Dear Readers:
After a great deal of consideration, I have decided to scale down the frequency of entries that I post on my blogsites. This is due both to the need for some rest and recuperation and to allow me to devote more time to conversations in a new chat forum (http://twwsforums.kaiser.net/)
I have provided a link to the forum. It’s an interesting place. You may visit and look at the conversations. You may not post, however, unless you are a member.
So ... again ... I will post entries on all of my blogs from time to time, however not at the pace that I have in the past. I hope you continue to visit and take something helpful away from my writings.
Thanks for your readership.
Jim
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Synchronicity and Flow 2
“ … our tongues grew tired and running out of things to say. She gave a kiss to me as I got out and I watched her drive away. Just for a moment I was back in school. And felt that old familiar pain. And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain.” Dan Fogelberg - Auld Lang Syne
As an amateur songwriter, a lover of music and a great fan of Dan Fogelberg, I’ve always wondered whether he missed a synchronicity in this event that he describes – something that was designed to be a wake-up call for him.
In this song (which was based on an actual event), he writes of very unexpectedly running into an old love at a grocery store one winter evening. They hadn’t seen each other in many years but their continued attraction could not be denied and they spend a quiet evening together reminiscing and talking about their lives. She was in a marriage that hadn’t worked well for her in many years. He talked of traveling the country playing concerts where “the audience was heavenly but the traveling was hell.” Finally, it was time for them to say goodbye as described in the verses above. And, with an ache in his heart, he watched her drive away and out of his life … once again.
The power of this event reminds me of a story I once read of a man who had been dating two women – Judy and Pamela – and felt strongly about them both but could not decide which he should pursue in earnest. Troubled by this conundrum, he hopped in his car for a ride to clear his head and think about his situation. As he was traveling down the road, he noticed the license plate on the car directly in front of him. It was a vanity plate that read, “Its Judy.” It hit him like a sledge hammer. Indeed, it was Judy. They lived happily ever after.
Synchronicities are coincidences that are so improbable and rich with meaning that they could not be attributed to chance alone. Many times synchronicities occur during periods of emotional passion, struggle and transformation; illnesses, death, birth, epiphanies, shifts in belief structures and changes in professions or relationships. They tend to cluster or peak when a person is about to experience a significant new insight or an expansion in consciousness.
They are evidence of the implicate order. The celebrated physicist, David Bohm, has stated that the separateness of consciousness and matter is simply an illusion in which we believe and that occurs when consciousness and matter unfold into the explicate world of bits and pieces and sequential time. If consciousness and matter are unified in the implicate order – the basis for all reality, however interpreted – then we should expect that our reality would be peppered with traces of this profound connection.
Physicist David Peat takes it one step further suggesting that synchronicities are “flaws in the fabric of reality” that create temporary splits permitting a brief peek into the enormous and unitary order that supports the entire cosmos.
They reflect the connection between the physical world, our psychological reality and our higher self. They are the whispering voice that comes from behind us and tells us to turn right or turn left when we stray off our road.
“Perhaps you would be happier if you moved on to another profession. Here’s a suggestion.”
“Is this the relationship you are really supposed to be in? Or do you need to move in another direction?”
“This person has entered your life for a reason. Pay attention.”
“You are ready to take your consciousness to the next level. Here’s what you need to do.”
“Your belief structures are suffocating you. It’s time to stretch.”
Frequent synchronicities reflect a connectedness with our larger reality – the implicate order. They act like maps. They tell us when we’re headed in the right direction, when to think carefully about a decision facing us and when we’ve gotten off our road and are instead following someone else’s.
They tend to cluster during challenging times in our lives because we find ourselves, during those times, intensely searching for answers, continually reflecting on “why this happened” and what we need to do to get back on our path. Intense focus can tear the veil between the implicate and explicate orders. When that happens, your reality is briefly unified and synchronicities slip through the opening.
An absence of synchronicities in your life can reflect the extent to which you have fragmented yourself from the larger field of consciousness and from your higher self – that part of you that helped build the plan for your life here on earth.
Practice looking for synchronicities in your life. Sometimes we are so busy with other matters we do not recognize them when they occur. Sometimes we are so disconnected from our larger realities that it’s difficult for them to manifest. Sometimes we are simply in denial.
Spend reflective time thinking about whom you are, why you are here and what you are supposed to be doing. Meditate on the nature of your life, your level of happiness, your vocational calling and your relationships. Engage in practices that make you feel whole – art, music, reading, meditation or walking through the woods or along the beach. Then practice patience … and listen for the whispered voice to guide you.
