September  25, 2025

Article highlights: 

• I came
• I assumed
• I faltered, lol

This thought came to me today in my morning musings: “Notice your assumptions.”

I had asked, “What’s a good topic for my readers today?” The answer came: Notice your assumptions.

Ok. That’s an interesting answer. Let’s open it further. Here’s what else came.

Assumptions are a form of story-telling that we often don’t notice, yet they can become very impactful in shaping our lives. Best to notice them in that case, right? Especially because they can quickly solidify and feel like truth to us.

We make assumptions about other people all the time, for instance. We make assumptions about why they said or did something. We then tend to think our assumption is right—and respond to it as though it were truth. But it was only an assumption. We say, “I think they did that because…” and we often deliver it with certitude, as if we really lived in their head.

Our assumptions can cause a lot of harm. Or they can mislead us. Recently, I assumed the car I’d been loaned was fully covered by insurance. I assumed that because I don’t loan my car to someone if they aren’t covered driving it.

That car was plowed into by another car while parked in a parking lot. I was in it, but not really harmed. The car was totaled, however. It turned out the car only had collision insurance that covered the other vehicle.

Luckily, my car was parked, which meant the other driver’s insurance was 100% responsible for coverage. Luckily also, the other driver was insured. Imagine the horror I felt realizing that if they hadn’t been covered, I would have felt responsible for replacing the loaned car—$20,000 worth. I wasn’t at fault, but that doesn’t mean there’s no responsibility.

Imagine having to work that out with a friend. That’s the kind of thing that can get really crunchy, even ruin friendships. As it was, the car will be replaced through insurance, but what a lot of time and stress my friends had to go through to make that happen—all because of my assumption.

It was an important learning for me. It was nearly an assumption disaster. I certainly learned to always ask if a car I’m using is insured for me.

We assume and jump to conclusions a lot; it’s something we do. It shows where we can be more present in our lives, rather than caught up in a story.

Why do we do this? We want answers, right? Even made-up ones are apparently preferable. We want to explain everything. We like to fill in the gaps. We are sort of addicted to this form of story-telling because we prefer certainties. It makes us feel safer when we think we know. We are such wannabe know-it-alls.

When it comes to this type of story-telling, it’s good to remember:

• There’s always more to things than meets the eye.
• Filling in the gaps often means we are not at all accurate but are living a fantasy instead of real life.
• We can resist the need to know everything; it’s a weird compulsion that doesn’t really serve us.
• We can trust things will fall into place as need be. Assumptions and conclusions actually interfere with that happening as easily.
• We’re perfectly capable of finding peace without knowing what’s going to happen.

We are more than a little nutty about this assumption-based story-telling. Starting to pay attention makes that obvious pretty fast, lol. That should make us laugh. Being a human who’s not living the illusion—it’s kind of a tricky thing to do, right?

I’m commiserating on that with you today,
Love,
Mayet

September  18, 2025

Article highlights: 

• The “we” that you are
• How to merge as “we”
• The Birthing Star of your being

This is a message I shared earlier this year, but something struck me about it today when I stumbled on it on the way to something else. It felt like you might enjoy this message again too. 

Sending much love today,
Mayet

A Message From the Heart of Love
Rising Up As “We”

Beloved ones, we are here in every moment—not merely outside of you and available to assist, but so much a part of you as to also be, in fact, you. As if we are so seamlessly entwined that the operation and exchange between inner and outer, higher and lower, us and you act together as one. This brings a breadth and power to life, an immediacy of what you call manifestation, and what we might call the constancy and unfolding of physicality, far beyond anything seen or written of in your history.

Magnificence is a term that opens you to this. When you truly consider your magnificence, it opens a portal for you—the one between the singular and the ALL. We wish you to know that we are aware, we do see, that within all that is occurring in your life and world, all that transpires at this time, it is not something easily held—your awareness of your magnificence—or even approached. But we say to you that if you merely bring yourself here as you did today—whether at the end of your pen or merely in your mind—bringing your awareness in any moment, even distracted ones, if you merely merge with us and feel yourself and us together as the singular we that we are, you will know. You will know that the together “we”—for this is your correct pronoun—are greatly expanded and transformative, both to your physical reality and to the spiritual. Transformative and transmutive, dearest one.

When it is time to rise up to a task that you feel too lethargic, discouraged, distracted, or fearful to undertake—or when you feel any of the many other things in your human emotional range that lower your incentive—in these times bring your mind to us together. Rise up not as the singular “you” but as we. The singular you is tethered to one life and its story, to one timeframe and its challenges.

Rather, rise up as we, being integrated as we are meant to be. This is rising up with the greater part of who you are—the part that holds not the heaviness and lethargy of story and experience. Rising up as we who are not tethered to all that, but are the wings on which you may rise most fully. Let us rise together in this way. We are speaking of a revolutionary new way of living and being. You are capable of this—do you see?

It is a matter of connecting the two systems in an integrative process. It is a process that asks, challenges, impels, or invites your current online system to give way to the new online of your operating system. Phasing is an appropriate word—look this up. For you are not severing, leaving behind, or diminishing, but rather enhancing what is there within your system operations by integrating it with the new. It is a weaving process, where the warp threads of the former way are woven through with the weft of the eternal.

Thus, instead of uprooting, pruning, or severing the “old” way, the new threads are simply woven throughout to create the wonder of a special cloth—a fabric of such beauty, a cloth of wonder so much better suited to this or any time on this planet. And oh goodness, such a structure it is!

