What an exciting time to be alive. I am on a spiritual path and I’m not looking back. It has just about been two years now that I have engaged in one of the greatest mysteries of all time….Who am I? It is the greatest mystery because who really am I? Am I Kevin Bakker who works as a Safety Advisor and who is lucky enough to be a part of the Epic Brand of Conscious Clothing? Or am I something more? Now that I have been seeking the answers to that question I realize that I am more. I am a being of love and light. I have a greater “I AM”. I just live in this collective illusion to believe that I am someone else. But…Why did I forget in the first place? How is this possible? It is like we are all Avatars being led by our greater selves to collect as much information as we can in this life to evolve our selves… but mostly our souls. But again…. Why can’t we remember? Could you imagine the world if we all could remember that we are all beings of love and light! Wow! No war. No murders or hate crimes. No negative choices. But…then what? What would be next? How could we evolve? Now I realize how important this life really is. It’s like I am the detective trying to solve the greatest mystery. I am sorting through all this disinformation in the world to find my TRUTH. Putting life’s lessons together clue by clue. I am making all these choices about how to act in certain situations. Is it wrong or is it right? Did I make the right decisions? At the same time I am sending all my experiences back to my greater “ I Am”. The good ones, bad and indifferent. Through these experiences it evolves me, Kevin Bakker the Avatar that intern evolves my greater I AM (soul). This all happened before in past lives but what matters most is what is happening in this life. How I learn and awaken to what I truly am. I realize now that I chose to come here to evolve and learn about life. This makes my light shine brighter, I love deeper and my being is filled with possibilities. I evolve into something beautiful.

Everyone and everything plays a part in this mystery.

Thank you all so much for being a part of my evolution.
One Love,
Kevin Bakker

Be the change you want to see in you

Be the change you want to see in others

“Be the change you want to see in the world” - Mahatam Gandi-

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for my friends! I can’t stress that enough; I believe the Buddha once said “when one person becomes enlightened one hundred people will become enlightened” When it comes to myself, I am nowhere near an enlightened or fully conscious being! I think it was Eckhart Tolle that said something like only 1% of the global population is enlightened. I just started my journey a little over three years ago. Over that time, I have come to the understanding that when you try to make spiritual gains in your life, you seem to get faced with more tests, challenges, road blocks or just plain old crap that we most likely created in the first place!. Whatever you want to call it? I like to refer to such adversity as tests! Tests in which I usually fail…lol and in result to my failures I am usually pretty hard on myself especially after I have studied some pretty solid teachings and would like to think that I have a pretty good grip on this stuff!! lol But for some reason all the theory seems to go in one ear and right out the other when it comes time for the test!  And then I find myself saying “Wow! This mindfulness stuff is pretty hard.” and to think that acceptance is some easy thing to do “just accept it” yeah right lol easier said than done!! “In fact, it’s only like only the hardest thing in the world to do!” Says Jon kabit-zinn Author Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts medical school. So if my situation seems familiar to you the only advice I can give you is to be gentle on yourself. My brother said something to me the other night and it went like this “Ryan some time’s it takes 20, 30 maybe 1000 times before we learn the lesson. So with that being said BE GENTLE ON YOURSELF this stuff doesn’t happen overnight. Just think of the tests as gifts that we can learn from and the more tests we get the better we will do the next time we get that test again!” Peace

I close this off with a statement made by Mahatma Gandhi a person of wisdom and courage

“Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.”

So let’s all help each other start making the change that we know we need but that we’re too afraid to put the actions to. The problem is we’re conditioned as a human race to fool ourselves into these false solutions to our own issues (i.e. talking instead of doing). It makes us think we’re actually doing something about our problems, but when nothing changes in the end, we end up back at the same place. I wonder why? Knowing that we need to fix our issues doesn’t mean that it is inevitable to happen, it is only the first step. The balance between knowledge and practice is key my friends.

- Mike Stephan