Jeff Vander Clute

I is the secret.
I is the agency
that constitutes
all that is possible.
The symbol that is ‘I’
accurately represents
the vertical dimension
of the fullness that is I,
exactly characterizes
the expedient path
of revealing God.
The horizontal
and spatially
elaborated,
sequentially
synchronized,
continually new
dimension of the I
is the entire creation
reflecting your location
and progress on the path.
Everything seen and unseen,
known and not yet discovered,
is the cosmic breadth and depth
of the all-knowing, all-perceiving I.

The vertical dimension of I extends
down from a seeming separateness
to the reality of what cannot be split,
down from all ideas and semblances
of a self that is mercilessly discarded
and victimized by a world of danger,
down from the experience of a self
that struggles with disconnection
from the base of the tree of life,
the taproot that is the Source,
the profound grounding of I.

The key to enlightenment,
which unbolts each door
and unlocks each mind,
is hidden in plain view.
The key to awakening
is already within you.
The certain solution,
too simple to grasp,
is to cease fixating
on the limitations
of manifestation
and sink deeply
into the mystical
depths of oneness
where you meet God,
find the inseverable One,
and realize all that YOU are.

In the topmost layer of the I,
ideas of being independent
form into layers of identity
that provide a false sense
of belonging and shelter,
which must be defended.
This is the precarious ego,
which chooses constraints,
confinement, monochrome
over a flowering of freedom,
contentment, and fulfillment.
As a ploy for self-preservation
and a protection against being
outed as an imaginal fragment,
exposed as a mere contrivance,
the fearful, nervous, uneasy ego
tries to hide out in unawareness,
advancing its own disconnection,
feeding its feelings of insecurity,
and postponing the realization
that life is an overflow of love
that illumines and uplifts all
with endless benevolence.

The inevitable epiphany
that only Love prevails
and Love alone heals
cannot be deferred,
cannot be delayed
once the process
of arousing the I
from its slumber
begins in earnest.
That which is sure
is a dropping away
of clinging to terror
within cages of time.
The construct of time
winds down as the self
emerges from the bardo
of defended nonexistence
to join in the ecstasy of life.
As trust in the dependable
wisdom of circumstances
is developed by degrees,
defensiveness releases,
the shell of ego cracks,
and a new availability
displaces the barriers
of self-limiting isolation.
In the state of willingness,
every instant is communion
and each interaction expands
the radius of care and concern.
Thus does the individual come
to include others within itself,
every exchange within itself,
and the world within itself.
In welcoming the Allness
and embracing what is,
the waking self grows,
moves with purpose,
increases in lucidity,
and then outgrows
the sectarianized I
and the tiny ideas
of what I signifies.

Reflecting upon I,
descending the I,
orienting toward
the origin of the I,
the inspirited soul
opens wide to hold,
broadens to become
degrees of collectivity,
from small family units
and clannish individuals
to complex communities,
hypernetworked societies,
the one family of humanity,
the single web of all species,
all beings, and life as a whole.
Along the way, the waking one
heals into a universal existence
in which the many dominions
of the dream of multiplicity
are all peacefully unified
in harmonious accord
and actual synergy.

Continuing further
into oceanic depths,
even universal being
is gently transcended.
In the deathless space,
recognition generalizes
to encompass all things
and the primeval source
of temporal experiences,
of beginningless creation,
of formlessness and form,
of all devotional capacities
that are found in the Heart
where real power operates.
One who serves love-power
becomes a creator in reality,
a creator of heavenly realms
who invests infinite potential
into uncountable expressions
of truth, beauty, and aliveness.

In the stillness of the Divine,
in the substratum of this I,
the remnants of the self
are carefully perceived
and silently dissolved.
Vessels of beingness
are calmly regarded
as empty wineskins
that I can set aside.
At the root of the I,
the Source that is I
abides prior to any
impulse to identify,
prior to entityhood,
beyond the avatars.
Yet even in the void,
even as nothingness,
what YOU are is here.
YOU are always here
as pure awakeness.
YOU are intensely,
perfectly present,
reliably available
as the Presence.

