September 2008 - Posts

• Life is the Stories We Are Telling Ourselves

  "The beliefs that you hold as a result of your own experience are very strong, and we understand that you cannot release them immediately and replace them with others, even though we know there are many more productive beliefs that you could foster. But there is something you can begin today that will make a profound difference in the way your life unfolds that does not require an immediate releasing of the beliefs that you currently hold: Start telling a more positive, better feeling story about your life and the things that are important to you. Do not write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your experience, but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your own life and watch what happens. It will feel like magic as your life begins to transform right before your eyes, but it is not by magic. It is by the power of the Laws of the Universe and your deliberate alignment with those Laws." Abraham - Money and the Law of Attraction, p. 81 So what stories have YOU been telling yourself lately? I have embarked upon a course in hypnotherapy. As a consequence of this program, I am to become a certified hypnotherapist at the end of an eight week program. This training, along with the CMI training in Aspect Therapy will equip me to see clients, and write and teach about these amazingly helpful modalities for working with consciousness to ease our passage through this extraordinary amusement park we call our lives. I can see my new book now, it’s called “Frameworks & Transformations” and describes how to use this stuff in a way that is fun and easy, with lots of graphics. An e-book that makes these ideas accessible to anybody. Meanwhile it is wonderful to be learning something new in a more or less formal setting. It has been decades since I dusted off my student aspect and sat down deliberately to learn a new body of knowledge, and it feels wonderful! I’ve got highlighters and binders, books to read, notes to go over, exercises to try, and homework to do. All the forgotten pleasures of being a committed student of something new - lots of fun! The really big payoff though, is sudden new visions I have been having internally of just who I am allowing myself to become. The structure of the course naturally carries one’s mind forward two months to the finish line. Before Christmas, I will write the exam and probably become a certifiable hypnographer in the new year! But seriously, I will be officially sanctioned to work with people’s consciousness in a supportive and nurturing way. This certification combined with the upcoming CMI - 3 which will give me another certificate, will make for a very credible display on the wall of the waiting room. All of this represents a very cool new persona for me! And the probabilities of this future event are huge now that we have paid our money and engaged the program. Subjectively I can already feel myself expanding in marvelous new ways to manifest this very positive new perspective on who and what I AM. Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:46 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Story

• Republican Worldview - The Devil Take the Hindmost

  Kris has recently suggested that both sides in the US election are fulfilling their values and this has helped widen my view. What are Republican values and how are they being fulfilled by the circus going on south of the border? [I live in Canada btw, where we are quietly having our own election, and nobody is paying any attention because we like it that way!] I came across an article by Nathanial Frank on the Huffington Post that was a revelation to me. It explains very clearly the 'map of the world' that Republicans subscribe to, which I believe is based on Darwinian ideas about natural selection. Republicans believe in the survival of the fittest, and the moral superiority of the most successful. In this worldview the richest, most successful people are the best people to help the whole country prosper and move forward and survive in a difficult world. In this view liberals are weak and inferior and they are trying to drag everybody down to their level, and eventually to extinction. Regulating the markets or giving money to poor people is interfering with a wholesome 'natural' process by artificially intervening to hinder the successful and rescue the weak and diseased. In their worldview this will only lower the 'fitness' of the whole population and endanger its survival. So for the good of the whole, they say 'let nature take its course' and 'may the best man win.' Also in their view liberals are socialists, which is seen as a slippery slope towards communism and brings up all the fear and negative associations that they went through during the cold war. What is interesting is that this Darwinian world view is not a particularly good fit with Christianity, which may explain some of the more problematic posturing of Christian Fundamentalism. This may reflect the Right's distortion of Jesus' teachings as they try to get these two ideas to fit together. [After all, there's no denying that Jesus was on the side of poor folk, and seemed to be making fun of that rich dude trying to get through the eye of the needle.] I am in total agreement with the values being expressed here. I admire survival, being right and celebrating success. All good stuff. Where I differ is in the choices and behaviors used to express and integrate these values into everyday life. Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 8:27 AM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Commentary, Darwinism, Republican Worldview, Fulfilling values, Darwin

