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John Hawkins reports from the front lines of "You Create Your Own Reality".
October 2008 - Posts
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 Mobility of Consciousness
The ability to consciously move around within our own consciousness
is emerging for me as one of the key skills for thriving in this
amazing Shift in Consciousness that's said to be going on all around us these days.
As I see it, being able to move at will to a suitable layer of
consciousness, and then manipulate our energies from that vantage
point, this must be the premiere talent, skill and most useful ability
to acquire in this changing world.
The reason I am studying hypnosis is that this is the only modality
I am aware of that directly addresses this issue - learning how to
deliberately change our level of awareness or the layer within
consciousness we are operating from.
The advantage of doing this is simply that we have different
perceptions, different strengths and weaknesses, at different layers of
consciousness. It is very helpful to be able to move to the appropriate
level for the task at hand.
We are learning, in my wonderful course on hypnosis presented by The Harvard Institute of Hypnosis, all about ‘pacing' and ‘leading'.
Pacing = Accepting and affirming whatever is happening
without opposition - becoming congruent with whatever is happening in
and around our whole self at that moment.
Leading = Expressing energy with the intention of influencing what we want to happen. [Making choices in line with our preferences.]
Pacing is affirming for ourselves, and our clients, how we are
perceiving normal physical experiences, like our bum in the seat, our
breathing, and etc. This surface layer of acknowledging what is
happening, is all about focusing on what the client perceives sensually.
Leading, on the other hand, is all about suggesting to the client,
and ourselves, that we might very well soon be experiencing this other
thing - something that is not yet happening outwardly. Leading is a
suggestion to ourselves then, to move towards whatever our desired
outcome might be in the situation.
Not surprisingly, this begins to require actual exertion of energy
on the part of ourselves, or our client. Giving up a familiar line of
expression and switching to something new requires real work within
consciousness.
Actual noticing and commitment to self, as well as repeatedly making
unfamiliar choices in the face of what we don't want all around us. [not for the faint of heart]
Learning about pacing and leading in my hypnosis class happens to
coincide with a discussion with Kris over the course of a couple of
weeks. We talked about how the conscious part of the mind is directing
the energies of the vaster parts of ourselves.
‘Action' is the junction point between the conscious 10% of us and
the neo-conscious 90% of us - the part of ourselves that actually
creates the responses in the world to our actions. [The neo-conscious creates the whole of our reality, not just responses to our actions]
‘Action in the now' is that glorious and terrifying place where we
‘just do it', and throw ourselves into that swirling dynamo of nowness
we find ourselves swimming in eternally. [‘on the fly' is the only way we ever make choices and decisions, because that's all we've got!]
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Pacing Our Reality = acknowledging and accepting everything that is
happening without judgement - willingly becoming congruent with the
whole of ourselves as expressed.
Leading Our Reality = acting with the intent of creating what we really
want, by consciously pointing our energies in a specific direction that
fulfills our values.
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The advantage of mobility of consciousness is that we have different
powers at different layers and if we can move around at will, we can
position ourselves optimally for whatever we want to do in that
particular moment. [mobility invariably turns out to be helpful,
especially so in challenging circumstances]
At the focal layer - the conscious 10% of our awareness - we are
supremely, triumphantly focused in this physical reality and
consequently very good at evaluating experiences and assessing their
meaning.
Very good at making automatic choices and taking familiar actions. [All very crisp as we delineate and articulate our present perceptions.]
At the essence layer though - the other 90% - we are very mobile and
suggestive, and not so focused on the details of outer physical
reality. We are much more in tune with the symbolic and metaphorical
aspects of our experiences in the heroic dimension.
In this realm we find ourselves vastly empowered in regards to
self-esteem and imaginative invention, and also very open to novel
configurations of ideas that might produce the kinds of experiences we
are drawn to. [All very flexible and accommodating of multi-layered intent.]
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 (This
is my reply to a correspondent who asked about how my activities have
changed due to recognizing that I 'own' my entire universe in the sense
that I am creating it.)
Hi [correspondent]
Thanks again for your input and interesting questions...
Lately I have been fascinated by the idea of putting some of the
‘dead guys’ basic principles together and seeing what kind of
implications and even corollaries come up about what our life can be in
this dimension of consciousness.
