Although this article is aimed at supporting and educating Health Practitioners, the principles within are transferable to any area of life, particularly when we find ourselves ’stuck’ in any circumstance, whether that be a job, a relationship or any pattern in our lives.  As mentioned in prior articles, it is a necessary step in our growth to recognize both the power and limits of the Mind. The limits of the mind are in its tendency to believe its own perceptions, forgetting that perception is always partial and largely determined by our memory of past experience and the assumptions we create around them. The true power of the Mind is in its ability to see this tendency, and be willing to go beyond its own assumptions, correcting them to fit a new more complete, or whole, understanding.  The degree of this desire to transcend our own limitations is what determines the degree of progress in this lifetime. We are always given the choice, and the Universe (’One Song’) will always give back to us our desires.
I will attempt to describe the difference between Form and Essence so that you, the reader, can determine a wider field of choices available to you. One of the ‘traps’ of Form is that it tends to have a gravitational pull that keeps the Form in place in our awareness. Breaking free from the gravity of perception can be a challenge. Some feel more comfortable in this gravity’s sweet embrace, as it places very little demands on us to change. Sooner or later, however, we get tired of going around in the same old circle and something from within turbo-boosts us out into open space.  Life circumstances seem to offer these opportunities, if we decide to see them as such.
Let’s look at the difference between Form ands Essence from a few perspectives. Doing so should give us a ‘flavor’ of what this is about.

Outcome
The outcome of a Form based approach is most likely to lead to a sense of overwhelm and frustration, as the amount of detail the mistaken perception believes it must grasp, becomes unmanageable. The cognitive limits of the rational mind soon become painfully obvious, furthering the sense of struggle, isolation, competition and inadequacy. This can pull us into a deeper level of complexity where knowledge becomes less and less ‘useful’ or relevant…the image here is of the ‘nutty professor’ nobody understands.
The outcome of an Essence based orientation to life and learning is confidence in the ability to ‘learn as you go’ and meet challenges eagerly and light-heartedly.  What relief to know the turning of the world does not depend on your personal accumulated knowledge and experience! Learning is no longer seen as an outcome, but more as a process.
As Practitioners, we can approach our own learning and practices from both approaches, realizing that Form and Essence are in a continual dance with each other. Either one dancing alone, however, may lead to an imbalance. Form alone keeps one stuck repeating the Past; Essence alone has little practical application in the world of Form where we currently find ourselves.  Let Form introduce you to Essence, and allow Essence to learn to dance playfully with Form.

I have been finding that the fear and anxiety levels exuding from the collective consciousness these days are almost palpable…as familiar structures and beliefs fall away uncertainty and confusion arise. Even amidst this uncertainty and what seems to be a steady stream of ever-quickening changes, you can… when you are silent for a few moments sense your Eternal Nature… As we are losing our self-identity, as each & every area of our lives is being shaken at the roots, we are ever so steadily emerging in our True Self Identity. It is best to allow yourself as much fluidity as possible, to let go of each attachment to your ‘old’ way of doing things, attachments to the ‘you’ that you used to know…all of it! As you may be experiencing already just the willingness to release whatever resistance comes up serves to gracefully move you into more of a peace state…a ‘knowingness’ that everything is perfect and perfectly directed begins to flower in your heart, in your soul.

It seems to me the way to go is to continue surrendering any struggles and fears over to the Divine and to continuously go within to your heart center, connect with Truth and in this bring new creative ideas to surface. I feel that finding ways to be more ‘inclusive’ through cultivating mainstream community awareness flows naturally with this new paradigm of emerging Oneness. It seems as though those who have been waking up and cultivating their skills for quite awhile now are in place to support larger numbers of people who need assistance in shifting perspective from fear- based to love and Self-empowerment founded.

Our time is at hand and what a beautiful orchestration of Golden Awakening we are all part of!

Erina Carey Cowan

What is a thought? Well, I pretty much have discounted the materialist assumption that it’s somehow the result of biological processes, impulses or chemical events. I’ve accepted that the body is an effect, not a cause. So do thoughts originate in the mind, as opposed to the brain? This feels closer to the truth…but which ‘mind’ do we refer to…the individual mind or the collective? Again, I’m at the point where I have accepted there is no ‘individual mind’ in the true sense, as on the quantum level ‘all minds are joined’. This is in the sense that the mind exists in a dimension beyond the physical, is subject to quantum principles, like non-locality, and is not dependent on a body to function or to ‘be’. Just ask anyone who has died and come back.

