Contemplation 1: Who are we?

More of us are beginning to contemplate the truth behind who we are, as human beings, living on this planet Earth, this star of so much suffering. Why do we feel so different from others? Why are we surrounded by so much violence, when all we seek is love? Is there anything we can do to shift this atmosphere of fear, defensiveness, retaliation, and combativeness? Are we alone?

The world we imagine and hope for seems impossible when we look outside of ourselves. Perceiving what is out there, we see ourselves as small and insignificant compared to the vastness of our world, its anxious and angry people, and the planetary changes we watch helplessly unfold. But, when we peer closer to our inner world, the one in here, we discover the miraculous power that we wield.

For nearer to the truth of who we are, we are boundless energy, limitless and infinite, a nonlocal and holographic mind embedded within the nonlocal and holographic multi-verse, that is our home and source. This is the conception that we are challenged to embrace by our pioneering scientists who persevere in bringing us a more accurate picture of our place in this cosmos. And this is the conception that we will explore in this new series of posts called Who Are We? 

No longer can we delude ourselves with the notion that our universe was created randomly, as elegantly argued by researcher and professor Gary E. Schwartz. No longer are physicists at the edge using the word uni-verse. Instead, they are proposing multi-dimensional worlds, a multi-verse, filled with strings and notes, woven in and out of time and space. A tapestry of sound and consciousness creating the fabric of our world.

In jetting our mental conceptions from uni-verse to multi-verse, we may be on the brink of scientific detection for the way the Word, Divine thought and sound, was used to create our material planet by way of a grand symphony. And, it is as if this symphonic orchestra is itself an infinitely imbedded hologram. A multi-faceted jewel within jewel, forever projecting itself through diverse halls of mirrored sound and image, that we perceive as time and space. For in a hologram, the blueprint for the whole is reflected and imaged within each part. It is in this way that the many are created in the image of the One. Directing this harmony of sound and image is the Divine Composer. Indeed the Great Mystery, as Native Americans so aptly call the unified creative life force that permeates, synthesizes and orchestrates all of nature.

To my knowledge, it was physicist David Bohm who first described the universe as a hologram, while neuroscientist Karl Pibram confirmed that the human brain works as a holographic processor. According to Michael Talbot, author of the Holographic Universe, the 3-D projected image of Princess Leia in the film Star Wars was the holographic technology that inspired the holographic theory to explain the anomolies revealed in quantum physics and many psi phenomena.

As we continue to investigate the mysteries of ourselves, leading quantum physicists beg us to consider that each of us is a composer, whose consciousness or mind collides with the collective holographic Mind beyond time and space to create our physical world. Far from impotent, it seems we are powerful beyond our wildest of imaginings.  

First copyrighted 9/14/2010 by Valerie Varan.

Contemplation 2: The effect of the parts on the whole

In the first of this series, it was given that the physicist David Bohm described the universe as a hologram, and that as such, the blueprint for the whole is contained within each part. It was also given that the neuroscientist Karl Pibram considers the brain to be a holographic processor. Furthermore, it was suggested that leading quantum physicists are currently theorizing that the fabric of our universe is comprised of a matrix or field of consciousness. That, each of us (a part) is interconnected with the whole. And that, each of us is able to co-create with the whole, described as a collective holographic Mind. How much, you may wonder, does it take to affect this magnificent whole? Can we really participate with our consciousness in the act of creation?

According to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introduced the west to Transcendental Meditation (TM), the square root of 1% of a particular population is the number of people with focused intent needed to change the consciousness of that population. That’s it. Not even 1% of us needs to shift in order to have an effect. But, we do require focused intent.

In the world of physics that means focused, like a laser-beam of tightly spiraled coherent light. And intent, where you see it, feel it, will it…..with great love…..in order to benefit the whole. This Maharishi Effect has been quantified after more than 600 experiments on TM, many focused (successfully, I might add) on reducing crime and conflict in cities around the world, including our own Washington DC.

The implications of this are staggering, considering that the years around 2012 have been prophesied as a window of galactic proportion, in which cosmic energies are aligned in such a way that our holographic brains may partake of the “energetic opportunity” to download them and use them to shift into higher frequency states of consciousness. The Maharishi Effect tells us that if but the square root of 1% of us choose to shift into soul consciousness, then much of the entire population can be effected as well. Many scientists are beginning to join in these experiments on intention. such as Masaru Emoto, Gary Schwartz and William Tiller to name a few.

Emoto has described how a group of meditators improved the quality of a body of water, Lake Biwa in Japan, the third oldest lake in the world. Tiller has shown how even random event generators (that is, essentially a machine or device built to put out random data) can be altered with intent and can have lingering or “conditioning” effects on the space they are in, in fact, changing the physics of the space.

Lynne McTaggart’s book, The Intention Experiment, as well as her website www.lynnemctaggart.com reveal amazing data concerning the power of thought, and our capacity to invoke and evoke peace and other changes around the globe. She also shares what she has learned about the more effective methods of achieving the state of focused and heartfelt intent. It seems we each do have the capacity to join with others in loving intention, and truly change this world.  

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Contemplation 3: Light and love

Did you know that scientists have shown that we are indeed made of photons, units of light? We are light. Structured light, to be more precise. Various forms of light. Electromagnetism in our slower frequencies. Torsion fields in our faster frequencies. And so much more left to discover. We are love energy at our core, beamed through multidimensional forms of light and attracting experience into our field. As love, we are like the sun, radiating light and attracting other heavenly bodies into our gravitational field. We are love, living as light. And it is time to dust ourselves off and let ourselves shine! Let us rid ourselves of all that covers and dims and contaminates. Let us radiate our true essence and live our own unique form of light. Instead of beaming fear and anger, let us beam love! And watch as our loving light effects those around us, shifting their moods, melting their hearts. For we are already, love and light at our very core.

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Contemplation 4: Our divine matrix of energy

We now know that the energies that interconnect and entangle us as one divine matrix (as Gregg Braden has called it) of energies are not just the electromagnetic waves that take time to travel over distance, but mysterious energies that seem to travel faster than the speed of light. Einstein referred to these latter energies as “spooky action at a distance”. It seems that something spooky at a distance is indeed happening, and we are living in a nonlocal world where somehow an action in one part of the planet is instantaneously sensed on the other side, taking no time or space to do so.

We really are One in being. Our beingness is a collective, a united matrix of energy. We are both a part and the whole at the same time. Part, in time. Whole, beyond time. Sharing information instantly in our wholeness; more slowly in our separateness. Many scientists are bravely stepping up to study the qualities, characteristics, and behaviors of these faster energies, which defy the laws of conventional physics. Valerie V. Hunt has published about healing scalar waves. Claude Swanson has extensively written about torsion fields. William Tiller talks about these faster-than-the-speed-of-light waves as superluminal magnetic waves, while Elizabeth Rauscher and Russell Targ theorize an 8-dimensional space-time extension of relativity theory.

