30 March, 2013

Announcing a New Tab: Honours's List


Moved by the amazing, unceasing selfless giving and sharing of those that are closely connected with and share our Vision, we are pleased to announce a new tab designed to say THANK YOU to all those who would prefer to be out of any news but who agree to be featured with some persuasion.

Each and every one has contributed very tangibly to the betterment of health, nutrition, education and wisdom for a long period of time.

You are truly Rainbow Makers in every way: shining your light and manifesting the conditions for joy, creativity, upliftment and beauty.

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27 March, 2013

True Prosperity: a State of Consciousness by Michael Roads

(I came across a wonderful article and author from another source that often offers valuable insights and I encourage you to visit it as it adds to our perspectives on Consciousness: links below)



21st March 2013
By Michael Roads

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

More and more from my perspective of life, I find the immense value and importance of being conscious of moment-by-moment life. Just being conscious, meaning being ‘consciously aware,’ is so powerful it is enough to transform your whole life.

When you apply conscious focus to any issue in life, that issue begins to reveal itself anew. Note that word, anew. You see new angles, new approaches, new insights into whatever the issue is. In this article, I am going to look at the issue of money from a conscious viewpoint.

So many people think they have a money issue. For me to say, ‘there is no such thing as a money issue,’ is a very provocative and challenging statement, yet this is exactly what I mean. A money issue is a ‘you’ issue in disguise. And the disguises are many.

You have an ongoing relationship with life. You also have an ongoing relationship with self, and an ongoing relationship with Truth. I have no doubt that you are aware of your relationship with life, and also of your relationship with self, but are you aware that it is your relationship with Truth that determines the quality and expression of those two other major relationships?

Let me put it this way. You can have those relationships based in illusion – this is considered normal – or you can have those relationships based in Truth. And believe me, this is far from normal! If you want the ‘illusion’ relationship to continue, do nothing, and it will. If you want to change your whole relationship with every aspect of life, then read on – and act accordingly. Be aware that if I mislead you, I am the person who will suffer most consequences. Clever words without Truth can be damaging, and damage returns to its source.

What exactly is money? Some people will say money is crisp or soggy bank notes of varying currency values, others might say money is the power of your credit card. Yet others say it is the sum value of all your property assets, and it is what you are worth. And, in the illusion, all these are correct. Okay, so what really is money? It is very simple – money is energy. Nothing more, nothing less. And money energy that you so-call own is an energy that is connected to you by the strength of your ownership. For example, financial fear holds very tightly onto money energy, while inner-security holds it rather lightly. All that you are; your every inner program, your conditioning, your beliefs, your fears, your wants, your expectations, and your relationship with your parents and family, and much more, are all involved in your relationship with money. The energy of money is not your issue; it is your own energy of self-expression that is the issue. Your relationship with money energy is either clean or cluttered. If it is clean, I doubt you are even reading this, for you have no need to, if it is cluttered, then first of all, accept that this is your reality. You cannot get out of a cage that you deny being in! To acknowledge the cage is the first step to freedom.

I am going to take two extreme examples to illustrate what I am saying, but first, be aware that I am generalizing in this article, I am not writing about ‘your’ particular issue. There is the person born into wealth with a money problem, and the person born into relative poverty with a money problem. I will show you how, in both cases, money is not the issue.

The child born into a wealthy family faces many problems. Wealth is seldom just there, it has to be generated, and generating wealth requires a lot of focus and time. The child growing up in a wealthy family gets more than enough ‘toys,’ from the first train set, or doll, to the latest car, but the inner need of conscious focused attention is seldom so well addressed. Generally, there is not enough time in the day to put in the hours that high-living money making demands. This ‘time demand’ powerfully affects the children. The wealthy often compromise by attempting to buy the love and respect of their child/children . . . and their future. A mostly futile gesture.

Somewhere in all this, the child begins a slow, smoldering anger and resentment. As the child grows, this becomes rebellion. By the time the child is a teenager, there is full-blown resentment, and withdrawal. All the evidence suggests to them that money is more important, more valuable than they are. Surveys in the U.S. indicate that the average time spent by a parent in focussed conversation with their child/children is about thirty seconds a day! This does not mean sharing the same room, it means conscious, focussed, aware, caring conversation. And this survey was not just about the wealthy, it was ‘average’ American families. Apparently, surveys done in other countries show a similar pattern.

The person who grows up in this ‘wealthy’ home is definitely going to have a money issue, along with a multitude of other issues relating to self-esteem. Generally, the child, now adult, has a program that says ‘money is more important than I am,’ or, ‘If I don’t make as much money as my parents, I’m a failure,’ or ‘money is the most important thing in life.’ And so on!


Okay, let’s look at the other end of the scale. This family is money poor, struggling for enough money on a weekly basis. Here, the most constant words will be, ‘money is hard to come by,’ ‘fortune favours the rich,’ ‘there are laws for the rich, and laws for us poor,’ ‘it’s the bloody government’s fault.’ And so on. So this, or some other constant negative quote is being hammered daily into the receptive mind of the child/children. They are being programmed for failure, programmed that life is all about a lack of money, programmed that life is a continuous struggle. And that money is boththe issue and the problem, the cause of all hardship.

These children grow up with a different anger. On this end of the spectrum, the anger and resentment is against the injustice of life, on how they are being suppressed, on how life is against them, and how money makes money and they have no bloody chance. The fact that so many people put in the effort to climb out of this financial mess is overlooked by the ones who are still in it. They got a lucky break! The money issues that come from this simmering brew of struggle are many, but again, they are nothing to even do with money. They are about the people, the power of illusion, and the misuse of energy in the forms of anger, resentment, and their many negative expressions.

Money is one of the most powerful triggers in human growth. Why? Because if you are into inner growth you are required to face ‘your’ issues, not your ‘money’ issues. The person who looks only at their money issues is either not into personal growth, or is seriously lost in the illusions of life. And this is so common. True Prosperity is a state of consciousness. It is about being conscious of yourself, conscious of whether you negatively react to life, or whether you positively respond. It is about being conscious of whether you see life as supportive, or destructive. Is life for and with you, or is life against you? Do you accept that your life is made by you, or do you believe that life has handed you a raw deal? A conscious acceptance that you are responsible for your life, and for your fortune, is the whole basis of true prosperity.When you decide that the illusion can never be manipulated for your total wellbeing – it can be manipulated to give you wealth – and you accept that there is a path of illusion and a path of Truth, then, and only then, are you ready to choose the path of Truth.

