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Heart Talk after a Lucid Heart Dream

by Pete on 02/07/2011

By Roger A. “Pete” Peterson

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of our experience. Look for them! – Pete

It may seem funny to see the words: “Heart Talk”. What does it mean? Well, it means exactly what it says; I had a talk with my heart this morning, 1/31/2011.

If you knew me, you’d know that talking to things, including my body and its parts, is normal (see: Inside Ivy). Many of us talk to things as if they could understand us. We talk to plants and animals, and even ourselves. We give affectionate names to inanimate objects like cars and boats. While we do this playfully, we must believe, at some level of consciousness, that this behavior has meaning. The difference between common wisdom and mine is that I know we can communicate directly with other beings, inanimate or not, through telepathy or direct communication, subtle though it might be.

My passion is exploring and writing about the nature of the soul, the inner self versus the outer self and inner reality versus outer reality. When you read “Inside Ivy”, you’ll see that just because something has no mouth, tongue, vocal cords and a set of lungs, doesn’t mean it can’t communicate with you, and you to it, through other means. Because Consciousness or Energetic Awareness is the source and substance of All That Is, direct or telepathic communication is natural though subtle (see: A New Story of Origin). We use this form of communication in dreams, meditation and imagination all the time! Why not use it when we’re awake?

When I was four, my biological father died from heart failure. He was forty-nine years old. I’m sixty eight and since the age of eleven, I’ve known my heart has a murmur. Its source is Mitral Valve Prolapse.

The mitral valve is located between the upper, left chamber of the heart or atrium and the lower, left ventricle. Newly oxygenated blood returning from the lungs enters the left atrium, which pushes it through the mitral valve into the left ventricle, the most powerful chamber of the heart. Once in the left ventricle, the mitral valve closes to prevent backflow into the atrium when the left ventricle contracts to force blood through the aortic valve and out into the arterial system for distribution to the body. When the mitral valve fails to close tightly, a condition known as Mitral Valve Prolapse, it allows blood to seep back into the left atrium every time the left ventricle contracts. When this happens, there is a loss of efficiency and the heart must work harder.

(When blood returns from the body through the venous system, it enters the right atrium, which pumps it into the right ventricle. From here, it goes to the lungs for carbon dioxide removal and re-oxygenation. From the lungs, freshly oxygenated blood returns to the left atrium to begin the cycle over again.)

In my case, Mitral Valve Prolapse triggers episodes of rapid heartbeat, or tachycardia, and, sometimes, atrial fibrillation (chaotic vibration of both upper chambers of the heart). The cause of atrial fibrillation is the uncoordinated electrical firing of nervous tissue meant to control and coordinate pumping activity in all four chambers of the heart. Bending forward, breathing deeply, burping or wondering about my heart’s intentions can trigger episodes of rapid heartbeat and atrial fibrillation. Most often, it happens when I exert myself through work or exercise.

Sometimes I can stop an episode as soon as it starts by contracting my chest for a few seconds. This action squeezes my heart between my diaphragm and upper chest wall, putting steady pressure on it. If chest compression doesn’t work, it goes into overdrive or fibrillation. When it does, I lie down and raise my knees immediately. At home, I rest my legs on a chair seat while lying on the floor. This is the quickest way to return my heart function to normal and prevent damage.

It gets a little sticky, however, when my heart acts up in public. We get uncomfortable when we see things out of the ordinary, and seeing someone laying down on a path or busy sidewalk with their knees raised for no discernable reason, qualifies as “out of the ordinary”. The alternative for me is to continue walking, get dizzy and maybe pass out, which would make matters worse by far.

For years, I’ve held the belief my heart was the weakest link in my body and that someday it would fail. I’m quite comfortable with this idea as heart failure seems like a quick and civilized way to go. My heart is unhappy being cast in this role, however, and demonstrated its feelings in a lucid dream.

My Lucid Heart Dream

Twelve years ago, my heart appeared to me in a lucid dream. It took the form of the actor, Armand Assante.

It was nighttime when my mysterious companion and I came upon a man lying on the concrete at the mouth of a dark city alley. He was facing away from us as we approached. What set this man apart from the other people lying on the ground near him was the fact that he didn’t look like them. He was clean and appeared strong and healthy, his face clean-shaven and his hair combed neatly. He wore new silk pajamas and a silk robe. To all outward appearances, he looked like a man of means.

As my friend and I came to a stop near him, he turned and looked at us. What struck me most was the look of loss and loneliness on his face. Turning away, he shivered and pulled his knees into a fetal position as he forced himself deeper into his new and expensive looking sleeping.

Turning to my companion, I spread my hands palm up and raised my shoulders to form the silent question, what’s up with him?

As we moved away, my friend whispered in my ear, “don’t you know him?”

“No”, I said, other than the fact he looks like the actor, Armand Assante!

“It’s your heart in human form”, he said.

Without understanding how or why, I knew my companion was right; this “man” lying on the cold ground symbolized the emotional and physical state of my heart expressed in human form. The setting, the look on his face, his outward appearance and behavior, all conveyed a message I was ready to see but not ready to understand.

Over the years, since this dream, I’ve wondered why my heart appeared to me in this way. Why would it appear as an actor and why would it prefer lying alone at the entrance of a cold, dark alley when it had a warm, comfortable home to live in? It “acted” as though it was unappreciated and unloved, an abandoned pariah. Why would my heart express those thoughts? What did I do to make it feel that way, if anything? What was it trying to tell me in that dream?

Today, I received my answer.

After years of living with an iffy heart, a heart that recently started jumping into overdrive at the drop of a hat, I contacted my doctor to describe my newest symptoms. He had me fitted with a twenty-four hour heart monitor this morning and my wife, Sandra, and I decided to go for a brisk walk along Santa Rosa Creek, something we’ve been avoiding lately (we want to spare people the strange sight of me lying on the ground with my knees raised). If my heart was going to act up, this should do it, we thought.

Forty-five minutes later, I told Sandra my heart felt strong and stable. There was no tightness in my chest, or shortness of breath, which I experience occasionally soon after we start hiking. These symptoms, when they occur, disappear when I warm up. She said she was glad because she had forgotten to bring water and aspirin, something she always did when we walked regularly. I joked: it knows it is being monitored so it’s hiding its usual behavior to keep everyone guessing. Calling it crafty and wily, we both laughed. In response, my heart flip-flopped to remind me it was listening. Several times lately, it has jumped into overdrive for no apparent reason. It happened once when I was standing still and once when I was sitting down, both in the same day!

Because I had been concerned lately, I asked my inner self and my heart for a “heart miracle”. I don’t fear dying but I have more to do before I leave. For a moment before the flip-flop on our hike, I thought, maybe the added concern I’ve given my heart lately did the trick and wrought my heart miracle. The flip-flop said otherwise.

My Heart Speaks and I Listen

In response to my heart’s flip-flop, I directed my attention inward with earnest as we continued on our way home. I really wanted to know why it was unhappy and why it acted so depressed and alone in my dream. Like a thunderclap, I suddenly understood why. I had singled it out as the weakest link in my body, the one part of me that would be most likely to terminate my life. Without realizing it, I had unfairly placed a burden of responsibility on it that was far greater than it wanted to carry. In my ignorance, I had cast it in the role of hit man. In the role of spoiler, it became a magnet for fear and suspicion from my body, my family and me.

Even though I am convinced dying of heart failure is a civilized way to go, it is difficult not to worry about when my heart will strike its deadly blow. Will I be able to finish with my work here? In my ignorance, I had made my heart an outcast, a pariah. Cast in the role of executioner, how would anyone feel? Even though I don’t fear death and I believe my heart will choose a convenient moment to pull the plug, there is still room for doubt and suspicion.

Now that I understood how my heart felt about my actions, I feel moved to apologize. I had mindlessly accepted the scientific belief in the power of heredity and that, barring accident, I would die as my father had died. The best I could do was make it much later, since he died as much from unhappiness as a faulty heart. In a state of divine empathy, I spoke the following words to my heart – I free you from the responsibility of being my body’s executioner. I will accept death in any way it chooses to visit me.

Despite the evidence that stood before me from my years of exploring the nature of consciousness, I never thought about how my body, or its parts, would react to the way I thought and felt about them. What I saw was a reasonable and quick way to die without prolonged illness or external violence to my body. If my beliefs about my heart had such a profound effect on it that it would appear to me in a dream and “act” out its reaction to my thoughts, I must ask, how do my beliefs about other people and things affect them. How do your beliefs about others affect them? How do your beliefs about you, affect you? Are we too often the victims of our own beliefs?

