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Volume 2, September 2011
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BRUCE H. LIPTON PH.D We are truly living in exciting times. The challenges and crises facing the world today are portents of imminent change in civilization. We are on the threshold of an incredible global evolutionary shift.
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The Role of Spirituality in a World shift
The current panoply of global crises collectively reveals we are facing our own extinction. Scientists acknowledge that the current degradation of the environment and the massive loss of species, are evidence that we are deep into the sixth mass extinction to hit Earth since the origin of life. Unlike the first five massive die-offs, attributed to physical causes such as life-destroying geological upheavals and the impact of comets and asteroids, the current wave of extinctions is due to a source much closer to home: human behavior. Our way of life is wreaking havoc in the global community and our survival is now in question. Crises are harbingers of evolution. Albert Einstein wisely proffered, “We cannot solve the problems with the same thinking that created them.”
Consequently, the planet’s hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
Albert Einstein wisely
This new awareness is shattering old myths and rewriting the “truths” that shape the character of human civilization.
proffered, “We cannot solve the problems with the same thinking that
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New science revises four fundamental beliefs that shape civilization. These flawed assumptions include: 1) The Newtonian vision of the primacy of a physical, mechanical Universe; 2) Genes control biology; 3) Evolution resulted from random genetic mutations; 4) Evolution is driven by a struggle for the survival-of-the-fittest.
Darwin’s theory ... accordingly, we evolved by pure “chance,” which by extension means: without an underlying purpose for existence.
These failed beliefs represent the “Four Assumptions of the Apocalypse,” for they are driving human civilization to the brink of extinction.
Modern science is predicated on “truths” verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena. Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science .
In the wake of Newtonian theory, with the Hand of God out of the way, society has been preoccupied with dominating and controlling Nature. Darwin’s theory further exacerbates the situation by suggesting that humans evolved through the happenstance of random genetic mutations. Accordingly, we evolved by pure “chance,” which by extension means: without an underlying purpose for our existence. Darwinian theory removed the last link between God, spirit and the human experience.
Additionally, Darwinism emphasizes that evolution is based on “the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence.” For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by “survival.” As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
A mechanical Newtonian Universe in combination with Darwin’s theory of random evolution disconnects us from Nature and spirit, while legitimizing the exploitation and degradation of our fellow humans and the environment.
Modern science has led the world to shift from spiritual aspirations to a war for material accumulation. In addition to terrorizing the world’s human population, scientific “progress” has terrorized Mother Nature herself. Our credo, “Better Living Through Chemistry,” has led to our efforts to control Nature with toxic petrochemicals. As a result, we have polluted the environment, undermined the harmony of the biosphere and are rapidly driving ourselves toward extinction.
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality.
All is not lost. Advances from science’s frontier offer new insights that provide a bright Light at the end of this dark tunnel. Firstly, in contrast to the emphasis on the Newtonian material realm, the newer science of quantum mechanics reveals that the Universe and all of its physical matter are actually made out of immaterial energy. Atoms are not physical particles; they are made of energy vortices resembling nano-tornadoes.
Quantum physics stresses that the invisible energy realm, collectively referred to as the field, is the primary governing force of the material realm. It is more than interesting that the term field is defined as “invisible moving forces that influence the physical realm,” for the same definition is used to describe spirit. The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a Universe made out of energy, everything is entangled, everything is one.
Biomedical research has recently toppled the widespread belief that organisms are genetically controlled robots and that evolution is driven by a random, survival-of-the-fittest mechanism. As genetically controlled “robots,” we are led to perceive of ourselves as “victims” of heredity. Genes control our lives yet we did not pick our genes, nor can we change them if we don’t like our traits. The perception of genetic victimization inevitably leads to irresponsibility, for we believe we have no power over our lives.
Our
The exciting new science of epigenetics emphasizes that genes are controlled by the environment, and more importantly, by our perception of the environment. Epigenetics acknowledges that we are not victims, but masters, for we can change our environment or perceptions, and create up to 30,000 variations for each of our genes.
thoughts, attitudes and beliefs control behavior,
Quantum physics and epigenetics provide amazing insight into the mystery of the mind-body-spirit connection. While Newtonian physics and genetic theory dismiss the power of our minds, the new science recognizes that consciousness endows us with powerful creative abilities to shape our lives and the world in which we live. Our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs control behavior, regulate gene expression and provide for our life experiences.
regulate gene expression and provide for our life
In contrast to random mutations, science has identified “adaptive” mutation mechanisms, wherein organisms adjust their genetics to conform to existing environmental conditions. We did not get here by chance. Every new organism introduced into the biosphere supported harmony and balance in the Garden. Every organism is intimately engaged with the environment in a delicate pas de deux. Human existence is not a random accident, but a carefully choreographed event that takes into account the cooperative nature of the biosphere. Humans evolved as the most powerful force in supporting Nature’s vitality. However, we have misused that power and are now paying the price for our destructive behavior.
experiences.
The crises we face present us with the greatest opportunity in human history – conscious evolution. Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the Garden and not destroy it.
The story of human life on Earth is yet to be determined. Our evolution depends on whether we are willing to make changes in our individual and collective beliefs and behaviors, and whether we are able to make these changes in time. The good news is that biology and evolution are on our side. Evolution – like heaven – is not a destination, but a practice.
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden. When a critical mass of people truly own this belief in their hearts and minds and begin living from these truths, our world will emerge from the darkness in what will amount to a consciousnessbased Worldshift — a spontaneous evolution for humans, by humans.
by Dr. Bruce Lipton Ph. D Forum on Science and Spirituality. See http:// ervinlaszlo.com/forum/.
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept
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BY DR. MICEAL LEDWITH The Wino and The Master
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ometimes when I speak to groups about matters related to
quantum physics I pose the question “Who do you think has the greater ability to manifest reality: an unfortunate homeless person living in abject poverty under a bridge, or an ascended Master such as we read about in those fabled accounts from long ago?”
For months, the media has been filled with accounts of one series of economic disasters after another all across the First World.
In that sense, I believe that many of the wildly popular self-improvement programs that have attracted such enormous attention in recent years have actually done a great disservice to the majority
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of people who espoused them. The impression was
t’s very rare that such a vast swath of
given that it was all very easy, even automatic to master these techniques. That suited the instant gratification society’s expectations but it just didn’t
humanity has been so united in focus on the same
work and the result was disillusionment. There is no
thing. Everyone across all of North and South
doubt that what we have deeply and profoundly
America , Europe and the East seem to be concerned
accepted will manifest into our lives.
with the same realities, and with a fierce intensity;
Unfortunately, all too often, what we have
will my investments be safe; will my savings, if I have
deeply and profoundly accepted in this way
any, remain secure, how will I pay
is lack, ill health,
the mortgage or meet my children’s school fees this year? Will I have a job in six months time? How can I afford to heat the house this winter? As a 19th century writer put it: “It’s a prospect to dizzy and appall.”
Both the Wino and the Master have exactly the same ability to manifest.
misfortune and what we are pleased to call bad luck. Sometimes when I speak to groups about matters related to quantum physics I pose
There are aspects to this present situation in the world
the question “Who do you think has the greater
at large which give great concern to anyone who has
ability to manifest reality: an unfortunate homeless
realized even the most basic facts about what
person living in abject poverty under a bridge, or an
quantum physics has to tell us about how reality
ascended Master such as we read about in those
functions. For almost a century now the quantum
fabled accounts from long ago?”
popularized in countless versions which usually
so. Both the Wino and the Master have exactly the
neglect to mention the awkward fact that while the
same ability to manifest. There is obviously an
realities we experience every day are determined by
enormous difference between the circumstances of
the way in which we observe them, it is no small task
the two, but the difference does not hinge on their
to acquire the skill to manifest what it is we would
ability to manifest because they both have that ability
like to see popping up in our lives as opposed to what
in equal measure, and so has everyone else who ever
normally does.
walked this earth.
everything his or her heart can desire. But that is not
we observe it. Needless to say this insight has been
The answer invariably is “The Master” - who has
takes on the shape corresponding to the way in which
physicists have been telling us that reality obligingly
Everyone is born with the innate ability to manifest
We all come into this world endowed with a certain
any reality out of the quantum field that corresponds
type of character, intellectual ability, and physical
to their deeply accepted beliefs and feelings. This is
attributes, but I know that through the course of my
as much a part of us as our unique DNA, our
life I can alter what I have been endowed with, for
digestive system or the circulation of our blood. You
better or for worse.
cannot exist without the ability to manifest out of the quantum field. It is not something you have to learn.
The person who grows to be a Master realizes this even though he or she may have suffered hardships,
The problem lies in the fact that what the vast
disappointment, discrimination or betrayal. That
majority of people take for granted and deeply accept
individual came to realize that it could all be turned
is usually the reality of lack; the conviction that things
around if only they could learn to control their
are scarce; that if I do not get my share before
thoughts at the deepest level.
someone else gets it I am in danger of being left short; that life is unfair and unless I am on guard and alert I
That is a very different exercise indeed from
will end up being pushed around to my detriment by
suppression. We are masters at fooling ourselves into
organizations and people who are more powerful
thinking that we have accomplished real change in
than I am. Is it any wonder then that such negative
our lives when all we have done is suppressed the
realities figure so often in many people’s life
tendencies, thoughts or beliefs which we want to be
experiences?
freed from and are thus no longer welcome in our lives. But these suppressed realities hide like a
So in pondering the case of the Wino and the Master,
festering sore until the day when they erupt to the
the Wino stands as an archetype of someone who is
surface again in a much more virulent form than they
convinced that the world is harsh, hostile,
ever had before the attempt to squash them into
discriminatory and unfair. As this is what is deeply
submission.
accepted it is inevitable that more of the same will manifest in such a person’s life. The Master on the
What we need to aim at is attaining a state where all
other hand started out by realizing one of the most
those negative thoughts, feelings, and emotions let us
basic realities about human life: the kind of life I have
go, rather than us deciding to try to expel them from
been experiencing mirrors the way I have been
our lives by suppression.
thinking. In “What the Bleep” I said Positive Thinking
manifest, because I is what I have deeply accepted.
within.
realize as a basic premise that the real enemy is
underneath, which is obviously what is going to
path of human or spiritual evolution has come to
over a vast boiling cauldron of negative thinking
a snake pit. Everyone who has ever set out on the
had managed to put a thin smear of positive thinking
In truth this process really is like trying to climb out of
was fallacious, because usually all it meant was that I
BY DR. MICEAL LEDWITH
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ny form of enemy we perceive without is visible to us only
because it mirrors what is already within ourselves, but which may be so deeply buried that we are not aware of it until it is
mirrored back to us by some person or thing that is external to us.
BY DR. MICEAL LEDWITH It should alert us to the fact that normally the varieties of ways in which people focus on things that matter to them cancel each other out for the large part. But now the focus of most people on the earth is much more unified than that, and it is concentrated by the apprehension of doom and gloom. When there is such a rare common focus, when it is negative, and when it is feared, then we can rest assured that a self-fulfilling prophecy is about to manifest and what
Many will say
“We can change this” and
that is true, but while bailouts may solve the external economic crisis, the only way to avert the power of such a widespread negative focus on disaster as we are experiencing now is to accomplish a profound
revolution in our habitual ways of thinking. That is a much more difficult and
was bad in itself can very easily become much worse
long drawn out process, but it is the only way to
simply because most of the world’s population has
eventually bring our habits of self -destruction to an
much more of the Wino in them than the Master.
end.
Dr. Micael Ledwith, L.Ph., L.D., D.D., LL.D (h.c) is an International Speaker, Author, Theologian, and Scientist. His research interests had always been in the fundamental areas of religious belief, seeking answers to the “Four Great Questions” as he liked to call them: “Who am I? Where do I come from? What should I do? and where am I going?” Dr. Ledwith insights are on the leading-edge of science and spirituality, indicating a very different understanding of God and our place and purpose in creation.
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A Heart Based Universe The universal construct, Has the “Thumbprint of God”, It’s a fractal expression, The heart its divine dimension, Revealing God’s loving expression. Through its logarithmic spiral, Our self-similar patterns connect, By an ethereal cord, Our hearts align, In an expanding void, In a quantum sea of bliss.
Equally yoked, Heaven's spheres are embraced. Swirling and whirling, In the shape of a heart, The Sufi mystic, Dances in a trance, Spiraling and connecting To the heavens and the heart. This is God’s essence, The frequency of love.
This loving hoop, Is a feedback loop, You are a system within itself, You are God’s outward expression, Totally dynamic, magnetic and electric.
It keeps you in a spin, Longing for this higher dimension. This equation is “Gods Thumbprint”, Your individual expression, And his/her all inspiring LOVE.
You are his/her lover, When souls connect. That is the art of you, It is at the heart of you, It is encoded in you, As your deepest desire, For love to be expressed.
by Karen Elkins
Love is golden, The perfect phi ratio, So when your heart and mind, Are in perfect sync, This cascading wave, Has a coherent beat.
Content form the book InsideOUT
Two chambers in the heart, Two sides in the brain, Male and female, Intelligence and intuition, Matter and motion,
DEBORAH ROZMAN,PH.D. "This article, originally published on care2.com, is reprinted with permission from the author, Deborah Rozman, Ph.D."
3 Ways to Keep Up with the Planetary Shift Many people sense a planetary shift is going on. There is global economic instability, climate change, increased solar activity, unusual magnetic field changes and more frequent occurrences of both extreme weather and geological events. On December 21, 2012, there will be the great alignment of Earth with the center of the Milky Way, which happens just once every 25,000 years. The date also marks the end of the Mayan calendar. Some fear the end of the world as we know it, while others perceive a shift into higher consciousness is unfolding — that a more heart-based world is being born while Old World structures are falling apart. Most people don’t know exactly what’s going on, but know that something is indeed going on. Many of us also sense a shift internally and perceive that time is accelerating, finding it difficult to keep up at times. We’re constantly bombarded by an ever-increasing number of choices. Emotions peak and ebb to extremes in the span of hours, even minutes. Uncertainty seems to be on the rise about our personal direction as well as that of the world.
Amid the stress and chaos, there is increasing awareness of our global interconnectivity. A momentum is building among those who want to come together to make a difference, give back to society and take care of each other and our planet. Social networking is bringing
people together, and there is both an energetic spark in the air and a growing sense of hope that something new will emerge.
Flickers of hope are qualities of the heart and spirit. The heart feelings of emotional well-being, care and compassion are enhanced by: •
Spiritual practices like meditation and prayer that connect us to something greater than ourselves
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Heart connection with others — close friendships within and outside the family
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Gathering with others frequently for uplifting purposes such as church, social causes, etc.
We call these actions that help nurture us emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually “aspects of heart-based living.” As the planetary shift continues and people experience greater stress, overstimulation, overload and stressinduced physical and mental health problems, the imperative to shift toward heart-based living increases.
“... there is increasing awareness of our global interconnectivity”.
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As life’s pace continues to accelerate, we’ll be presented with even more choices and possibly have less time to make them. The good news is that when we approach our choices with sincere heart intent, it’s easier to access the intuition and energy required to shift quickly into the most beneficial mental and emotional states. We have a choice to ride the waves of change or be caught in the undertow.
Coherence: When you feel genuine hope, care and compassion, your heart is sending harmonious and coherent signals to the brainmind, replacing feelings of separation with a sense of connection. The heart and brain are aligned and in sync. The higher cortical functions are enhanced, facilitating objective, sober assessment and intuitive perception. You perceive more wholeness, and solutions to problems are more apparent.
Nearly two decades of HeartMath research on stress reduction and emotional well-being have addressed the areas of:
Positive emotions such as hope, care, compassion and appreciation can generate a collective global coherence wave that sends an electromagnetic field out to those around us and across the globe. Increasing heart alignment and focusing on heart-based living have the potential to create a global coherence wave that facilitates new solutions for the world’s problems.