• Kris’ Creative Toolkit ~ 2008

  A kind e-mail correspondent offered the following… If I may could I pose a question to you? What do you feel are our creative tools that we can bring into play on a particular issue we are working on? How would you describe the creative arsenal of a human focus? I hope this makes sense, I sometimes get lost in so much material and I love your way of summarizing Kris’ descriptions of our abilities. Dear Correspondent Thanks for your kind words about my take on Kris. The payoff for me is making something I find so amazing accessible and practical for others. Regarding your questions about the creative tools we have to ‘bring into play’ [nice!], as human beings on any particular issue, allow me to make the following comments and suggestions... First let’s acknowledge a word used that may reveal a belief system very much in need of addressing. “How would you describe the creative arsenal of a human focus?” The use of the word ‘arsenal’ is instructive because an arsenal is where we keep weapons. This is not meant as a put-down of our correspondent’s point of view. In fact appreciation is in order because this language beautifully highlights the underlying belief so many of us hold. The belief that there is a separate world 'out there' [and often seemingly ‘Out To Get Us!’] influences us to create a lot of confusing perspectives and discordance in our lives. This is quite unnecessary. To quote Kris, “The world is not about the World, it’s about you!” Or as Elias has said, “There IS no outside of you!” I understand that nobody is suggesting taking a weapon to ourselves here. But this imagery hints at the underlying belief systems most of us have bought into, about the nature of the tasks before us as human beings. Why do we need a bunch of ‘tools’ to successfully address the issues that come up in our lives? [What about just living our lives, without much infrastructure at all?] Recall that the language of our neo-conscious is metaphor and symbolism. Metaphorically let’s think of taking a socket wrench or t-square to address some problem with our physical bodies. This is clearly a silly thing to try to do. As an aside, I am realizing that nobody benefits from an adversarial relationship with any part of ourselves at any level. As Kris is perhaps a little fond of pointing out recently, ‘If you pick a fight with yourself, you will certainly lose!' There are processes offered by Kris that I have found to be very helpful, though. Many of these tools and techniques are described in detail in the Toolbox at KrisChronicles.com. The material there is excellent and my comments here are my current take on some of these tools. Practice of Perspectives Kris often refers back to this practice because it is a masterfully powerful method for effectively engaging situations in our lives that we find challenging. At the heart of this practice is our ability to consciously move our attention - I call this our ‘god power'. Moving our attention - choosing a new perspective on something - is the core creative act we use as human beings to direct our reality creation mechanisms.  Adroit flexibility of perspective could be thought of as... well, an awesome weapon we can use to smite our problems... [kidding!] Triple A Kris offered this technique years ago and for many of us it has become second nature. When something catches our attention that we don’t like, we first Acknowledge it, that is to say we acknowledge that the issue exists [and is a meaningful creation of our own.] Next we Address ourselves to it, ‘What exactly is the issue here?’, ‘What is the feeling?’, ‘Are there any relevant associations?’, ‘Is there a metaphorical meaning?', Is this related somehow to another part of my life?’, ‘What is being valued here?’, etc. All along we allow ourselves to Accept the issue in whatever way we can, accepting also ourselves for creating and experiencing this scenario. Our acceptance in a situation typically goes through ‘holding our nose’, so to speak, because we really don’t like it, to more and more awareness and understanding of what is being expressed and valued about ourselves, and eventually recognizing and aligning ourselves with our original intent in creating the beliefs and behavior patterns in question. We come to realize that the issue, whatever it might be, is really a loving presentment by our whole selves, offering us an opportunity to accept and nurture neglected aspects, and thus move our whole self towards inner and outer congruence. [Nothing is an accident and everywhere we happen to place our attention is very much to the point.] We are the Captain of Our Own Reality We are each the captain of the ‘ship of reality’ we are creating for ourselves. 