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.
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 Dec 04, 2016
Sunday Dec 04, 2016
In this discourse (Episode 4), Bryan shares some of his music, the songs “Red Agony”, and “Fuel”, and “Desire Dipped in Kerosene” to illustrate the power of desire in our lives. Desire is a gift from the Divine, but when we think and act from our “dog-like” desires they try to and can exert a great deal of control over and destruction in our lives. He says that desire and passion can spread like wildfire when unharnessed or directed in a healthy, life-giving way. Bryan further talks about the relationship between love and desire. He highlights that we give away our life power when we direct all our energy toward outward things and people to fulfill our innermost desires.
Using the analogy of the behavior of dogs to talk about love, our heart’s desires, and emotionality and how there can be a see saw battle between how human love versus love for the Divine Presence is expressed Bryan taps into a topic that is relevant to all of humanity.
This episode presents the idea that desire can and should be seen in terms of gradations and dealing with desire is a balancing act. Desire-Energy (Fiery Intelligent Desire) or Kundalini (coiled) is housed in the base of the astral-metaphysical spine, and can lay dormant until activated. This energy is the evolutionary force in humanity that can he used for amazing things or could end, in what Bryan calls, “hellish macabre” if mishandled and abused.
Bryan argues that the primal separation that occurred from the Divine, was a process of desire energy being projected and hurled outward. The split ego mind came about, he says through the force of duality (a desire to experience something other than the Edenic State of Oneness) that caused the Big Bang creating the world and manifest reality filled with myriad forms and mirages “appearing” to be real. This discourse elucidates the idea that all the forms that make up this world are a projection from our minds. The brilliant gift of desire driven intelligence planted in our hearts by the Divine Presence is the very force that causes us to be creators and want to express our God-Like potential. Our attempt to be “All that Is” fueled the dream we have come to know as the physical universe, world, and the life stories we script and play out through desires that come from the split ego-mind.
Join Bryan in exploring this daring discourse on the power and “psychological noise” of desire.
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS: THE MYTH OF SPECIALNESS
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
THIS EPISODE WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE FREE TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD HERE ON turningpointsandtransformations.org
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
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Saturday Dec 01, 2012
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS: THE ACTUALITY OF DESIRE
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS: RISING FROM ROCK BOTTOM
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
Saturday Dec 01, 2012
At some point in all our lives, we are bound to hit rock bottom. We are never alone in this. And we can be resurrected from the depths of despair. There are many living examples of this. Tune in and be inspired.
Friday Nov 30, 2012
SPIRITUAL SPECTRUM WITH HOST FR. MICHAEL SHERBERT
Friday Nov 30, 2012
Friday Nov 30, 2012
Join the live interactive program about all things spiritual with Fr. Michael Sherbert and his team.
Sunday Nov 25, 2012
CHRIST MIND RAJA YOGA - DAY 10 LISTEN FREE
Sunday Nov 25, 2012
Sunday Nov 25, 2012
It is important to remember that revelations of any kind are filtered through human vessels, though divine in origin, still project some of their consciousness, the level they are at when they are the scribe and receiving Inspired Teachings. We have to take into consideration the gradations of consciousness of the writers as they transmit Heavenly Teachings. Channeling is not a pure and completely 100 percent accurate process. Anyone who tells you otherwise is foolish. And I mean that in the spirit of kindness.
Wednesday Aug 29, 2012
CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS YOGA EPISODES 10 AND 11
Wednesday Aug 29, 2012
Wednesday Aug 29, 2012
Begin the process of neutralizing your thoughts today.