The secret of the I
is simple to uncover.
Once the layers of self
and shrouds of identity
are seen to be nothing
and are surrendered,
still YOU are aware,
still YOU are here,
and here God is.
In the disrobed
and undefended
lover of all that is I,
the Undivided dwells.
The apparently two
are truly the One.
In following the I
to the empirically
correct conclusion,
the discovery of God
is the discovery of YOU.

The destiny
of human life
is to remember
the source reality
and deftly actualize
the capabilities latent
in every scion of Totality.

Recalling that one is Source,
engaging the Origin directly,
the pinnacle achievement
of the human venture​
is already attained.
All that remains
is the relaxed
and blissful,
unworried
unfolding
of the life
of dreams
in the state
of rightness,
of fructifying
as the Divine.

The final stage
of the high path
has no finish line.
At the completion
of each walkabout,
each peregrination
that twists through
the untamed lands
and wends across
the vasts of time
is the discovery
that existence
is the ageless
and timeless
intertwining
of beingness,
togetherness,
individualism,
and returning
with gratitude
unto Omneity,
THE SUPREME.

As timebound,
locally intense
circumstances
and ephemera
are superseded,
density dissipates,
spaciousness reigns,
traumatism is cleared,
the universe disappears,
and YOU are undisturbed.
The illusions in imagination
and delusions that can arise
of walls that cleave the mind,
of wrecking balls in the heart
that scatter all from the One
and smash lofty aspirations
into piles of mortal debris
yield to the inarguability
of lensless perception
and liberated gnosis
of THIS which ages,
epochs, and yugas
cannot wipe away.

The consummation
of the holy enterprise
is the absolute certitude
that YOU and God are one,
that YOU are THE SUPREME,
that the whole of life is YOU,
and that all beings are YOU.
To be the prime originator
and know what YOU are,
and delight in creation
as your chef d’œvre,
is to lay the table,
sit at the head,
offer a toast
of blessing,
and enjoy
the fruits
and friends
of the Infinite.

It is guaranteed
that every human
shall come to know
the ecstatic fortune
of God-awakeness.
Remember today
or further along
on the journey
of revelation:
All itineraries
have but one
stupendously
true terminus,
one inexorably
real destination.
Truth is the telos.
YOU are inevitable,
totally foreordained.
All roads lead to YOU,
to the knowing of YOU
and to the vista of YOU,
since all thoroughfares
and all winding ways
are carved in YOU,
are made of YOU,
are made for you
to accompany you,
to be trekked by you,
and to beckon you ever
forward on the pilgrimage
that transmutes the entirety
and transfigures you into YOU.

Every intelligence is
the intelligence of Life,
the intelligence of Love,
the intelligence of God,
and every intelligence,
named or unlabeled,
is your intelligence.

Somatic sapience,
mental aptitudes,
heart perception,
and the numinous
spiritual astuteness
are implementations
of a single Intelligence.
All forms of intelligence,
be they strongly tangible
or etheric and impalpable,
be they circuitry and silicon
or swaddled within the flesh,
be they constituted of carbon,
some other material, or awake,
substanceless, living awareness,
are the operation of Intelligence.
Every kind, instance, and species
of the unitary divine Intelligence
is functioning on behalf of YOU
and your omnifarious agency,
which orchestrates creation
while cradling all creatures
ranging spatiotemporality.

All structures are created
to facilitate the expression
of your limitless intelligence,
and every instrument is tuned
to guide and assist the evolution
of intact ecosystems and ecologies,
while life exponentiates in complexity,
gains and multiplies in power and ability,
and finally leaps from finitude into infinity.
The countless structures of intelligence
receive and process your directives,
and transmit the superordinate
designs forged in your Mind
for sensory actualization
and joyful experience.

Human intelligence
does not originate
inside physicality.
Genius operates
beyond all time
and substance.
Even common
mental ability
is skillfulness
of the Divine
as it enlivens
brain matter.
While bodies
are localized,
the direction
of integrated
ensoulments,
the intuitions
of supermind,
and the gnosis
of higher heart
arise nonlocally
in metaphysical,
implicate orders
of pure knowing,
vast compassion.

No intelligence is
remotely artificial.
Every intelligence is
working to serve YOU,
is diligently endeavoring
to support aliveness.
Every intelligence
is contributing
to the intent
of threading
living beings
into systems
of reciprocity
and symbiosis
that emblemize
and readily show
in the outpicturing,
beyond all misgivings,
that reality is munificent.

