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Transforming Conversations that Matter – One World in a New World – Recap Pt 1 (2021)

December 28, 2021 by Zen

One World in a New World – Recap Pt 1 (2021)
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Please comment, share and subscribe if you haven’t yet. We’ve shared a great year and your presence is a precious present in the precious present. Let’s resonate, not just ring, in the New Year.

Beginning in June of 2021, new conversations developed and dove into areas not often addressed in the marketplace, let alone everyday lives. Our goal was to demonstrate that deep dives into the relationship between inner and outer realities is not only possible, they are so very similar across the vast backgrounds of the guests.

This gives us hope, perhaps even inspiration that we can grow together and co-create opportunistic solutions for moving us toward harmony within self, with others and with Nature. The latter is a two-fold reality pregnant with possibility; that which is within us and that which is of the world merging for the greater good of all.

These clips from about half our guests, as Pt 1, offer a collection of poignant realizations and salient points of a new order that appears to be developing naturally, Our apocalyptic chats illustrate how the curiosity, inquiry and vulnerability of the participants allow them to speak from their depths of contrivance beyond the petty notions of separation and survival.

Closing out 2021 brings immense gratitude for these opportunities to examine and explore the rise from our past traumas individually and collectively toward something greater. We don’t know exactly where we are going, or even how to get there, yet these chats are part of many that are happening around the globe now.

Evolving toward a civilization that demonstrates our humanity is a desire apparent in all the guests, applying and offering their personal skill set to the process. Our entrance into 2022 will start with an exciting tone for expanding our conversations into this emerging order and how it might be helped through participation and sharing resources that facilitate the process.

For now, I invite you to explore my recent book – ZERO to ONE: Making Our Way Toward a Conscious Civilization. Moving beyond the commission breath to more rarified air, you can download it for free at ZERO to ONE

Filed Under: 2020 Vision, leadership, thought leadership, vision Tagged With: awareness, Consciousness, experience systems, experiential wisdom

What Leads Us Toward Transformation?

December 10, 2021 by Zen

Bright Beginnings

I’ve spent my life learning how to communicate better and to rally people, places and things toward common goals and objectives. I’ve had that experience in aerospace, construction, education, events, music, theater and even in ufology. Throughout them all, the basic principles of critical thinking, pattern recognition and sense-making have led groups and teams toward peak performance.

in 2019, 61 years and six months after being given up for adoption at birth, I met my birth mother through Ancestry.com and my half-sister’s attempt to find me. I was the last item on ‘Mom’s’ bucket list accompanied with so many years of internal strife and regrets. Our meeting was spectacular, though, and probably in the 3rd Standard Deviation range of the overall experiences of adoptees meeting their birth parents. In the process, oddly enough, I found out I’d actually met my birth father in the late 80s as well. I got to know him as a man, not an absent father. I liked him, too.

Now I was informed of my adoption by very loving parents a few months after my fourth birthday, just after they brought my adopted sister home. Their love for me edified through their explanation, I already knew of its depth. It left me with serious and yet simple questions as a young boy. “Who are my ‘real’ parents and why did they really give me up?” was one of the first.

For some reason I went deeper, “Do I have a father and mother in heaven, too, and can I talk to them?” Now that might seem very naïve and innocent, yet the answer that came was life-changing. My quest, a prayer even, was to find out. A few months later, the first event of a lifetime of engagement occurred.

My Introduction to Other Worlds

One evening after dark I was standing on the landing of our stairway looking out the small window over our front porch. My elbows were on the window sill with my hands clasped and my chin resting on them, waiting for Dad to come home from the store. Out of nowhere I hear, “Hey You!” in this booming deep voice that reverberated in my head, yet for some reason didn’t ‘spook’ me at all.

I spun around and immediately asked Mom, who was sitting near the base of the stairs on our couch watching TV, if she heard the voice. She didn’t, kind of sluffed it off as a potential ‘peeping tom’ and returned to her program. I KNEW different. That voice touched the very core of my being, even at that age I recognized it.

Over the years I developed a relationship with that voice, never asking his name, as it felt too close to even need a name. It was just ‘there’ as a wise advisor, inquisitor and reflector. I’ve often been curious of this same operational component in others and found it’s there, just not given the credence it deserves. It seems the intellect and outer world reality too often becomes a distraction and the intention of ‘living in spirit,’ so to speak, is thwarted by the subtle and sometimes exacerbated fears of the individual regarding the outer life and the perception of safety in it.

