November 2008 - Posts

• Invoking The Speaker Layer

  How I Invoke the ‘Speaker’ Layer of Consciousness I ‘wrote’ this blog using my new dictation software. It is almost like StarTrek. You just tell the computer to do what you want. I’m looking forward to a time when I can lie in bed and say, “Computer, what does (this word) mean? ...and what is the derivation, and give me a couple of examples of early and contemporary usage while you’re at it!” In the meantime MacSpeech is working great and what follows is my first blog using dictation rather than typing for the first draft... - - - - - When I want to do some inner “work” on a particular issue in my life, these are the steps I take: First I turn my gaze inward and identify my present sense of self. No, actually the first thing I do is stop whatever else I’m doing and take a couple of deep breaths - perhaps moving my eyes up towards the ceiling as I turn my attention inward. Once I have fixed my inward gaze on my own sense of self in the present moment, I imagine a glowing pearl of awareness floating in front of my forehead at my third eye. Still breathing deeply, and on the out-breath, I move that pearl of awareness directly into my brain, directly backwards into my brain so it is superimposed over the pineal gland at the center of my skull. Pausing here for a deep breath or two, and again on the out-breath, I move the pearl of awareness deep, deep down into the warm, cozy depths of the ocean of my body consciousness. At the same time I visualize the glowing pearl moving down my spine; through my neck, down through my shoulders, down, down straight down, until it comes to rest at the level of my heart chakra (see illustration). Once it’s here in the heart chakra, the pearl of awareness pulses once and expands to fill the entire cavity of my physical body (and then expands beyond it) with warmth and acknowledgment and love and nurturing support and gratitude and appreciation. This energy then withdraws back into the pearl of awareness floating and glowing in my chest. Then, again on the out breath, I visualize the pearl shooting up my spine and bursting out through the top of my head like a rocket escaping the gravity of the earth, and streaming through the emptiness and freedom of deep space. Eventually, as I rise through this vast gestalt of consciousness, I begin to sense four slightly converging walls of an immense pyramid. I zoom upward through this pyramid shape as millions of light-years flash by, until I enter a 'space' that’s no longer connected to space and time in the same way as before, and just at this point I exit through the very, exact, molecular pin-point of the top of the pyramid... And “Boing!” we emerge into what I call the heroic dimension, where we have absolutely unlimited capacities in terms of the physical focus because we are in a layer of consciousness prior to duality and physical manifestation. Here we are neither fish nor foul. We are in a place where straddling contradictions is absolutely necessary because from this perspective, nothing has quite decided which way it’s going to come down, as it were. We can travel around this realm with blinding speed something like those projectiles they use in Quidditch in the Harry Potter novels. [note to self, google this...] From within this dimension of my being, I can easily locate the ‘empty space’ I have been cultivating with the CMI practice group. Here I am sitting in the midst of endless space filled to the brim with distant galaxies. I have neither human body, nor any form of physical expression, and can look down through many layers of time and space until eventually I locate the Milky Way, and then our Solar System, and finally the Earth floating in space. I can zoom right in to my hometown, Toronto Canada, and see myself sitting here in my physical body in my rooms on the Granby Estates. Once I have activated my awareness in the heroic dimension in this way, I return my attention to my everyday issues here in the physical, splitting my attention between the two points of view. [This sounds complicated and difficult, but turns out to be quite easy and familiar in practice.] Poised in this delicate balance, I incant my personal trigger word, “inner workshop”, and immediately find myself in my familiar workspace. I have constructed this inner workshop for myself over the years, and often visit to make some adjustments in my consciousness. Immediately on entering the workshop, I am greeted by numerous aids and assistants who lead me to a sort of half-reclining massage chair with a wonderful headrest. From this position and with the assistance of all the other me’s, [all the assistants look exactly like me except they have white lab coats on.] Thus ensconced in my inner workshop, I access and activate all manner of inner tools. These include everything from high-tech computer screens that show whatever I am interested in. I can also type in questions and get answers on the screen. [Now I’ve got this great dictating software, I may go to voice control for these guys... just a thought.] First we address whatever the physical issue might be - this morning it was tension in my neck and shoulders - so immediately some of the attendant guys are massaging my neck and shoulders and applying energetic devices that are very