Truth is not an easy path, but neither is it difficult. This path will not suddenly make you wealthy, but neither will it make you poor. Truth requires that you leave the illusion, with all its comforts, and suffering. And crazy as this sounds, suffering is one of the major human addictions! Truth does, however, have one major requirement; you are obliged to live the Truth that you discover. If you are not living it, you do not have it. One of the serious illusions in this so-called New Age is that so many people believe that Truth is a set of empowering words that, if learned, have some way of transforming their lives. Nothing could be more based in illusion.

Truth can only be ‘lived.’ Truth is nothing to do with the intellect, it is about consciousness. So, when you bring Truth into the equation of, ‘I have a money issue,’ you must be prepared for Truth to blast the illusion into oblivion. It is ‘you’ that have, and ‘you’ that are the issue. And this ‘you’ issue manifests in money issues, relationship problems, the whole works! This does not make you wrong, or bad, or foolish, it means that when you accept this as real, you are consciously standing on the pivot of change. By taking responsibility for yourself in the moment, and by ‘consciously’ living life asit presents itself in the moment, you are moving into a place of newness.

True prosperity is not just about money, but it does include money. True prosperity is about the relationship that you develop with life, by living Truth. True prosperity is the fruit of this relationship. True prosperity is when your relationship with yourself, with life, and with money are all based in Truth, as you recognize and understand it. Your relationship with Truth will change and deepen, as will your relationship with self, and life, and money. And this is exciting.

One of the difficulties you will encounter will be the advice of other, well-meaning people, especially friends and family. The chances are they will oppose or resist your inner changes, because for them, this is a threat. You remaining the same is something very important for people who live within the parameters of ‘more of the same.’ Basically, this means that if you want or need advice, then you must approach and ask someone whom you ‘know’ is living in the way that you aspire to live. It becomes obvious that if you ask a very dear friend within the illusion how to handle this challenging moment in your relationship with Truth, you are going to be very disappointed with what they have to offer.

Be aware that you can have true prosperity without great wealth, and that you can have great wealth without true prosperity. If wealth is the result – and it often is – of your improved relationship with yourself, with life, and most importantly, with Truth, then you are certainly sailing the ocean of true prosperity. True prosperity balances your health with your wealth. Whereas many people spend their health to gain their wealth – poor trade! – you will find that as your health prospers, so will your wealth. What a far more sensible, intelligent approach.

True prosperity is the holistic path of intelligence, rather than the isolated path of the intellect. Intellect moans, ‘what if?’ while intelligence moves confidently ahead. True Prosperity is a way of trust. Trust in your inherent Self, in your intelligence, in your innate abilities, in your growing relationship with Truth. Intelligent and conscious trust is integral to true prosperity. You are a Being of Truth, and Intelligence … use it!

In Love and Light, Michael

About the author:

Born in England in 1937, Michael Roads discovered at an early age he was able to communicate with nature and go beyond linear time and space. He immigrated to Australia in 1963 where he was a beef and dairy farmer, and prominent in the early organic movement. He wrote the first book on organic gardening in Australia, which was an immediate best seller. After becoming spiritually awakened in 1986, Michael wrote about his metaphysical experiences and has since published 14 books, translated into 16 languages. 2012 marks his 21st year of traveling around the world giving talks and 5-day Intensives on unconditional Love and emotional balance. www.michaelroads.com





26 March, 2013

Time Will Tell – But Why Wait For It? by Zen Gardner

(Another great article from Zen: please do visit his incredible web site on the link provided for some razor sharp insights into consciousness and our present reality)

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013.



by Zen Gardner

Time is quite the marker within the matrix of this world. Most of us wear a “watch” to track the passing and planning of our lives. We also operate within the “boundaries” of time and watch calendars almost morosely.

Clocks are everywhere. Everywhere. Oppressively so. Most everything is scheduled according to an agreed form of “time” measurement.

This seems practical enough.

But something’s seriously amiss. Where did this ever ticking, ever present paradigm come from? Is it even real? Is it part of some sort of overarching control system?
Even “Science” Weighs In

Ironically enough, in the view of accepted quantum physics time is pretty much a joke. There is ultimately no such thing as time. It’s all now and we live amongst parallel universes. Our projected reality is similarly non-linear which we manifest with our intention.

And has that knowledge entered our day to day reality in spite of the dissemination and popularization of these scientific realities?

I don’t think so.

We just keep marching to the beat of the ticking clock, chiming out its call to blinded duty. “Time is money.” “Sorry, don’t have time.” “Hurry up.” “My days are numbered.” “How long will it take?” “Got some time to kill?”

Time is a nasty master, but a great lens through which to view eternity.


Deadlines and the Time Conspiracy

Look at the utilitzation of the time structure on the world today. You want production? “Put ‘em on the clock! Check in, check out. Get on that conveyor belt, we have deadlines to meet!” while the controllers lounge about, eat their flesh, and smoke their cigars. “They’re sheep to be shorn, rats in a maze, cows to be milked, chickens to be plucked.” Speed up the time and you’ll get more eggs too.

“Deadlines can be lifelines” is a pretty cool and often practical expression, as there is a time to just plain get something done; no more loitering about when something needs to get finished. Clearly there’s a “time” for that, at least in this paradigm. Once in a while.

But the emphasis in the current here and now is energy production, survival and fear. All constricting and energy extracting, like time. Staying in line, conforming, regimentation.

Why do they sound bells between classes in schools? Factories are rife with audio and visual prompting. Television is all about “programming” and what time what is on. Tension upon imposed Pavlovian tension.

Something to think about. And how is all this affecting you?


People and Time


This one is particularly interesting, as it strikes at the core of “us” and human nature and its response to these imposed paradigms.

Look how things and people change “over time”. You never know how something or someone may change, we’ve all experienced this. Our kids are perfect examples. We watch them grow and “mature” and then watch the grandkids do the same. Some traits stay the same, others morph, depending on environment, parenting, education, spiritual influences etc.

