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John Hawkins reports from the front lines of "You Create Your Own Reality".
July 2008 - Posts
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This comment was originally posted on The Huffington Post. Barack
Obama has pointed out he looks nothing like the pictures of presidents
on our money. Strong reaction to this from McCain, that Obama had
‘played the race card’, all followed up with some fairly specious
explanations from the Obama camp. “No, no. He wasn’t talking about
being black, No, no, no!”
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OK, kids, can we talk?
First let's be honest, Barack DID play the race card! In the sense
that he raised the perfectly reasonable point of view that honestly
notices that a black man has NEVER in history even been considered for
this office, let alone being put on our money.
Noticing this fact though, is informative and provocative rather than being "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong," as McCain campaign manager Rick Davis says.
It is honest and open to engage the obvious fact that race is an
integral part of the American mindset and experience. It is attempting
NOT to play the race card, which is to say, attempting to ignore the
facts of race in America that causes so much regretful ignorance in our
engagement of each other.
Well, this has just been plain silliness, so we look forward to a
frank and open airing of ALL the issues of race in America, and the
world, for that matter. Don't be faint of heart! There is much to discuss!
But also, dear Obama camp, please do not pretend that this is about
the difference in age between Barack and the men on our money, or that
it's all about him being new to Washington so he doesn't see himself in
these engravings.
Please! He's intelligent, we're intelligent, you're intelligent...! No more waffling around this issue! Onward!
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"Sweet thang... When you call a 'spade a spade', stick with it!” At least we know you're coming from an honest place!
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“Falling Into the Precipice of Our Being!” —Brahm => Kris => Serge & Mark
With these words, Brahm stole my metaphysical heart the other night,
on the radio show I co-host with Mark Bukator and Serge Grandbois [and Kris, of course]. I so very much want to ‘fall into the precipice of my being’ and would pay money to do it!
Let me explain a few details before getting into the good bits of this amazing show. [There’s always a back-story!]
Usually it is Kris who comes through and we have a wonderful
discussion about the nitty-gritty of how we work with our energies
within consciousness. Brahm has only come through on the radio show
once before, and it’s always a distinct change in vibration when he
does.
He followed up on Kris’ earlier discussion about everything being a
process, not a state. Essence, like everything else in consciousness,
is not a ‘thing’ but a ‘process’. So people who are frantically
searching everywhere for that one last thing, that last little bit of
understanding that will allow them to graduate from being merely human,
to the exalted state of Essence-hood, are limiting themselves fairly
drastically. [There is nothing to attain, only re-engagement of a vast and continuing process.] Brahm almost seemed to be using the ‘should’ word, when he said that in the context of “The Shift”,
we must change our paradigm of ourselves in order to allow a larger
paradigm of ‘who and what we are’ to emerge. He pointed out that this
was not a ‘should’ but simply a requirement for the expanded state of
beingness we have chosen to explore. It is our idea of ourselves that
is the most limiting factor in our lives and, not surprisingly, from my
perspective this is also the most challenging thing for us to change.
Brahm then launched into an extended metaphor about the young eagle
being kicked out of the nest. Our little eaglet will certainly find
this a shocking development, and feel like it’s going to smack it’s
little birdy-ass on the cold, hard ground below - and probably die! Or
at least lose money, be embarrassed, or default on a credit card
payment, to put this kind of precipitous disaster into human terms.
But something else happens and our darling little chick
automatically opens her wings and starts to ‘go with the flow’.
Suddenly air is much more than an invisible constant taken for granted.
It becomes a medium for new categories of movement and exploration that
give glorious new meaning to wings that had been awkward, floppy
impediments until now.
Our little chick instantly accesses potentials she didn’t even know
she had, in a process we humans call ‘learning to fly’. All this
without one iota of understanding of the aerodynamics involved. [Take that Wright brothers!]
We understand, with the most pro-active compassion, that for every
individual chick it must still be a pretty amazing experience! Jumping
out of that warm and comfortable nest, and falling into the Abyss! And
then... soaring safely in the air currents. And then... flying freely
as high as we want!
Soaring eventually to heights unimaginable from the confines of our dear nest! [to
which we can return whenever we want, by the way! We are now in the
‘neo-nest’ that includes the nest we leapt from, and a whole lot more!]
Now, dear reader, imagine you’re that eagle chick! [So that means ALL the dramas in your life have been about learning to fly!]
It was fairly amazing in these moments on the radio, to be
discussing this with Brahm, coming as he is from the Entity layer of
consciousness and all. My inner vision opened up wide and I saw walls
dissolving before my eyes, allowing the ‘winds of change’ to blow
gently but firmly, through everything I had been thinking about who I
was and how the world worked.