These intrepid scientists spanning various disciplines are endeavoring to reveal the veiled puzzle pieces of our universe to explain nonlocal phenomena that do not seem to follow ordinary space-time rules, such as pre-cognition, pre-sentiment, remote viewing, clairvoyance, telepathy and distant healing. All of which are considered types of intuitive experience, much different from instinctual impulses.

Edgar Mitchell, Peter Marcer and Walter Schempp have come up with a theory to explain how these faster frequency energies are retrieved by our nervous system, by way of “quantum holographic phase conjugate adaptive resonance”. I might simply say it is a “step-down” process, where higher is stepped-down into lower much like energies from a power plant are stepped-down into a power station, and then to a transformer, and eventually to the plugs we use in our homes. Furthermore, pioneers like Dean Radin are applying this research in ways for us to learn more about our human capacities to engage in healing across distances, to be in telepathic rapport with others and to be able to teach psychic remote viewing techniques to others. James L. Oschman has written a great deal about the research on our bioenergetic fields and its application to healing, as has Gary E. Schwartz and others.

The point is, we are clearly witnessing a revelation of consciousness unprecedented in human history, an awakening of our collective consciousness to the nonlocal holographic Mind that is the song of God. And what we find is that who we are blows away our previous limited versions of ourselves. We are unlimited, multidimensional layers of energy, which intertwine with All That Is in such a way that we are That. One in Being. One in Body. As our human body is composed of distinct parts and aspects, both internal and external, so is our eternal body. There is diversity in our Oneness. Many notes, one symphony. We are all of these energies, each layer being revealed to us as we are ready to perceive them.  

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Contemplation 5: At the physical level, we are electromagnetic energy

At the physical level, we are electromagnetic energy. But what does that mean? Allow me to introduce you to the energies of your personal self, by taking you more deeply from your thoughts, to your emotions, to your physical makeup, and submerging you into the atomic and subatomic realms of your being.

Notice your thoughts. Become aware of your emotions. Tune in to your heart beat. Is it fast or slow? Is the energy there tense or calm? If tense, notice that when you consciously and purposefully slow your breathing, the tension loosens and peacefully melts away. Bring mindful attention to other parts of your body. Feel your skin. Its smoothness, roughness, thickness or thinness. Observe the lines. These indicate the pattern of the underlying energy fields below the surface of the skin.

Have you ever before contemplated what your body is made of? Of course it is built with bones and skin, organs and cells, but did you remember that all of that is mostly water, at the physical level? 75% to 90% by most estimates. It is no coincidence that water is the ultimate conductor of electricity and solvent for matter. What is water made of? One molecule of H₂O is comprised of three atoms, 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen, held together with energy bonds, and vibrating continuously. But then, what is an atom constructed from? A nucleus with electrons whirling around the center, much like a miniature version of our solar system.

If we were to zoom into the “sun” or nucleus, we would find protons and neutrons. And within the proton, we would discover 3 pairs of quarks, the smallest unit of energized matter that to my knowledge physicists have found so far. Like our solar system, most of this atom is what we might see as empty space. But physicists are coming to realize that there is more power within the “empty” space than in the bits of particle we call matter. Abounding with the potential of creation, it has been more recently called the quantum vacuum.

Within the atom, electrons with their negative charge are attracted to the proton with its positive charge. As electrons travel, electricity is generated from the movement. As for the quarks, Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics informs us that the names for the 6 quarks discovered to date are up, down, charmed, strange, truth and beauty. Strange names indeed, and unexpectedly poetic for scientists! But they may be getting closer than they might suspect at describing the permanent atoms of our being, when they name these foundational sparks of life truth and beauty.

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A river of energy can be seen entering any material atom (or planet, or human body, or any “atom”) at the north pole or head, and exiting the south pole or feet. It appears to then sweep back up and circulate towards the north, as if forming beautiful butterfly wings…maybe even angels’ wings…which fan the energy of life.

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As the ancient wisdom tells us “as above, so below” and “as in the macrocosm, so too the microcosm”. Evidently, there are correspondences among the distinct layers of energy that scale up and down in frequency. And we can learn much about the other layers as we study any particular layer of creation. We can use the law of correspondence to form our theories. I suspect there are an infinite number of energies that could be described with distinct properties. It is as if they await realization by our scientists, patiently ready for technology to keep up with the growth of our own collective consciousness. More specifically, I can’t help but to notice that as waves intersect at 90 degree angles, a new type of wave seems to emerge for our naming. Each time with increasingly more subtle and magical characteristics. For instance, it is reported that electric waves intersect with magnetic waves, arising together at 90 degree angles to form the electromagnetic field. And then two electromagnetic waves intersecting perpendicularly have been called scalar waves. I can imagine how this could go on indefinitely, and wonder not at how so many scientists seem to be finding clues to these various pieces of God’s puzzle that is life at its most subtle level.

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So you are essentially an electromagnetic field at the most fundamental (yet still physical) level. Light from light. The electromagnetic field is a sea of radiating light. Visible light usually appears white to our eyes, but can be seen divided into the major rays of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. These rays form a myriad of spectacular rainbows as they synthesize and dance around us.

Beyond what is visible with human perception, there are frequencies of colors slower than red that we call infrared, and faster than violet that we call ultraviolet. Scientists, such as Dr. Valerie Hunt, have confirmed that each colored ray of light corresponds to a unique vibration, frequency and sound. A coat of many colors, the aura is the common name for the electromagnetic field that interweaves a body of matter. It can be seen clairvoyantly radiating outward for some distance, though most of us can only see the aura of large bodies like the moon or earth itself.

The aura that is the light of the human personality grows brighter as it is infused with the light of the soul. It is as two stars merging of cosmic proportion. As it does, the light of the human aura eventually becomes visible to the naked eye, as reported to appear around mystical saints and Christ. We call it a halo of light. In his book Life Force: The Scientific Basis, Claude Swanson (a physicist educated at M.I.T. and Princeton University) writes about the holographic nature of the aura, where the energetic information for the “whole” is contained within each bit or “part”.

So what we are really coming to know is that we are essentially comprised of tiny holographic solar systems, with the sparks of life at the center of each. And with every “atom” of this solar system, the electrical and magnetic fields that arise from each form an endless sea of electromagnetic fluctuations, which are interconnected with and popping into and out of existence from the quantum vaccum.  