How our surroundings and most importantly spiritual influences affect us “over time” is important to watch and understand. What moves us where? Why are we doing what we’re doing? And then, “what made (me, you they,) move in this direction?”

Time is the yardstick, but continual change is the reality.


Knowing Now What Time Will Tell

What is so beautiful about the intuitive language of the heart is that you can know things now for their potential effects. Either before they’ve grown to show the good they can accomplish, or before they can do the irreparable damage they were either designed or unintentionally set to do.

This is a key to living consciously and helping to create and stimulate the conscious awakening that heralds the evolving world of Love and Truth we’re experiencing.

We are in charge. And we need to respond to the prompts of conscious awareness. Now. Those who “waited to see” are now under an oppressive regime over mind, body and spirit of all unawakened mankind.

Waiting for “time to tell” is no more. The time is now.

Surely developments will surface later, but the essentials of day to day decisions and judgements more often than not need not be delayed. Time is short and we need to learn to trust our hearts.


The End of Time?

The really profound aspect of this is the spiritual onslaught on our planet that we’re currently undergoing, of both good and bad vibrations. An important time for all of us to be on our toes. We seem to be under attack and it’s clearly more spiritual than anything. Guard your heart, and help guard your loved ones.

The “end of time” just might be on our doorstep. Or is it an ever ready portal to be used?

So what does “time will tell” really mean?

Do you want to wait that long when you know in your heart the answer already? That’s the issue. Operate from the heart.

Don’t hesitate, communicate….with Truth. Follow your heart. The Truth is always loving, even if it hurts sometimes. Follow on.

Tell it like it is, live it like it is. Because IT IS!

Much love, Zen

ZenGardner.com

24 March, 2013

The Power of the Mind: Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., New Dawn

Published in Waking Times

March 20, 2013


Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., New Dawn
Waking Times

Living in the world under your skin is a bustling metropolis of 50 trillion cells, each of which is biologically and functionally equivalent to a miniature human. Current popular opinion holds that the fate and behaviour of our internal cellular citizens are preprogrammed in their genes. Since Watson and Crick’s discovery of the genetic code, the public has been programmed with the perception that DNA acquired from our parents at the moment of conception determines our traits and characters. This conventional view of genetics further has us believe that our inherited gene programs are apparently fixed, the equivalent of a computer’s “read-only” program.

The notion that our fate is indelibly inscribed in our genes was directly derived from the now dated scientific concept known as genetic determinism. It is still a conventional belief that genes “control” the many wonderful attributes passed down through a family’s lineage, as well as dysfunctional familial traits such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and depression, among scores of others. As “victims” of heredity, genetic forces outside of our control, we naturally perceive of ourselves as being powerless in regard to the unfolding of our lives. Unfortunately, the assumption of being powerless is the road to personal irresponsibility. “Since I can’t do anything about it anyway… why should I care?”
Shattering Illusions

Just as the Human Genome Project got off the ground in the late 1980’s, scientists began to acquire a paradigm-shattering new view of how life works. Their revolutionary research has become the foundation for a new branch of science known as epigenetic control. The world of epigenetics has shaken the foundations of biology and medicine for it reveals that we are not “victims” of our genes, but are in fact “masters” of our genes.

The conventional version of heredity still being taught in schools emphasises genetic control, which literally reads as “control by genes.” However, newly revealed epigenetic control mechanisms provide a profoundly different view of how life is managed. The Greek-derived prefix epi- means “over or above.” Consequently, the literal translation of epigenetic control reads as “control above the genes.” Genes do NOT control life – life is controlled by something above the genes. Knowledge is power and this knowledge of how life works provides the most important element in our quest for self-empowerment. Epigenetics leads us from our perception of victim to our proper role as a participatory creator.

The new science of epigenetics recognises that environmental signals are the primary regulators of gene activity. As described in the Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles, cells read and respond to the conditions of their environment using membrane protein perception switches. Activated switches send signals into the cytoplasm to control behaviour and regulate the activity of the genes, the hereditary blueprints used to make the body. Proteins are the cell’s molecular building blocks and their characters provide for our physical and behavioural traits.

Amazingly, epigenetic information can modify or edit the readout of a gene blueprint to create over 30,000 different variations of proteins from the same gene. This editing process can provide for normal functional protein products as well as dysfunctional proteins from the same gene. One can be born with healthy genes and through epigenetic processes express mutant behaviours such as cancer. Similarly, one can be born with defective mutant genes and through epigenetic mechanisms create normal healthy proteins and functions.

The conventional belief that the genome represents “read-only” programs is now proven to be false. Epigenetic mechanisms modify the readout of genetic code, therefore genes actually represent “read-write” programs wherein life experiences actively redefine an individual’s genetic expression. As organisms experience the environment, their perception mechanisms fine-tune genetic expression so as to enhance their opportunities for survival. The environment’s influence over the genome is dramatically revealed in studies on identical twins. When first born, these siblings express almost the same gene activity from their identical genomes. However, as they begin to experience life, their personal individualised experiences and perceptions lead to the activation of profoundly different sets of genes.

The “new” biology is based upon the fact that perception controls behaviour AND gene activity! This revised version of science emphasises the reality that we actively control our genetic expression moment by moment throughout our lives. Rather than seeing ourselves as victims of our genes, we must come to own the responsibility that our perceptions are dynamically shaping our biology and behaviour. The expression of a healthy or dis-eased biology is directly influenced by the accuracy of an individual’s interpretation or perception of their environment. Misperceptions rewrite genetic expression just as effectively as accurate perceptions, yet with far graver, perhaps even life threatening consequences.
From the Microcosm of the Cell to the Macrocosm of the Mind

For the first three and a half billion years of life on this planet, the biosphere consisted of a massive population of individual single-celled organisms, such as bacteria, yeast, algae, and protozoa like the familiar amoeba and paramecium. About 700 million years ago, individual cells started to assemble into multicellular colonies. The collective awareness afforded in a community of cells was far greater than an individual cell’s awareness. Since awareness is a primary factor in organismal survival, the communal experience offered its citizens a far greater opportunity to stay alive and reproduce.

