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What’s Your New Normal in Coming Out of COVID?

March 10, 2021 by Zen

Considering we’ve all been through one of the most challenging years in recent history, there’s an opportunity in the challenge to ascend from the pandemic. What does it mean for us individually and/or collectively?

The Great Reset is in process and hopefully those smarter and wiser are facilitating a new normal that fits a sustainable outlook for our future. We really cannot afford to become engrossed with conspiracy notions now, however true they may be. We’ve got to learn how to work together for a brighter, sustainable future.

There are many perspectives to consider. In doing so, my wife and I decided to read Klaus Schwab’s book, COVID-19: The GREAT RESET. We found at least a couple of interesting questions he presented that just make sense to address. In spite of adverse perspectives presented in a ‘globalist’ mindset, it’s just a perspective. We can learn from anything or anyone who seeks a better future. We all have different ideas as to what that might look like, and some amalgamation will occur.

Individual Resets

Schwab is the Founder and Executive Director of the World Economic Forum, and just might know a thing or two. We found something of great interest in his exploration of individual resets, speaking of the forced isolation, whether in an apartment or palatial mansion:

“A variety of such observations have prompted not only social commentators but also the general public itself to ponder whether the pandemic succeeded in bringing the best out of us and in so doing triggering a search for higher meaning. Many question came to mind, like: Might the pandemic give birth to better selves and to a better world? Will it be followed by a shift in values? Will we become more willing to nurture our human bonds and more intentional about maintaining our social connections? Simply put: will we become more caring and compassionate?”

So this ‘new normal’ caring and compassionate side of things does sound a bit like a globalist (a person who advocates the interpretation or planning of economic and foreign policy in relation to events and developments throughout the world.), and transhumanist (a philosophical movement the proponents of which advocate the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies able to greatly enhance longevity, mood and cognitive abilities.) approach.

Most of us cannot comprehend the level of people, planning, strategy and wisdom necessary to map out a future for a planet of any kind, let alone a sustainable one. We can and will move forward; just how well we do it will depend on how mindful we can become toward the needs of people and planet. It’s a much different mindset than we’ve enjoyed in the industrial and even beginning of the information age. Digitization and virtual environments have shifted how we work dramatically.

A recent TV series that has both British and American versions, UTOPIA, presents many ethical and moral dilemmas needing to be faced regarding a sustainable future. Like many conspiratorial perspectives, the series shows the behind-the-scenes activity that could exist, and in some form probably does. The gist of the theme is the development of two proteins (one in meat substitute and one in a vaccine) that, when combined in the body, produce sterility in 95% or the population for 3 generations. Like an agenda for population control, we’re faced with the reality that it could be in process with a ‘plandemic’ that offers opportunity.

Complex Systems

Schwab further define areas of focus to include Interdependence, Velocity and Complexity. Schwab states that one word that distils the 21st century would be ‘interdependence,’ and that tech progress and globalization creates the velocity of it. He makes a comment about complexity that I took issue with, but from a different perspective. Complexity doesn’t matter when we start from very simple models, micro-versions with repeating patterns everywhere.

Complex systems are often characterized by an absence of visible causal links between their elements, which makes them virtually impossible to predict. Deep in ourselves, we sense that the more complex a system is, the greater the likelihood that something might go wrong and that an accident or an aberration might occur and propagate.

Regarding the latter, there’s a ‘new normal’ counter-offer and it flies in the face of the modern physics’ concept of entropy. Schwab states a belief system, imho, and we accept it as true. However, from an aware and centered perspective there is a greater likelihood that something will go right and propagate. My life examples that, unless I’m living in some parallel world. Many are experiencing a shift in things going right, simply because they’ve enjoyed the forced isolation and sequestration and looked inward.

That also deserves attention, that good can be propagated just as well. Perhaps it’s a matter of whether we see something from an inner perspective, coherent and connected, or an outer perspective that is overwhelmed by the complexity and feels disconnected. It’s like the glass half full or empty thing. It doesn’t matter when you have the pitcher and refills are unlimited.

For now, let’s remain emotionally distant from judgment. This is just an exploration, a thought experiment if you will. We’ll get into options in a moment.

Advanced Reset

It seems that in order to find harmony in any kind of great reset, we need to understand that the two perspectives are valid and may indeed be a key to understanding the Tao. As we learn to ask better questions, perhaps considering the bridging of the two is worth some effort. How else can we look at or perceive the situation? Is there an expanded view we can take?

When duality is perceived, there is a fine line within the Tao. When we attempt to perceive the oneness, the line disappears and we begin to experience harmony. Harmony isn’t the absence of chaos, it’s the effective integration of it. Chaos naturally reveals order in more complex systems, not necessarily as a result of entropy. It’s there for us to learn how it fits.

The reality is we’re in a very complex system that has grown to global proportions out of interdependence and velocity of change as well as expectations of delivery in the get-it-now age. We don’t understand how it all works, and many don’t care as long as it does. Where does the care and nurturing of human beings in the ‘new normal’ fit in?

Does it? We’re in the midst of a huge change in behavior, moved not so much by climate change now, which is a true crisis, but by economic, social and health concerns governed by corporate interests driven by the profit over people agenda we’ve had for decades. Seems our greatest fears of a dystopian future are being thrown in our faces for review and re-negotiation.

I don’t know, but I suspect, that the great reset will include an inner revolution brought about by the self-hygiene turned inward. People are questioning their values, morals and ethics more than ever, or at least they appear to be. I’ve questioned my ethics, moral and values over my lifetime, so it is nothing new. I’ve grown to know the value of being considerate, kind and observant way beyond the normal ego-centric perspective.

This might sound way out there… For me, it’s like taking an alternative view of the Tao. It’s a two-dimensional symbol. What if we added a third dimension? Could there be something we’ve missed? We need to look at ourselves from the perspective of unity in consciousness. What are those core values?

TAO de New Normal

I’m known for looking at things differently. That’s my job as a transformational life coach and supporter of human evolution. In assessing problems and creating solutions, multiple perspectives are needed. Circular thinking takes critical thinking to a new height. Imagine if we could incorporate a kind of spherical thinking, ignited by the insights received through developing an inner connection.

What if the Tao symbol had a deeper meaning, perhaps a cross-section of our DNA helix with the pulses of light caught in a still view?

It’s not practical in a ‘new normal,’ you might say. The argument is that it is the most practical and pragmatic, recognizing the interconnectedness and access to infinite intelligence through cosmic consciousness. It’s really the next bio-spiritual piece of human evolution. We learn how to manage our reality better, furthering efforts toward a Type 1 civilization and growing together instead of falling separately.

Innovation comes through insight, usually, something that just pops into your head after long periods of contemplation. It’s the same thing only we don’t practice the process of getting access. We don’t have a pause button, let alone the ability to pull back and observe without fear. That goes back to Klaus’ comment above, we expect calamity. You know as well as I do, our imagined fears rarely manifest, yet they drive our lives.

Time to let go of that paradigm, eh? Risk management needs to evolve, emerge as reward management – what happens when we do the right things and good things happen as a result. How do we answer Schwab’s question: Can we be caring and compassionate toward one another? We haven’t been. We’ve been very self-centered and separative in our individual lives, especially in developed countries. We let things happen as long as they aren’t in front of our faces, and sometimes even then.