Incoherence: When a person feels stress, overwhelm, anxiety, uncertainty or fear, the heart sends chaotic and incoherent signals to the brain-mind, triggering more stressful responses. The higher cortical functions are inhibited — meaning the heart and brain are out of alignment — so solutions to personal or world problems are elusive.
Collectively, these negative emotions are r e g i s t e r e d i n t h e h e a r t a n d b r a i n ’s electromagnetic fields, generating a global stress and incoherence wave that goes out to those around us and around the globe. Stress and incoherence are intensified by instant mass media reports, spreading news about natural disasters, social upheaval, economic turmoil and more.
More than ever people need to understand the physiology of coherence that underlies heart-based principles and the science behind global coherence. Scientific researchers have come together to make people more aware of the potentials of consciously creating a collective coherence wave. The Institute of HeartMath along with a prestigious scientific advisory board launched the Global Coherence Initiative to unite people in heartfocused coherent care and compassion and measure those effects. Learn more about global coherence and the Global Coherence Initiative
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Three Ways to Keep Up with the Planetary Shift
Intentionally generating positive feelings such as appreciation, care or compassion increases physiological coherence and adds greater texture and richness to our lives. Sunsets appear more beautiful, spring days feel fresher, and even food seems to taste better.
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No. 2: Practice care, not overcare, for yourself and others. We are all going through the planetary shift together. Ask yourself “Is my care producing or reducing stress?” Be aware of how you feel about an issue at hand, place your focus in the heart area and breathe in a positive feeling or attitude to create more coherence. Be objective, as if the issue or
problem belongs to someone else. Relax in the heart area and become neutral about the issue, allowing your heart intelligence to offer new perspectives and possibilities. You can increase the potency of your care and intentions and the effectiveness of your choices and actions. Listening to what your heart prompts you to do can make your caring more effective. Excessive care, or overcare, related to an issue or situation can create stress, negative emotions or incoherence, so it is important for your care to be balanced. No. 3: Watch out for negative projections — the down slant. Negative projections actually are negative thoughts and feelings about you, someone else or the future. For example, say you’re planning to meet someone with whom you have a hard time communicating. Instead of projecting judgment or anxiety, generate appreciation, care and calm. You’ll enter the meeting with a more balanced and intuitive perspective.
No. 1: Practice genuine appreciation and care for everything in your life, especially anything you may take for granted. Increasing heartfelt positive emotions like appreciation and care helps you move through difficult times with greater ease, security and grace. When you’re not aligned with your heart, the textures and richness of life can quickly diminish.
More Ideas from HeartMath: •
You and people around the world can track your personal stress levels for free with HeartMath’s online Personal Tracker™, Stress and Well-Being Survey™ and Community Tracker™.
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Read an in-depth discussion about care versus overcare and learn about HeartMath’s stress-clearing tools and techniques in the book I wrote with HeartMath founder Doc Childre, “Transforming Anxiety, The HeartMath Solution for Overcoming Fear and Worry and Creating Serenity.”
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Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., is President and CEO of the for-profit Quantum Intech Inc (dba HeartMath Inc.) Deborah has been deeply committed to awareness development and personal growth for 40 years. Deborah is co-author with Doc C h i l d r e o f Tr a n s f o r m i n g A n g e r, Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety, Transforming Depression and Stopping Emotional Eating.
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Skimming over the well known and well worn issue of Charles Darwin’s first opus, The Origin of Species, based on genetic mutation, selectivity, and survival of the fittest of those mutations, we will skim over his equally great second, ignored and almost unknown work,
The Descent of Man. In this second work, representing the later and more mature half of
Darwin’s life, he shows how humankind
“higher agencies” of love and altruism. Selectivity and survival, arose through the
being foundational, are retained, but in service of this higher and more complex life form.
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he issue of this higher evolutionary cycle found in The Descent of Man (hereafter referred to as “Darwin II”) lies with nurturing, which instinct gives rise to, fosters and allows love and altruism. This aspect of Darwin’s life-work, as clearly articulated by David Loye’s excellent little volume:
D a r w i n ’s L o s t Theory of Love, has been grievously ignored. Consider some of Darwin’s essays and interests of this later “A humankind abandoned in period such as its earliest formative stage, Selectivity in Relation to Sex and Expressions becomes its own greatest threat to of the Emotions in Man and Animal; his interest its survival.” Maria Montessori, M.D in the work of Ernest Haekel, Lamark and Goethe. And how does one account for such ignored sentiments
Darwin II as “… aiding the weak to survive…the instinct of sympathy, the noblest
found in
part of our nature…”? Where now a species of tooth and claw and why have such negative myths been accepted while ignoring the deeper, more spiritually inclined aspects of Darwin’s genius? Our most ancient origins, as found in The Origin of the Species (herafter, “Darwin I”), can be graphically traced in the parade of skulls preceding us, as put together by Ashley Montagu. (See Fig.) We were announced quite visibly, so to speak, some brief forty to fifty thousand years ago, by the appearance of a brain case with an abnormally large area right behind the orbit of the eyes, in the frontal-most part of our skull. (Observe the striking difference of profiles of the earlier Neanderthal and later Cro-Magnon, assumed to be the first fully human creature.) This bulging forehead houses a prefrontal cortex setting us off quite markedly from all our forebears. This particular neural grouping constitutes the high point of evolution to date, a large addition to the three-fold structure found in the heads of our nearest evolutionary kin, such as the Neanderthals. Darwin II attributes this addition to the nurturing of love and altruism.
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Paradise Lost
The irony is that the intensity of our crisis and its near permanent status thereafter arises from, and can be attributed to, our very “superior brain.” It takes some extraordinary brilliance and creativity to make the incredible mess we have made on this good Earth.
urturing both gave rise to, and is the combined effect of, love and altruism – which in this book we will come to understand as a typical “mirroring" or “strange loop” effect. Whatever its roots, nurturing sustained us for millennia and what should have been human life thereafter, with the sky the limit to what such a system could do.
Somewhere along the way, however, nurturing was compromised. It was diluted and adulterated to the point of being sidetracked, insignificant to the point that it finally lost out to survival concerns, to varying extent and in different climes and
Today, nurturing, as needed by our species and the earth, has all but disappeared. Pockets of times.
nurturing remained, even into midtwentieth century, in a few remote and isolated human groups1. The societies they depicted offer us critically needed models to study and examples to emulate, if we are to recoup our loss of this major evolutionary tool, as nurturing proves to be.
Mirror to Mirror – Which Reflection Comes First?
The reason such an evolutionary setback as loss of nurturing became nearpermanent wherever it occurred, is simple, ironic and can happen rapidly. A prime example is Jane Goodall’s account of a rogue ape, victim of a failure of nurturing, who upset the social structure of his whole ape-troop2. In the case of our un-nurtured
we were caught up in a deluge of self-inflicted disasters of every description, multiplying at every level, that followed on the heels of our nurturing failure. superior brain,
Precisely as Maria Montessori warns, we were so immediately absorbed in surviving the results of our own reactive patterns – brought on by failure of nurturing – that we had no time, energy or interest to reflect on how or what happened, or was happening, to us. This is our condition today, where such loss and projection onto others “out there” of the causes of such loss, has been replicated age by age. Our survival concerns have greatly expanded and changed with the times, since the sharper this new intellect of ours, the deeper our crisis. And we are getting correspondingly smarter intellectually while less intelligent. Intellect, a head-based operation incorporating ever more complex variations and applications, each needing further explications and qualifications, has become separated from intelligence – the automatic and natural state of the heart which brings coherence.
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The Cultural Counterfeits
A counterfeit is a duplication of an original, from crude resemblance to those so nearly exact as to defy all but the trained observer. But no matter how apparently perfect the counterfeit is, minor, near-insignificant differences are always present, and will eventually bring ever greater problems in application. Meanwhile, the most minor miss in the fit multiplies into a major one through continual use. To grind on this a bit, failure to nurture expresses in such a myriad of constantly branching critical problems that all objectivity suggesting a possible cause is lost in the mounting dysfunction. This leaves us aware only of the dysfunction, which by then is considered natural, or “the human condition.” I spelled this out in the chapter “Time-Bomb in the Delivery Room” in my 1977 book, Magical Child. This effort did nothing to counter the effects of that delivery room, or timebomb, years down the road, culture being the power it is.
The importance and significance of nurturing as a survival response has, on its loss, brought in its place a mass of cultural counterfeits of nurturing. These counterfeits are “head-based” intellectual conclusions bringing roughly approximate solutions for the missing intelligence; consequently the inevitable problems inherent in counterfeits eventually appear
and absorb our attention. Origins are forgotten. And, though these counterfeits continually betray us, we are constantly seduced by them because of our fundamental needs for nurturing, with which these counterfeits have some vague resonance. Virtual reality, in its myriad of current expressions such as television, computers, and electronic stimuli of endless variety, has almost completely replaced reality as the state of live, direct biological awareness and experience as developed over millennia. Caught up in trying to make these counterfeits work, such attempts sustain and increase the counterfeit incentives and their power. And those counterfeits, products of our ever-new and ever-sharper intellect, can border on genius itself, although always causing problems at some point, spinning our webs of error and production of counterfeits ever tighter. Even if these counterfeit structures are analyzed and brought to light, such analyses can only be interpreted through
This mind-set automatically counters any possible conflict to itself by its own cultural counterfeit of the analysis itself. This is a largely nonour cultural mind-set.
conscious response on our part, simply our mind-set interpreting the information – as it must, in order to maintain itself. We, with a sigh of relief, thankfully accept our culture’s counterfeit as the obvious solution for us, thus nullifying any threat of change to the culture or to our mind-set, while locking us into ever-deeper disaster. In just such ways, culture is a self-sustaining fieldeffect with our rationale at its service.
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Counterfeit Meal?
Joseph Chilton Pearce Continually lost in making corrections in our counterfeit world, we can’t regain that benevolence-driven mind-set which was and is our greatest survival asset and most important feature of being human. In our compulsion to right a fundamentally flawed l o g i c a l w o r l d - v i e w, w e l o s e o u r connections with and ability to open to the
– which is heart-based, not head-based. Long repetitive intelligence called for
usage of a flawed logical approach can change brain organization to the point we can become neurally insufficient to the task of seeing the errors in our preoccupation with our counterfeits. Losing access to intelligence, we are left with plenty of “smarts” to maintain the counterfeits, none for opening to the intelligence that could reveal them for what they are.
Our razor-sharp intellect can create and build atom bombs and destroy the very atmosphere of our earth, but the basic intelligence needed to grasp this fundamental problem of loss of nurturing is gained only by brainheart development itself. And brain-
heart development is a major thrust of the nurturing function itself, which is, in turn, dependent on brain-heart development. In this reciprocal and recursive movement, we
find a “strange loop” in which nurturing and brain-heart give rise to each other. Nurturing should have opened ever-new evolutionary pathways – and still could. Instead, we have locked into a survival mode which is now considered to be not just the norm, but the “human condition” and/or “human nature.” Around and through our automatic survival response we invent an incredibly complex and nonviable environment we must then attend with our whole being, both to survive in such environment individually, and to maintain that very counterfeit environment itself, whose loss is sensed as a major threat to that world-view we share as our cultural basis, trapping ourselves at every turn. The failure to nurture results in serious brain-mind alterations, such that any moral-ethical persuasions concerning nurturing become useless, since not really heard. We can hear only that for which we have a receptive capacity. We have had love preached to us for at least two thousand years with virtually no appreciable decrease in violence nor
Only the state of love can hear that with which it is resonant. This is a increase in love.
classic double-bind, a Catch 22. An alternate approach – one I have long promoted – is a straight biologicalneurological one that arises from a Darwin II position. In such an approach, the starting point lies in grasping the fourfold nature of our “evolutionary” brain.
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History of Our Internal Civil War One of the earliest neuroscientists to realize that this complex brain structure of ours had evolved out of and from earlier creatures was Paul MacLean, over half century ago. MacLean paved the way for our discovery that we have within our skull not one, but four distinct and essentially separate, interactive neural systems, developed over four distinct evolutionary p e r i o d s . Th r o u g h t h e a p p r o p r i a t e i n t e g ra t i o n , p o s s i b l e o n l y t h r o u g h nurturing, these four neural systems cooperate as an integrated function in alignment with the heart. Should this fourfold integration fail, we become not only a seriously split system, but brain’s intimate connection with heart is seriously compromised – resulting in the aforementioned “human condition.”
Split between these basic evolutionary drives, and largely isolated from the intelligence of the heart, we do indeed end up at war with ourselves, individually and socially, each of us with Self split between the intelligence of the heart and a fragmented brain-mind. Self, identified with mind-brain, locks into its most primary survival systems, with culture and its violence reigning supreme.
The Four Evolutionary Stages
In briefest brief, the four evolutionary neural systems in our head, in their respective evolutionary order, are as follows. First is the so-called “reptilian” or “hind” brain, most powerful biologically since the oldest and most firmly entrenched through usage. Karl Pribram described this
sensory-motor system as the “world-brain,” the primordial capacity to sense our physical world and the ability to respond to that world intelligently enough to survive in it. The next evolutionary step up the ladder was the “old mammalian” brain, built “on top of” and thus outside of our sensorymotor foundation. Through this second brain humankind could be aware of, “witness”, and interpret the nature of relations between us sensing creatures and the objects or events encountered by our “world-brain” as “out there.” Otherwise we could only react to such physical events to avoid or devour them, as would the older reptilian “hind” brain on its own. This old-mammalian capacity to interpret gave rise to ever more sophisticated forms of relating. For, as this book attempts to illustrate throughout, all creation is relational. Nothing stands alone. Everything is, only through relationship with something other-to-it. So the reptilian brain gave content to which the “old” mammalian system could relate, and out of such relationship evolved an emotional (relational) structure giving rise to relations with meaning and significance and group or herd experience – a new mammalian brain that could project beyond the sensory brain entirely. This “new mammalian” brain gave the foundation for the eventual rudiments of thought and speech through which we could reflect on an event in an abstract way; that is, extract out of direct sensory contact a mental and objective viewpoint of such relations. This new capacity, in turn, made necessary and gave the foundation for a fourth, “governing” or coordinating brain to
Joseph Chilton Pearce ...organize into a unit or single system these three independent foundational s y s t e m s ( r e p t i l i a n s e n s o r y - m o t o r, mammalian-emotional, and mammalianrudimentary thinking brain.) This fourth, coordinating and governing body of neurons (called the pre-frontal cortex) emerged when conditions were right: sufficient maturity of the three preceding brains, and the appropriate nurturing. Once established, this new “governing” fourth brain could bring about adaptation to extremes of climate and physical conditions, and overcome the limitations and constraints that might arise. Evolution was taking wings.
operate on our very own brain structure, from which mind and such operations emerge. Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry referred to this as mind emerging from its matrix – brain – and this emergent system can then bend back on, analyze and change that very matrix giving rise to it. (A wild analogy might be of an automobile coming out of a complex assembly-line and turning around to rearrange the complex of assemblies giving rise to itself).
Creation and the Prefrontals
So we humans evolved through a series of new neural-physical structures, each developed to go beyond the limitations and constraints of those coming before and giving rise to it. This is the essential meaning of the term transcendence in the present work. Yet each new system is critically dependent on the older as its foundation (a sensory-motor system is handy, after all). Though we transcend this older system we must utilize it, put it to work for us, to function at all. And in the process of utilizing any previous system, the earlier system is itself transformed by the higher system with which it must be integrated, in order for the lower to serve that higher system. This is surely both a ”strange loop” and the last word in tautologies, but also allows us to say the “reptilian” or sensorymotor brain in our head is light-years beyond essentially the same component parts in the brain of black-snake in our wood
Through this fourth, newest, largest and superior brain, the prefrontal cortex, nature could organize all capacities inherent within the first three systems and bring them into a coherent, focused attention and response. Above all, this fourth brain was (is) capable of creation, in a literal sense: first creating internal images not present in the outer world (creative imaginations), then concretizing – making real – such inner images in the “outer” sensory world shared with others (Concrete Operational Thinking, to use Jean Piaget’s term).