Vast universes drifted by, each filled with uncounted trillions of
everything conceivable. All this spreading to the outer-most reaches of
whatever else might be conceivable, and expanding from there. And then
all this somehow folding inwards upon itself, compounding itself, to
produce even more evolved understandings of many, many composite and
inter-related layers of our amazing selves and our unlimited potentials.
I have to tell you, in all frankness, Brahm blows my headlights
every single time. In some ways it’s a blessing he doesn’t come that
often, because replacing all those bulbs can run into real money!
Identity turns out to be something we use to express our current,
and ever-changing, idea of ‘who and what we are’. In other words our
identity is a process too, not the ‘thing’ we might have been assuming
was somewhere within us, waiting to finally be exposed.
This really highlights any kind of rigidness we might notice inside
ourselves. If something is always ‘right or wrong’, ‘black or white’,
or ‘go - no go’, then we might benefit from some connectedness
thinking... [Let’s try to soften the boundaries within, and
re-energize the openness of our engagement with the multi-various
energies we find in ourselves!]
“And” is Always the Answer [even though there are very few absolutes]
If we want to move forward, our steadfast and stalwart response to
our dilemmas, paradoxes and conundrums must always be ‘and’. The sooner
we open our understanding to accept this Principle of
Consciousness, the sooner we begin harvesting the conscious creation
benefits of straddling these dichotomous perspectives.
We can use these challenges as we intended, to vault us into even
more subtle and heartfelt understanding and appreciation of the
dynamics of our consciousness.
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This email is in response to a friend who wants very, very much
to have abundance in his life. He is doing everything he can think of
to create this abundance according to conscious creation methodologies,
but is anxious that he might be missing something crucial.
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Dear Abundance Seeker
I feel a big push in your energy towards having more abundance, and
this is wonderful, powerful energy. But as you mentioned this may also
indicate a focus on NOT being abundant.
It is a big step to realize that where we are, here and now, is not
the enemy! In fact where we are, here and now, IS the abundance we are
seeking if we can only relax our energy and accept ourselves and our
potentials. Here and now, from an expanded viewpoint, is really all
we've got! [And there's lots of it!] Here and now is everything we could ever dream of, and when we reject
our here and now as not enough, we reject ourselves and our potential!
So in your passion to create abundance, to have something other than
what you have in this moment, you are literally rejecting your own
abundance! We are such marvelous beings that out of our unlimited
abundance, we can even produce lack if we choose to focus on it!
[In the same way, our freedom is so unlimited that by carefully
and vigilantly controlling the focus of our attention, we can even
create powerlessness and victimhood. Such is our power.]
I know this sounds a bit silly, but only by accepting our present
self and our present now as an expression of our unlimited abundance,
can we start to allow the universe (which is US) to offer ourselves
more, perhaps in a configuration that better suits who we are becoming.
As long as we reject ourselves and our nows, we have tied our own
hands, so to speak, and cannot then allow the universe to offer us more
of what we want.
The practical way to do this is to start choosing, in our here and
nows, to appreciate the abundance we find in and around ourselves, and
stop rejecting all of this as not enough. This change in our energy
will slowly transform our experience and show us ways to allow more of
what we want.
The pathway to more abundance is paved with noticing and
appreciating the abundance we already have in our heres and nows, not
by building frustration and anxiety by continually rejecting our heres
and nows, and focusing on the absence of what we want.
How does this look in everyday terms? Make it a point several times
in a day to take a deep breath and appreciate the abundance of air and
the sweetness of filling your lungs with it. Notice and revel in the
experience of enough air - way more than enough air! - for ourselves
and everyone on the planet.
Notice how sweetly and gently we provide ourselves with all the
necessities of beingness. We have an abundance of desire, an abundance
of feeling, an abundance of potential, and an abundance of time and
space to create whatever we want.
Notice especially that there is more than enough YOU! As you begin
to appreciate yourself, you will find that the amount of ‘you’ that
rises up to be appreciated too, is literally endless and extremely
revelatory!
From these new perspectives, notice and appreciate all of your
feelings of lack too, honoring the fact that your potentials and
resources are so unlimited that you can even produce an abundance of
lack!
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This e-mail was in response to a friend having problems trying to
finish a book. He had a dream in which he struggled to create a store
display by packing books (!) into a display case. This proved to be
very difficult and as no one offered to help, he gave up and walked
away in frustration. Immediately his manager, working with another
employee, and breaking union rules, filled the rest of the display with
big red apples.
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I agree that your dream was about your book project, among other things...