Most of the channel sources I resonate with are pretty cagy about
setting out in detail what our potentials are. They all hint that our
potential is WAY beyond what we currently believe but mostly leave it
to us to figure out what that might look like in practical terms.
I believe the reason for this is that even they don’t know exactly
what we are going to manifest here in this dimension as this shift in
consciousness takes hold. I almost get the feeling they are waiting
with bated breath [if they were breathing :] to see what we will
do with our newly remembered awarenesses. They don’t want to limit or
prejudice our choices and that is why they are purposely vague about
what our future might hold.
Kris gave us a broad hint recently when he affirmed that taking
action in the world was the junction between the conscious 10% and the
neo-conscious 90% of our awareness. When we are 'in our heads’ and
doing things primarily at the mental layer, what we create is also at
the mental layer.
 This
is very efficient as it allows us to explore and experiment with many,
many possibilities without committing ourselves to having to experience
them physically. But when we act physically in the ‘outside’ world, out
of necessity we are fully engaging our material creation energies to
create specific kinds of actual physical experiences.
This must be so when we recognize that we are creating not just our
own physical actions, but we are also creating the response to those
actions in the ‘outside’ world. [I put ‘outside’ in quotes because there is no outside world - it’s all us!]
Thus when we act in the world, we enter into a kind of dance with
our neo-conscious. For every action we perform with our conscious
awareness, our neo-conscious responds and our world transforms before
our eyes.
Taking this analogy further, as we accept our ability, nay our responsibility, to lead
in this dance of consciousness, we find to our delight and awe, that
our partner very nicely follows our lead, consequently we find
ourselves creating more and more of what we want in our lives. [it is humbling to realize that the vast powers of the neo-conscious are at our beck and call, as it were :]
Of course this formulation ignores the fact that there is no
separation in consciousness. In truth there is only an arbitrary
separation between mental action and physical action which means that
if we act ‘in our heads’ consistently over an extended period,
eventually there will be physical expressions of what we are
concentrating on. But acting in the world to influence our experience
in the world is much more efficient.
Thanks for the opportunity to discuss this...
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This wonderful photo shows a Dervish - a Sufi who could be said to be 'dancing with self' in our terms.
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 Why Appreciation Works
Kris gave a very helpful explanation tonight for why appreciation,
or thanking your problems, works. He and other 'dead guys' have told us
often that appreciation is powerful medicine.
If we can find something to appreciate in any situation - it doesn’t
even have to explicitly be about ourselves. If we can find a way to
appreciate ANYthing in a difficult situation, the whole thing will turn
on a dime in response to the change in energy we are expressing.
Kris explained that the reason was because when you appreciate your
life in that way, or thank your problem for being meaningful and
significant, you are moving to another layer of consciousness where you
are not simply the focal awareness anymore, but are observing this
focal awareness and expressing appreciation for its mechanisms.
By expressing appreciation for things that we seemingly have no
direct control over, such as our problems, we are automatically viewing
our lives from a much broader perspective than simply what we see
looking out of our own eyes every day.
We
are now looking out of many, many eyes, and while ours remain unique
and heartfelt and special, so are all the others, and there is no
conflict or judgement, just many, many eyes. [I’s]
It becomes obvious from this wider perspective that you are now able
to see alternate beliefs and influences to the ones you find yourself
holding in this particular reality. When you appreciate your problem,
you completely undermine it, render it helpless, and even embarrass it
a little bit.
Even the most horrific potentialities lose their edge and menace
when they are thanked and then expectantly, almost cheerfully, explored
for their gifts of understanding. [A proper monster is quite unnerved at being appreciated. It throws it off it’s stride. This is not the usual script at all!]
Even more than the delight of embarrassing our limitations into
leaving us in peace, we have the new vision that comes from wider
awareness. From this perspective, or more properly, straddling both
this perspective and our usual point-of-view as a focal expression, we
naturally can see more options for any given set of circumstances. [go
up on a hill and you can still see your home and the fire burning in
the hearth, but you can also see the next valley and beyond]
Understanding and accepting that we have engineered an experience
for ourselves for the good it can do us, is a life-changing
perspective. From this point on one cannot help but look at life
differently. Especially any kind of problem or difficulty, or
‘disturbance in the force’.