As an amateur songwriter, a lover of music and a great fan of Dan Fogelberg, I’ve always wondered whether he missed a synchronicity in this event that he describes – something that was designed to be a wake-up call for him.
In this song (which was based on an actual event), he writes of very unexpectedly running into an old love at a grocery store one winter evening. They hadn’t seen each other in many years but their continued attraction could not be denied and they spend a quiet evening together reminiscing and talking about their lives. She was in a marriage that hadn’t worked well for her in many years. He talked of traveling the country playing concerts where “the audience was heavenly but the traveling was hell.” Finally, it was time for them to say goodbye as described in the verses above. And, with an ache in his heart, he watched her drive away and out of his life … once again.
The power of this event reminds me of a story I once read of a man who had been dating two women – Judy and Pamela – and felt strongly about them both but could not decide which he should pursue in earnest. Troubled by this conundrum, he hopped in his car for a ride to clear his head and think about his situation. As he was traveling down the road, he noticed the license plate on the car directly in front of him. It was a vanity plate that read, “Its Judy.” It hit him like a sledge hammer. Indeed, it was Judy. They lived happily ever after.
Synchronicities are coincidences that are so improbable and rich with meaning that they could not be attributed to chance alone. Many times synchronicities occur during periods of emotional passion, struggle and transformation; illnesses, death, birth, epiphanies, shifts in belief structures and changes in professions or relationships. They tend to cluster or peak when a person is about to experience a significant new insight or an expansion in consciousness.
They are evidence of the implicate order. The celebrated physicist, David Bohm, has stated that the separateness of consciousness and matter is simply an illusion in which we believe and that occurs when consciousness and matter unfold into the explicate world of bits and pieces and sequential time. If consciousness and matter are unified in the implicate order – the basis for all reality, however interpreted – then we should expect that our reality would be peppered with traces of this profound connection.
Physicist David Peat takes it one step further suggesting that synchronicities are “flaws in the fabric of reality” that create temporary splits permitting a brief peek into the enormous and unitary order that supports the entire cosmos.
They reflect the connection between the physical world, our psychological reality and our higher self. They are the whispering voice that comes from behind us and tells us to turn right or turn left when we stray off our road.
“Perhaps you would be happier if you moved on to another profession. Here’s a suggestion.”
“Is this the relationship you are really supposed to be in? Or do you need to move in another direction?”
“This person has entered your life for a reason. Pay attention.”
“You are ready to take your consciousness to the next level. Here’s what you need to do.”
“Your belief structures are suffocating you. It’s time to stretch.”
Frequent synchronicities reflect a connectedness with our larger reality – the implicate order. They act like maps. They tell us when we’re headed in the right direction, when to think carefully about a decision facing us and when we’ve gotten off our road and are instead following someone else’s.
They tend to cluster during challenging times in our lives because we find ourselves, during those times, intensely searching for answers, continually reflecting on “why this happened” and what we need to do to get back on our path. Intense focus can tear the veil between the implicate and explicate orders. When that happens, your reality is briefly unified and synchronicities slip through the opening.
An absence of synchronicities in your life can reflect the extent to which you have fragmented yourself from the larger field of consciousness and from your higher self – that part of you that helped build the plan for your life here on earth.
Practice looking for synchronicities in your life. Sometimes we are so busy with other matters we do not recognize them when they occur. Sometimes we are so disconnected from our larger realities that it’s difficult for them to manifest. Sometimes we are simply in denial.
Spend reflective time thinking about whom you are, why you are here and what you are supposed to be doing. Meditate on the nature of your life, your level of happiness, your vocational calling and your relationships. Engage in practices that make you feel whole – art, music, reading, meditation or walking through the woods or along the beach. Then practice patience … and listen for the whispered voice to guide you.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Synchronicities and The Flow 1
“Flow: to proceed of issue as from a source; to glide along smoothly, without harshness or roughness; undisturbed and even movement.” Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary
The flow is the guiding force of the universe and reveals itself in many ways. In the flight of the galaxies towards the outermost edges of the known universe, it is seen in their spiral shapes, reflecting the pattern of their spin and their path within the currents of the cosmos. On our planet, it is visible in the ebb and flow of the oceans; in the migratory patterns of birds; in the change of the seasons.
