People who live translucently enter into an evolutionary process of feeling more and more, while becoming less and less reactive. They can feel without a story, without justifications. Usually, we need to say: “I am angry because of what so-and-so did.” Most of our energy then goes into changing so-and-so and very little into what we feel. It is very, very rare for anyone to be willing to feel without a logical cause:

“How are you doing?”

“I’m so mad I could kill with my bare hands.”

“My God, why?”

“No reason, it’s just a wave passing through. Feels great, actually. I love it!”

Translucents can be with feeling as a vibration, just as one might listen to a piece of music. If we are deeply honest, we have no clue about why we are feeling what we feel. Is it really the parking space? Or was it that funny remark in the elevator last week, or the promotion last January? Perhaps I am actually angry with my father. More likely, that extra glass of cheap wine last night is the culprit. Most of our stories are inaccurate, and in the final count there is no one reason for any specific feeling. The more stirred up you become, the more complicated things get and the more you are pulled into reactive behavior and disconnected from your depth.

When we feel without a story, our feelings become less distinct, more a part of one another. They defy labeling. Let’s look at an example. You are on a first date. You feel a quickening in your heartbeat, a tightening in your belly. Label it fear, and you have the beginnings of one story: I might get rejected. I know I’ll say something stupid. Label the same feeling excitement, and spin a different story: Maybe he’s the one. But if you leave the sensation undefined, and just feel it as a mystery, you discover that fear and excitement are a hairbreadth apart, separated only by a different explanation. They easily change into one another.

Try this the next time you feel afraid. Ask yourself if you know, for sure, that what you’re feeling is fear. Could it equally be labeled excitement? Can you leave it without any label at all? The same is true of grief and gratitude. The next time you feel deep grief, see if it is possible, just for a moment, to feel it more deeply while thinking less about why. Then look around at anything, a flower, a color, a bird, and see if your tears are only of regret or also of thanks. Fear and excitement, grief and gratitude, anger and power, sadness and vulnerability: they are all separated from one another when we make them into an emotional drama but one when we feel them as pure energy. Chameli talks about how our feelings shift:

Stay alert to changes. Be aware that your feelings might change any moment. When you say “yes,” but not just to make it go away, you will very soon discover that it is changing all the time. The story, the explanation, keeps it going on a track that would otherwise change very quickly. When you are present with feelings, they are just waves arising and changing into something else. Just to be in that flow brings you into the present, which can be very light, or may become anger, or change into sadness, and then change into laughter. It changes so quickly. The Big Love is right here, all the time, it is the medium in which all the waves are moving. It is always right here. If we are not following the addiction to a story, feelings change quickly.

The more we become emotionally reactive, the more complicated things get, and the more we are disconnected from depth, and from the present moment. The more deeply we can feel, the more at peace we become and the simpler outer situations become. We can really give the gift of pure response to the situation instead of reacting to it. We can express what we are feeling, in tune with the present moment. We are no longer carrying any resistance. Now grief or anger or overwhelming affection can all be gifts to enhance the world, to bring to it more color, more aliveness. Feelings become a form of honest gifting, a generosity of spirit.

To read more, purchase my book The Translucent Revolution HERE.

There are a lot of things not to like about going to an English public school. Imagine putting a few hundred testosterone-driven adolescent boys into close quarters, where dozens sleep together in rows in the same room, have no contact with girls, and eat food that looks mostly like wallpaper paste, and is served with a ladle out of a bucket. The closest thing that exists like that today would be a lock-down for criminals. But 40 years ago, that was how the “privalidged” got educated in England.

Like many of the things that happen in unpleasant environments, I’ve tended to dismiss almost everything about those years. But it had its golden moments, too. Like something that the headmaster said at a morning assembly one day when I was 14, which has stuck with me ever since.

What is Heaven?
The headmaster was giving a speech about the difference between Heaven and Hell. “Hell,” he said, “is where a great number of very hungry people sit together on benches in a long, long, long row. There is a table in front of them, about six feet away, piled with all sorts of sumptuous dishes from all around the world. Each of the people sitting on the benches has a pair of six-foot long chopsticks. They are able to use the chopsticks to reach the food, but of course they have no way to get it to their mouth.