What ‘New Normal’ ?

How do we redirect the self-sabotaging of consumerism? Our current paradigm is that our purchasing power and acquisition of wealth is self-actualization, not self-sabotaging. We have acknowledged that we’re polluting the atmosphere and planet beyond measure, yet we haven’t changed our habits of living. It’s interesting that during the pandemic and sequestration, we learned how to get along with less activity and ‘stuff’ we once thought was necessary for our happiness.

We went from at least feigned trust-relationships to questioning everyone we meet on the street as being potentially infected. No looking each other in the eye, no hand shakes, so hugs in public and heck, there was no public for a time. As we come out of the masquerading (mixed reviews on the effectiveness of masks) in developing a ‘new normal’ and the essential gagging of the voices of dissenters all over the world, how will we incorporate a new path without dragging the past with us?

Does some kind of ‘spiritual’ or ‘progressive thinking’ path have value? Without fail, every transcendent path contains the cautionary tales of carrying baggage onto the flight. We cannot learn to fly with an anchor around our necks, some embedded in the ground so deep we cannot even consider letting go, let alone do it. Yet, we must in order to create a future free of the constraints of the past. It’s all good, we just need to let our history go.

By letting our ‘his-story’ go we make ‘her-story’ available for view. I know that sounds trite, perhaps, yet it is the feminine qualities that bring out caring and compassionate actions toward others. Patriarchal systems are all about dominance and manipulation of people, places and things for profit, whether it’s capitalism or communism – leaders profit greatly. Matriarchal systems, on the other hand, have always been concerned with the care and maintenance of the village through the care and concern for the children. We’ve lost that awareness; fallen into the trap of acquisition over people and planet and thought it ‘good.’

Transformation Life Coaching’s Role

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The notion of a ‘new normal’ in which one can transform their life has been around for a long time. We read and see many stories about those who’ve gone from travesty to triumph, tragedy to transcendence. Now we’re in a position where the population would do well to visit those processes that facilitate such overwhelmingly consistent results. Those who’ve turned inward early in life and chosen a path of service are prime suspects for supportive processes and programs.

The core of change is shifting habits, plain and simple. We have habits of activity, of feeling, even of thinking. We cannot recognize those habits on our own, usually. All we know is that our efforts aren’t producing the desired results. We know change is necessary as doing the same things over and over and expecting different results falls into Einstein’s definition of insanity. How do we change?

Self-examination is the first step. Until we are more aware of our habits and processes, we are incapable of change. The foundation for change just isn’t there. We don’t know our liabilities, limitation and excuses until someone can reflect them in a supportive environment. The ability of a transformational life coach to engage, inquire and reflect ignites the process. The goal is to connect the appropriate and necessary behavioral changes with simple action plans and consistent monitoring to ensure their success.

My early goal was to get the education and experience to be able to reflect the process of developing a consistent method for acquiring insight, inspiration and intelligence to lead others on their journey. I’ve been able to continue to grow in my own awareness as I’ve coached others over the last couple of decades. I continue to look for simplified ways of sharing knowledge, again with the notion of Einstein’s view of understanding – if you can’t explain it simply then you really don’t understand it well enough.

Now in my 60s, I feel like my life has been in preparation to assist others with insight and inspiration for meeting the challenges; practical and pragmatic understanding of facilitating people, places and things to achieve goals, especially those aligned with an inspired vision for life. In that light, I invite you to engage me if you feel a bit of resonance in how I’ve presented the possibilities for a ‘new normal’ to emerge from the pandemic in support of our mutual benefit and sustainability in the world. You’ll be amazed at the results you will get. You will be better prepared for any future as a result. Just reach out.

Choices in Finding Self – How Do We Move Forward in a Conflicted World?

June 24, 2020 by Zen

Choices in Finding Self

We generally look at that world through a lens that inhibits the choices in finding self. There is another binary connection that, through the choice of ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ molds our reality on a moment to moment basis. It, too, is an emotion and logic driven system. The two are nearly inseparable and often in conflict.

We ask questions and ponder paths, imagining possibilities for creating a sustainable world. Current quantum theory indicates we have more capacity for becoming self-aware and managing our reality better; individually influencing a collective consciousness.

On the theme of destiny or fate, or even just making better choices, does synchronicity have anything to do with it? How do we access a clearer path toward self-actualization and self-realization that benefits us all? What are those better choices in finding self?

If we consider the notion of creating our reality, does that eliminate determinism or is it complementary? How specific is the form, fit and function for us and a prudent path in the world?

Does this commitment take free will away or refine it with discernment and wisdom? Will knowing more have an effect on our activity in the future? Is your shift in awareness going to impact the world around you? How do you know?

Making Better Choices Given Current Awareness

Information feeds the growth of intelligence and choices in finding self. How much information do we really have about our human form, fit and function in this reality? Wouldn’t it make sense for advanced races, non-human intelligence, to perhaps have more information as a result of their prior evolution long before us?

Just consider the thousands and perhaps millions of years they are ahead of us. It gives us pause for a moment to consider our tenure in the universe, looking at our current information curve and state of affairs, noticing a similar curve of awareness leading up to 2012 and recognizing that there are civilizations thousands, perhaps millions, of years ahead of us.

How might we understand non-human intelligence? Are we trying to mix apples and oranges? Perhaps it’s just a riddle and we forget the option of juicing.

Throughout the ‘Contact Modalities’ we have examples of how non-human intelligence has interacted with people from all cultures, religions and walks of life for quite some time.

Most of the time we’ve chosen to categorize and separate, a very human-centric left-brained trait, instead of looking at them as a holistic system. The very idea of everything being connected, which many know to be true, is muddled by the reticence to expand the view, most likely because humans feel like they have to have answers in hand before approaching a subject.

Choices in Ignorance

What if we didn’t have the answers? What if we didn’t even have the right questions? What kinds of choices in finding self might there be? By all accounts, with rare exceptions, this non-human intelligence seems to operate above and beyond the notion of any human control or understanding. Heck, we’re suspended in space on a planet (perhaps with its own consciousness) hurtling through space at breakneck speeds circling a star that gives us life.

This same solar system is also in a far arm of a galaxy, moving around its center all the while moving around the universe with other galaxies. All of this is happening with relative harmony; rarely does anything collide. Think about the magnificence of that reality for just a moment and let it sink in.

If we look at many of the modern scientists there is a consistent notion that consciousness, that which occupies the space between the proton, neutron and electron on a very basic level, manages the whole show. We don’t know exactly how humans fit in, yet the mathematical precision becomes evident. We tend to reverse-engineer everything.

We’re great at taking things apart and developing equations that explain how things are put together. For instance, did you know that the equation that was discovered to reveal the creation of the carbon atom has 32 decimal places in its variable, the number that actually makes the equation work? What if there was that kind of precision within a different state of consciousness and, over time, this same consciousness is not only understood, it is accessible for interaction.

In ZERO to ONE – Making Our Way Toward a Conscious Civilization is a chapter on Frequency and how it might relate to the contact modalities. At least for the moment, let’s just consider what we already know and expand on it: everything is vibration. This means it has a frequency. In your quietest moments, away from the din of civilization, what do you hear?

