I want to write about some of the stories from the Vibe Report that have remained active in my imagination, and share a few things that didn’t make it to the Vibe Report.

photo by netzkobold

First, I am still loving the post that contained the Foam City story… so I thought I would share the link to some of the Foam City photos that showed up on flickr.

Another story that caught my eye recently, which did *not* make it to the VR is this one:

Marriage needn’t mean conjugal living space - April 18, 2008

“in North America and Europe: committed and monogamous long-term relationships, including marriages, in which partners, by circumstance or by choice, maintain separate abodes, make up anywhere between eight and 14 per cent of intimate relationships”

Seems to me that way too many people base their perceptions of reality on what they see on the tube. Life is far richer and more complex that anything that seems to be showing up on prime time these days.

One last found item this week - which may yet show up in the VR:

Photo by - Stumbling in the darkness.

This image is almost startling to me. It seems almost symbolic of so much of what I am trying to capture and thinking about with my web work - the emergence of the human spirit into the world.

This image also highlights the challenges of building and creating on the web. Compared to other art forms like photography - web creation can sometimes seem like sculpting with Legos.

But on the other hand, I guess that’s where the fun comes into play!

Doing today’s Vibe Report was a blast.

When I started this new site, I was somehow worried I would find myself on some days not finding anything positive or interesting to share.

My experience has been anything but that.

In fact, the only challenge I have is that I want to spend MORE time looking at all the cool things going on.

In retrospect, and for my own future reference, I think my initial fears were more a matter of me fearing I would wake up some days not able to *see* the positive… this is a beautiful observation and reminder to me - and a validation of why I set out to do the Vibe Report to begin with.

So on to the idea behind this post’s title…

Today’s Vibe Report captivated my imagination on several fronts.

For one - there’s that awesome story about Sony’s Foam City. I absolutely LOVE seeing stories where people find ways to place us in that special place where we are filled with wonder. Even better to read those rare stories where a major brand is able to do this.

I am still reminded of this dreamy Adidas commercial:

Imagination and wonder are the gateways to so many good things that life has to offer.

Today’s Vibe Report also caught my imagination because of the juxtaposition of the New York Times article about money and happiness and the article following that about how happiness comes from within, published on the same day, from India Times.

As if that’s not enough, what great fun to also stumble across stories about doggy mansions and the possibility of someday growing flowers on the moon!

I am just feeling and wanting to share my gratitude for our collective imagination, and ability to still find a sense of wonder.

Can you feel it too?

Everywhere I look, I see it happening. I have friends who are taking off on new jobs. It seems like many are experiencing a renewed interest in politics. Even the economic downturn has some people taking a closer look at their core values… making hard choices is sometimes a way forward to a better life.

And here at High Vibe It - things are changing too.

First, I want to send out my greatest appreciation for all of the support the site is getting. Traffic and membership are up. There are still great stories coming in.

And I am personally finding my groove with this work too.

I have revisited the whole concept of News That Resonates. I plan on growing that concept in the near future, and will be adding other sites and ideas to the mix.

And more recently, I have quietly launched the High Vibed Shop. Although the selection is limited in the beginning, this will be an awesome place for me to share designs and ideas.

As if that’s not enough, I want to say that the Vibe Report is a blast. I woke up this morning and found myself saying - wow, can’t wait to see what we’ve been up to lately! Checking in on all the wonderful things people are doing is like checking in with family to see what great things have been happening to them - only it’s a global vibe. You know?

Next up is a focus on my writing. There are several things in the works on the writing front. Opportunities and experiences that I am very excited about, but not quite ready to shout out to the world.

With that, I am also thinking this blog will become more and more a place for me to check in like this, and share my personal perspective and information on the High Vibe It site.

So as you can see, much is happening. Change can be beautiful, even when challenging. Launching new endeavors comes with its own set of fears. But it’s all good in the end. We’re all experimenting and at play in this grand adventure.

Thank you for stopping by and checking in!

Vibe Report is LIVE.

Vibe Report is a place for a daily dose of high-vibing, uplifting, positive, light-hearted, and dare-I-say, inspirational links, stories, and videos.

It’s one more drop in the ocean of information that is the Internet. One more push towards the positive side of things.

This experience is amazing to me. Throughout this past two years, my relationship with reality has been shifting… almost literally. As I have moved slowly away from trying to control the world around me, I am seeing the world in new ways.

Another way to state this is that the way I interact with information is changing. I was once a passive consumer, absorbing toxic along with the good. I thought my job was to absorb it all, and make sense of it, find the truth. The hard truth.