“And as for heaven,” he said, “Heaven is also filled with a great many people sitting on a long, long, long row of benches. The same tables are in front of them, also six feet away, and also laden with all kinds of delicious foods from around the world. In heaven, they also each have a pair of chopsticks long enough to reach the food.

“The difference,” he said, “is that in heaven, people use the chopsticks to feed each other.”

I don’t think I fully appreciated or digested the beauty of this story at the time that I heard it, maybe because of the very hard seat I was sitting on and the very uncomfortable school uniform I was wearing. But now, 40 years later, I feel that aging Anglican cleric was right on the money. That is the the difference between heaven and hell, and that’s the difference that we’re all being invited to participate in today.

Last week, we met for a tele-seminar about the most effective ways that you can be of service to other people in this time of transition. We talked about three of the most important qualities for being an instrument of awakening to others. We talked about “inspired certainty” as the capacity to hold a vision of what is true and abiding. “Absolute presence” means to be with another person without any kind of distraction, either internal or external. And “radical awakening” we described as the capacity to help another person shift from the preoccupation of thoughts and feelings to limitless, expansive consciousness in just a few minutes.

You can listen to last week’s tele-seminar here.

This week, we’re going to continue talking about how you can be an instrument of awakening to other people. We’re going to talk about how easy it is to free up contractions and emotional charge when we know how to free it from a story. We’re going to talk about the right use of practice, to shift from habits that create suffering to those that create joy and play. We’re going to talk about recognizing and bringing forth the unique gift in another person, and we’re going to talk about the mysterious magic of “spontaneous creation.”

Please join me on Thursday, January 26th at 6pm Pacific time for this discussion.

Register for the free tele-seminar here.

Photo credits: carlos porto, Suat Eman, Idea go

Leap Before You Look.

Sit together with your intimate partner
Or a close friend.
Decide who will be partner A,
And who will be B.
Partner A,
You are going to share five withholds:
Something significant
And relevant to your relationship
That has not been said.
This could be a judgment,
It could be something that happened,
Or it could be something you have been thinking
Or planning.
Keep your withholds short:
No more than a sentence or two.
Partner B, after each withhold,
Just say “thank you.”
Do not respond or react in any other way.
After five withholds,
Close your eyes and sit together for a few minutes,
Then switch roles.

Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks talk about relationship like a dance floor. You are moving together, coming very close and then moving away for a moment, moving fast and then slow. Your relationship is set to different kinds of music with different tempos, and the tempo can change at any time. At any moment, you both need to be ready and available to respond to the change in the rhythm or the speed of the dance. They describe withheld communication as globs of chewing gum on the dance floor, where your shoes get stuck. The dance can no longer flow.

We may have all kinds of motivations in our life to be honest or dishonest. Here, we are using it as a practice not for the usual moral or strategic reasons, but to create more space for the dance to flow. When we share and dissolve our withholds in this way, we let go of the boundaries that keep us separate.

This practice is less about the exchange of information than it is about a spirit of self-effacing disclosure. The withholds you share may seem very significant and important: “I’m considering moving to Canada.” “I slept with your sister.” “Yesterday when you said what you did in the restaurant, I felt really hurt.” Or they might seem quite petty and mundane, not even worth mentioning: “I don’t like the color of your socks.” “Your stories bore me.” “I had a cigarette yesterday, after I said I had quit.” Keep them very short: label and move on. We are not psychologically processing here, but letting go of what gets in the way. Once it has been said, it is done.

When you are the one listening, it is important not to react in any way. Just listen and breathe and let go. Don’t throw things back in your partner’s face by making one of your withholds be a reaction to what was just said. After you are both done, there should be no postmortem, no discussion of what was said. This may sound difficult, but it doesn’t take long to recognize the great value of this of this practice.

When we tell the truth about something, we open the door to a deeper intimacy with the other person. We create and share more space. Share your withholds often, so they do not build up.

Enjoy the greater space you open between you, and within you.

To read more, purchase my book Leap Before You Look here.

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Next week I will share with you more about what I discovered.

But for now, I’d love to hear your experience of being in retreat from the world.