The Trials and Tribulations of Self-Promotion

February 5, 2020 by Zen

The trials and tribulations of self-promotion are both devastating and exhilarating. In 2014, Forbes reported there were 26 million companies in America, 22 million of them solopreneurs. There were 24.8 million non-employer businesses in 2016 according to data from the Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. As reluctant as one might be, the necessity of self-promotion looms over many. It usually is not something we care for or are good at when just starting out. We just want to get on with it, whatever ‘it’ may be.

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years in various boards, communities, groups and websites. At first I was appalled by all the self-promotion, ubiquitous in its deployment. Now I find myself on the other side of the equation and needing to perform the same tasks. I doubt that I’m alone in that swing of perspective. One of those perspectives on the pendulum swing was the old adage, ‘be careful what you judge harshly.’ All too often, we find ourselves doing the same thing.

What’s the rub? Why is the resistance to self-promotion high in some and non-existent in others? It seems to have to do with the amount of hype behind the promotion. Third person methods seem more palatable than first person presentations to most folks. Testimonials tend to hold more truth and value than a talking head touting features and benefits. The talking heads, though, are better able to differentiate and educate their audience. The realm is rife with paradox, yet there is a balanced approach every marketer strives to achieve and garner the best results, their perfect marketing mix.

What do we need to know?

Self-promotion has a lot of moving parts. Before plunging into the ocean of emotional impulses intended to move people this way or that, it made sense to explore methods of communication and best practice in delivery to an audience, a target market. In my quest for knowledge, one of the first concepts was to know your audience. Of course demographics enter in, though psychographics tend to me more important.

Why?

It’s how the audience listens that is imperative to understand; the message has to meet their needs and wants regardless of product or service. There’s a quest to translate going on inside, weaving its way through the cognitive dissonance and fights with self. The battles with self are best had with the help of others. Too often the proximity to the challenge creates the inability to step back and develop better strategies.

Audiences have a variety of needs that don’t necessarily align with the presentation of the promotion. A pummeling pontifical presence certainly isn’t going to win over a highly critical and intelligent audience, for instance, where the former might reach a desperate and insecure audience that are looking for a way to assuage their fear of potential outcomes. The old ‘sell ’em sick then sell ’em well’ syndrome.

The former audience, more discerning listeners, would respond much better to a well-crafted infomercial that anticipated their questions and delivered thoughtful responses. Neither style is good or bad, right or wrong, just how the particular audience responds best. Market research time is best spent in understanding the audience and how to deliver quality communication that resonates. Marketers sometimes forget sales are always about emotions; how someone feels toward a company, message or experience.

Solopreneurs are tasked with their own copyrighting for better or worse. Often so busy working in the business, little time and even less effort goes into working on the business. Internal operations are managerial where the external, specifically marketing, is a leadership role and carries the vision to the target market’s ears and eyes with an invitation to engage. The marketer’s attention, intention and action are strategically aligned to create the best results.

Attention, Intention and Action

General wisdom in more esoteric realms has very practical applications in business; many sales practices have esoteric knowledge counterparts. Think about this for a moment: “Where is your attention?” Is it on your vision, strategy, implementation or analytics? What are your leading indicators that attention is focused where it needs to be in your self-promotion?

Perhaps a wholistic view is necessary; each aspect requiring attention at different moments though equally important components. Intention is about how or who you are at the core, your sincerity or lack thereof shines through in your action. In the case of marketing, folks are becoming more discerning. They want authenticity and integrity, not to mention honesty.

Being seen as an authority or expert are somewhere in the litany of intentions. In business that is called ‘branding.’ How do you intend to be seen in your market niche? Clarity is imperative or impressions are far from productive. Delivering that message throughout the marketing mix brings serious questions of capacity. How much can one really do? This is where a strategic plan has to be in place, a work breakdown with deliverables, structure and timing.

How we are perceived comes from the delivery of the messages, slightly different for each area of the marketing mix channels, their frequency and value for the target market. The solopreneur seeks free and simple stuff to help deliver messages. Fortunately, there are many such services on the web today. Content is king and quality, queen. A happy couple means the best relationships with your audience. Frequency is another story.

How do you know where the frequency of messages hedges annoyance? Frankly, its an experiment for most. Of course there are infographics on best practices, post timing for best viewing numbers and even recommended content providers gleaned from Google searches and cursory research. It is very much an experiment of purposeful presentation. Analytics and statistics won’t always give you the answers you want, but they will guide your path with realism.

Self-Promotion – Image?

Assertive differentiation is often the quest of the solopreneur, garnering more eyeballs through digital efforts in cyberspace. Branding is of the utmost importance for longevity. Considering graphics and images, how creative is appropriate for your target market? Most go through many iterations until something sticks. Humorous anecdotes on shiny objects are certainly applicable, though competition is fierce. Getting through the maze of shiny objects to have a brand recognized is the objective of the marketer.

As a solopreneur and business owner, self-promotion has gone through too many iterations to mention until we found a somewhat unique way to represent the ‘image’ of transformational life coaching and me. It happened rather serendipitously. A graphic artist had made caricatures for another endeavor, a model school for at-risk kids, where he took a business card and photos and came up with caricatures of us that fit the intention. Years later, a client suggested I use the caricature to represent my coaching, kind of an angel in your corner thing.

I was hesitant at first because the last thing I wanted to do was seem aloof or unreachable. The reality is completely different, a kind-hearted and genuinely helpful human being with a skill set worthy of hire. It took years to build up the recommendations on Google and LinkedIn. Folks aren’t always forthcoming when they perceive to expose themselves as vulnerable. My point is that it takes time, arduous experimentation and tenacity to develop a business of any kind.

At this point in life, I’m working with a number of clients that are realizing that retiring early wasn’t the greatest of ideas. Nearly all of them worked in an unfulfilling job, even though they might have been quite successful in it. I truly am an angel in their corner. The relative seclusion that a life in service to a company leaves folks with an insecurity and huge question mark as to where to go or what to do next. The idea of recreating oneself is daunting and scary for many. Fortunately, life has provided numerous opportunities for me to experience the process and learn the best practices.

When Professionalism Matters

Another business deals with construction stakeholders engaged in multi-million dollar projects. Many contracts today require a third-party neutral to facilitate partnering sessions prior to breaking ground. The sessions are designed to create a highly-functional team that deliver an excellent product on or ahead of schedule, at or below budget and with zero injuries. That takes specific processes to develop ethics, goals, objectives and issue resolution plans to handle known events with minimal, if any, downtime.

Branding for that business needs to be a bit more conservative with respect to the blue-collar nature of the work. The industry is more concrete, practical and pragmatic regarding leadership and management. We chose a logo that would appeal to the black and white of the industry, the numbers at the end of the day. In the field, a handshake and follow through often mean the difference in delays in the schedule or value engineering and profit for the company.

Differentiation doesn’t have to be difficult

One of the things entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and small business owners are not real good at doing is asking for feedback. The most successful are always looking for constructive criticism and helpful hints. Most folks want to be able to accomplish on their own, forgetting there is a whole world of support that will arrive just by the asking. Whether afraid of revealing secrets or just appearing less than intelligent, there are so many resources, tips and tools that it makes no rational sense not to use them.

