A Stunning Reality
December 28, 2009
Reality -
the space of consciousness
the changing state of energy awareness
the place where we energetically meet and create together.
In a series of articles, I look at the nature of what we call ‘reality’. This is the basis for a teleclass in early 2010.
There is a correlation (I feel) between our thinking, our feelings, our physicality and our energy field. It’s a network of complex energy movement that we use to generate reality. Here is my brief overview of how it works, in preparation for a teleclass of the same name ( A Stunning Reality) in 2010.
The Spirit of Enquiry
About 20 years ago I wanted to know if it was possible to feel the flow of energy through a human body – so I registered for Shiatsu courses and learned about holistic massage. Then my enquiring nature wanted to know about crystals: how to communicate with them and understand other forms of life. Later I wanted proof that intelligent life existed in non-physical form: that I could feel the energy touch of the non-physical and could communicate telepathically with seemingly invisible beings.
Of course I was successful in all these endeavours. I got many insights into how to live differently – how I could create my life consciously. One of my most important decisions was to let go of being a human being living on a planet called Earth. I found that when I challenged that thought of who I was being, I was able to consciously orchestrate my life in a different way. I could create a new and more appropriate and powerful knowing of myself. I was freed from having to adjust to a construct – a reality – not of my making.
Power is in our ability to choose … the ability to define all.
The spirit of enquiry allows us to define, redefine or choose not to define anything at all. It gives us the scope to challenge, change, allow and move through any experience with grace and ease. It allows us to expand and grow in any direction; to know and unknow ourselves; to approach any situation with understanding and awareness; and to respect the sovereignity of others. It provides the basis for us to have everything and to let go of it all with gentle laughter. For we appreciate that we are at powerful play.
A Body of Work
Each of us has something to offer. We might describe that in terms of skills, qualities and abilities. Certainly, who we are being determines whether we are fulfilled, whether we are consciously using our energy to make significant contributions to the quality of life for all.
The key to fulfillment is to allow energy flow – not to control it but to allow its fullest expression. Energy (for me) is a description of movement, a measure of aliveness that we can embody.
Our physical body is quite literally our own creation. When we work on it consciously, it becomes a body of work that has our unique expression in it. To grow this body is as much an art as a science. For what goes into us is not just food – we take in experience – we feed upon the vibrations of ecstasy and joy. And what nourishes us too is our feeling for life.
The source of our body of work is an unknown power that originates in us. To use that power we must be willing to own it and be fully responsible for life, in all its forms. And that means we must be willing to live for something greater than ourselves.
We know what we need to grow. We grow the experiences that we desire. We grow the building blocks of our future from what delights us most. We grow from the celebration of life.
Self-Generated Energy Field
“It has long been known that activities of cells and tissues generate electrical fields that can be detected on the skin surface. But the laws of physics demand that any electrical current generates a corresponding magnetic field in the surrounding space.” – Science Measures the Human Energy Field
Our physical body is not the totality of who we are: who we are is nameless and undefinable – who we are is whatever we claim. It’s easy for our consciousness to be anywhere we choose. We select the space/time coordinates and we are instantly there. Of course, space and time are again just useful descriptions that provide a context for our experiences. They do not govern us or define us.
When we let go of the definition of being a human being then we can be whatever we choose. As we do that our energy expands out and the sense we get is that we fill all space. Perhaps we can say that the field of energy we generate is now no longer confined to our physical form. In fact, it seems to merge and combine with other fields of like resonance, so that a collective energy field is established.
The collective energy field is a unified force that we are part of and all of, depending on how we choose to orientate to it and what we perceive it to be. In this collective field we can know everything because we are connected to all – all knowing, all understanding, all possibilities of working together for brilliant outcomes. We may see the field as relative to this world or we may choose for it to encompass the Cosmos. It depends on the level at which we wish to operate.
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Living the Miraculous (3)
December 6, 2009
There was a time when I wanted to do miracles, to be a healer and assist people in remaking their lives. But I knew that the process of healing itself was not in my charge and not what I really wanted to achieve. Gradually, I recognised that my desire was to facilitate amazing shifts in people and to encourage phenomenal growth in collective consciousness.
