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Conscious Ten Percent Steers the Rest

Your Faithful Reporter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Ten Percent Steers the Rest Chatting with Serge after the last radio show I mentioned my image of Kris’ recent description of our role in conscious creation. During the radio show Kris mentioned that our conscious thoughts where only the more ephemeral and surface layers of our belief structures. He went on to say that our conscious use of our imagination was likewise only the most superficial aspect of this deep and powerful activity. I described this to Serge, who often doesn't remember the details...(read more)

What Are Prime Beliefs?

Your Faithful Reporter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:21:00 GMT

What Are Prime Beliefs? In describing prime beliefs we are not talking about the ideas that we entertain in our heads on a day-to-day basis. We are talking about assumptions and expectations that we might never think about consciously or even notice, because they are foundational to the construction of our experiences in this dimension. Even gravity and blue skys are not prime beliefs, but acquired beliefs in these terms, because we have created a reality that does not involve either - space travel....(read more)

Intent v. Intent

Samantha — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:40:00 GMT

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Last night I dreamed that a big man was attacking me. He looked a lot like the actor Adam Baldwin (the guy who plays Casey on the television show “Chuck”), but with blondish hair. I have had a fighter-survivor self-image of myself for most of my life, though I’m in the process of changing this. Old habits, however, die hard. Under those dream conditions, the fighter kicked in automatically. There was no way I was going to make this easy for the guy. I grabbed a giant cast iron skillet and started beating the crap out of him.

I have this odd habit of analyzing my dreams while I’m in them, and I knew, even while all this was going on, that I was dreaming, and I also knew that what I was experiencing was being drummed up by me. At one point, I realized that the more I fought the guy, the more I was going to have to fight.

I thought, “Ah, this guy is an element of me, a projected image of things that I’m fighting within myself.”

And for a moment, I was really appreciative of the guy and what I was learning. He paused as I was thinking this, looked me right in the eye and said, “You’ve almost got it.” Then he went back to fighting me again. The symbolism was almost poetic.

This has been a tumultuous year. On the one hand, the emotion wave is kicking my ass. On the other hand, I feel like the learning has been so accelerated that I can’t be anything but thankful. For a few weeks now, I’ve been trying to work out some issues that have disturbed me for an extended period of time. I’ve been writing dissertations really, but not getting to the heart of the matter until this morning. The dream framed it up nicely. It was a visual and experiential depiction of the idea of one intent in conflict with another intent. In other words, what we find most threatening in life is when the intent of another person is in conflict with your own intent.

This morning, I scribbled out some of the most common intents that are in conflict with an individual’s desires:

Threatening Intent	Desire
“I want to kill you.”	“I want to live.”
“I want to hurt you.”	“I want to be healthy and well.”
“I want to imprison you.”	“I want to be free.”
“I want you to suffer because I’m suffering.”	“I want to be happy.”
“I want you to take my burdens off my hands.”	“I want to be burden-free and seek my own personal pleasure.”
“I want you to devote yourself to the things I think are important.”	“I want to do what I want when I want.”

The threat goes up, supposedly, the greater the number of people who are against your desire. The idea is that people can gang up on you and impose their will on you. So, in order to express your own freedom, you have to fight. Well, in my dream, that didn’t work too well. The more I fought, the more I had to fight. The only break in the fighting was when I had the realization that I was fighting myself, and then later in the dream when I realized that I needed to be kind to myself, at which point the guy stopped fighting me altogether and recommended that I treat myself to a spa, which is something I’m not likely to do, but I got the message: Be nice to yourself.

In the dream, when I stopped opposing the other guy’s intent, things got better. The more opposition I expressed, the greater the intensity of the fighting. I think this is a perfect expression of the issues of daily life.

Now, recently I read an Abraham quote that said that a million people could be against you, but their intent will have no effect on you unless you oppose them, and I’ve wondered how that could be. If a million people wanted me to do something, couldn’t they make me by sheer physical force? Certainly that’s something we see in the movies all the time. However, I’ve noticed that in actual daily experience it doesn’t necessarily work that way and that, perhaps, Abraham knows something about the nature of reality that’s not understood by most moviemakers. Because I’ve noticed an awful lot of exceptions to that rule (i.e. that physical might wins the day).