Time-management rears its ugly head again. There are only so many hours in the day. Automation is important, yet it has to be the right kind of automation. Many marketers shoot from the hip, trying this and that and waste a lot of time. Personally, I think we’re prone to having to learn things the hard way. The smarter we become, the more targeted our work becomes. Action plans with schedules and tasks provide the greatest results.

Self-Promotion Is Inevitable

Everyone knows the old adage of having the greatest thing since sliced bread is great, but if no one knows it is all for naught. Sometimes the resistance to it causes us to act haphazardly when we do, providing poor results as well. Taking the time to explore options thoroughly, ask questions of those who’ve gone down the road previously (with success, of course) and experimenting with the insights and suggestions offered will provide the best results.

Thoughtful consideration of the mission and vision of the business, its objectives and ideal image will make the marketing effort so much more productive. In today’s marketplace we need laser-focused efforts, not shot gun approaches that used to work great in the old world – last century perhaps. As solopreneurs, we owe it to ourselves to be mindful of how we present our brand. The competition we perceive can cause hasty actions or choices within the marketing mix. Best to seek guidance and hire some quality help. Much success to the journey of self-promotion!

Frequency Creates Foundation of Form, Fit and Function

August 8, 2019 by Zen

Frequency Matters More Than We Know

Many already know of the Kardashev scale, a kind of form, fit and function, where the position of a civilization is determined by its access and use of energy, from global to solar system to galaxy. I suspect it goes further, but for now let’s just consider what the corresponding intelligence and overall consciousness might be that is associated with the ability of the planetary civilization.

We, as humans, tend to see things from very limited perspective because we simply cannot comprehend that kind of advanced consciousness. We often perceive it as god-like, yet it still cannot compare the the intelligence that drives the bus. Could it also have something to do with frequency and our understanding of it? Science has proven everything is energy and has an inherent frequency, so it stands to reason we need to explore further.

In consideration of such, the form, fit and function of reality, how might a Type III civilization communicate with a planetary civilization like ours which is likely to be around a .5 to .7 at present. Taking for granted that interstellar travel and understanding of universal laws has also developed in a Type III, would they see us as needing help in our challenges with planetary resource management and climate changes? Would they try to communicate in helpful ways? How?

We’re aware that free or ‘zero point’ energy exists but are unable to produce any technology capable of utilizing the principles necessary to access Earth’s energy to that degree, yet. There is much discussion about it and perhaps soon we’ll discover a way to actualize its potential and at least put a dent in the pollution our current energy production creates.

Since childhood I’ve had moments, non-linear and non-local, inspiring an intense desire to understand the nature of how they happened and why. It’s led to the same curiosity toward humanity and our evolution. The number, frequency and intensity of events caused some serious challenges; a juxtaposition of realities that facilitated the development of a unique observational quality and capacity for questions of self and others as I grew up. When The Celestine Prophecy came out I felt a nice corroboration with what I knew already.

It was apparent that I could not have open conversations to explore the experiences in my youth and for most of my adult life. Either I couldn’t articulate things simply enough, my audience just wasn’t able to listen or concerned parental units were afraid of encouraging me. So I began a kind of ongoing compare and contrast essay in my head. If/then inquiries developed from there, often helped by an invisible companion who sounded like a wise elder in my head. I think we all have that voice, I’m just not afraid to admit it.

Much later I found the three main questions that made people most curious. Who is God? Is there life after death? Are we alone in the universe? I explored them, too, and in so doing my life experiences provided the answers, though they rarely matched with popular beliefs. I certainly didn’t expect them, yet I was set up from birth to become curious. I took the bait; hook, line and sinker. It led down an immense and intense rabbit hole.

Experience Beyond the Norm

Prompted by the knowledge that I was adopted, acquired shortly after my 4th birthday when my sister arrived, I had an insatiable curiosity about extended family beyond the physical; a child’s curiosity about mother and father, God and beyond. I became aware of a companion, an inner voice of an adult male, that I could converse.

In the mid-60s answers to the quest turned into nightly trips to orange cigar-shaped clouds that were enthralling, though never able to remember inside. I had this sense of family there that I couldn’t wait to experience again. The experiences would always start with a high-pitched tone, a frequency in my head that seemed to tune me in, often producing Out of Body Experiences (OBE) as well. As my listening intensified, the physical would fade into the ability to move about, sometimes by my own volition and sometimes feeling like I wasn’t in complete control yet safe nevertheless.

During my first year in college, technically a 6th quarter sophomore as a result of the CLEP tests, I continued my quest to know truth. I’d practiced meditation, had multiple OBEs and taken a few trips by then. The internal question continued, the voice more instructional, and during an afternoon meditation it asked if I was willing to die for what I believed in. It was synchronistic, of course, as I had a protracted prayer request a week before; to know truth and willing to die for it if necessary.

I chose ‘cosmic consciousness’ and simply ‘let go’ of the physical at a perfectly timed moment, which led to and OBE and finding myself in the ‘light’ described by Sanskrit as samadhi, a state of oneness and complete absorption beyond the mind-self. I went beyond that as well, to a state of being surrounded by points of light, something alluded to in the Bush era yet quite different in reality and has no lexicon for demarcation. The awareness of this frequency pervaded the experience, yet added to it instead of distracting my attention.

Coming back into this world, even though I was only gone for a couple of minutes, was like entering my body/mind for the first time. It was almost foreign at first, yet delicious as I felt the sensation of the intimate complexity of my body again. The experience was so intense that I couldn’t keep it to myself and yet was completely misunderstood in trying to articulate it to others afterward. Looking back it is probably like an intelligence or being from a Type III civilization attempting to communicate with a Type I or less, having no way for the lesser to cognate.

Trials and Tribulations of Form, Fit and Function

In spite of the trials and tribulations the journey afterward brought, I was still curious about ‘God’ and how things worked in the span of consciousness I had experienced, from form to formless and back again. I read every spiritual text I could get my hands on for over a decade. The aspect of a ‘trinity’ seemed to be consistent throughout. I got married and began raising a family with four children until I couldn’t. It was like a timed release, a divorce I didn’t want from a destructive relationship no one deserved. I found myself post-divorce and deeply conflicted at thirty not-so-onederful.

I prayed and searched for self again, only this time real people showed up. I was drawn to a group who practiced the Awareness techniques developed by William Swygard in the 1950s. They also followed the teachings of Ray Standford as members of the Association for the Unfoldment in Man. I moved into the house that was their regular meeting place. I also met by birth father, 2,000 miles from our origins, and found we had very similar interests, though neither one of us knew it at the time.

The Swygard techniques, possibly the first remote-viewing procedures before Ingo Swan and Hal Putoff, were facilitated processes that allowed an experiencer to move about inner planes and explore spirit guides, chakras and Akashic records (Multi-Level) and, in another, traverse 9 planes of consciousness while pausing in each for reflection and understanding (Multi-plane); in essence non-linear and non-local experiential events. I was already prone to easy exits, so the techniques enabled me to explore easily and report back. The job of the facilitator was not just to guide the experience, they recorded the responses to questions along the way.