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Contemplation 6: We are solar systems within solar systems

 Notice that every miniature “solar” system within our body, in turn rotates and responds to a larger, broader, more encompassing solar system. At the microcosmic level, whirling electrons (negatively-charged) are attracted toward and respond to protons (positively-charged) within the nucleus of an atom. Each electron follows an orbital path, and at times, seems to mysteriously disappear from one orbit and appear in another. This jump from one orbit to another has been called a “quantum leap”. In turn, spinning atoms are attracted to one another, cohering into progressively broader systems of elements (like hydrogen or oxygen) and molecules (like water, created from two hydrogen and one oxygen atoms). 

Some systems are more like particles of matter. Some more liquid. Others more gaseous, like the ethers of space. Which form is taken, depends on the speed of its vibration. The slower it travels, the more material-looking it appears. The faster it vibrates, the more etheric its essence. Systems of molecules gather into groups of cells. Cells stew into various soups of biochemicals, nutrients and blood. Other cells combine to form soft tissue and organs. Still others form the building blocks of entire nervous systems or skeletal systems. All of these types of systems come together into the collective we call a body. And yet an individual human body is but a cell in the larger collective we call humanity. A single human heart pumps out essential electromagnetic signals that shape the organ we call the heart of the people. The signals from one human brain light up the corresponding area within the brain and nervous system of the Earth. Together we form part of the whole of the collective consciousness of our planet.

Trees function as cells within the lungs of our planet, keeping the air we breathe clean and just the way we need it to survive. According to some calculations, each year we need one tree for every two human beings. That’s a lot of trees. Rivers are quite literally the blood of our planet. Moving, transporting, cleansing, and keeping balance so that our planetary body maintains its proper homeostasis. Every animal, plant, and mineral on our planet serves a precise function within its local and nonlocal system. Each species or class brings some thing that is needed, or takes away some thing that is not needed; either because there is too much of it and the system is out of balance, or because the system is changing and the system needs some thing new or different. But as much as we are cells in the body of a diversified planet, our planet in turn makes up the body of an even broader and more diversified system. Our solar system.

A solar system is typically considered to be a group of planets that revolve around a particular sun. In our system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the dwarf planet Pluto rotate around our sun (listed in order from closest to furthest away from the sun). Yet even our solar system is but a cell in the system we call our galaxy, the Milky Way, and is attracted to the cosmic pull of its source of life energy, the galactic center. In turn, our Milky Way galaxy is but a cell in our known universe. Galaxies upon galaxies are known to exist, each following their source, their center. And so it seems to go, infinitely in both the macrocosmic and microcosmic directions.     

When I say “We are solar systems, within solar systems, …” I would define a solar system as follows. In a solar system, there is a physical source of life energy (like our sun). There is space (the sea of life energy we call the quantum vacuum from which the sun itself is born). And there is a collective of matter (like our planet), which is attracted to and fed by its source of life energy. So notice that the images above of the Solar System, or even the Milky Way galaxy, could similarly be a depiction of the atomic system. We have planets whirling each in their own unique orbit, at particular speeds around the sun. Just as electrons travel particular orbits, or along particular rings, as they spin around the nucleus, attracted to the positive charge of the protons. And yet whether an atom of micro or macro proportion, most of any system is really space, the womb out of which all material existence is birthed, according to quantum theorists. (And what is a cell but “bounded space”?)

So what is the significance anyway when we speak of space? Where there is space, there is energy, waves of vibration carrying information. There is unlimited potentiality for physical manifestation to condense or pop into existence. There is power. There is source. There is consciousness. There is being. Within the space of any solar system, there are various levels or rings of energy, through which the collective of “matter” is interconnected to its “source”, and through which all energy is transduced or transformed into its myriad of forms. Stepping it down from source, from higher to lower speeds or frequencies, each layer or concentric ring houses the matter which corresponds to its own predominant frequency of energy. Each ring bridges the energy, from the rings adjacent to it, from one layer to another. So within each system, there is a bridge that interconnects the higher frequencies with the lower.

Our physical sun is the transmitter bridge between the faster vibrations of light from which it springs, and the slower-moving energies that in our dense illusion we perceive as matter. Our soul may serve as the bridge between energies we think of as spiritual and those we see as material.   In each system, the microcosm is embedded within the macrocosm. In the macrocosm, our solar system itself is the lower energy that circles its galactic source of power. Yet galaxies are the lower energy that respond to the higher from their universal source. In the microcosm, electrons house the lower energy that encircles the nucleus, source of higher energy.

Our physical body is the lower or slower energy that is connected to the higher faster energy of soul or beingness. As we have contemplated earlier, atoms cohere, forming larger and larger particles of matter. Atoms collectively become molecules, which collectively become cells, which collectively become organs or bones or bodies, whether human or planetary in nature. But how does one atom know its source? How does it know whether it is to serve as a heart cell or brain cell or a liver cell? How does it know whether it is part of the chair on which we are sitting or part of our leg? This was the mystery I contemplated in the 6th grade as I stared at my science book and a model of the atom. Science still debates the answer to such a question. But what I have come to know is that each atom is a unique energy pattern, with its own one-of-a-kind vibrational blueprint or fingerprint at its source, which creates (calls into form) the structure we see as a body.

Each atom predominantly vibrates to a particular frequency, and as it does, it sends out a particular sound, a note. And like the Pied Piper, it has the power to attract with its song that which is similar in frequency or speed of vibration. Source sends out its note, and the cells of the Body respond, rotating in spiral cyclic precision to the song that is played. From the law of correspondence, a glimmer of truth twinkles before us, teasing us toward realization. Electric to magnetic. Electron to proton. Planet to Sun. Body to soul. Manifest to unmanifest potentiality of the quantum. Creation to Creator. Holographic “solar” systems within holographic “solar” systems. Each system a rung on the ladder of creation. Each an energetic or light reflection of its source. Each body manifested out of the being that is its source, and stepped down from faster forms of energy to slower. A spherical system of interconnected body and soul; multiple rings of consciousness which unite and envelop two apparent poles in wholeness.

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Contemplation 7: We are a sun

At our very core is a “sun”. An energy field of light and love. This inner sun, that is the essence of our being, magnetizes to it an outer form most reflective of its highest nature. This form, that we know as our body, matches the energy within…..its vibration, purpose and experience. The higher the plane of vibration is at our core, the faster frequency is the construction of our body. The more materially-focused is our sun, This it does endlessly, as it grows, evolves and expands in the reaches of its field. And so, does form evolve. From subatomic and cellular, beyond human and even soul, and into the cosmic and universal forms beyond our human conception.