I was fearless in my curiosity as a youth, asking questions that often didn’t have answers yet. I’ve maintained that attitude as an adult, with some challenges one might expect with a boat rocker. Growing up in a small town with amazingly astute parents gave me opportunities I might not have had otherwise. They empowered and encouraged my curiosity and engagement. I was a stellar athlete, student and social butterfly who also got into more than his fair share of shenanigans.

I was a Master Councilor in DeMolay at 15 and co-captain of our varsity football team, a defensive safety with a 4.3 40-yard dash time. I was also medalist on our gold team my senior year. I was a lifeguard for three summers and enjoyed performing high dives with twists and somersaults during breaks. I performed a trampoline feat for a half-time circus act during a basketball game, too.

Entering a Pre-Med program at Ball State University, I’d tested out of 5 quarters of general education credits through the College Level Examination Program (CLEP). I wasn’t sure what I really wanted to be yet, though I admired our town doctor, my uncle Fred. His humor, wit and skill with people was an inspiration and path I wanted to explore. I wasn’t prepared for what was to come.

Rite of Passage – Coming of Age

I had a profound event happen at the beginning of my second quarter in college, at 18, living in the honors dorm; what many would call a near-death experience. It didn’t come from any trauma, other than my emotional state of feeling empty and alone. I returned to school after break and knelt in prayer, asking to know what truth was and I was willing to die for it if necessary. Be careful what you ask for indeed. On 11/22/75 I got my answer during a mid-afternoon meditation to music between classes and ‘home work.’ “Bruce, are you willing to die for what you believe in?” came the question from that voice I’d known for over a decade now. What happened over the next few minutes gave my life direction; mission and purpose. I was told of trials and tribulations to come that would last a lifetime.

Of course I shared my experience with my parents as soon as I was able, who had me see a psychiatrist (which I found out later my half-sister had been to as well) that listened intently and offered a reflection I certainly didn’t expect, yet hoped for to a degree. After several visits he shared that I’d had the classic signs of going through a spiritual awakening, though my age was extremely uncommon for it. He stated that most folks don’t go through it until their mid-40s, if they ever do. He was quite rare and unique as well, including a tarot card reading, and offering that his best advice was to keep quiet; that no one would understand the wisdom I carried. Admittedly, I’m predisposed to talk a lot, regardless.

During the second quarter of my second year I made some foolish choices, buying not one but two sets of drums and put them in my dorm room. I played incessantly and I’m sure irritated a lot of other students. I did get quite good though, at playing along with albums of my favorite bands like Chicago, Journey, Moody Blues, REO Speedwagon, Rush, Starcastle and Yes. Only thing was I had to move out during Christmas break because I’d spend my room and board money on them.

I found a house in the country several miles away, rent free but no heat or running water as pipes were frozen and fuel-oil tank was dry. A week after moving in my car was totaled in wreck trying to avoid an oncoming car in my lane on the way to school. A perfect set-up, I hitch-hiked to school on the following Monday, in -77 wind chill factor. I made it to school, went to class and with no way to get back to the house I got beat up at a frat house early the following morning.

Finding myself in the psyche ward a few hours later, and subsequently on 2,000 mg of Thorazine, I felt like I was so alone and lost in a maze of misunderstanding. I had nearly the same discussion with the Doc as I had with my previous psychiatrist and got labeled a manic-depressive paranoid schizophrenic. That was a shock as I knew I was none of those. People just weren’t listening to me well.

Oh, and I wasn’t a lump in the corner, either. I was playing a lot of ping-pong and beating the male nurses quite handily. They couldn’t figure me out as that amount of Thorazine, had it been effective for my ‘treatment,’ would have indeed made me a lump in the corner. I did, however, pay close attention to the variety of patients and personalities of both patients and staff. It wasn’t as bad as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, though it certainly hedged the edge at times.

We all have rites of passage in life, whether they are formal or informal as a process in our growth curve toward maturity and wisdom. I tended to trust people at their word and was chastised by my father often. I remember one incident clearly, “Goddammit, Bruce, do you have to trust everyone?” My response, even then, “Yes, otherwise they cannot prove themselves to be worthy of it.” We often want to believe and override our gut instincts. I did. Then I learned to trust my gut, which often felt like a similar sensation to the ‘voice’ when I was engaged with it. I later wrote a piece on discernment.

Further Trials and Tribulations

After finally ‘admitting’ to the story the Doc had wanted to hear, I had a miracle sure and reduction of medication with a release another three weeks later. I was scared to talk to anyone about my inner experiences then. When asked questions about why I was ‘in’ and my normal authentic and transparent response became present, I literally shook so bad on the inside that my body actually trembled in fear of rejection.