The experiencer was always in charge of their direction, though, unlike hypnotic suggestions that I found present in many of the past-life regressionists or UFO abduction-related hypnotherapists that I met later, embedded in the Ufology field and not necessarily helpful to it. The absence of fear in the facilitations using the Swygard method was profound. A decade and a half later I created a digital version of the Multi-plane that wasn’t as personal, yet offered a wider experiential playing field for others.

The events prepared me for another spontaneous event, an answer to questions about God and the Trinity, not necessarily from a Christian perspective either, though it fit there as well. In preparing for a Multi-level, I was invited to join an entity I met in college that is what one might call a ‘guide’ or ‘ally’ in Castaneda’s world. He escorted me across the universe in what seemed like a kind of wormhole, conversing about my ‘progress’ as we went, and arrived at a display that instantly filled me with awe – three huge white gold-tinged spheres surrounded by perhaps a dozen much smaller bright green spheres.

When I went to see Contact for the first time nearly a decade later I wept during the scene where Ellie went through the wormhole and arrived at the peripheral view of a magnificent starscape. The display seemed like someone had re-created my own experience and put it on the screen for others to share if they could. It was so impactful I didn’t have the desire to talk for hours afterward. I had the same feeling after my only experience of channeling during the same period of engaging Swygard’s work. The sense of awe made me speechless afterward.

It wasn’t just the scene of the spheres that gave me pause. There was another voice, like several as one, that seemed to come from the spheres in answer to my question about God. “We are not only your forefathers, we are also the forefathers of your solar system.” So where does one put that in the collection and referencing of files? What it did was give me more questions, the primary being, ‘if this is the macro, what is the micro?’ I still didn’t comprehend ‘what’ the spheres were, though I knew they were the Creators as we know them.

Frequency of Information

Several years later, in between viewings of the newly released ‘What the Bleep,’ and a discussion with William Arntz, it occurred to me that it must be the electron, proton and neutron. The ‘space’ is where the consciousness or intelligence that manages manifestation resides. I realized nearly two decades earlier that the 666 was the carbon atom, the science behind the number of knowledge and wisdom, the number of man.

The bridge between science and spirituality was making sense yet I couldn’t even begin to grok the equations that would define it mathematically, though I knew they had to be developed or already exist somewhere. Like the primer in Contact, there had to be something that explained the experience in mathematical and/or scientific terms. In the background in every instance was this frequency, subtle and discrete, yet it was there. I think in some respects it also appears as a cognitive relationship; conversations that matter in our head.

The frequency was perplexing, though, especially with its consistency. Although it vacillated to some degree, it was always present in the experiences and, the more I was able to listen, it seemed to always be there in the background. Sometimes it would get louder for a moment, be in one ear or the other more prominently. The standard response was that it was Tinnitus, though no medical tests were able to prove it. It became a constant companion when I was young and is still with me today. Does focused listening promote or provoke experiences?

I was visited multiple times over a several year period in the early 90s, one rather strange that was a little embarrassing, yet all seeming to know me beyond any circumstantial events, like we’d been in communication for some time. Each had something to offer to tie-in the previous knowledge I’d gained from childhood through the Swygard period in the summer of 1989, as well as further initiations into what seemed to be a ‘higher order’ of universe administration, for lack of a better.

The initiations and interactions were nearly too much to take in and still have some functionality in the world, as in holding a job and paying bills. I managed to do it though, as well as produce and host a television show to explore the inner promptings of others and how they dealt with overcoming fears in their personal lives and professional careers and create a ‘stand up‘ routine as a live metaphor for transformation. I interviewed over 200 folks, from contactees to city managers to ethnic leaders and university provosts.

These conversations provided a good anchor to explore the dynamics of what had been shared through the previous encounters, from college to the present at that time. I’d always been more alert with synchronistic events, yet what I noticed was events and meeting people began to ‘just happen’ on a more regular basis, apparently as a result of my contemplation and questions toward integrating the understanding I’d been given in pragmatic ways. Giving a glimpse of how people worked through various trials and tribulations to our audience might help them feel like they aren’t alone in the plights.

Perspectives Galore

I was led to various people during this period as well and was instrumental in organizing events that included a strange combination of artisans, bikers, musicians, paranormal and corporate training. They had from 150 to over 5,000 patrons. I earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Secondary Teaching certification and Master of Arts in Organizational Management (MAOM) as well.

I attended many events, had conversations with authors, ‘experts’ and patrons. What I observed with rare exception was a fascination with sensationalism, conspiracy theories and cover-ups that were far from the reality I had been experiencing. Conversations with presenters seemed strained when I asked questions about direct-experience or understanding garnered regarding anything to do with consciousness and/or the engagement of humans or other races toward some beneficial end.

I got involved with other passions for a while. I played drums for a few outcasts and social misfits, taught high school, ran the electronic scoring system for fund-raising go-cart races around the country on weekends. I went from public to charter high schools and earned a MAOM in which I wrote a business plan for a peer-community school/village. Then I began facilitating pre-construction partnering workshops, earned a transformational life coaching certification, traveled the country with theater groups and a couple of musical legends, worked for a performing arts center and eventually co-hosted a small business talk radio show.

Helpful Events

Over the next few years, communication of intention and supporting information regarding the evolution of our planetary civilization became more prevalent in all my ‘contact’ events. It had been obvious that our leadership, around the world, had been steering us toward destruction and needed some serious redirection. I’m just one guy, so how could that possibly work? I was reminded of the thoughtmosphere, the points of light and the volunteers who’ve come to serve.

I noticed a shift in the kinds of movies that were addressing the extraterrestrial element. They went from the standard Hollywood model of fear-based non-sense, like they’d done with Travis Walton’s story, to something more poignant. Film makers were actually looking at the non-human higher intelligence and helpful qualities beyond our fear-based responses to some perceived alien threat. At the same time, the conversations in Ufology began to consider a more benevolent side of the paradoxical equation they’d been running for decades.

Consciousness, the intimate connection with everything, began appearing in open discussions. People began talking about hearing frequencies that accompanied events and the notion that there really is no threat from space. Along the way I created several websites to demonstrate alternatives and share with others who felt connected to the same ideals.

Back to the frequency in an expanded form, fit and function; not just the scheduling of events, but the actual frequency that many are reporting being able to hear either just prior to or during contact events. What is it all about? How does it fit in with experiencer explorations into realms we barely know anything about, except the references in some ancient spiritual texts? Could giving it more attention enhance our ability to explore knowledge and understanding of this cosmic order we’re discovering?

Science of Frequency

Let’s go to the science side of form, fit and function. The electromagnetic spectrum covers a wide range of frequencies, waves that may become particles in the awareness of observation, that spans creation. We have brain waves that are within this spectrum, demarcated into ranges of consciousness from waking to deep trance. We can measure them, but we don’t really have the ability to hear them in our ‘normal’ range of perception for the most part.

Some time ago, in the late 80s, I was introduced to the Shabda as the vibration of all things, like the combination of spiritual and material substances on Earth, also known as the ‘sound current.’ Since that time I’ve notice more explanations of it, yet it is essentially the same, only expanded to the audible stream of energy, emanating from the center of creation. It doesn’t take a great leap to connect the electromagnetic spectrum to this audible energy. It’s a frequency.

