Belief Makes You Stupid - The Old Consciousness at Work

Children are born intelligent. They are able to speak the truth about what they see. They able to see the world as it actually is. Of course, as they see it as it is, they begin to check-out of it. As the horrors of the world press in on them, they begin to move into the illusion of thought and belief.

 As children, we are told what is polite to say; what to do and what not to do. We are forced into seeing the world as our parents see it, which is the way their parents taught them to see it. Gradually, our child brain becomes conditioned and trained to be the way the world is. In our childhood, we are forced to fit into an insane world. Instead of preparing the world for the child, the child is prepared for the world. We have to be made insane in order to fit into it.

 Our child brain is conditioned to operate in a certain manner by the time we are four or five years of age. From then on, it's just a matter of adding more information to our already conditioned brains. Our world believes that gaining more information, and a lot of useless information at that, will make us more intelligent. More information actually gets the opposite result. Gaining more knowledge gives little room to "think" outside the box. The box of knowledge is the context of our lives and the content is the knowledge. We are being squeezed into insanity by ideas, beliefs, and the accumulation of knowledge. This is the world of illusion, not the world of reality

.We don't know what reality is. We are taught to believe. We actually go to elaborate buildings and worship some idea of a sky fairy or a supposedly son of a god who lived 2000 years ago or put our foreheads on the ground and our butts in the air or we kiss a wall or ring bells and count beads and all sorts of insanity. Belief makes everyone stupid, and stupid for allowing it.

 Have our minds become so conditioned and lazy that we cannot question anything? Why do we just accept what we are told by our parents, the school, the churches, the governments? Do they all have one agenda in mind - to make us unquestioning sheep being led into the slaughter house of war by our beliefs? Is it not crazy for a real live human being to take up weapons to kill another over insane ideas and beliefs? When will we have the guts to stand up to the insanity of belief and say, "enough is enough"?

 The old consciousness that has been our guide for thousands of years is no longer viable in our modern world. Perhaps it was necessary for our survival as we worked our way up the evolutionary ladder, but now, it is not only not useful, but it is also destroying us a species and destroying the earth for habitation by all other species.

Belief is the number one thing in the old consciousness that we need to drop and evolve out of. If we do not, we will more than likely not survive our own stupidity. Our survival depends on the evolution of the human mind from the old consciousness of violence into the new consciousness that is now being brought forth in the human. It is a transformation of mind. If accepted and embraced, it will bring forth intelligence, creation, truth, and love to the planet. If it is not embraced, the resistance to the new may well destroy us. Either way, the old will probably not go quietly. It is up to you.

 What will you do?

Edward Jones is a Transformational Relationship Coach, Speaker, and Author. His book about the new consciousness is available at http://anewconsciousness.org. You can read more about Edward and watch videos at http://selftransformation.org

Creativity and Consciousness: Tools of Mass Construction

Whether or not we consider ourselves artists, we are all in the business of creating our lives. Each of us is here to bring to life that something that's unique to us. None of us is aiming for triteness, in pursuit of the shallow. It's greatness we're after--and not some hollow applause coming from somewhere beyond us, but the deep down thrill of knowing we went all out, put our soul into something, created a life that sparked something new, had an impact, could be of use.

We want our fire to blaze, to rage up and light some piece of night that someone's shivering into. We want our lives, our work to sizzle with passion, to ignite ideas and laughter and wonder and kindness, to spread hope like wildfire through these times of darkness. We're a culture in big trouble, making big mistakes, and everyone knows it. We need help, and it's the arts that can help us, because our soul is what's wounded, and that's where art goes--straight to the soul.

When a truth-telling poem, a heart-rending film or piece of music enters into us, it changes us. We feel connected again. That life force that surges through the tulips, the redwoods, the elk and the eagle stirs inside us and we remember. Yes, that's how it is. Yes, I feel that way. Yes, yes, I have that longing, I know that wonder, I've fallen into that same abyss.

The arts reflect us to ourselves. They are a mirror to our magnitude, evidence of our power as alchemists to transform the lead of our daily lives into stories and images that brighten the moment, lighten the load. The images we expose ourselves to govern our lives, alter our thoughts. The stories we tell reveal truths, mysteries, ways out of the dark that could help another in ways we never know.

Art returns us to a sense of relatedness, because true art, while it may be channeled through one artist, comes from the common soul. Its reference is universal. It points to the whole and is sourced from the whole. In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf writes, "Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice." This experience of the mass is what gives art its healing power, its prophetic strength and durability.

Artists are the ones who make the invisible visible, who give words and colors and sounds and shape to the human adventure. They portray it in such a way that we understand more clearly who we are, how we are connected. Italian poet and Nobel Prize winner Salvatore Quasimodo said that "poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own." Nancy Mairs, in Voice Lessons, writes, "Our stories utter one another...If I do my job, the books I write vanish before your eyes. I invite you into the house of my past, and the threshold you cross leads you into your own."

While artists consciously choose, make it their business, to bring the interior outward, to create these thresholds for others to pass through, we each do this on a daily basis in one way or another. Aware or not, we are co-creating the world we live in--shedding light or shadow, bringing comfort or pain, adding energy to others, either positive or negative. Our days are the canvas for our creations and we are all artists of a kind, mirroring each other in the offerings we conjure.

Sheila Bender in Writing the Personal Essay writes that "there are feelings and longings we understand and accept in ourselves only when we recognize them in someone else's words, words that have never been ours to speak until we saw them written out of someone else's life." If you share your fears with me, or your joys or passions, you give me a way to better understand my own. Your speaking is a mirror in which I find myself. That is the gift of our self-expression. When we give shape to our interior world, put words to it, offer it to others, we are offering more than the eye can see.

This is why our creative work is so essential. It is not pointless or foolhardy. It is an act of faith, an act of kindness, crucial to our own healing and the healing of the planet. To create is to make something whole from the pieces of our lives, and in the process, to become more whole ourselves. It is a healing act, a leave-taking from the chaos as we move from the choppy surface toward the stillness of the center.

The creative journey inward is a heroic thing. It is a brave pilgrimage to the center of our lives where we mine our depths for what seeks to be released, transmuting one thing into another, turning tragedies and triumphs into new forms conjured in our private hours and offered to others like food for the soul, a wrap against the chill. It demands our stillness and rapt attention, calls for courage as we pass through the dark on the way to the light. And this is the journey that defines the artist, the new mythmaker.

To be an artist, it is not necessary to make one's living from one's creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics. It is not necessary that we are published or that famous people own our work. To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open. To breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark. It is necessary to rub our hands all over life, to sing when and where we want, and to jump when we get to the edge of the cliff.

To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing. To cry freely. To collect experiences and shape them into forms that can be of use. It is not to whine about not having time, but to be creative with every moment. To be an artist is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, to claim our lives.

Our cities and towns are full of poets, playwrights, composers, painters who drive buses, work in offices, wait on tables to pay the rent, but the work they do in their creative hours is the work that truly keeps them alive. Few among us call ourselves artists. Few of us are paid much for our creative work, so we squeeze it into the hours we have left after working other jobs to pay the bills. We write our novels in the wee hours of the morning, work in our darkrooms through the night, write poetry on subway cars, finish essays in waiting rooms and parking lots.

