Jared Broker, the Blog

As my own awakening progresses, the emptiness I have realized about "myself" is pervading my new experience more fully.  It continues to be more consistently in my awareness.  What I used to consider as the labels that comprised me are simply fading away. Before, my thoughts would be constantly recycling and renewing into new concepts of "who I am".  The great fights, thoughts, and clever tricks my identity used to play are simply wearing out, I guess.  Enough is enough as the inner silence becomes more prevalent and dominant in my constant experience. A couple years ago, I guess I just hit the point of complete exhaustion with my self torturing thoughts, doubts, and regrets.  This arose from my eight years being indoctrinated in the military and going to Iraq twice as a Hospital Corpsman.  Talk about deeply embedded thought identities! I didn't know it at the time, but looking back on early 2011 through 2012, a full awakening was really the only optio

Is there a such thing as human nature? Or are there only actions and reactions that we are taught throughout our lives?  Is it human nature to ask such questions? Is human nature a term that allows us to be separate from our own actions.  Is it the ultimate excuse to not take responsibility for ourselves? Perhaps our thoughts and beliefs are so strong that they become our true nature.  We can change with constant application and learning.  Doesn't this erase the idea of a pervasive human nature? We are still not sure where we come from as a species, so I can't even provide a reasonable description of a human.  How then can I talk about human nature? The nature of everything is to change, so why enslave ourselves in this rigidity? I would suggest that we have no true nature.  We act differently all the time.  We are different when we are sick, when we are rested, when we are tired or hungry. The list of variables that guide our actions is endless.  Doesn't true nature si

Some of the greatest problems that we encounter in our spiritual, or consciousness expanding journey , is the release of the importance of our day to day torments. We are worried about future events.  We are regretful or horrified of our own past actions.  It is like violently smearing our attention and ourselves into the past and future. What purpose does this serve?  We can only limit this when we are aware of what we are doing.  So, now you are aware! Our suffering is often an aspect of worry having to do with time.  In other words, we are not being present in the moment.  I like to refer to it as the here now because space and time are one.  All is one, inter-connected and inter-twined. We very capable of finding infinite ways of torturing ourselves in the present time as well.  This occurs when we are not being present in space. In our social interactions we may be constantly worried about what others think.  We may be constantly judging others without consciously rea

Check out this talk from Paul Stamets about mushrooms throughout our shared history.  Please share since this information applies to all humans everywhere. A great walk around the history of mushrooms and humans.  They follow densely along our trails so that we all share the spore mass. All plants are part fungi.  It is all a massive symbiotic relationship.  It always has been.  Please study and share information about mushrooms and fungi. By learning about and pairing with fungi, we can easily rebuild and regreen our planet in a way that is enhoyable.