Episodes
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
This episode of Turning Points and Transformations was a discourse and a sharing of insights inspired by a Course Bryan took called "910: Living in the World While Waking Up". He covered talked about the function of time as our ego's like to use it, how the past can imprison and condition us, he suggests ways to release the past, and to become more awakened to the Presence of Love in the Now, thus writing for ourselves a better future. He drew from a variety of resources and spiritual teachers to compliment some of his insights gained through life's struggles and personal victories. Love's Presence in the Now is how to have sacred communion and union with the Divine.
Thursday May 17, 2018
TURNING POINTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS - DESCEND THEN TRANSCEND
Thursday May 17, 2018
Thursday May 17, 2018
We must do shadow work, to go down into the depths of our psyche in order to the work of Transcendence. We must clear our subconscious debris, go down into the tomb, die to the false self, so we can rise up in glory and radiance and truth. Without doing depth work, we are shallow people. We must acknowledge our “weeds” of darkness, let them grow along side the “wheat” (light) in us, and be transformed through a process of coming into greater awareness. Bryan talks about Jungian Psychology, the shadow, and talks about the path to the True Christed Self. He talks about how suffering is a choice that we make, not a necessity. Recognizing darkness in us helps us to evolve and grow by shining light on our shadow nature that we repress from conscious awareness.
The songs you here in this program are written, composed, and sung by Bryan. Check out all Bryan Rice's published books and music at bryanrice.org.
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
THE RELEASEMENT MASS
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
The Releasement Mass is an adaptation of several liturgies with original material by Bryan Rice, but is unique unto itself. This Mass was inspired by the Gnostic Liturgy of Peace and by spiritual teachers such as Tau Malachi, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rosamonde Miller, and Patricia Jepsen Chuse. This Mass is an empowerment and mix of shamanism, A Course in Miracles, Non-dual Gnosticism, and elements of dance that are part of the Cosmic Mass created by Matthew Fox. Come and be uplifted and freed from compulsions and desires that cause suffering and neurosis. Experience something you have never given yourself permission to take part in before. This Mass transcends any one tradition and is a partaking in the Light and Life Force of the Radiant Christ Presence. It is not a sacrifice in any way. It is a remembrance of our True Nature and Oneness in the Divine.
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
In this 2011 discourse and episode, Bryan shares from his research-driven book Silencing A Thousand Barking Dogs the topic related to optimal brain functioning or abnormal brain functioning as it relates to the developed and evolved or underdeveloped and non-evolved brain anatomy. He talks about how duality can occur in the brain and how “ghosts” or “influences” from our days spent in the womb and nursery years can impact brain development for good or for ill.
He begins by saying that the pre-frontal lobes play an enormous role in our biology of Transcendence and in the unfolding of the “blueprint” of the Spirit. Without the frontal lobes, we would not be able to control and keep in check the emotional limbic system, nor the reactive reptilian hindbrain. I an earlier discourse, Bryan mentioned the Orbital Frontal Loop are neural connections that are associated with the pre-frontal lobes and the third eye (Christ Eye) mentioning that it is this fourth brain in the five-fold brain system that is the last to develop and typically, in the context of the developmental life span, it is in late adolescence that this part of our brain system begins to form those very connections he mentions. It is worth noting that some children are born with larger pre-frontal lobes, while others have larger hindbrains. This is according to Joseph Chilton Pearce’s research.
What attributes to this? Conditions in the womb. An expected mother exposed to excessive fear, anxiety, emotional turbulence, and violence - conditions that would be detrimental to the climate of her nervous system. Such conditions could negatively impact pre-frontal lobe development and conversely might cause the hindbrain of the forming fetus to receive greater, but not better attention, and this may cause abnormalities in its frontal lobes. A negative consequence of such a happening is a child may be more prone to violent behavior. A fetus can live in a “pre-natal garden” or a “hostile jungle”. It is who the mother surrounds herself by and what environmental conditions she lives in that determines the intelligence of the future child.
Post birth experiences of either proper or a lack of bonding between the parents and children affect brain formation too and effects the overall blue print of when and if certain stages of myelination or the formation of neural connections occur on time or at all. Violent behavior and mental illness can occur because of a lack of bonding.