'There are no outside agencies!' This is great on one level because we are the boss in our reality! In another way it is a bit sobering because we are also responsible for everything! [Everything is a meaningful and essentially unlimited opening for us to move towards greater wholeness. Our outer and inner experiences are the answers to the questions we are asking ourselves.] It is understandable then, that accepting this perspective can be a bit bracing for someone who has been taking comfort, however meager, from thinking of themselves as victims of their lives. This is but a momentary blip though, like tearing off a bandage in one swipe, because accepting our responsibilities as creator of our realities means that in every moment we get to choose something new! [The unlimited scope of the possibilities of this perspective can not be overstated.] The potential applications of this understanding are fantastic. We can steer our attention, and intentions, in ANY direction we choose, and our ship and crew [the neo-conscious mind constructing the ‘outside’ world], will effortlessly generate the desired experiences for us. Not only that, but if we are watchful, we will notice opportunities along the way that vastly enrich and expand on our original intentions. Always More than the Sum of Our Parts I love this one because it gets me off the hook in important ways. The idea here is that even as essence or Source or whatever name we give our wider selves, we are always part of a process of continuous newness and change without limitations or preconditions. [The joys of bursting into the unknown are an integral part of the game we are playing.] We don’t ultimately know the ‘answer’ as essence any more than we do as this focal personality. ATI doesn’t even know the answer! [As hard as it is to credit, we’re all in this together, nobody is the boss of anybody, and we’re all more than we ever dreamed!] Don’t Fight, Invite! Gentleness towards ourselves is one of the most impactful and emotional messages the ‘dead guys’ are offering. We are so unnecessarily hard on ourselves! And when we begin to understand that we are eternal, immortal divinity, this begins to look like a very unfortunate and limiting perspective. Getting back to our initial comments, when we really understand that we are [I AM] all that we encounter in our realities, we lose a lot of our old vehemence about getting things fixed, putting things right, and sorting things out, once and for all. If it’s all me, do I want to be so quick to judge and fix things? Can’t we just appreciate the ‘diversity within unity’ of ourselves and everything around us? The thing that most people find challenging is understanding that everything we don’t like in our lives, inner and outer; all the people we have been blaming or judging or fighting with, all the frightening inner urges and ‘tendencies’ we don’t want to admit to, these are all aspects of ourselves we have been rejecting and denying. [some of them are bent out of shape because we have successfully ignored their more polite and decorous interjections] When we stop opposing these aspects of ourselves and invite them to join us for a cup of tea, our acceptance and generosity creates the opportunity for a warm and frank discussion of the options we see going forward together. This shared new perspective invariably includes new awareness of efficient, and perhaps hitherto invisible options allowing everybody to get what they really want! [such is our power] Using Metaphors as a Bridge to the Neo-Conscious This final tool is fresh from Kris’ latest presentations. We can talk directly to our neo-conscious mind using metaphors. This process is greatly assisted by learning to make use of various trance states which Kris has been describing and using for some time. Understanding that we are always in a trance of some kind is very helpful. [Even essence is in a trance, in a manner of speaking.] The crucial thing here is that various trance states have different qualities that are useful to know about. In some states we are very near the unconscious, or neo-conscious, and can communicate very efficiently and directly with our reality creation mechanisms. The key is to know the language. What really catches the attention of our neo-conscious is our intentional transformation of a meaningful metaphor. The idea is that we create a meaningful, metaphorical representation of a real issue, and then deliberately allow that metaphor to transform itself in the direction of our intent. I say ‘allow’ because this is not about trying to push the metaphor in the desired direction. This is about allowing an 'organic' transformation to emerge in our awareness based on our allowance and our intention to nurture the aspect in question. This kind of deliberate alchemical transformation of a resonant, meaningful metaphor immediately activates and energizes the material creation energies of our neo-conscious to start generating the probabilities we desire, [not least because we have allowed the neo-conscious an important part in the proceedings!] Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:13 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 1 Comments Filed under: Practice, Kris, conscious creation toolkit

• Gullibility is Our Genius

