Shaving My Head

I have been thinking of shaving my head.  I have been growing my hair now for 3  years running and I am wanting a change.  My hair feels like a distraction, taking care of it, moving it out of the way, washing it......the list goes on.  So I am imagining what it would feel like with my head shaved...and it's something that I have experienced before so I know what it will feel like and it feels good to focus on that.....but.....it's been 3 years since I have cut it so it's a decision I don't take lightly.  And I know from experience that there is an energy shift that will happen as my new appearance will be changed strikingly.

Another rumination.  I think the energy of my Maternal Grandmother, who is my favorite ancestor of this life experience, is trying to contact me.  About 5 days ago as I was in conversation with a friend and the words "Thanks God" came out with the same Eastern European Jewish accent that my Grandmother had.  I instantly recognized the connection but not the significance.....until later that day as I was thinking about what happened and focusing on it.  The reason it was so apparent is because I have never heard that phrase or that accent since my Grandma passed away 20 years ago.  But it's only a very subtle coincidence.....so I did not feel the need to take any action of any kind, I just noted it.  Then, within the next 48 hours, I heard the same phrase and the same accent 3 more times!!!  Okay, Grandma, I get it......thank you, I Love You!  I have been really wanting more contact with the non-physical energies that are always around me and have been asking for connection and guidance regarding that.  Grandma's energy is answered prayer.  And the best selection because I can easily feel my Grandma's unbounding Love because I have felt it before and I am familiar with it.

Aha!  I have connected these two seemingly separate subjects.  I want to cut my hair but I also want to do it being conscious and aware that it signifies a shift, a transformation.  In other words, I want a reason to do it, that would make me feel better about it.  Wanting to tap into outside, non-physical guidance gives me the strong reason I am looking for to now cut my hair ceremoniously and deliberately.

Life above the Matrix - Living with Fear and Limitlessness

I had a realization this morning that felt so amazingly fearful and expansive at the same time.  The fearful part I am in the process of re-labeling and re-programming into my "thoughtware".  There was a lot of excited energy in the fearful part that I can palpably feel in my human body.  It is a rush and a waking up from a previously unrealized mudane, static, state of being.  This is how it unfolded..........

This morning I went into meditation with my daily cup of F.R.E.A.K. Coffee, and I allowed all of the pending projects, lifestyle decisions, and whatever else I was thinking about, to fade away.  As I felt the energy of the coffee being ecstatically absorbed by my body, my energy field started to actively vibrate.  This is something I can feel,  and is closer to my true state of being.  I began to feel myself ascend high to the earth's atmosphere, and then I recalled a recent situation that occurred 3 days ago.  I was looking down on myself and took in the entire scene.  Without getting into details, I viewed my reaction and behavior very predictable and something that I have practiced so much, it has become a natural (unconscious) way of being. 

I then felt myself rise above the earth's atmosphere and rise above the matrix into Free Space.  Ahhh.....this is the place I know, I like, and feels sooo good!   

Repetitive Behavioral Patterns in Earth's Matrix

Back down to my situation on the earth plane, I saw how it was possible for me to choose a different reaction and a different course of action.  Instantly I felt afraid, energetically backing away from the audacity!  THE AUDACITY to behave 180 degrees apart from my MO, my personality, my genetics, my character......AND.....the excitement!  I could feel the energy in my body activated and vibrating.  Then it all made perfect sense.  I AM not confined to my situation, my history, my predictability.  I CAN rise above it all, pierce the veil of the matrix and curiously, fascinatingly, excitedly, youthfully, see what will happen. 

I AM more than my horoscope, my fate, my future. 

I AM boundless, infinite, daring, courageous!

I just did this live call-in show interview called, "Breaking Free", http://bambuser.com/v/2833551

Elephant Journal

I was recently asked to share my experience and knowledge about coffee and just started writing a "Coffee Talk" column for Elephant Journal.  Here is my first installment:
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/coffee-talk-what-you-didnt-know-about-coffee-asher-yaron/

Re-Making After Awaking!

It has been a couple of years since my last post.  A beautiful, expansive, expanding journey.  From death to re-birth in all areas of my Life as Asher Yaron.

This is where I AM now.  Living in Bali, re-creating, a Phoenix rising from the ashes.  More evolved than ever before and so much more coming.  Still so much Joy to experience and savor!

My latest project involves Coffee, of course and still on course.  Here is the leading edge of ME!

Kabbalah - The Power of our Thoughts

Although I have never done this before (and, for copyright reasons, may not ever again), I thought it appropriate and important to post this on my blog as I am in total agreement with its premise.

Emmanuel Olaechea sent a message to the members of Kabbalah for Everyone.
   

Emmanuel OlaecheaJuly 4, 2010 at 1:37pm

Subject: A small hole in the body is the result of a big hole in the soul. -- Kotzker Rebbe
This esteemed 18th century kabbalist known for his penetrating wisdom is giving us an important lesson. Anger, depression, regret, revenge - and all forms of negative emotions - are holes in the soul that create holes [illness] in the body.