Share with me in the comments section below.

with love

your friend

Arjuna

It’s 4 PM on December 31, 2011. Eight hours to go, and it’s 2012.

The aliens will be landing, the tidal waves will be crashing in,  even in our little town in the foothills of the mountains, the supermarkets will have no food, money won’t be worth anything anymore, and solar flares will make your electronic devices inoperable. (This means you’re not reading this anyway. Which makes me wonder why I’m writing it.)

Or…

Very spiritual people, with names like “Orgasmic Butterfly,” and “Joyous Rainbow Child,” will take to the streets in all their tie-dyed, chakra-opened, interconnected glory, and shout out Hallelujiah!   Crop Circles will appear on the White House Lawn.   Grumpiness, discord, irritability, and people with more than 12 items at the express lane at the supermarket will magically disappear from the planet forever, and we will be living in a homogenous Golden Soup of Luuurrrv….

Or…

None of the above.

Anyway, whatever the New Year brings, this is my last blog post for 2011. And I’ve got to admit, I’m feeling some performance anxiety now, to make it absolutely, incredibly, incomparably awesome. Wish me luck.

So I posted a little competition on my Facebook page. This turned out to be a really smart idea, and something I plan to do again. I asked my friends what they thought would be the best topic for my last blog post of 2011. And here are the top ten most interesting answers:

• Robert Lyons said:   On allowing the causeless joy that is in us to have its way.
• Mari Heart said: Be infinite happiness and Love. The choice is yours:)
• Cassandra Eve said:Living timelessly…… what does that mean to you?
• Julie Fatemian said: Fulfillment in a time of crisis
• Julie Hall said: The end is the beginning. (or is that too obvious? ; )
• Anton Larson said: Giving up spirituality.
• Matthew Blom said: Awesome.
• Cathrine Løvaas said: Why we need “new beginnings” and “time outs” like new years can be, to change, breathe, take an overview and start something new.
• Jane Cassidy said: Why does spirirual awakening have to be such a struggle. Why did it leave me so many times lost alone frightened and depressed to the point were i was lucky to have made it through. I know to a degree that was a choice but it does seem to be a popular one. Why does awakening have to hurt?
• Patricia Saferite said: If I could tell the whole world this one thing about awakening, it would be . . .

I really wanted to try and write a post that included all of them. Now don’t try this at home kids, it could cause serious injury, death, or even worse, making a terrible full of yourself.  But here we go:

 If I could tell the whole world this one thing about awakening, it would be . . .

This one very simple thing, illustrated in this one very fine story, told to me by my teacher in India, who was not only the wisest and most awake man I have ever known, but also the naughtiest, and the funniest.

A long long time ago, when things were slow and simple and generally smelled better than they do now, there was a family living together. A husband, his wife, and two young boys. The husband’s business took him all around the land, you could say he was perhaps the medieval equivalent of the traveling salesman.

One day, after he’d been gone for several weeks, a messenger arrived on horseback, with terrible news. The husband had gotten terribly sick in a faraway place and he had died. Of course the widow and her children were grief stricken. They were devastated. Not only had they lost their father, their partner, but they had also lost the only breadwinner for the house. They were very distraught.

After a week or two had passed, the young widow managed to find herself a simple sewing machine, she set it up in the middle of the kitchen, and she took in mending, altering, and other jobs from the neighbors. In this way she raised her two sons in dire poverty for many years. Somehow they just scraped by with enough to eat, somehow they had a shirt on their backs, one old pair of shoes each, but every day seemed like it could be their last.

Years passed.

And then a visitor came, an old friend of the father’s, who they had not seen for a long time. “I’m sorry to surprise you like this,” he said, “I haven’t been through this area many years, and I so much wanted to visit the family.” But then he looked around at the house, so run down, he looked at the faces of the mother and the two boys, both teenagers now, looking so stressed and unhappy. He saw that the kitchen was bare, almost no cups or plates, and no signs of any food. And he felt confused. “I don’t understand, he said, “What happened to you? Your husband, your father, left you well provided for, why are you living in this way?”

Now was the widows turn, and the sons’ turn, to feel confused. What did he mean well provided for? They had been left with nothing.