  Gullibility is Our Genius Our genius is in devising and telling ourselves such compelling and plausible stories about life that we start believing them. [Never mind Pollyanna, we’re all Alfred E. Neuman!] That’s it really, but when you combine this idea with the understanding that what we believe has the ‘ear’ of our reality creation mechanisms, you realize that the stories we tell ourselves will eventually become our outward reality. So by believing our own stories, we manipulate our concentration within consciousness in such a way that we literally construct our own potential futures. [Such is our power.] I say ‘potential' futures because no matter what story we have been telling ourselves, in any moment we are free to choose something else. We have the power to deviate from our plot at any moment, in any way we might wish, but few of us ever do this. [I prefer to think of this as the result of good choices about beliefs, rather than faintness of heart about changing them later.] Kris said recently that we are what we believe ourselves to be. This seemingly straightforward comment started to burrow into my mind. If this turns out to be true, what we believe about ourselves becomes really, really important! When you think about it, this means we're all pretty good story tellers, right? But you have to admit, we’ve all told ourselves some whoppers too. Beliefs we bought into that ended up being just silly. [How can you tell the difference? Going in actually you can’t, because of free will, but coming out of an experience you often get another, perhaps wider perspective on the beliefs involved. That’s actually why we materialize beliefs as experiences, to get a real good look at them, so we know what adjustments we might want to make.] So anyway, keeping in mind all this stuff, I’ve been busily making friends with my most gullible and believing aspects. In general, I have put out the call for any aspect that is cheerful about accepting new ideas, especially about who we are and how the world works. [The attitude we're looking for here? The snuffling enthusiasm of hungry puppies does not overstate the level of acceptance we’re going for.] Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:56 PM from Your Faithful Reporter ~ Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Rant, Commentary, gullibility is genius, gullible, gullibility

• Changing Acquired Beliefs / Choosing New Influences

  Changing Acquired Beliefs / Choosing New Influences Elias has been saying for years that we don't change our beliefs, we accept them. For a long time I thought he was cautioning us not to fight our beliefs - which only gives them energy - thereby neutralizing their hold on us [or our hold on them]. Then they would go away and stop bothering me! In other words, I thought he was saying the way to change my beliefs was to accept them rather than resisting them. Not so, it turns out. Apparently we usually keep to the same basic beliefs and what we are changing is the influence of those beliefs. It was only after several sessions with Kris on beliefs that I began to understand what Elias was really saying. Kris has created two categories of beliefs he calls 'prime' beliefs and 'acquired' beliefs. Prime beliefs are part of the blueprint of this dimension and are a necessary part of our participation here. Prime beliefs include things like gravity, sunrise, air, and ‘I will continue to breath and digest my dinner even when I sleep'. Acquired beliefs are part of our conditioning in any particular family and culture, and we can change them by simply releasing our concentration on them and moving our attention to something we prefer. We can change acquired beliefs. They are easy to recognize because they usually come with value judgements; I am a loser, blonds have more fun, oysters are delicious whereas insect larvae are gross, life is hard, etc. On the surface this looks like big difference between Kris, who says we can change beliefs and Elias, who says we cannot. In my view, this turns out to be merely a mixup of definitions. Elias says that we have comparatively few beliefs and many, many influences of each belief. He gives the example of our prime belief in changing as we age, as it could be applied by a baseball player. One influence might be that as the player gets older, her abilities to play are reduced because of degraded physical abilities, associated with aging. [influence - as we age our bodies decline in vitality] Another influence might be that as the player gets older her abilities increase because of more experience and understanding, also associated with aging. [influence - as we age we experience an increase in wisdom] There are many other possible influences of this belief in aging. Which influence we choose to focus on is up to us as individuals with free choice. The point being that the different influences we choose to concentrate on, instruct our reality creation mechanisms to produce very different kinds of realities, and very different kinds of experiences. [It seems clear now that what Kris calls prime beliefs are equivalent to Elias' beliefs. And what Elias calls influences are equivalent to Kris' acquired beliefs.] - - - - - Here is an example from my own experience of having the same belief but changing influences. When I was a young man, I thought I had the correct way of seeing the world. I had total faith in my view of the universe and how it worked. I more than freely shared this viewpoint with others and given the opportunity, would cheerfully correct other people's points-of-view. This attitude extended to my physical vision, which I unthinkingly regarded as giving me an accurate