How many of us suffer from diseases of body and mind because of negative messages we send out and receive (even from ourselves) – messages that injure and disturb us? Is there a lesson in protocol to learn here?

After years of marriage and experimentation with telepathy, I’ve seen how my thoughts, feelings and actions affect my wife and our relationship. If I look for fault in her or compare her to other people, even if it’s just in my own mind, I feel bad and she becomes depressed, as if she “knows” what I’m thinking. When I became aware of the effect of telepathic communication in our relationship, due to shared consciousness, I determined not to make judgments or comparisons of others again. As a result, I appreciate myself and others more. To know how spiritually interconnected we are brings us all closer together.

Can we heal illnesses of body, mind, spirit and relationship by understanding how seen and unseen messages that flow between us, and all things, affect our relationships? Can we benefit from opening ourselves up to the idea that the body and soul can “speak”, and that they yearn to have relationships with us (the outer ego self) that go beyond being taken for granted or ignored.

I believe so, but what is important to you is what you believe.

Pete –http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Seth – You Are Physical Beings because You Want to Be

by Pete on 01/18/2011

“Earth is a nice place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.” A twist on an old quote, I believe—but the fact is, you are physical creatures because you do like to live on earth, you do like the conditions, you do enjoy overall the particular kind of challenge and the particular kind of perception, knowledge and understanding that the earthly environment provides.

That environment, in your terms, certainly includes suffering. If joy has always been one of the characteristics of earth experience, so has suffering, and the subject will be covered in this book. Here, however, I only want to mention one facet, and that is the importance of physical sensation, of whatever kind—for the life of the body provides you, among all things, with a life of sensation, of feeling, a spectrum that must include the experience of all possible sensations within its overall range.

Now as you will see, all creatures, regardless of their degree, can and do choose, within their spheres of reality, those sensations that they will experience—but to one extent or another all, sensations are felt.

We will later discuss the part of the mind and its interpretation, for example, of painful stimuli, but I want to make the point that those attracted to physical life are first and foremost tasters of sensation. Outside of that, basically, there are all kinds of mental distinctions made [among] stimuli.

The body is made to react. It is made to feel life and vitality by reacting to an environment that is not itself, by encountering what you might call natural stress. The body maintains its equilibrium by reacting against gravity, by coming in contact with other bodies, by changing its own sensations, by glorifying in the balance between balance and off-balance.

The body consciousness is therefore given a superb sense of its own reality, a sureness of identity, a sense of innate safety and security, that allows it to not only function but to grow in the physical world. It is endowed with a sense of boldness, daring, a sense of natural power. It is perfectly formed to fit into its environment — and the environment is perfectly formed to have such creatures.

The entities, or units of consciousness—those ancient fragments that burst into objectivity from the vast and infinite psychological realms of All That Is—dared all, for they joyfully abandoned themselves in space and time. They created new psychological entities, opened up an area of divine creativity that “until then” had been closed, and therefore to that degree, extended the experience and immense existence of All That Is.

For in so abandoning themselves they were not of course abandoned, since they contained within themselves their inherent relationship with All That Is. In those terms All That Is became physical also, aroused at its divine depth by the thrusting of each grass blade through the soil into the air, aroused by each birth and by each moment of each creature’s existence.

All That Is, therefore, is immersed within your world, present in each hypothetical point, and forms the very fabric from which each portion of matter is created.

Here’s a related Seth quote, posted on Oceanside Rick’s Discussion Board.

“Now the acquiescence that dwells within your atoms and molecules is an acquiescence that has to do with creativity that knows no negation, that realizes, instead, only the benefits and the joys and the reality of That Which Is, and within this acquiescence there is no denial and no negation for all things are experienced, recognized, and accepted as a part of All That Is.”

Your first reaction to this level of acquiescence or acceptance might be fear of personal and social chaos, but hidden within this concept is the freedom to be yourself, to be as happy or sad, as fulfilled or empty, as you choose. It is the freedom to be and do as you please, including the experience of suffering and joy for what you choose to do.

Read: A New Story of Origin. As you read, it will become clear how our unique human interpretation of Original Thought - the Impulse to Be (the love of Being and Creation) and the Impulse to Survive (the fear of Suffering and Death), is at the root of all that we are - all that we think and all that we do. In purely spiritual terms, do the Impulse to Be and the Impulse to Survive serve as the foundation for Consciousness, not only to express itself in all ways it can imagine but to remember itself in all ways it is experiencing itself so it can build on its experience? What do you think?

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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A New Story of Origin

by Pete on 01/09/2011

By Roger A. “Pete” Peterson

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of our experience. Look for them! – Pete

For a moment, forget everything you know about being human. Push it aside and make room in your mind to consider A New Story of Origin, a new Theory of Creation. It is a new way to see yourself within the context of the Material Universe you perceive through your outer senses and the Dreaming Universe you perceive through your inner senses. It describes the nature of inner and outer reality – the inner and outer you – and how Creation started.

What makes stories of origin so important is that we use them as touchstones for the creation of our reality. Knowing that “ideas” are the building blocks of creation, every religion includes a story of origin as a guide for its followers. They are also important because they determine how we treat ourselves and one another. For example, if we accept religious beliefs that tell us we’re created by a vengeful God and born in sin, we not only deny our natural Love of Being and Creation, we fail to acknowledge goodness, power and worth in ourselves and others.

In the beginning, there was nothing – until Nothing decided to be Something. You can call this profound event Original Thought, the Divine Spark of Creation, the Birth of Unconditional Love, the Birth of All That Is or God, or the Birth of Consciousness (awareness with the energy or power to act). In fact, it was, and is, ALL these things and more; including the moment Consciousness learned how to condense a portion of itself into “matter”. Humanity refers to this moment the Big Bang.

Until the birth of Consciousness (awareness with the energy or power to act), there were no beginnings and no endings. There was Nothing. In truth, Nothing was, and still is, Nothing and Something at the same time, a paradox to be sure.

Look at your own life, and from a biological standpoint, see how you became Something from Nothing, how you still become Something from Nothing even now. Before your father’s sperm fertilized your mother’s egg, who or what were you, in what form did you exist, if any at all?

What are thoughts, where do they come from and where do they go? What are emotions, where do they come from and where do they go? Where does each moment come from and where does it go? Where is the biological “you” that existed two minutes ago and where is the biological “you” that will appear two minutes from now? In what form do they exist while you experience yourself in this moment? In what form does the universe exist in the past and future of your present? Who or what, creates each new moment of your experience with such exquisite clarity, detail and integrity? Who or what creates your experience in the universe of matter, time and space, and who or what creates your experience in the universe of dreams, fantasies and visions?

Consider the challenge of building a new house in the material world. Not only are material resources often difficult to find and expensive to buy, building your dream home takes time and effort. Even finding an existing dream home in waking reality takes time and effort.

Now consider the amount of time it takes to create a new house in a dream. As soon as you think about it, there it is! Dream forms populate and change with the speed of your thoughts. In other words, the rules that govern creation in outer reality differ from those that govern creation in inner reality. Because it takes time for thoughts or ideas to manifest in physical terms, intervening thoughts and feelings can interfere with the process, turning your original ideal into something else, something less than ideal.

“Everything you do must be worthy of your ideals or they become something else, something less than ideal.” – Seth

In the “inner” realms of Consciousness, creation is spontaneous, limited only by our imagination. For examples of spontaneous creation, see Pete’s Creation Dreams.

In the beginning, since Nothing was everywhere, the impulse to be Something was everywhere, down to the smallest coherent, or possible, unit of Nothing. Let’s call this smallest unit of Nothing wanting to be Something, a Unit of Consciousness. Moreover, since Consciousness, here, is defined as awareness with the energy or power to act, we can call it, Energetic Awareness or Awareized Energy.

As individual Units of Consciousness, like people, are attracted by vibrations of similar interest, they come together spontaneously to form energy gestalts or organizations of awareness of varying density, complexity and intent. This process gives birth to identity, which, in turn, leads to growing self-awareness and the development of personality. This occurs throughout All That Is as Consciousness continues to look for new ways to know and express itself. The “material” universe we currently call home is but one creative manifestation of a larger Consciousness, which includes our collective “human” consciousness.