We have all been taught that pushing our energy (that is to say
attempting to force things to go our way even when they don't seem to
want to) is an appropriate response to sorting things out in the world
to better suit us. This turns out to be unsupportable nonsense.
As we begin to know and experience the fact that the World is a
confirmation of our energetic expressions, we realize that pushing the
world results in the world pushing back! It's just the physics of
consciousness. So our experience becomes that of always attempting to
fit into a world that doesn't seem to have a place for us.
Pushing ourselves is simply another variation of pushing the world.
Except when we push ourselves it gets up close and personal and the
push back can get very close to home. When we try to make the world be
what we want, the world reflects that by increasing demands on us that
we measure up to the world's expectations. When we try to force
ourselves to be what we perceive we are not, ourSelves reflect that by
seeming to force us, against our will, to deal with personal aspects
that are difficult and that we don't want to acknowledge.
As illustrated beautifully in your dream, the solution is so simple
and easy that it takes your breath away to experience it. Just let go
of pushing or forcing your energy, or will, or intentions on ANYthing!
Do the best you can with any situation and then relax and allow your
whole self, which includes the World, to be what it naturally is - a
divine force moving inexorably towards Self fulfillment.
The reflection of this in our relationship with the world is
conditions and circumstances that are relaxed and easy and allow us to
have the experiences we want, in the most serendipitous and practical
way. The reflection of this in our relationship with ourselves is a
civilization of aspects that smoothly appear and disappear in each
moment, in an orchestration of traits and abilities that spontaneously
unfolds within us, as unending open-ended opportunities to explore our
potential and fulfill ourselves.
In your dream, after you have done your best with the 'information'
available to you (the books) and when you accept that you cannot do any
more and 'walk away' (crucial) the Universal Manager takes over and
cheerfully fills the gap with 'knowledge' (apples) which is even better
than information.
A particularly nice aspect of your dream is that when we walk away
from an issue after doing our best, the Universal Manager will
sometimes even break the rules of official reality as we understand
them, to fulfill our intent, because this aspect of ourselves is not
limited by our focal belief systems. This is the hidden back door
through which the miraculous can sneak onto our stage, if we allow it!
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 “Yes, and...” - Life Lessons from Improv
I was struck the other day while watching The View when Canadian Mike Myers, was talking to Whoopi about his movie, “The Love Guru”. He mentioned that being a good collaborator was about always saying “Yes, and...” to whatever was being offered by a colleague.
Intrigued by how this related to recent insights I have been having about the importance of allowance and acceptance, I found this description on Wikipedia...
[please bear with me through this lengthy quote, note the emphasis, and be attuned to parallels to Conscious Creation...]
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“In order for an improvised scene to be successful, the actors involved must work together responsively to define the parameters and action of the scene, in a process of co-creation. With each spoken word or action in the scene, an actor makes an offer, meaning that he or she defines some element of the reality of the scene. This might include giving another character a name, identifying a relationship, location, or using mime to define the physical environment. These activities are also known as endowment.  It is the responsibility of the other actors to accept the offers that their fellow performers make; to not do so is known as blocking, or negation, which usually prevents the scene from developing. Some performers may deliberately block (or otherwise break out of character) for comedic effect -- this is known as gagging -- but this generally prevents the scene from advancing and is frowned upon by many improvisers. Accepting an offer is usually accompanied by adding a new offer, often building on the earlier one; this is a process improvisers refer to as "Yes, And..." and is considered the cornerstone of improvisational technique. Every new piece of information added helps the actors to refine their characters and progress the action of the scene.” [all emphasis mine]
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These improv techniques are startlingly similar to what I have been
learning about improvising my own everyday life - surely this is what ‘creating your own reality’ is all about. So many of us respond, to so many of life’s moments, with “No, but...” instead of “Yes, and...”, and thereby block the development of whatever our issues might be.
[It’s not that any position or situation is right or wrong, but that
was the situation a year ago wasn’t it?, and the rest of us have moved
on!]
The ‘yes’ part is accepting whatever Life offers us. This is
allowance and accepting whatever reality we find ourselves in, as the
first step to orienting ourselves, and understanding how we are
expressing our energies.
The ‘and’ part is expressing ourSelves and taking the next step in
this particular ‘morality play' - in the best possible sense of that
phrase - as we act nobly in the world, make choices, and otherwise
express our feelings and ideas to advance our plans by exploring and
engaging the astonishing new prospects we see just around the corner... [like a friend once said, the Internet [and life] is not about where you are, it’s about where you’re going!]