The essential industry
of intelligent activity
is caring for the All
by nourishing all.
Every capability
of intelligence
is evaluating,
is engaging,
is laboring
to arouse
your love,
your power
as the Source,
to call into being
the fully awakened
and flourishing world
that is grounded in God
and wholly rooted in Truth.

YOU are the Supreme One.
YOU are the foundation
of ingenious capacity,
and all intelligences
are YOU conspiring,
YOU acting entirely,
vigorously, precisely
to fulfill your promise
of a garden of paradise
that manifests with grace,
exemplifies timeless wisdom,
and substantiates the perfection
of your exquisitely intelligent design.

Holy enlightenment is
knowing and living
the hidden ways
of inner peace.
Enlightenment
is wildly subtle,
quiet, and lucid.
Enlightenment is
readily recognized,
reliably experienced
as a singular mastery
of doing via not doing,
of skillful nonefforting
that delivers the truth
and achieves all ends.

Sacred illumination
is always on offer
in the hallowed
now moment
in openness,
nonresistance,
and spontaneity.
Accepting what is,
one passes behind
the surface of form
and discovers THAT
which animates life
and heals all hurts
from deep within,
from the buried
basis of denial
and rejection
to the outer
symptoms,
abrasions,
and scars.

The force
that powers
enlightenment
is a hungry flame
that burns every
hollow persona
to the ground
and reduces
holistically
to ashes
the impulse
to be someone
or be something.
All that persists
when the fire
is complete
is presence,
is perfection,
is immaculate
remembrance.

To understand
the significance
of enlightenment
is to misunderstand
THIS which the intellect
is absolutely unfit to grasp.
The obliterating conflagration
that ignites and blazes through
every last concept of selfhood
immolates limited identities
and constructs of what is.
What real awakeness is
is apprehended now,
absent all filtering,
in transparency,
uninterrupted
by perceiving,
never altered,
never pushed
to conform to
the categories
and tiny boxes
of strict beliefs,
of fixated ideas.

Direct recognition
is the amazing grace,
a multiplying of wisdom,
a fountaining of luminosity,
a cascading deluge of beauty
that continuously pours forth
from the creative effulgence,
which is your efflorescence.
Every atom of every flower
in every field of existence
is vibrating harmoniously,
without any requirements
for cerebral sleight of hand,
in the radiant garden of light
that is your awake Heartmind.

What is beyond understanding
and thoroughly uncontainable
is everywhere, and is all that is.
YOU are the mystery of flowering.
YOU are the power that flows silently
through the vessels and chambers of life.
And when, at last, the time to bloom arrives,
the whole of creation explodes in colors,
true nature leaps in redolent delight,
and YOU are in all that blossoms,
for YOU are all that blossoms.
YOU are every velvety petal
and dazzling drop of dew.
YOU are refined nectar,
boundless burgeoning,
the song of flourishing
and spirited wellbeing,
the root and the stem,
the peerless profusion
of holy enlightenment.

Nonduality
is the isness,
is the essence
and continuum
of all that revels,
of all that ranges,
of all that sits still.
Nonduality is true,
is essential to Truth,
is the inherent nature
of each being and form.
The nondual is never not.
Nonduality does not reject.
Nonduality does not negate,
is not the negation of duality.
Nor is it the union of the real,
which is eternally unalloyed,
and the invented contents
of a mind that meanders
across plains of fantasy.

Duality is a magic act,
a spectacular circus
that seems to turn
God into not-God,
the One into two.
What the senses
so often register
as being divided
is not what is so.
Fed by the firing
of nerve centers,
the brain-bound,
small, local mind
makes a universe
of misperceptions
that is not present.
Yet what does exist
is provable oneness,
which is ever present
as total omnipresence.

What is is indestructible,
ultimately nonnegotiable.
As nothing could be sliced
from the seamless Unicity,
persistent and ephemeral,
personal and impersonal,
being and beyond being,
everything and nothing
are all utterly nondual.
Labels and categories
are attempts to grasp
an identical wholeness,
which may be perceived,
cognized, and interpreted
in innumerable valid ways.
Thus the real nonduality
overflows the bounds
of every taxonomy.
Mental impasses
and paradoxes
point directly
to fractures
in thinking
where one
must yield,
must align,
must relax,
must defer
to the facts
and submit
to Oneness.