The moment Nothing decided to be Something – All That Is and All That Can Be sprang into existence as hidden or latent potential. Even in condensed human form, we sense that same hidden potential within us now. Each one of us knows, intuitively, if not consciously, that, as outer selves, we can be and do whatever we choose within the limits of human and personal expression. As our “inner” selves in dreams and imagination, even waking reality to some extent, we can be and do anything we choose. We can fly, we can see through walls, and we can shape-shift into any form we can imagine, to know and experience ourselves from that particular viewpoint.

See: Encounter with the Energy of Unconditional Love and The “Suckface” Incident. In both experiences, my inner and outer selves were operating in concert, which allowed me to switch back and forth between my inner and outer senses, and inner and outer reality.

When Nothing decided it wanted to be Something, it created what can best be described as the Spacious Present, a concept that describes the potential for Consciousness, human or otherwise, to express and experience itself in any way it can imagine.

In the physical universe, Consciousness disguises itself as matter, including “you” and “me”. It does so to experience itself in different forms, including human form. It explores every thought of interest or value, something you and I can well appreciate by examining the nature and contents of our own thoughts and feelings, dreams and imaginings. At the root of our being, “humans” are Consciousness in both material and spiritual form. We are Nothing being Something in every way and in every moment.

The differences between “inner” and “outer” reality, and how Consciousness uses the values of “time” and “space” to experience and express itself in each realm, is stark and amazing! In outer reality, time and space predominate in defining our experience, and in inner reality, thought and feeling in the moment predominate in defining our experience. In human form, we live a limited lifetime in the same body, interact with the same people and do the same things with relatively minor changes from birth to death. In spiritual form, when we sleep, imagine or after we die in biological terms, we experience and express ourselves through changes in thought and feeling. Love, fear, anger, hate, compassion, curiosity, desire, intent; all of these thoughts and emotions spontaneously trigger our experiences in inner reality, which last as long as our thoughts, feelings, intentions and interest allow. One moment, we’re here, experiencing ourselves as one person or thing, the next, we’re there, experiencing ourselves as someone or something else in a completely different setting, time and circumstance. We are limited only by our level of skill and imagination.

In spiritual or non-physical form, “reality” spontaneously materializes in whatever density of matter exists at that level of being. For example, in The Ball of Light, a lucid dream about the nature of consciousness and being, I moved through several layers of density as I walked across a school classroom shortly before flying through a glass window and up into the air. After zooming around in the air for a while, I decided to test my ability to control the density of my spirit body by flying into the granite-filled ground outside the school. After completing my experiment, I flew out over the center of town and stopped in midair above two women having a conversation while pushing their baby strollers down the street. (The adventure continued from there.)

In deciding to be Something, Nothing expressed a Primal Motive – the Impulse or Will to Be. Why would Nothing do that? What would make Nothing want to be Something? We know the answer because it is the same reason you and I learn to walk, talk and try new things. In its most natural form, we “exist” and “do” things out of a Love of Being and Creation. Like Nothing deciding to be Something, we too act out of the same impulse, the Love for Being and Creation.

Embedded within the Impulse or Will to Be, is another Impulse, the Will to Survive. For Nothing to be Something, it has to remember itself in all of its forms and experiences. Otherwise, how can it know itself and how can it grow and build upon its experience? It is the same for us in human form – without the memory of who we are and who we’ve been, what we do and what we’ve done, how can we grow and build upon our experience? How can we be or do anything new?

Every thought and action is born out of a Love for Being and Creation, tempered by the Fear of Loss and Suffering (love or fear). Together, these two Primal Motives serve as the driving and controlling force behind all creation. Of course, in human form, we often think and do things out of fear of biological loss and suffering instead of memory or identity loss. We fail to understand what Consciousness tells us and we interpret the Will to Survive to mean biological survival, not soul, spirit or self-aware energy survival.

As Consciousness in any form, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, guilt or punishment – there just IS; there is what works for us and what doesn’t, what gives us pleasure (makes us happy) and what doesn’t. Built into these simple, subjective determinations is the inspiration for exploring all thoughts and feelings, tempered by an appreciation for maintaining energetic balance or moral integrity. In other words, Consciousness has built within itself the tools for taking corrective action should it (we) stray too far from the truth of who we are and what we love. In conclusion, we are both one AND separate. We are not only the products of creation; we are creation itself!

After sifting through a lifetime of information and experience, my understanding of who and what I am, who we are, boils down to A New Story of Origin and a short piece I wrote in 1991, entitled, We Create Our Own Reality. I’ve known for some time that my life goal is to love others and myself unconditionally. To achieve that end, I needed to make sense of a life and world that seemed both frightening and confusing to me. In the words of author Robert Heinlein, in my early years I felt like a “Stranger in a Strange Land”.

Once, in my early 20s, walking up the driveway to my parent’s house, I was struck by the feeling that I wasn’t from this world and that the people inside the house were not my real parents. This thought morphed into a vision of two people looking down at me from the stars. In my imagination, they were my real parents and they had sent me here to grow, learn and share. Call it denial or escapist fantasy, but in that moment, I believed I was from a more advanced cosmic civilization. As this thought filled my mind, I felt lost and abandoned (poor little old me).

Now I believe we ALL come from beyond the stars – that we, including the entire universe, are but the product of an imagination so vast and owerful, it creates and becomes All That Is. Based on my own experiences, I believe we’re all part of that vast and powerful imagination that started with a simple Impulse or Will to Be, Nothing wanting to be Something.

The ideas described in A New Story of Origin approach understanding from a psychological viewpoint, what we think and feel and how thought and feeling sit at the foundation of all being. We can see how the Impulse to Be operates throughout Consciousness, from flowers that burst into bloom, from children who learn to walk and talk, from birds that learn to fly, from the transformation of ideas into material reality, and from visiting completely different realities in our dreams, visions and imaginings.

Creation is a natural part of who we are, so natural and intuitive it can become invisible to our outer self when we become too preoccupied with events in the material world.

Hidden in the background of our everyday thoughts and feelings, the Love of Being and Creation, tempered by the Fear of Loss and Suffering, still serve as the Primary Motives or root cause for all we think and do. We are all capable of creating something out of nothing, which we do every moment. This is why we wake up every morning to co-create a new day. Consciousness is the sum and substance of who we are and what reality is, and it cannot exist without our love for Being and Creation.

Remember how we applaud excellence when we see it in any form whether it’s a beautiful flower, a beautiful face, a beautiful smile, a beautiful voice, music, art or a beautiful sunset. We applaud feats of strength, speed, agility, intelligence, uplifting thoughts and feelings of love. We live to experience excellence in others and ourselves. We live to meet great people, to have great sex, to eat great food, to read a great book, to see a great movie or watch a great play. We live to explore nature and science, to ride a bike or horse, to milk a cow, to drive a car or sail a boat – we live to experience love, truth and joy in our lives. We get excited over a great vision or dream, a kind word or a loving hug.

What we forget is how much we have to appreciate in life and dreams – we forget how much we’re loved and how much love we have for all Being and Creation. We forget that we are Being and Creation at the same time!

Watch the following video from andiesisle.com – it’s amazing! The song is “Creation Calls” from a CD by Brian Doerksen and the video is from “Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series (2007) DVD.”: http://www.andiesisle.com/creation/magnificent.html. It fits here so well!

I developed A New Story of Origin because I wanted a story that was large enough to contain all the facts in my experience, one that could explain the origin of all of humanity’s waking-reality stories and its experiences in dreams, visions and imagination. It is a truth we can only understand through personal experience, experimentation and observation, employing logic, common sense and intuition (spiritually “feel” the truth).

The ideas and experiences of others also help. For my understanding and corroboration, I rely heavily on The Seth Material, channeled through the late author, Jane Roberts, and patiently hand recorded by her late husband, Robert F. Butts. Nothing else has done more to help me make sense of life. Until I read Seth Speaks, the Eternal Validity of the Soul in late 1977, I felt lost and confused, I was at war with the world and myself.

As in all things, take what you like and leave the rest. You are a unique individualized expression of God or All That Is and there is nothing you “have” to do – there is only what you want to do.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Freedom of Choice

by Pete on 01/04/2011

Here’s the latest issue of The Inner Journey from John and Patrice Robson of Higher Awareness. Freedom of choice, what it is and what it means, is an issue of importance to all of us. Join the discussion by posting your comments at the end of this article or on my Facebook page! – Pete

“Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.” – David O. McKay

I want to choose the details of my life. Fortunately, I’ve come to appreciate how important it is to give others the freedom to choose their own paths.