Bryan speaks of personal experiences which he calls “Refrigerator Love”, lack of affection in his youth, and believes his lack of bonding led to abnormal brain development and problems with attachment and in relationships with the opposite sex. He speaks of how he has overcome the deficits and mentions that many interventions to be shared in later episodes aid in the process of rewiring the brain for living a more enlightened life. By recognizing triggers and dis-identifying with oppressive thoughts and living a yogic lifestyle, Bryan has been able to transcend pain, mood instability, mental suffering, and arrested emotional development. In later discourses Bryan draws on medical research of people like Gerald May and Daniel Amen, MD to further explore brain disorders and how and why they occur.
Bryan shares how some of his spiritual emergencies and crisis experiences, which he characterizes as a descent into hell or being submerged in the subconscious led him into feelings of lack and scarcity. He makes mention of the power of words and thoughts as vibratory forces. Bryan does talk about his relationship with lack as it relates to “slowed” and “incoherent” states, negatively affected by brain imbalances. He touches on mania, depression, “affective disorder dogs”, mentions again schizophrenic disorders, anxiety disorders, the barking dogs of unwanted, persistent thoughts, his own past boughts with scrupulosity, obsessive fixations, hyper-religiosity, delusions of grandeur as he may have experienced them as the “brain anatomy of duality” in the context of Gerald May’s research. Moods are a mental nuisance. A barking dog. A thorn from a crown of thorns. Sometimes all the meditation and austerities in the world do not bring relief from affliction, Bryan says at one point. It is in those times we must weep with those who weep.
There are active ways to manage our thoughts. Whether in thoughtlessness or breathlessness, for instance. This is the goal of this series. To become free from bondage to our thoughts. Bryan doesn’t refute the value of taking medication while living a holistic, spiritual, yogic, and meditative lifestyle. He wants people to embrace a fusion of science and spirituality.
From a spiritual perspective, Bryan argues that the ego is insane, deluded, keeps us in bondage to maya (delusion), illusion, self-concepts, and negative self-concepts, all barking dogs that just won’t “shut up”. Guilt is hell, he says. Guilt is of the ego. A result of unconscious guilt we all have from the primal rejection of God.
Bryan gives credit where credit is due. He expresses gratitude for his experiences of grace.
He doesn’t want people to misunderstand the use of mantra and prayers and how they can help release negative energy such as anxiety. May says the intent behind prayer is to facilitate depth of awareness. Yoga for, Bryan releases anxiety.
In a later discourse, Bryan will talk about how meditation heals and talk more about recent brain research from Daniel Amen, MD.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
In this episode from 2011, from a mindset of one who has battled, wrestled, and sought to integrate the entire range of experiences from Deep God Communion to mental agony, Bryan draws from strong imagery and metaphor to describe not only what he went through, but he also tries to universalize brokenness, fragmentation, and what Toltec Master Don Miguel Ruiz calls “the mental disease of fear”, by putting it into a context of what a hurricane is like and how a “flood” of imagery erupting from the collective unconscious can create massive chaos, hallucinations, and other mental disturbances (“The Thousand Barking Dogs”). He reiterates, that psychological “noise” and disturbances of the psyche can be combated by identifying with the I Am Presence, that of which we are, within. Silence and stillness can be attained. Drawing on teachings of Ruiz and A Course in Miracles, he points out that only Love is real, and it is the wounds of fear, an “emotional poison” that influences other “venomous emotions”, all stemming from the imperial ego, that lead to mental unrest. Bryan shares personal stories and challenges with the various phenomenon mentioned above. He talks at length about how he integrated his shadow to gain new found awareness and to “exorcise” emotional demons through his art work. Bryan wants people to know that you can survive Dark Night of the Soul experiences that may take the form of mental illnesses and that you can recover from them with proper guidance and discernment. He shares poems that were later released as songs on the album “Fractured & Delivered”, where he had the chance to tell his story of recovery, discovery, and transcendence. More information on how to listen to or buy that album can be found at bryanrice.org.