The bottom line, of course, is that this means more choices, more
freedom, and more native ability discovered and expressed to
consciously create what we really want.
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A brief note from tonight’s radio show. [btw - Kris changed the name of the radio show from “Kris Radio”, to “Reality by Design, a Kris Radio Show”.]
We enjoyed an extended metaphor of a symphony orchestra, with us being
the conductors. The show is well worth listening to, not least because
I got to ask a couple of questions.
I asked Kris to recall that he has said that acquired beliefs were a
limitation. He agreed immediately that this is what he had said. I
asked, since they are always a limitation, if we could get by on just
prime beliefs and do away with acquired beliefs altogether.
He said ‘no’ because we use acquired beliefs to generate the
explorations that interest us. Beliefs are reality creation tools that
we are meant to pick up and put down as desired - as we wish. It is the
believer of these beliefs who is in charge here.
All acquired beliefs are a limitation, yes, but we do not come here
as a blank slate. We come with a host of passions and interests and
questions we want to explore. We choose acquired beliefs precisely
because of the limitations they create. This is how we ‘steer’ our
focal awareness into the areas we want to explore, by choosing acquired
beliefs, with the behaviors that go along with them.
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Kris has said, under separate cover, so to speak, that we create an
arena here in this physical dimension for us to have the experiences we
want. We create that arena by an intricate interplay of opposing and
allowing energies. [remember, if we create our own reality, we
would have to allow whatever we find ourselves opposing in the first
place, or it wouldn’t be there for us to oppose!]
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 Putting a Couple of Ideas Together
In the interests of integration, I have been putting together some
of the basic ideas of ‘you create your own reality' thinking. It's fun
to extrapolate some of these ideas and see what they look like in
combination with each other.
The basic idea, obviously, is that we each create our own experience of reality right down to the molecular level. [Whether
we literally create our own reality, or merely create our experience of
our reality, or it's only our perception of our reality, it all amounts
to the same thing.]
The second idea that impacts greatly on the first one, is the idea
that the ‘we' that is conscious and thinks about our life here, is only
a small part of the ‘we' that is creating the whole of our reality for
us, moment-to-moment.
There is much more of us involved in this grand endeavor than our
conscious daily thoughts and beliefs. Kris has called the conscious
part of ourselves ‘the thinker' and our neo-conscious selves - our
whole self - is ‘the maker'. And it is at the layer of the 'maker' that
our material creation energies come into play to actually manifest our
reality.
This is a realm within ourselves that our conscious awareness almost never visits, although there is no prohibition. [Does
this suggest that our conscious awareness can travel ANYwhere within
the neo-conscious? And still maintain appropriate recognition of the
various layers of self involved in the gestalt, including and without
diminishing the focal personality!]
The neo-conscious is not the ‘un'-conscious or the ‘sub'-conscious
and does not exclude the conscious. The neo-conscious encompasses the
totality of what we are aware of at any level; our conscious awareness,
plus our subjective awareness, and in expanding layers, our awareness
as essence, entity, and eventually ATI.
When we put these two ideas together we understand that our stance
regarding our neo-conscious must be based on trust of our whole selves
to create the experiences we want - without our direct supervision, so
to speak. This is why the ‘dead guys' always stress trusting ourselves
and our essential goodness.
This also places a huge premium on knowing our selves, including our
whole selves, as best we can. This is why the ‘dead guys' are always
talking about noticing what we are doing, and accepting ourselves
without judgement.
If we don't know and trust our whole selves, the conscious part of
us - the thinker - may start to think of the part of us that is
creating our reality - the maker - as an unpredictable stranger. [and if that's what we're 'thinkin', that's what we're 'makin'!]
Be Gentle With Yourself
This brings me to the last idea for today. All the ‘dead guys', to a man, [woman, source, spirit, energy, genderless sensuality... ;]
regardless of gender they all admonish us to be gentle with ourselves.
This makes good sense when you think about it because if we create our
own reality, we are the sole source and cause of every unpleasant and difficult thing that has ever happened to us! [We don't just make the nice bits of our reality, we make it all]
So do your world a big favor and be good to yourself.
