Episodes
Tuesday May 15, 2018
TURNING POINTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS - THE ACTUALITY OF DESIRE
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Tuesday May 15, 2018
How does desire drive our lives? Desire is a gift from the Divine, a fiery energy. How does desire aid in our awakening? Can desire energy, when harnessed allow us to evolve? Desire energy when not harnessed can lead to suffering. Bryan promotes a form of meditation he was taught that deals with desire energy taught by Anmol Mehta (anmolmehta.com), the Silent Mind Meditation Technique, a seven step process. The Cosmic Play of Forces within us causes the process of involution and evolution. Taking two steps forward, and three backwards at time. We can be taken hostage by our desires and the fluctuations of the mind. Bryan mentions the Yoga Sutras (Pantanjali) and how stilling the fluctuations of the mind brings peace. But our constant pursuits stemming from desire can bring suffering and dis-ease. Desire is a power that is operative in our conscious and subconscious minds. We are driven to excel and to accomplish. This is a good thing. What are some pursuits to let go of? The attachment to needing to be special or an individual (constant need to be affirmed for our identity through self-definitions), our attachment to needing to be successful at all costs, the attachment to excessive self-promotion and inflated self-worth, the desires for fame and recognition (very hard to let go of this need to be recognized and important), the incessant need for acceptance and praise (things that we let define our self-esteem), we can be driven by the need for false joy to counteract pain through indulgence, we can be driven by the need to avoid reality, to power, to be needed by others, obsessions with sensual pleasures, emotionality, external stimulation, co-dependence on others, the need to exert control, and more. How can we meditate on ways to harness our desires to reduce and eliminate suffering, or currents in the mind that drive us to pursue certain ideals. Most of our ideals are illusory however noble they may seem. We need to release the thoughts that say we “should” do something to be happy. Find out what stands in the way of being in the present moment.
Tuesday May 15, 2018
TURNING POINTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS - CONSCIOUS HEALING
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Tuesday May 15, 2018
In this updated, edited, and enhanced episode with new material added to it, Conscious Healing takes aim at the both the cause of and healing of sickness or illness. Drawing from A Course In Miracles in the 2018 material and then Kundalini Yoga in the 2013 latter part of this episode, Bryan presents ways one can heal the mind and body through a change in perception or way of looking at one’s life. The ugliness of guilt and sorrow create pain and the seeds for illness. Forgiveness is the means for healing what is fractured in our minds so that we may return to Wholeness and Oneness. We are not victims of the world nor outside forces, but can be empowered to heal by seeing innocence first in one’s self and then in others.
Sunday May 13, 2018
Sunday May 13, 2018
Reflect on the nature of your Real Presence, Essence, and Being while considering teachings of A Course In Miracles about what the Real World is and where you think you are.
According to A Course in Miracles, your Real Identity is Christ and you are One with God. That is who you are. Other traditions might call your True Nature, The Atman, The Self, The Higher Self, The Buddha Nature, or the Inner Guru. Explore ideas surrounding what is the Real World versus what is considered to be illusion and mere appearances seeming to exist as form. You are here for a short time, are stuck in cycles of death and rebirth, but have never truly left your True Home in the Paradise State of Awareness known as Heaven.
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 Dec 18, 2017
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - CHOOSE PEACE
Monday Dec 18, 2017
Monday Dec 18, 2017
During this season of light, remember to "Choose Peace" in your life, the peace of Divine Presence. The Divinity of All There Is to illuminate your path and bring you contentment and joy. Join Bryan for this new episode today, an updated episode from a 2015 broadcast on Divine Realization Radio. This episode is brought to you by Temple Christ Realization, Project New Humanity Communications, and Miracles New Humanity, and promotes a course Bryan took from the ministry he is studying to become a part of, Pathways of Light. Their ACIM Practitioner Course 903, inspired this talk. He highly recommends that course to others. Check out Bryan's music and information about his books and previous CD Release of audio book "Light Transmissions", a compilation of meditations, affirmations, and self-initiations known as dikshas set to music. The book "Light Transmissions" is meant to be heard for maximum effectiveness. It is doing well in the digital and streaming market and hopes to uplift as many souls as possible. To listen to, try, then buy "Light Transmissions" visit bryanrice.org.
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.
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 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.
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.
Sunday Dec 11, 2016
Sunday Dec 11, 2016
Bryan continues in what was the prologue of the book “Silencing a Thousand Barking Dogs”, which inspired this series at the start of this episode. He talks some more about the focalized experiences that seemed to happen outside of him, but the shift in awareness was really taking place inside him. He references Eucharistic Adoration that was dear to him at the time, the experiencing of Pure Presence (Real Presence) in the Blessed Sacrament held in a monstrance on an altar. Bryan spent many hours and months in Adoration, and later came to realize that the Christ Presence on the altar that he seemed to “feel” was really an activation and a recognition of the inward Christ Presence within him. So, the outward Presence led him to a greater interior reality, and to experiences of “Light Transmissions” (later he wrote a book and set of audio recordings published and released by this very title - for more information go to bryanrice.org) and continuous “Holy Tears”. These tears or the primal joy was experienced through a yielding into the Divine Presence by bringing himself into intimate union through the celebrating of Mass (not the traditional understanding of Mass as a sacrifice, but nonetheless, the “Holy Meal”). He says that everyone can experience the type of joy he refers to in their own way through other means such as devotional forms like Bhakti Yoga, to name one.