“Didn’t he tell you?” said the stranger. “He’d collected gold and silver and very many other precious things, and he hid them in a chest under a board in the middle of the kitchen.  I was so sure that he had told you where it was all hidden.” And so between them they lifted up the sewing machine from the middle of the kitchen. They scraped away, and there was the board. They lifted the board, and there was the treasure.

As you can imagine, they never needed to desire for anything again. They could be at peace, they had everything. And of course, they  had everything all along, but they just didn’t know.

So this is the one thing that we need to know about awakening. In the midst of all our frantic activity, and stress, and worry, and anxiety, and doing, and feeling alone and abandoned and isolated, there is hidden treasure. The treasure is hidden underneath the busyness of our activity. Instead of doing more, we just need to move to the side our business as usual, long enough to look deeper. And then we realize it was all in vain, it was all unnecessary. We were already rich for life.

That’s the one thing I’d like to share with you to take with us into 2012.

Like the son of a rich man, begging door to door,
Like a fish in the sea, crying out I’m thirsty

So we go on seeking for an end to trouble, without realizing that all our activity is standing on the foundation of that for which we are seeking.

This is not a process, or something you have to get good at. Jane, this does not need to be a struggle, there’s nothing to make it through. This is just a matter of seeing once and for all, who you are and what is ultimately real. Thoughts and reactive feelings all move outward, away from the thinker in endless complexity. Inquiry, sanity, awakening, move in the other direction. They move from activity to awareness.

If we see this today, tonight, on the last day of 2011, then we can start the New Year with our pockets full of treasures, and from a place of  generosity rather than grasping. This just takes a finger snap, of coming to our senses, and waking up to what is real.

That’s it. That’s the one thing.

Now let the party begin…

The word belief originates with the Old English word leof, which means “to hold dear.” The Encarta World English Dictionary defines it as “acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or

But we only develop beliefs about certain things. There are many aspects of our experience we never question. For example, we may have a belief about life on other planets, but not about the existence of the moon. We may have beliefs about our ability to earn a million dollars in ten years, but not about our ability to brush our teeth. We may believe in past lives, but we don’t need to believe in yesterday. In other words, we hold beliefs about things that we don’t know about from direct experience. Why? Because we are unwilling to stay in not knowing. We take for granted that it is normal to come to fixed conclusions. But it seems we are the only species that clings to concepts in this way. The very idea of a fundamentalist penguin, or of an atheist cat, is absurd, the stuff of Gary Larson’s “Far Side.” What dog sits around the house postulating whether or not the universe is expanding?

No, only the human mind in the grip of ego comes to conclusions, independent of direct experience.

“Everyone wants to find a way to happiness. And the way to happiness is waking up to what really is true. Until we question what we believe, we’re blind to it.”
— Byron Katie, “Inspired Certainty”

We need belief because we feel cut off from a deep connection to what is real. Animals, small children, and translucent people do not need to believe anything, because they are loyal to what is. Sometimes people ask, “Do you believe in God?” But what difference does a mental conclusion make? Either we feel God all around us and within us, and our heart is open to the Great Spirit creating and connecting all things — or we don’t. Believing in what we do not feel creates a plastic, mental world with no nourishment or depth to it. We only need faith when we insist on closing our hearts.

Animals do, of course, learn from their environment. Our cat has learned how to use the cat door, an entirely conditioned response based on direct experience. And small children are the same. But ego-hypnotized human beings develop many beliefs despite their learning, beliefs that may even contradict their direct experience.

Jean Piaget, the French developmental psychologist, discovered that newborns do not experience themselves and their environment as separate. Piaget confirmed this through close observation of how infants move. He saw that when a newborn grabs a rattle, for example, and pulls it toward her body, she is surprised when the rattle meets a solid form. He concluded that very young babies experience themselves as space. After six months or so, this changes, and their body movement anticipates that they have a form. It takes a few years for a child to lock into the idea of “me” as a separate identity from the environment and to begin to negotiate exchange. Many people retain this feeling of being space, later in their life, as a “cellular memory.”