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Illustration - This lovely image is from an e-business site, artist unknown.
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 You Can’t Change What You Don’t Like...
Wise folks everywhere talk about acceptance and how important it is,
and I am all for acceptance in my life. Kris has recently offered a
practical new take on this idea.
Acceptance is one of the keynotes of all new age metaphysical
philosophies. And I am sold on the value of acceptance and how
important it is to my enlightenment and ease of life. Proponents of
acceptance will get no argument from me.
This does not change the fact that there are lots of things in my life - lots
of things - that I don’t like and would like to change. Isn’t that what
conscious creation is all about? Changing the stuff we don’t like?
Don’t we get to use our powers as the divine creators of our lives, to
create what we want?
[That’s what I thought I was signing up for!]
Turns out this is a bit of a 'loss leader' conceptually, because the
first half of creating what we want is not about changing anything at
all. It’s about accepting whatever reality we find ourselves in presently.
This is Kris’ helpful new way of presenting this perspective...
“You can’t change what you don’t like.”
In
terms of conscious creation principles, he means that as long as we
don’t like something, we are concentrating on it, and of course, ‘you get what you concentrate on’.
The idea is to release the energy we have tied up in not liking all of
these things, and redouble our efforts and focus in the direction of
what we do want.
This only requires taking responsibility for having created whatever the perceived ‘bad’ thing is in the first place. [It's as simple as that!]
As we accept our divine birthright of ‘creating our own reality’, we
also accept, as a matter of course, that we have created every molecule
in the reality we are experiencing at this very moment. We don’t just
create future realities, we created all of 'em! All of our past
realities right up to and including, the one we’re in right now.
As soon as we accept this idea, we realize how counter productive it
is to rail against anything in our lives because this is something we
ourselves have created. Sort of like banging your thumb with a hammer.
It happens for sure, but it should definitely be minimized to the best
of our abilities.
So the way to change what you don’t like, is to take full
responsibility for creating it in the first place, and then allow
ourselves to realize how self-discounting it would be, under these
circumstances, to continue disliking it.
After all we created it for our own good reasons and we are the same me
that is in the process of deciding, as we speak, about what to create
in the next now. So we don’t want to be undermining our faith in our
ability to choose what is right now, do we.
The genuine belief that we can choose anything we want to appear in our next
now, must be supported by the heartfelt acknowledgement and congruous
acceptance of the fact that we have created everything in this now.
Creating what we want is not so difficult. All we have to do is
accept the fact that we have created everything in our present reality
with loving, nurturing intent. This awareness and understanding flips
the necessary internal switches and allows us to influence our reality
creation mechanisms with great efficiency to start producing much more
of what we do want.
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Action, Behavior and Habits
Kris caught my attention a couple of times this evening. He said
that it was better to cultivate habits that nurtured us and served our
intent, but also that our conscious thoughts and beliefs were not
necessarily our actual beliefs and intent.
I asked him how we could align our habits to our intent in the case
where our conscious beliefs were not, in fact, our real intent. He said
we could discover our intent by noticing our behavior. Certain actions,
behavior and habits are fun and relaxing and effortless, as well as
being joyful and expansive - these are aligned with our intent.
When we are acting out of harmony with our intent, we feel sad and confused, dispirited and perhaps even angry. [Kris has been getting a little esoteric on our ass lately, so please bear with me.]
Turns out action is a very special kind of thing. It is in the
process of taking action that we communicate most intimately with our
whole self. Action is at the junction of the 10% of us that is
conscious, and the 90% of us that is subconscious, unconscious or
neo-consious.
When we act in the world we engage our neo-conscious - our whole
being - viscerally because we are willfully choosing an action, and
simultaneously manifesting the expression and outcome of that action in
the ‘real’ world.
Remember, we are creating all of it coming and going, so the
neo-conscious can't take our number and promise to get back to us, like
it sometimes seems to do when we ask for answers, it has to respond in the now, to our every action in a wonderful dance of intent and nurturing of intent.
Actions, behavior and habits include not just physical action, of
course, but also thought, feelings, imagination and all the other
layers of ourselves where we are continuously making choices and
expressing energy.
