implication that there is a part of you that you can keep for yourself is CONTROL, pure and simple.  What if Father is telling you to give Him EVERYTHING, or NOTHING?  Are you listening, communing?

For me, the word “sin” has taken on a totally new meaning.  It is no longer some theological expression that tries to describe how wicked I am, how my behavior needs to be punished.  Rather, it is a word that describes this failure to follow Father’s heart, this falling short of living life in spirit, this failure to commune with Father and instead try to become and live and “make it” on my own, by my own terms, under my own control.

This thing, Control, to which we have given ourselves has totally and insidiously turned and Controlled us!  We are its slave, in more bondage to it than anything else we could possibly imagine.

So we have this problem.  Can this infestation, this spirit-mind-body invasion be negated?

What to do?

Do you want to do?  Do you want release? Freedom?

Many, I fear, don’t.  Being told what to do and how to live life is way too comfortable for many (most?)  Even those of us who are Renegades in some areas find other areas where it is much easier to be told; and we also like to control things that are important to us, such as our “Renegadeness!”

But there is a way to undo, overcome, restore ourselves to the place of Freedom and Communion.  It is simple, yet the hardest thing to do.

Let go.  Stop controlling.  Live in Spirit/Intuition as Adam did originally and reenter that place of Communion with Father.

Easy to say, HARD to do.

The first to do it, truly, was Yeshua, the Christ. His answer was to actually start over, to be reborn, to live life with a different set of genes, under a different rule of genetics. He lived under a genetic code of UNCONTROL.

Note how he characterized his life:

I and my Father are one.
I can do nothing unless I first see my Father doing it.
Not what I want, but what you, Father, want.

When the Enemy tempted Him to gain His Success, His Goals, attain His Purpose on His own, He refused, completely submitting to His Father.

Now it is encouraging to see and think that someone could break this “Curse” but is even more discouraging if we thought we could never do so as well.

But the GOOD NEWS is that Yeshua also pointed out that He came exactly for the purpose of Finding and Restoring what was lost, the Communion between human and Father.  It cost Him His life, but it broke the chains of Control that bind us.

Let’s live in that Freedom and return to Communion, letting go of all the Control!

But we can’t do it with our Head, our Words, our Knowledge.  We can’t do it by more ritual or practice.

We must truly LET GO everything that has made sense to us in the past.

We must LET GO all the covering up that we are so good at doing, all the protection and posturing.

We must rebirth and live under a new genetics.

We must also Listen and Commune and then Do what comes to our heart to do, submitting our moments of every day, our energy, our money, our desire, our goals, our everything to that communion.  Father communicates in spirit and we must live at that level, in spirit, to commune with Him.  The dis-order must be put back into its proper order.

It is somewhat analogous to riding on the rear seat of a motorcycle.  All you can do is hold on.  There is NO CONTROL!  Regardless of what the driver does or where the driver goes, there is nothing you can do.  Your life and safety is totally in the hands of the driver.  There can be fear, for sure, but if you trust the driver and believe that he is most concerned for your best interest and care, there is immense freedom.

Go ahead, LET GO.

Get out of the front seat and climb on back.

Love, Communion, Freedom is there for the receiving.

Blessings,

Dr Jon