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Gorillas in the mist: Co-creating and altered states of states of consciousness
In my last entry, I pointed out that the problem with manifesting a new reality as described in The Secret (and a whole slew of similar self help books) is that the approach was from a totally eco-conscious state which cannot directly affect quantum-consciousness. So it would be crazy to expect wild gorillas living where a parking lot use to be because we put it on our vision board. Again those quantum changes are not made by a single ego and it would change the consciousness of everyone who came into contact with it. So no, you’re not going to become happy, at peace, or find love just because you tell yourself you are in your daily affirmations.
I don’t want to totally discredit the work of The Secret. The intention was right. The basic understanding that if you want to change the world, you have to start by changing your own thinking first was spot on. A lot of good came out of the movement that followed, but I think a lot of people are continuing their search because it didn’t live up to the expectation it set forth. And that’s okay. That’s part of evolving consciousness.
So what is missing? First, let me say that one key thing you must be willing to do, is to give up control. Creating a vision board with a mansion and a cool car is wrong on so many levels. By telling the universe those are the things you want, you are trying to control the outcome of your life. You are not in control. So, when you try to control things, you miss out on all the opportunities that arise just beyond the sphere of your shallow focus, as well as, create yourself an awful lot of stress when things don't go your way. Besides, is the key to your happy life living in a home that is too big for you? Stop materializing happiness. You must open up to all the possibilities of quantum-consciousness.
Secondly, you must be willing to do the work. And that work happens on different planes. The physical plane, the mental plane, the spiritual plane. This is where we use journeying as a tool to bring forth dreams and ideas from quantum-consciousness into our ego-consciousness to figure out how to manifest them into reality.
Our souls are like computers. They are the gateway between the EC and the QC. The computer has physical parts but at the same time contains something that is definitely there and real but not physical. The information on the hard drive can be accessed but it cannot be picked, pulled or scraped off the hard drive. You can even erase it (lost cultures) but their imprint is always there. And those who have the knowledge can access it.
The shamanic journey is a way for our ego to interact with QC. We can only function in the reality our brains are familiar with. So we start within our imagination. It is a starting point, a stepping stone into non-reality. We imagine things that are based in reality then begin to stretch beyond like a purple elephant sitting in a tree. This does not happen in reality but all of the elements are based in reality.
We cannot totally enter QC because we cannot even begin to comprehend it and it would be so overwhelming our heads would probably explode. This sentiment has been expressed by the mystics with phrases like, that which cannot be known or the unspeakable name of god.
By entering altered states of consciousness, we can be introduced to new thoughts and concepts, giving us glimpses into aspects of QC. This is how we have learned which plants to use for medicine or how we have innovative breakthroughs for which we have no explanation.
Art is the manifestation of ideas received through altered states. This is why we so often hear artists say that the work was created through them, not by them. The art is physical but the ideas are not. We are dependent on the physical realities around us to create with. We can only create within the realm of our own consciousness, but on occasion someone is able to push slightly beyond the edge. This is evolution, whether in the physical world or the conscious world.
Next time we will explore a little more deeply on what journeying is and how we use it for co-creation.
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My vision board is broken: Secret disappointments
Remember that movie The Secret? Did you spend hours whispering affirmations to yourself about how successful and rich and happy you already were? Did you cut out the pictures of the mansion and the sports car for your vision board? Yeah, you know you did. Are you reading this post poolside at that mansion with the dream Ferrari parked in the garage? You either, huh?
So what’s the problem with the Law of Attraction? The Secret to the universe. The answer has to do with consciousness.
In my last post I discussed the two basic states of consciousness, ego-consciousness (EC) and quantum-consciousness (QC). The first being that which separates us out as individuals and the second being the totality of all consciousness. A major difference between the two and what wreaks havoc on the Law of Attraction is choice.
There have long been debates on whether or not we truly have choice. Well, the answer is yes...and the answer is sort of, but the answer is not no. For the answer to be no, we would have to believe that everything, and I mean every single little thing thing, was already been planned out. I don’t care what religious or spiritual practice you approach this from it doesn’t make sense to me. There is no point to pre-destiny.
So you got passed over for a promotion at work? Well why did you even bother trying? It was predestined. Or maybe you got that promotion. All your hard work was for nothing because you were going to get it anyway. So just sit back on the couch, binge watch your favorite TV show instead of even going to work because if you are predestined to be the CEO of a company, it’s going to happen no matter what you do.
Does that make sense to you?
Consciousness is ever evolving and expanding through the experience of all other levels of evolving consciousness. Quantum-consciousness is co-creating. So how does choice fit in?
Ego-consciousness has the ability to make choices. Quantum-consciousness is possibility, but is influenced by aspects such as what we call our sub-conscious. Don’t get hung up on sub-consciousness, we are still just focusing on the two primary states. Remember, QC is all consciousness, while EC is the immediate local consciousness you interact with. The sub-conscious is non-local. We don't interact directly with it. Choices are not made at the level of Quantum-consciousness, but our sub-conscious can affect what possibilities are more likely to happen. Like the things you do because they have become habits and not because you are critically thinking and choosing.
In consciousness, as in science, there are strong forces and weak forces. And these forces vary depending on what they are interacting with. Think of a magnet. A one inch magnet would have a strong force on a handful of tacks causing them to jump through the air when it gets close enough. But it would have a weak force on a car which would not move at. The pull of the magnet itself is the same, but how it affects an object depends on other factors in the relationship such as the weight and distance of the other objects.