relaxing, healing and nurturing. Meanwhile I am using various techniques to reveal and absorbe the message and meaning behind the tension in my neck and shoulders. I don’t want to miss the treasure buried in these symptoms you see, by just deleting them without regard. So I open myself to the meaning of the tension and appreciatively acknowledge it as enormously valuable feedback about how I’m creating my realities these days here in this physical dimension. [All of reality could be thought of as reality-creation feedback, or perhaps as the answer in three-dimensional terms, to whatever questions we are asking ourselves currently.] As I engaged this process myself this morning I got the image of a lion. Sort of like a medallion with the sculpture in high relief of a lion’s face with open jaws. It was like a big ornamental relief sculpture and it was rising up out of my chest and the feeling I got was a lion rising up and trying to express itself and then coming back around not having fulfilled that fully, and coming back around and then trying again... Once we have opened ourselves and tried to absorb as much of the meaning as possible, then I start giving myself SMART suggestions about how my body is feeling particularly vital and alive, and all the muscles of my body are relaxed and comfortable, and in particular my neck and spine, shoulders and back muscles are all loosie-goosie, and flexible and liquid and flowing... As I give myself these suggestions inwardly about how my body feels, I naturally start focusing on my body here in this physical focus, and my body starts to respond. In this case I found myself spontaneously standing up straight, my shoulders dropped, my arms went out and I could feel the energy flowing through my arms and hands, and then my back flexes and curls. So as I’m giving myself the suggestions, I’m acting them out with my body. At this point I exit my workshop and go about whatever I was doing. It has been my habit lately not to return altogether from the heroic dimension once I have established myself there. It feels comfortable for me to leave some of my awareness in that dimension, while the other half, or more than half, is devoted to focusing on what I’m doing here. [It turns out there are significant perceptual benefits from having a foot in each realm.] In the heroic dimension I have access to primordial streams of consciousness that make up the River of Meaning out of which ultimately everything else is constructed. [In certain areas of consciousness there are these huge rivers of energy coming together, think huge tree trunks intertwining, only billions of them, and they are gigantic and seem to go on forever... ] Each of these currents of knowledge and consciousness contains the primordial feeling/meaning tones and structures that are then interpreted by us through all the myriad languages in between so they become accessible to us in our focal awareness. - - - - - In addition to the Speaker layer within our consciousness, Kris has also introduced the idea of Rahunas which are movements of energy we can sense right here in our focal state of awareness, but with our inner senses underneath our normal perceptions. Kris gives the analogy of a pond. Once something emerges on the surface of the pond it has entered our worldview, so to speak, and has been translated by our natural processes into something we recognize. Rahunas are movements of energy we can sense even in the normal waking state of a focal awareness, that are primodial to this dimension in that they have not yet been translated into an actual intuition or feeling or observation or insight or whatever. [Just outside the periphery of our ordinary perception.] The fact that they are only partially perceived means that they are not yet limited by our preconceptions. They are only partially expressed which means that they still contain the influences of, and the gateways to, unformed and even inchoate constellations of meaning and feeling that offer rich perceptual rewards. Once we have identified the presence of these Rahunas, we switch our attention to the heroic dimension where we have direct access to foundational energy flows in their unformed state. From this perspective we have access to the meaning and feelings behind our focal experience in a much richer way because we can see and understand the constantly shifting significance of these movements of energy, while they still have all the fragile, subtle qualities and fascinating inter-relationships that must, by necessity, be chopped off to some degree when these energies resolve all their delicious paradoxes and ambiguity, and emerge fully into physical manifestation. [you can't be black AND white here] - - - - - So there it is, straight off the dictation software, cleaned up of course... btw - I am finding that straddling these two states of consciousness gives me a stance vis-à-vis my everyday life that is spectacularly more expansive and meaningful than having all my consciousness eggs in one basket, so to speak. For my money, this stuff is actually starting to work! Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 4:58 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Rant, Mini-essay, Practice, inner tools, River of Meaning, foundational energy flows, energetic devices, dictation software