We rarely think of ourselves as artists, though it is our creative work that brings us to life, feeds our spirits, and sees us through the dark. We may feel alone, but we are not alone, as there are hundreds, thousands in the night doing as we do, trading this time for the bliss of creating.

The answers to the crises we're facing as a family will not come from beyond, but will surface from below as we quiet our lives, call upon our wisdom, give voice to our soul in all the ways we can. We hunger for creations that feed and sustain us-- for images, music, films and novels that wrestle with the issues and questions of the day, unfold their complexities, enliven our passions, and reawaken our drowsy imaginations.

As shapers of this culture, let us come to the task with the verve and vigor of true creators. Let us embrace each day as an empty canvas, our thoughts and words the brush and palette. Let us mine our lives for the jewels they offer, weaving tales worth telling to the ones to come. And let us remember, in the darkest of times, that you and I are the light of the world--our voices like candles, our love like the sun.

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Jan Phillips is an award-winning writer, speaker, and multi-media artist. She is the author of The Art of Original Thinking-The Making of a Thought Leader, Divining the Body, God Is at Eye Level - Photography as a Healing Art, Marry Your Muse, Making Peace and A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind. She has taught in over 23 countries and conducts workshops nationally in creativity, consciousness, and spirituality. You may subscribe to her free monthly Museletter at www.janphillips.com

Expanded Orgasm, Expanded Consciousness

Expanded Orgasm is the art and science of expanding both sensual awareness and consciousness through giving and receiving genital stimulation. Expanded Orgasm uses one's own pathways of body, mind, emotion and spirit to create maximum expansion opportunities- the goal and focus being simply to feel as much pleasure potential as possible.'

Patricia Taylor, PhD.

The history of Expanded Orgasm goes back to 1976 when Vic Baranco gave a woman a 3hr orgasm.

However the principle of this can be traced back thousands of years to ancient times. Many ancient cultures were aware of the power of sex and spent a great deal of time learning and practicing various techniques. Those who had been trained in these arts were often revered and the demand for their services was high.

Most sexual experiences are contractive in nature and therefore of short duration. The build up of pleasure may be long and take time but the peak of pleasure is very short lived and localized.

As we get closer to a 'traditional' orgasm the body tenses and contracts, muscles tighten and our breathing gets quicker. At the point of orgasm, the release of tension, we experience the explosion. After this there is a period of release and relaxation before we can experience the build up and explosion again. For many people the time in between can be long, often having to wait for the perfect opportunity and setting.

The different paths that men and women follow to orgasm also influence this. In fact this difference often leads to dissatisfaction and frustration.

The education and attitude of society also impacts on our view of sexuality and sensuality. In fact the practice of sexuality and the use of sexual energy is probably the most misunderstood and manipulated energy in the world. Something that was designed to be so pleasurable, to create such intimacy and love is, in thought and practice, so feared.

The truth of this is that we fear pleasure for the freedom it brings us. The fullness of pleasure connects us with the highest we are, the most we can be. It allows our creativity free rein; it brings out the deepest and most expansive areas of our imagination. It set's us free from any control.

This freedom brings with it great responsibility for our actions. If we are in charge of our lives and our world then we have to look very carefully at what we are creating. We need to examine the quality of our relationships, the goals of our lives and the society we are building.

The fullness of pleasure also means that we can be happy, truly, deeply, really happy. We generally struggle with the idea of being too happy for too long, expecting the bubble to burst. Many industries have been created and thrive on our unhappiness and pain.

A world based on pleasure would be a very different world. I believe that many of the social and political conditions that exist can change with an expanded consciousness.

It has been said by many people in the human growth fields that we don't or won't give up our illnesses and pains because we have nothing to replace them with. They have given us so much self-definition, so firm an identity.

How about replacing them with pleasure, with ecstasy?

The Expanded Orgasm technique is one possibility that can change so much of how we see our bodies, relationships, our lives and ourselves.

The learning of Expanded Orgasm is reasonably simple and with some practice most people become proficient.

The expansion of pleasure that this brings is enormous. A 'traditional' orgasm last for +- 30 seconds. YOU CAN BE IN AN ORGASMIC STATE FOR 30 or 40 MINUTES OR EVEN LONGER. The words of that alone, an ORGASMIC state, are enough to make the heart beat faster. It redefines our perception and experience of pleasure. The purely physical sensation of being in this state for so long simply has to be experienced to be understood. Many people have written and spoken about the feelings but all agree that understanding it can only come from feeling it.

The Expanded Orgasm technique includes education about men and women's genitals. This is so important as few people have this knowledge. The intricacies of women's genitals remain a mystery for many men and they are unable to fulfill their partners satisfactorily.

Women find the Expanded Orgasm experience extremely fulfilling, physically and emotionally. As their partner's know how and where to touch the pleasure is great. Most women talk about how beautiful they feel during and after the experience. Many women struggle to achieve orgasm but this changes after learning and experiencing the technique.

For men this brings a totally new perspective to the sexual experience. Most men are goal-oriented in a sexual situation. The goal being an orgasm. As soon as we get into this mind set we lose out on the wonders of the journey, the excitement of getting there and all the delicious sensations along the way.

The possibilities of Expanded Orgasm for men include orgasm without ejaculation and even multiple orgasms. For thousands of years in the East

there has been an awareness that orgasm and ejaculation are not the same thing. The experience of an orgasm on it's own has many benefits. I always make a joke and say for men the term should be 'going', not 'coming', because after the ejaculation most men are gone, ready for sleep.

An orgasm without the ejaculation allows the energy to be kept and circulated in the body. This alone gives a man a very different, often deeper and more intense physical experience. It also leads to a feeling of deep emotion. This is often accompanied by a release of stored and unexpressed feelings.

The practice of Expanded Orgasm on men has also been highly beneficial in helping men who suffer from premature ejaculation and assist men to last much longer during lovemaking.

Expanded Orgasm is a safe-sex technique; no penetration or oral sex is involved. This also makes it possible for people who are not in relationship to share for the pleasure and healing, the well-being that it brings without the 'complications' of sex.

Couples who have learned this comment on the increased intimacy it gives them. New channels of communication are opened; there is a greater interest in sex and sensuality, in sharing and loving.

The benefits of Expanded Orgasm are only beginning to be studied.

These include:

Reduction in sympathetic (adrenaline-like) nervous function.

Increase in parasympathetic (associated with relaxation and well-being).

A release of beneficial hormones and balancing of their levels.

A sense of peace, wholeness and well-being.

A sense of mental clarity and increased ability to solve problems intuitively and in new ways.

Strengthened self-esteem and an increased sense of power and effectiveness in life.

A sense of heightened spirituality.

And a lot more fun!

Expanded Orgasm offers a doorway to Expanded Consciousness. We can live with ecstasy everyday. We can grow through joy and sharing. We can have more pleasure than we thought possible. We can be happy, healthy and peaceful.

Use Your Prosperity Consciousness to Make Money

Prosperity is often associated with money. The more money you have, the more prosperous you become. This has become a common belief that is false.

Most of our lives, we have been taught by the our instinct and society to be "go-getters"; meaning, we have been taught to always grab the opportunity to make money as much as we can to have a prosperous living. But for most people who believe in this, seem to have the opposite situation of what they want, resulting to depression and regret.