None of us wants our choice robbed from us. I can’t know what’s best for anyone but me. So why give unsolicited advice to others and expect them to follow it?

“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that may cost and wherever it may lead.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Reading this piece reminded me of my son, Evan and his motto, “Doing it my way!” It’s an expression of his desire to be free to be himself. For a Christmas present, I decided to incorporate this sentiment into the following t-shirt design. He loves it and the whole family agrees, “it’s so Evan!”

How many of us feel oppressed in today’s competitive, value judgment world and want to be left alone to be ourselves? One day, a few years ago, I asked my wife, Sandra, what she wanted more than anything else in All That Is? After a brief moment, she said, “I want to be loved and left alone to be me.” After further discussion, she made it clear she wanted to be loved for who she was and not criticized or judged for what she did or didn’t do, who she was and who she wasn’t. She wanted to live free of her own and other’s learned conditions for acceptance and love. She wanted to live in an atmosphere of love, acceptance, collaboration and sharing.

I had a similar revelation twice in my life. The first time occurred just before leaving the Air Force in 1964. I was lying on the ground and looking up at the stars one evening as I considered my future. After making up my mind to go back to school, I experienced a sudden burst of emotion and said, out loud to myself, all I want to do is be me!

I quit high school twice in my junior year and once again at the beginning of my senior year to join the Air Force. I wanted to escape the oppression and anger of my life at home and in school. I hated not being able to question the values and decisions of all “authority”. I hated school and being forced to learn what other people thought I should learn, no matter how well intentioned it was. And I hated being treated like a subject in a Pavlovian animal experiment. You know, after forty to fifty minutes, a bell rings and you’re expected to move to another classroom, pick up where you left off the time before and be happy about it. I don’t know about you but this doesn’t appeal to me. It’s more natural and effective for me to do what I like to do when I like to do it, until I finish or tire of it. Then I start looking for the next activity that interests me or might need doing.

This includes complex projects that require juggling and coordinating many tasks at once. When we do things for our own reasons, when we follow our own bliss, as Joseph Campbell was fond of saying, we become engaged in what we do and much happier. Competing for grades in school is mind and spirit killing for those of us who reject the use of fear and competition as acceptable tools for motivation and self-development. This is motivation by coercion, not attraction; motivation by fear, not love. When individual values clash with the “official” values of society, division grows and we all suffer.

The only way out of this dilemma is the expansion of consciousness. We’ll be happier when we choose to THINK our way out of dilemmas instead of beating our way out. To do this, ask good questions and look/listen for good answers (see: Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers). We can improve our powers of observation and discernment. As we think, we create. Change what we think and we change what we create!

Take a look at some of the messages we receive from the world. When my parents were unhappy with something my brothers or I did, they reminded us, by word or deed, that they (my mother) suffered the pain of our birth, put a roof over our heads and food in our stomachs. We knew this to be true but by stating this when they were unhappy with us, they implied they could remove these things if we didn’t abide by their wishes and demands. We generally cooperated because what child wants to face abandonment?

The Catholic Church and the Bible tell us we’re bad and we can’t trust ourselves, which, if we choose to believe these pronouncements, leaves us with little choice but to trust the authority of the church over our own. Teachers tell us, if not in words, in actions, to “sit down, shut up and do as I tell you because I’m the teacher and I know what’s best for you.” Bosses say, “do as you’re told or you may lose your job”. The military goes even further, not only does it strip away our individuality by removing our hair and clothes, it does so under the penalty of court martial or death. They tell us that it is an act of treason to disobey a direct order from a commanding officer in time of war.

In our Value Judgment World of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment, authoritarian abuse often hides under layers of warmth and friendliness but it’s still there, nonetheless. Challenge the system in any way and you’ll quickly find proof of its presence. As adults, we often forget what we thought and felt as children. As a result we often become the oppressors we so disliked when we were young. Some of us, of course, do remember what life was like for us as children and we crusade for change from within the system.

In a competitive education system, quantity and speed outrank quality. As a result, critical thinking goes by the wayside, unless individuals see value in it on their own. The essence of the messages we receive from society, with some notable and often life-saving exceptions is, “it’s my way or the highway!” This can be true in personal relationships as well. How can we develop good judgment and take control of our own lives if we’re not allowed to think for ourselves, if we learn to give the words of others more authority than our own?

The Inner Journey piece and our personal desire to live life our own way seems to suggest that, ultimately, there is no right or wrong, good or bad; there just IS – there’s what works for us and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t.

This liberating and empowering belief system puts us in the driver’s seat of our own lives, both individually and collectively. It is estimated that up to 90% of what we think and do is controlled by beliefs and reaction patterns we developed in early childhood. Left unexamined and unchallenged, these beliefs and reaction patterns change little over time. To change the world for the better, we must change ourselves for the better and change begins within.

One of the first steps we can take is to acknowledge that we are both one and separate, and that we are not only the products of creation, we are creation itself. When we learn at an early age that we create our own reality,we’re more likely to take responsibility for it. Many children who are home schooled, or attend special schools like Montessori, learn this at an early age. When they do, amazing things happen! They lose their fear of authority, they brim over with love and curiosity, and they develop their imaginations.

Active and thoughtful participation in the creation of our reality is the change we are waiting for!

Share your thoughts on this important subject.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Jane Roberts: the Mass Psyche is Preparing for Another Intuitive Upthrust

by Pete on 01/02/2011

Posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by “Oceanside Rick”, Sat Jan 1, 2011 8:05 am (PST)

Jane Roberts:

“There is no doubt that we need to believe that life has meaning. That belief may well be a biological imperative. If we were as science maintains-only creatures formed by elements combining mindlessly in a universe itself created by chance, surrounded everywhere by chaos – then how could we even conceive of the idea of meaning or order?

Science would say that the idea of meaning itself is simply a reflection of the state of the brain, as is the illusion of our consciousness. But a science that disregards consciousness must necessarily end up creating its own illusion.

It ignores the reality of experience, the evidence of being, and in so doing it denies rather than reinforces life’s values. We need a division of scientific dogma from national policy-making so that those values not considered by science can be given some voice in issues involving public welfare. An authoritative God coupled with an aggressive science sanctioned by national policy could have disastrous results indeed.

This Universal Divinity or Ultimate Reality or All That Is wouldn’t be confined to one people or nation or species though, but would include all species of life. Each creature, each life whatever its degree would have its rights as an expression of that Source and as an inhabitant of Earth and contributor to planetary existence.

Divinity, then would be dispersed throughout creation.

I become more and more convinced that the mass psyche is preparing for another intuitive upthrust, and that within its vast ranges it does possess the solutions, visions, and wisdom that we need. That power is making itself felt in the private arena. It’s expressed and personified in the psychic experience of large numbers of people. It speaks through the spacemen and saints and psychic heroes of automatic writings and Ouija board messages; even in the cults and the frenzied activities of the fundamentalists.

The mass psyche is looking for a way out of official beliefs. It’s ready to form a more comprehensive vision. But we must stop automatically taking such information at face value, translating it automatically through ancient beliefs. We must look directly at our own experience again-and learn to trust it. We must be our own psychic naturalists, combining reason with intuition. We must refuse to let old theories define our realities for us, limiting and distorting the very scope of our lives.

Instead, we must learn to acknowledge and interpret our own psychic perceptions; to distinguish between, say, psychic newscasts, documentaries, dramas, fantasies, and educational programs. We have to learn to read the language of the psyche and to discover far more about the psychodramas strange blend of inner and exterior events.

And to do all of that, we have to trust ourselves and our impulses.

In order to be sane and healthy, in order to even begin to understand our potentials as a species, we have to cultivate ideas and philosophies that provide us with a secure psychological base as good creatures, alive in a good universe. Otherwise, by our own definitions, we condemn ourselves as meaningless subjective mechanisms, or as the sinful children of an ancient revengeful god.

And, as Seth states in his The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, we must redefine our ideas of good and evil and reexamine the characteristics of idealism so that we really understand that the end cannot justify the means taken to achieve it. Our ideals must be reflected in the methods we use to fulfill them.

These are all issues in which each of us can be personally involved by studying them as they appear in our personal lives. It’s vitally important that we examine and explore the reaches of our own consciousnesses, gather evidence of those unofficial psychic events held in such disgrace by science and religion, and build up our own confidence. We need to examine the very contents and processes of our minds-not with instruments but with our consciousness itself.