Choosing the action is an act of our Conscious Self - the top 10% -
while manifesting the action and creating outcomes is the domain of our
neo-conscious - the bottom 90% plus.
This
illustrates beautifully why acting in the world is our primal creative
expression in this focus of awareness we call being human. Think of the
billions of tiny physical actions that are triggered when you decide to
pick up a cup of coffee. [ten to the mega-gillion and counting]
This is physical manifestation at a spectacularly rich level,
imagine every muscle, fiber, synapse and blood cell, plus all the
layers of intricate activity 'below' that at the inorganic realm of
physics and chemistry. [This is the power and depth of our
neo-conscious - it is infinitly capable of manifesting endless
realities better than we can imagine, without any conscious input!
When we use our powers as Earth gods and goddesses, the world curves
around what we have expressed, and happily joins us in the game! This
is truly an intimate dance of point and counterpoint between our
choices and our simultaneous allowance of the manifestation of these
choices.
[can it be that choice and allowance as identified here is really
the ‘opposing and allowing’ that Kris talked about so long ago...
remember he used to say that we create our lives here in the physical
within an arena we form between opposing and allowing...
but how is choice opposing... oh, I get it... by choosing
something we are in fact opposing not making that choice... We are
therefore opposing all the various possibilities of choosing something
else, anything else. A choice is as much an excluder of stuff, as it is
an includer of stuff.]
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So tonight I tried the pyramid imagery during the radio show, with
the pearl of awareness floating in the river of symbols flowing from
the Arch of the Mother... and just as he was getting ready to go Kris
looked me right in the eye and the whole room went sort of funny...
like a surge of blood pressure that affects how you see things...
things got sort of yellow and over-saturated... like a ‘buzz’ in the
neurological system.
[funny thing is it has taken real noticing and allowing to get this
thing to the surface of awareness... I was aware all right of what
happened... and noted it quite calmly at the time... but it is only
after writing several other things, and then consciously noticing the
waves of energy flowing around the event... that we started to put
ideas and then words to the experience... still very hard to focus on
it... everything sort of slides away into other things, more familiar
imagery, issues, shadows, sensory input... anything to feed the beast
and quell this curious, pungent energy of straddling my broader self as
a Speaker with my local self as a radio personality... and then there's
just me... ;-]
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 List of Prime Beliefs - Version 2.0
Continuing my research into prime beliefs, this post pulls together a number that have come up recently.
Prime beliefs are identified by being such totally basic assumptions
about reality that we rarely, if ever, think about them. They are part
of the blueprints for this dimension and we can’t participate here
without adopting them.
This is as opposed to acquired beliefs... [Actually that’s very poorly phrased. We don’t want to be setting up unnecessary oppositions now do we?]
In addition to the prime beliefs already identified, we also
incorporate acquired beliefs that could be thought of as the behavioral
influences we have chosen to customize a prime belief in a specific
instance in our lives.
Believing I can order any kind of food imaginable by picking up the
phone, is the prime belief behind my reality creation ability when I
actually pick up the phone and order pizza, or dim sum. The particular
kind of food I order is the acquired belief or influence I am choosing
in that moment.
First we have the four prime beliefs that Kris has mentioned...
1 - I am who I AM - identity, individuation, individuality,
point of awareness, unique perspective. The “I” in the storm of
realities we perceive swirling around us.
2 - My energies will sustain who I AM - whatever is required
to express who I believe myself to be, will be automatically and
effortlessly provided by the universe I perceive around and within me.
3 - Value fulfillment is a done deal - Enjoying, pleasure and fun are all the point of being here. [Our lives here are not a chore but a choice.]
4 - The Grid of Perception - Patterns of choices we make
about values and perspectives chosen and other perspectives veiled out,
to enable us to generate experiences that fit within this dimension.
Following are several suggestions from Nora in comments on my blog along with a couple of my responses. I
offer them ‘raw’ without much editing. Each one contains a nugget that
I think we can winnow down into a prime belief but I don’t want to try
to get there too soon. Better to let them sit and sort themselves out a
bit.
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Linear Time
“As for an offering on possible Prime Beliefs I’m thinking of
something on how we experience Linear Time, which we understand acts as
a “buffer” along with space as Abraham describes it in our creations.