In order to turn your life around now, let us define first prosperity. Prosperity and a prosperous living is defined as a successful, flourishing and thriving condition. As you can see in the definition, there was no term "money" used. Because it has nothing to do with the money!

The reason behind poverty among us in spite being "go-getters", is that we are not in our prosperity state; there are perceptions among ourselves, the people around us and the world that takes away the feeling of being successful, thriving and receptive to the money to come in.

When your prosperous consciousness is awake, you are more open to the ways to make money, more effective in your job or business, open to other money making ideas, and attracting prosperity partners. Only after then the money will start pouring in, and even you might not believe how much abundance is available. The people around you will just watch you in awe.

If you want to make more money, you have to be and feel prosperous first, because people who are in this state are the ones who will attract money.

This is a simple exercise that can put you in that state, doing this regularly can awaken your prosperity consciousness.

List 10 things or more that is wonderful in your life on the top of your mind. What are you thankful for? What makes you happy everyday? What are the resources or skills you have that are you thankful for? Doing this regularly connects you to your prosperous state, opening your mind to new horizons. Do it now and feel the shift of your mind and feelings.

Matthew Ferry is an author and a coach for conscious business people and executives who are committed to feeling bliss and happiness and using that energy to create a successful life. Life Coaching and being a life coach is his main course.

Personal Growth - Failure Consciousness Versus Success Consciousness

After hearing a number of recommendations for the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, I downloaded a copy to listen to in the car. One of the first things the book says is to take it one chapter at a time, really absorb each one and integrate the ideas slowly, making them your own. Having to spend the next 2 hours in the car I initially scoffed at listening to just one chapter. The first profound statement hit me as the book unfolded in the first chapter. It said 'the goal of this book is to help you move from a failure consciousness to a success consciousness'. I did indeed stop the book after the first chapter and give it some thought, which quickly made me realize how much of my life I have spent with a failure consciousness.

A little over a month ago, I attended a seminar through work called 'PowerCamp'. PowerCamp is a program that helps people to find their own voice, their own power within, to strengthen their own lives in the workplace and at home. Before going to the seminar, I had put some ideas in place for what I needed to work on. These were primarily around overcoming fears - not only fears that kept me from moving forward in many areas of my life, but I also what I called my 'fear of discovery' - that someone would uncover at some point that I had no idea what I was doing. I needed to overcome the thoughts that what I accomplished on a day to day basis was not worthy of recognition.

During the seminar while discussing with one of the coaches what I was hoping to accomplish with my experience at PowerCamp, she stopped me in the middle to make a point. I had been talking about how I had swum competitively most of my young life, from 5 years old to 18 years old in various swim clubs as well as in high school. She very astutely pointed out that had been wired in my formative years to measure my success by swim times, placement in races, and the opinions of coaches and parents always telling me to work harder - good was not good enough. Wired so much for so many years that I still look for similar validation today. However there are no times or race placements to validate what I do with my life outside of swimming. I realized that I viewed so many things I did as sub-par or failures, because I was trying to measure against something that did not exist anymore. This revelation was the beginning of freeing those thoughts of failure and underachievement.

Now looking back on life, I see so many more successes than failures. It has taken time to turn these views around and it is a daily process. Add the profound statement this morning of failure consciousness and success consciousness, I am also seeing my successes so much clearer. When I graduated high school in 1980, I chose not to go to college. I went to work in a few odd jobs, and ultimate got a great entry level job in computers that over the next 25 years enabled me to build a very successful career in the Information Technology industry. Throughout that career, I always felt less competent and less talented than those that had college degrees, yet I knew I was running circles around most of them at work.

That thought of failing to acquire a college degree kept me minimizing the success in my career for over 25 years. Now looking back, I see nothing but success. The fact that I was able to, on a C-average high school education, establish a long and well respected career in the computer industry, manage and lead large teams of people, and hold over 5 completely different and challenging positions, shows me that I have had huge success - and in no way was it a failure. The lesson was a long time coming, but now that it is positive instead of negative, I am embracing the feeling of that success.

About 15 years ago, I made a significant career change. I moved from being an independent computer programmer to being an instructor for a big time software company. When I decided to make such a big leap, I knew it was life changing and I had the confidence that I could make the change. But because of the insecurities around my missing degree, fear of failing motivated me for years to work hard and be very successful at the company. If I had gone into such a big career change with a success consciousness instead of failure consciousness, I may have had even more success. No regrets, but the profound statement of today has made me realize that having a success consciousness will only bring that success to you in greater amounts, because you believe you will be successful and that failure is not an option - or even a word that should enter your mind.

I now embark on another new challenge, altering my career path by becoming an entrepreneur and starting my own business. Instead of going in, hoping that I do not fail, I have gone in knowing that I will be successful. I feel it, sense it, and own the feeling of success and it is mine for the taking. Take it upon yourself to ask - do you operate under a failure consciousness or a success consciousness, and what do you need to do to move to the success side of that question?

Scott Ewart is a worker in corporate America and an entrepreneur. To read more on this subject and others, visit http://MeetScottEwart.com or http://ThinkLikeaRichPerson.com.

Using Power Consciousness For a Successful Business

Power Consciousness is a device made to explain how much energy we use, without having to be a state worker to understand. God Himself has stated that Earth's pathway to salvation is assured and it's up to each of you to assure your own. At this stage God begins to conceive in His Mind the Universe to be created. At this stage, the Divine Power of Action which is the Power whereby God may assume, or manifest Himself as, any form or shape, comes into operation.

So many people are becoming aware of this change in consciousness. A greater awareness of energy and how energy works is helping to bring about this change in consciousness. Power Consciousness is the breath that makes everything live. Consciousness is the source of all the knowledge and power. It is energy which can be expanded by individuals.

Up to and including this stage, Creation is Ideal in the sense that it is very much one with the Mind of God just as a thought or idea is one with the mind of the person who conceives it. The facts of the mind being given in time alone, and in no wise under the conditions of space, and therefore existing without the pale of exact measurement, was the reason upon which he based his assertion and his prophecy. The approach to a knowledge of mind lay through the fields of abstract conceptions, of which those presumed to fit such an entity had to be analyzed and adjusted to other abstractions before a discussion of subjective experience could be entered upon.

The entire Universe consists of various manifestations of God (the Universal Consciousness) which together form the basis of all our experiences. The Universe at this level is purely Spiritual and is inhabited by Spiritual Beings such as Gods (Angels). CONSCIOUSNESS which pervades the universe yet remains. No doubt, God attends to this business of managing the universe; but He is glad to have some help. When the helper is selfless and intelligent, all the powers of the universe are for him to command. So responsive is the Universe to our will that if we can break the subconscious patterns, even for a little while, we can see at least some small part of that which we (claim) we really desire.

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Your Eternal Consciousness

The infinite consciousness we call God is everything and everywhere. It is you and everything around you. It includes all the other worlds, or realities, that you cannot see. . . all sharing the same space and inter penetrating each other, only with different frequencies.

That which we perceive as empty space surrounding us is actually filled with the whole of creation! All except a fraction of this whole of infinity of creation operates outside of the frequency range of our physical existence. The space around and within you, which appears to be empty, is actually firing away with electrical and magnetic energy operating on an infinite number of wavelengths and states of being.

