How do you teach something that everybody already knows but has forgotten? How do you help people wake up from the dream that is their reality, their suffering, their stress, complications, and pain?
This is the challenge we face when bringing Spirit Mind awareness into the world, or bringing it back into people’s awareness.
It’s funny because Hisami always says she’s not a teacher, that she’s not teaching. From a Material Mind perspective, that seems silly, because she’s in a position of sharing information, perspective, and helping people clarify their understanding and experience. In the material mind universe, we would call that teaching and say she’s a teacher.
But from the Spirit Mind perspective, things look very different.
To understand what I’m saying, you have to open the door to the idea that you have two minds. You have a Material Mind, which you would normally call your mind. It’s analytical, emotional, and it takes care of things in this material world. It helps you get where you’re going and understand what’s happening around you in a materialistic way.
It’s part of our experience here, and it’s beautiful, but it’s just that—a part of our experience. Your Material Mind’s understanding of the world isn’t understanding the world itself. It’s an extra layer of beliefs and intellectual constructs built on top of actual reality.
All the words we have are utterances in a language created by our minds. All the thoughts we have are organized systems created by people’s minds and then put into words. If you could somehow pause or stop this analyzer, this material and emotional mind, you would notice that everything still exists without it.
Nature doesn’t have a Material Mind. Nature isn’t striving to understand, to stave off scarcity, to create more, or to establish itself as something meaningful. Nature doesn’t struggle because it’s simply part of the universe—nature is Spirit Mind.
The challenge is, how do you help people realize that everything they believe, think, and strive for is just a small, illusory layer on top of actual reality?
When I say “actual reality,” I mean that natural state of being. If you could live in the state of oneness and all-knowingness that nature and the universe are always in—and that you, too, are in all the time—you would see the difference. But this state is often overruled by the belief system of words, thoughts, and constructs from your material mind. It's also overridden by emotional responses, reactions, and dramas that are part of the Material Mind.
This is the challenge Hisami, my wife, faces as someone who, from childhood, primarily understood the world from a Spirit Mind perspective. She didn’t develop a strong extra layer of beliefs about how the world works. She was never centered in Material Mind, which is fascinating because I don’t know anyone else with that perspective.
Most people I know, even those striving to find and live their own divinity, are rooted strongly in the material mind’s experience—tied to beliefs, systems, and ideas of what’s right or wrong, good or bad. All of this is just a construct. Peeking behind the curtain and seeing what’s really happening without that construct is the challenge.
Sometimes we call this intuition, and there’s a common idea that intuition is a set of skills we can develop, like putting on glasses that allow us to see deeper or differently. But even that analogy is rooted 100% in the Material Mind’s understanding. It’s part of the virtual reality we all live in, constructed from our shared beliefs and material mind experiences.
From a Spirit Mind perspective, where Hisami lives, it’s the opposite. Intuition is always present. In the space of Spirit Mind, you’re in the infinite space of love and all-knowingness—what we call God, the universe, or enlightenment. It’s our natural state from the Spirit Mind’s perspective.
It’s not about learning new tools to get into this natural state; it’s about taking off the tools we use daily that keep us out of this state. It’s not like putting on new glasses with special powers to correct our vision. It’s about removing the glasses we’ve been wearing—the glasses of belief systems and the Material Mind—so we can see the world as it truly is. We’re not seeing a different world; we’re seeing the world as it actually is, from the expanded perspective of unconditional love.
This is the challenge. To rise to it, we’ve created a program called “Awakening Your Spirit Mind,” designed to gradually ease the Material Mind into a relaxed state so it can come into alignment with Spirit Mind. Or maybe it’s better to say that the Material Mind can come into the loving space of spirit mind.
This is crucial because the Material Mind is a wonderful part of who we are. But when it’s operating outside the space of Spirit Mind, disconnected from unconditional love and the reality of how the universe works, it creates disharmony. It creates division. We see this when people’s minds create systems that divide the world.
The solution is to bring the Material Mind back into the loving space of Spirit Mind. When the Material Mind is in that space, it creates harmony. It doesn’t establish new connections where there were none—it acknowledges the connection that already exists.
When the Material Mind is in the space of Spirit Mind, we have this beautiful, productive creativity. We’re living our life’s purpose. Although those words are coming from the material mind, so it’s only a partial understanding.
This is our journey—Hisami and I. We’re creating tools, experiences, and environments to help bring your Material Mind back into the space of love so you can enjoy life instead of suffering.
That sounds simple, but from the Spirit Mind perspective, it’s accurate.