As I type this final chapter, Rob has just finished his work on Seth’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, and Seth is already on Chapter 9 of Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment. I’ve clocked many more hours of trance-time, of course, and I’m still trying to map those contours of the psyche in which my subjective travels happen.

There is a point, though, where the private psyche opens up to the mass psyche and where they both become aware of a still greater Source from which all reality emerges. The completed manuscript for Mass Events sits on Rob’s desk right now.

And even if we can’t prove Seth’s model of reality any more than we can science’s or religion’s, certainly Seth provides a more intellectually and emotionally satisfying one as far as I’m concerned, and one that leaves us room for gallant, meaningful action And how strange that my private impulses led me to a kind of public vision in which we all uphold a democracy of spirit, and insist upon interpreting not just the Bible but the nature of reality for ourselves!”

Thank you, Rick, you’re the man!

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail

by Pete on 12/22/2010

By Chris Hedges

Posted at Truthdig. org, Dec 20, 2010

“One hundred thirty-one demonstrators, Chris Hedges among them, were arrested in front of the White House on Thursday.” (caption under AP photo)

“The speeches were over. There was a mournful harmonica rendition of taps. The 500 protesters in Lafayette Park in front of the White House fell silent. One hundred and thirty-one men and women, many of them military veterans wearing old fatigues, formed a single, silent line. Under a heavy snowfall and to the slow beat of a drum, they walked to the White House fence. They stood there until they were arrested.”

Read full story at Truthdig.org

The comments below follow Chris’ article on Truthdig. The “rap” comments are mine. – Pete

Comment by rap, December 20:

Chris, this is your greatest piece yet because it comes from the depth of your soul.

“As long you you fight for greed and gain, there will be no peace.” – Seth

In life and business, how many of us ask if what we are doing is good? Do our actions improve the quality of life or undermine it? Do they increase humanity’s chances for survival or threaten it?

Instead of creating a world of predators and victims by letting thoughts of fear, separation and competition (what’s going to work best for ME?) dominate our thinking, why not ask:

What’s going to work best for ALL of us? This question takes YOU, ME and US (everyone and everything) into consideration.
What’s going to work best for ALL of us in personal terms? (What is the best way for us to fulfill our own unique potential in support of the world AND ourselves?)
What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of business? (What is the best way for us to maintain the health and well-being of the planet, and humanity?)
What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of education? (What is the best way for us to learn and grow? What are the most important things for us to learn?)
What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of the environment? (What is the best and most sustainable way for us to relate to nature and the earth?)
What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of peace? (What is the best way for us to treat ourselves and what is the best way for us to treat each other, as individuals and nations?)

The growing collapse of our economic and social system (increases in the number of people in the world, and in jail; homelessness, joblessness, food shortages, disease, wars, global warming, unsustainable growth and the loss of wealth), can be laid at the feet of putting individuality and self-interest (ego) ahead of oneness and the common good (soul). A similar imbalance occurs when we put the common good ahead of self-interest. Why not create a system that values both equally?

By giving equal value to both our oneness and individuality, we make it possible to cooperate, not compete with one another. And by asking questions that include ALL of us, we not only acknowledge our oneness and individuality, we acknowledge our individual and collective roles, and responsibility, in co-creating our shared reality.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

Until we understand that consciousness forms matter, that thought precedes action, we will continue to rely upon brute force to change our reality from the outside-in, instead of the inside-out, by subtle changes in our perceptions and beliefs. As we think, we create. Change what we think, and we change what we create!

“When every young man (and woman) refuses to go to war, you will have peace.” – Seth

Almost all of the responses to Chris’s article, so far, are great!

By rap, December 21 – I responded to comment about Reverend Wright by Garth, following Chris Hedge’s article: Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail

Comment by Garth, Dec. 20 at 8:21 pm:

The ‘white guy’ Hedges said all the right things on Democracy Now!. And he was right.

But he volunteered the information that he was a friend of Jeremiah Wright.

Whight’s not just the guy who posed as Mr. Bumptious’s pastor at some concocted ‘church’ in Chicago. He’s a guy who drives a brand new Porsche every year and lives in a gated community, thanks to the Ford Foundation.

He also oversaw the so-called New-this or New-that church, and covered up the murders of two of his acolytes in the church while he was Pastor.

Ford Foundation’s anti-insurgency money drips from his every word. Incite. Then look around and take names. If you are prone to indignation, go see Pastor Wright!

And now, Chris Hedges has linked himself to Pastor Wright as a ‘good friend’.

The old axiom comes clear.

With friends like that who needs enemies.

Or as Dr. Rossi, my high school chemistry teacher, used to say, “Consider everyone an enemy. At least, then you know what to expect from your enemies.

Enjoy the added typos.

rap: Garth, your angry perception of Jerome Wright and Barack Obama has given me an opportunity to say something I’ve wanted to say for a long time. Much has been said about Rev. Wright, President Obama’s former pastor, since the presidential campaign in 2008.

Like many people, I watched the videos of him giving sermons at his church in Chicago. When I heard a Republican politician describe the contents of his sermons as “Transformational Theology”, I couldn’t help but laugh because, as he uttered this correct phrase, he bristled with false contempt and indignation. By doing so, he was attempting to say that Rev. Wright was evil and un-American when all he was doing was acknowledging white prejudice against blacks as a prelude to telling his parishioners that what they are is good, and that they are as deserving of success as anyone.

He was vilified for speaking the obvious in a passionate voice. In his sermons, he was not expressing anger at black prejudice in America just to express anger; he was using it as a reminder and a reason for blacks, or anyone else who feels downtrodden, to rise up and overcome their fear and self-doubt. He was encouraging people to overcome their false sense of limitation and make something of themselves! Wouldn’t it be nice if more preachers in America did the same, instead of oppressing people by telling them how bad they are and that they cannot trust themselves? By doing so, they disarm us, short circuit our imagination and make us dependent on outside authority.

We’re free to do so, but we don’t have to let our minds become poison wells of negativity. How we define ourselves, and the world around us, forms our intent, which, in turn, forms our reality. To know how you feel about yourself, pay attention to how you feel about others, for we are both one AND separate. We are not bad, it is our ideas about who we are and what reality is that are bad.

Instead of “doing as we’re told”, we can make it our own personal goal to seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good in life. Why – because we can! Not only are we the products of creation, we are creation itself. Not only are we the image being painted on the canvas, we are the artist painting it. We are gods becoming, and “gods” take responsibility for their impact on the world!

Reflect on the following thought: Every day, in every way, we’re getting better and better! Include everyone and everything in this belief because it’s true! We all want to do better today than we did yesterday. If we stop to think about it, we’ll realize that every cell and every organ in our body wants to do better today than it did yesterday, just like every person and every flower. We interfere with this natural process of self-improvement when we learn to question or doubt the integrity of our own being. When we buy into negative personal and cultural beliefs, we perpetuate them and the reality they create. When we buy into positive personal and cultural beliefs, we create better health, better selves, and a better world.

Instead of automatically recycling the surface beliefs and values of today, we can choose to live by value fulfillment and practice idealism. We can choose to consciously create our own reality! As individuals, we know the qualities of life and being we value most, our ideals. To practice idealism means to live our lives by fulfilling our ideals to the best of our ability.

It all boils down to what we think will work best for us. For example, take love and hate. If we hate ourselves, how are we going to treat ourselves and others? If we love ourselves, how are we going to treat ourselves and others? Each action creates a different result because we get what we concentrate on. Whether our ideas are negative or positive doesn’t matter. It’s time to believe in ourselves and our own creative abilities. No one can do a better job of creating our reality than us!

What can be more exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves, and the world, for the better? What can be cheaper, more beneficial and rewarding?

Roger “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Email to Ellen Brown at Web of Debt Re: Dennis Kucinich’ National Employment Defense Act Bill- HR6550

by Pete on 12/19/2010

Dear Ellen,

http://www.monetary.org/moneyscenefive.html Interesting article from the American Monetary Institute (AMI). It argues against the formation of State Banks and explains why. What are your thoughts on the matter? If you answer online, please send me the link. Thank you.

Also, how can we expect to reign in greed and corruption when so many of us continue to ask, what’s going to work best for ME? Underlying this egocentric question are beliefs in separation and competition, which, in the extreme, are expressed as “survival of the fittest, eat or be eaten, kill or be killed”. With self-serving beliefs like these how can we expect anything but greed and gain (predation) at the expense of others, including the environment (victimization)? Where is the morality, where is the balance, where is the love in these beliefs?

