letters to the future
mercoldeí 16 luglio 2025
future,
yesterday i went to my happy place — the bohemian beach town of asbury park, part of the legendary new jersey shore … if i do not get there once a week — particularly in these summer months — my soul feels an inescapable void … asbury has truly become an energy vortex for me, and one that is crucial to my own physical and spiritual healing …
yesterday was totally magical … in spite of enduring weather reports predicting overcast skies, and though forecasts alluded to low percentage chances of showers we started experiencing rainfall on our sojourn from manhattan to the jersey shore, when we arrived and parked at the asbury park boardwalk we encountered bright blue skies, pillowy puffs of cumulus clouds, and a supremely strong and serendipitously shining sun …
the moment i exited the car i just had this feeling … it was a feeling that felt more like a knowing … it was a familiar knowing that felt like a beautifully kept promise … it felt like i knew that the universe promised me right then and there : you are exactly where you need to be …
this knowingly felt promise was exponentially compounded and multiplied when i saw my first full glimpse of mother ocean …
the water was beyond spectacular … i was completely and utterly awestruck by her grace, dignity and sheer majesty … and that knowingly felt promise transcended into a clarion call from the depths of her mystical soul : COME … COME … ENTER ME …
now, i always go into the ocean; in fact, that is one of — if not the — most crucial aspects of my healing journey in the energy vortex of asbury … while there are a great plethora of beaches on the atlantic coast for me to choose from, i go to asbury (in part) specifically for the water there … so, it is neither shocking nor surprising that i went into the ocean; however, yesterday i stayed in the water for an exceptionally long time — several times … and, dear future, that led me to write this letter to you today …
somehow, in the process of engaging in — and, i would even say, fulfilling — this knowingly felt promise by answering this clarion call to me from the universe, total transcendence whirlpooled into amazingly profound insights and revelations that i must share with you …
at one point, it became completely crystal clear to me that i was — once again — on the precipice … more specifically here, i was on the precipice between realms of consciousness … mother ocean so unambiguously showed me the simplest and deepest metaphor for life right now …
as i was cradled in the arms of mother ocean, it was so obviously apparent that there is so much beyond her surface … like our very consciousness itself, and like the proverbial tip of the iceberg, there is so much underneath the surface — an entire universe, in fact — that exists … it became so apparent to me as i was held in her loving and mighty arms that — even though i am barely scratching the surface of an entire universe beyond the scope of what i can see or ever know — there was absolutely nothing to fear …
future, i think it is fair to say that most people — or at least many people — are afraid of what they can’t see or don’t know … maybe most — or many — people are afraid of you, dear future, because of that very reason … and, yesterday, mother ocean taught me, once again, that there is nothing to be afraid of …
in between bouts of answering this clarion call to immerse myself into the mystery of the unknown by submerging into the mystical waters of mother ocean, at one point — while i laid atop my butterfly blanket which laid atop the smoldering sand which was receiving the vibrational lightwaves of father sun — i understood beyond a doubt that i was in between worlds …
i understood — more than ever — both the complexity and the simplicity of non-duality … as a fierce leo ♌️🦁♌️🦁♌️, i am ruled by father sun ☀️✨️☀️✨️☀️ … at the same time, i am a creature of the water 🐬🌊🐬🌊🐬, and am not complete without the healing force that i can only receive from mother ocean …
and right now, dear future, our world is really spiralling into a descent of dichotomies, drastically trying to polarize people into believing in duality instead of resonantly reverbating the simple and beautiful and complex truth that we are all one …
i felt that i saw — with tremendous clarity — that i am so in between worlds because the world at large is so committed to this fascist idea of living in a reality that seeks to divide and conquer instead of bringing us all together …
so i came here today, dear future, to ask you : is it purely naïve to espouse the knowingly felt promise that we can ever come together ???
as my understanding dictates, time is not real, and that is precisely why, wise future, i turn to you and seek your guidance …
to expand and expound on that, fearless future, the crux of my question is : is it foolish, is it fallacy, is it flagrantly and fundamentally false to believe that — in this lifetime — or even in this realm of reality — that we, as a human species, can ever or will ever truly or even partially come together ???