At this moment your consciousness is tuned to a 'station' known as the dense physical universe. When you 'die' your consciousness leaves the physical body and this dense physical wavelength. It then tunes to another station to continue your eternal consciousness evolution.

You are individual and are the sum total of all your experiences. . . different from other droplets in the ocean of consciousness. Together with the energy, or consciousness, of the animals, insects, trees, flowers. . . everything. . . you help form the ocean of infinite consciousness called God.

All things are alive and have awareness with the ability to hold information. Everything has its own personal vibratory blueprint.

Some expressions of the God consciousness/energy have evolved to a point where their awareness and ability to retain and process information is much further along the road than others. However, the principle is the same for ALL that exists.

When your eternal consciousness incarnates into a dense physical body, your consciousness reflects the sum total of your experience going back to infinity. So, from the moment of birth we each see the world differently, because our eternal journey has been different.

Contained within your subconscious self from the moment of birth are all the memories, knowledge and experiences that you have absorbed on your own eternal journey. Your subconscious is also constantly adding to its memory bank with each new event you experience. This adds to your personal evolution and to the evolution of creation as a whole.

So, within your subconscious self is a mixture of thought and perception that includes the knowledge and emotions of your eternal experiences. . . past lives, astrological pattern that you chose before birth and the experiences you chose for this life. Together this produces your state of being, your sense of self and your imagination of yourself.

The reality you are now experiencing is the result of what you think of yourself. You can change this! When you change your inner self, change your imagination of yourself, you can then change your physical life experiences.

You create with your thoughts and experience those creations through your emotions and feelings. Whatever you experience is the result of what you are broadcasting, putting forth energetically, because of your thoughts, feelings and actions from the past and from the present.

With awareness of all this you can choose to change your imagination of yourself and choose to deliberately create, rather than potentially play the role of victim. When you change your sense of self your energy patterns also change. . . changing the people, objects and physical experiences you attract. Attraction is vibrational more so than mere visual.

You can choose now to create a new vision of yourself and thus change your energy vibration. You can create your life as you want within the experiences of your eternal consciousness!

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For over 15 years Charlsie has been consciously on (and off, on and off. . . now back on!) the path to transformation and greater awareness. Much of her time is spent observing nature, exploring metaphysics and pondering on the so-called mysteries of our Universe. Charlsie has read extensively about energy, the various modalities of energy work, universal laws and is certified in all levels of Reiki.

Releasing Victim Consciousness Through Imaging and Breath

Years ago the nursing supervisor at the social service agency where I worked was picked up from work by her son.

When she got into the car he said, "The building looks sad."

She was amazed at his comment. He had no idea what his mother had done that day. She had cleaned the blood off the bathroom floor after a client had put a bullet in her head in an unsuccessful, but devastating attempt to snuff out her own life.

The individual had just left her therapist's office protesting for an hour her therapist's concern she was suicidal.

All of us were more than saddened by the event. Somehow the collective feelings were "seen" or "felt" by this young man.

We have all had instances of going into a room or building and feeling a heaviness or a peacefulness out of the ordinary.

In the metaphysical world, we call these energies "thought forms." The energy of the collective thoughts and feelings take form and are floating in the room.

The expression, "The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife" is a description of a thought form.

Such energies can have labels related to feelings (anger, fear, sadness) or expressions of consciousness (childlike, childish, victim).

As a psycho-therapist, a major aspect of what I do is assist people in recognizing they have what is called "victim consciousness."

Whenever someone uses as an excuse something that happened to them in the past for their inability to move forward in life, victim consciousness is present. The individual blames the past instead of seeing how they can move forward in life.

The saying, "This is the first day of the rest of your life" is only true if you choose to live in the present.

In the present, you can no longer say, "I don't speak up because my parents backhanded me every time I expressed my opinion."

Instead you recognize your parents aren't there to backhand you and you learn to express yourself.

Here is a "non-traditional" but energy-based psychology method of dealing with victim consciousness.

Next time you feel like the world is against you, just stop and get quiet.

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. How old do I feel?

2. Where in my body do I feel "the world is against me?"

The answer to "How old do I feel" will tell you at what age you are living your life at the moment. If the answer is "5" then you are in the emotional state of your 5-year old self.

Where you feel the tightness or heaviness in your body is where the thought form of your experience is located.

Imagine the tightness or heaviness as a cloud of some color in your body. Form an image of yourself behind the cloud of color.

Set your intention to get rid of the congested feelings.

Take a deep breath and "see" yourself blowing out the cloud. Do this as many times as needed to feel a lightness within you.

When you use this process, you are acknowledging what you feel is not a part of you. You can release it, you can heal it, and live life in a mature age appropriate manner.

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Integrating Your 4 Freedoms (Part 4 of 9) - Ultimate Reality - Consciousness

If the difference between particles and waves is so slippery, and if time and space are so easily transcended, what is the fundamental nature of reality? What is real? One answer is consciousness. Consciousness is original and fundamental, everything considered to be "reality" comes out of that consciousness. In his book The Self-Aware Universe,i Dr. Goswami presents a philosophical argument known as monistic idealism to explain his theory that both matter and mind have their origin in consciousness. He draws on the ancient Indian philosophy of Advaita Vedanta as his authority for using the term consciousness, as The Ground of All Being.

Consciousness is fundamental.

As the forgoing examples illustrate, Western science is moving closer to Eastern perceptions of reality, wherein all is one. Body, mind, and spirit are not separate entities. Not only mystics but also an increasing number of scientists, philosophers, and medical doctors are talking openly about subtle energy, consciousness, and God. Candace Pert refers to subtle energy as "a still mysterious fifth force beyond the four conventional forces of physics...to scientifically explain anomalies such as the power of love." And according to Robert Gottesman, M.D.:

If information exists outside of the confines of time and space, matter and energy, then it must belong to a very different realm from the concrete, tangible realm we think of as 'reality'. And since information in the form of biochemicals of emotion is running every system of the body, then our emotions must also come from some realm beyond the physical. Information theory seems to be converging with Eastern philosophy to suggest that the mind, the consciousness, consisting of information, exists first, prior to the physical realm, which is secondary, merely an out-picturing of consciousness....Consider that the body itself may be a metaphor, just a way of referring to an experience we all have in common. Maybe it's that we don't have consciousness, but consciousness has us.

In Eastern science, philosophy, medicine, and mysticism, body, mind, heart, and soul are treated as inseparable and indivisible (non-dual). In the West, physicists, psychologists, and neurologists now largely agree that mind and body operate as a single system. From this perspective, the brain is just another organ, albeit more intricate than the rest of the body. Thoughts and emotions that subjectively bestow meaning on our reality are the result of complex electrochemical and biochemical interactions within and between cells throughout our body as well as in our brain. What happens in the body affects our mind and our hearts, and what takes place in the mind affects the body and the emotions in an endless series of feedback loops.

If science has come to see that we are not isolated elements but essentially one though inexplicable whole, isn't that inspiration for us to apply this same approach to ourselves and our lives? If everything is ultimately a unique vibration of one fundamental string, isn't it time for you to treat body, mind, heart, and soul as one undivided system?

Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007.