To connect with the flow is to align yourself with the power of the Universe. When you ride its current, you need do nothing else and can be assured that it will lead you to where you are supposed to be. To disengage or struggle against it is to cut yourself off from the guidance of the heavens. You may end up in a very different place or circumstance than you wanted, intended or were supposed to be in even though it may seem right at the time.
The universe is benevolent at its core. You are its child. It will come to your aid … point the way … correct your course … if you know how to recognize the direction.
In their book, “The Power of Flow”, Charlene Belitz and Meg Lundstrom say that “glow is marked by two types of occurrences: synchronicity and fortuitous events.” Of the two, I have found that synchronicity is perhaps the more powerful initial indicator. Jung called synchronicity an acausal connecting principle of the universe. It is the coming together of events in a coordinated way that impacts us psychologically or emotionally. I have an old friend who lives in a city on the other side of our state and with whom I have contact only a couple of times each year. Recently I called her and she laughed, indicating that she had just been thinking about me. We then had a discussion during which I was able to help her address several issues in her life. That’s a synchronicity.
Synchronicities can be whispered or shouted. If you are a person who is sensitive to the movements of the heart, often all that is necessary is a gentle event or series of events to get your attention. “If you stray from the road to right or left you shall hear with your own ears a voice whispering behind you saying, This is the way; follow it.” (Isaiah 30:21).
If you are a little less sensitive but it is critical that you reenter the flow, the universe may establish an almost unmistakable series of events to help coax you back into the stream.
You run into a friend who asks you about another long, lost friend whom you haven’t seen in many years. Soon after, you run into that person. You feel an unmistakable connection and begin to recognize a series of events leading to this moment and the purpose for that reunion.
You feel stuck in a vocation that is no longer fulfilling and have a dream that seems to speak to your situation. Later that week you watch a movie about a person who is in the same set of circumstances. The next week you meet someone who tells you about an exciting new job opportunity.
The latter situations serve as a clarion call that it is time to reevaluate your life or take some specific action to address an unresolved issue. It becomes very difficult at these junctures to ignore the promptings unless you do so out of fear or stubbornness, or because you have numbed yourself to the Influence.
You cannot live consciously and be out of the flow. You cannot be in the flow in an unconscious manner. To be in the flow requires you to meditate on the nature and direction of your life, to be sensitive to what the universe is telling you and to be willing to not settle for less than what can be.
The flow is the guiding force of the universe and reveals itself in many ways. In the flight of the galaxies towards the outermost edges of the known universe, it is seen in their spiral shapes, reflecting the pattern of their spin and their path within the currents of the cosmos. On our planet, it is visible in the ebb and flow of the oceans; in the migratory patterns of birds; in the change of the seasons.
To connect with the flow is to align yourself with the power of the Universe. When you ride its current, you need do nothing else and can be assured that it will lead you to where you are supposed to be. To disengage or struggle against it is to cut yourself off from the guidance of the heavens. You may end up in a very different place or circumstance than you wanted, intended or were supposed to be in even though it may seem right at the time.
The universe is benevolent at its core. You are its child. It will come to your aid … point the way … correct your course … if you know how to recognize the direction.
In their book, “The Power of Flow”, Charlene Belitz and Meg Lundstrom say that “glow is marked by two types of occurrences: synchronicity and fortuitous events.” Of the two, I have found that synchronicity is perhaps the more powerful initial indicator. Jung called synchronicity an acausal connecting principle of the universe. It is the coming together of events in a coordinated way that impacts us psychologically or emotionally. I have an old friend who lives in a city on the other side of our state and with whom I have contact only a couple of times each year. Recently I called her and she laughed, indicating that she had just been thinking about me. We then had a discussion during which I was able to help her address several issues in her life. That’s a synchronicity.
Synchronicities can be whispered or shouted. If you are a person who is sensitive to the movements of the heart, often all that is necessary is a gentle event or series of events to get your attention. “If you stray from the road to right or left you shall hear with your own ears a voice whispering behind you saying, This is the way; follow it.” (Isaiah 30:21).
If you are a little less sensitive but it is critical that you reenter the flow, the universe may establish an almost unmistakable series of events to help coax you back into the stream.
You run into a friend who asks you about another long, lost friend whom you haven’t seen in many years. Soon after, you run into that person. You feel an unmistakable connection and begin to recognize a series of events leading to this moment and the purpose for that reunion.
You feel stuck in a vocation that is no longer fulfilling and have a dream that seems to speak to your situation. Later that week you watch a movie about a person who is in the same set of circumstances. The next week you meet someone who tells you about an exciting new job opportunity.