This, in turn, prepared for and brought about the possibility for, Formal Operations of mind, as Piaget called them, wherein we can think and imagine outside all concrete, material realms, and, in effect,
Tr a n s c e n d e n c e , Incorporation and Integration
A spark plug that fires the Model T Ford is of the same general construction as that plug sparking a multi-cylinder Rolls Royce. By this incorporation-integration, the older brain function becomes compatible with the newer, and then can serve that newer system into which it has integrated. Then the older serves the newer with those older functions which the newer doesn’t have, except through such
Nature established this strange loop as the basis of her creative system. incorporation of the older.
This system of incorporation-integration carries right on up to that frontal and prefrontal cortex, our highest evolutionary brains. The transformation the new brain brings about in its older brain maintains, enhances, and completes the older, earlier foundational capacities, as needed by the newer system to complete its own structure.
function enhances the lower with capacities which complete the lower and enable it to work cooperatively with the higher; the higher brain must have those capacities the lower has then developed. This incorporation-integration process plays a profound role in childdevelopment and could lead us into a rediscovery of our true nature, as co-
Above all, here we find why abandonment of the infant-child in its earliest formative stage is such an ongoing disaster. A creators in our life.
broken development on its own always replicates its own broken nature, in spite of all efforts to repair itself, or even attempts by others to repair it.
This is a procedure truly worth a bit of study because here we will find why a dysfunctional culture such as we suffer today can’t self-correct, or even be corrected, but always and inevitably replicates itself and all its errors in one form or another until finally selfdestructing. In sum, the higher brain
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Strange Loops Looping A critical series of interacting loops takes place between these evolutionary brain parts – moving forward, doubling back to pick up elements or capacities needed – but unavailable until such movement forward and doubling back takes place. Follow this loop: the newer brain system incorporates the older into its service, giving the foundation on which the newer is built, and this incorporation transforms the nature of the older into enough resonance with the newer to function synchronously in coherence with that newer, while enhancing the original capacities of that older system. All of this reciprocal interaction is then integrated into the newer system and its supportive older system for a more advanced dual function – a new situation impacting the entire brain system developed to that point. Our greatest great being said “If I be lifted up I draw all mankind toward me”, a statement which is an ontological truth far transcending the petty religious applications that have so misconstrued most of that great being’s observations. As this “mythical He” draws all mankind toward him he is himself transformed anew in typical symbiosis, and can thus quite truthfully state, “I am always becoming what you have need of me to be”, through just this continual growth-expansion of both “sides” of the loop. By the generational love and recognition that mythical figure generates in us, that mythical figure is, himself, continually “lifted up” – giving his mythical overlaid imagery greater power to attract and lift up, round and round.
The transformation of an older primary brain system into a newly emerging one,
which is, in turn, dependent on the older for its own development and transformation, is not only an example of the strange loop phenomenon, but is a major key to our evolution. For this ongoing, continual evolutionary process moves to go beyond the limitations and constraints of any current state, as such limitations arise. This transcendent action itself gives rise to new states and evolutionary possibilities not necessarily even extant before, while eventually seeking out the limitations and constraints even then becoming apparent, and kicking off another round of evolution. Neurologist Frank Wilson’s brilliant analysis of the evolutionary implications of the human hand and brain shows a perfect symbiosis, each bringing more and more potential ability into and out of the other3. The same is true of mind and heart, as we will see in Section II. Herein the transformation of mind itself unfolds, and we see evolution as not only an ongoing, endless process, but always a win-win situation – or at least to the extent it is allowed to be, since designed to be so if allowed. It is up to us to allow, or to impede. This highly condensed and abstract survey ignores, for now, among many issues, the intriguing aspect of selectivity out of a randomly produced profusion. Such selectivity out of random profusion is another hallmark of our open-ended evolutionary system. And, our reviewing of this reciprocal function (as in this chapter) in a continual doubling-back on-and-of this basic material, puts this basic material into a continually wider, more inclusive basis, relating it with other aspects of evolution.
Integration and its Failure in Development Large and critical overlaps take place between the appearance and fullscale development of each of these four neural systems, as we unfold from conception. (See Fig.# again.) So development of the first, “reptilian” brain system continues, at a more relaxed pace, long after development of the next, old-mammalian brain, begins its development. This overlap brings a period of integration of the two systems, each supporting and influencing the other in typical strange loop reciprocal fashion.
failure or compromise of development in one stage can damage or compromise subsequent development of both predecessor and Th a t i s why
successor stages. In sum, the first neural system, dependent on integration into the second for its own completion, will be faulty if the second is faulty; and, being the foundation on which the second is critically dependent, the two “go down together” so to speak, another – and sobering – aspect of the mirroring-loop phenomenon. Failure within either system means both lose to some extent, the equivalent of a strange loop being prevented from completing its loop.
Now we can grasp the full insight in Maria Montessori’s statement about abandonment in the earliest development
An infant born and not nurtured, particularly in that most critical first year, will remain largely locked into his primary defensive sensory-motor brain, since his emotional system is then period.
truncated, and events in his environment can’t be fully integrated. Instead, these events bring further retreats into his
He “armors” against his world from the beginning, defensive
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and development will be slow and faltering. Rather than relating to the events of his world – the only way brainmind can develop – he defends against those worldly events, increasing his isolation.
Joseph Chilton Pearce Sketching In This Fall of Man Though many underlying factors are involved, a single major cause lies behind the mishap: our undeveloped emotional system remains embedded in and compromised by the survival system on which the emotional system depends for its own development. This
survival system is still trying to establish its genetically determined functions, which it can only do through a developed emotional system, and this emotional system itself can only be completed by a functional survival system – a typical double-bind. Even after the second neural system (the old mammalian or emotional) opens for its development, most of the infant energyattention defends against such openness. I n s t e a d o f t ra n s f o r m i n g t h a t reptilian survival instinct into a preliminary form of emotional intelligence, the higher system (the intended emotional intelligence) will be incorporated into the lower and become, in effect, a part of that lower defense system. With a compromised or damaged reptilian and old mammalian system, the third evolutionary system – the new mammalian brain – on its opening for development, will face an obvious doubleor triple- jeopardy.
We can follow such a stage-by-stage compromise-breakdown, as it has indeed taken place historically and within us individually, until we finally get to the point wh e r e t h e h i g h e s t , f o u r t h b ra i n i s
incorporated in whole or in part into the first, sensory-survival mode, the whole evolutionary movement thereby inverted, turned upside down, with humankind the greatest danger to humankind. This fourth and latest brain, the prefrontal cortex, is designed to be the “governor” of the whole system – to organize the whole array into concentrations of attention-force that can carry an experience of self beyond its limitations and constraints, and move on into new evolutionary levels. But, should these ongoing and progressive compromises of nature’s plan as noted here take place (which is the general case), the “human condition” becomes this compromised and crippled system, the “governor deposed,” riff-raff in charge, wherein our highest evolutionary potential is bent back into the service of the lowest in a de-evolutionary set-back – which well describes our current massive pileup of global-social chaos.
The Breakdown of Reason Once this reversal happens, we, still locked into our survival system, automatically employ the logical reasoning capacities of our highest brain to rationalize the violent behaviors continually erupting out of our incomplete and un-integrated survival brain. We generally defend, with all logic available to us, such destructive actions on our part as critically necessary, and such necessity is surely the mother of our demonic inventions.
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Thus, as our history shows, there is nothing more dangerous and destructive than a brilliant, genius-level reptile, of which we seem to breed quite a number, from heads of state and industry on down the social scale to the all-too similar but unsuccessful criminal behind bars. That is to say, our successful criminals are behind the corporate, political, social-scheming desks ruling our world. And therein they can justify any atrocity as deemed necessary to their success, though always cloaked as supposedly for our survival – individually or nationally. The reason we must batten on our brother’s blood, imprison more and more of our fellows each year, build more bombs, go to war on and on, is “perfectly clear and logical” – over and over, blood bath after blood bath ad infinitum and nauseam. Necessity and pragmatic common sense demand it! (And, lest we forget, author and reader alike participate in this very process to varying degrees).
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Thus we come to our present selfdestructing and non-viable devolutionary state. As inheritors of the highest brain which evolution has produced, this lofty point is generally incorporated, unbeknownst, into the service of our lowest, sensory-motor survival system. We then function as the highest in service of the lowest, instead of being the highest, served by the lowest, as nature intended. Further, we then identify with these lower functions by default, and compulsively rationalize the irrational and destructive actions of these primal base reactions of ours, in an attempt to justify and maintain our mind-set, or “world-view,” identity, and self esteem, thereby assuming some quasi-coherence in a most incoherent mental turmoil. The “fall of man” becomes instinctual, repetitive, circular – a demonic tautology. Or, as Walt Whitman put it, the murder comes back most often to the murderer.
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H armonies of the Cosmos God is like a musician who creates the harmonies of the Cosmos and gives each individual his own particular part to play. If the music of life seems discordant to us, we should not blame the Master Musician, but ourselves. We are the out-of-tune instrument which mars the beauty of his composition. Hermes reflects that when we devote ourselves to the spiritual path, we mysteriously become perfectly tuned. The earthly part of the universe would seem rude and savage without sweet melodies. This is why Atum sent down the choir of muses to live amongst humankind and inspire music, so that men could adore Divinity with hymns praise, in polyphony with the psalms of heaven. - The Hermetica, The Lost Wisdom of the
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he world that we create with our beliefs can take us
into the worst nightmare with a lot of drama,
can take us into what I call
heaven on earth.
or it
In 1997, the international bestseller, The Four Agreements, taught us all to be impeccable with our word, not to take anything personally, not to make assumptions and always do our best. The book’s success introduced millions of people to the ways of the Toltec and catapulted its author, a gentle, soft-spoken nagual (shaman/teacher) in this ancient wisdom tradition into the media spotlight. In The Four Agreements, Ruiz tells us that the esoteric wisdom of the Toltecs can be traced back thousands of years to southern Mexico.
He characterizes the
Toltecs as a society of spiritual scientists and artists, who came together to “explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones.” The cornerstone of Toltec teachings, he says, is the belief that life is nothing but a dream, an illusion created by us through our beliefs. Ruiz names Teotihuacan, an ancient city of pyramids near Mexico City (also known as the place where “Man Becomes God”), as the sacred site where the masters and their students gathered. European conquests, and the misuse of power by some of its apprentices, resulted in centuries of concealment and secrecy. The wisdom of the ancestors was kept alive through the lineages of naguals, and resurfaced — as the Toltec prophecies foretold — at the time in the future when it would be necessary to return the knowledge to the people. Don Miguel Ruiz of the Eagle Knight lineage says that time has come. Now, 12 years after The Four Agreements was first introduced, don Miguel, in collaboration with his son, don Jose, has added a Fifth Agreement to his Toltec teachings. I had an
opportunity to speak with this father/son duo about the latest book and their spiritual journeys.
LP: Don Miguel, you were raised in a family of
LP: Why do you think we are here and what is
teachers and healers. How much influence do
our purpose?
you think those early experiences had on your MR: Our purpose here is just to enjoy life and to
current work? MR: Yes I was born into a family who had those traditions. My Mother was a curandera [healer], my grandfather was a nagual [shaman] and on and on. I had so much respect for the Toltec tradition. So it was easy for me to follow. What I learned was that everything is possible; nothing is impossible. And everybody could be as they are — something I wanted to share with my own children. I taught my family to respect the Toltec tradition. Toltec means artist—the tradition of the artist. My children have learned to be very creative.
which you have said changed your life and put you on your current path. Do we need to have these kinds of dramatic events in our lives before we can find our direction?
very stupid decision that I made. We had a big party and I made a bad decision — I drank too much and then decided to drive home. I slid into a wall and totaled my car. Fortunately, my body was perfectly ok after this accident. But it was a big wake up call. It changed my life completely. We can all learn, as I have, to live our lives as if this is the last day of our life. And to make better decisions. You can choose to make a smart decision or a stupid decision. Toltec’s have
common sense.
be really happy if they wanted to. LP: But it seems so many people are unhappy. What keeps getting in the way of our happiness? MR: I would say to you, if you are not happy, why don’t you make yourself happy? Why you’re not happy I don’t know. You have to answer that for yourself. You are responsible for every d e c i s i o n t h a t yo u m a k e ; yo u p ay t h e you want to be happy, no longer make the decisions that make you unhappy. What I do know is that I believe in my own happiness. LP: We talk about changing the world for the better. What do you feel most needs changing?
MR: Not at all. My car accident was a result of a
is important to let people know that they could
consequences or you enjoy the consequences. If
LP: You had a near fatal accident many years ago
be happy. That is the mission of every human. It
MR: I ask people everywhere to...
“help me change the world”
.
When I say that I mean the world we humans create in our own minds. Each one of us creates our own world. What we believe is what really rules our lives. The world that we create with our beliefs can take us into the worst nightmare with a lot of drama, or it can take us into what I call heaven on earth. We need to be aware of what is going on in our
own minds. We cannot change the world if we do not change ourselves first.
The conversation turned to the newest book,
JR: When it comes to this awareness, we know
The Fifth Agreement. Don
that we are married to life ‘til death do us part.
Miguel graciously declined my invitation to discuss the book, preferring to let Jose take over. Laughing, Jose takes the phone and shares how much he has enjoyed listening to his father share his wisdom with me.
you see all the negativity in life and you see it
LP: Don Jose, what can you tell me about this much anticipated sequel to The Four Agreements? JR: The Fifth Agreement is based on all my father’s teachings. He did a course called “Angel Training” which is about training the mind. It is about bringing awareness to the dream that is your life. All of life is a dream. The world is a mirror that reflects back to us what we believe. We create our beliefs and the mirror of God reflects them back to us. So we begin a practice of living in the mirror where we learn to reflect every thought. We learn to control our emotions and not let the emotions get the best of us. Then you can make the decision to become a master of your own awareness, and direct your own attention to discover what you believe to be true. That’s when we begin to be skeptical of our own lies. That’s what the fifth agreement is — to be skeptical of our own lies and be in truth at all times. Then we can begin to listen with the heart — the heart and common sense. It’s a big opportunity for one to become both his own teacher and his own apprentice.
to really examine some unpleasant things about
ourselves, don’t we?
because you now can do something about it. All you have to do about it is be yourself. Be you, be free. When we meditate, when we close our eyes, we enter our mind and that’s where dreams are born. When we open our eyes, that is when we begin to take action. The real healer is the one who can cure himself of his own lies. We can put all our faith into a person who died many years ago that we didn’t even meet, and put him on our altar. Or we can take a picture of ourselves and place it on the altar. When we do that we are respecting that we don’t have to go outside of ourselves to look for the perfection, to know what we already know. When have respect for ourselves, it opens many doors for us and everything becomes possible. LP: Is this what you would call self mastery? JR: Self mastery is to be a master in our own language — how we understand our own work, how we understand our own creation. We find out that whatever we believe in is just a story and everybody is living in their own story. We have a great opportunity to change the story and stop being a victim. In life we can all find excuses to be victims and if we focus on that energy, that’s what we’ll be. In our tradition, the ancestors say that (taking on the role of victim] offers “minimal
LP: In order to stop telling ourselves lies, we need
When you have awareness and enlightenment,
potential” to become a nagual. And I believe that the truth is that everyone has the potential to be a nagual.
don Jose Ruiz and dad LP: When you say everyone can be a Nagual, do you mean we can all become masters? JR: Nagual, master, shaman, — whatever you want to call it.
All those names are just names for angels. Angels are messengers. There comes a point in our dreams where we ask the question — what kind of messengers are we?
The answer is in the way we live our life. All men or women who serve truth are angels. It doesn’t matter if they’ve studied for 20 years, or if they’ve just woken up. It doesn’t matter if they’ve studied at all. When it comes to this awareness, we know that we all can create gold. The ancestors say that the conquistadors looked for the person who could make gold, but the real person who can make gold is one who is happy in their dreams. We are the people who make real gold — the golden moments of life, the beautiful moments of life.
