Conscious awareness can be liberated to a much higher level when freed up from the shackles of the physical brain.
Modern scientific thinking, now sweeping the field of consciousness studies, theorizes that the brain is a reducing valve, or filter, that reduces primordial consciousness down to a trickle— to provide us our very limited human awareness of the apparent “here and now.”
We appear to be conscious in spite of our brains. This opens the door to developing more complete explanations of human experiences, both mundane and exotic. In fact, Psi phenomena such as telepathy have been confirmed repeatedly in a laboratory setting. The scientific study of consciousness will progress through deeper investigation of such empirical observations about human experience, as opposed to the conventional materialist approach of simply denying the evidence.
Consider the fact that you have never witnessed anything other than the inside of your own consciousness. Paramount in any effort to comprehend reality at a deeper level is to understand that all of that stuff “out there” is actually an internal model: a construct within mind that we presume represents something that should be “out there.”
Our perceptions of the world seem to mask the fundamental truth of it. Rising above this Supreme Illusion offers the opportunity to move beyond the here and now. Meditative practices can help us to rise above the illusion of time and space of physical reality.
An excellent metaphor for this situation is that of asking a fish what it’s like to live in the water. “What water?” the fish might easily challenge. It has never known anything but the water, and thus is oblivious to its existence. Likewise for us, swimming in the sea of consciousness—it is the only thing we’ve ever known.
PRACTICE
In your daily practice, notice that when you fully place your focused attention on your breathing, you have entered the “now” moment, where past and future seem no longer to exist. Notice if awareness of your physical body or surroundings seems to lessen.
RESOURCES
Beyond Physicalism by Edward Kelly et. al.
Interesting and thank you! Looking forward to expanding my self awareness even more so.
Much Love and Blessings to Eben and Karen and those on this wonderful journey!
Gratefully, Karen
Strangely, my filter system dubbed in “Field of Conflict and Confusion” for “Field of Consciousness”
Cheers Charles
I did experience that connection with Self or Now as it’s referred to here. It happened maybe three times, but lasted maybe five seconds each time. I’m happy with that because typically my mind is very chatty when I try to meditate. Using the 20 minute Om recording is helping this process. Helps to bring me back when my mind wants to go elsewhere. Grateful for that.
Am getting that feeling that everything lessons away, and that my ego throws some distressing pictures into my mind to try to prevent me from doing this
Yes, if you haven’t been used to listening to your breathing like I have. Yes, the distractions can be very discouraging.
I’m not having the success others are. While trying to focus on my breathing and this moment, my mind kept returning to the problem that is making me feel so anxious and angry. I did keep trying to come back, but I can’t say that everything else melted away.
I can completely appreciate that frustration. I have experimented with a few varieties of meditation over the years for that exact reason. My idea was that I needed to shut out all the mental noise, and that if I wasn’t succeeding at quieting the mental noise, then I must be doing it wrong. I developed the idea that I just hadn’t found the right technique yet… I have since realized it’s not so much about the technique as much as consistency. Before I started this program I had started a regular daily meditation that I have maintained now for two months. This is the longest I’ve maintained a meditation practice. I have a lot of stressors in my life, and a continual lack of sleep, which generally doesn’t lead to the most positive of moods. However, now I’m finding that I can handle these stressors in a more thoughtful way. And I don’t fall asleep during meditation anymore.
But here’s the thing: when I meditate, I still get distracted by my mental noise.
Just because you are still experiencing the mental noise doesn’t mean you’re not getting benefit from the practice. Enjoy the practice, and stay consistent. 🙂
Hi Sarah,
First… patience. Day by day, inch by inch. Our minds have been programmed to operated just as you have described for a very long time, ingrained even.