If we are talking about the mind as a non-local intelligent field, we find a much better fit with the view that the brain is more a transceiver of energy and information than a generator of such. Neurobiologists are beginning to accept this. Neurons in particular are highly sensitive to subtle quantum fluctuations via specific structures such as microtubules and clustered water structures. So we have this pre-existing field of intelligence broadcasting constantly in all bandwidths…that is, every possible conceivable thought from the most sublime to the most depraved is ‘on’ all the time. It’s like all radio stations are available all the time. We simply choose the one that most resonates with us in the moment. And what dictates that choice? Our beliefs, I suppose, of who we are, what is ‘good’, and what feels good. We entertain thoughts that confirm our beliefs about ourselves. You could say ordinary thought is a stream of self-fulfilling prophesies.

It seems we have come with ‘pre-set’ station preferences. These are the thought stations we were programmed with by family, cultural and social conditioning influences. This is why we can say most of our thoughts are simply repeating past conditioning, and as such, are mostly meaningless beyond this. This would account for what we call ‘boredom’. The mind-projector has a limited library of pre-set thoughts it will accept. As ‘projection makes perception’ (a Course in Miracles) we see a world that never seems to change. So we look for escape in mindlessness. “If I can’t get a new station, then may as well just turn the damn thing off”, we reason.

You could think of the thought field in vibrational or dimensional terms as making up the 4th or Astral Plane of existence. This is the realm of non-physical thought projections that account for the various ‘angels and demons’ of traditional lore. These are images we have conjured up in our imagination, but then project them ‘out’ in our perception in order to deny their source in our minds.

If there truly is One Mind having a dream of separation, as the Course in Miracle offers, then all these thoughts belong to all of us. That means we have equal access and full rights to any level of thought we desire. Being Dualistic, the 4th Dimension is still subject to the illusory vagaries of ‘opposites’. Opposites cannot exist in Oneness. As such they don’t really exist, except in imagination. The 4th Dimension currently reflects this imagination. So we have ‘low frequency’ thoughts that reinforce the dream of separation, or ego. These are thoughts based on fear, lack, greed, envy, hatred, dominance, competitiveness and murder. It is easy to see how these thoughts perpetuate themselves in a cycle of projection, perception and reaction. But because this sense of separation and the ego don’t really exist outside of our imagination, we can truly say these thoughts go nowhere, which is where they come from. From nothing they arise, accomplish nothing, and return to nothingness. This is why the Course Lesson can state simply ‘My thoughts don’t mean anything’ and ‘My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.’

If this One Mind is dreaming a meaningless separation nightmare, what of the Dreamer?

The Dreamer is also the One Mind, but in its sanity and perfection as Spirit. The Dreamer never left Oneness and is still safe at home. This ‘awakened’ aspect in each of us is the Spark of Light that the dream has not extinguished. It remains as a faint reminder of who we are outside the dream. It shows up in the form of the Will…the desire to stop suffering and seek a better way. Even a thought of this quality, “God, I wish there was a better way…” resonates at a higher frequency than the ego’s thoughts. As this new thought resonates with the Truth of Oneness (we are One, there is only One of us here, and it’s you and it’s me) it goes out into the 4th Dimension and strengthens that specific frequency in every seemingly separated mind at once. The higher frequency thoughts aligned with truth by the Will that desires something better both draws you closer to Truth while drawing more Truth to you. The benefits of ‘truth thinking’ are peace, joy, and inclusion (Love). These feelings are self reinforcing; we want more, and so attract more of these thoughts. We want to share them, because we see the automatic response as the ‘other’ mind recognizes Truth and returns it to us as Light. The more we accept and share ‘truth thoughts’ the brighter grows the Flame of Love in our hearts and Minds…and we begin to experience ourselves as that One Mind…forever healed, forever loved and forever One.

So it appears that low frequency thoughts go where they came from, which is nowhere and high frequency thoughts go where they came from, which is everywhere, every time and back to everyone at once. I think that answer should satisfy any five year old.

Dave Cowan

Dave Cowan

Seeking Unconditional Love
   We are all seeking Unconditional Love.  This is the life journey that we are participating in.  The parent-child relationship is foundational in this quest.  It offers us our greatest opportunities to experience Love at this level.  This said, it also presents us with our most profound challenges.  In the end it is through the challenges that we finally open ourselves completely to the gift of Love.  We see time after time where our hidden discomforts and old limiting patterns lie.  This is the journey from small ‘ego’ based self to the grandiosity of Self or the State of living in peace, harmony, joy and ‘Oneness’.  In truth, our very essence is Unconditional Love and Unity Consciousness.  Our experience of this is only obscured by illusory veils created by our conditioned personalities, unconscious beliefs and self-limitations.  The Parent-child relationship offers us a great tool in the ‘un-veiling’ process.  All of our primary relationships serve this purpose.  As you read this article refer see where these ideas fit in your life.

