of the accepting is painful because of the ego. It’s human nature to fight against conditions. The ego gets so attached to the need for certain conditions or circumstances that it gets in the way of life’s own progress. Once you rise above the foreground of the day-to-day of what you see, you’ll begin to see that which is the essence of you. Just as a painter needs to step back from his work from time to time to gain perspective, you need to find the still, calm center within your own life to gain a perspective of the total picture. Only then can you make clear, productive choices about your life path and your day-today activities.
Stage 4 Sun - Alignment: Your values, paradigms and passions must be in alignment with your goals. So many people go through life believing that the objectives they are pursuing are worthwhile. Yet when they accomplish these goals they can’t understand why there is such a deep well of emptiness inside. Aligning your pursuits and your passions avoids costly mistakes and misdirection of time and resources. It creates a focus, and with this aligned focus your path will be illuminated.
Stage 5 Rock - Action: The final piece required for transformation is action. Acknowledging that you need help and accepting the emotions or conditions you’re experiencing is only the start. To move beyond your current state, you must take action with accountability. The principles in this book will assist you in discovering exactly which actions to take. Not just any actions, but actions built on a solid foundation of who you are and what you want from your life. Adapting these stages and elements will guide you to the discovery of your purpose. This is a continual process that is sustainable in the present moment and into your desired out come.
The process works in a wide variety of situations, especially personal goal setting. The fundamental premise is to take a look at your current state, deconstruct it, and develop the future state by using the steps that I have outlined.
It begins with mapping out the status quo, listing everything related to it, then reviewing the activities. Anything that’s a waste of time, energy or attention gets flushed out automatically. The activities that remain become the core of action in alignment with your true Desire, and the standardized path for moving forward becomes clear.
By using the present moment, here and now, you create your future. This is the simple process of causality. The idea asserts that the future will continue like the past unless we change it in the present. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This process provides a path around the insanity most of us experience in our daily lives.
All of this begins with making a choice - a choice in focus, a choice in awareness, and a choice in lifestyle. Making the choice to remove yourself from the distractions of the day-to-day world which are not in alignment with your Desire will allow you to begin focusing on living the life you are intended for.
Using the Discover the Unseen… ideas, concepts and processes to connect with your authentic self, you’ll discover the essence of the life you Desire. Just as your perception is the foundation of your current reality, the basis of what you perceive with your senses is the foundation of physical science. The five senses sight, sound, touch, taste and scent transmit signals to the brain. These are interpreted by your thoughts, and they influence how you interpret your experiences, your beliefs, and your model for living. The Advent5 Process allows you to reinterpret what you perceive and apply it in a new way, which allows you to reach a better understanding of your beliefs, and then align your actions with your Desire. This provides a path to achieving what you really want from life, yourself, and those around you.
Discover the Unseen…Life is full of insignificant noise and distraction. So many people live in a state of reaction, living as if on auto-pilot, with set routines and even methods for interacting with people, rather than focusing with consciousness and intent on the few key things that are really important to them. Our passions are often pushed aside to make room for society’s ideas of “success,” but these suppressed passions and the God-given gifts at our core make up the foundation of our purpose. You may ask yourself at this point, what is it that we don’t see?
Looking for what you don’t see is:
Focusing on your Desire
Believing in the unseen
Going beyond the obvious
Observing from the background
Awareness of thought
Searching within
The true meaning of your wants
Seeking for what is already here
Looking past the foreground
Understanding the Divine
Feeling the emotion
Moving past the situation
Authentic truth
Your essence
Your Righteous Cause
The Background vs . the Foreground
Welcome to the background, the space of awareness itself. This is the place where your authentic self resides. You have nothing to fix, nothing to improve, just your Desire to discover. Here, no answers, feelings, or ideas are wrong. It is just you at your purest: a spiritual being within a human body. Your Desire awaits your focus and intention to engage. When this happens, your life begins to transform. This is when you detach from society’s prescribed path for success and begin to participate in the design of your own journey. Every experience, decision, and event in your life has led you to this point. These events aren’t necessarily good or bad but they are just things that have happened on your path. And everything and anybody that is needed along the way will cross your path. These are the events and people that contribute to who you are.
The foreground of the physical presence is where most of us spend the majority of our time, this daily space where temporary forms and situations come and go. They represent movement - waves that pass through this time and space, our surrounding environment. You can feel the disconnection from the background. You could say that these are elements of the distraction.
It’s the background that becomes our reality. The background is what we seek: the essence of silence, the stillness, the observer of the authentic you. This is known by a lot of names, and it’s not my intent to define this for you. The important thing is that you become aware of the background where your true self resides. This still, calm center is where the acceptance is found and where transformation begins.
This is the essence of the message, “Discover the Unseen…” Contained within it is the idea that as an individual, you don’t need any fixing. You’re not broken. You have been brought to this place by the events in your life, and everything has happened just as it should. You are exactly where and who you need to be.
You already have the answers, and everything you need is available for you. It’s your perceptions, beliefs, fears and judgments that keep you from seeing the answers you seek. Everything you need, everything you’re looking for is here; it’s present in the here and now. The Advent5