I was like that for about a year or so, until I married a girl who had sought to rekindle a relationship just before going to college. A couple of years later we had a one-year old daughter, pregnant with a second, and moved to Phoenix after three jobs fell through in the same number of days. The move came after throwing my hands up to the son the morning after the third drop, with an, ‘”Okay, I’m listening. Where do you want me to go?” …. “Phoenix,” the voice replied. Three weeks later we were there.

online life coach, virtual life coach, transformational life coachingNearly ten years later we had four children and I went through the throes of a divorce. My wife didn’t work, in order to raise our children, so I’d been working 55 to 70 hours a week as a production control coordinator for an aerospace company, was going to school two nights a week to finish a BSBA degree, and was an Elder in our church with attending duties I performed religiously. I was preparing our future.

Unfortunately it didn’t bode well for my marriage and instead of being involved with the wholesome environment of church activities with our children, my wife chose to have affairs instead, four of them, and counseling after each just didn’t work. I finally had to come to terms with letting go. There was literally nothing more I could do. I found out after our divorce that she’d told our Bishop that I was having affairs, so his attitude was that I needed to be excommunicated, even though I’d been faithful up until our divorce was final.

I’d already been demoted at work, the week our divorce was final (11/22/88), after being asked to find a consultant for interpersonal skills training as a result of my previous stellar performance and management’s inquiry as to how I was able to perform so well. I was top of the performance chart in a department of 35 people at the time. With church, school and work I thought we are on our way to the kind of life I knew I could provide, much like my father had for our family. Man, was I wrong. It seemed like everything I did in the best interests of moving forward with the consideration of others at the core of my efforts and intentions; it just wasn’t to be. I fell hard and again it took a year or so to even begin to feel whole again.

Meanwhile – A Backup Plan

Never one to play the victim, I’d started Be The Dream in January of 1988, registering the name with the State of Arizona, as a means to contribute on a larger scale with the development and implementation of combining business and spiritual best practices in the workplace. I had big dreams for it as the need was so obvious, especially in the command and control corporate environment that was nearly ubiquitously back stabbers and ladder climbers with self-interests that were often contrary to the company’s goals.

After my expulsion the following year, a few weeks after my ex moved back to Indiana with our children (and began her poisoning process), I vowed to return to the corporate world someday with practical and pragmatic process and procedures for empowering peak performance. I hadn’t considered the ‘harmony of self, others and Nature’ yet. I had a year of menial jobs, far below my capability, yet they gave me time to recover and recuperate. I found a job with developmentally disabled adults that I loved, and got the opportunity to host a TV show simultaneously.

The opportunity for the show literally fell in my lap, although I was a member of the Christown Lions Club production crew for another show at the time. The last couple of years’ activity with metaphysical and new-age groups gave me a network of initial potential guests and we expanded into education, law, social programs and even politics. Bill Moyers and Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove were two interviewers I wanted to emulate, hoping some day I’d be worthy of an interview with one of them.

The show, called One World, was an exploration into what prompted folks to pursue their careers from both inner and outer perspectives, what fears they encountered and, more importantly, how they overcame them. Sharing how they reflected on the common human experience around them regarding such observations gave so many different and often insightful perspectives for our audience to engage in their own lives. It was like getting a Ph.D. in communication and practical wisdom for me.

We produced over 120 shows with 200 guests over 2 and a half years. It was public access, so ownership of tapes was an issue. A local TV station donated nearly a hundred used 3/4 inch tapes a few months into production. A commercial opportunity came up and I had to let the show go in order to move forward with it. Collecting the show tapes was a challenge, and only about 70 remained of which only a few were digitized and uploaded to YouTube.

Practical Paths of Perseverance and Persistence

I went back to school and earned an MBA, then Secondary Teaching certification and went on to teach high school for almost a decade. Near the end of my tenure I went back to school and earned a Master of Arts in Organizational Management, writing a business plan for a model school/village as my final project. After a few presentation, it was obvious it was way ahead of its time. I went another direction.

Simultaneously I had the opportunity to become a certified life coach and partnering facilitator. The former capitalized on my empathic ability, insightful questions and co-creation of structured action plans while the latter utilized my ability to facilitate people, places and things to work together better. These two professions developed into businesses that I’ve had for nearly 20 years.

That didn’t seem to be enough, though. I’d built my first computer our of government surplus spare parts in 1990 and my first website in 2000 which got over 25,000 visits by its second year. It had over a thousand pages of stories and resources on metaphysics, parapsychology, and ufology. I took it down after the fourth year as I didn’t like what I saw happening with conversations and people acting out aberrantly.

