Inspiring the Altruistic Moment

Inspiring the Altruistic Moment [“(i)am”] is a collection of practical information intended to reawaken your ability to experience Inner Peace. It has been co-created and is maintained to assist you in the re-actualization of your potential to LIVE Meaning-fully as a caring Human Being.

This purpose is reflected by the contents of this website, as well as the various presentations, workshops and wisdoms regularly shared by its author.

To be happy, you must choose to be humble. And to be humble, you must re-member that you are already an agent of the Divine.

Welcome to the Moment

Maybe you are striving to find a level of happiness and an experience of contentment that are both more intense and more lasting. Or maybe you are yearning to find “true love” or discover your “life purpose.” Despite the efforts of psychologists, scientists, preachers and self help gurus over the last several centuries, billions of us are still searching for these elusive goals in vain …

And yet, our lives can be more Meaning-filled. Despite the temptation to be superficially “productive”, we can choose to appreciate those things with which we have already been blessed. Despite the yearning to worry about the future, we can choose to celebrate the joys and wonders of our present moments. Despite the desire to extend kindness only to our friends, we can choose to care for strangers and our enemies as well. The choice to live selflessly, while a challenging one, is available to us all in every moment of our lives. And it is the purpose of (i)am to help make that choice an easier one for you to make.

A sense of Inner Peace can be experienced by every one of us in every moment of our lives, and every page herein is dedicated to making such a personal transcendence both effective and immediate. In the Wisdoms page, there are interactive tools that enable you to re-member your own Way to Peace … In the Writings page, there are downloadable publications that can deepen the comprehension of your own personal Truths … In the Workshops page, there are postings of places and times where the author &/or co-facilitators of this site will be sharing (i)am material in presentations, seminars or workshops (always for free!) … You can also keep up-to-date with the author’s current musings in the site’s Blog page … Finally the Bio, Logo and FAQ’s pages each serve to further clarify the principles that found this site; the same principles that can serve as a source of liberation for your own renewed sense of Joy & Peace as well!

The expanded definitions of this web site’s title serve to deepen its central themes. Webster’s dictionary defines Inspiring as “awakening”, “having an exalting effect upon” and “stimulating to creative activity.”* … Altruistic is explained to be “an uncalculated devotion to others’ interests [often at the expense of one’s own desires]”* … Moment is clarified as “an instant in the present time”, “the tendency to produce motion about an axis” and “a timeless point of decision when a person freely enacts his or her relationship to eternity.” * Inspiring the Altruistic Moment intends to make all these definitions a reality for you and yours by offering a website that is filled with interactive possibilities for a personal reawakening of your True Self.

Finally, as the primary purpose of (i)am is to foster a rebirth of Community, I would be honored if you were to contact me with any comments, questions or suggestions you might have. You have unique gifts to share with the Universe, and also a highly personal path to tread to re-awaken those gifts. It is my Soul-desire that you might cease striving to “find the meaning of life” and instead commence with the practical living of a Life that is Meaning-full — and it is my sole intention that this web site be a powerful tool that enables you to do just that!

*Webster’s New International Unabridged Dictionary (1986).

Contact

For any inquiries please email
Scaughdt Iam

rediscoveringpeace (at) gmail (dot) com

Real Inner Peace

Traditionally, “inner peace” is commonly related to the search for “true happiness.” It is also used to describe a state of pure contentment, absolute calm or lasting comfort. Of course, like so many of the terms conventionally associated with “attaining enlightenment”, (i)am has quite a different appreciation for the “heaven” of Inner Peace.

Initially, (i)am’s Inner Peace exists only in the present moment – in every present moment. Secondly, though it has little to do with our mundane experiences of physical and mental pleasure, the experience of pure Inner Peace is an ecstasy beyond ecstasy; contentment and bliss rolled into one. While difficult to verbally explain (and almost impossible to mentally comprehend), it remains a Truth that is very simple to experience. And it is one of the primary missions of (i)am to make this experience a more readily accessible one.

It is important to note that (i)am’s Inner Peace is not a place to go or a shift in personality to attain. Rather, it is a moment-to-moment State of Being that must be perpetually renewed by the choices made in any given instant. Just as important, if the attainment of Inner Peace for yourself is your goal, then that Peace cannot ever come to you in any potent form. True contentment is not a self-centered experience of pleasure, true calm is not an inactive state of being, true Self-Knowledge is not an intellectual pursuit, and true comfort has little to do with the experience of physical ease. While there is nothing wrong with pleasure, calm, self-knowledge or comfort, none of these self-centered goals can bring you the raw bliss that comes from the experience of true Inner Peace – a Contentment that comes only in those moments when you choose to act selflessly for the betterment of others (especially in those moments when you least desire to do so).

Community

When this site mentions that “the primary purpose of (i)am is to foster a rebirth of Community”, it is not referring to a group of people defined by any common region, race, class, culture, religion or desire(s). Rather, it speaks to the greater Community of Humanity — and by “Humanity”, it does not refer to us as mere thinking mammals, but rather to our potential to become conscientious caregivers for each other and conscious stewards of the Earth.

A community does require certain shared characteristics amongst its members, and this is no less true with regards to (i)am’s Community of Humanity — and yet here, they are based in the commonalities present in every human being – our common body, our common mind and our common essence (or Soul). On an electro-magnetic level, we share one energetic body. On an intellectual level, we share one collective consciousness. And on a spiritual level, we share one common conscience. Indeed, this is the most accurate expression of the root meanings of the word “community” — with “communis” being the combination of the Latin prefix “com” – meaning “together”, and “munis” – relating to an exchange of services for others.

Thus, Community in its highest expression is not a group of people joined by common traits or interests, but rather a group of beings bound together by their selflessly caring actions. And it is to this higher Community of Humanity that (i)am calls you – not to merely understand the Truths of selflessness, but to courageously enact them in your everyday lives.