Within that frequency, when one can focus attention, are many realms that open to experiential moments. I can’t say that I’ve consistently visited them, though in what appears to be serendipitous and synchronistic moments, I’ve had access. Sometimes for fleeting moments and sometimes for extended periods. I mention the ability I believe we all have to enter those realms in a conversation with Dr. Mishlove, where we discuss a ‘new world order’ that is basically an acknowledgement and alignment with these ‘harmonic’ frequencies the permeate our reality.

Something within us connects us to everything else, though we may not understand it or, more appropriately, be able to utilize it to evolve into a greater experience of being. I wrote a book called The God Participle, a Stroll in Being as a result. The evidence of the possibility to do so is contained in every spiritual path, yet there has been no science that brings the hemispheres of the brain together to work as one. The analytical and creative have essentially been at odds for centuries if not millennia. How might we bridge them?

Tom Campbell, author of My BIG TOE, who began with Bob Monroe in exploring OBEs to develop both material and practice methods for adventures, states that his work has been an effort to explain the right-brained worlds to left-brain thinkers. Could the corpus collasum, the membrane between the two, be like the center line of the Tao in defining a permeable boundary between the two?

In considering the primer from Contact and how it brought a two-dimensional image that made no sense into a three-dimensional view that allowed the building of the machine, also contained in a frequency that was deciphered with math, is there something we’re missing with the Tao?

This may be a stretch for many, to consider a three-dimensional model of the Tao and what it might reveal. We know that energy pulses through our neurocircuitry to convey messages. Light pulses also travel the glass tubes to deliver data packets across the web. If we look at the Tao, the yin/yang symbol, can we envision the pulse of light traveling the strands of DNA in the double-helix, one side light the other dark and reversing as part of a data delivery system deeply embedded in our bodies as a mechanism for consciousness to emerge and align us with a higher order?

Speaking of DNA and hydrogen, there is biology and science that bring the two together in a most elegant way as well. We already know that our sun is comprised of 75% hydrogen. It supplies us with energy for sustenance on so many levels. Harnessing the energy completely, including our solar system, puts us in the Type II Civilization ranking. Let’s look internally.

The hydrogen atom is the bonding agent for the helix of DNA. The complementary base pairs of guanine with cytosine and adenine with thymine connect to one another using hydrogen bonds. These hydrogen bonds between complementary nucleotides are what keeps the two strands of a DNA helix together. Fascinating, huh? Hydrogen atoms, like fractals, are everywhere. Let’s dive a little deeper.

A Dimensional Perspective

More recently, as a result of reconnecting with a television show host who inspired me as I was doing One World in the early 90s, I was introduced to a fascinating model of reality called the Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm, TDVP for short. Developed by Drs. Vernon Neppe and Edward Close the mathematical model presents the concept of consciousness, space and time being tethered across a 9 dimensional framework.

Reality involves a unified wholeness of the infinite and finite with the infinite pervading the finite experience of content and extent in the Space, Time and “Consciousness” Substrates. This finite-infinite reality is relative to all dimensional-distinction factors, and experienced subjectively (by individual units).

A recent movie titled simply, UFO, and stars one of our favorites from the X-Files, Gillian Anderson, is a story about a sighting and the discovery of a frequency contained in static in the 1420 MHz range that is recorded by the tower at Cincinnati airport. A young college student, a gifted mathematician, discovers it contains an elegant display of mathematical precision that has relevance in current applications of known equations and formulas used to explore communication and locations in space. These equations revealed things like the frequency of the basic hydrogen atom, the most prevalent atom in the universe. It also introduces the Fine-Structure Constant, denoted by α, which might have some relevance in referencing spiritual texts as well.

As I was writing this it occurred to me that the phrase, “I am the Alpha and Omega,” might have some scientific significance. The anthropic principle is a controversial argument of why the fine-structure constant has the value it does: stable matter, and therefore life and intelligent beings, could not exist if its value were much different. The symbol Ω has applications throughout mathematics and physics in surprising relationships. Could it be that the phrase actually integrates energy and matter instead of alluding to some personage in Revelations? Could it possibly mean we are all able to access this awareness or knowledge?

With all that in mind, the intention is to create a flow, a stream of consciousness that assists in investigating the current presentation of information across a wide-spectrum of experiencer perturbations, questions that no doubt are surfacing in the consideration of a new living awareness that is permeating the consciousness of many today. We do have to think differently and pull ourselves out of the deceptive and divisive notions of traditional fear-based human perspectives.

We seek flow; the unimpeded data transfer and development of a new kind of planetary civilization that allows us earthlings the ability to join a greater universal experience. It is my opinion that as we increase the energy of what we call love toward each other, even focusing on and intentionally sharing the ‘frequency’ from within, our world will change for the better rapidly. As it is, we don’t really know if we have time, yet time is all we have. Let’s use it wisely.

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The Resonance of Truth – Knowing How To Discern

July 31, 2019 by Zen

Vetting Information Necessary for Our Lives

“How do we qualify information as it enters our ‘field’ ?” The resonance of truth varies depending on our ability to be aware at deeper levels. We have a ‘field’ that surrounds us, a kind of ‘spidey sense’ that we often neglect. I’d venture to guess most people are completely unaware that it is even there, let alone pay attention to it.

There’s science behind the ‘field’ and studies in both consciousness and quantum physics are echoing the same information, that we are much more connected to everything around us than we have perceived in the past. It seems that mysticism might just be based in fact, that the ‘oneness’ that is spoken of throughout metaphysical texts is actually a reality. How can we test it, though? Dive in with me for a moment, suspend you belief system if necessary and let’s explore the resonance of truth together.

How do we ‘vet’ the information and people providing it so that the quality is there; so that sense is made common? We’ve heard about the notion of ‘questioning authority’ yet the authority we question often has bias in our questions. The solution is to ask better questions, those questions that arise naturally from our gut feelings.

It would seem that a consistent method for discerning or discovering truth, even if relative, would be available to the intentional seeker and even the average Jane or Joe. Of course there are varying degrees of the depth of the quest for truth, from cursory to quantum, yet consistency is key. If we accept that we have built-in bullshit meters, then we can at least begin to discover them within our awareness.

This consideration has been at the forefront of my professional life as well, facilitating people, places and things to achieve goals, and the drive to make sense common so that a ‘resonance’ of the prudent path can be felt and therefore acknowledged as being the best direction at the time for the team. A heightened awareness helps to expose and resolve hidden agendas without being adversarial or confrontational with project leaders and team.

What kind of tell-tale signs does ‘truth’ have in this, or any, environment?

Perhaps truth, vibrationally speaking, is like a covalent bond where electrons are shared in a kind of quantum entanglement. The resonance of truth occurs in the receiver as well as the transmitter whether person, place or thing. Our bodies are both, so it would make sense that the reciprocal resonance is at least felt if not understood. We aren’t accustomed to relying on feelings or sensations, though. That’s where things get a little messy for a time while we explore and practice honing our skills.

Here’s some considerations from the works of Brent Cunningham… makes sense common. We can begin a conversation to help make sense common for you.