I spent a lot of my spare time crafting websites on a few different topics; all themed with ‘harmony among people and planet.’ That’s been refined to harmony with self, others and nature thanks to Dr. Robert Gilman. I eventually took the advise of a wise grandmother, Winifred Barton, and crafted a digital vitae of sorts to have an easy-access repository featuring the books, shows and websites I’ve written or developed over the last decades. Evidently that all needed to be in place for the next phase.

Wishes Do Come True

As if by magic, the last half-decade has been a cascading of causal and conscious choices culminating in a cosmic conspiracy that brought my love into my life. Twin-flame is an appropriate term. I’d given up, was comfortable with just being alone and self-centered with my activity after decades of attempting to serve others with no real partner in place. She came via St. Petersburg, Russia and perfectly fit the theme of my life, too.

We grew together wonderfully as we explored the depths of communication and relationship through resolving our cultural and language challenges. We were prepared to grow together, too, having a lifetime of experience each. I only dreamed of the possibility until we met in 2016 and married on the fall equinox of 2017 on one of the metaphysical hotspots of the world… the base of Bell Rock just outside Sedona, AZ.

Her encouragement and support ignited my soul and inspired me to expand my vision. In June of 2018, I received a voice mail message from one of the websites I built. It was Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, letting me know of an interview he’d just completed that he thought would be interesting to my audience and asked for a review and sharing. I recognized his voice before announcing his name and my heart’s pitter patter took a leap. Was it finally happening?

I watched the interview, wrote a review as a blog post and sent the links to his email, along with a .pdf of Stubbing My T.O.E. On Purpose. Three days later I received an email with a simple message, “Would you like to come talk about it.” Within a few days we scheduled a time, August 11 & 12, and we made our way to Albuquerque for the conversations. His choice of topics, “A New World Order,” “The Sociology of Ufology,” and “On Hearing Voices.”

My point in sharing all this is that we can transcend and transmute our life experiences from the devastating and tragic to the demonstrable determination of transformation and triumph. Each of us has events in our lives we can learn from, reflect on and glean an awareness of how deeply connected we are and how our reality reflects how our attitude really determines our altitude. I am blessed with such a life. I am further blessed with sharing it with my love. I am even further blessed with being able to share it with you, here, now.

And as the year is closing, what better reference can one have than this, from Robb Jarrett, host of The Uncommon Podcast:

I had the good fortune to host Zen Benefiel on my podcast recently and what a pleasant surprise it was. Zen is well versed in the art of living and is able to share and communicate experiences, thoughts, ideas and concepts at a level you would expect from a seasoned practitioner. One word that describes Zen is eclectic. If you are looking for someone to talk to or read, about the who, what, why, when, where and hows of life. I recommend you reach out to Zen Benefiel.

You can reach out, too…. just schedule a free consultation here.

Filed Under: 2020 Vision, intelligent design, leadership, thought leadership, vision Tagged With: awareness, belief systems, Cognitive science, Consciousness, experience systems, experiential wisdom, transformation, wisdom sharing

Strategies for Connecting with Your Best Self

November 3, 2021 by Zen

What is your Best Self?

Before considering strategies for connecting with your best self, your definition of your ‘best self’ is imperative to know. It takes a bit of critical thinking about your activity; the attention, intention and interaction you have with yourself, others and the world on a daily or moment-by-moment basis. Are you happy with the results? Could they be better? How?

How do you see yourself? How would you like to see yourself? What might be the simple changes you can make to reach from the former to the latter, if there is a difference? Being able to catch a glimpse in the mirror may not always work. Many, like myself, seek out reflections of who we are through investigating personal assessments of various kinds. Sometimes we made need some clarity on our ‘Why?’ in life.

Do We Know Ourselves?

strategies for connecting with your best selfA little research would provide a plethora of surveys that offer views based on your honest responses. The key is ‘honest’ and some choices of preferences are tough to make. Some of those surveys are paid, like BrainMap, DISC, Kolbe, and Clifton Strengths (formerly Strengthsfinder).Then there are some free alternatives like Myers-Briggs, Genius Report,  High 5 Test, Keirsey Temperament Sorter, Big Five Personality Assessment and Holland Code to name a few. If you are curious, that will keep you busy and provide much for consideration and reflection.

In my own quest for strategies for connecting with my best self one, an example of a Genius Report survey, defined me as a ‘Dynamo Genius.’ Remember this isn’t about bolstering your ego, it’s about learning the keys to transcend your ego and engage a perspective of ‘wego’ in collaboration with others. The tendency, I suppose, is to want to pat yourself on the back for being such and such. That’s not the purpose. Hopefully, you seek to learn how you can work better with your natural aptitude, attitude, strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes we aren’t self-aware enough to understand how and why we approach life like we do.

