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John Muir, the solitary but famed mystic of the woods The following short section (pages 306-7) is from Eckhart Tolle’s book, “A New Earth: Awakening Your Life’s Purpose.” “The Frequency Holders” “The outward movement into form does not express itself with equal intensity in all people. Some feel a strong urge to build, create, become involved, achieve, make an impact upon the world. If they are unconscious, their ego will, of course, take over and use the energy of the outgoing cycle for its own purpose. This, however, also greatly reduces the flow of creative energy available to them and increasingly they need to rely on “efforting” to get what they want. If they are conscious, those people in whom the outgoing movement is strong will be highly creative. Others, after the natural expansion that comes with growing up has run its course, lead an outwardly unremarkable, seemingly more passive and relatively uneventful existence. They are more inward looking by nature, and for them the outward movement into form is minimal. They would rather return home than go out. They have no desire to get strongly involved in or change the world. If they have any ambitions, they usually don’t go beyond finding something to do that gives them a degree of independence. Some of them find it hard to fit into this world. Some are lucky enough to find a protective niche where they can lead a relatively sheltered life, a job that provides them with a regular income or a small business of their own. Some may feel drawn toward living in a spiritual community or monastery. Others may become dropouts and live on the margins of a society they feel they have little in common with. Some turn to drugs because they find living in this world too painful. Others eventually become healers or spiritual teachers, that is to say, teachers of Being. In past ages, they would probably have been called contemplatives. There is no place for them, it seems, in our contemporary civilization. On the arising new earth, however, their role is just as vital as that of the creators, the doers, the reformers. Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through ‘just being.’ In this way, they endow the seemingly insignificant with profound meaning. Their task is to bring spacious stillness into this world by being absolutely present in whatever they do. This is consciousness and therefore quality in what they do, even the simplest task. Their purpose is to do everything in a sacred manner. As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.”   The simple seem to feel God as easily as the heat of the sun or the kindness of a friend. Alexis Carrel The simpler you become, the closer you are to God. Words spoken by the head nun in the movie, “Thérèse”   Other Mystical Offerings: • Major Contentment Mode • Simplicity Of Being • Soul Note • Solitude’s Gift • Insignificant Significance • Casting Outward, Casting Inward • Saint Worm • The “Quiet” of Introversion • Introverts Anonymous! • Famous Reserved & Outgoing Personalities   © Site post © by Zane Maser, 2021. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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All of God’s expressions in nature send out a vibration that in some way serves the world. Paramahansa Yogananda, beloved Master of the East and West   Everything that is visible is the result of the Invisible. Because you do not see God, you do not believe He is here. Yet every tree and every blade of grass is controlled by the power of God. Yogananda   Feel the love of God…. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things: and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of diving love. Yogananda       Other Nature Offerings: • God’s Garden • Nature’s Affluence • Flower Essences to the Rescue! • Earth Day 2012 • A Visual Celebration Of Summer • The Tree That Prays • The Tree That Shares • The Tree That Unites • Orchid Talk • The Essence of Spiritual Ecology © Site post © by Zane Maser, 2021. Photos gratefully used from FreeImages. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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Insurance is rising in the morning with the feeling that we’ve got to be in control of the day and how it plays out. Assurance is a serene trust that the sunrise is as glorious and perfect today as it will be every day forward. The pace of the day is harmonious and lets the river flow at its own tempo and self-generating pattern. Insurance is an external coverage, provision, or safeguard we hope will be there when we need it. Assurance is like a spiritual promise or vow. It’s a divine commitment, a reliance you can rest on in quiet confidence. Insurance is an outer support system. We pay for it to “hedge our bet” in hopes we’ll never have to use it. Assurance is an internal guidance system. It is something we sense or feel or simply know through an inward listening and expectancy. It is “ah, of course,” the feeling of the exact, perfect choice for that moment. Insurance is a cross your fingers in hoped-for-security that your medical claim won’t be denied—again—due to the many reasons used by insurance companies to reject a claim. Assurance is when you’ve forgotten an important “log-out” step on the computer, and a little voice nudges you to complete the closing out. Insurance is head-governed, the constant