The first cellular communities, like the earliest human communities, were basic hunter-gatherer clans wherein each member of the society offered the same services to support the survival of the community. However, as the population densities of both cellular and human communities reached greater numbers, it was no longer efficient or effective for all individuals to do the same job. In both types of communities, evolution led to individuals taking on specialised functions. For example, in human communities some members focused upon hunting, others upon domestic chores and some upon child rearing. In cellular communities specialisation meant that some cells began to differentiate as digestive cells, others as heart cells, and still others as muscle cells.

Most of the trillions of cells forming bodies such as ours have no direct perception of the external environment. Liver cells “see” what’s going on in the liver, but don’t directly know what’s going on in the world outside of the skin. The function of the brain and nervous system is to interpret environmental stimuli and send out signals to the cells that integrate and regulate the life-sustaining functions of the body’s organ systems.

The successful nature of multicellular communities allowed evolving brains to dedicate vast numbers of cells for use in the cataloguing, memorising and integrating complex perceptions. The ability to remember and select among the millions of experienced perceptions in life provides the brain with a powerful creative database from which it can create complex behavioural repertoires. When put into play, these behavioural programs endow the organism with the characteristic trait of consciousness. In this presentation, the term consciousness is used in its most fundamental context… the state of being awake and aware of what is going on around you.

Many scientists prefer to think of consciousness in terms of a digital quality, an organism either has it or not. However, an assessment of the evolution of biological properties suggests consciousness, like any other quality, evolved over time. Consequently, the character of consciousness would likely express itself as a gradient of awareness from its simpler roots in primitive organisms to the unique character of self-consciousness manifest in humans and other higher vertebrates.

The expression of self-consciousness is specifically associated with a small evolutionary adaptation in the brain known as the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex is the neurological platform that enables us to realise our personal identity and experience the quality of “thinking.” Monkeys and lower organisms do not express self-consciousness. When looking into a mirror, monkeys will never recognise that they are looking at them selves; they will always perceive the image to be that of another monkey. In contrast, neurologically more advanced chimps looking in the mirror perceive the mirror’s reflection as an image of themselves.

An important difference between the brain’s consciousness and the prefrontal cortex’s self-consciousness is that consciousness enables an organism to assess and respond to the immediate conditions of its environment that are relevant at that moment. In contrast, self-consciousness enables the individual to factor in the consequences of their actions in regard to not only how they impact the present moment but also as to how they will influence the individual’s future.

Self-consciousness is an evolutionary adjunct to consciousness in that it provided another behaviour-creating platform that included the role of a “self” in the decision-making process. While conventionalconsciousness enables organisms to be participatory members in the dynamics of life’s “play,” the quality of self-consciousness offers an opportunity to simultaneously be an observer in the “audience.” From the perspective of our being able to observe the role of “self” in the unfolding of the “play,” self-consciousness provides the individual with the option for self-reflection, reviewing and editing their character’s performance. The conscious and self-conscious functions of the brain may be collectively referred to as the mind.

In conventional parlance, the brain’s conscious mechanism associated with automated stimulus-response behaviours is referred to as the subconscious or unconscious mind, for the reason that its functions require neither observation nor attention from the self-conscious mind. Subconscious mind functions evolved long before the prefrontal cortex, consequently it historically was able to successfully operate a body and its behaviour without any contribution from, or involvement with, the more evolved self-conscious mind.

The subconscious mind is an astonishingly powerful information processor that can record perceptual experiences (programs) and forever play them back at the push of a button. Interestingly, many people only become aware of their subconscious mind’s automated programmed behaviours when they realise they’re engaged in an undesirable behaviour as a result of someone “pushing their buttons.”

The power of the subconscious mind lies in its ability to process massive amounts of data acquired from direct and indirect learning experiences at extraordinarily high rates of speed. It has been estimated that the disproportionately larger brain mass providing the subconscious mind’s function has the ability to interpret and respond to over 40 million nerve impulses per second. In contrast, it is estimated that the diminutive self-conscious mind’s prefrontal cortex can only process about 40 nerve impulses per second. As an information processor, the subconscious mind is one million times more powerful than the self-conscious mind.

As a tradeoff in acquiring its computational bravado, the subconscious mind expresses a marginal creative ability, one that may be best compared to that of a precocious five year old. In contrast to the freewill offered by the conscious mind, the subconscious mind primarily expresses prerecorded stimulus-response “habits.” Once a behaviour pattern is learned, such as walking, getting dressed or driving a car, those programs are processed as habits in the subconscious mind… meaning you can carry out these complex functions without paying any attention to them.

In contrast to the massive information processing by the subconscious mind, the smaller prefrontal cortex responsible for self-consciousness is limited to juggling only a small number of tasks at the same time. Though its ability for multitasking is physically constrained, the self-conscious mind can focus upon and control any function in the human body. It was once thought that some body’s functions were beyond the control of the self-conscious mind, such involuntary functions included the regulation of heartbeat, blood pressure and body temperature, behaviours controlled by the unconscious autonomic nervous system. However, it is now recognised that yogis and other practitioners that train their conscious minds can absolutely control functions formerly defined as involuntary behaviours.

The subconscious and self-conscious components of the mind work in tandem. The subconscious mind controls every behaviour that is not attended to by the self-conscious mind. For most people, their self-conscious minds are rarely focused upon the current moment since their mental processing continuously flits from one thought to another. The self-conscious mind is so preoccupied with thoughts about the future, the past or resolving some imaginary problem, that most of our lives are actually controlled by programs in the subconscious mind.

Cognitive neuroscientists conclude that the self-conscious mind contributes only about 5% of our cognitive activity. Consequently, 95% of our decisions, actions, emotions and behaviours are derived from the unobserved processing of the subconscious mind.
Simple Insights… Profound Consequences!

Through the management of “programmed” perceptions, the mind controls our biology, behaviour and gene activity. The seat of thinking, freewill, personal identity, and our wants, desires and intentions is a small 40 “bit” self-conscious processor that controls our lives only 5% of the day or less. The million times more powerful subconscious mind controls 95% or more of our lives using “habits” derived from instincts and the perceptions acquired in our life experiences.

This data reveals that our lives are not controlled by our personal intentions and desires as we may inherently believe. Do the math! Our fate is actually under the control of the preprogrammed experiences managed by the subconscious mind. The most powerful and influential programs in the subconscious mind were downloaded into consciousness in the profoundly important formative period between gestation and six years of age. Now here’s the catch – these life-shaping subconscious programs are direct downloads derived from observing our primary teachers… our parents, siblings and local community. Unfortunately, as psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors are keenly aware, many of the perceptions acquired about ourselves in the formative period are expressed as limiting and self-sabotaging beliefs.