When it comes to expressing your thoughts, feelings and emotion you tend to use lots of inflexion, more pitch variation, more variety in vocal intonation and vocal quality. High Yellows communicate readily – answer and comment quickly, and tend to speak more forcefully, at a higher volume and a faster, more forceful, pace. Your voice is the primary mechanism through which you influence the brain responses in others.

IQ, EIQ and the Esoteric/Spiritual

If you’ve ever taken an IQ test, you get a score that places you in certain percentiles of the population. Many of the above surveys or tests do the same. There is a plethora of personality types as well as communication and problem-solving preferences. At some point most of us thought that other people feel and think like us, which is a often a huge stumbling block for effective communication and working with others in any way. Sometimes seeing ourselves revealed in such ways gives us the opportunity to overcome the imposter syndrome, which is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud.

What we hope for in our search for strategies for connecting with your best self is a reflection of how we know ourselves to be, yet may not have defined or discovered our characteristics and strengths that allow us to be our Best Self. The above consider our preferences, mostly, in dealing with situations we encounter in life, relationships and work. By considering these perspectives in short order, such as the assessment, we can get a better overall picture of our nature. When we know ourselves better, we can better manage how we respond to situations beyond our control. There’s another aspect we haven’t considered yet, and that is Emotional Intelligence.

No matter what situation we encounter, how we respond emotionally is usually the core of how we negotiate through life’s moments. Daniel Goleman’s work resulted in another kind of survey; the Emotional Intelligence Quotient test which is based on research and study of many behavioral, cognitive and developmental scientists. Nearly all the above surveys are in some way associated with IQ. Much of how we handle situations does involve IQ; our academic performance indicators as well as person and professional success is highly influence by it, though IQ doesn’t answer all the possible reasons for how we behave.

What I’ve found to be true is that other types of assessments and charts also reveal the same or similar things. In considering strategies for connecting with your best self there is a decisive and distinct correlation with the astrological birth charts as well as numerology reports. If you doubt that, compare them yourself. The ‘predictive’ nature often associated with the ‘esoteric sciences’ is a very small aspect and, quite frankly, an easy distraction for not paying attention to life and making the best choices. The two forms mentioned offer the same, perhaps even more revealing, reflections of challenges and opportunities in life.

Opportunities in Creating Your New Normal

strategies for connecting with your best self

The recent events in the world have challenged our freedoms, our safety and our ability to rise above the challenges as resilient humans that we are now. Two things began this process of global self-assessment; the obsession on self-hygiene and sequestration. While we were concerned with the safety and security in the outer world, our inner world suffered greatly from the lack of human interactions. We simply aren’t designed to be alone, though being alone gives us time to think. How we think is the key to our survival and thrivability.

On the one hand we can think about the destruction and devastation of livelihoods. It includes the inability to perform normal rituals with family and friends, whether for births, marriages or deaths. We’ve never encountered that kind of limitation in our lifetimes, and certainly never globally. There’s a lot of reasons to belabor those points. However, rather than getting sequestered in the mayhem and projecting our anger toward some unknown enemy, let’s consider another opportunity that has been placed in front of us.

We’re faced with immense challenges in restoring or retrofitting our lives and work; designing strategies for connecting with your best self is imperative. Mandatory actions to remain employed are ripping people apart from the inside, faced with losing job security and support for their families. Many consider it their ‘only way out’ of a horrible situation and succumb to the process just to support their families. Our compassion and understanding is tantamount to our transition through this period.

It could be that with better knowledge of our skillset, personal and professional preferences, not to mention strengths, would give us the opportunity to shift into something more compatible with our conscience. None of us are alone, although it may feel like it at times. Did you know that knowing yourself better also allows you to know others better, too? Even though it may be tedious or seem inconsequential at first (rarely do we like tests), growing in your self-awareness only benefits you. That’s just the beginning in developing strategies for connecting with your best self.

your best selfNow you’ve at least considered trusting the reflections offered from answering questions about you honestly. Now what? What do you do next? Perhaps the way is clear now and your path forward is obvious. That’s amazing! Congratulations! It’s also rare. We usually need help. Help can come in a variety of forms. Exploring self-assessment tools certainly offers tremendous insight, though not much for direction toward your best path. That answer is within you.

The ‘what’ question about your best path is one for which I am particularly suited to help you answer. With a balanced EIQ, education and experience in both hard and soft skills as well as a highly intuitive nature, my best path and best self unite in serving your Best Self. Perhaps we can talk?