Perhaps it is time to consciously acknowledge that we’re both one and separate, and that we’re not lonely the products of creation (blank slates to write on, empty sponges to fill, or computers to program) but creation itself! From this foundation of ideas the question then becomes, what’s going to work best for ALL of us – in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace? One system of ideas assumes we’re essentially automatons and unable to change our nature. The other assumes we’re living, loving, growing and changing aspects of consciousness, responsible for, and capable of rewriting our scripts when they no longer serve us?

Until we understand and reconcile the differences between these two root belief systems (love of being and fear of dying), within ourselves and one another, battles will continue to rage between the two belief structures with wins and losses on both sides. Should we continue to ignore our root beliefs and keep playing the same old game? After all, conflict does keep us busy and make life exciting! But then, how does it make us feel to know we can do better and choose not to?

Continue to seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good!

Roger “Pete” Peterson

From: AMI, Saturday, December 18, 2010 5:09 PM

Subject: IMPORTANT MONETARY NEWS ALERT: MAJOR, HISTORIC PROGRESS BEING MADE

To: Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute,

On Friday December 17th Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D,Ohio, 10th District) took a crucial and heroic step to resolve our growing financial crisis and achieve a just and sustainable money system for our nation by introducing the National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2010, abbreviated NEED. The bill number is HR6550.

While the bill focuses on our unemployment crisis, the remedy proposed contains all the essential monetary measures being proposed by the American Monetary Institute in the American Monetary Act. These are what decades of research and centuries of experience have shown to be necessary to end the economic crisis in a just and sustainable way, and place the U.S. money system under our constitutional checks and balances. Yes it can be done!

We expect this bill will also be re-introduced next year in the 112th Congress. By putting it in now Congressman Kucinich accomplishes these important things:

* First, the seriousness of intent is underscored;

* Second, it gives our nation the opportunity to view, discuss and understand the necessary provisions, giving the chance to make improvements for re-introduction;

* Third it serves as a beacon to our beleaguered people, cutting through the error, vested interest and disinformation that has blocked monetary reform understanding and action in the past.

The American Monetary Institute has activated its blog at http://moneyreform.wordpress.com/ to discuss and review any questions about this act. Just click on the blog link at our homepage.

To participate in this process, please sign up at the bottom of our home page at http://www.monetary.org. Then, after reading the proposed legislation feel free to make comments or put questions on the blog, including thoughtful suggestions on how it might be improved.

You can read a copy of the legislation here.

Warm regards to all,

Stephen Zarlenga

AMI

P.S. I’ll be sending one more message to you before year end, essentially asking you to contribute what you can toward sustaining the work of the Institute, if you like what we are doing. Of course you don’t have to wait till then, you can contribute now by clicking any of the contribute buttons at our home page.

Few of us know how money works beyond the fact that if we have money or credit, we can buy whatever we want and can afford. If we don’t have money or credit, we can’t buy anything. As greed and corruption within our money system threatens to collapse the economy, more of us want to know how the system works so we can support meaningful change.

Hopefully, this article will encourage you to learn about money. Explore Ellen Brown’s website, http://www.webofdebt.com/ and the AMI website: http://www.monetary.org. Both are involved in bringing about change to our financial system, change that will sustain us into the future.

Active and thoughtful participation in the creation of our reality is the change we are waiting for!

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Don’s Early Adventures in Consciousness

by Pete on 12/17/2010

By Don Ross

What follows are personal recollections of my early years, up to and including a sojourn into schitzophrenia, two decades ago. I wrote this in July 2003 to (1) explore my memories of the nether realms and (2) to set down for posterity the journey I undertook long ago, as I became a man. This tale is not intended for the Average Joe.

Growing up, I rarely remembered my dreams. I know that I dreamed, but they were gone as soon I awoke. The only dreams I remembered were of flying. I was always the odd kid out; the one who did not fit in the crowd. So I was commonly beat up by groups of bullies everywhere I lived. During these times, I would dream of flying over their heads while walking home from school, just out of their reach. These were happy dreams. Sometimes I wonder if these early flying dreams were my first unconscious experiments with astral projection when being in this body became too uncomfortable.

To read Don’s story, click on this link or the one above: http://nichirenscoffeehouse.net/bodhisattva/adventures.html

Pete - http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Do We Distribute Money Fairly

by Pete on 12/16/2010

How can we share the abundance of this planet without destroying it and ourselves?

Public discussion tends to focus more on the tax end of the wealth distribution equation and very little on the pay end. Why is that? Why aren’t people who actually transform ideas into reality (laborers) valued as much as money handlers, dreamers and organizers in society? Why do we insist on inflating our value while deflating the value of others when, ultimately, we end up viewing one another with contempt?

By not addressing fair pay and social responsibility issues, we force unnecessary growth in government to protect victims from predators. Not only do predators want all the money, they want to keep it, so it is only natural they use their wealth to influence (bribe) lawmakers into reducing their tax liability, thus enriching themselves at both ends of the spectrum.

These same individuals (including corporations) loudly complain about “big government ” and too much government regulation while, at the same time, they express unfair and predatory behavior. Wittingly or unwittingly, this behavior creates the need for unions and big government. In other words, we cut our own throats. Isn’t this living with our eyes wide shut?

In life and business, how many of us ask if what we are doing is good? “Do my (our) actions improve the quality of life or undermine it? Do they increase humanity’s chances for survival or threaten it?”

Active and thoughtful participation in the creation of our reality is the change we are waiting for!

Follow the rest of this ongoing discussion at Thom Hartmann’s website. Sign up and join in, if you want to.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Rough Times In The Linear

by Pete on 12/14/2010

A New Message From VERONICA

“In the linear the feeling of separation is often expanded as one feels his or her way through the sea of chaos. Most feel the void and become fearful that their connection with their soul may be forever out of their reach.

It is important to realize that those in spirit are always moving past any impediments to connecting with those they love in the linear.

Close your eyes when fearful and feel the touch of spirit. The warmth of that embrace can supersede any detachment one may feel while in the physical form.

Spirit senses when the disconnect occurs and moves forcefully to reconnect. Allow the energy to proceed. We realize it may be difficult but open yourself to the probability if at all possible.

We have stated before that spirit will never abandon you. This remains the most stable connection in the linear world as spirit moves forward to connect.

Always know that these moments of warmth and love continue. Pay attention in times of trouble so that the connection may become more stable.

It is the best possible moment when the soul can smooth the rough edges of a linear moment. It is not your imagination, the work of spirit is profound. Believe in the moment and all will be well.

The soul has the power to smooth out all of the roughness. One simply needs to allow for that to occur.

Close your eyes and believe.

Relief will be forthcoming.”

–VERONICA

Dear VERONICA (question from reader)

Dear VERONICA,

I just read your column about soulmates and have a question about when someone is in a relationship with an abusive personality.

1) Is that experience a learning experience or something else?

2) Are abusive personalities evil or are they just profoundly damaged?

3) Does that come from soul energy or is it a human condition?

Heidi

Dear Heidi,

1) The abusive relationship can be a learning experience or a karmic one. If it is karmic it may be from an unbalanced previous association wishing to balance itself.

2) Abusive personalities are often profoundly damaged. The soulful energy at its core is never evil.

3) Soul energy is often pure. It is the human condition that allows it to expand into negative territory.

–VERONICA

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Near Death Experience of Mellen-Thomas Benedict

by Pete on 12/13/2010

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the light and shadow of every experience. Look for them! – Pete

by Mellen-Thomas Benedict

“In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was inoperable, and any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made me more of a vegetable. I was given six to eight months to live.

“I had been an information freak in the1970’s, and I had become increasingly despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So, since I did not have a spiritual basis, I began to believe that nature had made a mistake, and that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. I saw no way that we could get out from all the problems we had created for ourselves and the planet. I perceived all humans as cancer, and that is what I got.

“That is what killed me.”

-Mellen-Thomas Benedict

To finish this story, visit Mellen-Thomas Benedict’s website: http://www.mellen-thomas.com/stories.htm

Wow, what a revelation! How many of us are doing now what Mellen-Thomas did in 1982, making ourselves miserable by focusing too much attention on crises in the world, crises we create by holding onto negative beliefs we have about ourselves and others? Why does every moment in history include people who see life as a dark veil of tears and those who see it as light, magic and wonder? And why does every era provide us with people like Mellen-Thomas and Anita Moorjani, people whose lives serve as triggers for delivering revelation into the world when change is most needed?Like Anita Moorjani’s NDE, Mellen-Thomas Benedict’s NDE is profound and moving. If you haven’t already, read them both!