intrusion of mental chatter. We put our self in the driver’s seat thinking we need to have a pre-plan and route selected. As best we can, we attempt to control the day—often with stress, strain, hurry, and exhausted nerves. Assurance is the mental “to do list” made unnecessary. There is now an inward messaging system of guidance, direction, and a trust that each necessary “to do” or “not to do” is presented as needed. It’s a leap of trust governed by the invisible and eternal “helping hands,” minus any sort of struggle. Insurance is the overly busy mind dashing to the future, often with fears and trepidations, or allowing the past to claim too much intellectual space in regrets and embarrassments, both of which are the past-future, “time” domains of chance and change. Assurance is living in the eternal now, in heavenly time and timing—the domain of “no” time, of this moment of peace. Insurance is the conditioned, herd consciousness that is based on fear and thus self-interest and a competitive mindset. Assurance is the divine Consciousness being expressed from within our being. This circulation always flows outward first and is the “good” we cast on the waters. It is unconditional sharing. Insurance is a covering of all the bases in reasoned thought through careful, advance orchestration. Assurance is resting in wherever the heart guides at any given moment, knowing it will be the right time, person, place, book, circumstance, so-called “chance” encounter. A “behind-the-scenes” assistance is present as the grace that precedes you. Insurance is the tried and true, the testing of the waters slowly. Assurance is a leap of faith. Insurance is very often masked by fear. Assurance is love expressing forth. Neither insurance or assurance is right or wrong, good or bad, better or worse. They are simply different foundational bases upon which we create our world. When we look out, we look from a self-protective sense of insurance or we look from the reassurance of assurance.   Other Mystical Offerings: • Arise Centered • Fluent Ease‎ • “Dis” Is Out, “Harmony” Is In • Harmonization • Empty Boat Day • Every Moment Is A Gift • Witness The Day’s Pearls • Be Free of Fear • The Pendulum of the Human World © Text © by Zane Maser, 2021. Photos gratefully used from FreeImages. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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We’re told to “fear not.” A Soul greater than we are— present here and now. We’re told “God is light.” His Creation is all light. Darkness exists not. We’re told “seek within.” The current need is added. There is constant care. We’re told of a “meat,” a sufficiency of grace, a fount of all good. We’re told He “gives peace.” A peace not outside of us. Peace inwardly known. We’re told faith creates. It is first the “things not seen” expressed tangibly. We’re told to share goods for those who need assistance. This cup remains full. We’re told to unbind. What we lose here we’re free of. Release the earthly. We’re told of a Voice— still, small—heard inside the heart guiding the true way. We’re told of a rest where our shoulders drop all weight. He performs our tasks. We’re told “two or more” is a spiritual household, gathered in Oneness.     God works in mysterious ways to give us the lessons and, thereby, the blessings we need. Joel S. Goldsmith, beloved mystic revealing a Way   Life becomes beautiful when the struggle is over. Joel S. Goldsmith   Other Mystical Offerings: • Constant Care • Constant Provision • Peace and Plenty • Infinite Spiritual Wealth • Spiritual Aid • Spiritual Faith • Small, Silent, Sacred Voice • Spiritual Network • Merciful Opportunities © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2021. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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Stand naked of self. Drop the personal context of a “somebody.” Energy moves free. All pathways are unblocked now. Constant judgments end. Sight is clear to see. Ears hear the inaudible. Heart knows the not known. Stand clothed with the Truth. A singular feel of Self. Heaven present here.   This then is “the spirit that quickens.” Each moment is alive, vibrant with opportunities to allow that which is. Is, is the perfection of now, the reali- zation of you already are what you seek. Allow. Allow. Open to spiritual Reality! Allowing allowed releases you from the confined strata of the finite into the Infinite.   Other Mystical Offerings: • Infinite Heart • Manifested Splendour • The Lily Work • Soul Note • Self-Emptying Meditation • Inward Hearing • Nothing Needs Adding • Heaven is Earth © Haiku poem and final paragraph © by Zane Maser, 2021. The idea for this Haiku of “allowing allows” came from my hubby, who is ever an inspiration. First photo by bfuxia. There is no current internet presence for bfuxia. Other photo shared from Lynn Hayes. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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The blame we cast out returns its effect on us. Go easy. Be kind. Any resentment is a plague unto our self. Go easy. Be soft. All unforgiveness renders us without mercy. Go easy. Be whole. Mental evenness is the grace of steadiness. Go easy. Be still. Generosity is a self-multiplier. Go easy. Be free. All benevolence lifts, lights the world higher. Go easy. Be joy. All love extended from the heart of inclusion is the return Home. Go easy. Be your own salvation. The salvation you are is a salvation unto me. The salvation I am is a salvation unto you. Go easy. We are all the one and same Self.     