For that to happen, I needed to work with energy in many different ways, allowing myself to become -
- the practitioner, who physically aligns and attunes people to a greater sense of themselves;
- the singer, who sounds people’s essence and activates in them an ecstatic relationship with life;
- the writer, who writes about where we come from and the work that we can do together;
- the choreographer, who weaves qualities of greatness into people’s experiences of life.
Through working with energy, I could understand others in terms of energy. Could understand what needed to happen energetically and then provide them with appropriate insights, to further their growth.
Life now is magical, stupendous, and beyond imagining … and that’s normal. So perhaps my definition of the miraculous is more along the lines of being able to see brilliance and magnificence everywhere. It’s a quality much in demand!
There is a practical usage to seeing magnificence. During this year I’ve developed a way of perceiving patterns of energy. Generally I look at an area inside someone’s body and receive impressions about how their energy moves and what that indicates. By perceiving their physical body as a moving picture of light and energy, I can assist people to increase their knowing of themselves.
Image: licence from www.123RF.com
Last month, in Melbourne, I spent some time with my friend Peter. He sensed that there was something missing from his life which could lead him to his next level. So I looked for the flame of life inside him. There it was, faint at first, two tongues of fire that became four as I watched.
I described their movement: how the energy moved one way and then another. Spoke about the colours. Sensed that the energy could be put into song and sang it, noticing how the singing made the flame stronger and more vibrant. Finally, I released the song inside his body so that he could feel the vibrancy of it more keenly.
The whole experience probably took no more than 5 minutes but the effect was dramatic and powerful. Peter tuned into his experience of the singing and what he could feel of the energy movement. He said it was like a golden disc had been placed around his neck – a symbol of power that he then activated.
Here is what Peter says of the experience -
“The first notes were a surprise. Like seeing your reflection unexpectedly. You suddenly ‘see’ something, which startles, followed by the recognition that, hey, this is YOU. Quite disconcerting. Quite amazing. Quite a discovery. Yet the recognition of self was, for me, unmistakable.
That led me to a degree of comfort with it all, and I allowed the playfulness of it to happen. I don’t recollect much of external things from here on in. The inside journey was much more riveting and it possessed all of my attention. My eyes were wide open, but I saw nothing of the space around me. I simply wasn’t there. Well, I was, but… consciousness wasn’t.
The world has certainly been different since that journey. I expect it will continue changing for some time yet to come.”
Living the Miraculous (2)
November 29, 2009
By definition, a miracle is what appears to be inexplicable: its existence traditionally defined as being beyond the range of human knowing. But clearly, in this age of technology, the miraculous is commonplace. Our perception of reality is undergoing vast change. What awes us today becomes integrated in us – and tomorrow is already part of our experience of life. An experience that is enriched through our collective consciousness. The speed of the integration is evident: we have only to review this past decade to see how far we have come, individually and collectively.
So what does the miraculous look like if we include super-normal sensory awareness? What marks of genius can demonstrate our capacity to live beyond human knowing – beyond any personal/limited experience of reality? Here are 2 examples that speak to me as evidence that we have an inner vision of life. Evidence that we are a source of intelligence, unlimited in scope, and able to communicate the power of what enlivens us.
Esref Armagan: The Blind Painter
Blind since birth, Esref paints with his fingers and has a fascinating ability to understand scale and perspective, and include that in his paintings.
He says, “I want to be remembered as someone who sees the world through their fingertips.”
To understand his artistry, it seems we should pay attention to what he is saying about his fingers.
Artists have an ability to see life in a rich portrayal of poetic and symphonic overlays – giving us glimpses of other perspectives as our eyes move interdimensionally, exploring and connecting with inner worlds of their and our creation.