Please don’t be harsh on yourself and give it some time. Relax. Be persistent with daily practice. Just notice events as they arrive in your thinking. With regularity, you will begin to notice how thoughts will simply “move on”, just like a cloud in the sky and disappear. It is when we pluck the thought up and romance, turning it over and over that rumination over the thought takes over. This produces disturbing side effects (believe me I know what obsessive thinking feels like – ouch). Just remain calm and observe. Your mind will settle in time. Thank your brain for doing what it does best. But now, YOU are taking over and doing whats best for you in order to foster inner peace and self healing. You can do it. Persist and give your brain time to relax and to work in concert with your new way, your choice to take a new and healthier path. Don’t give up. This program offers excellent insights. Stick with it. Rooting for you! You will realize the flood gates of peace and equilibrium If you stay the course. Have no expectation as to when the shift will happen. Likely a slow but worthy progression. Be prepared for the long haul and get rid of quick fix mentality.
xoxo
I took a Mindfulness meditation course (MBSR) recently and one of the things I loved was the often repeated, gentle reminder not to beat up on ourselves when our concentration wanders off. We all have that happen. The trick is simply to notice and then the minute you notice, like magic, you are back in the present moment. All good 🙂
Synchronicity! That term almost always makes me think of that funny story of C.G. Jung trying to convince a female patient that her current complex really did involve sex. As they were talking outside under a tree, a pair of birds landed on a branch near them & proceeded to copulate noisily! After a hearty laugh, his client was much more open to Jung’s shrewd opinion.
I was digging through some compost w/ gloved hands & saw a coiled, shiny, reddish-brown object that I first thought was a plastic piece of some sort. To my great surprise, I realized I was holding a very large centipede, which I quickly ripped in two. The next afternoon, my wife’s niece wanted me to write a summary for her about a short story called “The Centipede.” What was a little creepy about the story was the centipede was also very large & the narrator used it, after he killed it, to toss on his extremely mean sister’s lap so she fainted!
My first raja yoga teacher in 1969 told us that the purpose of the brain is to enable us to narrow perception down into the specific range of this reality so that we can fully experience it and navigate in it. Without the brain, we have access to all knowledge, and we are a part of it, but to gain the fine skills of consciousness in this density of reality, the brain is essential for focusing. And we come into a body here precisely to experience this focus of consciousness! But—we did not mean to forget our greater focus and reality. Those who did not forget their greater nature have been called the wise men, wise women, shamans, medicine people, etc., of their people. These are people who maintained awareness of and access to their own higher dimensional realities. Some more than others. For me, I have had to work at appreciating this precisely focused reality and realize it is part of the greater reality, and no mistake! I have found that the higher self, our own higher consciousness, can work with the brain; the brain will take direction from the true self, and when this happens, one is not a prisoner in this highly focused reality and it becomes far more enjoyable and challenging in a positive way to be here.
Dear Linda,
Thank you such a precise summary of the necessity of the brain. That reminded me of a quite frightening story by Wilhelm Reich about a schizophrenic patient of his. The poor man had suffered mightily from cuts he had made along the vertical axis of his body, in seven particular spots. It was later that I learned about the chakras & realized he was dealing w/ sensations that were very disturbing, uncomfortable or frightening for him that were coming from his etheric body, as far as I could tell. Perceptions from other levels of reality can be a real problem for the uneducated/uninitiated!
Thank you Linda for the thorough explanation
I too believe that the brain and mind aren’t our enemies as some people would consider. They are actually the best companions we could have and we need for life in the world of relativity. We need them to navigate our way among the many choices and events we encounter on Earth. But one must learn how to use them the best, and at times how to not use them or in other words shut them down for a while when she wants to access the infinite consciousness for example through meditation.
Best
Saba
The awareness of the physical body and the environment seems to be diminishing.
Thank you NEP. I did some listening to the OM download the other day with my intent of re-experiencing the love my husband and I share but in the hospital setting where he was I was unable to relax and ‘feel’ the experience of his transition. During my listening OM time I was present and also ‘whisked’ into a consciousness setting where I saw in an extremely lucid frame by frame review of our times spent in water settings…lakes, sailing the ocean in a friend’s borrowed sailboat, swimming and rowing inland lakes, and more that I forgot to write down. Following that I found myself ‘whisked’ back at the hospital setting where I was able to be with him, breathe his last 3 deep breaths with him and be witness to his welcome to the Greatness which went on for what seemed like hours. He was celebrated in a sense of Fullness that felt greater and more grand than the Universe that I have only one other time (when my mother passed several decades before now). In real time, back in December when my husband transitioned, I felt my husband’s arms and hands on mine as I helped another Veteran find his room by pushing his wheelchair for him. My daughter and I have continued to feel his presence via touch, changes in light where we were in two dimensions at once, one interposed on the other, for 3 months. It is only now that I feel that for the most part we are mostly earth based except for thoughts and intuitions that have his distinct personality attached. So, I am looking forward to continuing to know my husband as I have for many years in my meditative and regular day activities while wondering what my future holds. btw, how do you leave an initial response on this site. I can only Leave a Reply but can’t find the place for simply responding. Can someone tell me how to do this? Thank you.