POPULAR REASONS WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE
Before we take a look at what I think are the three essential tests for evaluating any truth-claims, let’s briefly look at some popular, but less than stellar reasons often used by people to test whether or not something is true—the claim and then a response:

1. Instinct — “It seems true to me.”
To this statement we must simply ask . . .
. . . Why? What is guiding one’s instinctual ability to judge between competing truth-claims?
2. Feelings — “I like the feeling I get.” or “It feels right.”
. . . Can feelings be mistaken?
3. Wish fulfillment — “The God that I (want to) believe in would never send someone to hell.”
. . . Maybe not, but the God one wants to believe in may not be the God who actually exists. We can never determine objective truth simply by what we want to be true.
4. Custom — “This is the way I / my family / my culture has always been.”
. . . Can they be mistaken? What if one came from a Nazi background?
5. Popularity contest — “Well, ‘everyone’ believes it.”
. . . Again, can ‘everyone’ be wrong? Counting noses is never a good means of determining truth.
6. Pragmatism — “It works for me, therefore it must be true.”
. . . However, almost anything can ‘work’ for a time. Truth works overall. For instance, a belief may ‘work’ at ridding oneself of guilt by denying it rather than absolving it.
7. Significance — “It gives my life meaning.”
. . . Is the meaning simply the result of wish-fulfillment or is it connected with reality?

Obviously, all of the above reasons for believing something to be true seem deficient and not the best tests to determine whether or not a truth-claim is really true (although, #s 6 & 7 do seem to be better candidates that #s 1-5). Nevertheless, I think there are three criterion for testing truth-claims which, when used together, offer us the best chances of determining true beliefs. Here they are.

1. Internal Coherence — This is a test for rational consistency in ufology information. This asks if a belief makes sense? We need to determine whether beliefs are rationally consistent within themselves and in relation to others beliefs of one’s larger worldview. Some beliefs are known to be self-referentially inconsistent, or self-defeating. An example might be the belief that all “knowledge” is scientific knowledge. This is obviously self-defeating because the belief itself is not a scientific statement. Therefore, the belief dies by its own standard for knowledge.

Another way a belief can fail this test is when two beliefs are in contradiction with each other, meaning that at least one of the beliefs must be false. So, we must ask if the beliefs hold together? For example, if a person is a Naturalist (believing that human life is accidental, random, and without ultimate purpose), he cannot then introduce the belief that we have an objective moral obligation to treat another person justly or with kindness.

2. External Correspondence — This test asks if a belief fits the facts of reality in ufology information. Does it correspond to the real world? Proposed truth-claims must have explanatory power, or the ability to give account for our experience of the world (whether it be history, science, psychology, human nature, etc.). For instance, a worldview can be tested by its ability to explain cosmological questions like the origin of the universe; anthropological questions like the existence of minds and free will; moral questions like the existence of evil and our experience with guilt.

Further, the explanatory power of truth-claims should (a) be comprehensive in scope—able to explain more or better than alternative theories; (b) have predictive power—suggesting new evidence and problems; (c) have precision—accounting for more details; (d) be illuminating—integrating otherwise unrelated data; (e) avoid ad hoc hypotheses—functioning only to explain away counter-evidence; (f) be simple—not needlessly multiplying the basic concepts, assumptions, and principles of an explanation.

3. Functional Adequacy — This tests the livability of a truth-claim as a belief in ufology information. Is it a viable belief “on the street”? Does it work in real life? Some views sound good on paper, but are proven false in the laboratory of life. Consider an eastern guru who asserts that the physical world is an illusion, yet he still looks both ways before crossing the street. A person cannot live out such an illusory belief of the world for very long (or he’ll be hit by a bus before long!). Even more than that, a belief system must integrate one’s life. It must incorporate and meet the deepest human needs.

SUMMARY
In evaluating the truth or falsity of propositions/truth-claims/beliefs of ufology information, we must be sure to always look for three things: internal coherence (the logical), external correspondence (the factual), and functional adequacy (the livable). For a belief to be true it must be meaningful, it must line up with the real world, and it must not only help us survive in daily life, but allow us to flourish. Consequently, these are also the three areas in which our thinking can and does go wrong: logic, facts, and values.

APPLIED UNDERSTANDING – RESONANCE OF TRUTH

In the field of personal development and/or spiritual growth there is so much information that has no solid proof, no tangible substance to validate the resonance of truth, other than the ability sense the resonance or truth of any situation. We all wish this was different, yet beyond the little credible and tangible material we have, much is still in the subjective realms of experience, often bereft of the cognitive skills to manage, let alone interpret, ‘sensory’ events.

Truth is discoverable, of course, yet we have to run it through all the tests for coherence, correspondence and adequacy. There is a resonance of truth that meets all the above standards, a measurable sensation within our array of receptors. Well-developed receptors have already been categorized and labeled as the ‘clair-alls’* of extra-sensory perception. We all have them but few actually use them, probably because of the ‘I want to believe’ factor within Ufology.

Consciousness, not just sentience, is the prevailing discovery of the time. Consciousness in the sense of a connected awareness and experience of a greater theme in our lives, an experiential reality that bridges quantum (discrete) with the gross (whole). The resonance of truth contains both cohesion and coherence and is what we can sense with the finer senses within our awareness. It is the challenge of accessing and practicing these senses that is our current challenge.

The constructs of reality also have significance, even if we don’t understand the laws or principles involved. For instance, the The Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm is a metaparadigmatic model developed equally by Drs. Vernon Neppe and Edward Close. In essence, it demonstrates that consciousness, space and time are tethered together.

It would seem there is a singular or individuated consciousness that is distributed across dimensions yet capable of observing each. The following video shares some important information relating to the topic of Ufology, one of my passions in life that certainly has left a lot of questions from my own experiences. The process of integrating experiences and the options for consideration prompted me to write a seminal book: Stubbing My T.O.E. on Purpose.

The video, which no doubt will raise some eyebrows, is an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove on New Thinking Allowed. Whether you personally have an interest in the topic or not, the aspect of deepening our awareness brings perplexing as well as surprising results at times. The resonance of truth is perhaps the natural state of the electromagnetic spectrum we so often try to manipulate to suit our individual or group will.

*FOR RESONANCE OF TRUTH REFERENCE

Clair- Senses – (from: http://www.okinhealth.com/articles/10-clairsenses-intuition-emily-matweow)

Clair is a word describing types of clear sensitivity corresponding to our physical and intuitive senses. Clair begins words that name our intuitive abilities. Because of the finer senses, or at least a more deeply felt resonance of truth, these senses have been underdeveloped in the majority of people. The following are definitions of the various Clair Senses:

CLAIRCOGNIZANCE – INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE – Clear knowledge is when a person has psychic knowledge without any physical explanation or reason. Claircognizance includes precognition and retro cognition – knowledge of the future and knowledge of the past. There are no restrictions as to what may be known with clear knowledge.

CLAIRVOYANCE – INTUITIVE VISION – The ability to see objects, actions, or events distant from the present without the use of eyes is called clairvoyance. It transcends time and space and may be a result of what is seen through the third eye (sometimes referred to as our mind’s eye) or the fourth eye.

CLAIRAUDIENCE – INTUITIVE AUDIO or HEARING – This is the ability to perceive sounds or words and extrasensory noise from sources broadcasting from the spiritual or ethereal realm. These tones exist beyond the reach of rational human experience and beyond the limitations of ordinary space and time. For example:

- – sounds made by a person’s body;
- – sounds made by living things;
- – sounds made by nature;
- – sounds made by man-made things;
- – sounds made by interactions of the above; and
- – ethereal sounds like voices of the dead, specters, or mystic music.