view of the real world. [As a visual artist, this was crucial in my understanding of my art.] Paradoxically, while the intervening journey has taken me to many wonderful places since my 20s - I am now 58 - I still have essentially the same idea about my infallibility as the adjudicator of my reality as I had when I was young. My current view is that mine IS the only way of seeing the world because it's the only way MY world can ever be seen - by me. This understood flows from quite a different influence of the underlying belief. I tell myself quite a different story now, about who I am, and how the world works, and why I am the centre of my universe. Since I create my own universe with my own perceptions, which are utterly unique to me and can only be experienced by me, it follows that I must be the ultimate expert and authority on what is happening in my universe! As everyone else is in theirs too. So the basic belief, that I am the sovereign lord of my reality, is the same. What has definitely changed though, is the influence of this belief. In the first case, I thought I was a smart-ass young man with perfect eyesight - apart from wearing glasses since age 10 - with a wonderful intellectual grasp of how the world worked. Some of the behaviors inspired by this perspective were not very helpful, like going around all the time thinking very seriously about everything, and sometimes heatedly correcting other people's ideas about how the world worked. The new influence I have chosen progressively over the last ten years or so, is to accept and engage my reality as my creation, flowing from much deeper and broader aspects of myself, always motivated by my own best interests, and, in fact, always working proactively on my behalf. In terms of changed behavior, this is all about acknowledging and accepting myself, and being willing to engage my whole, unknown but trusted, self, and taking responsibility for this broader self's amazing creativity. The changes inspired by this new influence can be seen in almost every aspect of my everyday life and thought. There is nothing in these ideas to motivate me to do some of the uncomfortable things I used to do. Like always thinking so much, and constantly justifying and defending my views. And happily, I no longer feel compelled to correct other people's unfortunate misunderstandings about how things work. These new ideas about who I am and how the world works result in greater and greater allowing of my own expressions - the reality I create - to simply unfold naturally before my appreciative eyes. [No need to meddle, criticize, compare, correct or fix. Even understanding is an option!] It is no coincidence that my life these days is filled with confirmations of these influences - actual objective experiences that are completely in line with these ideas and this way of thinking. This is the power of the influence of our beliefs on our reality creation mechanisms. - - - - - Elias has said it is very rare, though not unheard of, for someone to actually change their beliefs. It is within our power to do this but we cannot drop beliefs altogether. The reason we cannot eliminate beliefs is they are essential building blocks of this dimension. Our primary beliefs about who we are, and how reality works, are very deeply embedded in our awareness at layers where our conscious mind rarely travels, and changing them involves altering the foundational building blocks of our reality - no small undertaking. But there is a much simpler way to 'change' our beliefs. Our freedom lies in the myriad different influences of whatever beliefs we have engaged, and how we interpret these influences in our inner dialog, thoughts, feelings and action. [there are so many possible influences of a belief, that you can basically assume that given enough leeway, you could identify an influence of ANY belief that gets you where you want to go.] In fact I put out this challenge. I am prepared, as the "Belief-inator", to debate anyone, on any belief whatsoever. Together we will invariably come up with an influence of this very same belief, that lets the person move their reality in whatever direction they choose. [Keep in mind that what most people think of as a belief is actually an influence. The way you know you have peeled back the influences to the actual belief is when it becomes neutral - no positive or negative associations. That's when you know you are dealing with the mother-belief.] "I am fat!" is not a belief but the influence of a primary belief, "How we think, feel and act affects the functioning of our physical body." This seemingly self-evident truth is the belief behind the influence chosen to be fat. The actual belief is neutral, while the influence chosen may be loaded with duplicity and value judgements. "I am skinny, fit, muscular, underweight, run down, 'in the pink', ..." are other influences of this belief. How we choose to affect our bodies with our thoughts, feelings and actions is where our freedom lies, because once we stop fighting influences we don't like, and recognize and accept the neutral, underlying belief, we can easily choose any other influence that suits our fancy. Choosing a new influence is as easy as noticing and suspending actions that reinforce the old influence, and choosing new behaviors and self talk to line up with the desired