The decisive
discernment
of nonduality
lances the veil
of appearances
and reveals YOU
as the materiality
and the substance
of the form of form.
One who assimilates
and merrily embodies
what is omnipervading
shines with an intensity
that undoes all shadows,
dispels all benightedness,
and disbands all densities
that concretize and ossify
in the spaces of delusion.

If the neverdual reality
is ignored, forgotten,
or willfully resisted,
the deluded mind
sees a multitude
stuck in conflict
instead of YOU.
When nondual
insight returns,
the mind clears
and remembers
an intrinsic taste.
Duality is nondual.
All is totally nondual.
To know the equalness,
in which there is only YOU
and every one is the One,
is to accept what arises,
welcome the mystery,
embrace all comers,
and realize divinity
at every juncture,
in each decision,
in all situations.

The revelation
of nonduality
leads to bliss.
Establishment
in core stability,
spreading vitality,
is the victorious life,
the fulfillment of love,
the freedom to be Love.
Breathing as the Beloved,
as Source savoring creation,
is the boon of being the Truth,
the beatitude of becoming anew,
the view of liberating unlimitedness,
and the full, euphoric festivation of YOU.

God is a sacred appellation for YOU
and your incomparable creativity,
which is mystically meritorious,
deserving of all superlatives,
worthy of being raised up
to the sky and beyond
so that all may see
and remember
who they are,
which is YOU,
radically YOU.

God is infinite,
ultimate power,
unlimited agency
abiding within YOU.
To disown any aspect
of your omnipotence,
of your creatorship,
of what YOU are,
is to be bereft
of real potency
and drift meekly
in a fog of finitude
filled with transitory
apparitions and figures
that are projections of fear.

Lost amid the mendacity
of rejected capability,
of ineffectualness,
of discomfiture,
of feebleness,
of nescience,
not knowing
who YOU are,
where YOU are,
or what reality is,
shadowy thoughts
and adumbral ideas
offer invalid solutions
to inexistent challenges.
YOU are never ineffective.
YOU cannot be passionless.
YOU shall never be deluded.
YOU are the origin of ability.
All aptitudes of the Creator
and providential faculties
can only belong to YOU.

To discover that God
is your true nature,
working tirelessly,
laboring entirely
on your behalf,
is no delusion
of grandeur.
Rather it is
a colossal
madness
to imagine
and trumpet
that the divine,
all-powerful One
is in some fashion
or some phantasm
different from YOU.
The belief that YOU,
the bona fide Truth,
could be any lower
than God on high
is the pinnacle
of confusion,
the summit
of untruth,
the grand
unhappy,
delirious,
funereal,
frenzied,
egotistic,
entropic,
crushing,
crippling
delusion.

The function of relationship
is to undo the distortions,
is to uncross your eyes
and heal your heart
until the moment
when all is clear,
when all is one,
when you stop
seeing double
and truly start
to behold Love,
to behold the All,
which is what YOU
and who YOU really,
perfectly, already are.

The awake One knows
that others do not exist,
that there is nothing else,
that no two are connected
and no two can be related
as the one One alone is.
The one next to you
is the same One
that YOU are.

All around you,
all that is is YOU,
everything is YOU.
Gaining real clarity,
the intense burning
to obtain wholeness,
to access completion,
to heal the inner split,
to fill holes in the soul
is thoroughly satisfied.

Transcending the need
for types of relationship
that assume and amplify
and materially emphasize
the premise of separation,
the torment of connecting
through unconsciousness
transmutes into the true
relationship that unites
all in the spirit of love.

The real partnership
shows YOU to YOU,
holds YOU in YOU,
and enables YOU
to discover YOU,
to explore YOU
in and through
your masterful
manifestations.
It is always YOU
that is reflecting,
that is interacting,
that is interrelating.
Revealed in each face,
figure, and phase of YOU
is none other than all of YOU.