The latter situations serve as a clarion call that it is time to reevaluate your life or take some specific action to address an unresolved issue. It becomes very difficult at these junctures to ignore the promptings unless you do so out of fear or stubbornness, or because you have numbed yourself to the Influence.
You cannot live consciously and be out of the flow. You cannot be in the flow in an unconscious manner. To be in the flow requires you to meditate on the nature and direction of your life, to be sensitive to what the universe is telling you and to be willing to not settle for less than what can be.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Intent and Effect
“Pat Fischer, the Redskin cornerback, told the reporters after the game that the ball seemed to jump over his hands as he went for it. When we studied the game film that week, it did look as if the ball kind of jumped over his hands into Gene’s. Some of the guys said it was the wind … (but) our sense of the pass was so clear and our intention so strong that the ball was bound to get there, come wind, cornerbacks, hell, or high water.” John Brodie
I know of a remarkable woman who served as an instructor in a difficult public school setting helping young people who have profoundly severe learning disabilities. She taught a listening therapy that enabled her students to sit in their seats longer, focus more intently and easily, attain higher levels of concentration and achievement and moderate their own behaviors – things they could not formerly have dreamed of doing. Parents noticed the difference and so did the students themselves. Her intent to help these children reshaped their realities. The universe gets behind such efforts and magnifies them. She aligned herself with the angels and she changed the world around her.
How does intent achieve effect? Matter is not solid in the way we typically believe. It is simply constructed of bundles of energy (Einstein called them quanta) comprised of different frequencies and wavelengths. Therefore, humans are not solid in the sense that most believe – our bodies simply consist of denser forms of energy. Because energy responds to energy – and our consciousness possesses an energetic element - it is possible to affect any form or process we choose. And because the universe is non-local, we can do so without regard to distance. Many scientific studies demonstrate the low level effect of focused intent.
Helmut Schmidt found that human consciousness could influence the outcomes generated by a mechanical high-speed random number generator. Will Braud discovered that mental influence could affect the rate of hemolysis in red blood cells. Robert Brier found that focused intent could alter the functioning of a plant’s bio-electrical system. Marcel Vogel’s studies suggested that it was possible to harm a plant simply by projecting negative thoughts toward it. Carroll Nash demonstrated that humans could accelerate or retard bacterial growth simply by exercising mental influence over the cultures in a Petri dish. Nash’s findings were supported by Jean Barry who achieved the same results with fungus. Some studies suggest that transcendental meditation practitioners can lower crime rates in specific geographic areas.
What is remarkable is that these studies, except for the use of TM practitioners, involved the use of “everyday”, “ordinary” people who were not conversant in the field of paranormal activity.
If a person’s soul, mind, emotions and body are aligned, s/he can act as an effective conduit of spirit, achieving even more remarkable outcomes, constellating events in an immediate and dramatic way. The laying on of hands heals a person of a life-threatening disease. A person talks with an addict, who has an epiphany and turns once and for all away from self-abuse. A teacher reconstructs reality for a little girl with a learning disability and, in the twinkling of an eye, changes her life forever.
Of course, most changes build over periods of time – sometimes short and sometimes longer and depending on what our goal is – as sufficient levels of energetic mass are reached to impact process in the third dimension.
But as you become more accomplished in understanding how to bring about change and in learning the techniques involved in channeling your abilities, you can shorten the time it takes to reach manifestation of any defined goal.
“I tell you this: if only you have faith and have no doubts … you need only say to this mountain, be lifted from your place and hurled into the sea, and what you say will be done.” Jesus of Nazareth.
I know of a remarkable woman who served as an instructor in a difficult public school setting helping young people who have profoundly severe learning disabilities. She taught a listening therapy that enabled her students to sit in their seats longer, focus more intently and easily, attain higher levels of concentration and achievement and moderate their own behaviors – things they could not formerly have dreamed of doing. Parents noticed the difference and so did the students themselves. Her intent to help these children reshaped their realities. The universe gets behind such efforts and magnifies them. She aligned herself with the angels and she changed the world around her.
How does intent achieve effect? Matter is not solid in the way we typically believe. It is simply constructed of bundles of energy (Einstein called them quanta) comprised of different frequencies and wavelengths. Therefore, humans are not solid in the sense that most believe – our bodies simply consist of denser forms of energy. Because energy responds to energy – and our consciousness possesses an energetic element - it is possible to affect any form or process we choose. And because the universe is non-local, we can do so without regard to distance. Many scientific studies demonstrate the low level effect of focused intent.