We Create our Reality
Also maybe including that we are creators, as we transform
consciousness from one state to another. What do you think? I’ts a
Prime something but I’m not sure if it’s a belief or something else? Of
course we can do this seemingly deliberately or by default.”
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Communications - Communion - Connectedness
Could we consider communication, in all its forms known and unknown
so far as Prime Beliefs? It’s all energy recognised or not by
ourselves, from dreams to foreign spoken languages, body language to
bee dances, emotions to symbols, physical sensations to inner guidance
and the rest in between and beyond!!
[YFR response] We shall immediately add this idea of
‘Communications’ to the List of Prime Beliefs… This may be linked to
the idea of ‘Communion’, which we can think of as the opposite of the
sad separation so many of us feel. We are all so intimately connected
that our ideas of who we are in this focus are actually a real drag on
our understanding of our ability to share our experiences and still
enhance our individuality… very cool!
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Unity - No Separation - No Outside of Self
I’m just thinking of another possible Prime Belief that may be
included in some way. Maybe, “Your Connected Selves”. I know that the
body operates on many levels, i.e. physical, intellectual, aura, light
energy, chakra energy etc and that would be under the body Prime
Belief, and we’ve mentioned communication, which this may come under,
but what about the underlying non-physical connectedness of the whole
of the collective, through the connective tissue that unites us all?
This being what enables us to share in this and other ways, as beings
of energy?
[YFR response] As to your new Prime Belief… I think we could
call this one “No Separation” or “Unity” and it IS different from
communication… I am starting to wonder if prime beliefs are really just
our translation into this dimension of the universal ‘truths’ that
Elias talks about…
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Growth - Change - Expansion
I’m just thinking, what would man’s insatiable quest in searching
for things like the “Divine” or his “maker” come under do you think?
Would it be a sort of innate need for spiritual nourishment that we
coiuldn’t be without, that is, a feeling of connection with some
“higher part of himself?
Also, would the search over time for life out amongst stars be
relevant as away to feel less separate from himself and fellow beings
or would it be that man has such curiosity. Hmm, don’t like the sound
of that one being included.
All Energetic Expressions Will be Expressed Somehow
What about expression of energy, as Elias says, “energy will express itself”
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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 of
what he has just been channeling, by describing for his attention the
iceberg with ten percent above the water and the rest below.
What is startling at some level is that the ten percent above the water is what is steering the vast 90% below! For real!
The image that came to mind was me sitting in a little old rowboat
with my every move being massively supported and magnified by the
nuclear submarine below - [that just happens to be 'in the tank' for me!]
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 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. Prime beliefs are rarely brought to
conscious attention because they are the basic underpinings of how we
think about all these other ideas. [Think of a fish not noticing the water he’s swimming in.]
This means there is a prime belief that straddles these two
realities - an underlying belief that supports both possibilities. What
kind of belief supports both gravity and weightlessness, and blue skies
or starry blackness?
Some
kind of belief in the inherent and extensible responsiveness of the
whole Universe, that supports us in being whoever we think we are, both
on this planet and off it!
Scientists have often mentioned the huge number of things that have
to be just right for our species to inhabit this planet. Everything is exactly
right for us to flourish on this planet! One could be forgiven the
feeling that it is our own requirements as human beings that inform the
blueprints for just about everything else in the known universe. [Turns out anthropocentric and anthropomorphic ideas are perfectly reasonable.]
It is also significant that the number of decimal places we can
perceive going bigger - light years and exploding stars - is about the
same as the number of decimal places we can perceive going smaller;
milli-microns, quarks and electrons. We can ‘see’ about the same
distance in either direction which suggests that we are smack dab in
the perceptual and conceptual centre of our universe.
[The universe emanates from us equally in every conceivable
direction because each of us is the centre of their universe. Put
another way our perception, through our senses, reaches equally far in
whatever direction we point it.]
Kris identified a beginning list of four prime beliefs and challenges us to get more from our neo-conscious minds.
The first four are as follows…
1 - I am who I AM - identity, individuality, point of awareness, unique perspective. [The “I” in the storm of realities we perceive swirling around us.]