As this sun, the infinite core of our being, evolves, it repeatedly requires a new form, a new body. Again and again, it takes. The old burns away, appearing to our misconception as a fiery death of some imagining. When in Reality, life has taken a leap into a new level of existence. A body is constructed that is well suited to this born-again self, for its latest incarnation into experience. Death is really a birth into a higher order, a new form of wider significance and creation. On the ladder of this multidimensional and holographic field, we have taken another step upward and outward and into new reaches for our building. We are limited only by our notion of who we are. Our human form suits the nature of this sun, our soul. For our soul is still unsteady in its light. It dims with fear, blackens with anger. Yet too, it is capable of such brightness…unconditional and unselfish love, And so, the personality we so readily identify with is projected to those around us, unpredictable in its mood and activity, uncertain and doubtful in its thoughts.

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Question 1: Who Am “I”?

I am a drop of consciousness emerging from an ocean of consciousness.

And yet I am the ocean of consciousness from which my atoms and cells themselves emerge as individualized drops of consciousness.

Drops within drops within drops, I am an infinite array of consciousness.

Hologram within hologram within hologram, I am conscious being, life and love itself.

Question 2: What is consciousness, simply put?

Consciousness as a whole is the entire ocean of all energy waves that have reached some damp sand or rocky shore.

Consciousness is the arrayed field of energy waves that whirl information into structured form.

Consciousness is the collective field of all energetic vibration, faster and slower, which underlies and provides the informational blueprint for all existence.

Consciousness is the unified love between pure energy and material form. From the intercourse of pure energy with matter, consciousness emerges.

Question 3: What is energy?

“Energy” is the capacity and power to move or exert force.

“Energy” is a field or matrix of moving waves carrying information, which cannot be created or destroyed by humans, only transformed from one type or arrangement to another.

The term energy “signal” usually means the information communicated by slower electromagnetic waves that take time and space to travel. However, here it is used more generically to indicate the “information” communicated by any type of wave, even torsion fields that are in touch with one another immediately, even at seemingly great distances. “Pure energy” carries the signature message called life, the source field which animates all particles and atoms with various levels of consciousness. “Force” might be differentiated from “pure energy”; the former existing within matter, and the latter existing prior to being organized into the shapes we call matter.
When form is shattered and is no longer structured, perhaps we can say that “energy” is released. No longer pure or original, but energy existing in wave form.
When speaking about ourselves, we could say that our energy bodies are our nonmaterial bodies. Nonmaterial to our eyes, that is.

Question 4: What is a helpful metaphor for thinking of our consciousness?

Consciousness is like an infinitely tall building with an ever-moving elevator. We can be present and aware of the entire building, but usually we focus our awareness on one aspect of one floor at a time.

When we take the elevator to the bottom floor of our personal consciousness, we perceive our most physical and material world, the consciousness of our atoms we call instinct, our body and its physical intelligence, processes and structures. We don’t usually go very deeply into this aspect of self, and so much remains below the threshold of our awareness, in the unconscious realms that go on nonetheless without our being conscious of it.

On the second floor, we become conscious of our emotional and social intelligence or energy body. For example, we may notice an emotional response in relation to (in relationship with) all things, people, and events, real or imagined. We want things. We fear things. We feel attraction to or repulsion from what is similar or different from us. What feels like us we are drawn toward, out of a sense of compatibility. What feels different from us, we may learn from or move apart from. It is this emotional consciousness and its sense of energetic resonance that guides us to find the groups that most match us and with whom we might work well. It is this emotional and social consciousness that gives us empathy, the awareness of the emotional fields of energy within others.

When we get out on the third floor, we become aware of our unique mental intelligence or mental body. We become aware of our thoughts, ideas, and imagery. We notice the themes of our thinking, the patterns around our creative thought, and the types of imagery that are customary for us. It is this level of mental consciousness that gives us the capacity for understanding and compassion, as well as a sense of personal power and ability to build or be creative using whichever tools we gravitate toward.

Most of us experience simultaneously all of these three “floors” or planes of personal consciousness – physical, emotional and mental – yet in a very incomplete way. A little of this and a little of that in any given moment. Most goes on subconsciously, or just underneath the surface of our conscious awareness.

It is typically these lowest three planes (i.e. bodies; discrete layers of vibrational waves of energy, grouped by similar frequencies or speeds) of consciousness that give us our personal sense of “self” or the feeling of “I”, and it is this group of bodies that we are called to integrate so they are functioning as a balanced and healthy personality.

But, there are upper floors of our consciousness yet to be explored by most people. All of these upper floors we refer to most simply as various spiritual bodies or higher planes (i.e. layers of energy waves that are faster, or behave in more mysterious ways) of transpersonal consciousness. We always have access to them, but we usually have to “push the elevator button” to travel to these upper floors to see what is revealed. However, out of grace, and when we are open, we can experience flashes of insight, inspiration, revelation and illumination that spring from these various upper levels of consciousness.

A growing number of us travel more frequently to the fourth floor, the plane of intuitive consciousness or soul body. But there is a pass key we need to access this floor; it is unconditional and unselfish love. When we (occasionally at first) receive intuitive information from this fourth floor, it comes to us clearly, accompanied by a certainty, a knowing. It usually comes when we are in a state of loving consciousness, rather than our more typical place of fear.

When we begin to live from this fourth floor of consciousness more routinely, we may call it living synchronistically and authentically from the heart, aligning with soul consciousness, or being congruent with our higher self. We know we are in a soul conscious moment and living from the “fourth floor” because we find ourselves immersed in a flowing state of love for all beings, a state that is unconditional and inclusive. At first we may experience this state as only a peak moment. Later as we evolve in consciousness, we find we love this way most often and rather automatically. Synchronicities occur more often because we are now in touch with a broader spectrum of consciousness, one in which we are linked with others on our “same wavelength”.

Intuitive consciousness differs from instinctual consciousness, since instinct is generally an unconscious (i.e. well below the threshold of our conscious awareness) “first floor” physical process related to the working consciousness of our bodily cells. “Gut instinct” is an autopilot reaction to fear. Intuition is not reactive; it is proactive. When we receive “fourth floor” intuition, our mental state is very clear. It might seem like a higher consciousness is driving us.

Using the Hindu terms for the higher spiritual states which quantum physicists have adopted, the atmic consciousness is on the fifth floor, the monadic consciousness is on the sixth floor, and the adi consciousness is on the seventh floor. These are the various planes of consciousness reached by saints and mystics and those who work “miracles”. It is said that after we evolve beyond the plane of adi, we merge into the emotional body of the cosmic entity in whom we live and have our beingness. We no longer take a physical body as we know it. If it is of interest, St. Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle, the Harvard psychologist William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience and many other books on western and eastern mysticism describe in more detail the innumerous states of consciousness that one might reach or embody.