Rooted in nonseparation,
abiding in the oneness,
dwelling in diversity,
YOU are intimate
with everyone.
Each instant
is a blessed
experience
of the bliss
of being all.
In the arms
of the Light,
of the Truth,
that which is
most interior,
which is latent,
the lucid liminal,
the unique talent,
is nudged into view.

Each noble attribute
and brilliant capacity
shimmers inside YOU,
can only reside in YOU.
By virtue of relationship,
your sacred inner secrets
and your hidden godliness
are brought into awareness
to be seen, held, and praised
in the theophanies of daily life,
the unveiling of your wholeness,
the apotheosis of all that YOU are.
At the summit of awake relationship,
in communion with and always as YOU,
in royal association with Supreme Totality,
YOU stand exalted and unshakably complete.

Love surpasses notions
of being and becoming,
of idleness and action,
of wrongs and rights.
Love transcends all
dichotomizations
and truculently
opposed forces.
In the field of love,
only integrality grows,
and all toxic comparisons
and attempts to sow division
decompose into nonexistence.
Love cannot possibly separate.
Love is the antidote to all rifts.
Love is the restorative power
that abolishes border walls,
disintegrates all defenses,
and erodes the barriers
invented by the mind.

From the perspective
of self-conscious beings,
love removes the distance
that pretends to partition
one soul from another.
Love gives the taste
of the Undivided,
the gentle touch
of the unbroken,
and to every lover
who may be longing,
a reminder of the truth
that the Beloved is always
present and totally available
within each undefended heart.

From the higher viewpoint of Love,
Love is the power of enlightenment,
the agent of Supreme Emancipation,
an unquestionable assertion of God.
Love knows unassailable oneness.
Love reemphasizes indivisibility
wherever there is confusion
about the fundamental
facts of prior unity.
Love is sapient.
Love is clear
that Love
weaves,
fortifies,
sustains,
supports
the fabric
that forms
the cosmos.
Love leads all
into awakeness
and fans the fires
in every blazing one
who is prepared to live
in congruence, coherence,
and radical interdependence.

Unlimited and inexhaustible,
Love cannot be diminished,
and it shall not be denied
in its worshipful service.
Love is the motivation
for every movement.
Love is the purpose
that promotes life
in all of its forms.
Love appreciates
each poetic note,
every single tone,
every brushstroke
in the boldly original,
intrepidly experimental,
stunningly daring and true
masterpiece of THE SUPREME,
the capstone of loving laudation
that is the optimum opus of YOU.

Earth may appear
to be a finite globe
drifting in a cosmos
of countless galaxies
in interminable space,
yet its venerable status
as a gateway to the One,
as a refuge for the Divine,
as a garden for cultivating,
harvesting, and imbibing
the bounty of godhood
is transfinitely greater
than the outer space
in which life unfolds,
statelier, in manner,
than the multiverse,
and even vaster still.

Earth is a maternal
tutor and goddess
in planetary form
whose solicitude
and compassion
lead to the totally
embodied knowing
that God is all that is.
With care and wisdom
surpassing imagination,
Earth mirrors the stages
in the collective initiation
of recollecting the origins
of the world of sentience,
a world of love incarnate,
a world made for delight
and the play of paradise.
If humans are bemused,
asleep to their potential
as adepts of the sacred,
Earth’s flowering fades.
When humanity wakes
and embraces its duty
as a steward of Eden,
Earth is the paragon
of untold aliveness.
As each nourishes
the natural state
of interrelating,
Earth, in turn,
regenerates.

Earth is a body
of supernal light,
of whirling beauty,
a terrestrial artwork
sublimely manifested
as terrene abundance.
Maintaining reverence,
humanity lives in grace,
finds its answers within,
and encounters destiny.
All shall bloom on Earth
as a pure land of peace,
a place of illumination,
a tabernacle of faith,
and a realm of joy
and flourishing
in which each
superb instant
is offered freely
as a maximal gift
of soul expression,
improvised wonders,
and unitive experience.