Conditional Love
   How do we discern conditional love from unconditional love?  First, we need to understand that almost all of our thoughts are based on conditioned patterns that we hold in our unconscious mind. These patterns are derived from our past experiences, ancestral lineages, karma, parallel or past lives, and the collective unconscious.  Our relationships all mirror back to us our internal belief system.  Each moment we are experiencing either peace or lack of it.  Our external environment including people, places and events is just reflecting what our inner state is at that time.  It would seem as though we are playing victims to a ceaseless barrage of conditioned thought patterns. When we are living in an ‘unconscious’ state we are playing that role.  However, our spiritual evolution dictates that we sooner or later become ‘awakened’ and step out of the victim role.  As we become more observant of our thoughts we are able to use our free will to choose peace in every situation, thus breaking the cycle of painful experience-conditioned reaction-future similar events. 

Loving to the Best of Our Abilities at Any Moment
   The very act of becoming more observant begins to create a deeper sense of peace and stability within us.  We begin to release old conditioned patterns which were always peppered with guilt, fear, anxiety, judgment and projection.  You see, when we are operating on our past programming, we can only relate to others with ‘conditional’ responses.  For the most part, our relationships even with our children are at best, based on ‘conditional love’.  We may think that we love our kids or life partners unconditionally.  However, this is impossible until we begin to see our hidden patterns clearly and love and accept every aspect of ourselves.  It is only then that we can truly experience love for another.  Healing our closest relationships is an imperative step in opening fully to Grace and Oneness in our lives.  LOVE IS FREEDOM.  Repeat these words over and over again daily until you begin to feel the liberation offered with this realization. 
  We are all universally supported beyond what you can imagine right now more than ever before …to attain infinite joy, peace and abundance.  You must first realize that who you believe yourself to be is nothing more than a bundle of thought patterns based on past experiences. Awaken to experiencing the Present through applying true forgiveness to yourself and all others  each time you feel any level of anger, anxiety, fear or even slight discomfort arise.  

“Forgiveness is not a thing you offer when another has done something to you,
Or even for something you have done to yourself. Forgiveness is just the awareness, beyond your thoughts, of the meaninglessness of all that seems to cause you pain.”           
                                                                                                               Jeshua
                                                 ‘Journey Beyond Words’   Brent Haskell, Ph.D.,D.O.

How to Experience Unconditional Love

   How can you experience more Unconditional Love in your life with your children and other loved Ones?  You can practice these basic ideas:
•    Learn to become more observant with your thoughts and actions.
•    Pay more attention to how you ‘feel’ in given situations. Ie: how do I feel when my (child , parent, partner)  says or does that same old ‘thing’ to me.  Remember, our relationships are mirroring back to us unhealed conflicts we harbor within us.
•    Start each day with conscious intent to see everyone with fresh eyes as often as possible. Consciously let go of any limiting judgments and opinions you have formed about him/her.  We use others to secure separation for us through our judgements.
•    Pay more attention to ‘content’ instead of ‘form’.  For instance, what is it that we most want to teach our children?  Isn’t it most important that they learn love, acceptance and forgiveness?  These qualities will take them fluidly through any challenge that life may bring them.  What is form and content?  ‘Form’ is constantly changing experiences…or what we are doing, whereas Content is ‘how we are experiencing something…or our state of Being.  Take a moment to evaluate your feelings honestly before reacting to any given situation.
•    Be open to all that you can learn from your relationships.  It is often the challenges that offer us the greatest potential for Spiritual growth.
•    Help your children and all others to grow in their spirituality. Choose to see Light in them rather than relating to their conditioned personalities.  Through your eyes they will come to know their own Divinity. In this, you will discover your Light.
•    Open yourself to the idea of infinite potentiality.  Allow yourself the opportunity to be ‘re-born’ each moment.  Let go of that which no longer suits your highest good.
•    Forgive yourself completely for any misperceptions you may hold about what you did or didn’t do.