Bryan then shifts to what it was like after his glimpse of Eternal Bliss, when he had to go back down into the world, so to speak, and ground himself. He mentions having withdrawn from the world before returning to it, spending a great deal of time sifting through all the emotions and information attained in a recluse-like manner, avoiding engaging in outward relationships for quite awhile. Bryan spent a lot of time in silence, expressing himself in bursts of what he later came to know as mania, as understood by worldly psychological systems that resulted in an outpouring of massive life-size puppetry, art work, the writing of poetry, books, screenplays, and music. But he later had to come to grips with the reality that his recluse state could not last. He admits to having had trouble finding the Divine Presence in ordinary life experiences involved with other human beings. He attributed his creativity to the awakening of Kundalini Desire Energy at the base of the astral spine in the “Inner Edenic-state of Fruitfulness”, which he will get more into in a later discourse. Bryan refers to teachings of one of his gurus Paramahansa Yogananda, a Christ-like Hindu who came to the west, when he said there was a purpose to Moses raising up the golden serpent in the wilderness to heal the Hebrew people who had been bitten by snakes. This biblical imagery is rich, Bryan says with esoteric symbolism and related to Kundalini Desire Energy in an outward symbol, a way the people could understand in their consciousness at that time in the evolution of awareness. Again, in a later discourse he will explain the meaning of the saying “The Son of Man must be raised up like Moses did the golden serpent in the wilderness” (ordinary human consciousness must be transcended into divine knowing or “Gnosis”).
Bryan tries to make listeners understand how someone who experiences a “Radiant” “Divine Experience” can come to be identified as neurotic, psychotic, even obsessive, and having mood swings and disturbances in personality, to further seem to manifest Schizoid-like/Schizophrenic-like and Bipolar like symptoms. Using references to activity in the chakras, imbalances in Kundalini energy, and citing what is commonly understood by mystics as “The Dark Night of the Soul”, Bryan attributes his “post-realization” experiences to this period of necessary humbling and even integrating and balancing within the astral and physical anatomy, the influx of spiritual energy he received.
Bryan said back in 2011 when this was originally recorded, that he is going to dedicate his life to teaching others to become enlightened. But he makes the point that attaining enlightenment is not “a quick fix bliss experience”, that there is more to it, that it is a process of “finding” and “losing” the treasure we try to protect (that of Divine Realization). Bryan says the purpose of his being swept away in the “Red Sea” like experience was one of death to his ego and learning to come to terms with all the negative, spiritual “life” threatening capabilities that stem from identifying with the ego.
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.
Monday Dec 05, 2016
Monday Dec 05, 2016
In part one of the talk “God Shock”, before talking about abnormal ritualistic behavior, habits, obsessions, and fixations that are a continuation of his analogies of the “Thousand Barking Dogs” we need to silence to have lasting peace and deep joy, Bryan takes some time to talk about his understanding of enlightenment and what is expected of us after having had peak experiences or gradations in Higher Awareness/Consciousness. He shares what was the most powerful experience and time in his life where he truly felt Transfigured in the light of the Divine Allness. The All-Encompassing Love, beauty, the wonder, and the awe he experienced through what A Course in Miracles would call “Revelation”, Gnostics would call “Gnosis” or Divine Realization, even God-Contact, the Buddhists would call “Satori” (flashes of Insight), what Christian Mystics would call Communion with God, and what great Yogis and many Hindus would call Samadhi (Bryan called his experience “Spontaneous Samadhi and the “Divine Portal” This experience “happened” to Bryan. He didn’t do anything to earn it through meritocracy. True Grace was freely given by the Divine and That Source blessed him with the experience of Love he had been searching for his entire life. He has spent almost fifteen years trying to contemplate and understand this “Influx” of Love and Light, but he humbly admits, that mystical experiences don’t last forever and that true Enlightenment is found by being truly present in the “Now”, without any fear. Mystical experiences are often times followed by a period known as “The Dark Night of the Soul”, which Bryan spends more time exploring how this personally affected his spiritual journey and shift in awareness.
Sunday Dec 04, 2016
Sunday Dec 04, 2016
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”. The activation of desire-energy, the kundalini, puts in motion our enormous potential and provides the "fruit" of our awakening.
Bryan argues that the primal separation from the Divine that occurred, that came from the desire known as the "Tiny Mad Idea", (as taught in A Course in Miracles) to be the "only God", to usurp the power and potential of God, driven by a hunger for "more", 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 and how this creates enormous appetites to find satisfaction through the senses.
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.
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.
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.
Saturday Dec 26, 2015
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - CHOOSE PEACE!
Saturday Dec 26, 2015
Saturday Dec 26, 2015
During this season of light, remember to "Choose Peace" in your life, the peace of Divine Presence. The Divinity of All There Is to illuminate your path and bring you contentment and joy. Join Bryan for this new episode today. Check out Bryan's music and information about his books and upcoming CD Release of audio book "Light Transmissions", a compilation of meditations, affirmations, and self-initiations set to music. The book "Light Transmissions" is meant to be heard for maximum effectiveness.
Tuesday Jun 17, 2014
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - DESCEND THEN TRANSCEND
Tuesday Jun 17, 2014
Tuesday Jun 17, 2014
We must do shadow work, to go down into the depths of our psyche in order to the work of Transcendence.
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.
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.
Friday Oct 25, 2013
TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS - DIVINITY & MAGNETISM
Friday Oct 25, 2013
Friday Oct 25, 2013
Join Bryan and explore the subject of magnetism of the whole human and divine personhood.
The songs you here 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