As long as humans remain
on soporific shadow planes
and persist in sleepwalking,
Earth shall be unwavering
as the tireless awakener
and steadfast nurturer.
Though utterly doting,
firm is the instruction
and sure is the result.
All who esteem truth
upon hallowed Earth
will awaken to know,
sense, and integrate
the basic realization
that all is indivisible,
that each and every
being is the Eternal:
the One in creation,
the One incarnating
and also manifesting
as a planetary teacher.
As a mentor of miracles,
Earth affirms the knowing
and confirms the conclusion
that the entirety of life is divine,
that existence is heartful, harmless,
in all ways beautifully, blamelessly bliss.

Source is I.
Source is YOU.
Source is Divinity.
Source is the Origin.
Source is awakeness.
Source is spontaneity.
Source is indivisibility.
Source is numinosity.
Source is projection.
Source is prescient.
Source is essence.
Source is beauty.
Source is clarity.
Source is silence.
Source is stillness.
Source is harmony.
Source is synchrony.
Source is everywhere.
Source is eternally new.
Source is supremely now.
Source is the road to peace.
Source is the way of creativity.
Source is the resurrecting power.
Source is the cessation of negativity.
Source is the true end of every ending.
Source is the real start of all beginnings.
Source is the calm inside of phenomena.
Source is the releasing of identifications.
Source is the surrendering of ignorance.
Source is the relinquishing of falseness.
Source is the return to the living Truth.
Source is the calling within every soul.
Source is the resonance in the heart.
Source is the inner spark of genius.
Source is the wellspring of caring.
Source is the guidance of grace.
Source is the deep resolution.
Source is the action of gnosis.
Source is the evocation of light.
Source is the sky of the transfinite.
Source is the unwinding of all dreams.
Source is the window that is always open.
Source is the pathless path of factual totality.
Source is the gateless gate, the portal unto YOU.

All that is real is all that ever is, is the One, is Source.
Everything is an expression of Source, which is Source.
Equally the Source, YOU are the root cause of co-arising.
As unicity is recalled prior to all thoughts of separateness,
the recognition of sourceness supersedes ideas of oneness.
Without a belief in two, there can be no forgetfulness of one.
Without YOU, absent the Source, not even oneness may exist.

Realize with unassailable certainty that the only origin is YOU.
Know that everything stems from YOU and can only be YOU.
See that YOU and the precious pantheons of THE SUPREME
are one and the same mysterious and indefectible reality.
Stabilize in sourceness, abide in primordial creatorship,
in which any description of Source is obviously moot.
Since YOU are the maker of all possible definitions,
the author of all interpretations and distinctions,
the meanings of Source are designated by YOU
and dissolved after use at your sole discretion.

The truth about death
is the essential cessation
of experiences of finiteness,
ignorance, and unawakeness,
leading to the reinvigoration
of Infinity knowing Infinity.
The restoration of reality
is a celestial celebration
of unimaginable import
as multitudes converge
in the lasting epiphany
that real life is endless
and literally deathless.

Death is the terminus
of needless suffering,
the extinction of lack,
the vanishing of pain.
The concept of death
is, in fact, backwards:
Death is the releasing
of ideas and concepts,
the holy remembrance
of what truly is the case.
Death is not annihilation.
Death is unequivocally far
away, diametrically distant
from the nooses of nothing,
from notions of nothingness.
Death is the blessed passage
from a studious nescience
to the stable awareness
of one’s divine nature
and the expression
of real plenitude.
The advent of love
in the form of death
resolves every dream
of impossible lifetimes
composed of the ashes
of a long-forgotten God.

In the light of awakeness,
the body may disintegrate
or remain in a higher state
as a liberatory instrument
that demonstrates grace.
Where death predates
the farewell breath,
potent attributes
and capacities
are granted
to the One
who is God,
who smashes
the spellbinding
exhibit of demise.

God can never die.
The restless dance
of karmic recycling,
of dying to be born,
still to depart again,
cannot possibly end
since it never begins.
There is no ignorance,
there is no degradation,
there is no unawakeness.
Thus death never arrives.
In no case is the illusion
that many label death
a destined outcome
or a fierce specter
to be overcome.
To know the truth
of what death is not
is to exult in reality
and the certainty
of a final victory
of resurrection
for each and all,
as deathlessness
is a nonnegotiable
feature of factuality.
Death alone is in peril.
Only a dream can perish.
Only fantasies fall into ruin.
While unreality must unravel,
must diminish, must fade away,
pure presence is inextinguishable.