Other Mystical Offerings: • Self-Governance • Vibratory Resonance • Unconditional Compassion • Cupped Hands Of Love • More of Becomes More of • Inverse Relationships • Change the Script • When Judgments Cease • That Could Be Me © Haiku poem and end words © by Zane Maser, 2021. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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Consider and reflect on these in-the-now thoughts: Now is. Now is complete. There is no now and. Time is a figment. It’s impossible to divide time. Divinity is indivisible. Time is non-segmented. Now is the only perfect time. Spiritual time is the real time— all is happening right now. Spiritually present, spiritually creating. Now is the only gateway to an eternal moment. Everything has its basis in the now. Our conscious awareness shapes the continuous now. The product or attainment of now we carry with us even into future lifetimes. The future is the extension of today, of the continuity of now. Now is the seed of the future nourished in each moment. The seed you plant foretells the result. The magic, beauty, vitality, sanctity of life is beheld now. Cloud giants floating across the sky in seamless motion, flowing without breaks, stops, starts. Continuous sky. The night sky is black right now in its absence of moonlight. Now, the night sky has a slight glow from the crescent moon. The moon is half full now, adding more and more light. Now, fullness shines on all life. Trust in now is trust in the Universe functioning perfectly now. Whatever event or thing that happened a moment back that frightened you is never here now. It is never an hour ago or an hour from now. The past— non-existent now—is gone in the now. The only place something is present is in my thoughts. Only I can bring a childhood trauma into now—in my thoughts. It only exists in my thoughts. It’s not an external reality. If I dwell in it or occupy myself with it, I make it real— an internal reality only real to me. The past and future only intrude if we allow them to take up space in our mind. When I’m in the now, the “process” of time disappears. Many human things require the passage or process of time, like disease and aging. If there is no clock in my thoughts, then there are no minutes, hours, days. Always I am being now. What is before me now is the only task of the moment. I plan now by making an appointment for next month, but it is always now. When the appointment arrives, it is now. Here and now be still. Laughter and joy now. Laughter and joy as the continuous music of the heart. Peace now. Peace as the continuous quiet of the heart. Love now. Love as the continuous well-being of the heart. When I was in my early 20’s, without much experience as a driver, I am heading north on a two-lane highway. A car pulls out into an intersection from a side road as I am passing a large truck. This puts me in the oncoming traffic’s lane, traveling at 55 miles per hour, but this very second time dissolves. I am unrattled. A calm voice inside instructs, “Step on the accelerator.” The whole sequence unfolds in slow motion. I hit the car with a glancing blow, which spins my car around. Rather than any fatalities, there are no serious injuries. It was the continuous now of listening inward to guidance and then trusting “the voice.” A policeman called to the incident said that through what would seem like a totally counter-intuitive action, I had saved the lives of perhaps all of us. The continuous now saved the lives! I was its instrument. Fleeing from Egypt, Moses and the Hebrews arrived at the Red Sea. It parted in the exact moment of their need. When they were safely on the other side, the Red Sea closed. It took Gautama almost two decades of extreme search and suffering, having most recently almost drowned in the Ganges River due to life-threatening weakness, but somehow—one step by one step—this inexhaustible seeker made his way to the Bodhi tree. There he sat for who knows how long. Then, in an instantaneous flash, illumination was upon him. Now, he was the fully awakened Buddha.   Other Mystical Offerings: • Now is Non Comparative • Spiritual “Now”-Ward-Ness • The Timeless Trek • Timeliness • “BP” is Be Present • Days of Presence • It’s Already Present • Constant Care • The Oneness Of Cause-Effect © Text and Buddha photo © by Zane Maser, 2021. Other photos gratefully used from Free Images. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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Oceans of water constantly evaporate as they rise skyward. Oceans of free air forever circulating gather energy. Oceans bathe the earth with fog, rain, sleet, hail, ice, snow. Sea-land nourishment. One interaction connects countless, diverse parts holistically. It’s a self-complete dynamic of feedback loops. Who’s the Master Mind?     Other Mystical Offerings: • Spiritual Ocean • Sacred Rivers • Nature’s Affluence • Earth Day 2012 • Realization of the Divine Universal Life • “One Body” © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2021. Photos © by Chris Maser, 2021. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Inspiration for this Haiku arose from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous husband.