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Uplifting the Individual Over the Level of Collective Consciousness

Uplifting Individual consciousness as the collective level of consciousness remains low may be difficult and challenging. While traveling the former Ottoman Empire and observing the analogous, but slightly different cultures, in addition to visiting with travelers from throughout the world, the observation of the deeper-seated motivation of the heart of the collective consciousness is pathetic among humanity. Integrity is a foreigner among the masses that have allowed the domination of negativity to devour their intellect.

Yet, around the world within all cultures humanity experiences a low level of collective consciousness, however; the united level of consciousness of the populace is higher compared to 30 years ago and beyond. The prime source of the low level of the collective and individual consciousness is directly related to emotional baggage and a dogmatic view of life as the absolute.

The Effects of Negativity:

The domination of the darkness resides in negativity, in addition to the complacent qualities of the ego. Hence, an ongoing pursuit of negativity will result with an unbridled tongue speaking injuriously to one another-boredom is at the forefront that generates jealousy. The advancement of technology is the core source of laziness and the production of a passive brain among the non-productive, but simultaneously, technology is assisting many people to uplift their consciousness from the low level that the collective consciousness experiences.

Contemplating that the positive and negative reside among most exploits-battling the negativity of the darkness should be prominent within our lives. Humanity is suffering from passive activity that is creating an emotional suppression of non-thinking within a sticky level of muddled instability that affects the capacity to problem solve. Thus, the motivation of the heart is affected, residing under the delusion of selfishness, in-turn, jettisons negativity toward others, and themselves.

The prime source of the low level of the collective and individual consciousness is directly related to emotional baggage

The perception that the world is cultivating derives from delusional propaganda is that the world/earth is sliding downward into a destructive situation, which in-turn instills fear into the individual that causes paralyzed will. The world leaders and international bankers combined with the secret societies are causing a delusion-the perception of humanity thrives on change and the development of the world, yet the powers of the darkness who rule this world will only use the advanced technology to control their slaves.

Pursue a Higher Level of Consciousness:

Individuals who pursue a fruitless activity of change among this world are severally deluded. Nothing will ever change within a world that the darkness controls; the world is destined for the New World Order of enslavement. Within human heart, mankind is bad from the youth up. The few individuals that have a disposition to pure spirituality of the light are few compared to the masses of humanity who accepts the world and resides within its negativity of the darkness. The few individuals compared to the billions of the collective consciousness can uplift their consciousness, but only if the individual desires to progress beyond this world spiritually and surrender all earthly attachments including emotional baggage.

Surrendering personal attachments will be crucial to overcoming a cultural in-bred emotional baggage of a self-centered greedy materialistic attitude. Scrutinizing what resides within the inner heart and identifying the ego's axioms can assist the process to uplift the individual consciousness over the collective consciousness of the world.

Activities to prepare your system to Purge Emotional Baggage:

Acupuncture: Many people experience Chi blockages. Opening up the blockages and experiencing normal Chi Flow can be an enlightening experience.
Raw Food: Focusing on eating raw food and prepare the system to except the idea of surrendering emotional baggage.
Neuro Emotional Technique: If you can fine a good practitioner in your area this technique will take off layers of emotional baggage and will dynamically assist your system to purge the emotional baggage through the >Inner Pure Method.
Active Lifestyle: If you find yourself in a sedentary lifestyle, movement such as dance can assist the process of surrendering emotional baggage.

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How To Reach A Higher State Of Consciousness

Higher states of consciousness are naturally interesting to people because we all inherently know that things are simply easier to understand when we aren't lost in our usual day to day problems that plague us from day to day. There are rare experiences when we are able to see the higher meaning of our lives and these moments help us to achieve greater clarity and value in the things we do.

In addition to the higher value and clarity that we can all achieve in a higher state of consciousness, we can also alleviate the negative feelings that come from our normal day to day routine. Higher states of consciousness transcend all of our negative emotions and leave us feeling as though we were "floating on air" in a perfect state of peace and contentedness. With such great promise as this, it is a great wonder that these higher states are so rarely reached and that the secret to their achievement often seems so hard to discover.

The reason why the difficulties arise has to do with a fundamental difference between what is called "theory" and what is called "application". In "theory", we know that higher states of consciousness exist and we can talk about them, read about them and think about them to no end. In "application", however, we find that we must actually begin to do things that are more real and concrete.

Thinking and reading and talking are all very concrete things and yet they often aren't concrete enough to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Our thinking and our books can only take us so far until we find that we actually need to transcend ourselves and go even further. This makes spiritual work seem extremely hard or even impossible for most people. We often decide to just "give up" and later on we discover that our "giving up" was actually part of the spiritual process which was necessary in order that we approach our task from a new angle.

Having "given up" on spiritual efforts, we discover that there is still a part of us which seeks those same higher states of consciousness that we originally set out to achieve. With a new strategy and a more open attitude, we reach a proverbial "second wind" which is mentioned in the classic spiritual book The Cloud of Unknowing. In this book, the anonymous writer explains how an initial effort to reach a higher state of consciousness often fails but that a person who returns to the effort again after years of "giving up" is almost sure to reach those higher states which they first set out to attain.

The basic effort that is required to reach these states has to do with letting go of negative emotions and becoming more aware of ourselves in the present moment. We can practice these things each day but often find that they are very hard to achieve for any extended period of time. Letting go of our grief, anger, fear and guilt are all part of what spiritual effort is all about but actually doing these things turns out to be much harder than we first imagined. Watching ourselves, observing our thoughts and coming to understand ourselves better are also important elements of spiritual effort but these things only come slowly over years of work and long hours of reading, writing and participating in spiritual groups. The efforts sometimes seem to much for many people after one or two years and they eventually become distracted by something and fall away from their path.

Falling away from the path is a normal part of spiritual growth and can actually be viewed as a positive step forward after some initial effort has truly been expended. If the person who falls away from their path doesn't fall too far off course, they can often find a renewed hope in the idea that there is a "second wind". This second wind is something that often indicates a true spiritual seeker and someone who has come to understand the true meaning of devotion and dedication to spiritual principles.

If you are intent on reaching a higher state of consciousness, it will be important for you not to forget your second wind. Many people begin on a spiritual path and even reach certain higher states of consciousness in the beginning. The true spiritual devotee, however, is that person who has come to a seeming end in their path and has actually fallen away for a time to wonder how a higher state of consciousness can truly be reached. It is only after their second wind that they truly come to see what higher states of consciousness are really all about. Good luck to you on your path and don't forget your second wind!

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Have God Awareness Without Higher Consciousness or Try God Consciousness With a Higher Awareness

Whether you're aware of it or not, your spirit has an ongoing connection with the astral space that is around you and also inside of you. Just about everyone has had many small events of God Consciousness without full awareness but these are all that most people will ever have in a lifetime. Others who actively seek for higher consciousness can become God aware with their conscious awareness.

Have you ever been driving while seriously thinking about a problem in your life? You travel along while pondering and suddenly you realize you have absolutely no recollection of the stretch of road you've just driven on. It was like you were totally zoned out but yet you hadn't hit the ditch. The time just disappeared into some kind of weird twilight zone or was whisked into a black hole.

Similarly, have you ever been watching television while thinking about a problem? Then as if time had suddenly accelerated to light speed and back, the program you were viewing is ended but you have no clue what happened while you seemingly blacked out. But you didn't slump in your chair and you're sure you didn't sleep. Again, it's like time itself got sucked up into a great cosmic vacuum cleaner.