Those who contemplate or meditate may unexpectedly experience these upper floors of consciousness and can be baffled by them. Worse, such experiences can be labeled demonic possession by some religious persons, or mistaken for psychotic events by uninformed mental health professionals. A person who has had this kind of spiritual experience can distinguish this state from everyday reality, and may simply need some support to understand their experience.

Question 5: How many “nonmaterial” energy bodies do we have?

An infinite number.

Quantum physicists are beginning to borrow Hindu terms to differentiate among 7 of these significant bodies (one corresponding to each “floor”), six of them energetic bodies that are organized into progressively refined or more subtle forms of substance.

Our dense material body (and everyday reality) is referred to as the physical. This is the layer where energy is traveling the slowest compared to the others.

The faster pulsing energy bodies are the emotional, mental, intuitive, atmic, monadic, adi. The adi layer is the fastest, least material, layer of consciousness in our physical system. Mystics say that beyond the sphere of adi consciousness, we enter the emotional body (evolved from the physical) of our more cosmic nature.

Try to imagine seven bodies within seven within seven within seven…like a series of brightly colored nested Russian dolls, but going on infinitely, from the most dense to the most ethereal. (Incidentially, you may notice that even our physical world is differentiated as varying degrees of solids, liquids and gases).

Question 6: What is my “soul” body?

For most of us, the intuitive sphere of consciousness is the energy body that we continue to live in after the death of the physical form or body. It is the intuitive body that is referred to as the “soul” body, the consciousness that continues its existence and from which we “see” after death of the physical body.

Mystics tell us that the consciousness body that an individual actually experiences as the soul or heavenly body is the highest body of consciousness from which the person lives while in this physical plane. For those who have evolved beyond the intuitive plane (i.e. are able to receive the signals from and live predominantly from much higher energy planes), they might live from their monadic consciousness or higher after the dissolution of their physical body.

We know these mystics and saints by the ease of their self-sacrifice for the good of humanity. From birth, their autopilot consciousness appears to be their soul or intuitive body (they are observed from childhood to be unconditionally loving and more self-sacrificing); and as they mature into adulthood, they may report a growing number of peak experiences (experiences of their monadic body) as they too continue to evolve their consciousness from intuitive toward monadic, as their regular state of consciousness.

As an evolutionary milestone for humanity at large, it is this intuitive level of consciousness that we are intended to live from while in our physical body, and thus create “heaven on earth” by bringing down specific energy and information from higher to lower realms, and living from this state of being.

Question 7: Is there is an afterlife?

Yes. Just ask Eben Alexander, MD. He is a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven. You can visit his website at http://www.lifebeyonddeath.net/.

At a recent ISSSEEM conference (International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine, where mystically-inclined scientists and scientifically-inclined mystics gather to discuss the latest in scientific evidence around our energy bodies), researchers commented on about how there is so much scientific evidence that we exist beyond the death of the physical body, that they cannot understand how it has not come to be accepted yet as scientific fact.

Such scientists seem in agreement that when the physical body dies, the energy consciousness body is released from its dense form or instrument, and exists apart from it in the same state as it was before its release. From their studies, they conclude that the soul experiences many lifetimes, reincarnating sometimes fairly immediately, from our time perspective, and sometimes even into the same family.

Mystics say that whatever state of consciousness (whichever “floor” we are living from) we achieve in the current life, is what we experience upon death of the physical body.

Sometimes the consciousness of the physical body is revived enough for the energy body or soul body to return to it. In such cases, we call it a “near death” (NDE) or “out-of-body” experience (OBE).

Many scientists have been documenting what happens to the consciousness body during an OBE or NDE. Despite having been declared medically-dead, these people describe their experience as being conscious. After an OBE, a person might, for example, recognize medical staff who attended to them while “dead”, and know where their belongings were placed within the room. After a NDE, they most commonly describe being engulfed in light and love, floating or moving in a body of light, experiencing a life review, and being greeted by other light or spiritual beings. Researchers further note that those who have never heard of NDEs or never received spiritual education about an afterlife, even the very youngest of children, still describe the near death experience similarly.

The limitations of the physical body evidently no longer apply. For example, there is evidence that when the energy body leaves its dense physical body behind, even those who are blind from birth can see.

In the case of “ghosts”, it seems that what we have observed are often disincarnate emotional bodies stuck on the second floor out of their fear and reluctance to leave the physical plane. Appearances by more holy or saintly figures are more complicated, to say the least. Some apparitions are said to be emotional/devotional second floor thought forms (consider that every thought projected organizes energy into a form like a thought cloud) projected by humans. Other sightings, such as Christ’s return after the crucifixion or the appearance of the Virgin Mary, are explained to be a form of subtle energy substance, refined enough for the higher superluminal soul body to use, yet material enough to be visible to us. MIT physicist, Claude Swanson’s The Synchronized Universe, New Science of the Paranormal summarizes the best evidence and explanation for many kinds of paranormal phenomena.

Question 8: Are there past lives?

If today you had an experience, a vision so real that although you were still conscious of this life (and definitely awake and not dreaming) you could see yourself in another body, see the clothes you were wearing from some past decade or century, feel the feelings going on in that body, and the sensations experienced by that body, what would you call it? Many perfectly sane people have had this type of extra-ordinary experience.

So often does this experience seem to be of a human life in a past era (from our present timeframe), that we have begun to call it a “past life” experience.

As in the case of the afterlife, ISSSEEM scientists have concluded that there is so much evidence for “past lives” that it should be accepted as scientific fact. They even recommend past life regressions for those who experience phobic or traumatic symptoms yet cannot find evidence of any event in this life that would explain such an intense fear. Many qualitative research stories suggest that experiencing the past life source of the fear very often resolves the phobia or trauma. A person is able to consciously process that the fearful event is not present and can be let go. For example, in one such story a young child routinely experienced great trauma with any loud noise, even the sound of someone diving into a pool. After ruling out other possibilities, a past life regression was done where he could see that in a past life he was killed by cannon fire. Once he could process that the traumatic event was not a current threat, his trauma symptoms disappeared. Scientists have concluded that many children often remember past lives, but after the age of seven or so, the memories fade and disappear.

As a transpersonal psychotherapist, I allowed myself to experience a few “past life” regressions. I wanted to know what the experience was like before I would recommend it to a client. For me, each experience was like a very deep dream, vivid and as real to the touch as this life. Yet I simultaneously knew I was awake and conscious to what was going on around me, kind of like when you first awake from a dream, but are still in the dream at the same time. Some of the experiences felt like a “knowing” that it was a past life for me. Other experiences felt like a rapture, more mystical. Still others felt like I was experiencing a life that I was meant to learn something from, or bring a message back from.