You will find the area to leave an original reply by scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page.
What a beautiful description of your “re-experience” as your husband made his transition.
I would like for you folks to consider coming to my church The Unity Center of New York. We would benefit from anything you have to say.
Firstly thank you for all you efforts and insights.
On the big picture verses the mind.
I now accept the awareness that as a concious being we have always existed and will always exist. And that I am now experiencing a human existence by choice.
As I view the Earth and all its millions of creatures it became apparent that the only being the dose not fit is us. On an evolutional level we are on our own.
Why!
What stands us apart is our ability to create from thought via emotion and action. The ability to conceive outside of nature.
How we arrived at this can be contentious be it Darwin, creation or intervention.
It became apparent that we are creator beings learning how to create by experiencing the creative process. Like when a seed is planted in a fertile envioroment it will germinate, break through the surface grow to sow it own seed and returne to nature.
As a ovium is fertilised the baby busts through the surface in birth and as a creative being experiences the creative process first hand. For the only way to truly know is through experience.
Why!
As an eternal being I suggest we all eventually will create from thought alone but to do that we need to understand balance and create from love and acceptance of all that may be affected by that thought.
Hence we come the the University of material creation where we can create without impacting the greater existence.
One life time is but a page in our evolution.
This is why your program is so important for those who have reached a level of development that they now want to evolve to a deeper understanding of purpose.
Thank you again.
Kind and warm regards
It seems to me that understanding and studying one’s consciousness “without a body”, apart from focusing on breathing , is very much helped by Lucid dreams – they eliminate the feeling of attachment to the physical body, leaving the self-awareness of oneself as a person awake. This eliminates a lot of illusions and self-restrictions that we consciously or unconsciously impose on ourselves in everyday life. And of course, freedom from many limitations in Lucid dreams helps us to get rid of some of our limitations in everyday life. And much more…
Thank you Peggy, that sounded much like I experienced it. The breathing was quite focused leaving the rest of the body in suspension. Not dangerously, just gently. Thank you Karen and Eben for guiding us into understanding more of human consciousness. Does anyone actually understand the full workings of the Heart? I happened to watch the you tube of
Evan Carmichael, with the Flash Mob, started by” one little girl “,as they played, “Ode to Joy.” This was on the email of Galactic Heart. As soon as the little girl put the money in the man’s hat on the ground, I got this flush of goosebumps , and a feeling of unconditional love surging through my body, and I started to cry from the loving feeling knowing God had sent them there to play this loving melody for all to feel and hear. It was a true feeling of God’s Love and a Blessing to all.
Thanks for the these inspirational knowledge. It is food for my soul. I just went through stage 4 cancer and got healed by my conscious mind. My body still hurts and sometimes I want to free myself from these physical limitations. Meditation helps me to come home sometimes more sometimes less. All i need is clarity of reality. It is so inspiring to hear about your NDE. …
The Filter Theory makes absolute sense. Some kind of filter is completely self evident to me and beautifully practical and essential for life on Earth. How else could we survive and accomplish anything in the physical world if if everyone was completely open to the forces and impressions of the other realms all the time? The lunatic asylums would be full and nothing would ever get done!
But this is nothing new. Prophets, saints and wise men have been telling us about a Loving God/Consciousness/Unity/Om (whatever you want to call it) since humans first set foot on the Planet. Eventually when we all die we will all come to experience the essence of what Eben is talking about in all it’s splendour and magnificence. However most people will travel quite happily through their lives never experiencing anything remotely like his NDE ………………and this is just as it should be. Most of us do not need such experiences to find deep and important meaning in our lives although things of the other world can indeed come to any of us at any time when there is a need, especially at times of great hardship and loss.