• Johnny Trance - Registered Hypnotherapist

  Johnny Trance - Registered Hypnotherapist John Hawkins (R)Ht - (Soon to be Registered) Hypnotherapist, also CCC* This hypnotherapist-guy is a spanking new aspect of my personality that has just recently showed up on the porch of my life as it were, like a hobo shows up expecting to be fed. I have passed the set examination with a score well above the required 80%, and merely await confirmation of my registration with ARCH, the national body here in Canada. This article may turn out to be something of a ‘caveat emptor’, in the sense that I am putting the World on notice that I have been approved by Official Reality, to hypnotize folks and make suggestions directly to their subconscious. [These things are not to be trifled with.] I am reminded of the Hypnotic Paradox; the client has free will, even in trance, but they willingly give it up to the hypnotist, trusting them to act wisely and compassionately on their behalf. Likewise we all have free will, as the conscious 10% of ourselves, but we happily give some of it up to our larger selves because we trust our neo-conscious to always act in our best interest. [At one level I have to just trust myself to BE who I am, or we get nowhere, no matter how hard we think we are trying.] - - - - - Rather than dealing with weight loss and tension headaches - not to take anything away from the glories of administering nobly and helpfully to these areas of interest - my plan is to offer coaching to people who want to create their own realities more consciously. *Conscious Creation Coach (CCC)- this is the plan and Hypnosis will be one of the many tools along with EFT, Aspect Therapy, ‘Avatar’ and various other Yogas, my own Belief Negotiation techniques... [and whatever else shows up and proves useful.] Millions of people saw “The Secret” and immediately started fantasizing about a hot car or their dream home only to wake up one day and realize that nothing was happening. They were still driving a cab for tips and living in a flop house. [Ok, that’s probably an exaggeration, paying down a mortgage and living in the burbs is more like it] The unfortunate part of this is that a lot of people blame themselves for their failure and “What’s wrong with me?” is never a helpful attitude for anyone to take at any time. Think for a moment about the implications of this attitude for conscious creation. [If we are looking for what is wrong with us, what do you think we will find, sooner or later?] Really understanding this and taking it to heart, carries with it a large unspoken responsibility; where we choose to place our attention, and with what attitude, results in the kinds of realities we create for ourselves and those around us, to experience. [Yeah, we’re getting it. What we choose or allow ourselves to think about IS our responsibility, nothing less!] - - - - - Who We Are and How the World Works Just ask yourself this question, “How would my behavior and attitude change if I knew that everything I said and did, everything I expressed energetically, boomeranged back to me as my own experience of reality?” What would you choose, right now, if you knew you were creating, not just your own reality, not just the realities that all your friends and loved ones share with you, but worlds upon worlds of living possibilities shared by uncounted beings at uncounted layers of consciousness? It turns out that, by definition, the reach of our responsibility goes beyond the know universe and into areas of ourselves that are beyond our present focus and significantly beyond the reach of our present perception and understanding. This means we are responsible, even though we don’t consciously know how or why, we are responsible for the world we find around us. If we read about famine in Africa, we are responsible. If we see a TV show about the plight of the polar bear, we are responsible. What we have been thinking of as the outside world, is actually a projection or reflection of our own inner representations of ourselves and how we see the world. Even though we create our own reality, we have to come from somewhere, and where we come from is our inner attitudes and feelings about who we are and how the world works. Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 3:29 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Commentary, Story, how the world works, Who we are

• Why Different Layers of Consciousness?