Human beings, then, come into the world with a sense of wholeness, a sense of oneness, of non-separation. Small children don’t have any beliefs about anything. Is your two-year-old a Christian or a Buddhist or a Hare Krishna? Only if you decide to call her one. Does your three-year-old discuss the presidential debates or side with political parties? Many different mechanisms cause us to adopt positions. We may imitate the beliefs of our immediate family or culture, or we may develop a belief system as a reaction against them. But the beliefs that run deepest in us, and that are most hardwired into our bodies, we have assimilated by learning to cut off different movements of energy within our psyches.

“When one is still in a very fundamental way absorbed in and deluded by the fears and desires of their own ego, there is a vague sense of the larger context out there, but mainly individuals are absorbed in this very subjective experience.“
— Andrew Cohen

Here is an exercise you can do to free up your own beliefs. You can practice this alone or with a translucent ally:
Think of a sticky issue in your life, one that requires taking action. Ideally, find a situation in which you truly don’t know what to do, but one in which not doing seems to invite catastrophe. If you are alone, write down all the thoughts you have about your impending decision, and list them as one-line points of view. If you have a friend, you can go a little deeper. You can kick back, close your eyes, talk about your issue, and ask your friend to make a note whenever she or he hears you express a belief.

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You will probably come up with quite a list.

From The Translucent Revolution, New World Library, 2005

This is the last post I write in 2011, before we enter cautiously into the most hyped year in human history: two thousand and twelve.

Rather like the latest Star Wars film, or Harry Potter book, the anticipation builds us up into such a state of frenzy that we may have no choice but to simply feel a sense of anticlimax.

2012 prophecies have basically fallen into one of two categories:

The first we saw blown up large in Roland Emmerich’s films, “2012” and “The Day After Tomorrow,” which are both examples of films mostly about destruction. Earthquakes, tidal waves, comets crashing into the earth. Many people sense that the day of judgement is at hand.

The other way we lean with 2012 prophecies is quite the opposite, that we’re entering into a golden age of enlightenment, where humanity suddenly and inexplicably evolves to it’s next level of integration.  Greed, conflict and ignorance evaporate into thin air, and we are all left grinning in contentment.

Now maybe, just maybe, you may listen to both of these extremes with a measure of skepticism. Cos I know I do.

My good friend Jean Huston, one of the sanest people I know, was asked for her 2012 prediction recently. “I feel quite confident,” she says, “about what will happen in 2012. People will cook food, go shopping and pick up their kids from school. They’ll also go to the bathroom, go to sleep and take showers.”

Or Leonard Cohen, another of the wisest people I’ve met, said: “You know I think 2012 might have almost as big an impact on us as Y2K.” His tongue, as you can imagine, was embedded deeply in his cheek as he said this.

But I also think that there’s a reason why, outlandish and exaggerated as these predictions may become, we have a sense that “the times they are a’changing.”

If we take a sharp swerve now away from the new age, the spiritual and the speculative, even mainstream political and economic commentators are aware that something has gotta give.

For example:

The economic system we’ve created has more or less reached the end of its capacity to stay in balance. The economies of Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy are on the verge of default, and the United States, with 14.3 trillion dollars of debt, could actually go under, any time the Chinese decide to reel it in.

The gap between the haves and the have-nots has never been greater, both globally and here in the US.

The earth’s population just hit 7 billion. It’s easy to overlook the significance of this without a little picture, so take a look at this graph here:

As you can see, the human population of this earth hummed along between 300 and 500 million for thousands of years, until it turned a sharp corner with the industrial and then the medical revolutions. The population of the earth has doubled in the last 35 years. This is something that has never happened before. This also, obviously, is a situation that’s unsustainable. We can’t keep adding another billion every 10 to 12 years for much longer.

Although there have always been wars and political tensions in the world, we’ve never before created this kind of capacity to be able to create mass disruption with the flick of a switch, whether that switch is in the hand of a President or a terrorist.

Human beings’ impact on the environment has never been greater, and in part because of the sophistication of the environments we’ve created. We’re using up the earth’s resources at a much faster pace than they can be replenished, which, again, is unsustainable.