Transforming any Situation through Love, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Union

    In Truth we are all connected with the Divine Source of Creation.  This is the only thing we can ‘hang our hats on’.  Everything else in our life experience changes.  We start out as infants grow into children, then we become adults, have kids of our own and see them grow, and so on…  As noted in the article above we experience life mainly through the filters of our conditioning.  This is the cause of all pain and illness.  Once we begin to choose peace and conscious participation instead our health, our environment, our relationships, our entire reality changes.  You must experience this to really understand it.  We can help this along by taking at least 10 minutes each morning and evening to honor ourselves with silence.
   
   When we connect with the Divine in our prayer and meditation it provides us with a moment free of conditioned chatter in our minds.  It places us in a state of pure potentiality and creativity.  At this point we are able to transform any experience in our perceived reality.  Intentionally aligned with the Divine we can effectively heal problems at this level.  The following is a very effective prayer that involves focusing your attention on another person, yourself or a situation and transforming any problem through applying love, forgiveness and gratitude.  It is derived from an ancient Hawaiian tradition called ‘Ho’Oponopono:

(Name or Situation), I love you.

Please forgive me as I forgive myself

For all misperceptions I have held in consciousness

Which have kept us separate and in pain.

In the name of the Divine I set us free.

Thank you.  I love you.
Erina Carey Cowan

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The New Economy By Dave Cowan

We live in a world of cycles. Sunspots, seasons, life stages, cosmic alignments…the list goes on. Is it any wonder then, that economic systems should also be subject to changes…ups and downs, as it were. Cyclic changes are the basis of speculation and the current dysfunctional economic system…’good’ as long as growth and profit results; ‘bad’ when they don’t. But something else is going on here. As we have become a Global Society, interfaced through telecommunications and Global financial bodies,  we are now poised on the precipice of an unprecedented scale of change…one that will effect every seven-plus billion of us.

To appreciate the potential of a New Economy, we must look closely at the Old, and why it must fail before something totally New can arise. If we take a non-dual metaphysical viewpoint, it is easier to appreciate the inherent weakness of the current economy…an unconscious ‘death wish’ is not too inaccurate here.  This viewpoint  regards the world ‘out there’ as merely a projection, or inner perception, of the Mind that imagined it. Together, we have imagined and accepted some dysfunctional assumptions, primarily the belief in lack. This is an ego-based idea that Nature, or God, has limited resources. Therefore, your gain would imply my lack. And my gain, although implying your lack, is perfectly justifiable in light of my survival. Can you see how constricted and fear-based is this idea? Yet it is at the root of the Global Economy. The state of the world caused by this belief ‘proves’ a world of lack. Do we not have starving masses alongside conspicuous over-consumption? This is the circular reasoning that serves to perpetuate a model of the world based on struggle, conflict and suffering. On a social level, this sick illusion has manifested as a small group of the hyper-wealthy bent on the suppression and control of a world of wage slaves. This group flourishes in a state of ‘endless war’, pitting one group against another and keeping alive the illusion of separate interests and…a world of lack. The good news is…we are nearing the end of this charade.

The demise of these old thoughts and beliefs and the systems they have spawned is being driven by another set of cycles. These are cosmological cycles which many ancient cultures and some modern astronomers are aware of. Without going into too much detail here, multiple cycles are converging on the planet at this time with the cumulative effect of raising the frequency, or rate of vibration, of all matter and energy in our Solar System and related space community. This shift has been gradually affecting Earth and Humanity since the 1500’s, and is exponentially accelerating now.

We could look at the physiological roots of the dysfunctional economy as coming from fear-based survival reflexes, which are individually housed in the central area of the brain know as the ‘Lizard Brain’.  The thoughts and emotions stemming from these structures are at a lower frequency and efficacy than the higher thoughts and emotions generated by the Mammalian and distinctly Human structures which overlay them.  As the frequency of matter and energy in the environment rises, holding onto these lower energies becomes more and more difficult, and eventually, soon, impossible. When we lived in small, isolated groups of hunter-gatherers, we could, in a sense, ‘afford’ to live by these lower instincts. If things got weird with the neighbors, we simply moved on! Now, however, the interconnectedness of the world demands a higher level of civility. Eventually, the old ‘warrior’ programs will be written in history books as an embarrassing hiccup in the human saga. Today, however, we are witnessing the demise of the old paradigm as it writhes and convulses in it’s death throes.

What all this implies is that things will very likely get a lot worse before the New Paradigm can manifest. On a personal level, we can navigate the changes best by recognizing our own fears as they arise. Recognize them as based on a foundation of false beliefs and assumptions. Recognize these as not just your fears, but a collective fear that has been purposely programmed into you education, media, literature and sciences. We are being called to shed these beliefs together, as ‘together’ is much more descriptive of who we are; of who we are awakening to. Along with these changes, a New Identity is being born of Humanity as One…One Being from One Source with One Purpose.  Get used to the idea that ‘You are not who you think you are’ and ‘the past is not what it used to be’. Look closely at what you truly value, as the degree of attachment to what you value in the world will determine the degree of pain and distress you will call upon yourself as the wall of lies crumbles around you.