  Different Layers of Consciousness Hypnosis is a fascinating topic and I am full of it because I am just finishing an eight week course in becoming a certified hypnotherapist. The average person [should we ever find her] is fairly ignorant of the actual qualities of hypnotic states. My own way of describing it is in the context of ‘mobility of consciousness’. The idea is that we can move around in our own consciousness to various different layers. And each layer has different strengths and weaknesses. Each layer has access to different resources and opportunities. In casual conversation we have figured out about four different layers of consciousness that every human visits almost every day. The sleep state, the normal waking state, meditation, and self-induced alpha states (hypnosis). There are undoubtedly many more and a whole discipline could be devoted to investigating this. The reason I took this course is that I believe that hypnosis is the discipline that focuses most directly on consciously changing the state of consciousness you are in for particular purposes. Where else do we find this expertise in our society? [everywhere actually, I am thinking of barbers, dentists and entertainers for a start, not to mention a much older profession ;] We have the ability to move in our state of consciousness to the location that is most suitable for what we want to accomplish. For instance, there is nothing like the normal waking state for noticing and appreciating the richness of our experiences in this physical dimension. On the other hand the dream state is extraordinary in the range of realities and experiences we can access. The possibilities go way beyond physical reality because in our dreams we are not nearly so attached to the limitations we have chosen for this dimension. The downside is that dreams do not seem to have any dependable relationship with what’s happening in our outer lives. Dreams are so free of structural restrictions that they are pretty far removed from the everyday realities we face when we are awake. Meditation is a wonderful trance state we can all learn to enter at will. It is typified by very healing acceptance of self and at least temporary release of many unnecessary tensions and attachments. The issue here is that this is not a place to exert one’s decisiveness in service of one’s intentions. Meditation is all about acceptance and allowance, not choices and action. A profoundly powerful layer of consciousness accessible to us all, is a self-induced hypnotic trance. The power of this state is that we are able to talk directly to the sub- or neo-conscious. Suggestions we make to ourselves in these states are gobbled up by the subjective awareness and transferred to our reality creation mechanisms immediately. The only downside here is 'do not operate heavy machinery' while in these states. - - - - - What this means is that if we want to say affirmations to ourselves in the normal waking state, that may produce some results eventually. But if we want to really mainline a suggestion into the neo-conscious, we should put ourselves into an auto-hypnotic state. Likewise if we want to relax and allow stuff and rejuvenate ourselves, a meditative state is ideal. Whereas if we want to assess a situation, make some careful observations and then some choices, we should be in the normal waking state. This is where our ego is most focused on the outer experience of life in this dimension. Eventually I see a time when every family will have not only a healer, but also a specialist in the mobility of consciousness, perhaps one and the same. The potential that is revealed when we discover that different energetic expressions at different layers of consciousness produce different results in our reality, is quite ‘beyond the beyond’. [when will mathematicians and physicists allow consciousness into their equations?] Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:55 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Rant, Commentary, reality creation, layers of consciousness