Helmut Schmidt found that human consciousness could influence the outcomes generated by a mechanical high-speed random number generator. Will Braud discovered that mental influence could affect the rate of hemolysis in red blood cells. Robert Brier found that focused intent could alter the functioning of a plant’s bio-electrical system. Marcel Vogel’s studies suggested that it was possible to harm a plant simply by projecting negative thoughts toward it. Carroll Nash demonstrated that humans could accelerate or retard bacterial growth simply by exercising mental influence over the cultures in a Petri dish. Nash’s findings were supported by Jean Barry who achieved the same results with fungus. Some studies suggest that transcendental meditation practitioners can lower crime rates in specific geographic areas.
What is remarkable is that these studies, except for the use of TM practitioners, involved the use of “everyday”, “ordinary” people who were not conversant in the field of paranormal activity.
If a person’s soul, mind, emotions and body are aligned, s/he can act as an effective conduit of spirit, achieving even more remarkable outcomes, constellating events in an immediate and dramatic way. The laying on of hands heals a person of a life-threatening disease. A person talks with an addict, who has an epiphany and turns once and for all away from self-abuse. A teacher reconstructs reality for a little girl with a learning disability and, in the twinkling of an eye, changes her life forever.
Of course, most changes build over periods of time – sometimes short and sometimes longer and depending on what our goal is – as sufficient levels of energetic mass are reached to impact process in the third dimension.
But as you become more accomplished in understanding how to bring about change and in learning the techniques involved in channeling your abilities, you can shorten the time it takes to reach manifestation of any defined goal.
“I tell you this: if only you have faith and have no doubts … you need only say to this mountain, be lifted from your place and hurled into the sea, and what you say will be done.” Jesus of Nazareth.
Monday, October 6, 2008
... and the Unfolding
“As above, so below” Hermes Trismegistus, The Emerald Tablet
Physicist David Bohm believes our lives as we perceive them are actually mirages. Underlying them is an immeasurable and incomprehensible level of reality from which our physical experience is created. He refers to this level of reality as the implicate (or enfolded) order. He refers to our current, physical level of existence as the explicate (or unfolded) order.
Bohm believes that all appearances in the universe are caused by an endless flow of enfoldings and unfoldings that occur between these two orders. For example, when a subatomic particle appears, it has unfolded from the implicate order into the explicate order. When it is destroyed it enfolds back into the implicate. This has striking implications relating to non-locality, the interconnectedness of the universe and the phenomenon we call death.
His description of these orders leads us to assume that the implicate, at some level, provides the template for the explicate. And that appears to be true. There is a background to our reality that we do not normally perceive.
Dr. Richard Gerber asserts that the etheric body is comprised of a holographic energy template that serves as the blueprint for the spatial organization of the fetus. In the 1940’s, neuroanatomist Harold Burr was started to discover that salamanders possessed an energy field shaped like the adult animal and that the field contained an electrical axis aligned with the brain and spinal cord. More striking, however, was the fact that the axis formed in the unfertilized egg. He also found that the electrical field around a seedling is not the shape of the seedling – it is the shape of the adult plant. This strongly suggests that living organisms are ordained to follow an established growth template birthed at some level of the implicate order.
More supports are found in Kirlian photography – a method where objects are photographed in the backdrop of a high frequency, high voltage, low amperage electric field. Kirlian photography captures the image of an objects electromagnetic field, which appears as a corona discharge of various colors. If you photograph a maple leaf using this technique, you will clearly see the electrical discharge surrounding the edges of the leaf. If you cut the leaf in half and photograph it again, you will not see the physical part of the leaf that was removed. But you will continue to see the “shape” of the entire leaf in the form of the corona discharge. The electromagnetic field cannot be amputated because it remains the template of the organism. This helps explain why healers can affect the physiological health of a person by manipulating the energy field and why amputees feel phantom pain in lost limbs. Perhaps Bohm is close to the truth – our existence on earth may be a form of illusion with the primary reality of our consciousness being housed in the implicate order.
A while ago I was strolling through a Florida airport killing time between flights. People watching is a favorite pastime of mine and this airport was the perfect setting – filled with people bustling here and there. As I walked along, I was started when my vision abruptly changed. The “normal” landscape flickered out and was replaced by what I can only describe as some level of the implicate background of the entire setting. People appeared as fluid, colorful patterns and templates of light energy. Their physical constructs were completely gone although their energetic structures approximated the shapes of their bodies. If someone was running or walking quickly, an ethereal trail of dissipating colors flowed behind them. People who were engaged in animated conversation projected clouds of color toward the people with whom they were talking … and the energy fields of many individuals merged together in a type of fused configuration. As strange as it may seem, even the building itself appeared to possess some type of individual consciousness with its own vibrational pattern and template. There are, frankly, no words adequate to accurately describe what I saw. After a few moments my vision returned to “normal.” But I was left with a greater appreciation for the background of our existence.