Roger “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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7 Ways to Transform Banking

by Pete on 12/12/2010

(Excellent article) by Fran Korten, Publisher of Yes! Magazine.

Each of us can help build a resilient financial system that will serve real people in real communities. - read more -

Bring Soul into the World

by Pete on 12/08/2010

“We live in a culture that is greatly biased against the imagination, because our culture is very materialistic, objective and literal. Our culture lacks soul, and doesn’t know it, although it experiences the consequences. When you don’t know what’s missing, then of course you don’t know what to bring in, even though you feel something is missing.”

“We live in a world that needs more soul, more meaning. We, as conscious beings, have, as our primary responsibility, at this time in human history, the task of bringing soul into the world, or releasing soul into the world. We do this, first of all, in ourselves and in our own personal world; then we do it in our groups – including family; then we do it in our society through our work, relationships and presence there.”

– Andrew Schneider – The Soul Journey

In other words, create your reality from the love of your soul, not the fear and uncertainty of your ego. – Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Memories of Jane Roberts

by Pete on 12/01/2010

by Richard Kendall

I want to tell you about a woman I knew who grew up on welfare; was kicked out of college; went cross-country on a motorcycle; married and divorced three years later; smoked; drank wine and beer; and at times swore like a sailor. Her name was Jane Roberts. Shortly before Jane died, she told Rob, “DON’T LET THEM MAKE A GOD OUT OF ME.” So I hope that by providing some details of Jane’s personal life, both before and after Seth emerged, you will be able to see her more clearly, as the very human being she was. Yet her accomplishments in the field of consciousness exploration spring from that same humanity, so I will also include examples of her often remarkable abilities.

Jane was born in 1929 and grew up in Saratoga Springs, NY. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and Jane lived with her mother, Marie, who was an invalid. Those early years had their share of difficulties.
“I once tried to poison the welfare lady, Jane recalls. I took Brillo and Comet, and mixed it in with the hot chocolate and set it down. My mother must have known from my face that something was up. This woman had a beautiful white suit on and my mother said, ‘Mrs. Calkins, I wouldn’t drink that if I were you. I don’t like the look on my daughter’s face.’ And the welfare lady said, ‘Oh, she’s the loveliest girl, Marie.’ So she took a sip and promptly spit it up.” Like any young kid, Jane participated in her share of youthful pranks.

When Jane was about six, her mother became completely bedridden because of an acute arthritic condition. It then became Jane’s responsibility to take care of her, which included cooking, cleaning, bringing her the bedpan, and getting up in the middle of the night to refuel the stove. Her mother used to tell Jane that she was going to turn on the gas jets in the middle of the night and kill them both. “My mother was a real bitch,” Jane says, “but she was an energetic bitch. When my mother attempted suicide for about the fifth time, she took a whole mess of sleeping pills and was in the hospital. I went to the welfare lady and said, ‘I can’t take it anymore. I’ve just got to leave.’”

Jane had been going with a fellow named Walt at the time, and they decided to go to the west coast by motorcycle to see Jane’s father. Walt and Jane then married. “Three years we lived together,” Jane says in an interview. “Then I found out — while I was working in a radio factory putting lover-boy Walt through school, everybody else in town knew – he isn’t going through school.”

Then, Jane met Rob: “I wrote him a poem the second time I met him. The fourth time, it was a party, we’d never kissed, we’d never had a date. I just looked at him and said, ‘Look, I’m leaving Walt, and I’m going to leave by myself or I’m going to leave with you, so just let me know.”

The following excerpt from one of Jane’s personal journals, written in 1978, sheds some light on the nature of her relationship with Rob:

“I think, this minute anyhow, that I am lonely; except for Rob, my work or Seth’s is so often misunderstood; used for ends that to me are unfortunate, as if somehow despite all Seth says or I say, we are just a slightly more exotic species of the psychic master and his holy sister.” This passage reminded me of times when Jane questioned whether her books were really helping anyone, including those of us in class. I don’t think she was looking for praise or even reassurance, but simply sharing with us some of her doubts about the value of the work she was doing.

Over the years, hundreds of people witnessed Seth speaking. Some went to class for an evening, others attended for longer periods. Outside of the class structure, Jane gave many personal Seth sessions to various individuals who had written her, asking for help. She never charged for those sessions; however, she did charge $3.50 a class when I first attended. When the books began to sell in sufficient numbers, she dropped the fee.

During class, Jane remained seated in her rocking chair, as the vocal power of Seth and the Sumari seemed to shake the walls at times. About halfway through class, there was a break when Jane went across the hall to her other apartment for about 15 minutes until class resumed. I remember a particular evening, Jane got up from her rocker to walk across the hall as I had seen her do so many times before, and yet this one night, it was as if I were watching her do this for the first time. I had never noticed the extreme difficulty she had in getting her legs to move, in just putting one foot in front of the other. It was an impression that never left me.

On the other side of the coin, the speed and dexterity of Jane’s mental gymnastics were in sharp contrast to the physical constraints with which she lived. Here is an example of Jane’s mobility when it came to her consciousness. This occurred one evening after class had officially ended for the night. Jane said, “Rich, look at me; now I am Jane.” In that moment she was Jane as I knew her in her usual state. Then she closed her eyes for an instant, opened them, and said, “Now I am Sumari.” Jane’s face now displayed the look and feel of when she sang Sumari, a distinct difference from her usual countenance. Then, closing her eyes again and quickly opening them, she said in her normal voice, “Now I am what you think of as Seth, without the voice.” I stared with wonder into Seth’s eyes as he peered back into mine. Once again Jane closed her eyes, opened them, and Seth said, “Now I am what you think of as Seth with the voice!” Jane closed and opened her eyes again, “Now I am something you don’t know yet.” Eyes closed, opened, and she was back to the usual Jane, who then said, “Do you see the difference?” I had just witnessed a demonstration in the nature of consciousness that lasted all of 30 seconds, a demonstration one could ponder for a lifetime.

Another incident from class that stands out in my mind transpired while Jane was singing Sumari. Her arthritis was so severe that she could not lift her arm over her shoulder, yet while in trance singing Sumari, she lifted her arm high above her head, to everyone’s amazement. When she came out of trance, the class informed her of what she had done. She said Seth had told her many times there was nothing wrong with her bones. Now, no longer in trance, she could barely lift her arm to shoulder level.

Another evening, when we were once again hanging around after class, Jane looked at Bobby Axelrod, one of the students, and spontaneously gave him the following reincarnational data: She told Bobby that he was a beautiful woman with long black hair with combs in it, and that he lived near Majorca, Spain. He was a highly skilled dancer, and had eight children, of which five were stillborn. He believed in the superstition that if a stillborn child was buried in the earth, the next would survive. Jane then said that because of the dancing and acting in that life, he can easily switch between male and female movements in this life.

So not only were we on the edge of our psychic chairs, not knowing what Seth might say at any given moment, we also never knew what Jane might come up with. For example, Jane once said to me, “Rich, you were an Indian”, then continued on with class. Seemingly apropos of nothing, she looked at one of the students and said, “I think you once killed me, yet not from hate but clumsily. It almost seems amusing.” Another time she told the same student that at 14 years old he had picked up an idea about the nature of reality that has held him back sexually. She said a math course and a woman named Sylvia were connected. The student revealed that in
10th grade Geometry, he had a teacher whose first name was Sylvia. These are just a few examples of what were no doubt thousands of psychic impressions Jane had during her lifetime. Looking back now, I can only wonder at the other things Jane picked up that remained unspoken.

When class resumed at the “hill house,” as Jane and Rob called their new home, Jane was much more open than she had been before. I remember her talking about some person in class who, in her words, “used to drive her up a wall.” Hearing to her say that surprised me; I guess I was so mesmerized by Seth and so struck by Jane’s abilities that evidence of the everyday Jane’s feelings, feelings we all have, caught me off guard. One note along these lines: Jane once told us that if she wanted to, she could have had us all wrapped around her finger, but it was an important point in her development not to use her abilities in such a manner.

People came to Jane always wanting something. However they rarely ever wanted it from Jane, they wanted it from Seth. Jane mentioned once she still resented it when new people came to class with the attitude, “will Seth come through?”