LP: When you say everyone can be a Nagual, do you mean we can all become masters? JR: Nagual, master, shaman, — whatever you want to call it. All those names are just names for angels. Angels are messengers. There comes a point in our dreams where we ask the question — what kind of messengers are we? The answer is in the way we live our life. All men or women who serve truth are angels. It doesn’t matter if they’ve studied for 20 years, or if they’ve just woken up. It doesn’t matter if they’ve studied at all. When it comes to this awareness, we know that we all can create gold. The ancestors say that the conquistadors looked for the person who could make gold, but the real person who can make gold is one who is happy in their dreams. We are the people who make real gold — the golden moments of life, the beautiful moments of life. LP: I wanted to ask both of you about 2012. Does Toltec teaching talk about 2012? We’ve heard predictions of everything from a cataclysmic end of the world to something as mundane as a cosmic odometer hitting 99,999 miles and simply needing to be recalibrated. MR: It is the end of the Mayan calendar. It’s just the end of one calendar and the beginning again of the same calendar. It’s just the way we measure time. LP: Where will you be on December 21, 2012?
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MR: If I’m alive, I will be with my son, Jose. We’re going to the place where the Mayan and the Toltec merge: Chichen Itza.
DJ: We are going there to celebrate the end of an era, the end of a dream. It is time to build a new calendar which is a new dream. So I’m inviting all our friends who want to participate in this beautiful experience to come to Chichen Itza and go with us to the jungle that day, because 2012 is the end of superstition, the end of a world that believes in lies.
From this point on it’s an opportunity to see how we can live our dream, how we can cocreate with life. It is time to take action, to take up the challenge and wake up the warrior — the warrior that is going for peace. Linda M. Potter is a popular speaker and the author of the newly released book, If
Only God Would Give
Me a Sign! available at your local book store, through Amazon.com or at wordkeepersinc.com. You can contact her at lindampotter@comcast.net, www.lindampotter.com.
Linda M. Potte Sept. 16t Unity of Vancouver 7pm, $20 at the doo Banyen or Science to Sage
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How to Change the Quality of Your life Experience
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? “I don’t know
why
this keeps happening to me,” we
say as a situation appears to repeat itself yet again. Or we may ask, “Why does this keep happening over
and over again?”
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By taking a conscious journey into the dynamics of our emotional undercurrents, we realize why we have heard ourselves and others make such statements or ask such questions. It isn’t our physical circumstances or the repetitive stories we tell ourselves about these circumstances that we are inquiring about, but our felt-state when things keep happening in our life experience. This felt-state is a reaction to the emotional cycles of childhood, which are reoccurring in our current experience. The unintegrated emotional content of our experience constantly repeats and causes manifestations of mental and physical discomfort.
Growing up and becoming “normal” citizens of our communities results in a storm raging within us. This is because what’s accepted as normality is a state of quiet desperation in which we exist as a consequence of the denial of our authentic being. As much as we might wish to deny the
existence of this controlled and sedated inner storm, it can’t be hidden. It’s the storm of duality, the war between authenticity and inauthenticity, the perceptual divide between Presence and pretense. It’s the vast canyon of fear, anger, and grief that lies between the adult and child self. By gazing across the planet, we perceive the causes of this charged condition everywhere.
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Once we realize we are consistently but unconsciously recreating the emotional resonance of childhood, we take the first step into awakening ourselves from this dream state.
Once we realize we are consistently but unconsciously recreating the emotional resonance of childhood, we take the first step into awakening ourselves from this dream state. We realize that if we are to initiate authentic change in the quality of our life experience, it’s pointless to meddle with our physical circumstances. For a while we may habitually fiddle physically with these experiences, or we may try to change the story we tell ourselves, but we will ultimately realize that such activity, motion, and commotion is drama and accomplishes nothing. Consider what we usually do if we are dissatisfied with the quality of our experience. We may change our circumstances by changing the person with whom we are partnered, changing our job, or moving to another town, city, or even country. These kinds of changes require a lot of physical motion.
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Running around and getting nowhere is the movement endorsed by the world as a means to rectify the dissatisfaction we feel with the quality of our day-to-day experience. The trouble is, once we are settled in our new location, we invariably discover that despite our altered physical circumstances, our dissatisfaction resurfaces. This is because, despite rearranging our situation, we haven’t initiated authentic movement within ourselves. As has been said,
“Wherever we go, there we are.”
We’ve all gone through this frustrating experience in one form or another. This type of rearranging of our day-to-day experience is nothing but pointless commotion – a better word for which is perhaps “drama,” the word used throughout this text to describe this type of pointless movement. Drama is physical, mental, and emotional activity that focuses on and fiddles with effects without impacting causality. Much of our unconscious approach to life arises from a Catch 22, which is that until we activate authentic movement in our experience, we reactively resort to drama. But as long as we reactively resort to drama, we don’t attempt to activate authentic movement. The way forward is to release ourselves from this Catch 22 by integrating blocked emotions. Once these blocked emotions are liberated, the effect is reflected automatically in our physical, mental, and emotional experience. By raising our capacity for causal adjustment, we activate authentic movement throughout our experience without resorting to drama. Only when we realize the effectiveness of this approach are we prepared to drop drama.
We begin moving from “doing” to being, looking to seeing, hearing to listening, discomfort to balance, separation to being unified, reacting to responding, inauthenticity to authenticity, fragmentation to integration, seeking happiness to allowing joy, revenge and blame to forgiveness, incorrect perception to correct perception, complaint and competition to compassion, behaving unconsciously to behaving consciously, and “living in time” to experiencing present moment
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awareness. All the above movements are variations of the same shift—from pretense to Presence. This shift is achieved solely by using our attention and intent to adjust our feltperception.
Because of the example set for us by the world, it’s challenging to comprehend achieving authentic change in our current circumstances without drama. When we attempt to change any aspect of our experience as a means of feeling better, we automatically engage in drama. Drama places the focus of our attention on fiddling with effects, not on causality.
Our appearance, behavior, and circumstances as they are right now are the accumulated consequences of the current condition of our emotional body. If we don’t like an aspect of this, we have the ability to change it. However,
authentic movement that brings about lasting change in our experience is only realized through adjusting the point of causality. Fiddling with our behavior, appearance, or circumstances may bring us temporary relief, but not permanent resolution – not integration.
No one can tell us what’s required of us. However, our heart knows the difference between forcing something and allowing it to unfold organically. Don’t push the river! Allow the urge to “do something” to breathe, so we may discover whether it’s a valid response or a reactive reflex. Journeys in which we mistakenly attempt to change ourselves by fiddling with our behavior, appearance, or circumstances are like moving a radio around a room as a means of tuning into a desired station. In contrast, the journey initiated by The Presence Process, in which we discover how to adjust the quality of our experience at its causal point, requires us to leave the radio exactly where it is. Instead, we focus our attention and intent on turning the tuning dial. This is a much simpler approach than resorting to drama, and it enables us to tune into the music, which brings us exactly what we require. The experience of present moment awareness is nowhere “out there” in the world. Present moment awareness is an inner accomplishment – an inside job. Having said this, once present moment awareness is activated by emotional integration, the results are automatically reflected in our experience of the world.
*Excerpted from The Presence Process, Revised Edition, by Michael Brown, Namaste Publishing (www.namastepublishing.com).
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Ten weeks later, without surgery, he was back at work,
completely healed and pain-free. Now, twenty three years later, he is one of the leading authorities on the interconnectedness of the brain, the mind, the body, and consciousness. A featured speaker in the breakthrough quantum physics lm, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Dispenza insists that the brain is the most important tool we have in shaping our experience. The author of the highly acclaimed book, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind, Dispenza is also a successful chiropractor, fondly referred to by clients and friends as simply, “Dr. Joe.” But what he enjoys talking about most is the brain and its miraculous ability to create and re-create reality, transcending the “appearance” of physical challenges. Through studying the brain, the mind-over-matter phenomenon, spontaneous healing, and how the body can restore itself after injury or disease without turning to therapies that rely on drugs and surgery.
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Are You Out of Your Mind? Or is Your Mind Out of YOU?
S ome say that you need to be out of your mind to
nd your heart.
That brings us very quickly to reflect about the mind, brain, heart, emotions and consciousness with the role they all play to co-create reality.
positive thoughts we are making inroads to change. However the conscious mind is responsible for only 5% of our awareness. Of that 5%, 99.9% of our thoughts are being informed by the old subconscious programs, for good or not so good. This shows up as instant puppetry giving a theatre performance written long ago, sometimes in our genetic nature or the memory of our soul. This becomes harder and harder work which can be exhausting and take a long time.
Our minds hold the information that the brain needs to access from the environment to do its job. Yes, the mind is the field around the body that resonates with the body. The mindfield is where all the bombs are waiting to be detonated from old unresolved experiences as well as old positive ones that set us up in expectation for the good, only to be disappointed. What would our lives and our world be like if we could show up fresh and clear to each person and experience without a lot of the attachment to how everything is expected to be based on past experience? I feel this is where our greatest potential lies. How do we reach that level of freedom to create something new and fresh, to see with new eyes and beginners mind? There is just too much assumption going on in our lives, and we know what that makes of us, all too often! Ass-u-me puts it rather succinctly.
If all of this is unconscious behaviour, then how do we access and clear these old programs? Fortunately there are many new paradigm techniques that work in a quantum level to make it easier to access and understand. What if you did not need to consciously access the information and understand anything to be clear of old strings and buttons that keep you enslaved? What if there was a one stop shopping that allowed everything from everywhere and all time to be processed instantly with effortless grace, unconsciously, while you had fun on virtual vacation somewhere in your imagination?
Heart Math has discovered that the heart is the biggest brain of the body, with more neurons than the gut or the brain itself. Heart Math also teaches us that the environment, which includes the mindfield, first signals to the heart. This information travels up the spine to the back brain which then sends it to the pre-frontal cortex, activating the chemicals to flood the body resulting in feelings and behaviours. Of course this is greatly simplified. Dr. Bruce Lipton teaches us the same thing: The environment sends signals to the body to respond. How are we responding? The body gives us the clues to our freedom.
The charged emotions in our field, many of which are undesired leftovers from the past, are what run our reality. We believe that by thinking
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Our brains are pattern recognizing organisms that are designed to signal the body to stay safe.
What if we could clear all the old limiting beliefs and thoughts and experiences that hold us back from being our magical, miraculous selves?
What if this could happen in the twinkle of a quantum instant, safely and appropriately?
Portrait of the Daughter by Alexander Bogomazov/public domain
Bruce Lipton shows us how the protein in our DNA responds to negative and positive signals that produce the movement called life and expresses as behaviour. Other luminaries like Gregg Braden and Abraham Hicks tell us that emotions are the currency of creation. This emotional and mental static is what separates us and prevents us from connecting to our essential, creative selves and our greater good in community with our collective evolutionary potential. Inner Resonance Technologies is one leading edge process. Why is IRT different, even from many modalities that use these new understandings?
IRT engages the whole being on all levels of consciousness in the timeless quantum understanding that everything is here now. Our brains and our bodies are magnificent processors with superhuman powers programmed in. Our minds are non-local and command the body which has the programs that know how to respond instantly. Psychiatry has observed and documented this in people with multiple personality disorders: some have changed their eye colour from light blue to dark brown; or been free of terminal cancer; even changing blood types, all in a fraction of a second. We all have those programs. What if we could activate that capacity through intention? What if we could direct our adult stem cells, already present and doing repair work automatically, in a default mode, to intentionally regenerate some compromised body part? We can now build workable organs in the lab; why not directly in the body? A good starting point is to clear the
I see the body as being one big receptor that resonates with our experiences, mirroring in perfect metaphor what our subconscious mind is trying to tell us we need to be aware of and be free of. Our experience is held in the mind, which as we pointed out, is a field surrounding us of charged negative/positive information to which the body is responding.
energetic information that caused the problem in the first place. These are some of the questions that IRT addresses and holds possibilities for. Another is why do we have to die when consciousness runs the body and can change the expression of our DNA? What if death was a program that could be reprogrammed or deprogrammed? What if we had deeply buried magical evolutionary codes sleeping within all of us, waiting for our consciousness to activate and co-create our individual and collective future? Gregg Braden teaches us that the signature of the name of GOD is within the code of our DNA. Nassim Haramein’s physics prove mathematically that in every cell we hold the access to the centre of our co-creative universal potential. Every cell is a black/white hole, the event horizon of our own universe. It is all within us.
We are sitting in the most amazing supercomputer using it as a word processor. Let’s wake up our magical selves and uncover our heart’s passion through freeing up our creative evolutionary natures. It is simpler and more effortless than you might imagine! Inner Resonance Technologies offers a key to get out of your mind and into the essential, miraculous nature of your heart. By Maureen Mason Edwardson Inner Resonance Technologies www.innerresonance.com Author, "Your Magical Evolutionary Code Unleashed The Science of Inner Resonance." To be released in 11-11-11 www.spiritualauthorscircle.com
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cience is becoming the modern mysticism of our day and scientists the mystics of our time. The clear lens of science is unravelling the mysteries of the inner-most workings of the mind and even the nature of consciousness itself. Perhaps now science can help the world evolve in consciousness in time for us to responsibly and intelligently use our advancements in technologies for the good of all mankind and our precious planet earth.
Discoveries in Quantum Physics have revealed as true what mystics throughout the ages have been teaching....that the quantum mind is vast, infinitely large, beyond any restrictions of space or time and existing in an eternal dimension of space. Science has proven without a doubt that the farthest reaches of both inner and outer space are infinite and now with breakthrough discoveries in quantum science, are finding the same is true of the human mind, that there are infinite levels of consciousness.
Perhaps now that the scientific world is recognizing the validity of the mystic reality of an infinite mind, and discovering the workings of the laws of the invisible quantum world, we will soon have the ability to do many of the seemingly miraculous feats the famous mystics were able to achieve. Mystics throughout the ages have always said that there is nothing special about what they can do in that it is an experience available to us all once we understand the inner invisible laws behind the visible outer manifestations.
Inner Mind The New Frontier
Practical Mysticism for the Everyday Mystic
Sail Beyond a Flat-World Paradigm
Like mariners of old, setting sail beyond a flat-world paradigm, those souls brave enough to explore the inner mind within will discover a new world of quantum possibilities, a new state of consciousness that can profoundly affect the quality of everyday life and even the future of the planet itself. All it requires is a little willingness and openness to explore a new frontier beyond the familiar mental construct of 5-sense dimension consciousness. If we are going to have any kind of effect on the current world crisis we are going to have t o h ave a d ra m a t i c s h i f t i n g l o b a l consciousness. The way we have been thinking and the value systems we have been following are going to have to evolve. Without a dramatic shift in consciousness, to intelligently and responsibly use technology,
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science will just continue to aid in speeding up our planet’s destruction. The greatest drawbacks of imperial science models has been the on-going development of what can only be short-lived, theoretical constructs and imaginings about the reality of anything. Newtonian physics cannot actually know anything about reality in its truest sense. The only way to know anything about the true nature of the reality of the inner workings of the mind and consciousness is in the pursuit of truth through subjective knowledge. The only true way to really know anything is to be that which is known. By having the subjective experience of ‘being’ that something we are then able to truly grasp its meaning. In this respect the self evident and subjective intuitive experience of reality of metaphysical science may be the truest science of all.
Carl Jung, the famous psychologist and consciousness pioneer, was quoted as saying that “there is a great truth to be
found if one studies practical mysticism to its fullest, to penetrate the deepest layers of the human mind.” Metaphysical science is the pathway into the mind – an intuitive science that probes the inner senses and levels of mind through deep meditation and metaphysical practices in order to subjectively experience the absolute revealed truth as a personal revelation. Beyond the confines of the 5-sense mental construct of consciousness lies the ultimate experience within the very centre of consciousness itself. As the time-and-space bound state of mind is transcended, the “Highest Truth” of what we are beyond our personal ego identification becomes selfevident. At the very core of consciousness itself, our inner essence, our true identity as a “Higher Universal Mind” stands revealed as our truest and most “Highest Self”. We have become a universal person with eternal character, re-claiming our sovereign state of mind.
