The Well Adjusted Raccoon

04/02/2026

This may be hard to follow, but try. Only love wins, in the end. Or else it isn't the end.

The Divine come as you is knowing all things new, claiming all things in its own accord, not shunning the things that appear to be darkness, not damning the things that seem to be wrong-minded, not approving of things that seem to be cruel. Those would be the personality self in its ambition and its desire to condemn, to blame, or point the finger. The Monad or the Divine Self knows itself in vibrational accord to truth. In truth a lie will not be held, and you will not dispel a lie by acting in fear because fear is also a lie. You will move the energy of fear through the agreement or accord to the Divine operating in truth, in wisdom, and, again, in love.

Now, you mistake the idea of love as approval. “I am not loving that terrible man. What he does is terrible. I cannot love him.” And you have used love as a personality construct, something that you would give only to those who are deserving. So if you move the idea of love to perhaps the idea of light, or the recognition of light, or of being the lantern that shines equally upon all, you will begin to reconcile your true nature with what you encounter, without the bias of past accord, approval, and the idea of merit, the idea that God could agree to one, love one, approve of one more than the next, which is why some of you claim the Kingdom at the cost of putting another in an idea of hell. And those who claim the Kingdom in this way are hypocrites, and will continue to play in the dark room pretending that they are the light.
The Divine Self that has come as you indeed knows truth. To claim “I know who and what I am in truth” is not to pretend that you are agreeing intellectually with something. It means that the Divine Self that is you cannot align to what is not true. It is not possible. So even your idea of self in subjective ways — “I am the one who doesn’t get what he wants, I am the one who must be seen in this way or that, I am the one who believes in these things and invokes these and those words, I am the one, I am the one, I am the one” — must be understood as the personality structure. The Divine Self, which may utilize the personality structure in wondrous ways, must always be operating at a level of accord where the idea of self is moved, and not abandoned but moved, so that the one who speaks the words “I know who you are in truth” is not doing this from the principle of high and low, but is simply in accord with what is always true.

What is true is always true. And while the man that you find despicable is doing things that you would describe — perhaps rightly so — as despicable, when you place this man in darkness you align to that darkness and you marry him in shadow. And when everybody is invited to hate the man, you are all embracing in shadow. And the idea that you will find liberation in this from that act is ridiculous. It cannot be so. But what is so is to recognize the inherent or innate truth beyond what is presented, and then move to the act of reconciliation. The idea of that man is what is being re-known, and that man is altered by holding the higher ideal. And we use the word ideal with an L intentionally — the higher ideal or Christ Principle that must be present in all things or can be present in no one.

-The Guides through Paul Selig, Receiving the Divine in Form, Session 2, October 24, 2025

03/28/2026

Keep your perspective. Stay curious & playful.

There's a new store in the Neighborhood - it's Tony Chiroldes' shop where he sells books, toys, and costumes. Tony, a Spanish-speaking neighbor, has always b...

03/21/2026

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03/16/2026

“If you have identified with your Soul when you’re alive, death, it’s just another moment.” Ram Dass

03/16/2026

What do Incan Talking Knots and astronomy have in common?

03/14/2026

Now, everything that exists in form is in vibration. Most of you have some sense of this. The rock is of God. The sky is of God. Your fingertips are of God. All of these things are known in distinct ways. But all of these things are also expressions of Source operating in different levels of tone and density. When things that are known as, of, and with form are reclaimed in the Upper Room, they carry a different level of tone. They are shifted to a different resonant anchoring, and the manifestation of that anchoring in the higher field is other than you have known it thus far. Now, when we say other we mean distinctly so. Now, of course the chair is still a chair, both here and in the Upper Room, but your experience of self in the chair, and the idea of self in an environment, has indeed been altered. And the manifest plane that you are operating in now is indeed being shifted and moved, and, if you wish, lifted to a new level of tone, through this instruction.