Unbeknownst to most parents is the fact that their words and actions are being continuously recorded by their children’s minds. Consequently, when they inform their child that he or she does not deserve things, or that they are not good enough, or smart enough, or that they are sickly, these pronouncements are directly downloaded into their child’s subconscious. Since the role of the mind is to make coherence between its programs and real life, the brain generates appropriate behavioural responses to life’s stimuli to assure the “truth” of the programmed perceptions.

Let’s apply this understanding to the behaviour in one’s life. Consider that you were a 5-year-old child throwing a tantrum in Walmart over your desire to have a particular toy. In silencing your outburst, your father yelled, “YOU don’t deserve things!” You are now an adult and in your self-conscious mind you are considering the idea that you have the qualities and power to assume a position of leadership at your job. While in the process of entertaining this positive thought in the self-conscious mind, all of your behaviours are now being automatically managed by the programs in your more powerful subconscious mind. Since your fundamental behavioural programs are those derived in your formative years, your father’s admonition that “you do not deserve things” may become the subconscious mind’s automated directive. So while you are entertaining wonderful thoughts of a positive future and not paying attention, your subconscious mind is automatically engaging self-sabotaging behaviour to assure that your reality matches your program of not-deserving.

Now here’s the catch – Behaviour is automatically controlled by subconscious mind’s programs when the self-conscious mind is not focused on the present moment. When the reflective self-conscious mind is preoccupied in thought and not paying attention, it does not observe the automatic behaviours derived from subconscious mind. Since 95% or more of our behaviour is derived from the subconscious mind… then most of our own behaviour is invisible to us!

For example, consider you intimately know someone and you also know his or her parent. From your perspective you see that your friend’s behaviour closely resembles their parent. Then one day you casually remark to your friend something like, “You know Mary, you’re just like your mom.” Back away! In disbelief and perhaps shock, Mary will likely respond with, “How can you say that!” The cosmic joke is that everyone else can see that Mary’s behaviour resembles her mom’s except Mary. Why? Simply because when Mary is engaging the subconscious behavioural programs she downloaded in her youth from observing her mom, it’s because her self-conscious mind is not paying attention. At those moments, her automatic subconscious programs operate without observation.

Another familiar example of how “invisible” behaviour operates: You are driving your car while having an intense conversation with a friend in the passenger’s seat. You become so involved in the discussion that only later, when your gaze returns to the road, do you realise that you haven’t paid attention to the driving for the last ten minutes. Since the self-conscious mind was preoccupied with the conversation, the car was being driven by the subconscious mind’s “autopilot” mode. However, if you were asked to describe your driving behaviour during that ten-minute hiatus, you would be forced to say, “I don’t know… I wasn’t paying attention.” Aha! That’s the point – when the conscious mind is busy, we do not observe our own programmed subconscious behaviours.

Consequently, when life does not work out as planned, we rarely recognise that we were very likely contributing to our own disappointments. Since we are generally unaware of the influence of our own subconscious behaviours, we naturally perceive of our selves as victims of forces outside of us when things don’t work out as desired. Unfortunately, assuming the role of victim means that we assume we are powerless in manifesting our intentions. Nothing is further from the truth! The primary determinant in shaping the fate of our lives is the database of perceptions and beliefs programmed in our minds.
Where Did That Behaviour Come From?

There are three sources of perceptions that control our biology and behaviour. The most primitive perceptions are those we acquire with our genome. Built into our genes are programs that provide fundamental reflex behaviours referred to as instincts. Pulling your hand out of an open flame is a genetically derived behaviour that does not have to be learned. More complex instincts include the ability of newborn babies to swim like a dolphin or the activation of innate healing mechanisms to repair a damaged system or eliminate a cancerous growth. Genetically inherited instincts are perceptions acquired from nature.

The second source of life-controlling perceptions represents memories derived from life experiences downloaded into the subconscious mind. These profoundly powerful learned perceptions represent the contribution from nurture. Among the earliest perceptions of life to be downloaded are the emotions and sensations experienced by the mother as she responds to her world. Along with nutrition, the emotional chemistry, hormones, and stress factors controlling the mother’s responses to life experiences cross the placental barrier and influence fetal physiology and development. When the mother is happy, so is the fetus. When the mother is in fear, so is the fetus. When the mother “rejects” her fetus as a potential threat to family survival, the fetal nervous system is preprogrammed with the emotion of being rejected. Sue Gearhardt’s very valuable book Why Love Matters reveals that the fetal nervous system records memories of womb experiences. By the time the baby is born, emotional information downloaded from the life experiences in womb have already shaped half of that individual’s personality.

However, the most influential perceptual programming of the subconscious mind occurs in the time period spanning from the birth process through the first six years of life. During this time the child’s brain is recording all sensory experiences as well as learning complex motor programs for speech, and for learning first how to crawl and then how to stand and ultimately run and jump. Simultaneously, the subconscious mind acquires perceptions in regard to parents, who are they and what they do. Then by observing behavioural patterns of people in their immediate environment (usually parents, siblings and relatives), a child learns perceptions of acceptable and unacceptable social behaviours that become the subconscious programs that establish the “rules” of life.

Nature facilitates the enculturation process by developmentally enhancing the subconscious mind’s ability to download massive amounts of information. EEG readings from adult brains reveal that neural electrical activity is correlated with different states of awareness. Adult EEG readings show that the human brain operates on at least five different frequency levels, each associated with a different brain state:



EEG vibrations continuously shift from state to state over the whole range of frequencies during normal brain processing in adults. However, brain frequencies in developing children display a radically different behaviour. EEG vibration rates and their corresponding states evolve in incremental stages over time. The predominant brain activity during the child’s first two years of life is delta, the lowest EEG frequency range. In the adult brain, delta is associated with sleeping or unconsciousness.

Between two and six years of age, the child’s brain activity state ramps up and it operates primarily in the range of theta. In the adult, theta activity is associated with states of reverie or imagination. While in the theta state, children spend much of their time mixing the imaginary world with the real world. Calm consciousness associated with emerging alpha activity only becomes a predominant brain state after six years of age. By twelve years, the brain expresses all frequency ranges although its primary activity is in beta’s state of focused consciousness. Children leave elementary education behind at this age and enter into the more intense academic programs of junior high.