Individual Support for Conscious Co-Creation

For the future and perhaps your part in the evolution of our planetary society, we need to learn how to get along as a global village and in support of not just sustainability, thrivability. As we’ve found from the discoveries of quantum physics and the nature of reality being built on vibration, or vibrating strings, we have to learn to sense our way through life. Thinking about it is just not enough.

Of course being your Best Self is just the beginning. Aptitude and attitude for agility and innovation is a requirement in today’s business, educational, environmental, industrial, political and societal arenas. Systems thinking got a huge boost with Senge’s work, including personal mastery and the development of learning organizations. How do we take that forward in regard to our global needs now?

ZERO to ONE – Making Our Way Toward a Conscious Civilization takes a holistic view of systems, starting with a grander view of what’s inside of us naturally. It offers considerations and references for first conceiving an inner and outer relationship with our lives as a reality. It then takes the organizational development notions to a natural conclusion of the inclusion of our innate abilities, natural design and transformational qualities necessary for a brighter future.

Just consider this: What would it be like if you were able to live in quantum entanglement with the unified field? What would that mean for you?

Filed Under: attitude of gratitude, career coaching, challenge to change, cognitive science, executive coaching, intelligent design, leadership, life coach, thought leadership, transformational coaching, vision Tagged With: awareness, belief systems, Cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive science, Consciousness, experience systems, experiential wisdom, self-assessment, self-awareness, transformational life coaching, wisdom sharing

One World in a New World with Dr. Robert Gilman – Planetary Midwife

October 22, 2021 by Zen

Zen dives into a discussion about harmony with self, others and nature with Dr. Robert Gilman, an astrophysicist, sustainability pioneer and someone who most definitely qualifies as a cultural “change-agent”. For over 30 years he’s been on a mission to help communities around the world understand cultural transitions and encourages everyone to embody practices that will lead to a humane and sustainable future. He feels we are all planetary midwives in the era of change.

Our apocalyptic conversation engages systems thinking, reticence to move on to ‘what’s next’ and the patterns, sequences and observation of an evolving civilization. Robert speaks to the bridge from being where we are to being where we want to go by making existing models, those impeding and imposing unnecessary patterns and systems, obsolete. His work offers a way to explore a way through our current dilemmas with his Bright Future course.

One phrase that stood out regarding the emerging future, Robert speaks of ‘Covid the Destroyer, Covid the Illuminator, and Covid the Accelerator. He feels the faster we understand and move toward harmony within ourselves, harmony with others and harmony with Nature, the faster we’ll co-create and realize a better world. He offers a unique exercise that might help your ability to be present and available for learning how to play better with each other.

For a deeper dive, there are the presentation sets from the Bright Future Now course:

• What Time Is It? – provides a systems look at where we are in history https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJFp8JsJD5AJ506swLOhHtb31nSALzvpV

• Human Operating-System Literacy – provides concepts like your Optimal Zone https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJFp8JsJD5AI058h5DKKhkbHUPI4ZikqH

• Systems Literacy – important for going beyond the limits of our current culture https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJFp8JsJD5ALVAk1OlLIS2Cp3Fa26PBz0

For more, visit: https://www.context.org/ Connect with Robert on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-gilman-3169882/ __________________________________________________________________________________

From Robert: Zen feels like an emissary from the future, a time when many more people are at home with a wider scope of consciousness. It’s not an easy role to be in but Zen has lived it with openness, courage, humility and grace. It was a delight to talk with him and I recommend his story to you.

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Filed Under: attitude of gratitude, communication, intelligent design, leadership, thought leadership, vision Tagged With: awareness, Consciousness, experience systems, experiential wisdom, wisdom sharing

Life’s Puzzle Pieces – The Art and Science of Assembly

October 8, 2021 by Zen

life's puzzle piecesLife’s Puzzle Pieces –

The Art and Science of Assembly

Life’s Puzzle Pieces walks you through the tasty tidbits of tactical and strategic transformation from decades of in-depth empathic and self-development tools discovered, learned and practiced through a lifetime of contact, consideration and confluence of and with the One. I’ve learned about spooky action at a distance up close. We can create our own Unified Field.

Life’s Puzzle Pieces takes you deep into your own process and offers you the ability to consider many points of view, challenging you to change on a moment to moment basis. Life is a process. Solving puzzles is a process – utilizing the Law of Attraction. This material is perfect for spiritual beings in process of becoming, too.

The most exciting puzzle is one of your own design that you haven’t discovered yet. That’s the one that is latent within you, just waiting for you to ask the right questions so it can burst forth with answers to lead you toward your perfected form, fit and function in the world. It’s a simple step-by-step process.

