Episodes
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.
Sunday Nov 27, 2016
Sunday Nov 27, 2016
Are you annoyed by repetitive, loud barking dogs? Have you ever have the experience where one dog’s barking sets off a chain reaction in the neighborhood? Bryan illustrates in this episode that this kind of nuisance is a metaphor to help understand the reactive, habitual, obsessive tendencies and “chatter patterns” of our split ego mind. He talks about the universal experience humans have of dealing with psychological noise. Bryan calls this the “barking god-dog syndrome.” He says we can’t just tune out those “Thousand Barking Dogs”, but rather we need to tame the lower reactive “dog nature”, the blind sense-mind, that is.
Do we really hear? Do we really listen? If we would really pay attention and be fully aware, we would realize that our ego-minds are extremely restless and tense. Filled with turmoil. We all hear inner voices that come from our split ego mind that prevent us hearing Divine Mind speak to us. The exciting thing is we can rewire our brain’s to think and act more clearly with that Higher God Mind. By the end of this in depth series you will be able to choose new ways to rewire your mind and transcend lower levels of consciousness through transmutation of darker, fearful energies we are susceptible to into pure radiant light.
At the core of who we all really are, none of us can be sick. Labels of science and medicine that are called disorders are merely an attempt to categorize human behavior and suffering, try to make sense of it, and bring about order through understanding by trying to treat the symptoms instead of getting to the root cause behind what appears to make us sick. Our bio-energetic systems are a ceaselessly flowing river of light and energy that on occasion appears to become form when viewed through the body’s eyes. This river of light seems to materialize when we choose separation or choose the illusion of material ‘reality’, or what appears to be reality and we thus create a “print out” our a being we call “self”. So, at any given moment, we may choose to inhabit or materialize a body that has a brain that may be wired or chemically imbalanced. Before the material is the energetic realm (astral realm). Before that is the realm of thought (causal realm). Thoughts become manifest when we have belief in them. And we make images from those thoughts, including bodies, that can appear to be sick.
What we are is awareness. We are not our thoughts, but we come from Thoughts in the Mind of Divinity. Divinity is one. Divinity is not dualistic. Divinity cannot be sick or make sickness. Only the split mind can. And that is our dilemma. How do we create without falsely manifesting? When we seem to experience suffering, sickness, or brokenness, we have attempted to cut ourselves off from the Wholeness of Divinity, The One great life, by choosing the insanity of separation (the choice to be an individual self) from Oneness.
Our thoughts do create the world we see and when we choose duality over Oneness with God Mind, we “hallucinate” an outside world and conditions of sickness. Bryan admits to ‘choosing’ through his split ego-mind to become a Schizo-Affective victim” and to suffering symptoms for a period of time. He has overcome this false “print out/false self” and is in recovery. What he doesn’t say in this discourse is that he also ‘chose’ to manifest an “Obsessive-Compulsive” false self as well. We all, however are subject to obsessions when we identify with our thoughts, specifically fear. Bryan emphasizes that we can always choose again, to be what we are - completely whole, completely one, complete stillness and at peace. Brokenness and fragmentation are not eternal states.
Finally, he doesn’t want people to think that he is minimizing human suffering, just providing another perspective from which to view how it ‘seems’ to come into existence and that, yes, it can appear quite real. Reframing one’s worldview and view of the True Self is the beginning of healing understanding that we ‘create’ alternate realities that appear to be true. We must take ownership of what we manifest out into what appears to be a our ‘reality’, specifically our pain and inner mental garbage. Throughout the series Bryan will share personal accounts of his journey of self-integration and he once again, emphasizes that mental afflictions can be transcended through identifying with Love, our Reality as Spirit, the One True Constant.
Bryan hopes that his story of deliverance from mental affliction is an inspiration to others. He touches on the awakening experience that changed his life and wants to contribute to the awakening of others. Those "Thousand Barking Dogs" called thoughts are not who we are.
Monday Oct 28, 2013
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE
Monday Oct 28, 2013
Monday Oct 28, 2013
Explore with Bryan Rice, the ideas surrounding grace and evolution of consciousness.
Check out all Bryan's published books and music at bryanrice.org. The songs you here on this program are written and sung by Bryan.
Saturday Mar 09, 2013
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - SILENT MIND MEDITATION PROGRAM WEEK 2
Saturday Mar 09, 2013
Saturday Mar 09, 2013
Week 2 of phase 1 of the Silent Mind Meditation Program.
Saturday Mar 09, 2013
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - CONSCIOUS HEALING
Saturday Mar 09, 2013
Saturday Mar 09, 2013
Tune in for a special episode titled "Conscious Healing" with Bryan Rice. Healing is a process of Conscious Realization of our Divinity.
Songs you hear on this program are written, composed, and sung by Bryan. To learn how to buy and listen to more of his music and published books check out bryanrice.org
Thursday Feb 21, 2013
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - SILENT MIND MEDITATION PROGRAM WEEK 1
Thursday Feb 21, 2013
Thursday Feb 21, 2013
Week 1 of the Silent Mind Meditation Program Adaptation - Silencing A Thousand Barking Dogs of Desire.
Sunday Feb 17, 2013
Sunday Feb 17, 2013
SILENCING A THOUSAND BARKING DOGS OF DESIRE, AN INTRODUCTION TO AN ADAPTATION OF THE SILENT MIND MEDITATION PROGRAM DESIGNED BY ANMOL MEHTA FROM anmolmehta.com.
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - END OBSESSION NOW
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
We all obsess over something. Explore this struggle from a spiritual perspective with some insights as to how you can radically bring an end to your obsessions through a change in perception.
Wednesday Dec 05, 2012
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - TREADING ON SCORPIONS PART 1
Wednesday Dec 05, 2012
Wednesday Dec 05, 2012
Learn to tread on all sorts of emotional and psychological "scorpions" in the desert of your awareness. You can have peace all the time and stay calm and non-emotional. To tread on scorpions means to be in Divine Alignment with the Infinite Presence and Consciousness. We need to mirror and command the presence of love with true power to be unaffected by our susceptibility to dark moods, destructive habits, addictive behavior, the pain body's emotional wounds, fears, negativity, fixations, afflictive emotions, compulsions, opinions, fixations and more. Align with the Divine to Tread on the scorpions in your life.