A profoundly important fact in the above timeline that may have missed your attention is that children do not express the alpha EEG frequencies of conscious processing as a predominant brain state until afterthey are six years old. The predominant delta and theta activity of children under six signifies that their brains are operating at levels below consciousness. Delta and theta brain frequencies define a brain state known as a hypnogogic trance, the same neural state that hypnotherapists use to download new behaviours directly into the subconscious mind of their clients.

The first six years of a child’s life is spent in a hypnotic trance. Its perceptions of the world are directly downloaded into the subconscious during this time, without the discrimination of the, as yet, dormant self-conscious mind. Consequently, our fundamental perceptions about life and our role in it are learned before we express the capacity to choose or reject those beliefs. We were simply “programmed.” The Jesuits were aware of this programmable state and proudly boasted, “Give us a child until it is six or seven years old and it will belong to the Church for the rest of its life.” They knew that once the dogma of the Church was implanted into the child’s subconscious mind, that information would inevitably influence 95% of that individual’s behaviour for the rest of their life.

The inhibition of conscious processing (alpha EEG activity) and the simultaneous engagement of a hypnogogic trance during the formative stages of a child’s life are a logical necessity. The thinking processes associated with the self-conscious mind’s processing cannot operate from a blank slate. Self-conscious behaviour requires a working database of learned perceptions. Consequently, before self-consciousness is expressed, the brain’s primary task is to acquire a working awareness of the world by directly downloading experiences and observations into the subconscious mind.

HOWEVER, there is a very, very serious downside to acquiring awareness by this method. The consequence is so profound that it not only impacts the life of the individual, it can also alter an entire civilisation. The issue concerns the fact that we download our perceptions and beliefs about life long before we acquire the ability for critical thinking. Our primary perceptions are literally written in stone as unequivocal truths in the subconscious mind, where they habitually operate for life, unless there is an active effort to reprogram them. When as young children we download limiting or sabotaging beliefs about ourselves, these perceptions become our truths and our subconscious processing will invisibly generate behaviours that are coherent with those truths.

As an important point for personal reference, it should be noted that acquired perceptions in the subconscious mind could even override genetically endowed instincts. For example, every human can instinctually swim like a dolphin the moment they emerge from the birth canal. This might prompt you to ask, “Why is it that we have to work so hard at teaching our children how to swim?” The answer lies in the fact that every time the infant encounters open water, such as a pool, a river, a bathtub, the parents freak out in concern for the safety of their child. However, in the baby’s mind, the parent’s behaviour causes the child to equate water as something to be feared. The acquired perception of water as dangerous and life threatening, overrides the instinctual ability to swim and makes the formerly proficient child susceptible to drowning.

The following is further reference to the fact that our unconsciously acquired cultural beliefs control biology and behaviour. Through our developmental experiences we acquire the perception that we are frail, vulnerable organisms subject to the ravages of contagious germs and disease. The belief of being frail actually leads to frailty since the mind’s limiting perceptions inhibit the body’s innate ability to heal itself. This influence of the mind on healing processes is the focus of psychoneuroimmunology, the field that describes the mechanism by which our thoughts change brain chemistry, which in turn regulates the function of the immune system. While negative beliefs can precipitate illness (nocebo effect), the resulting dis-ease state can be alleviated through the healing effects of positive thoughts (placebo effect).

Finally, the third source of perceptions that shape our lives is derived from the self-conscious mind. Unlike the reflexive programming of subconscious mind, the self-conscious mind is a creative platform that provides for the mixing and morphing a variety of perceptions with the infusion of imagination, a process that generates an unlimited number of beliefs and behavioural variations. The quality of the self-conscious mind endows organisms with one of the most powerful forces in the Universe, the opportunity to express freewill.
Taking Personal Responsibility

The conclusions of the “new” biology provide a radical departure from our conventional beliefs of how life works. In contrast to the notion that we are biochemical automatons driven by genes, the new insights reveal that it is the mind that controls genes, which in turn shape our biology and behaviour. The self-conscious mind, associated with our individual identity and the manifestation of thoughts, is guided by our own personal desires and intentions.

While we generally perceive that our self-conscious mind is “controlling” the show, neuroscience has established the fact that 95% of our behaviour is under the control of the more powerful subconscious mind. As most of our personal and cultural problems arise from the fact that behaviours derived from the subconscious mind are essentially invisible to us, we rarely observe our automated behaviour.

Compounding the problem is the fact that fundamental programs in the subconscious mind are derived from others, people who generally do not share your personal goals and aspirations. While our conscious minds are trying to move us toward our dreams, unbeknownst to us our subconscious programs are simultaneously shooting ourselves in the foot and impeding our progress.

The subconscious mind is simply a “record-playback” mechanism that downloads experiences into “behavioural tapes.” While the self-conscious mind is associated with creativity, the subconscious mind’s function is to engage previously recorded programs. Unlike self-consciousness that is overseen by an entity (you), the subconscious mind is more closely related to a machine, meaning there is no thinking, conscious entity controlling the subconscious programs.

We have all been shackled with emotional chains wrought by dysfunctional behaviours programmed by the stories of the past. However, the next time you are talking to “yourself” with the hope of changing sabotaging subconscious programs, it is important to realise the following information. Using reason to communicate with your subconscious in an effort to change its behaviour would essentially have the same influence as trying to change a program on a cassette tape by talking to the tape player. In neither case is there an entity in the mechanism that will respond to your dialogue.

Subconscious programs are not fixed, unchangeable behaviours. We have the ability to rewrite our limiting beliefs and in the process take control of our lives. However, to change subconscious programs requires the activation of a process other than just engaging in a running dialogue with the subconscious mind. There are a large variety of effective processes to reprogram limiting beliefs, which include clinical hypnotherapy, Buddhist mindfulness and a number of newly developed and very powerful modalities collectively referred to as energy psychology.

For a list of resources, visit: www.brucelipton.com.

About the Author

Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. is an internationally recognised cellular biologist who taught cell biology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and later performed pioneering studies at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. His breakthrough research on the cell membrane in 1977 made him a pioneer in the new science of epigenetics. He is author of The Biology of Belief and a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter. He also created a full-length audio course The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology.