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A Latin word from omnis “all,” omni means “all.” It is in all ways, always, of all things, every, everything, everywhere, boundless, without limits, all-pervasive, whole, universal, infinite. Omni, as regards the mystical, is the divine Being and Its divinity manifested as an infinity of individualized forms. Omni is a remembrance, reconnection, and realization of one’s true identity, which eventuates in living in the atmosphere of God. Every human picture is a finite view of the Infinite. If you can take even brief moments throughout the day to relax and gently move your thoughts inward, focusing on the word God, or the Christ, or Immanuel, or Buddha, or perhaps a short scriptural passage, like “Come unto me, … and I will give you rest,” then the body and mind begin to slow their pace and become more attuned and receptive, softened with the break from the outer maya of life. Any sacred word, passage, or spiritual principle that resonates with you is ideal. Perhaps you might try one of the “Omni’s” below. With continued, dedicated practice, you may eventually—or quickly, depending on your openness—enter into a deeper place without thoughts or words, of understanding, and of a wider vista of the truth of Omni. You will have traveled further along the spiritual way and achieved a greater inward responsiveness into the holy Realm, because you begin to live out from a different center—a natural place of increased peace, well-being, and contentment. The axis of your world has imperceptibly but definitely shifted. The world is new and brighter! OmniOneness Only One of everything Omniconsiousness Omnicreation Limitless creative power and potential Omnificent Omnireality Omniindivisible Omniinclusion Omniconnection Omniequal Omnipresence All presence, everywhere present Omnipotence All power, the only power Omniscience The state of all wisdom, all knowing, unlimited understanding Omniprovision Omnicare Omnifulfillment Omnicompleteness Omniperfection Omniharmony Omnibeauty Omnipeace Omnibenevolence Omnicompassion Omniforgiveness Omnigratitude Omnigrace Omnisharing Omnilove Omnistillness Omnireceptivity Omnisacred Omnisilence OmniI The all divine I, the true identity of every individual. There is only one I. I am that I am. OmniOneness And Omni and Omni and Omni… Other Mystical Offerings: • Meditate on the Word “IN” • Divinity Remembered • Realization of the Divine Universal Life • Perpetual Inseparability • Self-Emptying Meditation • Spiritual Quiescence • Spiritual Eyes © Text © by Zane Maser, 2021. Photos gratefully used from Free Images.All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous husband.

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The following short section (pages 73-75) is from the 2015 book, “Toward A Natural Forest: The Forest Service in Transition.” It is a memoir by Jim Furnish who was the Forest Supervisor of the Siuslaw National Forest in Corvallis, Oregon, as well as the agency’s Deputy Chief in Washington, D.C. This brief glimpse shows a pivotal, transitional, wrenchingly illuminative experience in his 34-year career, a turning point that shifted his frame of reference, his self-honesty, and set his feet on a truer path toward the inclusion of the forest ecosystem as a whole, living, sustainable complex. He began to see with “new eyes.” “A Glimpse of the Future” “John Kirkpatrick had roots in the Southwest Region (Arizona and New Mexico), as did his old friend John Bedell, the supervisor of the Carson National Forest. About 1986, these two instituted an annual tri-forest meeting of leadership teams, to include the Rio Grande National Forest and its supervisor, Tom Quinn. These meetings included field trips and discussions on issues of the day—everything from heap-leach gold mining to bear hunting to grazing issues. The teams made good professional connections and enjoyed stimulating talk. The Carson bunch hosted our second event, and we headed indoors for a presentation in Farmington, New Mexico after a couple of days outdoors. The presenter was Chris Maser, a former researcher with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from Oregon, who, near as I could tell, now devoted himself to writings and lecturing about his forest research. Maser gave a lengthy and very detailed lecture and slide show about how forests of the Pacific Northwest function. I sat enraptured as Maser talked about old-growth forests, squirrels and their poop, fungal spores, mycorrhizae (fungi that grow alongside tree roots to dramatically improve a tree’s uptake of water and soil nutrients), lichens, soil-dwelling insects, forest productivity, and by inference, how just about every aspect of our forest management approach was naïve and simplistic—in a word, wrong. Forests were incredibly complex biotic systems, Maser said. Simple notions of ‘just managing trees’ actually involved significant risk of upsetting the delicate balance of important forest relationships. I found myself aware that Maser was challenging my own simple notions. This