Do you value money above relationships? Do you value position and image above true perception of yourself as one among equals? Do you value conflict and ‘being right’ over peace and forgiveness? Then you have signed up for a rough ride. You will make it through, as there is no death. How long and how deeply you want to suffer is under your control, however. Your desire for something deeper, some ‘better way’ of seeing is all that is needed to begin to draw to yourself opportunities to embrace the New Paradigm.

However things unfold for you in the next few months and years, learn some way of releasing your fears. For some this may be physical exercise, dancing or some creative outlet. Shift the concern from ‘your problems’ to ‘our problem’ and realize we are all in this together. Do something for someone else without hope of reward, and you’ll be amazed at how your problems shrink in your view.

I had a dream once that I was crossing a raging river on a weak bridge of sticks. As I got to the center, the bridge disintegrated, and I was washed downstream. My panic was interrupted with a very clear message; “Let go and let the river take you where it will. If you struggle, you will perish”.

 I suggest you take some time to identify what it is you truly value…and begin to extend energy in these directions. These are the things you will bring with you through the ‘storm’. These are the things that make you truly wealthy. And when you know your own true Worth and Value as a ‘spark of the Divine’ you become a treasure to all of us! 

Dave Cowan

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‘Junk Food of the Gods’                                Dave Cowan 

        The healing power of Love is an undeniable fact. We instinctively comfort the suffering with our Love and Attention, especially those we consider our ‘loved ones’. There is further evidence of the Healing Power of prayer made at a distance from our intended target. Yet if this loving response depends on an activating event, what is the state of our being between these episodes of deep concern? Are we ambivalent to the needs of others by default? Or is there a counter-force at work that keeps us from a ‘steady state’ of loving concern?        