• We Create Our Own Reality

  You Create Your Own Reality - 101 All the ‘dead guys’ are adamant about this point, we create our own reality. It is as though this is an idea whose time has come. Science, weather, cartoons, presidential elections, they all point to the fact that we create our own reality. It was Seth, channeled by Jane Roberts who first coined this phrase but it has grown to define a movement in consciousness that is only gathering strength in this new millennium. Just being ‘alive and kicking’ steers our reality creation mechanisms in whatever direction we concentrate our attention. This is our power as expressions of Source in this physical dimension. Ok, so let’s talk for a moment about the mechanics of reality creation and why it is so significant for us to begin to accept our role and responsibility in the creation of our own reality. [What might at first blush seem like a burden turns out to be the ultimate freedom so please bear with me.] If you create your own reality, as all the ‘dead guys’ tell us, you are creating the one you’re experiencing right now. This is not something you can stop doing, or fail to do, or screw up in any way. This is not a superpower we can turn on and off. In each moment, without exception, we each immaculately create our own reality without thought or effort, and there’s really nothing we can do about it at that level. It is an inherent characteristic of our being. Of course we have free will and can pretend with uncanny convincingness that we are a victim of our realities, or ‘the devil made me do it’, or whatever rationalization we might choose to deny our innate powers and settle for a reality we don’t like. This basic fact of how we create our lives here in the physical takes nothing away from the deeply angelic and metaphysical meaning of the experiences we create for ourselves. Of course it’s all about the metaphorical meaning, and the inchoate feelings, and the myriad relationships, and the awesome realizations that allow us to unscrew the inscrutable. This is all true and of immense value. But there is something refreshing, almost astringent, about accepting as a simple mechanical fact that where we point our attention, living realities start spinning off and streaming towards us to experience if we choose. [We, each of us, are the captain of our ship, and the resources and potential of the entire universe, known and unknown, lie poised and waiting to manifest 'more of' whatever we choose to point our attention at.] If you are starting to think this is a rather egotistical thing, this creating our own reality, keep in mind that where you end up focusing your attention on any given day is only about half your choice. The other half is the pattern of familiar and interesting things your reality does all day long that capture your attention. This is the alarm in the morning followed by the coffee and drive to work, the red lights and green, everything that we place our attention on during the day, followed by a trip to the pub for a couple of short ones and a couple of hours in front of the TV after dinner. Our neo-conscious provides this daily pattern of focal points to allow us to effortlessly redefine our world by affirming the necessary beliefs, assumptions and conventions that allow our everyday world to reconstruct itself with the ideal levels of continuity and novelty. These daily patterns of attention, mostly directed by our neo-conscious, direct our reality creation mechanisms just as much as the ‘conscious’ choices we make as a self-aware ego construction. The good thing is that our neo-conscious mind is absolutely open to input from us about what kinds of experiences we want to have. In fact the neo-conscious actually looks to us for guidance and direction in this. Such is our power. - - - - - Illustration: My own invention. ***Of course these ideas are based on the astonishing foundation of Kris, Seth, Elias and Abe, to name a few... Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 6:56 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Commentary, YCYOR, reality creation

• Weight Loss Protocol

  Hypnosis Homework - Weight Loss Protocol - November 14, 2008 - John Hawkins My homework is to create a protocol for the hypnotic treatment of weight loss. Of course, this raises many, many issues. Only a few of the most salient of which can be addressed here. The basic plan is to use Krasner’s lovely process, including the Benefits Approach right up front for developing SMART suggestions with the client. If it seems appropriate, we can use age regression for the therapy. Desensitizing the ISE and then engaging the Informed Child to help release the emotional energy blocked up in opposing the event. The plan is to open up new choices for the client in their nows that are much more in harmony with their preferences. Simply guiding the client’s attention to hitherto blocked areas of normal human perception is enormously balancing and healing because the natural energetic signature of our Ego Construction zeros and neutralizes any system it enters. [this is part of Energetics 101, whenever you energize a new system, or one that has come online after a long interval, you naturally zap everything to make sure all systems are ‘go’.] Using established finger signals - or better yet - vocal response, we ask the client in light to medium trance to aid us in divining an understanding of the issues. Did it happen before or after...? Are we ready to release the problem? Is it done now or will it take a few moments? Then the Informed Child revisits the original traumatizing event, bringing a new, broader perspective. Who knew we create our own lives? Who knew our physical bodies and the very events of our lives are an outward expression of our own thoughts, feelings and actions? As adroitly as possible at this point, we insert the client’s own SMART suggestions from the Benefits Approach done earlier. We may also add some helpful suggestions of our own about valuing and empowering self, being curious and expressive about our experiences - not to mention our unlimited potential! When the client comes out of trance, to the count of 3 for instance, we welcome them and give them some few minutes to gather and reconnoiter themselves in this new configuration. We may find ourselves welcoming this few moments as well, giving us an opening to pause and reconsider the whole affair, and even reorient ourselves in the most favorable context to our own emerging intentions and preferences. Eventually though, we find ourselves asking them to revisit the issue. Are they are ready and eager to express their new selves? Then we test them as best we can. Are they still triggered in the same way by the issue of ‘weight loss’ and are they still discontent with their present bodily configuration? Only by acknowledging and acting on our present understanding, does our perception widen. We cannot fool ourselves anymore, or pretend that such-and-such is not so-and-so. We are past all that. [The writing is blazing across the walls all around us, and it’s all we can do to keep up!] Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 7:21 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Commentary