Now, I see (again) that the Universe of Information is far greater than anything human consciousness can grasp in any one, concrete way. Rather, humanity has developed many varied and beautiful ways of accessing the (nearly?) infinite fields or dimensions of information available to us.

Following this growing awareness, I am seeing again the incredible seeds wisdom embedded in the world’s great spiritual traditions. There exists no tension within me when I experience the knowledge that scientific activity brings forth, as it in no way contradicts that which I experience from my spiritual practices.

There will always be *noise* in the system. It is part and parcel of the process. A great part of the Joy of being human is learning to tune your sense of things. Or, Attunement, if you will :)

The other aspect of my journey that is unfolding here is the key aspect of Integration. This is one of the great milestones in life, when your spiritual life is in complete congruence with all the other aspects of your life. After all, we are emotional beings, psychological beings, and social creatures by nature. Our social context is currently geared around financial transactions. You cannot separate money out from the rest of life.

What an amazing Joy and blessing to find yourself in a place in life where your work is 100% aligned with your spirit. This is where I am heading.

This is a long way of saying that the Vibe Report is one of my practices. While many spiritual practices are rightfully private, others are joyously public.

The Vibe Report is one which I enjoy sharing.

You silly thinker… you dreamer of dreams, conjurer of all that is.

Here’s a question… what if you could think anything? What would you choose to think?

What if you stopped for a moment, let go of all your hard earned “wisdom” and considered the possibility - for just a moment- that you are thinking whatever you choose?

Why do you believe what you believe? Where do your thoughts come from?

We have a tendency to open our eyes and see the world “out there”… we raise our arms, point out there and say “there - that’s where it comes from… the world puts thoughts into me”. Or - we say our parents, our culture, our DNA, our God. Or some odd combination of these *other* sources.

But how can we know any of these things without first being able to conceptualize and imagine them?

We cannot.

It’s a classic chicken and egg question… which to me, points directly to the idea of an evolving consciousness that is both within us at our core and is outside of us everywhere. We are simply localized points of consciousness - considering ourselves, exploring a realm of our collective creation.

Language is a creative extension of consciousness. In our age of scientific progress, it seems that we have developed a tendency as a culture to be overly obsessed with literal interpretations of messages, stories, and texts. We have become culturally cynical - high on our self-perceived “knowledge”. We see contradictions everywhere - despite the ringing of truth that we feel in our gut.

That is a special kind of madness, if you ask me.

To hear truth calling out - to have our inner being resonate with the sub-text of a message - and yet cry out “no” as we mock the literal words we see before us.

What is humorous about this act is that we - the Big Collective We - have called forth these messages - and then we stand there saying “bah! how silly! that cannot be”.

We are children still - crying out for love and safety in a world we fear, and when we receive the loving embrace of Spirit - we defy and test the limits and act like we know it all already.

Every physical thing that is in existence today is here because it was called forth into being. There are no accidents. There are only ideas. Ideas that come forth into being.

Before a no-thing becomes some-thing - there was first an opening for it. A space created for it. This is true of every person. Of every flower. Building. Tree. Cloud. And every single atom.

We are at play amidst an orchestration of energy and matter that is simultaneously amazingly complex and beautifully simple. This truth defies the western mind’s addiction to duality.

We want to de-construct it. Like an enterprising child - we want to tear it apart and see if we can rebuild it. We want to imitate it. We want to understand - and so we ask a million questions, and when we get answers but do not understand - we blame the source. Stupid grown ups - what do they know?

Although this is neither inherently good nor bad - it is fun and funny. It is the play of life. We are embodied Spirits at play, learning to create, learning to master the power of creation.

As a culture - we have had amazing teachers. Ascended Masters, as they have been called by some. And as individuals, we all have teachers around us ready to help us along our way.

What I am enjoying today - is simply this awe inspiring observation - that we can and do think whatever we choose, whether we realize it or not. It is all too easy to get wrapped up in justifications and rationalizations - as we try to understand why we think what we do - we loose track of the core empowering truth - that we Choose our thoughts.

When I sit with this for a while, I am then quite easily brought to the awareness that this then means that I am NOT my thoughts.

Realizing and knowing this one simple core truth can be amazingly liberating.

For some, this will be obvious. For others, it may make no sense. For me, over the course of time, I seem to “get it”, and then lose it, and then find it again.

It is but a stepping stone on the path to greater awareness. But each step is worthy of deep appreciation.

With much gratitude, I will leave you with this for today, as I step back into my work-a-day world. And if I can bring a bit of this timeless awareness with me, all the better!