As the kabbalists have been teaching for 5,000 years, whatever shows up in our physical bodies is a branch - not the root. If we wish to treat and prevent illness, we must work on the cause level, which according to Kabbalah, resides between our two ears.

What goes on in your mind is what goes in your body.

Remember the spiritual rules of the game of life I spelled out in The Power of Kabbalah: the source of all chaos in our life is caused by our reactive thoughts and behavior. If we have illness, we can't think that something is broke in our body. We have to know it started with our negative thoughts and actions.

If we don't realize we are the cause, there is no way to heal our life.

Love and Light

Born To Run...Ahead To The Past!

Shalom!

I am in my hometown of Princeton, New Jersey visiting parents, friends, and cousins.  Being with family is always a great test to see where I AM and what old patterns of thought I need to let go of.  To paraphrase Ram Dass, "If you think you're enlightened try being with your family".  Family members have perfected the art of "helping" us to see the places in our lives where we still have some resistance and are not allowing Well Being.  It's called "pushing our buttons".
I am so grateful that I am having that opportunity right now and I love and bless my family and friends for the wonderful lessons!

One Revelation I have had on this "trip back home" (which I refer to as "Ahead To The Past", more about the future expansion aspect rather than the past limiting aspect) concerned running.  When I was in my 20's a big part of my life was devoted to training, participating and competing in marathons, ultras, triathlons and cycling races (7 marathons, a 60K ultramarathon, numerous triathlons including the Ironman distance, and a few cycling double centuries and 1 RAAM qualifier).  I gradually evolved to cycling as my primary form of physical activity.  I missed not being able to run anymore (my knees had started to hurt...I tried different running shoes and orthotics...but it only helped temporarily at best).  Running, in my opinion, is the most efficient form of total body conditioning, period!  As a species we have evolved to inhabiting a body temple that was Born To Run.  I have been wanting to run again for years.

Before leaving Oregon on this trip back east, my friend Drew Mebane gave me the book "Born To Run".  He had said it changed his life and we talked about some aspects of the book that intrigued me.  After finishing "Born To Run" I can also say, "this book has changed my life!".  It gave me the courage and inspiration to toss aside my running shoes and go barefoot.  Brilliant!  I am loving being in the world in a way that feels indigenous.  The thought about running barefoot feels so natural.

My first foray to barefootedness (my feet, in the past, were unusually tender and sensitive so going barefoot anywhere, I believed, could be harmful), was on a 3 mile mountain hike in Eagle, Colorado with my wife and father-in-law.  I decided to shuck my shoes and socks and give it a try on the hard packed dirt path and it felt great!  Feeling my feet on and into the earth is a very grounding spiritual experience.  I tried a slow jog a couple of times during the hike which was encouraging.  I started to think,  "I can do this!", and remembered that running was certainly in my Vortex ever since I stopped about 20 years ago.

I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey on Franklin Avenue which is near the Princeton Shopping Center and less than a mile away from Princeton High School (PHS class of '78).  The High School has excellent facilities and I decided to try out barefooting on the track.  The inside of the track, the infield, turned out to be the best with its artificial turf that was softer than the harder springy high tech track.  I tuned into the same place that I do when I am on my bike and just relaxed into the feel of running again.  I talked myself through the form checks, "toes relaxed and flexed...back straight...arms pumping...stride short".  I felt liberated and elated and ended up running for over an hour, probably about 7 miles, barefoot!  Afterward, my feet felt great without the slightest hint of blisters or sores. Many things fell into place at that moment and I got a glimpse of Law of Attraction in action.  Here is only some of the cooperative components:

1.  Aligning With My Entire Being - Past, Present, and Future
When I was making plane reservations for this trip, the best flight that we booked (best meaning the most value with the lease inconveniences) from Denver to Newark had a connection through Charlotte, North Carolina.  I am an '82 graduate from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and began running there after retiring, at age 19, from tournament tennis.  Soon I was training for my first marathon, Boston, which I ran in unofficially.  My fastest marathon time, 2:58:47, occurred at The Charlotte Observer Marathon when I was 21.  I was curious about the Charlotte connection when I made the plane reservations and now understand the connection in terms of what has evolved between me and running.  I began my marathon and ultramarathon running in Charlotte.  It is only fitting that I connect with that part of My Self, love it, and embrace it as I begin a new chapter, Barefooting.

2.  Efficiency and Convenience
I have been desiring to participate in a form of exercise that I can do anywhere at anytime.  Though I have enjoyed my bike rides immensely and will continue to have them (especially in the middle of the night when it's just Me, The Stars, and The Moon), it is much simpler and easier to run because it does not require all the equipment and gear and it can be done at just about any time of the year.  I foresee MySelf traveling more to foreign countries and running is the most convenient and effective form of exercise anywhere at anytime!