My experience helped further shift my thinking about who we are and how we can function in this world. Spend a few minutes meditating on what these insights mean to the fields of medicine, theology, psychology and sociology. If you knew you were more than what you see in the mirror – that you were a child of the implicate order – how would you change your thinking and your living?
Physicist David Bohm believes our lives as we perceive them are actually mirages. Underlying them is an immeasurable and incomprehensible level of reality from which our physical experience is created. He refers to this level of reality as the implicate (or enfolded) order. He refers to our current, physical level of existence as the explicate (or unfolded) order.
Bohm believes that all appearances in the universe are caused by an endless flow of enfoldings and unfoldings that occur between these two orders. For example, when a subatomic particle appears, it has unfolded from the implicate order into the explicate order. When it is destroyed it enfolds back into the implicate. This has striking implications relating to non-locality, the interconnectedness of the universe and the phenomenon we call death.
His description of these orders leads us to assume that the implicate, at some level, provides the template for the explicate. And that appears to be true. There is a background to our reality that we do not normally perceive.
Dr. Richard Gerber asserts that the etheric body is comprised of a holographic energy template that serves as the blueprint for the spatial organization of the fetus. In the 1940’s, neuroanatomist Harold Burr was started to discover that salamanders possessed an energy field shaped like the adult animal and that the field contained an electrical axis aligned with the brain and spinal cord. More striking, however, was the fact that the axis formed in the unfertilized egg. He also found that the electrical field around a seedling is not the shape of the seedling – it is the shape of the adult plant. This strongly suggests that living organisms are ordained to follow an established growth template birthed at some level of the implicate order.
More supports are found in Kirlian photography – a method where objects are photographed in the backdrop of a high frequency, high voltage, low amperage electric field. Kirlian photography captures the image of an objects electromagnetic field, which appears as a corona discharge of various colors. If you photograph a maple leaf using this technique, you will clearly see the electrical discharge surrounding the edges of the leaf. If you cut the leaf in half and photograph it again, you will not see the physical part of the leaf that was removed. But you will continue to see the “shape” of the entire leaf in the form of the corona discharge. The electromagnetic field cannot be amputated because it remains the template of the organism. This helps explain why healers can affect the physiological health of a person by manipulating the energy field and why amputees feel phantom pain in lost limbs. Perhaps Bohm is close to the truth – our existence on earth may be a form of illusion with the primary reality of our consciousness being housed in the implicate order.
A while ago I was strolling through a Florida airport killing time between flights. People watching is a favorite pastime of mine and this airport was the perfect setting – filled with people bustling here and there. As I walked along, I was started when my vision abruptly changed. The “normal” landscape flickered out and was replaced by what I can only describe as some level of the implicate background of the entire setting. People appeared as fluid, colorful patterns and templates of light energy. Their physical constructs were completely gone although their energetic structures approximated the shapes of their bodies. If someone was running or walking quickly, an ethereal trail of dissipating colors flowed behind them. People who were engaged in animated conversation projected clouds of color toward the people with whom they were talking … and the energy fields of many individuals merged together in a type of fused configuration. As strange as it may seem, even the building itself appeared to possess some type of individual consciousness with its own vibrational pattern and template. There are, frankly, no words adequate to accurately describe what I saw. After a few moments my vision returned to “normal.” But I was left with a greater appreciation for the background of our existence.
My experience helped further shift my thinking about who we are and how we can function in this world. Spend a few minutes meditating on what these insights mean to the fields of medicine, theology, psychology and sociology. If you knew you were more than what you see in the mirror – that you were a child of the implicate order – how would you change your thinking and your living?
Friday, October 3, 2008
Transcending Consensual Reality 4
“It’s strange, how you never know, but we’d both gotten what we’d asked for, such a long, long time ago.” Harry Chapin – Taxi.
Humankind has debated for ages whether our present consensual reality and our future is fixed. If it is, it would mean that humans have no free will. We would be mere actors uttering lines and performing scenes in a play that has already been written and over which we have no control.