This experience is much like when clouds disperse to reveal the brilliant radiance of the sun. A new focal point of awareness has been realized and a new reference point for consciousness is found. From this new vantage point of consciousness a higher perspective of things now becomes available to us from which we can more effectively direct and live our lives from. Here we realize a truly monumental discovery of great importance and possibly the greatest achievement of a person’s life.
No longer invested in 5-sense consciousness in the same way, time now loses its attraction and the body ceases to demand the same level of attention it used to. Similar to the quiet in the eye of a storm, there is a new place of peaceful presence from which to observe and direct life from. And you are now more aware of this quiet centre of the storm than all of its outwardly raging activity. It becomes a place of
rest to which you can always return, to listen for and hear the deeper intuitive wisdom of your “Higher Mind”.
This experience of the inner-most nature of our infinite mind is the highest transformational opportunity in a person’s life. Whether Buddhist or Christian, all mystics who have experienced this state of awakened consciousness agree that the experience is an essential element for consciousness transformation – perhaps the greatest personal step a person can take towards the realization and awareness of Universal Oneness, the key that opens the door to awake, aware and truly healthy living. The challenge at hand for us all is to unlearn, and undo, what we have been taught in order to self-reveal what we have always been and always will be. A Course in Miracles
We come to learn the greatest of truths that we really need do nothing, because we already are all that we will ever be by the pure grace of what we already truly are.
The science of mysticism is a system of practical application of spiritual technology consisting of various meditation techniques, breathing practices, shamanic practices, chakra opening techniques, yogic disciplines, hands on healing, self hypnosis, affirmative spiritual affirmations, inner reflection, concentration and focus exercises, a deep understanding of metaphysical principles, along with other spiritual tools that can help facilitate an inner connection to a new reality of consciousness.
From my own experiences of Universal Oneness through practical mysticism, I wholeheartedly agree with the mystics of all traditions that an experience of the innermost nature of the mind has the greatest power to
It is a very synchronistic event in this time of human history that science has entered into examining the inner realm of mind and consciousness. It is a necessary and needed process to help balance out the incredible advancements being made in modern day technology. We are at a critical time for life on our planet earth and a crucial point in our human evolution. We need to be consciously aware of how to use science and technology for the betterment of our planet and the personal welfare of mankind.
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transform a person’s life and that this experience of Universal Oneness is available to us all if we take full advantage of all that the practice of practical mysticism can offer. There are many roads to Rome and many pathways to the summit of human spiritual potential...our challenge is to choose one and live it; to incorporate a spiritual technology that speaks to us heart and mind. To choose and apply a practice of practical steps that can help you to unlock and reveal the secrets of the innermost workings of the mind and the true nature of our consciousness itself.
Metaphysical science holds the key for humanity to realize the great truth of our “Universal Oneness.” It is here that we come to recognize our shared reality as universal consciousness in which we are all equally joined. We will have evolved from treating others as we would treat ourselves to the realization that the other is indeed our self. Only then will we become the consciously aware stewards of earth that we are truly capable of being in the spirit of brotherly love. It is only then that we can create the harmony and peace we are seeking. It is here also that the stage will be set for the attainment of man’s highest potential – from this state of a higher mind consciousness, a person can now enter to commune and become one with the Infinite Higher Mind of Universal Consciousness Itself. Many of the wisdom teachings of the ages have been espoused and taught by modern-
Paul Scott co-creates the annual Living Vision retreat with his wife Kathie. Paul is a Transpersonal Therapist, Metaphysical Reverend, Energy Healing Practitioner and Instructor, H u s b a n d , Fa t h e r a n d Grandfather living in North Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
day mystics such as Dr. Paul Leon Masters of the International University of Metaphysics. His vision for the daily practice of practical mysticism is “If the entire world had metaphysical knowledge and lived by it, all the problems of the earth would be solved, and peace, love, harmony and prosperity would be experienced by all humankind.”
Mystical revelation will ensure that humanity continues to evolve to reach its full potential and highest pinnacle of human consciousness evolution. I’ll see you there! by Paul Scott
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By Sayed Nurjan Mirahmadi from the teachings of Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani I have planted love in my heart And shall not be distracted until I meet You. You have wounded my heart when You came near me. My desire grows, my love is bursting. He has poured me a sip to drink. He has quickened my heart with the cup of love Which He has lled at the ocean of friendship. —Bayazid al-Bistami
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In a famous Sufi tradition God said, “I cannot be found in the Heavens or on the earth, but I can be found within the heart of the one who loves Me.” It should therefore come as no surprise that the heart serves as the focus of the entire Sufi path, and that all Sufi meditation practices are based around it. According to the teachings of the Khawajgan Sufi Masters of Central Asia, the heart of each human being is under the authority of nine saints who are at the highest level in the Divine Presence. When these Saints witness that the seeker has attained enlightenment, they dress them with 6 powers. These are not powers that come from an external source, but rather they are unveiled from within the heart of the disciple. They are: • • • • • •
The Reality of Attraction The Reality of Down Pouring of Spiritual Knowledge The Reality of Focusing The Reality of Intercession The Reality of Scrolling the Dimensions of Space and Time The Reality of Guidance
Sufi sages have long understood that these six powers had been granted to all human beings without discrimination, but that if they were suppressed by the negative characteristics of the ego they could never be released. Thus, they developed the Sufi schools of self-realization, each with its own unique methods and practices, to facilitate the process of enlightenment.
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One of the most famous Sufi techniques for opening the chakra of the heart is known as “whirling,” a sacred dance based upon a gnostic understanding of the human being as a microcosm of the created universe, with the heart of the whirler representing the sun, the body representing the earth and the hand representing the moon.
We will show them our signs on the horizon and within themselves, until it will be manifest to them that it is the truth.” (Holy Quran 41: 53) As the whirler begins to spin, he or she is asking the Divine to release the light that is contained within the heart. He/she then raises the right hand asking for the Divine to send support and angelic energy, while the left hand faces down in service to creation so that the flow of angelic energy which begins to dress the individual actually flows right through them and is distributed throughout the room. “So glory to Him in whose hands is the dominion over all things” (Holy Quran 36:83)
The right hand has another major importance, as it symbolizes the reality of the moon in our creation, and the moon represents the reality of the prophets and spiritual masters. If we look directly at the sun it can blind us from its intensity. However, we can look to the moon and see the reflection of the sun’s light. The moon has no ego so it is able to perfectly reflect the light of the sun, and this was the example of the prophets and spiritual teachers who annihilated themselves in the Light of the Divine and reflected that light to their communities. So focusing on the hand becomes symbolic of the importance of maintaining focus on the spiritual path and one’s spiritual teacher, rather than on the material world, as keeping focused on the teacher would allow the soul to ascend quickly towards the Divine Presence, experiencing many ecstatic and beatific states along the way.
Like many other esoteric spiritual disciplines which discuss the subtle energy points, or chakras, found throughout the body, Sufis acknowledged their existence and developed a science for activating them. While some systems mentioned 7 specific points of subtle energy, and others mentioned 13, the Sufis maintain that there are 360 subtle energy points throughout the body based in groups of 9, all of which are under the dominion of the heart chakra. If the heart chakra is purified and activated, it can not only activate all 360 chakras, but can open the secrets of Sufi spiritual healing
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The right hand has another major importance, as it symbolizes the reality of the moon, and the moon represents the reality of the prophets and spiritual masters. We cannot look directly at the sun because of the intensity of that light, but we can look at the moon which is a reflection of the sun. Because the moon has no ego and no will of its own, it is able to reflect that light onto earth, and this was the example of the prophets and spiritual teachers. So focusing on the right hand becomes symbolic of maintaining focus on the spiritual path and one’s teacher, rather than on the material world. According to the Sufis, keeping that spiritual focus in our lives will allow the soul to ascend quickly towards the Divine Presence, experiencing many ecstatic and beatific states along the way.
“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” Thy will be done, not my will be done.
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Another important teaching of Sufi Whirling in regards to the secret of the soul’s ascension has to do with the three forces that are at work in creation: · Mass attraction · Centrifugal force (spin) · Upward thrust.
If we break down our form to its atomic structure we find that our electrons are moving counterclockwise around a nucleus, which represents the Divine Presence. Sufi Masters such as Jalal alDin Rumi were teaching that what causes the electron's movement is love – the mass attraction. The electrons wish to collide with the nucleus but there is no permission, so they begin to search for an opening, moving in an orbit known as “centrifugal force,” because when you truly love something, you don't walk away from it. So the electron is constantly searching for an opening to collide with the nucleus and reach what we call in Sufism the fana, the annihilation; to annihilate the self in the Divine Presence like a drop of rain returning to the ocean. When these two forces combine it produces "upward thrust,” and in the time of Mevlana Rumi it is said that the whirling dervishes used to levitate off the floor from the state of love and ecstasy that had overtaken their heart.
That state of love is the ultimate goal of those who begin the practice of Sufi Whirling, a practice that is deeply symbolic of the inner journey towards our true reality, and the Divine Almighty directly praises the hand of those who achieve that reality:
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God is praising the hand that will reach that reality. In that hand is dominion over all things, and those who reach to that reality will be unveiled and dressed with the secrets of the nine points. That is why Saints have Heavenly power - they opened their hearts to that reality and were given the power of the holy verse “say: Be! And it is.” If they intend something, they need only say “be” and it is, because they have a direct line to Divine Presence through their hearts. In the language of the gnostics, they were those souls who truly “knew themselves.”
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Enlightenmen
Is enlightenment some far off mystical state, eternal bliss, found somewhere over the rainbow, or is enlightenment right here, right now, on the street where you live? Are you enlightened? Is the bus driver or the woman doing yoga at the gym? Was Buddha enlightened, or Jesus, or Rumi? What about Socrates? The Oracle of Delphi was a woman. Was she enlightened? Who cares about enlightenment? Most struggle just to make it through the day. Half of the people living on the planet don’t have clean drinking water. Environmental pollution, traffic jams, suicide bombers, shabby schools, poor health care, wars, rising prices, two jobs, longer work weeks, lying politicians. Who has time to be enlightened?
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As the world heats up so do the challenges we face. Our challenges are becoming bigger, faster and more
complex. These problems can’t be solved at the level that created the problem. Conflicts between cops and robbers, Republicans and Democrats, Arabs and Jews, unions and corporations, street gangs, husbands and wives, emanate from the categories that define their relationships. One has to go beyond the category that caused the problem to see the problem clearly and from that expanded position ask penetrating questions. If you and I, ordinary people, don’t see beyond the level that causes our problems, their expanding weight, complexity and intensity will crush us. We have no choice. The time has come for each of us to become enlightened, not in a cave, not on the shores of the Ganges, in some temple or monastery. We haven’t the time. We must become enlightened right here, right now, as we meet the day-to-day challenge of living.
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Because Our Lives Depend on It
Our failure to see beyond the problem prevents us from discovering that we are the problem. The source is a particular state of mind we call “normal.” Our normal state produces a steady stream of inner images, thoughts, assumptions, feelings and beliefs with their implied conflicts and confusion. We then use the same state of mind to sort out the confusion this state creates. The more we try to solve the problem the deeper and more complex our problems become. And we have remained in this normal state, like a donkey tethered to a post, for thousands of years. The Tibetans have a phrase, Lhag Thong, to describe a state that sees beyond appearances, a state they call “transcendent insight.” The famous Sanskrit mantra gate, gate, paramgate, parasamgate, Bodhi, Swaha honors this transcendent state. “Oh wisdom that sees beyond, beyond even the concept of
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Enlightenment is this state of perception that sees beyond the limitations of our own conditioning, our memories, ghost feelings, thoughts, beliefs and the conflicts they create. We
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might think of enlightenment as a “resetbutton,” one that evaporates the conflicts and confusion created by our normal way of seeing. Hit the switch and the body/mind instantly “reaches beyond” the confusion it creates. And in this original state we see and respond to the world exactly as it is. Nice idea. Now
where is the button?
Joseph Chilton Pearce, in his book, “The Biology of Transcendence” claims that the vital force that drives biology, and by implication the human experience,
Transcendence means “overcoming limitation and constraint.” Transcendence is an action word, a verb. is transcendence.
Physicist David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti describe insight and intelligence as states of relationship that evokes a deeper response than one’s conditioning. Insight and intelligence are too subtle to be bound by the limitations imposed by this conditioning. “We can’t catch the wind in a paper bag,” insisted Alan Watts. Our conditioned mind is the paper bag. “The name that can be named is not the eternal name,” proclaims the first line of the Tao Te Ching. The word is not the thing. Insight and intelligence are not concepts. They are states of perception, moving. Insight and intelligence are verbs.
We have created most of the challenges we must now solve. We are the problem. Our habit, however, is to try to fix the problem out there. Most are like the man in the Sufi story standing under a street lamp. A friend approaches and asks, “What are you looking for?” “My keys,” shouts the man under the lamp post. “Where did you lose them?” asked the friend. “In the dark.” “Then why are you looking here?” “Because here is where the light is...” Like a dog chasing its tail we keep looking in the same places and never find what we are looking for. We remain stuck at the level of the problem.
The essential point about verbs is that the actions they describe take place now, in the present
“the future is now.” “All time, the past, the present and the future, is contained now. You can see this point for yourself,” he said. “I am what I have been. If I don’t change now I will be tomorrow exactly what I am now.” The state of my relationship to this moment creates the next, which is the future. The future is now. moment. Krishnamurti said simply –
This insight represents a radical shift in perception and values. We create the future by the way we relate to the present. Our relationship to the world, moment by moment, expresses in the body and mind as different states - curious, afraid, horny, lazy. Like a river each of us is defined this moment by the ebb and flow of our changing states of relationship. My life, your life, all of life, is “state specific.” We literally Touch the Future by the way we relate to the present. A change this moment creates a different future. The transformation we seek must take place now. Now is the only leverage we have. Nothing else works. Most aren’t focusing on the state of their relationship this moment. We are too busy trying to change the future, change our husbands, our wives, our children, trying to change our mothers. This “normal” state keeps us trapped at the level of the problem we are trying to fix. We are the dogs and we are the tails we are chasing.
Where is the reset button that evaporates this confusion and restores the body and mind to its
natural order? Trying harder only causes us to chase our tails faster. Pouring more information into the system creates the illusion that we have multiple tails to chase. Effort, will, more data are parts of the pattern that causes the problem. Using the pattern that created the problem to solve the problem is insane. “Beam me up, Scotty.” Take me to another level, to a state that transcends this compounding confusion. Hit the reset button and do it NOW! Somewhere in the bible appears the phrase,
“Be Yee transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Translation – go to the next level. Break the pattern that is causing the confusion and its conflicts. Transcend the pattern. Transcendence is a verb. Verbs describe actions. The reset button must be an action that happens now. What action can take place this moment that will break the pattern that creates the problem? We call the pattern that is crushing us normal. Normal is normal because it is, well, “normal.” Normal is home base. Normal is what feels safe, familiar. Normal is the pattern we keep repeating. Normal is the grove in a record, if you can remember back that far. The needle we call attention tracks in well established groves. Normal is made up of assumptions, millions of little habits, conditioned reflexes. Bohm referred to this collection of habits as the “reflex system.” Reflexes are predetermined responses, based on past conditioning, that operate mechanically. Tap the knee and the leg jerks. Conscious attention and intelligence were not needed.
“I am what I have been. If I don’t change now I will be tomorrow exactly what I am now.”
Insight and intelligence can’t come from the conditioned level in which we live most of our lives. Pa t t e r n s . . . w i t h i n Patterns..repeatable and predictable!