influence. - - - - - The issues around my vision resonate well with these ideas. As discussed above, I used to think it was my way or the highway when it came to how I saw the world around me. I recall getting into huffy arguments with people who saw things differently, about how things happened, or who said what to whom. In recent years my left eye has changed appreciably, and I actually see a slightly different sized world [smaller] and a slightly warmer color gamut through that eye, not to mention lots of floaters and general blurriness in both eyes based on multi-focal glasses, [these glasses promised that everything would be in focus, when in reality nothing is in focus, but I digress.] So now, even in objective terms, I know that how I see the world is totally unique to me, and indeed can change by the hour depending on how tired I am, and how much I've had to drink... [As a visual artist, this continues to be crucial to my understanding of my art.] For these reasons we have graciously set aside, for the time being, telling other people how they see the world is wrong! - - - - - The more I understand how unique and creative we are, the more I admire the fact that we understand each other at all. Because you're in your universe, and I'm in mine, and the level of agreement between our universes is totally up to us. One could understand that this requires deep layers of intimate exchange to work out all the details of how our interactions will transpire. It takes lots of planning, so to speak, to spin off all the necessary shared probabilities, while giving appropriate due to everybody's potential, and also meshing everybody's needs and preferences into a ‘single' shared event. [imagine doing the math!] Observe a busy intersection downtown if you want an astonishing expression of this intricate confluence of layered intent. Everybody going off in their own direction for their own reasons, and still playing their part in the grand flow of the intersection herself. A mind boggling display of individual and collective consciousness doing a ‘reality dance' right there in front of our eyes. - - - - ELIAS: Yes. And let me also express to you, remember, you are not eliminating beliefs, but you are widening your awareness, and you are moving into an acceptance of beliefs Now; in that acceptance, you recognize that you incorporate certain beliefs and that they are expressed, but every belief incorporates many influences, and therein lies your freedom. For regardless of what beliefs you incorporate as expressed beliefs, they do not incorporate merely one influence. Therefore, they do not incorporate merely one choice. —Elias #1641 - - - - - KRIS: Now there are therefore prime beliefs that are absolutely necessary to your physical experience in time and space. And then there are those acquired beliefs that you utilize to limit your experience of self. And though many individuals would like to do away with beliefs entirely, we have spoken on this subject many times. There are many people who misunderstand the notion of beliefs. It is important to understand that in order to be whom and what you think you are today, now, in this hour, in this moment, you literally believe yourself to be who you are now. Of that there can be no question. Otherwise you would not be in this here and now. These particular prime beliefs are of such significant importance that a study of them would grant you much awareness and wisdom, especially in the field of being more than what you were before, in line with value fulfillment. Thus by paying attention to, or noticing, that there are prime and acquired beliefs, it can be easy to bridge the notions of your limited enterprise of self to such a point where being whom and what you are is not the issue. But learning to become more than what you were then becomes truly the game that you play. JOHN: Ah. So it’s not a matter of identifying or defining yourself, it’s a matter of going beyond whatever that might be. KRIS: Indeed. Going beyond can be a very big word. Suffice it to say that for the most part, as we have expressed before, you have a collective tendency to always think too small, primarily due to fears that harbor and keep close to your heart. But if you give yourselves the opportunity, and perhaps even as yourself what it would be like if you could become more than what you are tomorrow than what you were yesterday, what would that lead to? Who would you be? Does that make sense to you? MARK: Yes. KRIS: Indeed. Then for the moment, think what it would be like to have a very nice break. JOHN: All right. MARK: Indeed. BREAK —Kris Radio, Communication, Aug. 7, 2008 Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 8:49 AM from Your Faithful Reporter ~ Blog | 2 Comments Filed under: Commentary, Mini-essay, influence of beliefs, change beliefs, beliefs

• Conversations with the Neo-Conscious