But history is full of stories wherein people have used their precognitive insights of the future to avoid disasters, moving out of the path of danger before it overtook them. This is, perhaps, the strongest tangible evidence that the future is pliable and may be changed.
Dr. David Loye, a clinical psychologist and former member of both Princeton and UCLA’s medical school faculties believes that reality is a huge hologram and is inflexible – to a point. But he adds that there are many such holograms floating in the space of the implicate realm as parallel realities. When a person glimpses the future, they see the future of that one individual hologram only. When they act on their premonition and appear to change the future, they are actually jumping from one hologram to another. He refers to these jumps as “holo-leaps” and views them as extraordinary tools for our insight and freedom.
Bohm takes a similar view. He views a premonition of a future event as something that is in the present but that is implicate and moving toward manifesting that particular future. He compares it to the old saying that future events cast their shadows in the present.
Both Loye’s and Bohm’s theories have a central theme. There is a future that has substance enough to be seen but which is soft enough to be changed. This is not so different than the position of many of the world’s most gifted psychics, including the Hawaiian kahunas who view the future as flexible but in the process of crystallizing.
The prophets of the Old Testament in the Christian tradition were often able to predict what would happen if the consciousness of the people continued in a certain direction. Because consciousness is primary, it precedes and directs events rather than trailing them. Therefore, if consciousness changed, the future changed.
When you develop the ability to predict directions and outcomes based on historical, sociologic, psychologic, economic and spiritual trends and combine those abilities with insights of Spirit, you are able to intuit probable futures. What Spirit helps predict it can also help change. It does not pint to a problem without offering a solution.
For every dire future there are many alternative futures. As you expand your ring of consciousness you expand your ability to predict probable outcomes and intuit a larger number of alternatives. You become skilled at the art of holo-leaping. You can then become an agent of hope for a troubled world … or a troubled life.
Humankind has debated for ages whether our present consensual reality and our future is fixed. If it is, it would mean that humans have no free will. We would be mere actors uttering lines and performing scenes in a play that has already been written and over which we have no control.
But history is full of stories wherein people have used their precognitive insights of the future to avoid disasters, moving out of the path of danger before it overtook them. This is, perhaps, the strongest tangible evidence that the future is pliable and may be changed.
Dr. David Loye, a clinical psychologist and former member of both Princeton and UCLA’s medical school faculties believes that reality is a huge hologram and is inflexible – to a point. But he adds that there are many such holograms floating in the space of the implicate realm as parallel realities. When a person glimpses the future, they see the future of that one individual hologram only. When they act on their premonition and appear to change the future, they are actually jumping from one hologram to another. He refers to these jumps as “holo-leaps” and views them as extraordinary tools for our insight and freedom.
Bohm takes a similar view. He views a premonition of a future event as something that is in the present but that is implicate and moving toward manifesting that particular future. He compares it to the old saying that future events cast their shadows in the present.
Both Loye’s and Bohm’s theories have a central theme. There is a future that has substance enough to be seen but which is soft enough to be changed. This is not so different than the position of many of the world’s most gifted psychics, including the Hawaiian kahunas who view the future as flexible but in the process of crystallizing.
The prophets of the Old Testament in the Christian tradition were often able to predict what would happen if the consciousness of the people continued in a certain direction. Because consciousness is primary, it precedes and directs events rather than trailing them. Therefore, if consciousness changed, the future changed.
When you develop the ability to predict directions and outcomes based on historical, sociologic, psychologic, economic and spiritual trends and combine those abilities with insights of Spirit, you are able to intuit probable futures. What Spirit helps predict it can also help change. It does not pint to a problem without offering a solution.
For every dire future there are many alternative futures. As you expand your ring of consciousness you expand your ability to predict probable outcomes and intuit a larger number of alternatives. You become skilled at the art of holo-leaping. You can then become an agent of hope for a troubled world … or a troubled life.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Transcending Consensual Reality 3
“If you want me to go with you, then that’s alright with me. Because I know I’m going nowhere. And anywhere is a better place to be.” Harry Chapin – A Better Place to Be.
This verse from one of Harry Chapin’s songs describes the plight of many people. Drifting along in life, with no sense of destiny or feeling of directional control, they simply accept what is with no conviction that they could change their lot.