It seems to me that the important thing about Eben’s message is that it helps the rest of us to believe in an All Loving, Merciful and Conscious Force/God behind all of existence. This fact alone gives great comfort, joy and meaning to life. This message is more vital than ever at this time in our materialistic Western culture
It is a very interesting fact that in the Islamic world where the average ordinary muslim has a genuine and sincere faith and belief in One God (ie Unity of Consciousness) and life after death, that NDE’s simply do not occur. The average muslim has the belief already deeply wired into his or her psyche – something that has been lost in our culture for a very long time.
So the question is: how do we shut our brains down almost completely without dying? It would have to done in a lab with a professional present to make sure nothing goes wrong. Meditation only brings a peaceful feeling. I can’t imagine how we could even approach what Dr. Alexander experienced by mediation alone. I think drugs are dangerous. I remember from the ’60s and early ’70s some people who had very bad drug trips and were damaged by it. So another question is: how do we access the infinite realm of all knowledge and achieve results like Einstein, Edison, Tesla, etc. etc. ? All these people had a great idea, knew it was possible and then worked really hard to make it happen. That’s where I want to be. Anything else is just talk, possibilities and entertaining ideas.
In day 3 it finallly clicked that i am not my mind, my thoughts, im not that brain that Im told is housed inside my head. The never ending “thinking” As soon as i closed my eyes, i just had the thought Im not in here, im part off all, i could no longer define my physicality, the “thinking” of physical boundaries was gone. I could actually “know/feel” was twitching to get out, fly. I did have a thought that “what will happen if i leave this space we call our body? I wasnt afraid, but whatever IT all is didnt take any further than blurring my physical with “ALL”. I did call to my deceased sister and felt overwhelming love all around the “space” I was in. Im 58, have read about all this, but never internalized or my brain wouldnt break through? I finally get what “meditation” is. Cant wait to be taken deeper out of my physical barriers which are I now believe the only thing we are taught, so its all we know. Physical is in my way, Im breaking out of my narrow box like existence.
You should try watching The OA on Netflix if you are interested in NDEs
Thank you Randy…You make a lot of sense.
I want that too. I join you in your wonder.
This makes eminent sense to me. We are here to experience an earth life, and part of that life lies in rediscovering our whole self, as an emerging consciousness, by retuning our ‘brain filter’ to our true Selves and by doing so we push forward the evolution of human consciousness and the prime aim of the Universe becoming conscious of itself. We are at the peak of evolution and we came to continue this awakening for all…
“you have entered the “now” moment, where past and future seem no longer to exist.” This is true and consistent with Hindu philosophy, which further explains that the “now” does not exist either. Please consider the following:
We consider the past does not exist as it has passed, disappeared, changed itself into something else. The future also does not exist because it does not exist at this moment: it has not yet arrived. Now what is “the present?” The present is that which does not exist because it has no measurement. The present is that interval of time or moment of time when the future changes into the past.** This moment of transition of a phenomenon, from one nonexistence (future) into another nonexistence (past), is the present, which is only a fiction, as the present moment has no measurement. This present moment can never be caught and measured and what we did catch is always the past. So we have to admit here that neither the present nor the past nor the future exists. Therefore the past is that which has disappeared leaving an impression, the present has no existence because that unimaginable time of present moment flashes through the mind before we catch it, into the past, ending nowhere in an endless vicious circle of nothing.
Usually we take no account of this and are constantly fooled by our imaginary reality of the world created by the mind. In conclusion, time and space are other aspects of mind.
Sourced from Chapter 9 (Astral Body, The Mystery of Mind, and Extrasensory Perception) of The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga by Swami Vishnu-devananda
**“vortex” is how I explain it to myself – DS
I don’t mean to be rude, but all this thinking leaves me more determined to go out and find someone who is hungry and feed, to go through my house and find things that others may need like warm clothing and then, as in Field of Dreams….to go out to a baseball game and order ‘a dog and a beer.’