made me both irked and curious. To begin with, I was ignorant of virtually everything he was talking about (also true, I suspect, for other Forest Service leaders in the room). Maser made a compelling case. If it was true, his conclusions damned the Forest Service. Supporting management with credible science should be the stock in trade of any competent natural resource agency. Yet how can you apply what you do not know or understand? And so, here I sat in a Forest Service meeting, my head exploding and my heart aching with shame. Many wanted to disagree with Maser, but the credibility of his scientific evidence disarmed them. I realized that I had relied on what the agency spoon-fed me in various training sessions, and sadly, that I’d spent little time exercising my responsibility in the professional discipline of independently pursuing knowledge. John Bedell, who was moderating the conference, enjoyed the role of provocateur and relished Maser working our brains with an eggbeater. A wild-eyed discussion ensued about the implication of Maser’s message. I went back in my memory, reviewing the bumps and struggles I’d experienced during the past few years just trying to do my job. I thought about things I’d seen that didn’t add up. The worn-out grazing lands on the Bighorn. The ferocious pressure to ‘get the cut out’ even when the forest couldn’t sustain it. The gadfly environmentalists that seemed to delight in strewing our path with lawsuits. Now, I recalled, there was a controversary brewing in the Pacific Northwest over a shy, innocent spotted owl. I realized these issues weren’t random and unconnected, but part of a larger reality that we were beginning to perceive. They were like icebergs—not especially menacing until one fully considered the larger threat below the surface. Internally, the Forest Service heard recurrent, insistent voices from many of our best and most credible resource specialists that the agency was ignoring important science that pointed to environmental problems. I’d seen for myself examples where our management wasn’t matching our science. Could that be the reason for the public’s growing disenchantment with how we were managing their treasured national forests? Were we that far out of sync with what people, especially some of our own agency experts, believed and valued? I found myself drifting toward increasing doubt about the merits of our logging policy and practice on national forests. What did the Forest Service owe the timber industry? The general public? The agency seemed to bow and scrape to a largely ungrateful commercial interest, even as the timber industry’s power and influence diminished sharply. Furthermore, strong similarities existed in the agency’s relationship with a ranching industry whose livestock grazed vast areas of public lands in the West. What was of ultimate value to the public whose land the Forest Service was privileged to manage? I didn’t think the general public viewed commerce on national forests as our top priority. But if they wanted changes, what were we to become? I wasn’t certain how to answer that, but I sure thought it had something to do with the Forest Service managing lands with a stronger, more humble environmental ethic.”   Chris Maser is the author of “The Redesigned Forest,” “Forest Primeval,” “Sustainable Forestry,” “Our Forest Legacy,” “Social-Environmental Planning: The Design Interface Between Everyforest and Everycity,” “Mammals of the Pacific Northwest,” and a co-author of “Trees, Truffles, and Beasts.”   Short Writings from Chris Maser and other posts that include him: • Forests as Our Spiritual Inheritance   (excerpt from Chris’ classic, “The       Redesigned Forest”) • Earth Day 2012   (includes a few quotes from Chris’ books) • The Essence Of Spiritual Ecology   (about environmental mystics, written       by Chris) • The Marys River of My Youth—Eternally Flowing   (a natural history book       about Chris’ growing up in Corvallis) • One Small Nudge affects the Whole World   (a brief look at the life       journey of Chris) • Eternity And The Banishment Of Fear   (an excerpt from Chris’       “Conversations with Fear”) • Spiritual Essence of Stabilitas   (an excerpt from Chris’ book, “The World       Is In My Garden”) • In Emptiness Is Spiritual Fulfillment   (an excerpt from “The World Is       In My Garden”) • Self-Emptying Meditation   (an excerpt from “The World Is In My       Garden”) • The Planet Of Dyslexia   (in part about Chris’ dyslexia and generally about       the learning disorder of dyslexia, as well as the number of famous       people who have greatly struggled with dyslexia) © Site post and photo of Chris Maser © by Zane Maser, 2021. Quoted paragraphs © Jim Furnish, “Toward A Natural Forest: The Forest Service in Transition,” pages 73-75, Oregon State University Press, 2015. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2021 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. My editorial master and technological wizard is Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous husband.