it indeed does seem that this world is lost … what hope do we have ??? … what hope can we have ??? … the facts are the facts … and the facts are depressingly and despondently bleak … war, famine, genocide, oppression, injustice and violence proliferate unseemly and threaten the extinction of many species inhabiting this planet to the catastrophically alarming risk of threatening this planet’s own survival itself …
if history has any say, the planet — our planet earth — has been through this before and may just be circling through its own karmic cycle of samsara … is it the egoism and insanity of human hubris that dares to believe that we could ever destroy the planet itself ???
and, by that, i am not insinuating at all that climate change is a hoax; i am tragically acknowledging that climate change is desperately real — only, it is nothing new to this planet … for — as far as we believe we know — for aeons upon aeons, for billions of human years, really throughout all of time, the planet earth has experienced long bouts of self-regulation regarding the effects of climate change …
we have the real or imagined perceptions of the woolly mammoth and the storied ice age coming after the reign of the raptors and the dinosaurs which — whether real or imagined — goes to show that this planet earth has seen it all before …
the question that i have for you, prescient future, is : are we — right now — living in a moment of time where we are experiencing deja vú all over again ???
is this current moment of time just “our time” to experience what the planet has all ready been through before ???
is this simply just the natural progression ??? … just as the lauded age of the dinosaurs incinerated planet earth and led to the ice age, are we humans naturally stepping into our role in this planet’s evolution ??? … in historical terms, is this just what’s supposed to happen ??? … is the human species meant to live on, and dominate, the earth for tens of thousands of years only to yield to the next phase of evolution, where the planet will wipe us out, giving way to a new species and a new cycle in the perpetual wheel of samsara ???
all of this came to me through the transmission of the knowingly felt promise that was precipitated by me answering the clarion call from mother ocean for me to submerge beyond the surface into the depths of her consciousness …
really, the only one i can ask about this is you, preternatural future … you are really the only one who could possibly know the answers to any of my pressing questions — certainly, to any of these pressing questions — which leads me to another one : is the fate of all of humanity as doomed as it seems, or is it just because i am an american enduring and experiencing the end of the american empire in real time in this present moment ???
is the death of american democracy as critical to the fate of the human race as it seems to be, or is that just another egregiously entitled american belief exemplifying that same level of egotistical and insane hubris that believe that humans can actually change the fate — or play a significant part of changing the fate — of the entire planet ???
i cannot and will not lie to you, beloved future, in trying to pretend that a huge part of the healing that i seek and need in the energy vortex of asbury directly stems from the pain and the shame of being an american right now and witnessing the destruction of democracy to the overwhelming tidal wave of fascism …
right now men are sweltering in cages in alligator alcatraz … families are — quite literally — being torn apart and away from each other by masked and unidentified thugs on streets all across america … the wealthiest people’s pockets keep getting padded by fraudulent criminals who are steamrolling the constitution while the poorest among us keep getting whipped and abused by capitalism’s imperialist hand …
it’s all too much to bare — and that is barely scratching the surface of this present moment in time …
and so yesterday, clarion future, when i submerged beyond the surface, into mother ocean’s waters, i knowingly felt the promise that — in some ways — none of this matters … i felt the enormous profundity of my own smallness … i saw, heard, felt, touched and tasted the exquisite beauty of this planet … and i clearly recognized the difference between the realms …
the world that we live in is purely our creation … the planet earth gives us a home on which to create it … instead of creating beauty by embracing oneness, we are choosing to destroy the sublime by erroneously succumbing to the illusion of duality : we can live on this planet — all together — as one, if indeed we see that we are all one with this planet …
this is what gives me hope, dear future … you give me hope … i know that you will exist with or without the human race … i know that i am part of you and you are part of me and that now is all any of us ever have … exactly, non-duality … there cannot be a future without a past … there cannot be a past without a future … ultimately, there can be nothing without right now …
yesterday, absolutely cradled in mother ocean’s arms, basking in the glorious rays of light from father sun, floating in the knowingly felt promise that i was exactly where i was meant to be, i experienced a divinely transcendent healing …
i knew that all of the bullshit that threatens all of us and that threatens the world is nothing more than utter bullshit … however, because the planet earth gives us a home on which to create our shared reality, it is also our responsibility to go beyond the bullshit, and — in order to do that — we must go beyond the precipice of duality into the knowingly felt promise that we are all one, and that it is our ultimate responsibility to take care of each other by doing and fighting for what’s right …
with peace and positive energy,
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vr
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