God does exist, created the universe so that intelligent life would evolve and be able to recognise Him and appreciate it all. God has always sent great Teachers to guide us. Where is the latest One? Search bahai.org ……………………………..
Anecdote, unfortunately, doesn’t equal proof in general. That is why scientific experimentation is important. Designing the experiments is critical – they must be unambiguous.
Personal experience of mind-expansion to other spheres of existence, through meditation or drugs, or as a result of stressful experiences MAY be windows into other “Worlds of God”, but they are not proof. I look forward to science gradually amassing the proof!!
But these experiences do little to assist humanity as a whole to face the challenges it has in today’s world and to find solutions to the multitude of problems we face as a species.
They may be personally satisfying, they may enable us to make money by marketing the ideas, but is that enough to save us all?
I am very new to all of this. I happened upon Eben’s story and decided to investigate further. So far I’m very glad I did. I do a lot of existential thinking and questioning. Everyday I am simply blown away that we even exist at all. Sometimes I feel like there is no way that we humans ended up here on Earth without a Creator putting us here. Then other times I fear that there is no Creator at all. I am so lost. BUT my mind is wide open. This is only day 4 for me but so far everything I’ve learned from this feels right. Thank You both for sharing all this with the world.
God does exist, created the universe so that intelligent life would evolve and be able to recognise Him and appreciate it all. God has always sent great Teachers to guide us. Where is the latest One? Search bahai.org ……………………………..
God is Dog spelt backwards, I think you’re looking in the wrong place 😉
Thank you very much for your wisdom.
Terminal lucidity…thank you for that term! That’s exactly what happened with my mom. Many years prior, she had 2 NDEs (Raymond Moody’s staff even came to see her) during 2 different heart surgeries. When she was in hospice a few years ago, she begged my dad to come home so she could die there. She had been hooked up to oxygen, couldn’t breathe without it, and had a hard time speaking at all for weeks. A few days after being home, she took off the oxygen and proceeded to carry on a 5-hour conversation with my dad, where they talked about their lives and laughed a lot. He even said she looked 30 years younger, like they stepped back in time. At one point, she stopped mid-sentence and said there was an angel, carrying the flowers I had sent for her birthday a few weeks prior. She remarked how beautiful they were and incredible the scent was. She then died in my dad’s arms. This experience has brought him indescribable peace. There is truly so much more. Thank you for these wonderful daily offerings!
That’s an amazing true to life story. Really grateful you shared it. Very touching.
Very moving and powerful, Florence. Thank you.
Thank you, Florence, for your beautiful account of your mother’s transition time.
I did day four on my IRMS mat, 24 minutes on stress setting. I’m not feeling stressed just like that setting. Did some deep breathing, experienced some very light tingling, said some prayers, felt my heart beating at times and then the time was up. Feeling relaxed and ready for bed…
Another metaphor for the limitations we face in the physical rhelm is the dilemma of a two-dimensional man trapped inside a square. His inability to exit the square results solely from the limitations of his physical reality. From our higher level reality, such limitations simply do not exist.
Day 4 Consciousness Journey seemed to help my overall day… before I did the reading and practice R Kelley’s song “I Can Fly” came over the radio and my entire head and parts of my body began to intensely tingle… i felt the sensations along with the feeling that humanity is birthing a new consciousness as well… peak oneness moments birth in life at different times… not to get political… like the global moment when Obama gave his acceptance speech in Grant Park in Chicago; people around the entire globe experienced an outpouring of freedom and love…. seemed like freedom for all life was birthing.
I’d like to think so.. possibly we need to be re-minded that our earthly experience is about rising above the fray that results when we are slaves to our baser desires & needs. If we are simply siritual beings findingboutvwhat its like to be mortal, capable of goodnesd as well as evil, why have a caring consciousness about humanity either way? We have the capacity to feel similarly & immediately, the bad effects of others’ actions yet we persist in trampling others one way or another to preserve our own equilibrium. Racism, religious persecution, methods to preserve unequal social & gender conditions have been with us for millennia as have the solutions, but as each new generation is born, the lessons seem to have to be re-learnt while resources to entrench progress (in the most basic form like taxes, charitable donations, philanthropic CEOs etc) are somehow spirited away or demonized.