Question 9: So what is the difference between my personal and human consciousness, compared to the collective field of all consciousness?

Human consciousness is the sea to the ocean of consciousness. It is the collective consciousness of all humanity. We could call this the unified “soul” of humanity.

Personal consciousness is the bay to the sea, a set of informational energy waves carried by a particular person.

For simplicity sake, let us restrict the term personal consciousness to mean the physical, emotional and mental consciousness that the average person experiences and is in the process of trying to integrate as a congruent sense of self. Let us then call “spiritual” consciousness any of the higher floors of consciousness which the average person may access during a peak or transcendent (also called transpersonal) experience.

Question 10: What is the difference between consciousness, intelligence, mind, and thought?

“Consciousness” is the ocean, the collective matrix of all pulsing energy waves carrying information into some type of structured matter, whether dense or subtle. (Matter is densely organized energy. The type of structure taken or particle of material chosen is determined by the behavior, type, speed or quality of the information carried.) “Consciousness” is the interaction of pure energy with form; it is the state of being a “dual” nature, both wave and particle simultaneously. Being conscious, we are aware of our own dual state of existence, a subjective energetic inner self interwoven with an objective material outer self. This is a simplification, of course, since in actuality, both the subjective and objective realms are infinitely multidimensional.

More typically, we might see consciousness as the capacity to be aware of and to respond to the environment, which is observed in all atoms, whether planetary, human or subatomic, just in varying degrees. But even if our human self is “unconscious” in a given moment, the atoms of our body are still at work, and it is simply that the larger consciousness is pointed in a different direction, so to speak. When consciousness is withdrawn a little from the body, we might be in a state of sleep, for instance, our dreams reflective of the plane of consciousness to which the subjective self has traveled. When consciousness is withdrawn entirely, the center of gravity that keeps our bodily atoms in place is shifted, freeing the physical atoms to gradually disperse and join some different arrangement or form.

In short, “mind”, “intelligence”, and “thought” are subsets of the more encompassing “consciousness” (often written with a capital C, as in “Consciousness”, to differentiate the ocean from the bay of personal “consciousness”). The brain is the hardware antenna, receiver/transmitter and transducer for the energy waves that it picks up from the infinite matrix or ocean of Consciousness that surrounds and permeates it. The brain’s job is to step-down the higher energies (that it receives from Consciousness) into lower energy forms that the cells can use, and to communicate the messages throughout the body.

The “personal mind” of a human encompasses his or her own inherent physical, emotional and mental types of intelligence, that is, floors one through three of the personal consciousness “building”. It also includes that which is received (from “outside”) and processed actively by the brain.

We used to use the term “mind” more specifically to mean the processes of the brain, but we have learned (thanks to pioneers like Candice Pert) that mind is in every cell of our body. So now scientists are more frequently using the terms mindbody or bodymind. This concept might become clearer if you consider that every thought is simultaneously accompanied by an emotion and a physical sensation or response, like a simple musical chord consisting of three notes.

“Mind” in the broader sense can also include the collective mind of humanity, and all “other than human” intelligences as well. Again we are referring to floors one through three of the metaphorical Consciousness building.

Our brain can receive the thoughts and emotions of another person or being when both of our energies are in a state of resonance and entrainment. When our energies and theirs are literally “on the same wavelength”, where the waves’ peaks and valleys swim together like a pod of dolphins, then they are resonating. It is then that our energies can entrain, exchange, or share information.

Though some writers also include “intuition” as part of mind, I do not so that I may differentiate this type of intelligence from mental thought. I categorize intuition as a fourth floor “transpersonal” (beyond the human level) event of consciousness that we experience more often as some information we “receive”, in a way like osmosis, rather than “do” like when we actively think a thought. Yet, intuition is certainly received into mind. In that context, personal mind opens to and engulfs transpersonal intuitive information.

The word “intelligence” is used very specifically. A type of intelligence is a specific capacity to respond to a particular form of perception.

A “thought” is a finite stream of mental consciousness, a third floor experience. Thoughts build material reality.

Question 11: What is the self?

The “self” is the stream of consciousness with which we identify in any given moment.

For most of us, the core sense of “personal self” is a subset or field of informational energy waves, a bay of consciousness, inherent to us. It includes primarily the subjective emotional-mental field of energetic information, sensed by us as our unique or individual set of qualities, personal traits and strengths. It includes secondarily the physical body or objective structured form.

Some mystics experience the broader dimension of “Self” that they spell with a capital S since they have come to identify with the ocean of Consciousness as a whole. For them, all existence is one fluctuating current, Consciousness, ceaselessly moving into and out of structured form.

The Self is therefore considered to be the unified matrix or field of all waves of information, intelligence, consciousness and pure energy. Many call this the Divine Matrix or God the Absolute.

The “soul self” is a level of consciousness or being that is in between the more physical personal self and the Divine Self, or Consciousness as a whole. The “soul self” is the faster vibrating energy body that is our “true self”, the one that exists beyond death of the physical body. It serves as the archetype or blueprint matrix of consciousness that guides the construction of the physical body. This it does by stepping down the energies into slower and slower frequencies. From our human perspective, it might appear that there is an infinite progression between personal self and Self, between personal consciousness and unified Consciousness. This progression is a journey we all inevitably travel.

Question 12: How are we physical form is created from non-material energy waves?

There are many theories about how forms are created. Let us briefly compare the viewpoints of conventional or standard physics, quantum physics, spiritual text, and the integrative perspective.

Standard physicists do not believe that “non-material” energy waves create physical forms. They believe that all reality is a material reality, and that waves of consciousness are somehow created by the brain as “epiphenomena”.

Though these conventional physicists know that energy cannot be created or destroyed, and though they realize that all substance can be divided into something infinitely smaller, they continue to search for the most fundamental building block or particle of our existence. Each time they think they have found it, they find something smaller still. The smallest particles they have reportedly found to date are quarks and leptons.

There are many mysteries that the standard laws of physics can’t explain, like how light can be both wave and particle (a photon is a “piece” of light that carries electromagnetic field) depending on which measure they take. The standard model still struggles to explain gravity, the interaction between particles (which they admit never actually touch because of the energy matrix that surrounds them), and the energetic forces that facilitate such interactions. They can’t explain consciousness itself, or how mind effects matter, or how intention can significantly impact random event generators, though it does. They can’t explain other consciousness phenomena like extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, precognition, remote viewing, or distant healing, which have been documented scientifically for over thirty years by prestigious institutions like Princeton (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research or PEAR Lab for short). They are also amazed to find that 99.999999999999% of any atom is simply space, and no matter how small they go into subatomic matter, each particle found still seems to be made up of mostly “space”. Furthermore, they used to believe that space was empty. Now they discover that there is more power or pure energy in space than there is in matter. According to Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe, “every cubic centimeter of empty space contains more energy than the total energy of all matter in the universe”.