Fleur Barnfather: Visionary Artist
A great friend of mine, Fleur Barnfather, has an ability to paint consciousness. Her portfolio depicts the movement of global consciousness during this past decade. She does not use inspiration as a base for her paintings, but feels into the energy of her subject, communes with that, and then transforms a canvas into a space of living art.
Painting © Fleur Barnfather
Here is one of her visionary pieces, ‘The Rise of Authentic Power‘.
Of it she says -
“There is a fresh power rising, as the phoenix bursts forth. She rises to meet in union with authentic masculine energy. Together they celebrate the powerful delights and adventures that are discovered through mutual admiration and creative collaboration.”
We respond to the energy of what she has painted. We respond to what takes us beyond human knowing, so that our own potential is fired. We can feel what she paints. We can feel the energy enliven our creativeness – and that to me is miraculous.
Living the Miraculous
November 23, 2009
There are many products these days that are truly miraculous. So many inventions and gadgets that really do push the frontiers of imagination, causing us to rethink reality and what is possible.
One of these has been the invention of Wii: a gaming console that uses unique motion-sensing controllers in hand held devices to manage a range of activities defined by the console, such as golf or angling. The console tracks the users hand gestures to decide how the movements fit in with the game. This allows people to interact with virtual reality through physical activity.
On a parallel with this – but extending the interaction between the physical and digital worlds – is an emerging technology called SixthSense. Its inventor, Pranav Mistry, demonstrates its thrilling potential through this short video.
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
He has built intuitive gadgets that sense physical motion and can respond by moving information between the physical and digital worlds. Imagine having digital sensors on the ends of your fingers, connected to a wireless device that understands that when you point to a chart in a book you are giving the device the spatial coordinates of the required information, so that you then perhaps redisplay the chart on a wall or send it to your mailing list via email.
Or imagine that your fingers are used as the viewport of a camera, telling the wireless device to take a picture using the coordinates of your fingers to define the area to be captured.
To an onlooker it looks like magic – that you are taking a photo just by using your fingers. And isn’t that the beauty of the miraculous?
Pranav says that the technology can help us be more connected to our physical world. Truly the technology is dancing in the miraculous, yet the technology itself comes from what we know is possible in non-physicality.
Our interactions in the physical, digital, virtual or any other world are only limited by what we believe is possible. People are now more familiar with telepathy and energy sensing, with mobile phones and computers, with Wii technology and outer space exploration – all amazing accomplishments, and now taken for granted. But …
what happens when you take away the mobile phone technology? You have the awareness of global consciousness and telepathy.
what happens when you take away the gaming technology? You have the awareness of interactive virtual reality.
what happens when you take away SixthSense technology? You have the awareness that you can touch virtual reality.
The line between physical and non-physical is a blur of perception. Let’s see what the miraculous is becoming.
Beyond the Calling
October 3, 2009
Sometimes there are things so awesome to think about, so difficult to talk about, and yet so normal to do (as part of our daily routine) that we never get to consciously investigate what we can really do – to see how far we can push ourselves, to discover the more of us.
We can become more curious about these things, if we give them our attention and our time.
So I write this to encourage more from myself – to demand that I be more conscious and attentive to what I am capable of achieving – to signal that I am open to more.
I don’t know what I will discover. I don’t know what tomorrow may bring. But I do know that my enquiring and my curiosity allows me to go beyond my past and my present – to define a new future.
to engage totally with what calls to me
that I stand fully in the power of it
and take it beyond all thoughts of possibility
so that something of greatest significance can take place.
Entering the Dream
September 16, 2009
I was listening to a programme from the TV series “Numb3rs” (in which a maths genius applies mathematical principles to tackling crime), when something was said that really touched base with me.
It was the insights from a maths professor who had just returned to Earth after spending 6 months on an international space station. He talked about his experiences in space and said -
“I entered my dream. My being became bigger than my body, bigger than my history.”
My ears could have tingled, for in the way that he spoke it you were taken into a sublime experience.
“I entered my dream.” Feel what that implies. Feel how moving and exciting it is, to enter your biggest dream and to know that you are living it.