What happened to your awareness during those driving or television watching events I've just described? Well, you enjoyed a mild episode of God consciousness. It probably wasn't all that mild to your spirit and it was likely quite productive too. I'm willing to bet that shortly after one of these types of time lapses, you suddenly happened onto the perfect idea or an epiphany that resolved the problem you had been pondering when your awareness took a vacation. God awareness works like that and as you can see, God consciousness is effective even when you don't recall the actual experience of it.

So where did your consciousness go? What did your awareness do while it was away on the brief holiday and why did an ideal answer to your problem suddenly appear in your mind as if sent on a postcard from the beyond?

To describe what actually happens in an event of God Consciousness, I'll compare it to the related but opposite paranormal phenomena of astral projection. During an astral projection, your awareness projects outwards and leaves your body and mind behind. During a God awareness event though, your consciousness also projects out but instead of leaving the body and mind behind, the awareness focuses its attention back at the body and mind. And you see yourself exactly as you really are.

People that have survived a death experience often report they 'saw their life flash before their eyes'. What they really had was a God consciousness experience but unlike the one you may have had while driving or watching television, they retain a full recollection of the detailed view of the total self that a God awareness provides.

You may have found the answer to a particular problem in your life with your blind God awareness event during what you supposed was just a brief blackout. Can you just imagine what you could do with a complete recall available with God awareness meditation? God consciousness provides perfect information you can chart a true course forward into a much better life with.

God consciousness meditation to achieve higher awareness with full recollection is not really all that difficult. You just have to work at it and choose when you will make an attempt. Had a portion of your intellect not been left behind to pilot your vehicle, a nasty accident would've ensued. And as for the watching television, well, you would not have to worry about a collision in your living room but a television set sucks out your intellect so your awareness wasn't available to go anywhere.

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Using Guided Audio Meditation For Deeper States of Consciousness

Did you know that you can consciously improve your ability to get into deeper states of consciousness by using or leveraging audio meditation?

See a lot of people just use them for that instant relief and unwinding from the end of a long work day, but you can actually use them in a way that helps you to condition deeper and deeper states of relaxation, mindfulness, de-stressing and meditation. You just kind of have to modify your outlook.

Most people don't see it this way, but it is kind of exciting that you can actually entrain yourself to enter deeper states of consciousness... becoming more conscious of consciousness in a way! Fortunately, audio meditations are already helping you with that process of guiding you into a less-cluttered state.

In many ways, it is easier for beginner and intermediate meditators to use guided audio meditation to help get into those more relaxed, Zen and egoless states of consciousness because they aren't as conditioned to just be in those states. In a way you really have to work on being 'out of the condition' of the ego. You can also use guided meditations that work on heart or sexual consciousness to work on conditioning yourself into more of those zen-like states where you are just 'being' and not fettered by the clutter of your mind.

What I teach with Self-Awakening covers a holistic approach to consciousness because you can be egoless in your emotional, sexual, spiritual and physical consciousness (not just spiritual) outside of your thinking states of waking consciousness.

So you can use a more advanced and almost performance-based outlook with spirituality in order to improve your ability to be in deeper states of relaxation. How can you do it?

As you keep going through the same guided audio meditation over days and weeks, try and see how fast you can get into a deep relaxed state as soon as possible. I do recommend using one good audio meditation resource which you can condition to. Each time you go through it, you can kind of gauge where you are at by the time it reaches new words.

Try and take yourself into a more relaxed state every time or at least set a standard of reaching the real effect and intention of the guided audio meditation. All of this becomes more powerful when you take on a greater definition of self where your emotional, sexual, physical and spiritual consciousness (which are all egoless) becomes deepened in your awakening journey. That is very different than an ego-driven definition of self with a quick 'unwinding' at the end of the day before you go back to the same stresses of your work to repeat the shallower cycle all over again.

The more you get into spirituality and spending more time in deeper states of consciousness (and there are different ways beyond just zen meditation), the more it will become normal for you to just BE present, de-stressed and more youthful. You'll actually start living and 'being' more in a relaxed, present, zen-like state where the stresses of the world don't affect you as much. And when you go back into any type of meditation session, being so experienced from your past (conditioning), you'll be able to more effectively stay and remain in consistent, deeper states. This is very beneficial for your health and wellbeing and your monkey mind ego won't 'own' you as much.

There are plenty of benefits to meditation as you already know and becoming more spiritual with an expanded definition of self as Mind, Body, Heart, Sexiness and Soul will also help your ability to be in deeper states. Fortunately good guided audio meditations like Powerliminals can help you in different areas of consciousness to keep and condition you more into your egoless and greater self experience; fun, free and happy as can be.

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The Christ Consciousness

The Christ Consciousness. I was raised as a child in the Christian faith and never heard this term - much less its explanation. In fact, I never heard the term until I was in my 50's...

What is it?

What it isn't: it is not the historic personage called Jesus. Remember that he was ALSO called The Christ - Jesus the Christ. This was a title, a description of his STATE. That must mean that 'the Christ Consciousness' is a STATE...

Many spiritual traditions have their own names for this STATE. 'The Buddha Enlightenment' is one of the well-known ones. Sufism and Hinduism may use 'The God Consciousness'.

And if we look closely at Jesus' and Buddha's words for the world, they all culminate in one single message: Anyone can achieve this State, too. Anyone.

What is this State, then?

Releasers of the Lester Levenson methodology call it 'Freedom' or 'Beingness'. In his presentations, Lester also called it 'Amness', 'Imperturbability' and other names to help us understand.

Lester told us to get Ego out of the way entirely - in order to be naturally taken to The State.

Ego

Ego is the noisy part of us. "Ego", as Lester defines it, is simply the name we give to our personal collection of Thoughts, Feelings and Mental Pictures.

Clearly, Thoughts rattle around non-stop in that space between our ears and create continual noise. Enough said.

Feelings are tangled up in virtually all Thoughts and Mental Pictures, but an easy way we can isolate them is by noticing them in our bodies. Tensions, cramps, discomforts, that invisible hand that grabs us by the chest or throat... We can also assign one of the major emotions from the Spectrum of Emotions to virtually every thought and picture (not that we need to, but it is possible).

Mental Pictures likewise represent noise, as they come back to haunt us - sometimes literally, in our nightmares! They can seriously distract us during the day - ever day-dreamed? Each picture has "a story", or... Feelings and Thoughts that comprise it.

Releasing the Ego elements of thoughts, feelings and pictures leads a person gently to the Quietness.

The Quiet

As you let go of the noise of the Ego, the body and the mind - and indeed the world all around - get quieter and more peaceful. As you work on dismantling the Ego, this quietness comes and goes, but the natural culmination of continuously and relentlessly releasing the Ego is The State.

And The State means that the Quiet is continuous, permanent, and ever-present. The Cosmos unfolds before you in your full awareness. There are only Answers, as all your questions have dissolved. The union (Oneness) with all that is? You are very much aware of it!

At one moment out of time, as Ego drops away, you clearly and obviously "slip" into The State. There is no doubt about having "arrived" there. For me, it was instantly and obviously the safest state I had ever experienced. It was, at last, the experience of Eternity and Infinity.

From this newly-achieved State, a Releaser keeps on releasing Ego elements that still seem present - oh, yes! You will know when you are done...