Consensual reality – in our personal lives, in our organizations, in our communities, in our country and in the world – are those conditions that we accept as our reality. We “consent” to a particular way of living and thinking. This is really a form of “surrender” mentality. It reflects our inability or reluctance to grasp the teaching of the quantum world – that only tendencies exist. We accept the “fact” that we cannot change relationships; that we’ll never get the job we want; that our organizational culture will never improve; that crime will continue to escalate in our community; that the best days of our country are behind us; that millions of people will starve to death every year; that we don’t have enough healthcare resources to spread around … and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. And accept these “facts” simply perpetuates the circumstances.
We change our reality by changing the way we view the universe. Do you feel like you are part of a relationship in which you don’t belong? Understand that you are never trapped. There are many ways to change the relational landscape or extricate yourself. Instead of accepting that your organizational culture is unrecoverable, reframe your thinking. It may be unrecoverable unless you intervene to change that degree of probability. Yes, people starve to death every day on our planet. But they do not have to die. There is more than enough and to spare. It is simply a matter of understanding how to manage and distribute our resources.
Believing in consensual reality is to capitulate to existing circumstances. You are defeated before you start! But it is often difficult to break free from the gravitational pull of consensual reality. We become blinded to possibilities because we are so immersed in “what is.”
In a recent email to a friend I wrote that she was a wizard in waiting. I provided no further clue as to what I was talking about and she wrote back accusing me of teasing her. But she also asked what I meant. Having the door opened, I was able to introduce her to some other latent abilities – things she had never consciously seen in herself but which were reflected at the level of her soul.
I was playing the role of “Trickster.” Trickster, especially among Native Americans, is often played by the Coyote and is the Creator’s helper or messenger. S/he helps you see alternatives to the straight and narrow path, particularly when other people, institutions or life’s circumstances try to hem you in through peer pressure, unreasonable expectations or conformism. S/he helps you to glimpse options, alternatives, potentials, other pathways and possibilities. S/he assists you in shifting your focus from “what is” to “what can be.”
In a world where many people feel hemmed in and without options, there is a great need for skilled Tricksters.
Probability frees us to shape our present and our future. You are not trapped. Things do not have to be as they are. There are alternatives. We can change ourselves and we can change the world. Who are you now and who can you become? Are you ready to listen to the Trickster?
This verse from one of Harry Chapin’s songs describes the plight of many people. Drifting along in life, with no sense of destiny or feeling of directional control, they simply accept what is with no conviction that they could change their lot.
Consensual reality – in our personal lives, in our organizations, in our communities, in our country and in the world – are those conditions that we accept as our reality. We “consent” to a particular way of living and thinking. This is really a form of “surrender” mentality. It reflects our inability or reluctance to grasp the teaching of the quantum world – that only tendencies exist. We accept the “fact” that we cannot change relationships; that we’ll never get the job we want; that our organizational culture will never improve; that crime will continue to escalate in our community; that the best days of our country are behind us; that millions of people will starve to death every year; that we don’t have enough healthcare resources to spread around … and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. And accept these “facts” simply perpetuates the circumstances.
We change our reality by changing the way we view the universe. Do you feel like you are part of a relationship in which you don’t belong? Understand that you are never trapped. There are many ways to change the relational landscape or extricate yourself. Instead of accepting that your organizational culture is unrecoverable, reframe your thinking. It may be unrecoverable unless you intervene to change that degree of probability. Yes, people starve to death every day on our planet. But they do not have to die. There is more than enough and to spare. It is simply a matter of understanding how to manage and distribute our resources.
Believing in consensual reality is to capitulate to existing circumstances. You are defeated before you start! But it is often difficult to break free from the gravitational pull of consensual reality. We become blinded to possibilities because we are so immersed in “what is.”
In a recent email to a friend I wrote that she was a wizard in waiting. I provided no further clue as to what I was talking about and she wrote back accusing me of teasing her. But she also asked what I meant. Having the door opened, I was able to introduce her to some other latent abilities – things she had never consciously seen in herself but which were reflected at the level of her soul.
I was playing the role of “Trickster.” Trickster, especially among Native Americans, is often played by the Coyote and is the Creator’s helper or messenger. S/he helps you see alternatives to the straight and narrow path, particularly when other people, institutions or life’s circumstances try to hem you in through peer pressure, unreasonable expectations or conformism. S/he helps you to glimpse options, alternatives, potentials, other pathways and possibilities. S/he assists you in shifting your focus from “what is” to “what can be.”
In a world where many people feel hemmed in and without options, there is a great need for skilled Tricksters.
Probability frees us to shape our present and our future. You are not trapped. Things do not have to be as they are. There are alternatives. We can change ourselves and we can change the world. Who are you now and who can you become? Are you ready to listen to the Trickster?
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