Our sub-conscious exerts a strong force on what possibilities present themselves. Our positive or negative attitudes, for example, become ingrained in our sub-conscious, in the QC, so that we are making choices on a non-ego level without ever even thinking about them. Think of them as being closer, more readily accessible, than a possibility you haven’t even imagined yet.
Learned behaviors such as believing you are not worthy of a promotion or being loved, greatly reduced the strength of your force to make new choices. That is why just changing your ego-consciousness and saying, I am going to get that promotion, doesn’t immediately work. You have to change the strength of the force over time.
Our ego also has strong and weak forces depending on variables in the situation we are dealing with. If you are at a restaurant, you can decide between having chicken or steak. It is your choice. Unless the restaurant ran out of chicken. There are always circumstances that are beyond your control, but typically, your EC will have a strong force in this situation. More often than not, you will make your order and receive it. Occasionally you will not because some factor has changed the relationship.
If the choice you made is to manifest a Ferrari, then your financial and employment situation determine whether you have a strong or weak force. If you are a 24 year old working at a convenience store part time, you are relying on someone to give you the car or winning it somehow. That’s pretty weak. If you just started your job on wall street, then with hard work, in a few years you may very well be able to afford one. That is a stronger force. Of course, if you are independently wealthy, your force has some muscle behind it.
And now you’re thinking, isn’t that obvious? Yes, but look at it deeper. Statistically speaking, if you are 24 and working part-time at a convenience store you most likely did not go to college. Because you are only working part-time, you can’t afford to start going. You begin to feel like you are never going to get out of your situation and become depressed. You start to tell yourself you can’t do anything about it. You aren’t smart enough or you have bad luck or whatever negative self talk you engage in. Your ability to ever manifest that car is weak and always will be no matter how much you think about the car.
So the problem with The Secret is what so many people took away was if they focused enough with their mind, their ego-consciousness, they could influence the universe (quantum -consciousness) and eventually have whatever they wanted.
So, how do we create the existence we want to live? We can’t. We are not in charge. But we can co-create an existence that is fulfilling, life affirming and full of purpose. And when that happens you are more likely to be able to attain that dream car. Or perhaps... the dream itself will change.
Next time we will explore co-creating and altered states of consciousness.
Consciousness - it's so complicated it hurts your brain
From mysticism to science, the search to understand consciousness is one of fascination and frustration. The fascination stemming from the understanding that this is the very essence that separates us as individuals from every other thing in existence and at the same time is what unites us. The frustration is based in the knowledge that deep down we know we will never, can never, truly understand it.
However, being conscious of our consciousness can be a very empowering thing if we don’t try to over complicate things. Although it has been broken down into many subcategories by those who try to explain it, I like to think of consciousness as two basic realms. Ego-consciousness (EC) and Quantum-consciousness (QC).
Ego-consciousness (EC) is the local consciousness that we directly interact with at all times. It is the vehicle which separates us out, as an individual, from the rest of consciousness. Quantum-consciousness (QC) is the totality of all consciousness. I like the word Quantum for this level of consciousness. It is the Latin word for amount. As a noun, amount is defined as, “a quantity of something, typically the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent” and as a verb it means, “develop into; become”. The word quantum lends itself nicely to the fact that consciousness exists as a large whole, as individual states and that it is still becoming.
My goal is to begin to explore consciousness as it relates to many of the “big questions”? What is reality? Why is there evil? Why can’t I manifest my Porsche even though I made a vision board? And through this exploration we will make connections to living a shamanic life, journeying, rites of passage, our ongoing evolution as a species and as part of a greater consciousness and so much more by tackling issues in what I hope to be a simple and fun way.
Join me for my next post: “My vision board is broken: Secret disappointments”.
Soul Quest Chama
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Join me for a wild and powerful time of self discovery, surrounded by the beauty of the Chama River Wilderness in northern New Mexico. This 12 day program includes all meals on days not fasting and all camping equipment will be provided.
Soul Seeking
This work is most often referred to as a vision quest or vision fast. The problem with those titles is that they actually refer to specific Native American rites of passage undergone by young males entering adulthood. Very few of us are fortunate enough to have had any meaningful rites of passage in our lifetime regardless of what stage of life we are in.
When a young man or woman has their 18th birthday, they are officially and legally considered an adult. However, most of us can very easily acknowledge many 18+ year olds who are nowhere near being ready to take on the responsibilities of adulthood or even have a real grasp of what that means. Meanwhile, we have probably all met at least a couple much younger individuals who are wise beyond their years.
The Vision Quest and its transition into adulthood is just one of many rites of passage that should be experienced in a lifetime. It is the goal of Coyote Call to provide a range of these rites to mark and celebrate these sacred occasions. Thus, it is important to refer to the work in a broader way.
This work is also referred to as a Spirit Quest, which does a good job of taking us away from the misnomer Vision Quest. I personally, however, see Spirit and Soul as being two different things. For me, Spirit is that which unifies all. It is the essence that connects us to everything else and makes us part of, which is why we know when someone has a good spirit.
Soul, on the other hand, is that which divides us. It is the essence that separates us from everything else making us our own unique selves. Similar to ego, it is private, internal, and non-shareable.
It is from Soul, that we experience the longing of a greater life, to fulfill our life's purpose, to feel connected, to ourselves, to others and to nature. This is the source of the Coyote Call.
When we heal, nurture and celebrate Soul, we more fully connect to Spirit.
Coyote is calling. Are you listening?
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