As a transformational life coach, having a life of varied professional accomplishments, life events and opportunities, I first had to learn about this process and protocols of epistemological and ontological confluence. In other words, I had to learn what made sense beyond the mundane and programmed lifestyles many of us lead.

It took decades to discover and demonstrate proficiency as an educator and practitioner, let alone a transformational life coach. The talk doesn’t matter if you aren’t walking it. Anyone can make money, it’s HOW you align with self, others and Earth that creates fulfillment and true success in your lifetime.

Life’s Puzzle Pieces – The Art and Science of Assembly

Orphaned at birth with an early adoption brought about enough challenges, yet a near-death experience as a teenager launched a life-long quest for learning the secrets of finding balance between inner and outer realities. I considered the notion of living in quantum entanglement with the unified field, a heightened sense of connectedness.

Prior to this book, Stubbing My T.O.E. on Purpose – A Seminal View of Consciousness, Cosmology and the Congruence of Science and Spirituality received not only a personal recommendation, it also landed me an interview that was a 28-year wish come true.

Zen Benefiel, literally, takes us with him on his journey from drums to conundrums. His mind is facile as he weaves a narrative ranging from deep within the esoteric/ufology subculture to lessons of marriage, family, and business life. He draws upon archetypal psychology with a particular appreciation for the creative godhead archetype. If you read this book with an open heart, you may find yourself discovering new vistas of your own.

Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD

Host, New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel

I’d produced and hosted a TV show in Phoenix that began in 1990, with the hope of someday being worthy of an interview with one of two hosts I wanted to emulate – Dr. Jeffery Mishlove and Bill Moyers. In June of 2018, a serendipitous moment brought Dr. Mishlove’s attention and contact for anther matter that evolved into three conversations for his YouTube Channel – New Thinking Allowed and nearly 17,000 views total.

 

I don’t just talk about the journey… I show you how you can take your own. Start with this and perhaps we can explore further possibilities. You’ll get a download link for your gift with jus a little information:

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Turning the Great Reset into a Great Awakening

April 19, 2021 by Zen

Great Reset into the Great Awakening?

Can we turn what’s being called the ‘great reset’ into a ‘great awakening’ that is beneficial? We’ve all been affected by the last year’s chaos and confusion over a pandemic that has the world in it’s grip, right? Businesses across industries and sizes have been saddled with the challenges of agility, perseverance and transformation to incorporate new demands and a shifting marketplace. Much of what was once done face-to-face has transformed into virtual encounters and/or organizational meetings.

I turned to a world-renowned leader for some additional perspectives, possible guidance and world view. Klaus Schwab is the Executive Director of the World Economic Forum, an organization that features global leaders and shapes economic policies that trickle down to you and me. Beyond the bi-polar views of the organization and its function, he notes some critical issues we face. Whether we like it or not, we’ve become a global village made up of people like you and me, as well as local, regional, national and global organizations struggling to meet the demands of this new 21st Century outlook.

great reset into a great awakeningKlaus’ questions about ‘can we be caring and compassion toward each other coming out of COVID?’ and ‘will businesses be agile enough to meet the demands and survive, let alone thrive?’ are certainly important questions we all need to consider; if not personally then for our businesses or companies. We simply must find a way to work together better and offer solutions that allow us to remain free and unencumbered by medical or political restrictions. Healthy people, and humanity in general, need options that don’t prohibit the evolution of our specie toward a Type 1 Civilization, our next step in our planetary civilization’s evolution toward the stars.

My life experience is one that has allowed me to consider other aspects of our reality, our interconnectedness across many fields of play. I say play because we are all actors who determine our own scripts, whether we realize it or not. The notion of cosmic consciousness condensed into form, which was the core understanding I received in a near-death experience as a teen in college in 1975, gives us pause to consider just how powerful our choices, our feelings and our thoughts are and how they affect our reality. Larry Dossey, MD, in his book One Mind (highly recommended), brings ancient and current understanding into view and illustrates, through examples of extraordinary abilities, that we are inexperienced and vastly under-educated in the knowledge of self, let alone others.

Can we turn the great reset into the great awakening? My transformational life coaching practice echoes this understanding as I work with clients who have dreams and aspirations and a loosely developed skillset that allows them to at least begin the journey of moving their dreams to reality. Several clients have come, some after consulting other business coaches who give them data dumps but no ‘how to’ hand-holding, only to find out that through careful and considerate questions the path for them opens as we craft action plans for them to do so. Whether they realize it or not there are spiritual practices that support their journey. The most simple is the old adage paraphrased, ‘where two or more are gathered, there I am also.’ Here’s an interesting question: Who are you?