3.  My Spiritual Evolution
It feels to me like running is a more grounded activity than cycling.  I say this because when I am running my body is connecting with the earth in a grounding and intimate way...embracing the Law of Gravity. When I am cycling I am rolling along and I feel like I am floating above the earth plane, defying gravity.  At this time in my life experience I am wanting to manifest, in earthly, physical form, my desires, and running feels like a catalyst in assisting that to happen.


4.  Lovingly Caring For My Body Temple
Running feels like the best thing I can do for my holy and sacred body temple.  I feel in alignment and in sync when I am running consistently.  All my organs function efficiently and effectively and I love how I feel and look when I have a lean and hard physical body.

To all former runners...I highly recommend the book, "Born To Run" by Christopher McDougall, and I am grateful for its revolutionary outcome on my life.  I feel liberated and have just left another part of my own mitzrayim (we all create our own mitzrayim's, aka, limitations).  I look forward to years of running In-JOY-ment and the further expansion of my Being.  Halleluyah!!!
                      

The Meaning of Torah

This morning I had an insight that I think explains, from my own perspective, what Torah is about and how it is written as a teaching tool.

The entire Torah is a dramatic description of life on planet earth and how we evolve. 
In the beginning, there is only God (I prefer the term Source Energy because there is less emotional attachment to that term).  Out of God, a separation occurs, Tohu Va Vohu.  This separation is the splitting of energy into a dualistic system.  Above and below, light and dark, day and night, physical and non-physical.  We choose to descend into the physical world because of the fun and joy to be had in creating and manifesting into physical form (physical knock-on-wood stuff, earth furniture) from formlessness, non-physical (these are our thoughts, and our entire life experience is created from the thoughts that we think).

In the Garden of Eden we find ourselves as Source Energy (God) in a physical body.  All of our needs are met and we are surrounded by only beauty and abundance.  But Adam (the earth being) and Eve have a desire to descend lower into a world of greater contrasting experience, an even lower vibrational plane.  Through the experiences of this first Earth Family and their descendants, a variety of desires are created for living a better life.  A life filled with Joy, Celebration, and Love.

Through these different stories a description of God (Source Energy) emanates from the character or characters who are having the experience of Source Energy.  Source Energy speaks to Noah in a way that only he can understand (it is a personal message).  Abraham connects to Source Energy through meditation and receives instructions this way.  Moses speaks directly with this Source Energy "face-to-face".  What Source Energy is in all of these encounters is the individuals God Self.  The part of the human that is connected, eternally, to Source Energy.  Every human has this capacity and we all express it our own unique way.  This is the differentiation of The One. 

So the entire Torah is the story of the returning to The One from the state of duality (this is best expressed by the ending of the Torah where Moses dies from a kiss from God.  Moses is re-emerged into Source Energy which is the inevitable fate of all humankind).  There is no death.  Just an ecstatic and blissful return into the furtherest point of expansion that we have created.  We are both the Creator (God, Source Energy) and the Created (human being, husband, father, tennis player, trumpeter, etc.).

What I have discovered is that my life is at its best when I am fully aware, in the moment, of both aspects of my being.  My eternal God self, and my physical human form.  When this happens, I am in alignment  between my Egoic personality self (that I have adopted in this lifetime) and my Higher Soul self (that is eternal and forever expanding).  In this state (also known as "The Zone") I am able to consciously and deliberately create my own experience.  From No-Thing I can create whatever I want.  From The Void and Formlessness comes Form.  In other words, I am simply an instrument of focused attention. 

Life in the Vortex #22, The Series Conclusion

 A transformative ride today.

I received the next phase of my expansion as it refers to my blog.  I got that I am supposed to expand into another form of communication on this blog and I will begin a new series that is based on short youtube videos.

The theme of this new series is about manifesting the non-physical into physical form.  I call it Erich Weiss 101.  I will be consciously demonstrating focusing my attention on something (at the start of my day), and launching a "rocket of desire" (to quote Abraham).  At the end of the day I will report on the miracles that occurred through the power of the Law of Attraction to bring me (in a very amusing and personal way) what I was wanting.  At first I will warm-up with small seemingly insignificant things and then I will graduate to bigger seemingly more important things (it's much easier to start small because I don't have any resistance to receiving the small things).

I have enjoyed creating the "Life in the Vortex" series.  It feels complete to me.  22 Chapters...equivalent to the 22 letters of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet, "from Aleph to Tav", as they say.  I am very satisfied in how it turned out and now I am ready for my next expansion!

1. My Vibrational INstruments: http://www.box.net/shared/1rcadtqb5m
2. Connecting with the Upper and Lower Vibrations: http://www.box.net/shared/73kbf837lb
3. Creative Magic: http://www.box.net/shared/zojhiliobc
4. A God Sniffing Dog: http://www.box.net/shared/72cbe8jzxm

Life in the Vortex #21

1.  I AM: http://www.box.net/shared/s839p8mp90

2.  Love Yourself: http://www.box.net/shared/gobhq90zyi