I was so relaxed during the meditation portion of the Day 4 exercise that I drifted into sleep for a few minutes. When I roused, I was thinking, “I want to go into the light.” Just a peaceful, but very clear and firm intention. I want to revisit my NDE and repeat that blissful event, to learn more this time and get more benefit from it. And I was hearing a soft music as I roused. I don’t think it was coming from any of the electronics in my home or that of any neighbor. I do hope it manifested from my intention. Peace and love.
felt a gentle spinning, a pleasant light-headedness, hands tingling. awareness of my body faded and the area around my head expanded. I was aware of my body being larger, like a baggy set of puffy clothes, like an oversized light weight down jacket worn in winter time. the edges were blurry, undefined, as if they melted into the greater expanse around me. I felt calmer, but I am sleepy too.
Guess I’m not sure the difference between,,or if there is a difference between the relaxed state of self hypnosis we strive for,,,and a state of “meditation”. Either way, I have a tendency to doze off. I have practiced self hypnosis,,,or the relaxed state thereof for years,,,and “self-talk” in that state somewhat successfully, eliminating unwanted habits,,and self improvement. Exactly what state of “being” am I supposed to be striving for. (maybe a dumb question???)
There are no dumb questions. 🙂 The state of being to strive for is very similar to self-hypnosis. It sounds like you have good practice with that so it is an excellent foundation. Your tendency to doze off is not unusual because the “hypnagogic” state is that border between awake and asleep. There are various techniques for managing that tendency to sleep, usually related to body position, time of day, etc.
Hello Sonny, I know this problem with dozing off very well. It happens from time to time when I didn’t sleep enough. Sometimes my meditations are great, sometimes I fall asleep and sometimes my brain is like a gaggling hen house. The better the meditation works on one day the more I am disappointed when I can’t manage. It’s always like loosing paradise.
I didn’t realize Telepathy had been proven. I did a quick Google search, but didn’t find any of these studies. I would be interested in learning more about which studies Eban is referring to.
The book, Irreducible Mind, addresses empirical data for telepathy (and all manner of non-local consciousness) rather extensively. You may also refer to any of Dean Radin’s books which are geared more to laypeople.
Look also at the book Margins of Reality by Jahn and Dunne.
Rupert Sheldrake’s books and blog also present his scientific research into telepathy and qualities of the mind not yet recognised by the mainstream. He’s a UK scientist, and fully explains his methodologies which cannot be scientifically disputed.
First of all give thanks to Eben and Karen for the big work they are making.
I have a question for Eben. When our conscioussnes is dominated by our brain do you recommend Any tecnique for breaking that domain??
For me it is dificult to relax and do meditation tecniques. I think that my brain blocks this routes with thoughts , etc.
Thank you very much.
We will be introducing various tools (including sound) to address this in the coming days. The comment area is also rich with advice from your fellow participants. Don’t give up! With practice and trying different methods you will find the ideal approach for you.
Your consciousness may not be as much dominated by your brain as you might have a fortress built up around your heart. Speaking from experience 😉 Visualize your brain embracing your heart. Begin to contemplate all the resistance the heart has against the presence of pure love. Begin to recognize that resistance in your daily life. You are worthy. You are perfect just the way you are. You are a supreme manifestation of love… be a light bringer… enter into complete emancipation and the freedom of unconditional love. Peace!
As I place my attention to my breath, I notice that my body relaxes and lets go more and more. This brings me back to my breath, and it cycles again and again like this. When my body releases I feel very light, almost weightless yet I am aware that I am sitting heavily on the floor. Consciousness = Awareness?
Peggy, you describe this very well, I resonate with your description and my experience too!
My awareness of my body and surroundings did lessen until a noise happened, and then I snapped back. I am doing this in my car in a parking lot in a warm state, so my windows are cracked, and noises permeate even though I’m listening to the sacred acoustics with earbuds. In order to get back to a less aware state I’d silently say om, or focus on my breathing, or use the mantra that Eben recommended in his first book, “I am more than my physical body”. All of those helped, until the next car door slammed. 🙂 I did try to simply observe the noises, but I’m a little to green at this for it to work all of the time.
