Episodes
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
In this 2011 discourse Bryan draws on research from Joseph Chilton Pearce on the five-fold brain system of evolutionary history. In sticking with the theme of this series, Bryan begins by giving an overview of the animal brains and the endless train of compulsions we are subject to. Though, we as humans are supposed to be a rational animal, making us more advanced and evolved, we get caught in the grip of strong desires and other impulses that keep up imprisoned. Again, he calls the desires we are subject to at times, “dog desires”, citing that we fall into beastial subconsciousness when we act only from our less evolved brains, contained within the five-fold system. Our minds become noisy, he says, and we all can be subject to hallucinations, not unlike those experienced by the schizophrenic (though by not by any means does he intend to downplay the struggles of schizophrenia for those who are disconnected from reality as experienced in this world).
He says, our motor behaviors and self-grasping behavior leads to a chain reaction of self-destructive habits or traps that cause us to lose precious space-time in our lives. He compares compulsion and habits to trances and hellish traps that we think ourselves into. We sink downward, matter ward, into our lower chakras, directing desire energy down and outward. As a shaman, Bryan draws a parallel between the lower triangle (muladhara, swadisthana, and manipura chakras) to the lower world that shamans travel into when they seek to tap into people’s power animals for the sake of healing and retrieval from the deep individual subconscious or into the collective unconscious consisting of “ruling idea energies” that can affect our behavior, thoughts, impulses, and attitudes. The creative and sexual energies of the lower chakras, are not in themselves “bad” but are not the entire spectrum of which make up the human condition.
Bryan cites the book “The Biology of Transcendence” by Joseph Chilton Pearce, calling it revolutionary in coming to understand the five-fold brain system and the entirety of the human condition beginning with the earliest brain, the reptilian brain, often associated with the “id” in Fruedian terminology and culminating in the fourth and fifth brains, the frontal lobes, and the heart brain respectively, with the heart brain being the most advanced and evolved. Yes, the heart is a brain and can be measured. When entrained, neurally and energetically, with the frontal lobes, earlier developed brains are incorporated and give sovereignty to the higher brains. This creates a desired state of harmony and peace, equilibrium and even-mindedness.
Beginning with the reptilian brain, Bryan proceeds to share his understanding of behaviors, thoughts, attributes, and actions often associated with each brain, continuing with the old mammalian, new mammalian, then the frontal lobes (called the “angel lobes” by some people), and finally the heart. Understanding the older brains helps us identify the art of deception, lying, dealing with threats, formulation of emotions, making decisions, learning to walk, developing language and more. For instance, the quick reflex-oriented faculties might work well in a “dog fight” as Pearce says, but doesn’t best serve us in the pursuit of higher awareness.
Bryan talks about the power of the imagination as a god-like quality but then again asks the listener why we suffer from an endless train of obsessive-compulsive thoughts that carry us away from the present moment. The trick he says, is becoming totally still. To surround yourself with silence. He wants the listener to know what he has learned about the fourth and fifth brains, that it allows us to transcend thought. Bryan further comments on the process of evolution in consciousness and how the higher brains learn to incorporate the lower ones in order to better serve the highest good. Conflict and division however can occur when we are not following “Nature” or the Cosmic Plan for the evolution of our Biology which is made to Transcend.
Bryan shares his experiences of both bliss and the absence of it with activity related to the Third Eye and the part of the brain called the Orbital Frontal Loop. In efforts to better understand what he has been through and where he is going, he shares his personal insights about the frontal “angel” lobes.
Friday Dec 09, 2016
Friday Dec 09, 2016
EPISODE 7
This episode starts with the notion that Intentions behind rituals as well as the “Presence” brought to them, helps to create an interior experience free of ruminating thoughts. This is a continuation from the discourse in episode 6.
Bryan talks more about his “God Shock” experience and how it influenced him to answer callings to many spiritual roles. But he is able to admit that the callings he received are not to be defined by the various roles he plays. He talks about not taking self-definitions seriously and renounces the idea of specialness. He shares his perspective on how, he, like Jeshua (Jesus) had to face mirages in the desert wilderness of his mind and had to wrestle with his ego. Bryan says he was called to a path called “The Way”, not to an institution or a role.
He briefly mentions all the ways we crucify ourselves and divide our psyche. The shattered psyche, expressed many times through mental illness, is the experience of the crown of thorns. Then he says that a sick mind creates a sick body. The body has experiences, but is not the “experiencer”. He points to the “Witnessing Consciousness”. He believes like other spiritual teachers that everything is evolving back towards God. The way of suffering that Bryan has traveled has allowed him to become a healer. He says that religion is a means not an end and that he is on a path of inclusivity after his awakening to Love.