All morning, I’ve been thinking about this. How is it possible that my little puny intent could be more powerful than a million people opposing my little puny intent? I kept looking at the schematic above, and I thinking, “There must be something in the nature of their opposition that is weak, and there must be something in the nature of my intent that is strong, otherwise the idea is nonsense.” So, I thought about it. What is it when someone wants you to do something? Finally, it hit me, and it seemed so obvious. All the statements in the left-hand column are declarations of lack. These are all people demonstrating, quite clearly, that they’re in a state of need. They have to get other people in certain positions (dead, hurt, suffering, locked up, working, behaving) before they can feel satisfied.

The day before I’d been doing a drawing based on a metaphor by Emmet Fox. Emmet Fox was your quintessential stadium rock preacher from the early part of the last century. He was highly intuitive, extremely popular, and knew a great deal about the nature of energy. He described the way most people use energy as follows. They stand on a garden hose and wonder why no water comes out. The idea was that the water is your energy, and you’re the one controlling how much of that power you allow in your life. His advice was to stop standing on the hose.

So, I drew a picture of a bunch of hoses, representing individuals, with one drop of water coming out of the hose, and then on the opposite side of the page I drew one hose with a massive amount of water bursting out of it. The idea was that the feeling of negativity was a person clamping down on that hose due to the ideas they were holding and thereby only allowing a tiny droplet of water (energy) to flow through. And that just because you get a massive number of people together, if they’re all in a state of negativity (closing up that free flow of energy) that does not magnify their power. It makes them a group of drips. This, I reasoned, was how one individual, allowing the energy to flow through (being in a state of joy) could be more powerful than a million who were in conflict with that individual.

We’ve been brought up to believe that criticism, blame, anger, hatred, lying, mal intent, disapproval, and the withdrawal of love are all expressions of power when these are the expressions of drips. That growling, nasty feeling is supposed to be indicative of that clamping down on our own natural ability to achieve what we want. The rush of play, humor, joy, pleasure, confidence, love, and fun, in contrast, is supposed to be the affirmation that we are in full possession and expression of power. Cultural habits tell you otherwise, but your own feelings carry the real message.

In the old “Seinfeld” television show, the character George decides one day to do the exact opposite of everything he’s ever had the impulse to do in his life, and instantly his life works perfectly. I feel like I have to do the same thing. I’ve trained myself, simply through life in this culture, that expressions of negativity are powerful and expressions of positivity are weak. Now, I’ve got the monumental task of reversing those associations. When I look out over my life and what I’ve lived I can only believe that I have had the natural order reversed, and as foreign as it is to be happy when other people are suffering, to be optimistic when other people are pessimistic, to intend well when other people intend harm to me in return, I can’t help but feel that these are the true expressions of power.

Quite frankly, though implementing this is going to take some time, I no longer see the advantage of being a drip. Furthremore, the threat of other drips, even in massive quantities, is looking less and less menacing. Joy and love and messing around is starting to have real appeal. It’s starting to look like legitimate, natural, actual POWER.

Anxious About Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the View

Your Faithful Reporter — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:03:00 GMT

Watching Elizabeth today made me feel anxious and watching the clip here made me feel it again. Anxious and wanting to respond. I am happy for her projected arc into the Republican pantheon, and she IS good. She argues right wing ideas with a passionate and indomitable spirit of no-holds-barred debate on issues that seem to really matter to her. It’s not her values that I quarrel with, it’s her choices about how to express and fulfill those values. I’m all for country, and supporting the troops,...(read more)

Robert Waggoner — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:48:00 GMT

For a list of Robert Waggoner's upcoming events and to submit your lucid dream questions and comments, please visit Robert at his website, LucidAdvice.com ....(read more)

Newsletter, October 2008

Paul M. Helfrich — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:46:00 GMT

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