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23 March, 2013

HEART (Source RUMI QUOTES - link provided)


The deliciousness of milk and honey is the reflection of the pure Heart:
from that Heart the sweetness of every sweet thing is derived.
The Heart is the substance, and the world the accident:
how should the heart's shadow be the object of the heart's desire?
Is that pure heart the heart that is enamored of riches or power,
or is submissive to this black earth and water of the body,
or to vain fancies it worships in the darkness for the sake of fame?
The Heart is nothing but the Sea of Light:
is the heart the place of vision of God--and then blind?
~Rumi

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22 March, 2013

Reflection


Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. 

Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

20 March, 2013

What After? by Julian Colgan


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After catapulted into the refined air ways of a high ranking
official of some company or institution, and after sliding
down from one’s seat of glory, where will one be
when there is no one left to hug one’s rich or poor
conception of self esteem?
After embarking upon numerous social and
political campaigns for numerous humanitarian causes,
and after rallying against numerous human injustices,
which course of action or program of defense will
permanently put an end to human greed and sorrow?
After running around cities without end for winning trophies
of self respect, and after losing many pounds for
some marathon, who will run to one’s deathbed
when everyone is running out of fear of impermanence?
After believing in socialism, communism, democracy
and dictator run societies, and after surviving the incessant wars
led by charismatic leaders, which form of government
will give one and everyone else lasting peace of mind?
After building great monuments and stupas to the
national heroes and sages of the ever fading past,
and after having commemorated and dedicated
one’s sons and daughters to their pomp celebrations,
where will one hold a national banquet when one happens
to brush against the unknown heroes and
sages of the present moment in time?
After sacrificing oneself to the millions of
established religions and the thousands of state
approved cults, and after reading all that one can
on legendary figures, which ideology will take the place
of one’s own realization of the self or no self?
After doing all that one can to make samsara a little more
pleasant, and after wrecking the future lives
of future civilizations, sometimes not acting is better
than acting and sometimes moving is better than not moving.
After investing all of one’s hopes and dreams for progress
in the fantasies and technological advancements of
the age of reason, and after pushing the sciences to
the forefront of modern education, sometimes disbelieving
what is popular is conductive to a healthy mind and
sometimes agreeing with sound principles is more
than reasonable to the self deluded.
After donating all of one’s money to a charity,
and after traveling on pilgrimage to all holy shrines
of the world’s religions, sometimes investing in
oneself is wiser than investing in self help gurus
and sometimes traveling up the path of the
sushumna is more extravagant than the veneration
surrounding praise worthy places.
After graduating with an honorary degree or a handful
of vocational skills, and after retiring from the workplace
or beginning a new career, sometimes never beginning
the process is more revealing of human dignity than
any program of rapid self improvement and sometimes
pausing between moments is enough to reflect on the
impermanence of every human desire.
After enlightened through one’s self inquiries,
and after dumbed down by societies demands,
listen to one’s proper consciousness and listen to
the original thoughts of all involved in the upheaval
of tyrannical forms of social interactions.
After all is said and done, and after every desire
is as maxed out as our visa cards, the
Buddha Dharma finally makes perfect sense
and finally means something to those who have
tried everything that is regarded as meritorious to human society.
 
by Julian Colgan (Copyright)
The Universality of Devotion with Julian Colgan
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The Sign Of No Sign by Julian Colgan


Reducing everything down to consciousness,
what else is there to do but to be conscious.

To be conscious is to be aware of 
the infinite Buddha nature that masquerades as
an ordinary and somewhat blunt mind.

Attributing many signs and sayings to
a purely historical Buddha,
the real Buddha is you as you are.

Attached to the signs and sayings of
a far and distant past, the Dharma is no longer
valid if it becomes another source of attachment.

Attaching yourself to the Buddha is not the goal
of accomplishment because the goal of a Buddha
is to no longer have to have goals.

Consciously above all designations and not having
any one religion to care for,
liberation cannot be formatted into a set code
of conduct or into a series of religious formalities.

Those who think that it can or that it should have
not realized what the infinite Buddha nature is.

Too close to notice and too far away to quickly care,
thoughts are mirrors of the Ultimate Reality
and desires are generators of unlimited aspirational prayers.

Thinking and desiring as a Buddha, compose
your own narrations of nirvana.

Expecting no sign or saying from the 
far and distant past to confirm this,
the Buddha is when you are completely at ease
with all that permeates every wheel of time.

Samsara spinning out of time and nirvana coming closer
to mind, find what is always there while looking
in the mirror of self contemplation.

Racing towards nothing that is in sight,
what is spectacular is never out of sight.

Liberated or in turmoil,
the mind is the same.

Sameness being equal, equalize yourself
in the infinite Buddha nature once and for all.

Julian Colgan (Copyright)
Awake to Buddhahood
http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/

19 March, 2013

The Mark Of Excellence by Julian Colgan

                                                 
O disciples of the Way! Calmly reiterate within your sealed
minds what the Buddha has taught you to
lucidly and lovingly leave behind.

Spiritually indifferent to what has been or what will be,
even the present moment is an illusion of the
senses of countless lotus born sages.

Moving upon that which moves upon the unmovable,
be mobile in your ability to be immobile,
for a stuck mind is no mind at all.

Spinning in multiple directions with a rainbow body
made of pure etheric winds, your mind’s aura is 
clearly relaxed when no thoughts are projected
in an outward or inward direction.

When half way through the middle way,
being equal in your mind’s eye is not all that astonishing,
especially when your rinpoche demands of you
to be passionate about a Way that is
beyond this way or that way.

Lotuses spring forth all around you,
for you are the essence of every major and minor
Buddha of every greater and lesser mandala.

Before even uttering one mantra or twenty motivational prayers,
the nectar of the Buddha’s bliss warms your heart and body
with the realization of full attainment.

The scriptures attributed to the Buddha are
merely there to show us who we already naturally are.

Effortlessly gliding through the enlightening silence
of nirvanic meditation, the Way does not have to exist
in a formal manner, for you are it.

The Buddha having no essence, your essence
is empty of an essence.

Free without being free and meditative
without being meditative, the crown jewel that is the mind
shines without shining and dances without dancing.