We could go on and on, but it’s these undeniable facts taken together which make an end-of-the-world scenario, in some way resonant. Everybody knows that something’s got to give.

At the same time, beneath the hype and the new-age speculation, there are also good reasons why we resonate with the golden age scenario. As you may know, I’ve been facilitating awakening, in individuals and groups of people, for more than 20 years. That’s what my life has really been about. By awakening, I mean having direct access to a deeper dimension of yourself, which is limitless, which is free, and which is not separate from anything else.

When I started teaching back in the early 90’s, it was very rare for anyone to even have a glimpse of their true nature as infinite. Today it’s quite commonplace. Whether in Vienna, or London, or California or New Jersey, there’s no doubt whatsoever that more people are opening up to more expanded states of consciousness, even if just in glimpses. This is not only my experience. Every writer and teacher I know who works in this field has witnessed the same thing.

At the same time, all kinds of other breakthroughs in consciousness are happening. We have a much greater understanding, for example, of what it takes to find peaceful resolution. The recognition of the gifts of the feminine, to come in balance with thousands of years of masculine domination is flowering.  A huge uprising of people now have a greater intuition of their true gift to the world and their  purpose in being here.

Put all this together, and it reminds me of the end of one of a James Bond film. The clock is ticking. Will the mother of all bombs go off, and blow up the entire planet, or will James Bond, sleek, conscious, and good, detonate it just in time, with a happy ending for all?

It is all of these factors coming together which make 2012 symbolic of a fresh start in so many ways. Whatever conclusions we may come to in another 12 months (if we’re still around to draw conclusions!), it is clear to me, and many others as well, that the remedy is the same, whatever the outcome. There’s only really one thing that you and I need to focus on in the next 12 months, in very specific and concrete ways, and the rest will take care of itself.

I’m going to guide you through what that is  in free a tele-seminar this coming Thursday, December 29th, at 6 pm Pacific time.

Please join me live on the call, or use the same link to register for the replay.

Big love to everybody.

Arjuna

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Neal Rogin has been involved in countless movie scripts, books and social and political action campaigns for many decades. He wrote the script for the “Awaken the Dreamer” movie for the Pachamama Alliance, and recently worked on the movie “Thrive”.

So this week, as a special holiday celebration, here is the very best of Neal Rogin in delicious and mouthwatering bite-sized chunks.

In the beginning, we knew,
Then, we pretended to forget.
Then, we pretended to forget we forgot.
Then, we forgot we pretended.
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Life already knows you are God.
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You are a balloon,
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If you let go,
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We’re four weeks into the current Awakening Coaching Training, and it’s been inspiring, gratifying, and deeply touching, to be sharing shifting consciousness with people from all over the world. Our participants this time come from Paraguay, Chile, Germany, Sweden, England, Canada, and all over the United States. Now here’s a wonderful little miracle that this training demonstrates, which is a great thing to tune into just as we move into the Christmas holidays:

The Awakening Coaching integrates Seven Core Competencies.  The second of the core competencies is called Absolute Presence.  It involves learning how to be so completely present for another person that you become free of both external and internal distraction. That means that you’re not texting or checking Facebook while you’re there for the other person, but you’re also not rehearsing what you’re going to say next, or running judgements or comments on what they’re saying to you. We have a particular method we use in the Awakening Coaching Training, so that just about anybody can learn how to become absolutely present, through a specific technique, in a very short period of time. The technique we use comes from a Tibetan tradition that predates even Tibetan Buddhism. I’ve been training people in this way all the way back to 1987, and it works great every time. Now here is the amazing update:

Up until a few months ago, I always trained people in person. That means we were all in the room together in California, or Sweden, or Germany, or somewhere, and Anna would sit in front of Joe, and Joe would start to talk about what’s going on for him, and Anna would practice this technique of Absolute Presence for ten to fifteen minutes, and then we’d all switch over, and come back to a big circle and share what happened. Sure enough, when we did this in person, the one speaking would feel completely received, loved even. They would get the sense that they were brought into a huge accepting loving energy which, in and of itself, had healing and resolution, without any need for further action. This is the power of Absolute Presence.