No recuerdo haber tenido ECM pero si tuve una meningoencefalitis por CMV, hace unos años, perdí una semana de mi vida, ya que estuve en un estado de semi inconciencia, por momentos está presente en otros no. La habitación en la que estuve, en mi cabeza cambiaba constantemente e inclusive llegue a creer que estaba en diferentes sitios, ( un muelle, una playa, las personas traspasaban las paredes que mi cerebro creaba en esa habitación) el orden de las letras y los números los fui adquiriendo días después. Pero para mi lo más asombroso durante el proceso de enfermedad y de recuperación, es que mientras dormía o mantenía los ojos cerrados podía salir de mi cuerpo y llegar a tocarme el cabello o a observarme en la cama, sabia cuando está fuera de mi cuerpo y si, me daba temor y tenía que luchar para poder despertar, luchaba constantemente me pechiscaba y me mordía y sabía que si no lo sentía era que todavía no está “despierta” llegue a tener miedo a dormir. Gracias a Dios ya eso no me da tan seguido y ya no me da miedo, cuando me pasa me concentro en la respiración y me pongo a orar a Dios.
En ocasiones tengo sueños y cuando los narró, mi familia comenta que eso sucedió cuando estuve enferma, pero para mi es solo eso un sueño, no puedo decir que ese esa un recuerdo porque yo no estuve consiente cuando se vivió o lo viví.
after seeing my brother pass and looking at his deceased body,I immediately knew ,he himself was not there!,affirming to me that we are not just our bodies,my take is our spirit or consciousness self leaves the body upon death. Scientist have not proven the why to existence and I believe all existence and creation is deliberate ,it is hard for me to deny. I just don’t have enough faith to be a atheist, too much has happened in my life that points me to the spiritual truth about life and myself.
I so resonate with your beautiful teaching. I am grateful you are sharing your gifts with the world.
I liked what you said about the brain being a reducing filter for all the bits of information coming in. Joe Dispenza talks about the brain processing about 400 billion bits of information every second but we are only aware of about 2,000 of those, which is why most people’s perceptions are so limiting. And someone also said we don’t perceive reality as it is, we perceive reality as who we are.
Eben is connecting the dots that science and spirituality haven’t been able to connect and it’s thrilling.
The breath deepened slowly. The “I” became more of an observer all around. There was an ever present observer, without a body, witnessing the breath moving in and out of my body.
I can feel my emotions and the reality in “here and now”. God can touch my Soul in “here and now” in the silence.
I have been aware of “being” during meditation and other times when in deep conversation with another on a subject with a spiritual angle. I and my companion are very prominent in my attention, everything else seems to recede into the distance. Even in an environment where there may be a social gathering, there is so much chat going on, but suddenly everyone seems to almost disappear and I am “left” in deep silence.
When I concentrate on my breathing it is for a short time and I can feel my cells being fully oxygenated and feel cold and then I am usually not concentrating on things going around me unless my cat makes a noise but I am aware. Sometimes, I can reach higher conscious states, dimensions, sometimes visions or I receive downloads or when I come back, sometimes, I have seen tiny movement of atoms or energy in the air. I have had a variety of experiences.
Bozena, 3 balls of white light might be orbs?
In my experience the tiny white ball of light indicates the Spirit.
I’ve managed to observe/concentrate only on my breathing for about 15 min. My body was pulsating most of this time generating a lot of heat. Visualize I would say that my body was babbling like a boiling water. I was very aware of surroundings; everything that was touching me and every sound around. I’ve seen 3 small balls of white light appearing one after another. Usually a ball of white light indicates a Spirit around. My Physiokinetic energy heightened, problems with my Surface.
Nancy
Thank you, Eben and Karen, for serving as a needed bridge for understanding larger truths about the human being and consciousness and its relationship to the brain.
As a kinleiner I have participated in the formulation of Kinlein’s theory of moving in esca, an integrated view of the human being moving in that moving power called esca.
I believe this theory offers support to your findings through your experience; it is consonant with what you are saying.