Episodes
Saturday Sep 30, 2017
Saturday Sep 30, 2017
In this second discourse on brain anatomy and duality, Bryan introduces a spiritual doctor named Daniel G. Amen. A clinical and neural scientist, a child and adolescent Psychiatrist and Medical Director of the Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine. A recipient of many awards, he is an expert on the relationship between the brain and behavior. and he is the author of several books. In this episode Bryan will share what he has learned from Dr. Amen in his book “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsession, Anger, and Impulsiveness” about interventions to take with respect to improving and maintaining optimal brain functioning, the climate of our thoughts, the climate of our feelings, the climate of sense regulation, the supervision of all the things that happen in the brain, all those thousand barking dogs we deal with on a daily basis. The essence of the book says that we are not stuck with the brain we are born with. Bryan says this is a good thing because the brain helps to create the reality, all the situations and encounters that we draw to us, what we come to know while in a body. It is important to note that the brain can turn on us and we don’t need to be mentally disturbed or deranged to know that. There is now medical and scientific proof that under activity or over activity in certain parts of the brain can create “afflictive barking dogs” we come to wrestle with, whether harmful, fearful, avoidant, aggressive, or impulsive in nature. Dr. Amen’s research in brain imaging has led to more effective treatment of mental disorders, allowing people to become much higher functioning.
Dr. Amen is noted for showing how your brain, or the “hardware of the soul”, can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Bryan says we need to learn to shake hands with the devil and realize that the devil has the face of our own self, rather the self-projected images of the brain, not just the overall mind that contains the brain within it. Bryan compares the journey into facing our worst “enemy” as the descent into hell where we realize that what we consider to be our enemy, is really our best friend.
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.