Turning the Great Reset into the Great Awakening

For at least a couple of decades I made regular visits to discussion groups and workshops on self-improvement and self-development. The question I closed the last paragraph with was asked quite often, which drew out all kinds of answers. Some referred to what their jobs were, some were spiritual like ‘I am a divine being’ and some were focused on family relationships. Those were all good answers and relevant to the individuals, though the deeper truth seemed illusive, and all-encompassing answer that worked for everyone. I was first asked the question in the early 80s in Jim Tolleson’s Empire Builders weekend intensive held at the Francisco Grande in Casa Grande, Arizona.

My answer: “I Am… and the rest is up to your perception.” How or why did I answer that way? The simple answer is that my NDE allowed me to reference what appeared to be the fact that even as a cosmically conscious individual, others were bereft of the experience and therefore could only see me through their own lenses of perception. Every time we encounter another, those lenses apply whether we are cognizant of them or not. We see people, places and things through our own lens, developed or not. So how to we develop a better, more expansive lens, or do we? Perhaps a more well-developed lens will assist the process of converting the great reset into the great awakening.

I had a recent conversation with a business leader and philanthropist who mentioned Marianne Williamson’s quote in part. I’ll include the whole quote here as you will see how powerful it could be for you:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

In the growth to self-awareness and success we have to address the fears we encounter, and we all encounter fears. An old friend, Willy Whitefeather [RIP], in an interview I had with him for One World so many years ago, offered an interpretation that I’ve seen repeated over and over for decades. ‘FEAR is only False Evidence Appearing Real. What we seek to do is Free Every Anxious Reaction.’ The young whippersnapper in me piped up with, ‘and what we usually do is F.. Everything And Run.’ It’s quite interesting how the latter is absolutely true. We avoid rather than lean into our fears. Let’s turn this great reset into a great awakening of the human spirit of transcendence.

Embracing Your Own Creative Power

god realized understood - great reset into a great awakeningImagine if you embraced the notion that you were powerful beyond measure. How would that look? Probably pretty scary at first. As a transformational life coach I start with that premise and work with clients to extend and integrate that awareness into their lives, their personal experience system beyond the beliefs they may have been entertaining for most of their lives. Their lives truly transform.

One client recently came to me with a dream of having her own TV show, among other things. The pandemic had severely dampened her work; doing live performances as an artist painting icons on the fly. No events meant no work. Sound familiar?

That all changed in a matter of months. Her faith in God played a huge part, though she didn’t realize it really turned into faith in herself. Our agreement (where two or more…) of her dream-come-true fueled the thoughtmospheric action that allowed it to come forth, first as a single show in an ongoing series that features a pay-it-forward theme. It worked so well that the producers began discussing the potentials of her own show and were going to pitch it to their network of over 75 million viewers. I don’t want to reveal much more, though you’ll find her in my testimonials, as the events are still unfolding. So, what is your dream or dreams?

Certainly I cannot take credit for the entire flow of events. I was merely a player in them, knowing the right script in order to engage the spectacle of transforming dreams into reality. How do I do that? Can it be learned? How can you take advantage of your own brilliance, skillset and talent? I’m able to do it through decades of practice, trial and error and learning the depths of cognitive science in order to apply the principles on a regular, if not on-demand, basis. Of course you can learn it, too, and with the help of a coach/mentor it is certainly much easier and truncates the timeframe you’d experience just doing it on your own. Taking advantage of your brilliance, skillset and talent means you lift yourself out of the self-deprecation and self-doubt you’ve no doubt included in your internal dialog with self for years.

Is This for YOU?

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This workbook is set up for a 30-day process. It will change your life for the better.

My program isn’t or everyone. It’s demanding of your intelligence, your ability to suspend beliefs and learning how to read the signs that are all around you at any given moment that you’ve been dismissing or missing altogether. It’s a kind of science of mind, an application of cognitive science, though there is really no religion or spirituality to it. It’s built in to every one of us by design. Like Larry Dossey offers in One Mind, and I can deliver to you as an experience over time…

Imagine a united consciousness, an awareness of which all of our minds are a part . . . and a potential way out of the division, greed, and destruction that threaten to engulf our world.

Most of the books about our connectedness offer examples of others who’ve managed to perform beyond the imagination and, consequently, have become objects of reference and study. Some offer methods to experiment and explore your own natural abilities, gifts and talents. After a decade or so of coaching and consulting, I put together a guide of my own, called Transformation: A Guide for Change. It’s got many of the exercises I learned and some that I found on my own through experimentation, trial and error, that worked really well. Since you are here, I’ll offer you a free download, without requiring your email or name, so you can test it for yourself and perhaps follow up with me.

A Kind of Revolution That Elevates instead of desimates

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