We live and operate in a Dualistic dimension;  so-called ‘material reality’ or ‘3D’, where Reality seems to made up of complementary, and some times contrary, sets of opposites. Anything you can conceive of comes with it’s opposite; up – down, cold – hot, happy – sad, day – night…you get the idea. Even our physiology mirrors this state, with the two hemispheres of our brains sitting across from each other, often arguing. The Chinese Yin Yang symbol illustrates this Duality perfectly, indicating that the seeds of the ‘opposite’ lie in the center of each expression, and that the interplay of opposites can be balanced, flowing together in a dynamic dance of mutual recognition.         So what ‘balances’ Love? It is Fear. Fear is Love’s opposite. It is there when Love is not. In order to understand Love, we must take a good look at Fear. That is what this article is about…please don’t be afraid to read on, because this story has a good ending. This is because Duality is a temporary ‘blip’ in a bigger picture, which is non-Dual.          There is a basis in Biology for Fear…I would call this ‘rational fear’, and is a critical part of our ability to survive. It is this rational fear that alerts your body to take automatic evasive action when a Semi Trailer is headed toward you in your lane. You’ll have time to think about if after, but in order to survive, your body gets a jolt of Adrenalin and goes into a ‘fight or flight’ response, instantaneously.         Things got complicated when humans found themselves in possession of a Pre-frontal lobe, and the ability to reason. The Rational mind processes needed to create a rationality for Fear. That’s what a rational mind does. But aside from survival, the rational mind could not find a good explanation for Fear. So it made things up. The rational mind would rather have a bad explanation for experience rather than no explanation. Because the rational mind is a recently new development in the history of life on the planet, it may not yet be completely finished developing into a mature, balanced function. Modern humans are particularly enamored with the Rational Mind because of all the things we can understand, and build and create with it. But we’ve also seen that everything the Rational Mind creates is not good for Humans or for Life. Things like nuclear bombs, genetically modified foods that are pesticide dependent, and foods that are laced with addictive substances that make you fat are the product of Rational Minds that probably believe these are ‘good things’.         So Fear originally served our Survival, but with creation of a ‘mind created self image’, the meaning of ‘survival’ has expanded to include threats to even our ideas about ourselves. If I believe the continuity of ‘me’ is dependent on the opinions of others, each time I perceive a negative opinion sent in my direction, my deepest Fear will be activated. And what is my deepest Fear?…well, the biggest threat to Survival is Death…this is what rational fear is designed to protect me from. But a negative opinion is only a death-threat to an idea about myself…”that’s OK” says my Rational mind, “that’s a legitimate concern, because if I am not my imaginary self-image, who am I?…I might not even exist!…and this is baaaaad news!”        So life gets very complicated as Fear now lurks behind every threat to my imaginary self. Even things like advertising plays on this fear. “If I can’t afford that car, I may never get a beautiful woman to notice me!”. “If I don’t stay young and beautiful, how will I compete with those who are?”        It looks like much of Modern Society operates on an assumption that Life is Fearful. If you read Newspapers or listen to Radio or TV news, you’ll be easily convinced the world is a fearful place, and it’s best to be constantly on guard, inconspicuous, and minding your own business. This principle also seems to work the other way…if you stay away from the fearful media, you will notice life becomes more cheerful and optimistic.         This begs a little discussion of the Quantum view of Reality. Essentially, the Quantum view dispels the ‘myth of materialism’. We have for the most part been educated to accept that ‘objective reality’ exists outside ourselves. This idea helps us stay afraid, because, if we accept this idea, we are really powerless to change much of what happens around us and to us. It is very easy to feel like a Victim if you accept you are just a ‘leaf in the wind’ with no say as to your experience of life.         The Quantum view, however, agrees with many ‘ancient’ systems of thought that places Consciousness, including the Consciousness in you, at the center of ‘reality’. This view states that ‘reality’ is the result of Consciousness, and your reality is the result of your consciousness. This means if you want to change your Reality, you are right where you need to be, in the Creative Control Center of your Conscious Self. If we grasp and accept this view, we can discard the Victim role and begin to accept and exercise sovereign Responsibility…and start creating the Life and World we want. Now who would not want you to this? Who would suffer as a result of your taking Responsibility for your Life. Asked another way, who benefits from you remaining a Fearful victim?And who seems to be going out of their way to keep alive the ideas, institutions and traditions that reinforce Victim hood? Are you getting warm? Let’s look deeper before deciding.        Before continuing, I think it is valuable to make a firm distinction between Spirituality and Religion.  This distinction has been muddied in the development of  Western Society when the prevailing powers in the past claimed exclusive knowledge and authority in all matters of the Spirit. Anthropologists say this trend began long, long ago in the history of Human tribes, where particularly insightful individuals, often with the help of specific techniques and natural substances, came into a deeper understanding of the workings of Nature, and used this knowledge to gain privilege and power. These were the first priest/politicians. It was not in these priests interest to freely share their knowledge, so it was generally denied access by the ‘common’ folk.         We now are beginning to suspect the deep knowledge of Nature is a ‘divine’ right of all sentient beings, and represents a natural stage of growth and development in becoming truly and fully ‘human’. Science is beginning to expand it’s horizons to include what only yesterday was considered by most to be ‘esoteric, metaphysical or occult (hidden)’ knowledge. Quantum physics, in particular, has pulled the shroud off the ‘illusion of materiality’, revealing dimensions of existence that are very real, and very beyond our senses, or ‘common sense, for that matter.         Just as there are physical dimensions (height, width, depth), there are also non-physical dimensions, which could be said to operate outside the ability of our senses to perceive…but not outside our instruments, or our ability to construct theoretical models. We know that everything material is made of molecules (which make up all elements and chemical compounds), which are made of Atoms, which are made up of invisible vibrating packet/waves of pure energy. Quantum Physicists have proven that these energy wave are ‘pulled’ into material reality, or the ‘packet’ state, by an act of Conscious Observation. This page is a good example…before you observed it, could you say absolutely, in your world of experience, that it existed? Only if you take some other observer’s word for it! Said another way, your perception is your world. And, that’s all you ever experience.         Historically, there are those who have extended their senses (like some of those early priests) by various means and perceived worlds, or dimensions extending far beyond the limits of the physical world. Many of these pioneers in Consciousness recorded their perceptions, and most of them agree on basic issues. One common feature is the existence of ‘beings’ or inhabitants of non-physical dimensions. Historically, these have been referred to as ‘spirits, angels, nature spirits, demons, ghosts’ etc., depending on the cultural context they were experienced in. It seems that in an expanded, multi-dimensional universe, physical humans are just one expression of many aspects of Life. Our survival-based egoic mind likes to think ‘we are it’; modern humans had a hard time accepting a round world and a Sun-centered solar system, too! Fear does keep one limited.        