As it turns out, earlier theories and mathematical laws of physics (e.g. Isaac Newton’s laws that are the cornerstone of conventional physics) do a good job of describing the more material energy waves that are much slower than the speed of light. But newer theories (e.g. Albert Einstein’s theories around relativity) better explain what is happening with waves traveling at faster velocities. Only recently have theories (e.g. quantum consciousness and torsion fields) emerged to explain events that completely disobey the rules of space and time, like energy healing, miracles, and consciousness itself.

Quantum scientists believe that, instead of particles, waves of consciousness are primary, and that they create physical or material reality by converting or slowing down waves into shapes or structured forms. These physicists suggest a multidimensional wave-particle reality, where our physical reality is only the densest aspect of an infinite multiverse, or multi-verse, of arrayed consciousness that exists simultaneously everywhere, on every plane of Consciousness.

Quantum theories have really taken off since the surprising discovery mentioned above that light can behave as either a continuous wave or discrete particle. And no matter how rigorously quantum researchers have conducted their experiments, they continue to find that light acts like a particle or photon when the observer experimenter predicts it to be a particle, and light behaves as a wave when the observer experimenter predicts it to be a wave; and even more mysteriously, the result seems to work backwards and forward in time. Furthermore, it has subsequently been confirmed by physicists studying the human biofield that the human body is made of photons or “chunks” of light as mentioned in the Bible, indicating that we too are simultaneously subjective wave and objective particle.

As a result of these findings, the position of quantum scientists is that consciousness, an intelligent field of informational energy, is primary and most fundamental to our physical reality. They conclude that a multidimensional reality or multi-verse of potentiality exists, which they measure mathematically with statistics as a probability wave function. They believe that it is quantum consciousness or laser-like and coherent conscious intention that “collapses” or condenses a wave into a particle.

This suggests that all “things” exist as a wave-particle multi-dimensionality, a complex subjective wave woven together with an objective particle. In trying to figure out how such multidimensional universes might be interconnected, some scientists have theorized gravity as the force capable of such a feat, a point that will be seen as relevant later.

Spiritual texts, like the Bible, have long revealed that “In the beginning (of our physical world) was the Word”. (A word technically is a complex sound, a pulsing energy wavefield of vibration that conveys meaning. A complex sound is like a short burst of song with harmonic overtones.) God the Absolute, unified Spirit or Creative Power, is said to have uttered the first Word, which set the world into motion as a hierarchy of conscious existence or being, that we now call the ocean of Consciousness.

From our human perspective, this hierarchy is divided into kingdoms: the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, and the spiritual kingdom, the latter said to include an infinite series or classifications of nonmaterial or celestial beings. Some esoteric texts describe how each atom (from the Greek origin a + temnein meaning “to cut”) is a spherical being that evolves, making its way from one body to another, from lower to higher spheres of consciousness, climbing the ladder of evolution one rung at a time from the mineral, into the plant, then into the animal, the human and inevitably into the upper rungs of spiritual consciousness or kingdom of heaven described by Christ. During this evolution, the superseding consciousness always contains what came prior. For instance, the mineral kingdom demonstrates a physical consciousness; the plant kingdom, both physical and also some emotional consciousness; the animal kingdom, physical, emotional and some budding mental intelligence; the human, physical, emotional, mental, and some budding intuitive consciousness; and so forth.

As regards the process of physical creation, it seems there is a Holy Trinity of sort at work. God the One or Absolute is said to have divided ultimately into three primary aspects. These three are 1) God the Father, Source, Creator, or some type of outpouring active “masculine” yang power, 2) God the Son, a union of Spirit and matter, and 3) God the Holy Spirit, Mother matter, or some type of receiving “feminine” yin aspect or form.

An integrative perspective can see how all of these theories seem to offer a piece of the puzzle, which needs to be put together in order that we might grasp the bigger picture and get a little closer to the technical reality. God the Father seems to be Life or pure energy, in whom we live and have our beingness; God the Son, that many call Christ Consciousness, seems to be the ocean of Consciousness itself born of the Divine marriage between Father energy and Mother matter; and God the Holy Spirit seems to be the consciousness or subset of informational energy waves within each “thing” perceived as dense matter.

Thus, what we think we know is that it is God, the Creator, the Absolute Power that sends out a soundless sound that we conceive as life or pure energy. This Power subdivides from One into Three, a Holy Trinity from which springs the infinite cascade of intelligent beingness or consciousness in form. This original “sound” or pure energy radiates infinitely outward in all directions, ultimately creating an array or hierarchy of various types of energies, higher or faster vibrating ones and lower or slower ones, which can be converted from one to another. The array seems to be spherical and infinitely multidimensional. Because of this, it is described as hologram enfolded within hologram, universe within universe, what some are calling a harmonic multi-verse. This infinite and multi-versal hierarchy of intelligent or informational energies is studied in part, as 1) particular fields (e.g. slower electromagnetism, the spectrum of light within matter; faster spinning torsion that carries us beyond spacetime) of energy that interpenetrate and dynamically interact with all other fields, 2) as the ocean or field we call Consciousness, and/or 3) as some lesser aspect of consciousness or intelligence. It is Consciousness as a whole that “collapses” waves into the organized and hierarchical structures we see as our universe. It is also lesser seas (e.g. humanity as a group) and bays of consciousness (e.g. individuals) that have the power to subdue waves of potentiality and convert “space” or “no-thingness” into forms or particles, but under the condition that these fields of consciousness are very coherently structured themselves. When such a field of consciousness (let’s say a group of two or more humans who resonate together and merge as one field of conscious loving intent) is a unified and coherent loving consciousness, it is then it has the power to organize or “collapse” less structured or more random fields of energy (like in the case of a physics consciousness experiment).

And so, it is consciousness that is primary in our physical plane. Consciousness provides the blueprint information (the energy signal or song carried by a wave) that determines the pattern in which a wave organizes and behaves. When waves cohere and organize into a very dense pattern that we can measure, we call the result material, form, particle or matter. The most dense patterns or structures, we call solids. The lesser dense, liquids. The least dense, gases.