So now I know what the Christ Consciousness is. I know that the messages of the millennia - that anyone can have this State - are true. I know that Lester Levenson's process made it achievable, easy without gurus or ashrams or monasteries. I lived my ordinary life while dismantling Ego.

The State. Not a spiritual mystery. Not a mystery at all. It is Who and What You Are!

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Mind and Consciousness - Do You Really Have THAT Much Power?

Before we talk about your mind and consciousness, let me ask you a simple question, that will help you realize how much asleep you are each day.

What did you have for lunch the day before yesterday?

If you're like most people, you probably don't remember. See, people tend to travel through life half asleep, unaware of what's really going on around them. They don't know who they are. They don't know what they're doing, and they don't know why they're doing it.

That's the reality, and it's sad to say that it's considered normal.

The interesting thing, however, is that you're here, in this world, to enjoy it. You're here to experience it and... love it. For that to happen, you have to wake up from the trance that you're in. You have to become aware of your real, divine nature, and...

You have to understand that you have a choice. You can shape the reality around you. You can choose whether you live on a planet that's clean and pollution-free, or a planet that's full of hate and misunderstanding.

You are a result of your thoughts. You can use your thoughts so that you always achieve what you truly desire. You can use the power of the Thought to get all your wishes fulfilled, and you can do that now.

For that, though, you really have to stretch your mind and consciousness so that you start perceiving the world and the people around you as they really are. You have to be able to look past the suffering and pain that's trying to kick into your life and control it, and really focus on what's important and eternal.

If you really want to be realized in life, you have to show love to people, and express it every minute of every day. If you do that, you'll not only realize that changing your own destiny is easy, but you'll literally feel that you're becoming more and more powerful each and every second almost.

See, everyone you see around you leads a pretty boring life. They wake up in the morning, go to work, get back home, eat, watch TV and go to bed. That's all they do, and that's all life actually means to them.

I know this sounds wild, but you're really sleepwalking through life, just like they are. You're not even noticing or remembering what's going on around you.

No one is.

Unless you've actually started working on raising your own awareness and understanding your true nature. If you've made it a goal for yourself to get out of that trance-like state, then you're on your way to discovering the real you.

Now, before we part, let me tell you about something else, really quick.

See, you have two choices at this point. You can completely ignore what I've just told you, and live your life as if nothing ever happened, or you can decide to change how you live completely.

You can turn it all around. It's not too late for you.

All you really have to do now, is make a decision, deep within your heart to really start working on yourself. To really do what you can to raise your mind and consciousness to the level it should be at. When you do that, you'll realize that life is very, very much different from what you've always thought it is, and you'll be... happy!

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A New Consciousness - The Birth of Love

Do you realize there is no love on this planet? Do you realize that is good news? For where something does not exist, therein lies the possibility of it being manifested. When we look at the action of the people on this earth, we can plainly see the action is not of love. It is the action of control and violence. Violence and Love cannot occupy the same space. If we truly loved ourselves and our children, we would not have the kind of world we now have. We would not strive to fit into a violent society. We would transform our world into a society fit to live in.

When I say "there is no love on this planet," an argument or disagreement usually ensues in which it is stated there is love, but that I cannot see it. I say it is the other way around: There is no love on this planet, and the person who disagrees cannot see it. For the possibility of love to manifest on the planet, we have to first see that what we now call love is not Love. It is the mirror image of love.

The word love is used in this world as a means of expressing desire. When we say we love another person, it means that we desire for them to be close to us. We express that desire by making ourselves into the desire of the other person. We do nice things. We buy flowers. We protect them. We encourage them. We make ourselves desired by those we desire, and this is how we express what is called love on this planet. This is not love. It is a mirror image of love.

By making ourselves something to be desired by the other person, we invent a mirror image of actual love. I call it the mirror image because it is an act that we put on that is somewhat similar to the actions of a person who actually experiences love. Actual love, however, is a vastly different action than love as we have come to understand it.

Actual love requires nothing. All of love's actions come from the action of seeing. There are no rules to love, and it cannot be gained or given. Love occurs when the truth is seen about what you actually are.

Love means that a person sees the complete nature of the world. From love, we can see that the entirety of being is singular, and that consciousness is also singular. Love means you see that every other person is you. There are not separate beings, but a single being that is living many lives. Love means that when any person suffers, it is actually you who is suffering. Love means that it is not some other person. It means that other person is you. Perhaps the other, which is also you, does not or will not see that, or even recognize the possibility, but that does alter the fact that we are all one.

For those who do not see this, consider for a moment what might happen if you were to realize, and actually see clearly, that every other person on the entire planet is you living in a kind of alternate reality? You can see that, but for the most part the others, who are also you, cannot seem to see that at all. Seeing that you are the other is love.

The work of the world right now is simply to get the entire planet to see itself clearly. The work is to bring all of the lives of the human being to see that they are all one being, living billions of lives. When it's YOU that is being the others, then what you do and how you treat them is radically altered. War ends. Greed ends. Competition ends. Love means the absence of violence.

Everything that is now called love is actually the mirror image of love. All selfish actions are therefore selfless in the presence of actual love. If you save yourself in order to save another, that is selfless. If you save yourself just to save yourself, that is selfish. Every moment that a person insists that there is love on this planet is a moment longer that love is lost.

A new consciousness will fix the mistakes of selfishness, and allow love to manifest on the planet.

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Basic Guidelines to Calibrating the Levels of Consciousness

Calibration technique used for finding the Levels of Consciousness (LOC)is of practical benefits to the spiritual seeker. Because the road to God is the same as the road to the Truth, it is now possible to shorten our life journey. All humanity has for the first time in history, a powerful tool - like a compass, for a guidance. This is not dependent on one's religion, or beliefs.

Although the energy field of consciousness is infinite in dimension, we are predominantly interested in the specific levels, correlating with human consciousness: from 1 to 1000, with the critical level at 200 - Truth. The most prominent researcher of consciousness, Dr David R Hawkins constructed "Map of the Scale of Consciousness" depicting in detail various energy fields associated with human emotions and attitudes. Because everything in the universe emits minute energy that remains in the field of consciousness permanently, we now can retrieve "records" from the past, of every person or being whoever lived; their deeds, feelings, thoughts, in the past and in the present.

To calibrate LOC, the kinesiological (muscular) response is used, to a specific stimulus, with the resulting "yes" or "no" answer. There are various methods available, depending on which muscles are used, or whether the test is conducted by a pair (tester and subject), or by a solitary tester. The response is very brief and instant, and is independent of personally hold beliefs. The tester must phrase the question being asked, in the form of a statement. A statement is answered by kinesiological response, in either "yes" or "not yes" form. The tester finishes spelling out his question by saying: "Resist!" when a force is applied to the subject's extended arm. If the subject's arm stays strong, it means "yes". Otherwise, the answer is "no". The question must be in the form of a statement.

There are important limitations to calibrating levels of consciousness. For yet unknown reasons, approx. 10% of the population is unable to conduct LOC calibrations, with the use of kinesiological techniques. Both the tester and the subject must calibrate above 200 - the level of integrity, and the intention of the test must be integrous. Permission must be sought before the test, by stating: "I am permitted to ask about what I am holding in mind." Or, "This calibration that I am about to do, serves the highest good.Again, for yet unknown reasons, married couples are often unable to work together as the tester and the subject - tester and subject. Future cannot be tested. Calibrating the level of consciousness allows the spiritual seeker, and an "ordinary" person for that matter, to find truth and avoid wasting our precious lifetime on pursuing that which is false. This God-given ability gives us an unprecedented chance, first time in the history of mankind, to reject the falsehood and follow the Truth - the shortest way to discovering our own Self.

