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  • 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.

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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?]

  • 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.

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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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