 Now for good stuff. As we mentioned, the ‘3D’ world is essentially Dualistic, with one of the big issues the Duality of ‘good’ vs ‘evil’. It turns out, as reported by countless experiential pioneers, the first non-physical dimension operating just beyond our senses (ie: vibrating faster than out senses/brains can currently register), logically referred to as the ‘4^th Dimension’, or Astral, meaning ‘starry’ realm, also exhibits Dualistic qualities, particularly to ‘lower half’ of the Astral plane, or ‘lower Astral, as it is commonly referred to.        (A brief discussion of Death is needed here…as, due to fear of Death, most of us don’t care to think about it, let’s give it a shot! Einstein said energy and matter are interchangeable, but energy could not be destroyed, only transformed. The difference between a ‘live’ and a ‘dead’ human is energy…one has it, and resists entropy, the other doesn’t. So where does the energy go? Well, ‘religious’ beliefs aside, 100’s, if not more, of those who experience a ‘near-death experience’ are possibly a good source of information. Curiously, they all pretty much report the same thing. They say that there is a continuation of Awareness, with the ability to hear, see, think, etc., but this is largely experienced outside the body. They can often report what was being said, and even felt and thought, by others in the room. So it seems the ‘finality of Death’ is a fear-phantom of the Mind…a paralyzing fear that creeps into our everyday life as a Fear of embracing Life, and our true identity as powerful, multidimensional beings capable of creating realities! Now, who doesn’t want you to know that?)         

So, when a Human caught in the throes of extreme negativity (fear) leaves the body in this contracted state, say dying in gangland shootout or war, or in drunken rage…you get the idea; their ‘observer self’ continues to operate at this low vibration level in the lower astral dimension without the advantage of a body. They cannot rise to enter the ‘non – dual’ dimensions, or ‘heavens’ of the 5^th and higher dimensions, as they are vibrationally incapable of doing so. So they become ‘stuck’ in the lower astral, ‘stuck’ in their misery, pain or addiction, and can only hope to get back into a physical body to continue to play out their Dualistic games. They do this, by the way, when we, the ‘living’ provide a vibrational opening for them in our energy fields when we come under the spell of negativity, fear, or stupor.  The book ‘Remarkable Healings’ (S. Modi MD, Hampton Roads, 1997) documents one Health Professional’s experience in uncovering these ‘hitch-hikers’ as an often overlooked cause of disease and distress.        