Such a revelation does not require us to physically leave the Earth (thank goodness!) But it’s the ability to detach from our history and know ourselves differently in the NOW: the freedom to define the nature of our beingness and the context in which we operate, that gives us a great sense of vast possibilities.
Somehow the words resound the achievement of the first moon landing, and recall our collective looking back at Earth, to view the precious space that we physically occupy.
Our beings are bigger than our physical space. Our beings form the infinite. We get a sense, a feeling of what that might be. As humans, living the spell of history, we have watched the skies and wondered about creation. Yet the moment we cross the barrier and become vaster than the sum total of all our experiences, the moment that we live unfettered by the constrictions of time/space thinking, then we no longer talk about life in terms of dreams waiting to be lived.
There is nothing to compare with knowing that you are living the vastness in every possible sense of meaning. Bigger than the world, the universe, the deep spaces of creation. Bigger than dreams, bigger than physical reality – for you know that collectively we create the vision of what it all is.
The Sound Of Music
September 16, 2009
Waves of Cosmic Sound
I hear Cosmic Music.
I hear this music arising from inside of me. Full orchestral arrangements called upon cue to stir me to action.
This is no fancy or trick of mind. It is a calling that I hear – a call to participate in something so stirring and momentous that I cannot refuse. And so I listen – deeply, reflectively, joyously.
I listen to the many varied patterns of seeming chaotic frenzy but my hearing brings a constructive ordering to it all. My ears pick up harmony, and my sense of counterpoint is well honed.
As I take breath to sing, I become that which I sing. I sing universes in their creation and in their creating, letting ripples of melodies pass through me. I am of the patterns of the experience so I have no judgment in what I hear, in how I sing: my interpretation of what I experience exceeds my thinking. So I have to think differently – I have to be different, be vaster, be more Cosmic.
Waves of stellar beauty crash upon the shoreline of intellectual feeling, shattering it with a thousand strains of emotion. The emotion is but a single breath of the full force that is stirred, untempered, until I strive to mellow the tempo, softening it so that I may examine the more subtle, underlying tones of the ecstasy. And an ecstasy of feeling crescendoes through me.
In the briefest lulls I engage with the passion that seeks to burst out and overwhelm all it touches. But I detect it’s coming and savour the joy of it’s naked revelation. Knowing that what I feel is a calling – perhaps from some far distant source that has no name, a place where Life has yet to be born and given focus.
I am the MusicMaker … the craftsman of an art that speaks and sings and calls to Life, stirring it and creating possibilities with every breath.
The Enchanted Dream
August 30, 2009
Back in May my wife and I organised an amazing residential course for people who love to explore the magical and the miraculous.
During one of the days we sensed that there was something to do about the enchanted dreams and desires that we hold inside us. That perhaps we could take that sense of longing for a magical life and imbue it into our everyday experiences.
One of our group is trained as an architect. He is gifted in being able to touch the unseen realms and translate his inspirations into beautiful art. This is what he drew as we explored enchanted reality during the day.
Jesper draws his vision of an enchanted realm
Later that evening, as we admired the drawing, we got a stronger sense, a deeper connection of what the magical is really about. And then we got ready for a Cosmic Ball party in which all of us dressed up in fine costume and spoke about what we wanted to get a greater experience of in our life – declaring what we are here for – and realising what we are willing to give of ourselves to all life.
Celebrating the magical and the enchanted - Buckland Hall, Wales
As I look at these photos now, I know that we entered into the magical nature of life and that we brought that magical realm alive. It exists in the cells of our bodies, in the air that we breathe, and in what we see in each other. It is real and here and no longer something that is thought of as unattainable.
Truly we are living the enchanted dream! Truly we are the enchanted!!
Thinking the Miraculous
August 28, 2009
I co-led a telecall recently with my wife about the subject of the miraculous. We looked at it from two different viewpoints because we hold unique understandings about what the miraculous is and how people can experience the miraculous as their everyday life.
My wife, says that it hinges upon belief. That if you believe in something so strongly then you can effect a miraculous shift. And that shift can be in a person or even in the matrix of consciousness itself, depending on the level of intentionality and the degree to which you work.