Thinking without thinking and feeling without feeling,
you are as light as a cloud without having to
be a cloud and are as dense as a planet
without having to be a planet.

Inspiration being the Way of heaven and earth,
inspire without feeling the need to inspire
and breathe clearly and deeply without any
strenuous effort whatsoever.

As profound as an ocean, be as little as a pond.
As starry as a night’s sky, only one sky is
needed to house them all.

Always having more space than you could imagine
within and without yourself, take up as much space
as you need without having to take up any space at all.

The voidness of your being is everywhere seen
and the luminescence of your mind
is the nowhere that is nothingness.

Taking something from something that is not
and adding onto something that is empty
of all distinguishing qualities, the mind
is an infinite reservoir that can never be robbed
of its abyss like wealth of vast wisdom
and crystal sharp mindfulness.

Complete and at rest, sound becomes soundless
and movement becomes peace personified.

Heavenly like the rising sun,
your ray like thoughts penetrates through
the rock of ignorance; thus distributing what is unborn
to those who think that they have taken
one or more births in one or more locations
under the rising tides of suffering and emancipation.

Disappearing into your rainbow body,
offer every color of buddhahood to the lame and weak,
righteous and upright, tired and desperate,
courageous and victorious; for that is the nature of one
who has overcome the desire to cling to
fixed forms of nature and to
fixed qualities of the mind.

Formless and empty, in the great silence
is the great rest of the mark of excellence.

Julian Colgan (Copyright)
Awake to Buddhahood
http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/

18 March, 2013

On the nature of phenomena


The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral,
Those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, 
Like they who lick the honey from a razor’s edge. 
How pitiful are they who cling strongly to concrete reality: 
Turn your attention within, my heart friends.

NYOSHUL KHEN RINPOCHE


14 March, 2013

Top 5 Ways to Practice Non-Conformity in the Matrix


 March 11, 2013 
Sigmund Fraud, Staff Writer
The human mind is easily programmed, and human behavior is largely autonomous once the sub-conscious has a suggestion of what to do. By default, people seem inclined to conform to the ideas, environment and behaviors around them, at least as a means of survival and of fitting in. Unless an individual takes charge of their own mind and their own behavior, most people are content to follow along with what other people are doing, even if that means doing something self-destructive.
As we grow, we learn how to play and interact with others, and we learn how others react to us. We begin to develop an understanding of which behavior is acceptable and which is not, and if we are paying attention, we realize that there is a subtle system of rewards and punishments involved in social interaction. Adherence to this system is what keeps society together, and depending on what rewards and punishments appeal to us, we choose which ideas and behaviors to conform to and comply with. As a result, different societal roles become open to us.
The new rebel then, the new hero, is someone, anyone, who combats the staleness of a decaying society by looking at the areas in our lives most in need of repair and then, deliberately, does not do what the conformist majority is doing. This is the thoughtful person who applies the knowledge and information we have available today in the pursuit of living in creative ways that defy the herd and defend life and liberty.
In no particular order, here are the top five ways to practice non-conformity in the world that we have created for ourselves – the matrix of self-destruction.
  1. Monetary Non-conformity – The human race is enslaved to a corrupt and inflationary monetary system. To act as a balance to this, any opportunity to conduct life without using the dollar and the credit system is a stunning act of non-conformity. By practicing trade, barter and local exchange, and using alternative currencies whenever possible, a practical statement is made in support of an alternative to central bank tyranny and manipulation. Most important, however, is the simple decision to spend less overall and live without consumer debt.
  2. Shun the Materialistic and the Entertainment Driven Lifestyle – The consumption of consumer goods in our world has grown to dangerous proportions, and no matter your political bent, you can’t deny the existence of the plastic ocean gaining mass in the Pacific. To be realistic about one’s true needs and to consume less “stuff” makes one stand out as a non-conformist in today’s culture. Much of this consumerism is part of a lifestyle of entertainment that we have developed in recent decades. We seem to value being entertained more than anything else, and we will do anything, and incur any debt, in order to get that which entertains and distracts us. Choosing a non-consumeristic, non-entertainment driven lifestyle is an important act of disobedience to the norm.
  3. Health Rebel – The truth about the condition of American health is ugly, and clearly something is wrong with the conformist ideas of diet and health. From horse meat, to high-fructose corn syrup, to GMOs, the conformist diet is deathly harmful to our well-being. To continue on with this unhealthy lifestyle is self-destructive, and to buck this trend simply means to take care of yourself properly, as we all should be doing anyways. Taking care of the body is easy and enjoyable, and each step towards health brings with it a renewed outlook on life. Taking control of diet, finding some enjoyable type of exercise, and being courageous enough to try out alternative, non-pharmaceutical modalities of healing when possible, are, oddly enough, all one has to do in order to stand out as a health non-conformist.
  4. Re-Education – The quality of the future can be seen in the quality of our youth, and the current models of building quality people seem to be falling short. Trying out new modalities of education for our children is an inspiring way to work towards a better vision for the future. Green schooling, homeschooling and even un-schooling children offer hope for something different from the next generation. With access to unlimited educational resources via the Internet, almost anyone can educate themselves in almost any field, and so the re-education of the individual is an act of great non-conformity.
  5. Experience-Based Spirituality – The nature of personal spirituality itself is evolving in these transformative times as people have access to a vast assortment of ideas, philosophies, wisdom traditions, substances, and dogmas. The non-conformist of today explores practices and ideas that work best to induce direct experience, following intuition to develop a connection to the sacred part of humanity, which is so routinely trampled in our hectic world. Finding inner peace through whichever religion or philosophy you choose is critical to creating a world free from toxic effects of collective fear. There is a war being waged against the conscience and consciousness of the average person, and seeking direct, personal spiritual experience and connection to the great mystery is the way to prevail.
The normal, conformist modality of human behavior seems to be contributing to and exacerbating the problems of this world, rather than helping to eradicate them or working to alleviate suffering. To assist in the collective shift toward a means of living and being that sustains life rather than ensures self-destruction is as easy as practicing non-conformity whenever possible.
About the Author
Sigmund Fraud is a survivor of modern psychiatry and a dedicated mental activist. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com where he pursues the possibility of a massive shift towards a more psychologically aware future for mankind.
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