Episodes
Saturday May 30, 2020
Saturday May 30, 2020
Bryan shares his research and insights about modern physics and teachings from shaman Alberto Villoldo found in his book “Courageous Dreaming”. Building on what Buddha said, “We are what we think” and non-dual teachings that say that our thoughts create the world, our thoughts, says Villoldo can get away from us and cause us to create a nightmare. We can dream a new reality, new surroundings, more spiritual and whole surroundings. We must awaken to the fact that we are trapped in a dream and that we can create a new story. From the reactive “dog-mind/desire” perspective, where we seek validation outwardly, we create a fragmented reality. Our goal is to become whole. Deepak Chopra says, like other quantum physicists, say that nothing comes into being or becomes fixed until some being is there to witness or observe it. Quantum events allow us to access the great “matrix” of dreaming reality into being. Villoldo, says that we are dreaming the world into being by the very act of witnessing it. Shamans, such as the “Earth Keepers” know that all of creation arises and returns to the matrix found in what is called “Dream Time”. He further says that dreaming reality into being is not only a possibility, but a responsibility. We are vast. Immersed in something much larger than ourselves. When we are connected with infinity we can dream contrary to and help end the nightmare of separation. Having a visceral connection to every cell in your body and being able to comprehend your dreaming ability is important to understand the power of infinity that we can tap into.
We can become trapped in fantasies when we settle for the “nightmare” or when we settle for our little stories or dramas. Transmuting the victim into the hero is essential in transforming the individual and collective dream that we help to manifest.
Moods, sense inclinations, ingrained responses, psychological noise, those barking dogs within - when they are not brought into alignment through tapping into our hearts, affect our ability to dream courageously. Overcoming cowardice through bravery allows us to take risks and move beyond comfort and safety. Dreaming courageously is experiencing higher levels of consciousness. According to Dr. David Hawkins, and his studies in kinesiology, courage calibration in the realm of “power”.
We must stop telling dreams of victimhood and can improve our situations. Bryan says that we can live in a space of “grace” and can write a new script.
We can become paralyzed by negative thinking. Toltec Master Don Miguel Ruiz says that fear causes us to “dream the personal dream of hell”. Villoldo builds on this when he talks about the “LEF” (Luminous Energy Field), as recognized by the Earthkeepers. Bryan relates the “LEF” to the aura we hear so much about in modern new thought. The LEF has coded information in us that informs our thoughts, our feelings, and our behaviors. It is the instrument through which we dream the world into being. What we vibrate and think helps to manifest what we experience in what seems to be outer reality. Joseph Chilton Pierce’s research about the energy field he calls the “Torus”, is a similar idea, something that surrounds our body.
Unhealed wounds can block our dreaming capabilities. We need to get in touch with the desires of our heart. Repetition compulsion as spoken by Eckhart Tolle, thoughts fueled by anxiety, cause us to create living hells. Villoldo talks about foreign energies that can be found in the LEF. When the “karmic baggage” is removed, and the “ghosts”, says Bryan are extracted, the LEF can become illumined. Wounds in our energy body can show up in our physical body. By healing the Luminous Energy Field we can prevent illness and stop from manifesting nightmares. Bryan says that the true “I”, our true Self cannot be sick, and that we must die to the false self in order to live a better dream.
Finally, there are cultural nightmares and personal nightmares. Our “programs for happiness” that we form from early life experiences, contribute to what we dream. When, we as a whole determine our happiness through the outward act of comparison, we actually create misery.
The dreams of the soul can serve us. We must stop dreaming uncreatively and learn how our perceptions can bring about reality. Co-creating is an act of becoming more globally aware. Bryan finishes by speaking about his grassroots movement, Project New Humanity.
Saturday May 23, 2020
Saturday May 23, 2020
Is demon possession and mental illness connected? Is “possession” a supernatural phenomenon where we are taken over by malevolent energy or is there a less Medieval and and less ancient way of explaining what it means to be “taken over” by an energy, a mental state such as psychosis or pathology of other kinds? In this short episode, Bryan explores commentary and teachings of Eckhart Tolle as supported by Franciscan priest Richard Rohr.
Tolle speaks of the “pain-body” to explain violent and temperamental “phantoms” that are rooted in pain-patterns we store in our bodies from the past. Bryan talks about ways to identify the surfacing of the pain body as it awakens from its dormant state. Richard Rohr says that Tolle’s concept of the pain body is a perfect example to describe what Christianity and other ancient religions have attributed to the phenomenon of demonic energy.
The pain-body is the “dark-shadow cast by the ego” and is afraid of the light of you consciousness. The pain-body is afraid of being “found out”. We need to bring our pain into the light of consciousness so we do not let it possess us like an “insubstantial phantom”.
There is a way out of pain from the past. The first step is becoming aware by exposing our strong reactivity and buried emotional traumas. Bringing it to consciousness, we free ourselves from the “anti-life” that causes us to lose control. “Sleeping dogs” can be traumas or disowned pain patterns in the unconscious, Bryan says. Like the fearful dog who mistrusts others, may be chained and neglected, we all have our triggers and can become explosive.
This episode explores a subject worth pondering, for we all repress pain that leads to “dis-ease” of many kinds.