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The leg jerked mechanically in response to a trigger, a stimulus. Most of our behavior, the way we live our lives, our personal identity and self image, all the things we call normal, are defined and driven by the reflex system. Reflexes are great. They help us stand up, walk across the floor, tie our shoes, ride a bicycle, talk to our neighbor, drive a car. Reflexes begin as intelligence but slowly all the intelligence is squeezed out. Watch how this happens. When learning anything new, we give complete attention to the experience. We touch, taste, smell, wonder, test, and explore. This entrained energy and attention etches new neural networks in the brain. We repeat the pattern, tying our shoes, until we can do it with little or no attention, no real intelligence. The pattern becomes a reflex. Day after day, year after year we build new neural networks in response to new challenges. We repeat these patterns, adding to the collection of reflexes we call normal. Reflexes are automatic. Reflexes are habits. Like a hairball this steady accumulation of reflexes takes on a life of its own. In no time thousands, perhaps millions of reflexes begin firing every day. This automatic firing of reflexes stimulates the brain, which responds by creating a corresponding flow of internal images. Responding to the imagery generated by reflexes, the brain abstracts another type of image, that of a “creator” creating, a “thinker” who thinks. This second level of imagery abstracted from the first is so convincing that we soon believe there is a permanent entity, a “doer,” causing and controlling all this activity. The source of most of our problems does not come from the first, primary layer of images; it comes from the second layer, abstracted from the first.
Being the creators of everything we do, this abstracted image takes on supreme
importance.
Survival depends on preserving and
protecting the integrity of this image. If someone questions the appropriateness of our behavior we experience this as a direct assault on the captain of our ship, which is “I.” On close examination we discover that the all important thinker/doer, the image we call me, myself and I, is a mirage created by the wake of automatic reflexes rippling through the ocean of our consciousness. Most never see this, however; they are too busy looking for their keys under the lamp post. It is not the brain’s fault that it creates all these images. Creating images is a unique function that distinguishes a brain from other organs. Each major brain system creates a different type of image. The sensory motor brain creates sensory images. We call the images created by the limbic regions of the brain feelings and emotions. The neo-cortex creates symbolic and metaphoric images. All three systems and several others flood consciousness with different types of images twenty-four-seven. Survival depends on the integrity, the accuracy, and the truthfulness of these images. No wonder we defend them as if our life depended on it, because it does. As we learn and grow, the reflex system expands. This growth increases the flow of inner imagery automatically generated by the system. Conflicts in the reflex-data-base are inevitable. These create a disturbance requiring attention, what we might call routine maintenance. More reflexes demand greater energy and attention to maintain the system. Vital energy and attention once invested in learning and performance turn inward, marking the end of what Ashley Montagu called the “genius of childhood.” Gradually this transfer of resources from learning to maintenance and defense of the reflex system curtails development. Personal growth stops. We begin chasing our own tail. The faster we run, the more stuck we get at the level that created the problem.
This pattern, the normal state of our body and mind, is fertile ground for conflicts. Like a computer virus, the source code that creates most of our problems is woven into this pattern. What is needed is a quality of energy, an action that generates a different state of perception. What is needed is Lhag Thong, transcendent insight, passionate energy and attention to see beyond the appearances created by the reflex system. This passionate energy and attention affects the body and mind like a magnet placed under iron filings affects the relationship each particle of iron has to the next. A small coherent force brings a large chaotic pattern to order.
Neither the reflex system nor the iron filings can bring about this change, no matter how hard they try. An energy or state that is “beyond” level that created the problem is needed. Enlightenment is the effect this passionate energy and attention has on the particular state of body and mind we call “normal.” Bohm and Krishnamurti call this passionate energy and attention intelligence. They call the expression of intelligence in
the body- mind, “insight.” Insight and intelligence can’t come from the conditioned level in which we live most of our lives. The reflexive mind can’t produce intelligence or insight. It can allow it however, invite it, by recognizing the limitations of its own conditioning. How do we remove this virus from our operating system? What action can take place this moment that will break the pattern that keeps creating the problems that are crushing us? How do we access and gather the energy and attention necessary to transcend and transform the normal state in which we live, because our lives depend on it? Next time... by Michael Mendizza For more on insight, intelligence and the reflex system please see David Bohm: Print: http://ttfuture.org/services/visionaries/Dbohm/ ndex.html Audio: http://ttfuture.org/services/publications/d_audio_bohm.htm Book: Bohm: Thought As A System
Meditate Contemplate Create Listen to your inner wisdom. Find your center and be still, LISTEN.
INtuition, INspiration, INsight
The kingdom of God does not come in a way as to be seen. No one will say: Here it is! Because the kingdom is within you. — The Gospel of Luke —
The Way is not in the sky, The Way is in the heart. - The Buddha
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The Veil Amongst the Earth is Thinning. We are starting to remember who we truly are beyond a five-sense reality. The cosmic energy that is uplifting our Earth from inside is bringing us into
an expanded state of conscious awareness.
The programming that has been with our
civilizations for centuries is now beginning to slip away as more of us continue to wake up. The acceleration of a universal truth portrayed through each of us in our own unique way helps us to completely pierce through the veil that has concealed a greater reality beyond anything we can
The time is coming closer where that veil will completely dissolve and our true adventure in expanded consciousness will begin. imagine.
You need to remember that you have always been in charge of your life. That every decision you have made has not been brought about as an outcome labeled in error, but as an experience to bring you where you want to be. We all have passions, dreams and intend to live the most harmonious life imaginable. We are reaching a transcendence point past the veil of limitation where our world and everything within it is changing dramatically. Are you ready to change in unison with the planet as she prepares to birth new consciousness? Are you ready to birth the new you?
“Accelerating our Evolution”
We have reached the point in our evolution now where we can truly create our passions and manifest them into solid reality. What does it take to bring this ability into our lives? It takes the love, trust and confidence of you to bring this together.
Thousands of people are beginning to wake up across the world each and every single day. They reach the point where they realized that there is no need to function inside a box filled with secrets, lies and denial. They have passed through the veil of limitation and they are stepping into a whole new game where you are able to transcend as far as you wish. Our imagination is boundless and so is our ability to create what we are passionate about. Through our intention, we can steer ourselves towards manifesting the life we have always wanted to experience.
What gets in our way of bringing these exciting changes about is our conditioning. Everyone on this planet is conditioned in some shape, way or form. Even those who inspire us day to day had to go through a time of forgiveness to transcend beliefs that prevented their teachings to be heard. Every man, woman and child has challenges to go through. But regardless of the trials and tribulations you are encountering in your life, you are no more less nor greater in divinity than anyone else on this planet or beyond. As spirit, we are all equal, we are all infinite and we are all unique.
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ow did this all begin for me? My spiritual journey began in 2008 and it has been an incredible rollercoaster ride. Throughout the span of three years as an awakened soul, I have become a natural conscious conduit who has u n l o ck e d h i m s e l f t o r e c e ive h i g h e r dimensional downloads. This began strongly in my dream states and became far more intense during my times of deep meditation. Throughout my awakening, I was amazed at how much I was learning in such a short amount of time. As I look back at the past three years, I feel as if I have attained nearly over a decade of spiritual knowledge within this span. The understandings of oneness, the essence of love, the flow of universal mechanics, and the dialogue with creation is now as natural to me as it is to breathe. I know that through my accelerated awakening, I was to make use of this ability. Firstly, to empower myself and tie up the loose ends I had within my life. As I reached that time of self-fulfillment within those several months of solitude, I knew I was ready to continue to the next step. It was time for me to pass on what I have attained to those who require this new form of knowing I possess.
Through this sharing, I am passionate in bringing about practices that have been utilized to transform me into an empowered human being within the span of three years. As I have gone through this process, I am excited to share the highlights of how one can transcend their own evolution even quicker and become the loving, empowered being they have always wanted to be. If you are willing to change, adapt and become a beacon of confidence willing to forgive yourself and see your challenges as observations, you are already on the right track to greatly accelerating your evolution.
With my experience as a conscious channel, remote viewer, energetic healer and spiritual researcher, through my telepathic downloads I frequently receive, I produce innovative practices that have not been conceived of before that hold the potential for expansive benefit.
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Through my three years of experiencing the concept of awakening, I have attained knowledge and wisdom far beyond anything found in the physical.
Through my journey of working to become the empowered self, I have received insight that can help give others the training necessary to fully empower themselves through a transition of acceleration. What I share through my lectures are methods that work to deal with the day-to-day fluctuations of our vibration that can bring us to our high and low periods. The methods rely upon subtlety and self-observation. They also involve being mindful of habitual mannerisms that trigger certain forms of egocentric thought patterns. Most importantly, these methods help to better understand one’s self as they work to accelerate their evolution as an advanced human being. With love, gratitude and appreciation, Brad Johnson. areyouselfempowered.com
YOUR ARE WHAT YOU LOVE
You Are What You Love by Vaishali
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our are what you love, and you love whatever you are giving your attention to. Eastern Spiritual teachings and many psychologies profess that whatever you give your attention to, is what you are making your God. If, for example, you spend all your time thinking about that next cigarette, then you have just made that next nicotine fix your God. If you are worrying about: your bills, your daughter’s boyfriend with the spiked hair, the price of oil, the likelihood of another terrorist attack or CNN’s reported “fear du jour”, then yo u l o v e w o r r y i n g a n d stressing out about your life. Surprising isn’t it?! Not really, because we in the West consider love to be associated with something we have a p o s i t i v e a f f e c t i o n f o r. However, according to the Eastern sciences of self-healing, love is where your attention goes, regardless of whether or not it is for something ultimately life enhancing.
The link between love and attention is synonymous, because of the Eastern definition of our Spiritual nature. Spirit is awareness itself. Spirit is inseparable from awareness, consciousness, or any other buzzword you’d like to use for it. Consciousness is what we bring with us when we come to the Earth plane. It is also what we take with us when the body expires and we shed the mortal coil. Awareness is our Divinity, our God juice so
to speak. Therefore whatever we give our attention to, we are empowering with lifegiving energy. Suddenly the value of being more discriminate with our attention seems like a Spiritually mature and Enlightened thing to do. Our physical body, it comes complete with a nervous system. The the purpose of this sensory feedback mechanism is that it keeps us real about what we are giving our attention to, because now we have to feel it. So how can we be sure if we are surrendering our attention to something that truly has our best interest at heart? Well, how does it make you feel? When you tell yourself that you do not, and will never have enough time, love, money or opportunity, how does that make you feel? When you convince yourself that you need to foster a story, with your attention, that your butt is so big it is generating its own gravitational field, just to keep you from devouring another box of Twinkies, ask yourself how does that communication make you feel? Could there possibly be a kinder, gentler route one could navigate awareness
“Body, beloved friend, I love you, I care for you and I will only give you the highest food respect I can, because I value your healthy and w e l l - b e i n g .” How does the through such as,
communication you give your attention to feel? The feeling feedback we get is the ‘keep it real’ arena that Prime Source has blessed us with. If we monitor these feelings, we can minimize confusion and uncertainty.
When we run an inner dialogue that qualifies everyone on the freaking planet as having the I.Q. of an amoeba, except ourselves of course, how does that makes us feel? Frustrated? Annoyed? Superior in a mean spirited way? Giving our attention to a story that our personal Divinity is greater than the God consciousness of others, clearly is not something running rampant among the Angels in Heaven. What we give our attention to is the highest form of inner Spiritual alchemy available to anyone. The physical, outerworld based alchemy reality is simply a metaphor for turning the heaviest of our thoughts, the lead, into the purest gold of our focused attention. And unlike the arduous exterior atomic version of alchemy, the inner can be accomplished in an instant, in the blink of an eye, without expensive equipment, nasty bad smelling acids, or cluttered laboratories. Inner alchemy happens as quickly as it takes to release the dark and turn towards the Light.
When you are watching your mind, your attention, you are also in the present moment. Being aware of where you are going with your mind, is like strapping on a seat belt that keeps you firmly in the here and now driver’s seat. The times when you lose track of what you are doing with your attention, is when you are most likely to start projecting off into the future, or withdrawing to relive some past event. Watching the flow of our awareness keeps the present moment on the radar screen. L e t t i n g t h e m i n d wa n d e r w i t h o u t consciousness to what you are loving, what you are making your God, is when the ‘you are here’ red dot drops off the radar, and
the plane starts to lose altitude. This is the entire purpose behind practicing any form of meditation; it keeps you in the now, watching the thoughts come up and practice letting them go. If you never practice opening your mind and letting go of your “stories”, how will you have that skill when you need it? Aligning ourselves with the truth that you are what you love, and you love whatever you are giving your attention to, is why every Spiritual creature is having a physical experience. Having the Blessed opportunity to feel the truth of that higher Spiritual reality, in an arena we cannot fake, is why the Earth was created. Surrendering our free will and attention only and solely to what resides in Heaven, no matter what the physical world throws at you, is the life purpose of every person, everywhere, throughout all of time.
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Journey into the Your
Heart
with Cacao
Where to start...My Journey into my heart. Well, I was introduced to the concept of "journeying medicine" when a dear friend invited me to a Goddess Circle for a Cacao Ceremony I was curious...described as the "black gold" of the Mayans; treated like money and treasured for its transformative properties. Now, I know that chocolate has been acknowledged by the American Medical Association as one of the world's healthiest foods. in fact, some consider it to be the #1 source of magnesium of any food. Also, research has shown dark chocolate to also be the #1 antioxidant food, with approximately twice as many antioxidants as red wine and three times as many as green tea. Chocolate contains an abundance of Phenylethylamine (PEA) and Anandamide, two chemicals that can make your brain feel focused and happy – in fact, Anandamide’s name was created from the Sanskrit word Ananda which means
“bliss”.
Now, the Mayans considered cacao one of their most powerful deities and travelled up to 1200 miles to get their cacao while they had TWO journeying plants growing right under their feet, hauling back enough cacao to fill up the over 800 little cups found at an archaeological dig - at 8 people per pound per ceremonial dose - that would be one long and heavy haul, and with mushrooms and peyote right there, what did they know about cacao that made them go to all of this trouble for their “journey”?
Well, it must be about INTENTION. You see, Cacao takes you on an amazing journey to the heart. And the best way to illustrate this, as I see it, is to tell my own story...orchestrated beautifully by the Universe, of course... So, I've decided to go to the Goddess Gathering - I had been meaning to make it to a Goddess Gathering for some time and this one just worked out (wink) - and through a few circumstances, (wink wink) I find myself sitting in a very cold room (open window turned out to be the culprit), with the ceremony starting an hour late (whatever) after I had been lost for an hour getting there (weird road sign that everyone else ignored) and a few other little things that had me very witchy and twitchy. And I was starting to think that this had better be very, very good or I was going to be very, very annoyed (what a setup!).
Yes, in hindsight, I do see how, if I weren't SO freaking annoyed about everything, there wouldn't have been enough of a contrast for even me to see the gift of Cacao, as I can be very analytical in my head. The neutral mind is my gift, apparently, any time I want to claim it.
Cacao - Raw Chocolate
So I start to drink this very bitter luke-warm chocolate (I have since been told that it can be hot and not affect the integrity of the journey as cacao can take temperatures above 115 degrees – the usual threshold for anything “raw”- and maintain integrity) and am thinking "If this has no effect, I have just paid $65 for a cup of cold cacao! And it doesn't even taste all that great! It’s all grainy! And where's the yummy? Where is the sweetness, the smoothness, the creeeeaaaaammmmmm?!!!!!" Well, all that stuff - it just gets in the way of the cacao - the more you add to it, the slower your body processes those beneficial chemicals mentioned earlier, the slower the assimilation in the organs, the slower the path to the heart of all the hormones activated by all of those amazing properties that they've been telling you belong to chocolate but have failed to mention are not found in a box or a bar! The chocolate in the box or the bar will not take you where real chocolate, raw, undiluted chocolate, will take you, as that chocolate is so processed it no longer resembles CACAO! Anyway, I'm in this STATE. And then...I start to feel it. Everything is softening. Love is literally moving into my mind where critical thinking had been just moments ago...I no longer cared about the temperature of the room (it was warmer though, I'm sure of it) or the crazy journey to the place or anything that took place before I started sipping this transformative elixir! Ever heard it said that "the longest journey we EVER take is only 18 inches long and it’s the journey from our head to our heart"? Wanna take a short cut? Now, I'm not saying do Cacao instead of your personal work! Please. But what a joy – to be given this gift – to be transported into such deliciousness. And since we never return to the exact same place that we left, what a Blessing! And then (back to the Goddesses) we did some transformational breathing. I have done and witnessed plenty of breathing so I was not necessarily expecting anything in particular, but neither was I prepared for the visioning that I received. Without going into detail, I was shown and I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, through the vision I received, that I am the Divine Feminine (of course!) and it is my job, my JOY and my PURPOSE to embody that to the very best of my ability, to never forget that is my purpose, in what is left of my lifetime, this time.