When we started teaching the Awakening Coaching Training online a few months ago, we had to find out how this would work when people were not in the same room, but sometimes separated by thousands of miles. Last Tuesday, for example, I put people into pairs (our high-tech conference technology allows us to do that!), and once again, Paula in Rio di Janeiro found herself listening to Brian in London, while Brian talked about something that was up for him, and Paula listened in this particular way.

The amazing thing is that the results were exactly the same as if they were in the same room together. The one speaking reports that they feel completely held, loved. They notice that the issue begins to resolve itself on it’s own. They feel a magical quality opening up in their consciousness.

I’ll let you decide what to make of all this. It turns our conventional understanding of time and space on its head. Just like I talked about last week, with the latest boundaries being crossed in quantum physics research, in one dimension there is matter: tangible, existing in a fixed location, and created and destroyed in time. At another level everything is everywhere all at the same time, and you can connect with another person’s experience, not necessarily by going there with your body, but by going there with your intention, and your presence. Every other aspect of the Awakening Coaching Training is revealing the same thing to be true. All of the shifts that we learn to bring about with each other happen equally well from the other side of the world.

One of the most powerful, and often welcome, impacts that one human being can have on another is with healing disease in the body. This week I am very pleased to welcome back my good friend, Chunyi Lin, for a pre-Christmas healing bonanza. I believe that Chunyi Lin is one of the most powerful healers alive on the planet today. Chameli and I have both benefited immensely from his care and his services. We had him on a live healing call back in July, and dozens of people had conditions clear up over the phone when he just tuned into them for a few minutes.

We’ll be doing the same this Thursday, December 22nd, at 6pm. If you’d like Chunyi Lin to work with you personally, make sure you’re on the call by phone rather than over the web, and make sure that you indicate you want a one-on-one healing session when you register for the call.

You can register here.

My next blog post… (drum roll here please), will be my annual Christmas message, which the Queen of England and I usually do around the same time.

I hope to be with you on the call.

It’s not quite right to call these infinitesimally small building blocks of creation particles, because they behave either as a particle or as a wave, depending on the way they are perceived. Try to find a “thing” existing in time and space, and it appears as a particle. Cease trying to define it, and it becomes a wave that is everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. Peter Higgs postulated more than 40 years ago that this infinitesimally small building block is the “spark” that exists between the unified field state and matter as we know it.

Peter Higgs

Funnily enough, I’ve been doing some similar research over the past few years, but it hasn’t made it onto the national news (not yet, at least, but meglomaniac ambition springs eternal). You probably know my book, the Translucent Revolution, which came out in 2005. At that time I interviewed 170 celebrated visionaries, as well as surveying thousands of others. I was interested to talk to people who are tapped into their own access to the “unified field”, but rather than in a 17 mile tunnel under the Swiss-French border, the research was being done in another laboratory, a field buried beneath the space where thoughts and feelings play.

Everybody, from time to time, has tapped into that place of limitless consciousness, where boundaries dissolve and you become everything and nothing at the same time. Over the last years, I’ve continued this research, interviewing brilliant people who are discovering proof of this same  “God Particle” within themselves. When you seek out the God Particle in a laboratory in Switzerland, it’s called the “Higgs boson.” When you seek for the God Particle within your own consciousness, it’s known as pure genius: divinely inspired creativity. It’s the spark which causes everything new and original to take birth.  Rest in your own consciousness, and its a wave.  Try to create something, and it becomes a particle, in this case a thought.

Over the last years I’ve been interviewing incredibly inspiring and brilliant people on high-definition video, to discover the mechanics of this divine spark. Why is it that some people struggle endlessly, making huge amounts of effort, which only end in frustration, while others find that they can relax into a stillness within themselves, out of which everything takes form spontaneously? Is it possible to learn and duplicate the mechanics of pure inspiration?

Out of all of these interviews I’ve come to some fascinating conclusions.  Ok. well they are totally fascinating to me, and i’m kinda hoping you might get tweaked as well.  I’ve put them together into a new course I’ve released recently, called Living Awakening.

I’m going to present the essence of what I’ve discovered to you in a free tele-seminar this Thursday, at 6pm Pacific Time.

You can register for the call here.