• Embracing the Feminine

  Email comments on a dream about transition and acceptance Excerpt from original email: The strongest feelings during the dream were ones of opposition and acceptance all at once, and the warmth and close feelings toward my bride. She seemed to exist in an emotional sense, though I can't recall any of her features. I'm open to other interpretations as well, in case anyone thinks of any. Hi [correspondent] As I re-read your account this afternoon a couple of things popped up... There is an obvious male-female dynamic... and I recalled what are often called 'plumbing' issues that women are thought to be prone to in some quarters... [This is all about female biology and the accompanying emotional, cultural, and symbolic associations.] I see you accepting your feminine energies pragmatically, even though you may feel at some levels that this is not really necessary, or need not apply to you... Your attraction to being with the 'bride' speaks volumes, and your repeated willingness to accept what you don't particularly want - even going on record as not preferring it, thank you very much - also speaks volumes about acceptance and allowance that is very instructive... [When we can accept that we have intentionally and lovingly created an event, even though we personally detest it and all it's implications in this particular now, when we accept that we have created something, we automatically move to a perspective that allows us to see a slightly bigger picture on things - including whatever the issue was that triggered our getting to this lovely state...] How wonderful to see that you are willing to overlook even what might once have been seen as a 'criminal trespass', in support of allowing a balanced and harmonious dwelling for the much anticipated union of you and your bride... Lovely. Kris has said that we create an arena for our explorations in this physical dimension by a careful and complex interplay of opposing and allowing energies. Thus accepting that we have created what we don't want, on the one hand, and also accepting the fact that we oppose our own comfort and complacency, is perfectly natural to the processes we have engaged in this dimension. The Shift seems to be about the re-emergence of the feminine energetically and we males may have our work cut out for us, so to speak... So well done! - - - - - Illustration - This gorgeous image is by Pamela Matthews. Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:05 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Commentary

• Moving Around In Consciousness

  Moving Around in Consciousness This idea has crystalized for me just lately. I have previously written about this as ‘mobility of consciousness’ and I thought a diagram might add a nice layer. This was brought into focus for me again recently by a synchronicity last Thursday. I was getting ready to go to the Kris radio show I co-host with Mark Bukator, Reality by Design. I happened to read a short passage in Jane Robert’s book, Psychic Politics, describing her idea that the state of consciousness we are in is a crucial component of whatever we are experiencing in any particular now. She describes being downtown in front of a bank. While she is experiencing a heightened level of awareness, including greatly enriched sensory perception, the person on the sidewalk beside her, supposedly experiencing the same reality, might have been thinking about lunch. What transpired was that this precise idea was addressed explicitly by Kris in the radio show. Where we go to in our state of consciousness is crucial to how we are perceiving 'reality', and what resources we allow ourselves access to. I have understood for some time that where we place our attention is where our material creation energies go to create our experiences. I had not been framing this as  moving around to actual different 'areas' of consciousness though, in the way Kris seems to suggest. To illustrate this idea, let's think of consciousness as an immense condo development, continuously being renovated, with a million rooms that each permit uniquely specific and perhaps undreamed of possibilities. Any change in our lives from this perspective, is actually just moving from one room to another within this vast gestalt of consciousness. Practical Uses of This Idea Go to the 'room' in consciousness that has the best tools and most helpful vantage point for what you want to accomplish. [If you want to cook dinner don't go to the attic and expect everything to fall into place.] The Glories of The Normal Waking State If you want to relish the reality you have created, experience it fully, and make choices about where you want to go next, you need to be in the normal waking state. The Curious and Surprising Powers of Various Trance States If you want to suggest a few things to your neo-conscious having to do with what you want to happen next in your life, it is much more efficient to be in a self-directed trance state. [what I am learning is that it can also be immensely useful to 'straddle' these two states, including perhaps even the dream state. This meta-stance cannot fail to provide spectacular new perspectives and potentialities] Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:28 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Commentary, Practice, Toronto Session, mobility of consciousness, consciousness, hypnosis