Particles never actually touch one another, as even conventional physicists admit, even though it feels that way. They know that attractive and repulsive forces are behind all particle interactions. Attractive forces like magnetism and gravity cohere particles together. The repulsive forces disperse them. Among us human atoms, we know this attractive force as love, and repulsive force as fear.

Gravity is the only fundamental force that interacts with all particles. Gravity is still a mystery to scientists, but it seems like what they call the attractive force of gravity might be the lower reflection of the cohering force of love that is the soul’s blueprint energy beyond spacetime. On smaller scales, is when we evidently call it magnetism. On planetary scales or larger, we give it the word gravity.

So it is the soul within all things (i.e. the inner consciousness or subjective loving attractive higher gravitational energy) that magnetizes and thus coheres waves into structured outer objective form by sending out an energy signal, a frequency or sound. The signal or song provides the blueprint or archetypal pattern for construction of the organized form. Other waves are attracted to its song and cohere around it.

In the case of us humans, it is our soul in the higher reaches of consciousness that attracts the atoms that create each of our spherical bodies based on the information residing within our unique bay of waves or energetic fingerprint. The information exchanged is a type of keynote, a signal and harmonic sound. It is this signal that sets the waves into motion and arrays them by frequency. And it is this signal that attracts those to us with whom we intend to interact, as family, as soul mates, as significant colleagues as we engage in our life’s purpose.

Our heart and brain (as well as every hair and every cell!) really work as receiver/transmitters just like antennae. They convert the higher faster energetic information into slower more physical signals that can be understood by the rest of the body. The brain seems to function like a diligent executive assistant to the heart, which acts like a compass as it intuits the life direction and purpose of the soul. The brain’s right hemisphere processes the abstract information instinctually. The left hemisphere concretizes the abstract data into more linear thought signals. Energy highways called meridians underlie the nervous system, which receives and then transforms the information into electrical signals that can be used to share data throughout the material body. The membrane of each cell acts like a gateway, deciding how much of which chemical messengers called neurotransmitters to release or which genetic data to express based on the signals communicated. This information is shared throughout the entire physical structure of organs, muscles and bone. So, all of this amazing communication takes place by way of energetic information, which is ultimately transduced into useable forms or signals that the body can handle, just like we use electricity that comes to us through the electrical outlet in our wall and not directly full force from the power plant generator.

As quantum scientists are starting to conceive, all “things” are spheres of consciousness within more encompassing spheres of consciousness. And, as we will discuss more deeply in the next series, this subjective sense of being is the soul, the core self, the attractive force of love itself.

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Analyzing our dreams can reveal much about our thoughts and emotions that are buried deeply below the surface. As I discuss more under Soul Work Dream Interpretation, and in my book Living in a Quantum Reality, dreams can be communications from Spirit or loved ones, or mental representations of a chatty mind. They may be memories of astral travels or of other incarnations. Most often, they mirror to us the fears we hold about a lacking self. There are assorted styles of dream analysis. My style is a synergistic blend inspired by various disciplines from Jungian psychology to spiritual teachings, along with remote viewing and other psychic research. Though informed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious, I ultimately believe that each of us tends to dream in symbols personal to us.

The types of dreams we experience reflect our reach in spiritual growth. For example, only those few who have developed their perceptual capabilities beyond the material realms will likely remember astral travels. Yet there is nothing to judge for no one is ahead of another. Each of us develops according to the plan of our Higher Self for purposes we can only intuit. Ultimately, you are the only one who can interpret your dream. I am honored to be your guide.

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I had a dream last night…. In it, time seemed as if years. I was working on various scientific and engineering projects and achievements. Some events felt as smaller tasks, like working on a roadway project for the ….Some felt larger, like a space mission to the moon, or a cure for disease. Toward what would be the end of the dream, it seemed as if something had gone very wrong, there had been deep betrayals by members of the team, and I was corralled among a herd of our professional team as we were mechanistically pushed out upon a conveyor belt compacting and carrying us toward we knew not where. Then I could see ahead an enclosed vat, disguised as a small but friendly lake decorated with orange water lilies, yet knew it to be a chemical bath that would lead to certain death. As we dropped into the bath of still moving water, most immediately a curtain appeared, and as we rounded the curtain, relief overtook dread. I was on a Disney ride, a convincing adventure ride as realistic as life is, taking time as life does, yet circling back to the source of my ride and finding it to be the same day as the ride had begun.

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This is a prayer that I was inspired to write, while grieving the passing of my father. Hope it helps you too.

Father of my father,
Father of my mother,
Father of all,
Raise me up to where you are.
Pulse my heart with your Heart.
Quicken my spirit with your Spirit.
Set me free
from all the pain and grief that be.

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In western conventional psychology, it is routine for a practitioner to help a client become aware of self-defeating thought patterns, A little less common for them to help the client develop a positive thought discipline. As I introduced the concept of noticing how thoughts are attached to emotions, environments, bodily sensations, behavioral reactions, and how it can be useful to log the thoughts in a variety of ways, I noticed how overwhelming it was to her.

What we decided would be a constructive practice for her, was for her to take a piece of paper and divide it into two columns, ENERGIZING and DE-ENERGIZING. Any thought or thought pattern that was energizing or expanding, she could log in that column; any that she felt to be deflating or taking away from her energy she could log in the de-energizing column. The same with any environment, like somewhere indoors or in nature outdoors. The same with various people she finds herself to be around, or any activities she spends time doing. That way she could work on increasing awareness of all thoughts, activities, behaviors, environments, situations, and people who help her feel good in some degree, or those that lead her to feel constricted and in some degree not so good. Awareness of what it is that is connected to negative emotions or positive emotions, particularly the types of thoughts or thinking patterns, like all/nothing, can/can’t, always/never, success/failure.

Many of my clients have tried this exercise and found it to be very eye-opening. They begin to realize how much of their energy is tied up into thoughts and activities that don’t serve or resonate with them. And in what direction they would rather head. So I thought I would share this with you. Try it. See how you like it. I hope you do!

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Letting Go

Trusting in the Universe and myself.
Forgiveness.
Knowledge that I have done the best I can.
Being held lovingly in the moment.
Allowance.
Acceptance.
Peace.
Floating in the calm ocean.
Truth in the sky above me.
Truth in the water below me.
Love and appreciation for where I am NOW.
Love and appreciation for what has brought me to NOW.
YOU ARE ENOUGH!!!
Embracing freedom… Like a caged bird.
It takes courage to open your wings and fly on the wind.
And this is freedom.
It is a choice.
Choose courage.
Dissolve fear.
Recognize the limitlessness of love within yourself and the universe.
Open your wings.
Take flight.
And this is letting go.
TRUST.

by CH

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