CLAIRSENTIENCE – INTUITIVE KNOWING BY FEELING – This refers to a person’s ability to acquire knowledge by feeling. A person who feels the vibration of other people, animals, and places is clairsentient. There are many degrees of clairsentience, ranging from the perception of thoughts and emotions in others to their illnesses and injuries. This ability differs from clairvoyance because the knowledge comes only from feeling in the body.

Clairsentience includes an individual feeling the physical and emotional pain of land where atrocities have happened; jealousy, insecurity, fear, or displeasure in others; or others’ physical pain.

CLAIRSALIENCE – INTUITIVE SMELL = Clairsalience, also known as clairscent or clairscentency, involves smelling a fragrance or odor of a substance, person, place, or animal not in one’s surroundings. These odors are perceived without the use of the physical nose and beyond the limitations of ordinary time and space.

CLAIRTANGENCY INTUITIVE KNOWING by TOUCHING – Clairtangency is psychometry. The clairtangent handles an object or touches something and in doing so knows information about the object or its owner or its history that was not known beforehand. Clairtangency can also apply to touching a living being.

CLAIRTACTION – INTUITIVE TOUCH – I introduce this label for a “new” unnamed Clair. I chose taction because it is an archaic word defined as “the act of touching or making contact.”

Clairtaction is the ability to sense being touched by a spiritual being or entity and the knowing of information about that spirit. Further, it includes a telekinetic-like ability to extend a touch to both physical and etheric entities in such a way that both the recipient and the psychic have awareness of the feeling. This means that the clairtactient may touch a person who is present or remote without physically touching him or her and the person being touched will, if aware enough, be able to identify where he or she is being touched and the nature of the touch. It also means that the clairtactient can touch something ethereal with both purpose and awareness.

CLAIRGUSTANCE – INTUITIVE TASTE – Clear tasting involves being able to taste something without actually putting it into your mouth. It’s the perfect diet plan. 😉 A person who has clairgustance experiences tastes associated with events or people, memories or sensations often accompanied with clairsalience.

CLAIREMPATHY – INTUITIVE FEELING of EMOTION – Clairempathy is the ability to know people and their energies. A person who has clairempathy psychically experiences the thoughts or attitudes of a person, place, or animal and then feels the associated mental, emotional, physical, and/or spiritual results. The result of this clear empathetic experience may be a very physical response for the psychic in proportion to the psychic’s empathic sensitivity.

CLAIRELOQUENCE – INTUITIVE COMMUNICATING – Claireloquence is a second new Clair. It is the requirement to use precisely the right word or combination of words in order to accomplish a specific objective. Claireloquence connotes that it is the exact meaning of a word that is the result when it may in fact be the performative nature of the word or the exact phonology, or sound system, of the word to encode meaning that is the desired result. I believe that it can be either and both.

CLAIRESSENCE – INTUITIVE EMBODIMENT – Clairessence is a third new Clair I have come to understand and validate. It is the fundamental “Clair of all Clairs.” It is both the easiest and the most difficult to explain, for it is the Clair of Ascension; by the time we fully understand this Clair it will no longer be significant because we will be “it”.

The origin of clairessence is the point of origin of our nature. It is the mathematical and vibrational perfection with which all life was created. It is the ideal we seek to attain in the successful embodiment and integration of all of our senses within our rational and non-rational selves. It is the state we seek to return to – a state without distortion that is more refined, by virtue of experience, than when it was created.

Perhaps this will generate further discussion.

Elucidations on Enlightenment and Euphemisms in Life

March 13, 2018 by Zen

Who’s Show Is It Anyway?

Often the messenger gets hung up on the message and becomes its icon rather than a simple conduit of information. I was no different. A few years later, I was busy with family, job and planning a future. I busied myself for the next decade until the cosmic 2×4 came swinging through my life – another new awakening for tempering the mettle of one’s character. Elucidations on enlightenment often include euphemisms.

Since that time, I’ve observed that identity is really of no consequence in the delivery of new information or clarification of the mysterious in order for the ‘magic’ of life to become present. Too often identity, assumed or projected, simply gets in the way. Our minds want to categorize and label instead of just listening and observing. The paradox is that sometimes critical information is in a name or the identification. Identity does make a difference.

We allow those who instruct us to continue the lie that we are separate from creation and need to give our power to someone else as our intercessor. Is this the kind of sense we seek to make common? Or, do we want to understand the mysteries of creation and just how connected we really are to knowing our identity as a spiritual being, a conscious co-creator?

In my continued studies, I’ve found the former to be the opposite of what was intended. Even in the Bible one can find reference to the magnitude of intention, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” And from the Dead Sea Scrolls, “Don’t ye know that ye are god as I am god” Now that got me thinking. It totally flipped my point of view. Still, as Nietzsche puts it… ‘God wants playmates.’ How cool is that?

If those statements are true, then how can or could we verify it in our own experience? I had a sense it was going to be a very interesting journey. What could I offer others of my discoveries without drawing a crowd? Or did I want to draw a crowd? Nowadays crowd surfing is an ‘in’ thing. What if it is my destiny to become a front man, so to speak, in sharing a new view?

My own experience was a lunatic fringe to the common folk, so I had to come to terms with being comfortable in my weirdness. That didn’t mean that I kept out of sight, quite the opposite. I learned how to stand out in a crowd without saying a word, much to the chagrin of whoever I was with at the time. One of my favorites is an amazingly colorful marbleized tuxedo, reminiscent of Jason’s amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Over the years opportunity knocked and I walked through the door, over and over, until I had several degrees in business, certifications in teaching, hypnotherapy and transformational life coaching as well as a history of achievements that most people might not accomplish in ten lifetimes. I was not concerned about savings or retirement.

Why? I focused on the chance to learn, to stretch my inner and outer understanding, to jump into things I wanted to experience when the doors of opportunity opened – and they did regularly as long as I kept my heart open. The law of attraction was operating nicely, even before I knew there was one.

When I was approaching my 50s, a First Nation friend informed me that in their tradition one had to be 51 before he could participate in any council activity. That milestone means one can now share their understanding and wisdom because they’ve lived long enough to garner it. You see, their tradition requires one to grow to know the secrets of human emotions and our connections to Great Spirit before ever claiming to be a wise man.

In all these trials and tribulations, though, there came to be simple salient points of order that are strewn throughout all religions and spiritual paths as guideposts to finding freedom from self-deception. What I find more challenging is self-acceptance. To grow into what we truly are is the goal.

Dudley Lynch, President of Brain Technologies, Inc. called me a “Possibilities Coagulator” some years ago. It is my hopes that you, too, will become a ‘possibilities coagulator’ as you grow to know the secrets of connecting to your galactic heritage.

Ultimately, I just want to share that simple path to freedom from the self-deception of being anything less than a child of the universe. I think you will enjoy the process, in spite of the turmoil of the past and maybe even some that will come as you get over yourself in the present and progress through these posts. I’ll be sharing the tasty tidbits from years of trials and tribulations. They are all in a workbook called Cosmic Conundrum: Who Am I?

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