The “Way”, the path, is what original followers of Christ followed before the institution of state religion. This “Way” includes “Life” or “Abundance”, “Death” (to the false self), “Resurrection” of the True Self, or what Hindus call the “Atman”, then it culminates in “Ascension” or “Transcendence”, and then later into “Assumption” or what he calls “The Cosmic-Bliss- Principle”, known more traditionally as the many mansions of God. We are all called to this path in our lives. Jeshua (Jesus) as an enlightened, self-realized being, demonstrated that we can all walk this path and should. Many saints and mystics from all religions and spiritualities have went through all these stages in their lives.
The process of Ascension he says, is rising above thought (the barking dogs), rising above body consciousness (dog-like desires), rising above impulses (dog-like instincts), rising above chemical messages in the brain, and rising above all the physical manifestations that keep us matterward or in our egoic script and screenplay (maya and delusion). Heaven he says is experienced in the upper chakras of our astral anatomy. Our bodies experience internally, the Cosmic Bliss Principle. But we can experience a descent “hell” by solely identifying with the body.
Bryan wants people to recognize the darkness as well as the light. Not to be defined by our darkness, but to name it. He references the biblical image of the “Wheat and the Weeds” (Yang-Yin) and says they are within us. We are made of dark, light, and admixed energy and these all influence our perceptions of self, God, and creation and what we project and manifest.
Bryan ultimately admits that he had to stop priding himself on being “religious” and learn to just “Be”, meaning, “Be present as presence”. After his transfiguration-like experience he owned up to the fact that he will have to pay that forward and go back down the “mountain” back into the “valleys”, back into the world to serve, like the disciples of Jeshua (Jesus) were told to do after witnessing their master’s Transfiguration.
Bryan cautions people about the temptation to get stuck in the specialness (or inflation) felt after having a mystical experiences. He, though he resisted, had to go back into the world to “serve”. Bryan furthermore, is thankful for the gift of “Holy Tears” that he was given - the joy, that motivates him to help pull others out of fear into love, and ultimately out of afflictive emotions into uplifting emotions and states of being.
Ultimately, he sums up our purpose. It is to be aware, to be present, to know who we are, to know who we are in God, to allow God to live through us, and to see God in everyone else.
Sunday Nov 20, 2016
Sunday Nov 20, 2016
This is a continuation of the Introduction to the "Silencing a Thousand Barking Dogs", series. Orginally published in the summer of 2011, Bryan shares his personal journey of awakening, discovery, and recovery along with insights of how to become free from thought structures, inner struggles, the duality of the mind, egoic mental chatter, fixations of obsessive thinking and how to become free from our thought structures and overcoming blocks to true conscious awareness of Divinity. He helps us remember that we are in Reality One with All That is, and that we are Pure Being, not thought, or mental restlessness created by the split egoic mind. Thoughts are just vibrations.
In this free Introductory sample to the paid Series to follow, Bryan introduces key ideas that influence what we help to manifest and bring into the world where we seem to experience reality. All creation originates out of a "womb of creation", a primordial matrix. Our stream of mental activity directly impact what we "seem" to experience here in this world.
Bryan talks about mental fragmentation and chatter that humans experience is a universal phenomenon. He wants everyone to know that a "diagnosis" is not anyone's true identity and can through perseverance be transcended through union and communion with Divinity and true transformation of and recovery from a mental affliction is a process of ongoing evolution in consciousness.
Ultimately, Bryan wants people to understand how our "mental tape recordings" can seem to control our lives, but this need not be. The goal is liberation from thought. Stillness. Peace. Beingness.
Sunday Nov 20, 2016
Sunday Nov 20, 2016
Originally published in the summer of 2011, Bryan shares his personal journey of awakening, discovery, and recovery along with insights of how to become free from thought structures, inner struggles, the duality of the mind, egoic mental chatter, fixations of obsessive thinking and how to become free from our thought structures and overcoming blocks to true conscious awareness of Divinity. He helps us remember that we are in Reality One with All That is, and that we are Pure Being, not thought.
In this free Introductory sample to the paid Series to follow, Bryan introduces key ideas that influence what we help to manifest and bring into the world where we seem to experience reality. All creation originates out of a "womb of creation", a primordial matrix. Our stream of mental activity directly impact what we "seem" to experience here in this world.
Ultimately, Bryan wants people to understand how our "mental tape recordings" can seem to control our lives, but this need not be. The goal is liberation from thought. Stillness. Peace. Beingness.