Re: British friend, and Bliss

I met a terrific British guy living in philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. Very apt description for how caring i sense that he is.
These last few days i've really been feeling blissful. I've done over 136,000 repetititons of the panchadashi mantra Ka E I La Hrim..Ha Sa Ha La Hrim...Sa Ka La Hrim which brings your consciousness to a more blissful state. It seems to really be working well. I feel so much love.

No higher without a lower

I've been dealing with a group of sociopaths for quite a while. It hasn't been good for keeping a higher vibration. What is this thing called evil? St. Augustine says we should prefer higher things over lower ones, but prefer having both lower and higher things together over just higher things alone. He's making a statement over the necessity of dealing with darkness and how it helps mankind's evolution. I suppose in certain cases, only a really elevated consciousness can see the bigger picture.
Now spiritually speaking, anyone reading this...know that the world isn't all good and it has alot of unconsciousness. Use this to motivate you to liberate all humanity from this collective darkness rather than letting it disturb you.
I try to love everyone, and i see alot of people as very wounded people...but i may love them from afar, and if i can't manage to feel love, i want to try to be indifferent. With some of them, honestly, i'm still cussing  under my breath. LOL

Good Vibrations

Most people who read this blog will have some kind of association with spirituality.
I try to keep my level of vibration high, but there are so many ups and downs in life, and my energy levels shift from day to day. I'm a work in progress and i haven't made stellar spiritual progress...no intense breakthroughs yet!
When i say higher vibration i am speaking about the vibrational level of my mind and thoughts, and emotions. In the beta state which is a predominately ego driven state, the mind is more agiatated creating jaggid spikes...and so it can be said that a fast vibration on the physical plane creates a low vibration on the spiritual plane, and conversely the other way around. So, when I say i am trying to keep a higher vibration, i could just as well say i am trying to keep a calm, centered, spiritual, loving, open and receptive mind. Key word is trying.
I try to eat higher vibrational food...food that is alive, and i try to exercise, and do some kind of spiritual practice every day. If you read enough of my blogs, you'll note my lack of spiritual progress in many areas. I'm using this blog as a means of being more conscious of that.

Introduction

Hi everyone!
My name is Bruno, and I'm starting this blog as a means of self-reflection mainly, but also, I believe I do have some insights about life. Spirituality is a large component of my life, and most things may be related to that theme...but really everyone is spiritual...the good and the bad, and really everything is spiritual. Our awareness needs sometimes to be expanded in  order to realize that.
I'm from the deep south, and I left a year after Katrina.
I moved to california, reno, then now i'm in New England.

 John Kennedy O'Toole, a native of New Orleans, who is author of "Confederacy of Dunces" and who attended college up north had some similiar experiences i am having. He described some of the people he met as having "the liberal version of ignorance".