It so happens that humans caught in the ‘downside’ of Duality are not the only beings inhabiting these nether regions. Just as human societies are organized with recognized power structures and lines of responsibility, so these other ‘worlds’ have their hierarchies. Some researchers, definitely not mainstream researchers, have proposed that for eons human history has been ‘driven’ from behind the scenes by non-physical beings who literally are ‘calling the shots’ on the planet. Have you ever wondered how a species like us, who can exhibit such sublime sensitivity and appreciation of beauty and art, could also slaughter each other by the millions, and senselessly be destroying their own environment? Does this make sense? Mainstream psychology looks on passively  at ‘human nature’ and shrugs it’s weary shoulders…it’s just the ‘way it is’.          What is the ‘payoff’ in a world dominated by fear invoking wars, ‘news’, ‘diseases’, ‘poverty’ and the ‘threat of extinction’…who benefits. Well, a very few on Earth, that’s for sure. It has been proposed that there exist beings in the astral, and perhaps other dimensions, who are essentially emotionless. Perhaps they exhibit a more ‘cold-blooded’ line of development, more akin to Lizards, than say, warm-blooded mammals. Perhaps they view humanity as some kind of possession, like cattle, whom they cultivate in an environment which produces a form of energy that vitalizes them…such as pure, raw Fear. Junk food of the ‘Gods’. It is interesting that the human brain has been described by psychologists as having a core with functions common to all animals including Lizards…the ‘lizard’ brain is involved in our most primitive drives…especially aggression and dominance. Maybe this is one reason Freud’s view of the unconscious wasn’t too complimentary…perhaps he was peeking into the Lizard brain. Over this area, mammals, and particularly Humans, have developed another functional layer, the Mammalian brain, which generates the experience of rationality and the higher, more altruistic drives, such as loyalty, devotion, and bonding.  Now, some of these concepts we are discussing fly directly in the face of a modern ‘rational’ world view. If to you this is all sounding like a fairy tale, so be it. I do guarantee, however, if you have read this far, there’s a small part of you that is saying…”This is nuts, but it makes sense!”. Other ‘clues’ will begin to show themselves to you as you begin to break through the mental barriers created by a ‘dumbed down’ materialist world view. The point of this article is not to induce Fear…but to create an expanded view that allows for these possibilities and fearlessly goes beyond them. We are living in an amazingly unique historical phase. Technology, information, knowledge, and human consciousness are all exploding into realms of possibility ever before imagined. When you’re in it, it may hard to appreciate, but consider that an average daily newspaper contains as much information as an average person in the 1500’s encountered in a lifetime!   I am an optimist! I believe fear is meant to enslave, but Truth sets you free. This is a good way to test whether something is true, by the way. Does it liberate you? Does it empower you? Does it heal you and make you more complete? It’s probably Truth. Does it frustrate you, make you feel powerless or victimized?…it’s probably not Truth.  I would rather endure a temporarily uncomfortable but Healing Truth, than a soothing, numbing, constricting Lie any day!Just as ‘reality’ is ultimately only personal, so is ‘Truth’ by the way…there is no ‘absolute Truth’ waiting somewhere outside of you, sitting in judgment. This is a particular old control program on the Planet. One reason I am an optimist is because I became familiar with the Mayan Calendar. The Mayan Calendar is actually much more sophisticated than our modern ‘Gregorian’ calendar. They knew about vast cycles of change, advanced astronomy, and had, as we do in our culture, prophesies of a ‘future paradise’ on Earth. They also understood that there was purpose to the unfolding of Consciousness on Earth; that all the twists and turns of pre-history and history has a point…it’s not just random events unfolding out of control (remember the ‘control through fear’ scenario?). And the point is…are you ready???…the envelope,  please….and the point is…we are to know ourselves as Conscious Co-creators of Realities. Hmmm….sound like Quantum Physics, doesn’t it?And do you think once we figure out we are making all this happen, that we would consciously create a world of Fear? That we would consciously give away our responsibilities, and therefore our freedoms, to feed a Fear-producing system based on control, scarcity, ignorance, and hopelessness? If we are doing this now, it is because we are doing it unconsciously, that is without awareness of the consequence of our thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions. The promise of the near future is that, due to cosmological events foreseen by the Mayans and other ancient cultures, the frequency of the subatomic particles making up current  our ‘3D’ world, and everything in it, including you,  will be accelerated into a higher, non-dualistic expression; a world of 5^th Dimensional Matter. What does this mean? Well, an end to all the negative extremes of Duality, for one thing. Try to imagine, no war, disease, poverty, loneliness, hunger, inequality…get it? And an end to the Reign of Terror that has fomented an atmosphere of Fear for it’s own purposes. The contract is up! These lower Astral beings cannot tolerate the rise in frequency, and are even now freaking out! Have you noticed the tone of desperation  in the ‘official’ version of events, especially as the population is becoming better educated and more informed than our so-called ‘leaders’?The current situation on the Planet seems to heating up with more to Fear every day. See this as part of the ‘battle for your mind and soul’. Avoid the temptation to let your fear-based egoic mind latch onto these fears and concerns. There is a ‘charge’ to strong energy, ‘positive’ or ‘negative’, to which we can get literally addicted. Ask yourself, ‘Am I willing to lose the payoffs of my fears, my identity as a Victim, the pity of others, the security of what I thought was my identity?” There can be a temporary feeling of loss, as with any addiction, when we get the courage to cast off what we thought was good for us, but now know is harming us and those we love. Who said growing up is all easy?Now for something practical. In the meantime, as you watch events unfold to this wonderful conclusion, you can become a living example of a non-dual existence. There’s one simple rule to follow, and that is, SEND EVERYTHING LOVE. “Everything?…even the ‘bad’ guys?” Yes. You see, because all we, you, or I ever experience is ourselves. When we attacked, lied to, cheated, etc., our experience of that offence is solely within ourselves. If we react with hurt, counter-attack, or shrink in fear, it’s only because the lie being sent our way has found resonance with a part of us! If we did not believe the lie, it would go right through us, as if we were invisible. So become ‘transparent’ to all negativity by sending back pure clear Love to the source of the offence. This automatically clears and ‘forgives’, for lack of a better word, anything in you that might resonate with the lie, and also sends healing energy to whoever projected their own negativity to you, Because, your attacker is only experiencing themselves, not you. Forgive them,  they don’t know they are experiencing their own pain. Another way to say the same thing is ‘NO RESISTANCE’ to any experience that comes your way. What you resist ‘out there’ you only resist ‘in here’. What you resist, you collide with. What you allow, moves through you. Again, you are transparent; you are becoming Spirit.

Thank you for reading this. I hope it helps your understanding, and encourages you to stay with the program. It will be worth it, and more!