It is one that generates and maintains from within to a far greater degree. It self-generates seemingly from nothing—because the nothing is in fact nothing less than the very Source of life itself that is always becoming new. This brings you closer to your true nature.

How to weave it thus? It simply requires the repetition of doing things in new ways in every moment you can. If you make a game of this, your success is certain. In the morning, for instance, when you are ready to rise from bed, say aloud: “Good morning, beloved ones who walk with me. Let’s rise up as ‘we’ together and walk through our day in this way!” That is a fun way to approach this. And when a problem arises, say to yourself: “Let’s solve this together, dear one. It’s so much better to do it as ‘we.’” The use of us and let’s and we in your language is a playful way to invite the weaving process.

The new system has its cycles of becoming, of rising up into form and returning to the formless—but both in complete and utter knowing, being always All, lacking nothing, being at one with both constancy and change, with both stillness and movement, with rising and falling, with the in and out and pause, in and out and pause of creation. Knowing yourself as creation so vast in measure that it dictates creation and births always oneself anew in every moment, in each instance of your physical living.

Birthing Star, Birthing Star, Birthing Star, Birthing Star, Birthing Star.
The constancy of the Birthing Star of your being.

September 11, 2025

Article highlights: 

• Knowing what is true
• truth vs illusion
• like ice become oceans

Perhaps it is fitting that a writing about illusion vs truth arrive on the anniversary of September 11th in the U.S., a day that perhaps accelerated the questioning in our country about what is true. A time, as well, when illusion was on the rise within government.

In my morning musing time —  with concern about the disillusionment I see setting in for so many people — my thoughts were interrupted by Wisdom with a more informed understanding.  From there I wrote an article for us around the phrase I was given:

Here is an interesting truth: Disillusionment is necessary to spiritual growth and maturation because it requires beings to become grounded in truth.

A student becomes disillusioned with their spiritual teacher.
A young adult becomes disillusioned with their parent’s actions.
A religious person loses their faith.
A new-age spiritual seeker decides it’s all made-up baloney.
A citizen becomes disillusioned with their country or political beliefs.
A couple becomes disillusioned with their marriage.

These are all examples in which disillusionment causes a personal crisis that generally involves questioning one’s beliefs and worldview. It can be a difficult and dark time if it challenges core or favored beliefs or uproots personal identity. It’s no fun. It certainly doesn’t feel like a good thing to go through, does it?

This is an especially important line of questioning just now, when it seems as a country we are poised, on all sides, at the brink of crushing disillusionment.  At its basis, though, disillusionment is an important part of personal growth and is vital to spiritual growth. How is this so? 

We face loss of faith in leaders, beliefs, and systems that have seemingly kept us safe. We face loss of faith in those we have pinned our hopes on. Perhaps we even face loss of the ideals we have believed true about our country. Despair and apathy seem on the rise as a result—it is worrying. What good can come of this?

In each case, it is about discovering what is illusion and what is more real. Disillusionment strikes at the heart of what is unreal. If a marriage is built on fantasy about who the partner is, rather than on who the partner actually is, there must come the uncomfortable day when the veil falls from the eyes.

If a mentor or a spiritual teacher is chosen because the student wants someone else to have the answers so they feel safe, the day must come when the failure of the teacher to keep them safe leads to disillusionment. There comes a time when the religious person will question their faith and the new-age seeker will wonder if things they’ve been told are real because they have built these beliefs upon needs and fantasies of their mind.  Disillusionment will result and can then open them to wonder about what is more real.

If the government of a country has lost its way and its power causes damage and harm and serves only the few, a time of disillusionment is not only inevitable—it is necessary. To change and grow, even citizens of a country must go through disillusionment, become willing to see what’s there, and learn where actions fall short of the original intention for good.

These crises that include disillusionment are needed because they require that those involved become more grounded in what is truth rather than illusion. To mature in healthy ways all countries, a marriages, groups, and individuals will experience disillusionment at times, to varying degrees.

You may be surprised to think that disillusionment is part of any rebirth process, but it is so. It is painful, it is messy, but like any birthing process, disillusionment leads to new life.

Dis-illusion — dissolving illusion—that’s what disillusionment amounts to. Like ice become oceans, our illusions must dissolve.  Any illusion in the foundation of things will cause its inevitable crumbling. Thus, in any arc of growth and development, there will come the time when further maturation cannot occur until the illusions are replaced with greater truth.

Facing one’s disillusionment with integrity and bravery is a strength we all need to be resilient and remain healthy in mind, emotion, and spirit. It is painful and frightening when we face a challenge to our illusions. It can seem our very survival is at stake, our whole world threatened.

The ego doesn’t like it. The mind resists with false reasoning and proffers substitute stories that are further illusion. The process requires surrender; sometimes it requires “hitting the bottom.” That is the time to pray to see where we each hold attachments to illusion over truth. That is the time to call on our courage to replace illusion with higher truth.

That is the time we are in now—personally, as well as for those in the U.S. as a nation. And also in the world, because happenings in the U.S. have a ripple effect across the world. Disillusionment and the dissolving of illusion is a big part of what’s going on.

Knowing this, I can gain peace by noticing where I am attached to the story, where my beliefs feel challenged, and seeing if there is illusion in them. I can open to see my own illusions and thereby build a better foundation for my life. That is good for me, and it’s good for our world. There is great freedom and peace to be gained in this!

May the illusions I am attached to become clear to me, that I may release them in relief and gain greater joy. That is my prayer. Amama Ua Noa!

Love beyond illusion,
Mayet Leilani