I could hardly wait to get Paul to try it!!! As the Universe would have it, that was only a week away!
So we're given our Cacao and cautioned only to drink 60% of it as we must allow the body to assimilate before the full dose can be drank as it can have a "detoxifying" effect and that is best to gage before consuming a full dose. In fact, one of the properties of drinking cacao is that it flushes the liver - of anger! Well, “circumstances” had me all topped up in that respect by the time the mug met my lips!
purchased locally. I was nervous that it have the same effect, as I wanted Paul to have an equally impactful experience (control freak to the end). Well, this journey could not have been more different for me! And no less impactful! What I see now, in hindsight, is that I truly stepped into the Divine Feminine during that second ceremony. I honoured male and female; I met each person in the room at my deepest, most Divine Feminine. Paul, being Paul, went deeper into where he likes to live most of the time anyway, and would always, if the world would either stop interrupting him or join him! So...now we are both committed to bringing Cacao to our work, to our play and to our community.
In, Swedish, scientist Carl von Linnaeus thought Cacao to be so important that he names the genus and species of the chocolate bean tree Theobroma Cacao – the literal translation being, “food of the Gods”! Ju s t wh a t t h e Indigenous Native Americans called it." (Naked Chocolate, David Wolfe)
And between ceremonies I had scoured the Internet and found a
Sacred Cacao
Ceremony Shaman in Guatemala. His reply to my first email to him
was that if I was "in town" to "come to my house for a Ceremony - take the steep road down the hill - I'm the first house on the left". It felt so welcoming! Since, we have Skyped and emailed and I have learned as much as I can about Sacred Cacao Ceremony from this distance, and have found there isn't much info available to be had, really, other than word of mouth, and through our Guatemalan Chocolate Shaman, Keith, the Real Willy Wonka! If you are interested in diving into the mystic you can find Keith at http://www.ceremonialcacao.blogspot.com
It was at the mixed ceremony (men and women) that I sampled the Ecuadorian Cacao
And if you’re in British Columbia, Canada, join us for our Awakened Heart Sacred Cacao Ceremony .
We have blended practically every teaching Paul and I have taken to create a Journey with the Holy Bean. As Oneness Blessings Givers, we love and enjoy a breathing method from Oneness called Ananda Mandala - it is very to the point – and we add another 8 chakras to the first 7 with a vortexing meditation. In my training as a Kundalini Yoga Instructor, we learn the profound effects of opening energy pathways and our participants are having great results with this add-on to Ananda Mandala – truly, truly transformative shifts. We also offer the Oneness Blessing, enhanced with the Cacao too!
One ounce (28 gm) per person is enough for many inner activities and may bring on deep emotional release. Certainly sufficient for open-heartedness. Everyone is different. Many have experienced emotional release or energetic blending with the Cacao Deva from munching one bean or from the first sip. A ceremonial dose taken after about 3pm will likely have you awake late, unless you are tired from emotional release... although the occasional person can nap on a full ceremonial dose (it is called resistance). If you allow your density up, and then block its release, expect a 'chocolate hangover' the next day until the energies dissipate or you get them repressed again. It is just energy... it has to go somewhere. You will have 30-40% more blood flowing to your brain with cacao... no pharmaceutical drug does this. Your skin will have almost double the oxygenation... touch is different if your intent or heart is involved. The heart connecting also contributes to cacao being called an aphrodisiac.
A larger or full ceremonial amount of cacao combined with aerobic activity or a hot spring/ tub/ sweat could make anyone nauseous. Taking cacao on a food or liquid occupied stomach, or with food, will slow assimilation - which you might want sometimes. This works well with something like hiking, or long hours of focused creative activity. Cacao has long been considered marvellous trekking nourishment (although the vasodilatation might lead to extra heat loss at sub-zero temperatures).
Ceremony
I place the Ceremony group on a Quantum Bio-Feedback Protocol with the emphasis on Body to Soul Connection, Aura Cleansing and Chakra Balancing with some physical aspects such as Spinal Alignment - for Pranic flow – and clearing of the major Miasm showing for the group.
Cacao Ceremony with Paul and Kathie Scott
So what else do we know about Cacao! Caca was the food of ancient Aztecs, used for 1000’s of years as a delivery mechanism for foods. In fact, as one of the most chemically complex foods on the planet, we barely comprehend the power of raw Cacao and how it helps open capillaries and assists in increasing absorption of food, so anything taken with it is better absorbed by the body – put some in your morning smoothie! Packed with minerals, nutrients and vitamins loaded with Anandamides the “Bliss Chemicals” – it just makes us feel great and the PEA in raw cacao is an adrenal-related chemical - also created in our brains naturally and released when we “feel love” - that also increases focus...perhaps that’s why we get a “little obsessed” when we first fall in love? Raw cacao is also rich in calcium, vitamin C (sorry, doesn’t exist in processed chocolate) and iron (314% of the daily iron that we need). It is also the #1 antioxidant content food in the world and has chromium and magnesium which are also the #1 nutrients deficient among North Americans magnesium is excellent for heart health while chromium helps balance blood sugar! Raw Cacao also has omega-6 Essential Fatty Acids (EFA), while cooked chocolate contains rancid omega 6 or trans fat which can cause inflammation. And it doesn’t matter how you “take your cacao” – all of these benefits are there whether you’re drinking it or chewing on the beans or the little broken bits known as nibs or in powder form – just eat it! Here are some contraindications from the Chocolate Shaman of Guatemala - if you should not partake, you will see yourself described here.
Contraindications: Those who are toxic (as with an intervention like chemotherapy), or need a dietetic detox, may become nauseous 5-6 hours after a large dose, as the bitter stimulates the liver... if so drink water!
FACT: Cacao (Chocoloate) is one of the most chemically complex foods on the planet.
Those into fasting or a raw diet may ‘overdose’ on even a small quantity. Fasting before a ceremonial dose is not necessary - and I don't recommend it for first-timers as an empty system may accelerate assimilation and bring on bitter-related nausea. Normal or light eating a few hours beforehand is fine. Cacao acts as a food... Many antidepressants do NOT mix with the tryptophan and MAO inhibitors in cacao... Google your meds! Heart conditions: cacao increases heart rate significantly, and is a vasodilator, reducing blood pressure. Go easy at first if you have a very low blood pressure. Real chocolate is fatal to dogs (and I hear parrots and horses) who genetically lack the enzyme to metabolize Theobromine... and so have a heart attack. No more than an ounce (28 gm) with pregnancy or breast feeding, and not that much until you know cacao and understand your own pace with it. If you get migraines from coffee, be cautious with cacao. Go easy on the caffeine or coffee in the hours before a ceremonial amount of cacao... too buzzy, no focus. Coffee and cacao as mocha is fine... but a poor combination in ceremony. The general agreement is that there is little caffeine in cacao... it is mostly a sister molecule, Theobromine (it takes a sophisticated chemical test to tell them apart, hence the frequent statements about caffeine in cacao). Reminder: headache, including next day - drink water! (Theobromine is diuretic.) Taking a small amount of cacao before sleeping (try 0.3 oz/ 8.5 gm) will help you remember your dreams... I find it works better than alcohol or caffeine which is sometimes recommended for this purpose. So, in summary, no coffee, no food a couple of hours before, and no hot bath that morning. No, no, no and know, know, know! Know yourself, know your limits, know what you want and go for it!
Cost of $45/person, $80/couple – this includes your mug of Cacao, a 3-hour Ceremony/Meditation and delicious, raw snacks afterwards. Pre-registration required at info@quantumlife.ca or by calling Kathie at 604-813-4543
Location: Ayurveda on
4th
- 3636
W. 4th Ave., Vancouver, A few doors down from Banyen Books
Awaken Your
Heart Cacao - raw chocolate - A “Mother Medicine” that takes you on a journey, not a “trip”,
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Cacao “food for the Shift”, in
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Heart Meditation, and the Chakra Ascension Breathing guided by Paul and Kathie Scott can be a powerful catalyst for personal transformation.
Luxuriate in the Spirit of
Cacao, in the earthy essence of the sacred food for the shift! You’ll be amazed – it really is “just chocolate”! Raw cacao actually does everything you’ve ever heard chocolate can do but haven’t ever found in a bar or a box – it is a natural, potent, antioxidant, heart-opening super food! Image by Fir0002/GNU
Prepared as
close to the traditional Mayan way as we know with
purified water and a dash of cayenne pepper.
Life
Mystical Mind Love
Heart
Bonding
Evolution
Intimacy
Love Story
SYNCROHEARTS I think most people will admit that our lives have become too busy. Sometimes it can feel like there is not
enough time in the day to get all of the things done that are on our expanding list. Birthdays, holidays and special occasions seem to sneak up faster each year. Some scientists claim that time is speeding up, but perhaps we are just adding too many demands on our time. Research indicates that we are sleeping less, working more and juggling too many priorities. Family therapists advise us that our relationships are not receiving the attention that they deserve. The high divorce rate could be an indication that our priorities are out of balance. Perhaps it is time to focus more of our attention on love. The following love story helped to remind me about the importance of celebrating love everyday.
Marcy & Ricks Story Marcy and Rick had been through a lot together in their relationship. They shared happy moments, loving memories and fond experiences. They also faced challenging obstacles to their love bond. At times, they disagreed about money, they had conflicting priorities and sometimes, they said things; that they wished they could take back. Their relationship was typical of a couple learning about love. Their most important love lesson occurred during Marcy’s fight with terminal cancer. It was a fast track lesson from diagnosis to bedside mourning in a matter of weeks. Rick clung to her side and whispered loving messages. Marcy struggled to respond, but her ability to share her words were choked off by the cancer’s stranglehold on her vocal chords. He would lean closer and closer trying to hear her muffled words. It was upsetting for him as he reflected on the times in their relationship, when he deliberately tuned her out. Now he would give anything to tune back in to her message.
On their final day together the hospital room was filled with loving family and close friends. Did they come to say good bye, or did they intuitively know that they were about to witness a life changing lesson in love? As Rick and Marcy shared their final moment together, she opened her eyes wide and bright, she drew her last deep breath, and she said very clearly “I Love You”. The room fell silent as those
Dr. Love and his relationship board game “Synchrohearts”, was just announced as the winner
of the Best Brilliant Idea for Humanity Contest (BBIFH) www.bestideaforhumanity.com/about.cfm
loving souls witnessed a miraculous end to a love story and a powerful lesson in love. Life is too short not to love! My “love mission” is to help couples open their hearts and celebrate love with our
Our intimate relationships need to be nourished with lots of love, laughter, playtime, intimate communication and more romance. We are truly blessed Syncrohearts Relationship Game.
to be able to experience intimate love. We can honor this gift by making more time to celebrate love. My vision is to share Syncrohearts with the world. We are very grateful for the local support and all of the loving testimonials, from as far away as Iran and Australia. I feel grateful to be able to write and speak on love. It fills my heart when I can help open the hearts of others. I love imagining a world that is filled with love. We would love, care for and respect all of our brothers and sisters. We would honour our planet and treat mother earth with the care and respect that she deserves. We would heal our differences in the shadows and light up the universe with new possibilities of love. It is time because life is too short not to love. Just ask Rick, as he hangs on to Marcy’s last few words – I Love You.
Lots of love Dr. Love
Dr. Love and his relationship board game “Synchrohearts”, was just announced as the winner
of the Best Brilliant Idea for Humanity Contest (BBIFH) www.bestideaforhumanity.com/about.cfm
Syncrohearts Relationship Game www.syncrohearts.com "The Game You Love to Play and Play to Love"
His forthcoming book will help open the hearts
"Dr Love's prescription for Becoming a Romantic Loving Man" of men;
"It is not the little blue pill" This love book will be a comical story about my transition from a forestry guy to a “Dr. Love in training”. I am writing this book to help the average get off the couch, open his heart and realize his true potential as a romantic loving man. We need the love and support of all the women in our lives. This love book will be insightful for women to help men open our hearts and expose our loving souls. It is time to break the bad habits from older generations and give hope to new generations. This love book is a tribute to my dad and a message of hope for my son.
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Dr. Love is a natural expert on love and relationships and the inventor of the successful love relationship game called Syncrohearts. He was inspired to create this game to help enhance his own marriage and now his “love game” is adding lots of love, laughter, great communication and more romance for couples around the world. During the development of Syncrohearts, a life changing transformation took place for the former forestry guy. As he came out of the forest, his heart opened, he became a romantic loving man and he was awarded with the honorary title of Dr. Love. Dr Love is an international speaker and author on the topic of love and relationships. He has been featured in national print, radio and television media. He twice earned the opportunity to try and slay the “Dragons” with love on the CBC Dragons Den, a reality TV program in Canada. He recently won the 2011 Best Brilliant Idea for Humanity Contest. His love mission supports a very worthwhile charity, the Zajac Ranch for kids with special needs.
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Shawn Gallaway is a visual artist, singer songwriter, author, ceremonial healer, workshop facilitator, energy worker and Certified Lifeline Practitioner. He has traveled through out the world sharing his healing message and has recently shared the stage with the Dalai Lama, authors Gregg Braden, Bruce Lipton, Robert Holden, Darren Weissman, T. Harv Ecker, and with rock and pop masters Orleans, Jimi Jamison, Dave Jenkins, Allan Parsons and Robbie Dupree.
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In To Me I See
Intimacy
A
ny relationship based on need exposes the
wounded ego and is sooner or later bound to fail.. To experience intimacy with another being, you first need to experience it with yourself. Intimacy requires openness, honesty, and full acceptance and love of yourself. If you can’t be open and honest with yourself and can’t accept and love yourself as you are, it will be impossible to truly accept and love someone else. You can only relate to others as deeply as you can relate to yourself. It’s important to understand why you get sad, angry, or frustrated when your needs are not fulfilled. Intimacy requires understanding, and if you cannot understand yourself, how can you understand someone else? It is impossible to change your pattern of neediness by rejecting it. Just to say that you are not going to be needy any longer is not enough. Changing any pattern requires more awareness of yourself. You stay needy because you don’t know yourself. As a result, you stay insecure and always look to others for validation. To stop being needy, you must see your wounded ego and understand your selfishness. To see your selfishness is painful. To admit that you are insecure is painful. Unless you understand that your partner is not responsible for fulfilling your needs and making you feel secure, you won’t be able to mature and take responsibility for your own life. Your partner has his
own needs to take care of.