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Consciousness and Ego - Based on These Two, the Life-Drama is Played Out

If mind were a house, then the ego is its tenant. If mind were a tree, the ego is an inhabitant bird in it-they both are born together, they live together, and they die together. There is a third entity within the mind: the witness. The witness is that awareness which witnesses the mind and the ego. And finally, there is the Consciousness, which powers them all, and it (the consciousness) acts as a medium through which the God (the creator of all phenomenon) watches and executes His will. The consciousness has two aspects: Vyakt and Avyakt (tangible and intangible-i.e. subjective and universal). The mind-body is the medium through which the subjective consciousness realizes its will. The Creator's (God's) wish 'to be' is realized by the universal consciousness by becoming a subjective consciousness and further through the medium of a mind-body combine. The mind-body combine is a Vyakti (a human)-one who has become tangible. The Creator's (God's) wish to 'continue as continuum' is realized by the perpetual motion of matter-energy-life (the phenomena) within which an individual plays out the role of generating the continuous activity under the command of a restless ego.

The human connection with universal consciousness becomes possible only after the subjective consciousness first becomes identified with the witness. When it becomes clear to the witness (the person) that the subjective consciousness and the universal consciousness are fundamentally the same, the fear of death disappears (the death itself does not disappear). The witness becomes fearless of death, because the meaning of birth and death become clear to it-it comes to know that the tangible (Vyakt) and the intangible (Avyakt) are two sides of the same coin. The fear of death is linked to the ownership of mind-body combine, owned by the ego. As long as the ego is the owner, the fear would be intact.

We know that we could not have created our own sentience. Unmindfully we might like to assign sentience's ownership to your ego. Conversely, unmindfully the ego sense might like to claim the ownership of our sentience (as 'my' sentience), but we always know that the claim is baseless. However, one cannot blame the ego, because the ego is filling a void of ownership because consciousness chooses to remain invisible and non-claiming.

All ideas of relationships, ownerships, stances, endeavors, efforts arise from a restless mind-a mind wanting to reach somewhere. The restlessness creates activity to get satisfaction-a satisfaction that is incomplete always. From the Creator's (God's) point of view, this system which we call life, is made this way on purpose, so that the 'life drama' may continue in perpetuity. Full and lasting satisfaction could bring all activity to a stop, therefore, by default; restlessness of mind is an essential element for life-drama to continue.

Surinder J.Singh
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Cosmic Healing of Mass Consciousness Beliefs Fears, Thoughts, and Feelings - Mind Body Spirit-Style

From a mind body and spirit perspective, a global reset in consciousness has been underway for several decades. Each new major evolutionary shift in human development is always preceded by a stirring up and transformation of mass consciousness.

What is mass consciousness?

Mass consciousness is the matrix of attitudes, beliefs, fears, thought and feeling patterns that govern how the majority of persons alive on the planet at the time behave.

Each belief, fear, thought and feeling has a specific energy pattern or frequency. Take all the beliefs, fears, thoughts and feelings of each of the almost seven billion persons now living on Earth and there you have the totality of current mass consciousness.

This mass consciousness creates an energy grid that surrounds, undergirds and permeates all life on Earth at any given time. It affects your stress level, your feelings, your thoughts and your own beliefs, especially if you do not take the time to build your own inner awareness and Soul alignment.

It is this conscious awareness and Soul alignment that helps you to build your conscious creator life skills so that you set your own life agenda instead of being at the mercy of the push and pull of mass consciousness. As a conscious creator, you get to choose the beliefs, thought and feeling patterns and fears that govern your own life.

Have fun as you explore releasing blocked energy n the form of limiting thoughts, feelings, beliefs and fears. In the process you will strengthen your own self awareness, Soul alignment and conscious creator skills. This not only enables you to transform your own life but contributes to the ongoing cosmic healing of mass consciousness beliefs, fears, thought and feeling patterns around the world.

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With love and blessings for a Soul-aligned day from Angela Chen Shui, "the Soul Alignment Coach".

Copyright 2008 - Angela Chen Shui. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

A Shift in Consciousness - A New Earth

Can humanity actually drop the shackles of our past limitations and separateness to step into a new reality of unity and peace? This would require a universal shift in consciousness such as has never been attained before. And this era is precisely what we are moving into right now.

We are in the process of co-creating a new earth, an earth that vibrates in a higher dimension of consciousness. You will have noticed already a shift in energy surrounding you as you go about your daily life. Start taking notice of how you feel and consciously listen to your intuition and inner guidance. Observe life from the perspective of one step back. You can free your spirit to remember who you are and to allow the flow of abundance and joy into your life. Expansion of consciousness has started and an influx of high vibratory light is underway on earth.

The distractions of daily life, the pressures of making a living, providing for your family, developing relationships, guiding your children into responsible, loving adults - all these processes of life are not intrinsic to who you are. They are the tools life offers you to help you awaken to who you are. When you make a decision, think carefully about what you want to achieve through the effects of your decision, but above all, consider who you want to BE as a result of your thoughts and actions.

The energies flooding our planet and human consciousness at present are such that they give us the inner impulse to release our past patterns of behaviour and beliefs. We are being called to create a new world of caring and love. In the past we competed with each other for what we perceived to be limited time, limited amounts of love, money, resources and services. But the ways of exclusion and competition are over. Now humanity is being urged to unite, to work together, to help each other, teach and provide for each other.

At a high level of awareness all of humanity is one entity: many yet one. Uniting from all the lands on earth, coming together and embracing our diversity and complementarity, we sing with one voice and feel with one heart. This unity point of our meeting is the Source, the One.

With the advent of computers, internet and rapid planetary communications, our world has shrunk in size. We can whisper into a microphone or telephone and be heard by a dear one thousands of kilometres away. We can stream video so that our parents in another country can watch their two year old grandson blow out the candles on his birthday cake.

Unity, togetherness, mutual acceptance, delight in difference and true brotherhood are the hallmark of this new millennium. Having reached the extreme of divergence and difference, of separation from Source and from each other, we are now turning back toward our unity point of origin.

We are one because we are parts of the Creator, the One, who experiences diversity of life on earth through our consciousness. We are one in our growing awareness of our origin and destiny; way beyond the limiting beliefs and divisionary practises of times so recently past.

We are co-creating our collective future even as you read these words. Prosperity, love, joy and happiness are all ours for the asking. The more we share, encourage, accept and contribute to the collective good, the faster we will magnetize into our experience, an amazing and expansive future of heaven on earth: a new earth and a new experience of heaven. Begin within your own heart, to listen, to love and to grow. Make every thought count powerfully, for with every thought we create our future.

*** Marie C. Barrett is an author and teacher of dynamic spirituality and spiritual life coach. Through her book, Holistic Wealth, A Guide to Creative and Joyful Living, and many other writings, she teaches how to integrate spirituality into every area of your life, to create a happy and joy-filled life. http://www.holisticwealthcreation.com.