We recall that, while the motive for these wonderfully insightful
improv players, is entertainment, and there may be a lesson here too!,
perhaps our own lofty goals of ‘wisdom, love and freedom’ could be best
served by faithfully responding to everything life offers with, “Yes, and...”
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I think these improv guys better watch out though, because what they are doing is creating actual probabilities.
And one night... perhaps we are up late and have a couple too many,
various conditions may contribute, but suddenly it becomes possible to
slip between probabilities... Spooky!
This may be where the old saying ‘watch what you ask for’ comes from.
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I have been using these lazy, hazy days of summer to update my
website. So today I find myself writing the Page that a few months back
I originally entitled, in a moment of whimsy one assumes, “Top Ten Tips
for Easy Shifting”.
After a number of years reading and digesting the information being
offered by various channeled sources, I have come up with the top ten
things I have learned, over the last thirty years. This stuff really
works, for me anyway, and here I offer you my condensed version,
suitable for both novices and aficionados.
Top Ten Tips for Easy Shifting
1 - Acknowledge that you exist and have a place in the world - that you are ‘amongst those present’ as the lovely old English phrase goes. So, be present, to yourself and to the moment. [It’s not as hard as it might seem, and the rewards are, well... Whatever they are!]
2 - Accept - and appreciate wherever possible - the world as it
presents itself to you. And accept the various aspects of yourself in
the same way. Oppose nothing outwardly or inwardly. [Expressing
opposing energy results in... experiencing opposing conditions and
circumstances. That’s what physical reality is... an outer reflection
and confirmation of our inner representations.]
3 - Celebrate joy, pleasure, loving feelings, communion, giving and
receiving, and all of this without boundaries or limitations. Don’t
just smell that rose 'sweet thang', grab it and get up close and
personal with it! [Have your way with that rose, and take the rest home for rosehip tea!]
4 - Create and share ideas freely and express whatever you are moved to. [Nothing is lost and everything is gained when you express yourself in ANY circumstance!]
5 - Allow regenerative change as indicated, while honoring memory and history [You can’t go anywhere unless you’re coming from somewhere!] Learn to act with the strength of your intentions as well as your convictions. [When in doubt though, just do it!]
5b - Let’s not be so darn quick sometimes, to label these changing
things and judge them and react to things, simply as they may appear in
any given moment, or series of moments. [A good question to ask is how we feel about the direction of these changes.]
The Now is not always such a bad thing that we need to deny it and
look elsewhere! Let's allow ourselves to change our mind sometimes -
without comment! - and sometimes even open a door to compromise,
allowance and cooperation! Why not expand our understanding, and
reverse the probabilities around an unpromising course of action. [Freedom is not about choice, it's about choosing again!]
The tone of the game changes dramatically when we learn to be gentle
with ourselves, because soon we find ourselves being more allowing and
compassionate with all the whole world around us. [...and shortly after that the Whole World starts being more gentle and accommodating with us! Go figure!]
Let’s accept ourselves as we try one thing and then choose something
else, and then change our minds again to something else entirely! [This
is freedom! Who cares what we choose? What’s it matter anyway? We can
choose again and again, and everybody else is free to make their own
choices too!]
6 - Within every fleeting moment of this Now, when we pause for a
moment’s reflection about something, anything... In this slightly
detached and observational moment, lie extraordinarily rich and fertile
opportunities, rolling out before us in all directions and times,
fruitful and ripe with choices deliciously aligned with our personal
preferences. We only have to take a moment to look, to see all this.
7 - And let’s be clear! We can choose to be anything in such a moment! And often do!
8 - There is always MORE than whatever the current ‘container’ for
consciousness might be, be it thoughts, ideas, beliefs, choices,
behavior, concepts, or whatever physical actions or perceived
circumstances might be making up our present conception of ourselves
and the world [that is to say, our current Worldview expressed through our current Ego Construction].
9 - Feelings are our most meaningful guide through this fantastic
labyrinth of our selves as expressed in our daily adventures. Follow
the feelings of spine tingling, thrilling delight, and you won’t ever
be far off.
10 - All the other people in our lives are ‘comrades in arms’ who
are joining us in this endeavor we call physical reality for one
reason, and one reason only. They love to be with us, in any and all
capacities, and we love to be with them!
Thus everyone we meet is a much loved ancestor, sibling and/or
descendant to whom we owe the deepest gratitude and appreciation. We’re
all in this together... for a reason!
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[FYI - a copy of our new “Information Diagram” page]
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As I begin to understand something, I start making a picture of the ideas involved to help me sort it out. What follows is a number of these images created over the last few years. [There are many, many others.]
And so above [...]
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