  Conversations with the Neo-Conscious It is helpful to understand that we have consciously set aside a whole lot of our hard-earned knowledge and understanding in order to be here. By ‘here’ I mean having a physical life in this dimension as a ‘focal expression of essence’, as the understanding goes in conscious creation circles. By ‘set aside’ I mean that we have deliberately thrown up a veil between our whole multi-dimensional self and our conscious awareness in this lifetime. The reason for this is fairly self-evident. It would ruin our experience of this focus to be constantly aware of a myriad of other focuses, never mind the potential to overwhelm ourselves with our perspective as our whole self. It is a purposeful choice for the purity and intensity of experience within this focus that we have veiled our awareness in this way. [So in a way, our inability to access our whole self, or other focuses, is not a bug but a feature of the program we have devised for ourselves here.] As divinely prudent beings though, we have embedded a ‘fail-safe’ system so that if we do get totally lost, we have a built-in resource that automatically connects us to the whole of ourselves, and all of our vast powers and innate understanding as essence. We call this resource the neo-conscious mind. The neo-conscious is all of our conscious awareness plus intelligent access to all of our other awareness, such access filtered by the many layers of our intent. The bottom line of all this is whatever honors, benefits, empowers, enriches, nourishes, and fulfills each aspect and the whole - this is what is being valued here. One could think of the neo-conscious as a sort of buffer layer in consciousness between our normal, awake selves - one extreme in consciousness - and our whole selves as pure being moving off towards the other end of the spectrum of consciousness. [Keeping in mind that these are all moving targets because everything is constantly changing.] This buffer layer is open at both ends and is interactive, meaning that we provide the neo-conscious with just as much meaningful awareness as the neo-conscious provides us. [The neat thing about a holographic universe is that if the universe is infinite, then every individual thing in it, is also infinite, even though aspects of that thing are expressed finitely in this particular dimension.] It is important to understand the tone of the relationship we enjoy with our neo-conscious. It is not a god over us. We are not subservient to it in any way, and it is certainly not subservient to us. It is a cleverly designed and divinely inspired aspect of ourselves! Something we created to enhance our experience in this dimension. In plain terms it is a bosom friend we can trust utterly, and use to very good effect in communicating with our whole selves as essence, useful in both sending and receiving. - - - - - In a recent walk with Kris, he suggested several times that I address a request to my neo-conscious to sort out various issues. For instance, in regard to allowing myself to safely experience other dimensions and then return to my familiar life here, he suggested I ask my neo-conscious for ideas about how to accomplish this. Apparently there were many, many ways for me to have this experience. The neo-conscious isn’t just a hodgepodge of all of my inner awareness and wisdom. No, no, no! The neo-conscious is an interface with all of these unlimited parts of ourselves, that automatically brings forward into our focused and thereby limited awareness, exactly the right and perfect piece of understanding that we were about to go looking for. [Uncanny is the word we have invented for this, amongst others] Sure it provides unlimited access to all of ourselves, but its genius is that it automatically, with our ultimate best interests at heart, arrays options and probabilities in front of us that maximize our potential to get what we really want. [instead of what we might be tempted to settle for] And then it ‘rings our bell’ with some metaphorical signal, and offers an insight or understanding about some relevant issue. Then, through impulses, it inspires us to take action! Thereby entering one of these charmed probabilities, by virtue of acting on the values being expressed. This extraordinary, context sensitive guidance system, is built into the reality creation mechanisms of every person on the planet. So far, we have only covered the receiving end of neo-conscious awareness. Next we discover the glory of originating messages and defining meaning from our focal perspective. [the neo-conscious is truly a two-way street with a lot of traffic going in both directions.] The astonishing thing, keeping in mind the idea of the holographic universe, is that we, as the focal awareness, are actively directing the energies of our entire perceived universe. We are the unique and acknowledged captain of the ship of consciousness that we ride upon. [ultimately though, like any politician representing a vast electorate, we can only lead where our constituents are willing to follow, so it is by no mean’s unilateral, this captaincy.] Kris suggested we think of ourselves as ‘the conscious part’ of our universe. This takes on new meaning when we realize that where we turn our gaze is where our universe is directing her fabulous reality creation energies - so look for developments in that direction! It follows, of course, that the only reasonable course is to focus on the very best that we know, the highest value fulfillment we deem conceivable, without limiting ourselves in any way! Let’s leave it to the universe to show us how limited our ideas of perfection might be! Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 1:01 PM from Your Faithful Reporter ~ Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Commentary, Toronto Session