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 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.
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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?]
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 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.
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Illustration: My own invention.
***Of course these ideas are based on the astonishing foundation of Kris, Seth, Elias and Abe, to name a few...
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 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!]
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 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!
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Illustration - This gorgeous image is by Pamela Matthews.
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 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]
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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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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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 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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 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.
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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.]
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