2 - My energies will sustain who I AM - whatever is required
to express who I believe myself to be, will be automatically and
effortlessly provided by the universe I perceive around and within me.
3 - Value fulfillment is a done deal - Fulfilling the values
of expanding who we are, along with enjoyment, pleasure and fun are all
at the heart of our being here. [Our lives here are not a chore but a choice.]
4 - The Grid of Perception - Patterns of choices we make about the values and perspectives we are
activating - meanwhile veiling others - in order to express the
experiences we want within this dimension. Other species such as whales
or insects, choose other points on this grid of perception and
consequently are aware of - and not aware of - a different set of
perceptions.
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Acquired Beliefs
As you can see, these first four prime beliefs are not the everyday
concerns of most people. In fact it turns out that the everyday
thoughts of most people are being used to manipulate another category
of influences Kris calls ‘acquired beliefs’.
The prime belief might be that the body consciousness will do
everything it can to support our expression here. The acquired belief,
supported by Official Reality, is that we are doomed to decay with age,
and it’s only a matter of where and when.
This can be confusing for people who look to the outside world for
their understanding, because the outside world will seem to prove this
idea as our bodies start to show signs of this acquired belief in
aging. This is a confirmation though, of our powers to create our own
reality, not proof that what we believe and see the confirmation of, is
a universal truth.
If we look carefully, we can see the prime belief behind this acquired belief, “my body consciousness will sustain who I think I am”. In this case though, ‘who I think I am’ is a decaying oldster and so that is what my body produces for me to experience.
This has more to do with our divine abilities to generate realities
according to our beliefs, than objective proof that these beliefs are
universally true.
Kris is quick to point out that while we cannot do away with prime
beliefs and continue to express ourselves in this dimension, we can
choose different acquired beliefs, and this freedom provides more than
enough leeway for unlimited explorations and value fulfillment.
Thus we can freely exchange our ideas about decaying as we age, for
ideas much more in harmony with our new vision of ourselves. Ideas
about improving with age like a fine wine or a good pair of shoes. [Lots of things get better with maturity, apples for instance!]
In a recent session, Kris offered a powerful new vision of our
potentials in maturity. The difference in our life-skills as we age is
not just quantitative - due to being around longer - it is qualitative!
A mature person in their 50’s or 60’s can manifest things in this world
in a way that differs in quality from the manifestations of a
20-year-old.
[Let me be the first to admit that the rapid bursts of energy manifested by a 20-year-old have their own charm, but are qualitatively different from the sustained, strategic expressions and patient knowingness of maturity.]
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Let’s Expand Our List of Prime Beliefs
There have to be a fair number of prime beliefs, although Kris has
indicated that their number is finite. My suggestion is that we take up
this challenge and come up with a list of prime beliefs we can all
share.
Sort of like distributed processing, taking advantage of unused
cycles of millions of people’s computers, and turning that unused
potential into a super-computer.
[I see a website where people can enter their troubling acquired
beliefs and be led to the likely underlying prime beliefs. Then they
are offered a range of alternate acquired beliefs - and supporting
media - more in line with their preferences.]
Here is my first attempt to formulate some prime beliefs to add to our list.
The Circle of Life / Cycles of Life
There has to be something about rhythmic changes that is inherent in
our reality, like waves washing onto a beach for instance. I am
thinking here of day and night, the seasons, and the whole “circle of
life” thing. There is a natural pulsation about reality that must be
related to a prime belief. Our daily patterns of waking, sleeping, and
dreaming fit in here too.
Body Consciousness Supports Perception via 5 Senses, ergo all of Physical Reality
Certainly something about the body consciousness supporting our
reality creation activities, although this may be a subset of point
two. Taking it back a layer or two, maybe the prime belief is that the
body will correctly interpret our energy and generate an appropriate
external reality that metaphorically out-pictures our inner
representations.
Reality Is Always a Meaningful, Metaphorical Abstraction of Self
After all, any particular external reality we create for ourselves
must ultimately involve a lot of arbitrary choices - within appropriate
parameters of course. Each now is a unique arrangement of units of
consciousness, produced for us, by us in that moment.
Just that particular blue of the sky, that particular feeling in our
stomach, in short the whole unending sequence of effortless, immaculate
creativity we engage in. The whole ‘serendipitous happenstance’ that we
think of as our lives, as it rolls out endlessly before us.