If you want to break your
Intimacy
pattern of neediness, first accept it, then understand its cause and take full responsibility for it. Without understanding the
cause of your neediness and taking responsibility for it, you cannot find your inner truth and power. Without finding and living your own truth and inner power, it is impossible to break any pattern. To come out of neediness you need to learn to give to yourself what you hope to receive from others. Without this, you will remain a beggar and your needs can never be fulfilled. Instead of trying to find ways to satisfy your needs from outside, find ways to satisfy them from inside through your own creativity. Watch your needs and remind yourself that you are not the needs but simply a witness that sees and feels them. Watching your needs from inside will help you see them from a distance, understand their cause, and dis-identify from them. Normally, instead of understanding and taking responsibility for our needs, we struggle to change something about ourselves so others will love and accept us and give us what we want. When our needs are not met we feel rejected, insecure or angry and try to justify our feelings by blaming others or ourselves. When you blame others or think of yourself as a victim, you either feel self-righteous and push yourself onto others, or retreat and withdraw from them. Either way you manipulate to get your needs met, and your heart remains closed. It is impossible to have an intimate and meaningful relationship this way. Staying in neediness and insecurity only creates more unhappiness for yourself and others. There is a basic universal law that applies to everyone: when we try to take because we perceive that something is lacking, we cannot truly receive; on the other hand, when we are full and content within ourselves, we are in a true state of reception. So to just say, “I’m not going to do that anymore” without awareness is useless because this will not stop your feelings of neediness. To transform your neediness into love and intimacy, you must look inside and take responsibility for how you feel. When you take responsibility for your own feelings, you simultaneously become conscious of your creative potential and realize that you already have
everything you need.
W
hat you are
looking to receive from outside is already inside you. Your being is always full and content. Existence has already given to you everything you need; it has given your being, your life! What more do you want? It is your responsibility to find and live what is already yours. Who else can find your hidden potential and live it? Everyone is responsible for finding and living their own
creativity and true purpose.
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withdraw from the world and rejuvenate our energies if we want to continue giving. The same is
ow can anyone
also true for any balanced relationship. Every once in a while, we need to have time alone. When we are full, giving and receiving become effortless and
else
heal
your
wounded ego or live your inner joy?
bring more joy to ourselves and others. It’s a good sign that you don’t want to stay in your pattern of neediness any longer. I know that you have a lot to offer, but you don’t seem to realize that wanting to give something to someone is another need. You are imposing on others what you like to give. Trying to give something
If someone else lives it for you,
when the other does not
you will be robbed of your own
want to receive what you are
experience. You must recognize
offering is another form of
how your neediness keeps you in
insecurity and neediness.
unconsciousness and learn to give
People somehow sense that
to yourself what you are hoping to
your giving is not
receive from others. You also need
unconditional and you want
to see and take responsibility for
to give because you want to
how you blame or manipulate
receive something in return.
others to get your needs met. Most
When your giving is
people prevent their spiritual
conditional, then it is not
growth by keeping their neediness
true giving. If it is
hidden. Have the courage to expose it. This is how
unconditional, you will not feel frustrated,
you are going to see your selfishness and heal it into
depressed, or insecure when the other rejects what
consciousness.
you are offering. If your giving is unconditional, you just give out of your inner joy and abundance and
Intimacy and unconditional giving and receiving can
because giving enriches you and allows your energy
happen naturally and joyously if each partner is self-
to expand. If someone does not want your offering,
sufficient and content within himself or herself. To be
then you simply move inside and enjoy your own
self-sufficient means to understand that there are
presence.
times when you or your partner need to be alone. The world ceaselessly demands our participating
~ excerpt from In Search of the Miraculous: Healing
energy and tries to take our attention out of our inner
into Consciousness by Eliza Mada Dalian
Self in order to operate. Once in a while, we need to
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EART CENTERING MEDITATION
Moving from the Head to the Heart Our mind is a gift from the Universe. It sets us apart from animals, trees, and flowers. Though a blessing to the human race, the mind is also our greatest challenge. Having focused on it for centuries, it has gradually taken control of our lives and has taken us away from the truth of our inner being and the joy of being in our hearts. We have become a love-starved species instead of love-abundant species. We have gone astray from our integrity and grace, and have lost our connection to the divine Truth. To revive our innate ability of kindness and live in balance and peace we need to move our focus from the head to the heart. This meditation will help to bring back your focus from the head and center it in your heart. You can do this at any time and as often as you can throughout your day. Bring your awareness to your breath. Imagine that you don't have a head. Focus on your heart. Feel what your heart wants to do instead of what your head is telling you to do. Breathe into your belly then exhale through your heart. Feel that whatever you are doing is spontaneously happening through your heart and arms. Remember to breath in and out through your heart throughout the day. Practice this meditation while doing whatever you are doing during the day. Do this meditation for at least one month. If you enjoy it, practice it for three months for greater results. This meditation will help to anchor your awareness in your heart, and will help you live more joyfully!
~ Eliza Mada Dalian
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W o r l d Slowly but surely, I am advancing sufficiently in my eight-year spiritual journey that I am now straddled between two worlds.
This is great news to me
and to my “self-realized’ friends. However, I am in la-la land to most of my other mainstream friends and family. This can create practical problems and hurt feelings for things undone. I don't mind if it was only my own delay but when it impact others, then I empathize with others at the receiving end. I am reminded of this daily with dealing with others and with family.
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meditate and have equanimity, I would have died of stress already. However, it is my Calling that I am following. I was called to quit work eight years early so that I can follow this beckoning, mysterious path. I am just doing the best I c a n a m i d t h e s e e m i n g ch a o s o f transformation and transition. As it is, I am centred, calm, and collected. There is no struggle when I align myself with the universal unfoldment. In a metaphysical sense, nothing is done but everything gets done.
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This is the Big Picture and the spiritual aspect of our
correlates to the realization that one cannot cross the
fundamental reality. Everything is already done. All
same river twice.
the knowledge is already within (and without in the
consciousness, I do not judge others for what they do
Field) via noumenal apriority.
and what others think of me is not my business.
We just need to be
awakened with the help of intellectual, experiential, and/or contemplative disciplines. In the end, we have to live it for full actualization. understanding, I live in clarity.
From this
The ego
In this altered state of
However, it is not for everybody because everyone is at a different evolutionary trajectory. We all get to the same place on different paths and in different times. Nevertheless, I do recognize I have obligations to
resides in the head; the soul (Higher
others in this “now” world.
Self) resides in the heart. The phenomenal
friends will come and visit my second home. It took
world is run by the ego; the spiritual world is contemplated by the soul. There is no attachment/no judgment to outcome. I am at peace. I am Peace. Like all other truth seekers, my spiritual journey is the longest trip from the head to the heart. It dwells more into being than doing.
I have a few soul mates
sharing this path with me towards the Source of Being, which is unknowable.
Only these friends
would understand my True Self. It is not my mind. It is not my body.
It is pure consciousness which is
eternal.
we can handle. Well, I am really being put to the test. I have mentioned that I am living at least two lifetimes simultaneously. I am grateful to be chosen for this challenge of busyness. It is about service. There is a flip side to the phenomenal world where everything is materialist and time-based. The spiritual world is outside of space and time. It is my refuge, just like a monk/guru in a cave. This is what I meant
when I say I am not the same person I once was. It
One day, my other
years for me to build. It is magical and blissful (No, I am not smoking anything). I say to other dear friends not on a spiritual path: Relax. All is well. Everything is perfect in the overall scheme of things; the Ground of Being; the Great Turning; the Awakening. None of us is going to die (yet). In any event, I live a fearless life. If I do die (actually a transition, a cross-over), something better is waiting for me. Peace.
It is said that the universe never gives us more than
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“Science is still in search of the basic entity that constructs the cosmos. God, therefore, would be a system too complex for science to discover. Unless the basic reality of aakaash – space – is recognized…” Paramahamsa Tewari
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by a new-energy organization in 1993 to travel around the world visiting inventors and testing their breakthroughs. He also invited Tewari to speak at a conference in Colorado where I interviewed the scientist/ sage from India for my first new-energy book.
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ertain discoverers of energy breakthroughs have made the journey from science to sage. One of those, Paramahamsa Tewari of India, was already on that journey by the 1970s, learning from a spiritual teacher about “the conscious ocean of energy from which the material worlds emerge and into which the visible world submerges.” As a Sanskrit scholar he is very aware that he lives in a sacred land of timeless wisdom. (Sanskrit is an ancient language of India. Hindu scriptures and classical epic poems are written in Sanskrit.) As a professional engineer Tewari is well educated in modern science; at the same time, he writes books such as Spiritual Foundations. And in his spare time he has built working prototypes of a magnetic generator that taps into that ocean of energy surrounding us. He named his invention the Space Power Generator.
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East met West when Toby Grotz, a younger power plant engineer in the USA, heard about Tewari. Experienced with use of measuring instruments, Grotz was funded
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Tewari and Grotz had common interests; Grotz had deeply studied the late Walter Russell’s concepts about matter being created out of the space fabric and returning to it again and again in a rhythmic balanced interchange. As do Tewari’s, Russell’s concepts described perpetual swirling, vortexian movements of invisible “space” tightening into compression then expansion in endless cycles. Tewari describes in physics terms how electrons are created out of the background sea of energy like swirls in a lake. As proof of his theories, Tewari recently achieved another milestone with his energy invention – again validated by test engineer Grotz. Tewari’s newer model is called the Reaction-less Generator. It can produce excess electrical power without any increase in power input. If Tewari’s invention passes further testing to decide if it can be feasibly engineered into a mass-produced nonpolluting generator of electricity, this scientist-sage will celebrate a mission accomplished. Spreading the good news will be up to the rest of us. Written by Jeane Manning Author of “Break Through Power” http://changingpower.net/ (See Walter Russell on Science to Sage Web site.)
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To the Beat of My Own Drum
I lifted the drum high above my head and proceeded to whack it with all my might Faster and faster Bam..Bam...BAM!!!!! With each beat of my drum, the anger and tension started to ease up And the more noise I made, the more a smile started to tug at my lips, gradually replacing the scowl on my face Revenge is sweet. Life is good
A stranger in a strange land... Growing up in a series of small communities across western Canada, it was a familiar feeling to be nestled within the First Nations culture In some places I was considered to be a m i n o ri t y, e ve n w i t h m y m u l t i cultural Heinz-57 status - Scottish, English, Croatian and Ukrainian So when I moved to Vancouver in 2003, I found myself in an alien world - a land over owing with different cultures from all over the planet An amazingly diverse city I loved it. Still do But that being said, I found the city to be lacking a certain First Nations in uence. Sure, there were the a rt g alleries a nd museums...but truly, it seemed as though the culture or spirit was missing from the city
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LaFramboise (Dancing to Eagle Spirit) and Jennifer Lundin-Ritchie (Spotted Fire y), it was an all day affair lled with elements of First Nations spirituality and ceremony. I gave thanks to the beautiful animal that gave up its life, offering up its ‘medicine’ to the drum I was about to make, bonding with the drum that represented both the earth and life Over the following week, I was to watch how the elk hide of the drum dried as it would reveal patterns within patterns, representing animal totems, or perhaps even, messages from beyond Little did I know I would receive the message...loud and clear
Spirit Drum It is customary to offer a pouch of loose tobacco to the elder as a sign of respect for sharing the teachings in making a traditional Native North American Drum and drumstick The drum is central to the First N a t i o n s c u l t u re . I n c e rt a i n respects, it has become a method to connect with a higher power a nd is used in ceremonies, c e l e b ra t i o n s a n d s p i ri t u a l festivals. They a re also recognized as a ‘living entity’ with close connections to the creator
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Taking your medicine...
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Elk medicine is representative of survival,
my drum came from, but then I was reminded
strength, stamina, pride and nobility
of my childhood. My father would hunt for moose and venison or even grouse to feed our family. He would tell us of the thanks he would give to the mighty animal that gave its life to feed our family by saying a prayer
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forest with the remains that could not be used. It was so that others, who lived in the forest, might eat as well. Many times, the hides would go to whoever wanted them in the community where we lived They say what goes around will eventually come around...so perhaps this was a gift that
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A Sign from Above... That morning, a rather ‘unhappy sort of Patricia’ woke up, moving about the apartment feeling rather...displeased ANGER was in my every step, in every action. The house-wrecking party in the apartment above just ended a few hours before and it left me swallowing down a dark drink of bitterness Then I heard something thunk in the other room That ‘something’ sounded an awful lot like a beat on my drum. I had heard that the beating of the drum is compared to the beating of a human heart and that drums are believed to ‘speak’ to the drummer. So if I did in fact bond with the drum as indicated, then perhaps the drum was speaking to me, playing my song - the song of my heart The second I picked up the newly-made drum in my hands, the Gods rained blessings on me inspiration struck. I lifted the drum high over my head and started wailing on it, pounding it for all it was worth The pounding of my heart Directly under my neighbour’s bedroom And the more I walloped that beautiful singing drum, the more a smile started to tug at the corner of my lips. With a shit-eating grin on my face, the anger and resentment that ate at my insides began to dissipate as I worked out my raw emotions on this amazing new drum
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Who would have thought that whacking a drum could give me such joy Minutes later, I heard the sound of someone staggering about upstairs Staggering Revenge is sweet. Life is good The remains of the day... It was the snowball lled with the sinew of an elk smashing and scattering its contents across the lake’s frozen surface that took us most by surprise It wasn’t supposed to happen like that. That wasn’t how it was supposed to go down Meandering about the snow-capped mountain top of Mt. Seymour, my friend Wendy and I went off in search of the perfect location to celebrate the rst snow fall of the season. But more importantly, it was to have a ‘drumming’ ceremony honouring the elk drum and leftover sinew that had been ‘accidentally’ left decomposing in my vehicle Snowshoes in hand, we made the merry trek into the darkened forest, nding an ideal spot near a secluded little lake nestled within the winter wonderland It was the rst snow of the season and I felt like a kid in a candy store! I felt compelled to return the leftover elk sinew back to the land, much like my father did when he returned the remains back into the forest. The reality of the situation was such that I should have buried it months before because the smell was becoming rather bothersome (vile beyond all belief) in my vehicle.
It was the rst snow of the season and I felt like a kid in a candy store! I felt compelled to return the leftover elk sinew back to the land, much like my father did when he returned the remains back into the forest. The reality of the situation was such that I should have buried it months before because the smell was becoming rather bothersome (vile beyond all belief) in my vehicle As luck would have it (or extremely unfortunate planning on my part), I completely forgot to bring a digging instrument to bury the smelly bundle. However, upon seeing the darkened lake, I thought it would be a brilliant plan of action to make a sinew snowball – and just simply toss it in Everything was going according to plan (sort of) until I threw the snowball It somehow seemed to escape our notice that the lake was covered by a thick layer of ice. It could have had something to do with the fact that our only light source was from the headlamps on our heads. The camera ash doesn't count Now, in our defense, how were we to know that the lake would freeze before it snowed? [please don’t bring up my forestry background, don’t bring up my forestry background...
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Regardless, I still believe that tossing the snowball into the lake was nothing short of brilliant. It was that spontaneous ‘MacGyver’ moment where I had to make due with what I had at my disposal. Simply put, no shovel, therefore make snowball and toss it on top of the frozen lake After letting go of my ‘discombobulation,’ I proceeded to beat my drum. I would sporadically stop so that my partner-in-adventure, Wendy, could say something ultra-deep (she’s good at that), before I would continue on with the beating the drum, singing it’s song, my heartbeat. After our pseudo-ceremony, we elegantly dined on banana bread that contained chocolate chips followed by a superb chocolate mint rooibos chaser, delicately held within two thermal tea cups with said matching thermos (seriously awesome planning!!! Overall, I would claim it to be a successful celebration regardless of the few debacles. After all, we didn’t get lost in the forest. We did manage to release the sinew back into the wilds. And we did manage to get cell phone reception so Wendy could let her husband know our location. If I recall correctly, he wasn’t too impressed by the fact that no one else knew where we were...but even more so, because he was out of town and couldn’t rescue us if things went a little awry Yes...it could be determined that common sense played absolutely no part in this night-time adventure
But I could feel my heart beating, pounding in my chest. I felt so amazingly alive.. Now...I’m not entirely certain what became of the sinew. Did any of the forest creatures make the foray onto the ice and retrieve the 3 month old smelly sinew? Or did it sink to the bottom of the lake ve months later Only the land knows
Lost and Found... After a period of time, I discovered something interesting. It wasn’t that the First Nations culture or spirit was missing, it was just that it was a little bit more dif cult to see in a city
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