From my perspective though, belief is an entrapment. Belief is not ownership or source-creational. It takes a paradigm shift to move from intellectual thinking to a full physical embodiment of our being, in which we know how to operate beyond (human) conscious awareness.
To be our fullest expression, to live a multi-dimensional experience, requires our energetic involvement with the essence of life. For in that space of unlimited possibility and unfettered thinking, the concepts that we thought were important don’t exist.
Abundance, for example, can only be talked about and measured in terms of ‘the abundance of experience’. Similarly, miracles and the miraculous, don’t have the same context for us to play with anymore.
An example, you ask. Give me an example of how you can live a miraculous life as an everyday experience.
To start with, we have to ask what is a miracle: what seems to be miraculous in one era or in one civilisation may not be so in another. Consider organ transplants, splitting the atom, journeying to the moon, plastic surgery, artificial limbs, robotic devices, etc.
Maybe it’s not so much the evidence or proof that we require, to show us that we have a power over our physicality. Maybe we need to enquire about the nature of human experience. That we encourage an amazing and bizarre sense of what’s possible. That we are more open to information coming from our multi-dimensional selves that we never fully tuned into and accepted before.
The miraculous (of supernatural agency fame) exists to point us in the direction of asking questions about what’s possible – and then going ahead to achieve the impossible. The miraculous exists to coax us beyond the frontiers of limited understanding, to discover unlimited possibilities of how life can be lived.
For me, we achieve the miraculous by taking away the thoughts and concepts that no longer serve us, in order to encourage our exploration of what interests us most.
Below is an audio excerpt from the teleclass, where a friend takes a step into the miraculous.
What is the miraculous for you? Would it be the shift from head-based intellectual thinking (and emotional based responses) to a full bodied physical relationship with everything? Where ONE collective thought can true up the world that we live in.
A Sense of Vision
August 10, 2009
I’m keenly interested in using my eyes in a variety of different ways. This interest has been developing over a number of years. And recently I’ve wanted to improve my eyesight so that I don’t need glasses anymore.
I’m following two (free) email courses that provide some useful information.
* Better Vision by Martin Sussman – http://www.bettervision.com/eyesightmiracles/
* Rebuild Your Vision by Orlin Sorensen – http://www.rebuildyourvision.com/
There are others ways though in which I’m developing a keener sense of vision.
1. I’m starting to picture the energy beingness of a person, rather than just see their usual facial and body characteristics. That requires me to imagine that (beyond their body outline) there is more of them just waiting to be interacted with and brought to fullest potential.
When you speak about energy beingness, the living force of consciousness and intelligence, then its as if a miraculous connection is made between it and the physical body that it inhabits. From then on, not only does that person feel seen but they can also sense what you see in them.
Engage with the energy beingness and people become more alive. Watch the fire build in them when they come into a more public spotlight – they shine, radiate and seem to have an inner glow. So it’s not the personality that’s important – it’s the presence of the being.
2. I’m also exploring the inner worlds of people, because I know that who people are being is much less than what they are willing to own or allow to be seen. When people explore their inner worlds they will often wonder how they can live that in full real-world terms. So I then ask them to explore their vision of who they can become.
This is connected with example 1 in that when people are given (or create) the opportunity to live their dreams, then they don’t want to go back and do what they did before, and be who they were before. People discover that they have potential to be amazing and spectacular, which in turn becomes opportunities for further growth and development.
3. Another way of looking at vision is to recognise that we are able to see more detail that we ever thought possible. It’s becoming more clear that we create our reality by what we interact with through our seeing. Certainly we are able to use our eyes to envision more dimensionality in our surroundings, and our capacity to build upon non-visual data is immense. Witness our ability to generate emotion by what we think we see (video below).
We are extraordinarily talented and what we can do is miraculous, unimaginable and unbounded. If you wonder what can be done with sand and a sense of vision, then watch this video. Your sense of vision may never be the same again.