We are not setting you about clearing the old landmines from the battlefield. We are not telling you that you are the one to stand in the battlefield and shine the light, and say, “Put down your guns, you fools.” We are simply saying that who you truly are at the level of vibrational tone is not in energetic and vibrational accord to even the idea of war, to the idea of the minefield, to the idea of the battle. And when you understand that this is so, you begin to move to a level of resonance where the idea of war itself is not present. Just as the wall that was built upon that line in the sand was an idea, the line in the sand was an idea, and once erased there is no line, and, indeed, not even the memory of the line in the sand expresses. In the Upper Room, once you realize who and what you are — “I am in God, I am of God, I am with God” — the manifest self aligns to its own level of tone, and the things that do not abide in the Upper Room are the manifestations of fear.

Now, anything can be re-known in a higher accord, but in order for it to be re-known in a higher accord it needs to be re-seen and lifted in agreement to Source. And you will not lift something in Source that you are currently damning or calling an abomination. You simply can’t. Unless all things are re-seen as of Source, even operating at a low level of tone, you cannot reclaim it and lift it. But we will say this for the new student. Once you lift to the Upper Room, and this becomes the basis of your expression, or you have anchored your vibrational tone at this level, the action of presence and being is what reclaims what you encounter. You are not seeking to pull up the old mines from the field. You are simply knowing the field in the higher octave and reclaiming the higher field that is present there, because the field was in God, it was just denied its divinity. And the idea of the weaponry that you have — you have created, you meaning all — can be re-known. And, again, you can shape the thing into something other, the sword to a plowshare, the idea of a thing being re-known or used in other ways, or if issued accordingly, beyond the old idea of what it ever was.

-The Guides through Paul Selig, Shifting Reality, Session 1, December 10, 2025

03/13/2026

Would you do something for yourself, if it were free?

Flourish is a free 5-day virtual summit on the science and practice of human potential, bringing together an extraordinary group of teachers to explore mindfulness, emotional wellbeing, habit change, purpose, and more.

I’m especially delighted to be part of Day 3, Transforming Your Inner Critic. So much suffering comes from the harsh voice inside our own minds, and this conversation is all about meeting that voice with greater awareness, wisdom, and self-compassion.

If you’re looking for thoughtful, practical support for living with more clarity, kindness, and freedom, this is a beautiful event to join.

Register at the link in bio or here: https://summits.tergar.org/

03/12/2026

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03/02/2026

Did you know I’m writing a book? In the process, I uncover some really deep wells within that bubble up and operate, sometimes unconsciously, at a surface level which others see/perceive and judge from their own states of being. Fun(?) exercise. Use ChatGPT to explore a little bit of self therapy. Pro Tip? Less is more. For example, try this prompt: Summarize most salient points of mother hunger.

03/02/2026

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03/01/2026

Ha! Could be me! He's nice, I promise! This. Is. The. Best. When I was her age, I was lying on my stomach on a little foot bridge in the woods, watching the water critters a foot below my tummy, oblivious to the bobcat on the branch above my head. Probably assessing whether I'd be delicious enough to make it worth the fight? And then it made a low growl. I looked up, understood it was a bobcat (Florence Bobcats, lol), and slowly got up and backed away up the path towards home. I kept watching it, and it me, until I rounded the curve, then hightailed it up the big hill. Still one of the more clear memories I have of being completely PART of nature. (Edit, if FB won’t let you see the video, Google “autistic bobcat girl”—it should get you to the video) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU0VfFLDsLd/

02/25/2026

🌸 We’re Hiring 🌸

Plum Village monastery is looking for a Financial and Administrative Director to lead our community’s financial system in southwest France.

If you have 5 to 10 years of experience in finance, and wish to bring your skills to a mindful, purpose driven Buddhist community, we would love to hear from you.

Learn more and apply
plumvillage.org/job-opportunities
hiring@plumvillage.org

Application deadline, March 10 🌿