JOHN: I do have a question but it kind of changes the
topic, but I guess we’re ready for that. You said recently that it
would pay us very, very handsomely to do a little bit of a study of
what prime beliefs were as opposed to acquired beliefs. And I’m picking
up the gauntlet there and I’m saying, “Yes!” I’m going to make a list.
I threatened to do this at the time, if you recall!
MARK: (Chuckling) Yep! I do.
JOHN: So prime beliefs, I’m starting to get a feeling of what they
are as opposed to acquired beliefs and I just wondered if you were
willing to help with that a little bit.
KRIS: Do feel free to continue.
JOHN: I want a list of the prime beliefs!
(Group laughter)
MARK: In alphabetical order!
MYRNA: And are you ready to write?
JOHN: I’ll start you out: one of them is that I shall have a
functioning physical body that operates autonomically for the most
part. There’s one prime belief.
KRIS: We would say that the first prime belief is that you are who you are.
JOHN: Ah. All right.
KRIS: Without this, your sense of self would be scattered and excessively fragmented.
JOHN: Sure, you need some kind of a place to put all of this.
MARK: A reference point.
JOHN: There you go!
KRIS: Indeed! That particular point of attention. Secondly: And just
as — and this is not in order of importance, because this is AS
important as believing who you are — is that your energies will
manufacture all of the necessary ingredients to sustain, maintain and
nurture the experiences of who you are. Thus, all of physical reality
in the way it is experienced in classic terms belongs to that category.
Without the notion of a reality to sustain who you are, who you are may
not necessarily unfold. So it is part of your energies. We have
referred, often, to your material energies.
JOHN: Yes.
KRIS: That is a prime belief.
JOHN: Okay. That’s excellent.
KRIS: Now what else do you think belongs there? Taking into consideration these two elements.
JOHN: “I am who I am” and “my energies will sustain who I am.”
KRIS: Indeed. That second one, sustaining who you are of course
includes what you call Earth, the galaxies, everything about life as
you experience it through your senses.
MYRNA: The belief that it will all be there and it will sustain. I have it.
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: I think that the third one for me would be that as I change
and allow who I am to change, then that will be confirmed. In other
words, this is static, but there is a process going on here and as who
I am changes, then the material reflection of that changes.
KRIS: Indeed, therefore as your physical expression grows, matures
and transforms through various stages and states of life, the whole of
material reality, physical reality, meets your challenge and growth and
provides the elements to stimulate that growth.
JOHN: Right, now I’m not sure that’s getting to be terribly different from the second one, is it?
KRIS: A slight variation.
BARBARA: I have one I think: In the “Heal the Broken Heart” workshop
you were saying that we all have the right to be happy. Would that be
another?
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: Value fulfillment.
KRIS: All of these, which comprise as you have said, value fulfillment, happiness, joy, love and so on and so forth.
JOHN: Excellent. Okay, so we’re making real progress here!
KRIS: Indeed. These are often referred to as your heritage, your birthright.
JOHN: These prime beliefs?
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: Okay, so shall we proceed?
KRIS: Indeed. Now, all of these and many more or interwoven into what you call “the Grid.”
JOHN: This is what we call it?
KRIS: It has been referred to as “the Grid.” You are familiar with this: the Grid of Perception.
—Kris - Political Storms - September 14, 2008
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 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, and freedom and frontier virtues. There is
nothing at all wrong with the survival of the fittest and
self-congratulatory celebrations among friends. It’s also great to feel
you are absolutely right about most important things. [I believe that too!]
At issue is her choice and the choice of the Right to “Defend, and attack if necessary.”, rather than “Share, and build if possible”
"So you could say it is a mass event of a kind. It
moves and directs and influences the flow of thoughts, of passions, of
desires, of deep feelings and how all of this will be directed towards
and literally used by the political party in question and its leaders.
The influences at the psychological levels are as potent as any kind of
severe storm. This is simply a storm, a weather front of a different
nature, but its impact can change the psychological and emotional
landscape of a nation, especially when said nation may be a world
power."
—Kris - Political Storms - September 14, 2008
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