The Air Force once contacted her to see if she could help locate a missing pilot whose plane had crashed while he was on a training mission in upstate NY. Jane told them she had an impression of the letter “M” and “twin mountains”. They later found the pilot at Mt. Matumbel. She picked up so much information about the pilot, the government began to suspect that somehow, she may have been involved in the incident; an interesting example of what sometimes happens when unofficial abilities meet the official world.

The following passage from one of Jane’s personal journals caught my eye recently:

“I dreamed that in the future, all households would be connected to interconnecting computers, keeping track of all inhabitants, actions, goods, and so forth.” She wrote this in 1981, long before the word Internet was part of our everyday vocabulary. Jane never used a computer and said she hated typing her own material and was a lousy speller.

The following incident, also in 1981, further underscores the great depth of Jane’s abilities. I was experiencing health problems, which led me to call Jane. I was unable to speak with her but spoke briefly with Rob, who said he would relay my message. After the call, I took the train to the city to run some errands, and while walking around Manhattan, I felt a sudden wave of calm energy encircling my body. It was quite tangible. I didn’t connect the experience with my phone call to Jane, since I had not spoken with her. I returned home about 7:00 PM, and Jane called. She told me she had tried to reach me by phone numerous times during the afternoon. Unsuccessful, she concentrated on sending me healing energy, imagining it going all over my body with support and concern. I didn’t realize until years later, the extent of Jane’s health problems at that time; yet, she reached out with healing energy for others.

The last experience I’ll relate, happened in 1978. Although classes had officially ended, a friend and I stopped by unannounced to see Jane and Rob. I started telling her how I hoped to be able to create my life with high after high, infused with peak experiences, like her. I spoke of wanting to feel part of a meaningful universe.

Without putting down my intent, Jane explained to me that while she had her highs, her life was not an endless series of peak experiences, but was filled with ups and downs like anyone else’s life. Then, quite unexpectedly, Seth came through and said the following: “YOU ARE NOT SO MUCH PART OF A MEANINGFUL UNIVERSE, AS THE UNIVERSE IN PART. That is the next step for you to joyfully follow.” I think that is the next step for us to follow joyfully too. Thank you!

I am also writing a book called, “The Road To Elmira.” It recounts my experiences while attending Seth classes during the 1970′s. While I intend to self-publish it, I am looking for someone (it could be more than one person) to invest in this project for a share of the profits. I can be contacted at highwaykendall@gmail.com – Richard Kendall

Published with permission from Rich Kendall. Roger “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Seth on Christ’s Message

by Pete on 11/27/2010

The message of the Christ entity was, in religious terms “You are all children of God—the ‘sinner’ as well as the saint.” Indeed, according to the original Christ thesis, while a man could sin, no man was identified as a sinner. He was not identified with his failures or limitations, but instead with his potential.

The Christ entity knew the vitality, power, and strength of myths. That vitality allows for different readings, of course, and through man’s changing development he reads his myths differently, yet they serve as containers for intuitional knowledge.

Christ’s thesis was inserted into a Jewish tradition dealing deeply with guilt, and the new thesis was meant to temper that tradition, and to spread beyond it. Instead, while carrying the belief in man’s potential, Christianity smothered the thesis beneath a slag heap of old guilt.

Guilt can be used to manipulate people, of course, and it is a fine tool in the hands of government, religion, science, or any large organization that wants to retain its power.

Christ dealt with myths, once again-potent ones that stood for inner realities. Christ clothed those realities in colorful stories geared to people’s understanding. I am using the name here, Christ, as one person for the sake of discussion, for that entity touched many lives, each leaping into a kind of super-reality as it joyfully played its part in the religious drama.

The message was “Do not condemn yourself or others,” for Christ well knew that self-righteous condemnation of the self or of one’s neighbors served to darken the door through which man might view his own potential and its greater source.

The Christian concept of heaven with its riches, God and his bounty, the source of nature itself – all of this in our terms was a symbolic structure describing in storybook terms the attributes and characteristics of Framework 2 [described below – Pete].

In our terms, All That Is exists in Framework 2 as elsewhere, but Framework 2 represents the source of known physical reality. From it flow all of the known facts of your world. Christ hoped to show that you survived death psychically and spiritually – that you returned to the father in heaven.

Literal minds, looking for evidential proof, would insist that the physical body itself must rise, ascending, hence the related stories, the misinterpretation of data.

“Ask, and you shall receive.” Christ well knew that that statement was indeed true, but men who condemned themselves, who considered themselves sinners, would not know what to ask for, except punishment to relieve their guilt. Hence he stressed time and time again that each person was a child of God.

He also stressed the importance of a childlike belief, knowing that the adult mind was apt to question “How, and when, and in what manner can my request be granted?”

The words “Let thy will be done,” represented excellent psychological understanding, for according to Christ’s teachings as originally given, God the father represented the source or parent of the self, who was by nature free from the self’s ignorance or lack of understanding at any given time, and who would know better than the known self those experiences that would fulfill the self’s hopes, dreams, and potentials.

In this way, with the words spoken “Let thy will be done,” the self could free itself from its own misconceptions, and attract from Framework 2 benefits that it might otherwise not be knowledgeable enough to request.

A portion of each person dwells in Framework 1 and Framework 2. Understand that Framework 2 is a psychic or spiritual or mental structure. In deepest terms, of course, it is not a place. It is, if you prefer, a spiritual landscape of far greater resources than the one you know. It brings forth the world of your experience in that world, and so it is your source also. “Let thy will be done” meant “Let me follow those greater dictates of my inner nature.” Even with all of the distortions, that formula worked for centuries in large measure. The God, the source, was put outside of nature, however, finally becoming at last too remote, and the story itself became frayed at the edges as man tried to tie intuitive truths to objective fact.

To be a child of God was to trust in your own worth. You could admit failings, transgressions of one kind or another without identifying yourself, say, with failure. The child of God would automatically find salvation, and everyone was a child of God.

When Christ said “Believe in me, and you will be saved,” he meant “Believe in your relationship to God, in that you are his son, as I am, and you will surely be saved.” Again, he spoke in religious terms, for those were the terms of the times.

This knowledge, however, of the innate goodness of the self literally gives the individual the inner support necessary for the exercise of man’s fullest potentials. In civil and governmental terms, such a policy could not be tolerated nor has man yet learned how to deal with that basic principal. It is almost automatic, for example, to label a man a murderer, and identify him with his crime. The society never came to terms with the vast complications inherent with Christ’s teachings, and so it abandoned them.

Man’s great exuberant spontaneity has never been allowed its full sweep as a result.

You [Jane Roberts and Robert Butts] both chafed against the belief of your times, that man was a natural aggressor, tainted from birth, that he was damned by his very nature, condemned by his early childhood background, by original sin, or by his genes. At the same time, you were also tainted by those beliefs, and seemed to see evidence for them whenever you looked into your selves, or outward to the world of your fellows.

Each person carried the brunt of that self-condemnation. Ruburt [Jane’s larger male identity] is hardly outstanding in having physical difficulties, and overall your lives and the work speak for more of the potential of personality than of personality’s lacks. You set for yourselves a goal of shoving aside all of the beliefs and distortions for yourselves and for others.

You went beyond your family’s beliefs individually, searching for yourselves and trying various roads. You accomplished the quite difficult feat, in certain terms, of finding each other, so that you each had a mate who would aid you in your pursuits—and you tried as best you knew to encourage each other. You were still plagued by remnants of self-disapproval and self-condemnation, however, yet the spontaneous self in each of you managed to push here and there and blaze forth whenever you gave it a chance, with some quite outstanding results.

I always have to couch my material for you personally, just ahead of where you are at any given time. Overall, however, the main thrust of the material of course has always been way ahead of where you are, practically speaking, at any given time.

In terms of your lives, you are able to use certain portions of the material at different times. No one could put it all into working order at once in a given life. Ruburt [Jane] then used and enjoyed his spontaneity, and has been developing it along the lines of his understanding. It is not, as it may seem, that he had something of spontaneity and lost it.

Give us a moment.

Spontaneity knows its own order, and freely comes into order. Years ago, before the psychic experience, he was not for example psychically spontaneous to any great degree. He used his writing to hold back and yet contain his innate psychic knowledge. He disapproved of his own dancing, sometimes even of his sexual yearnings. Now those disapprovals simply piled up, with resulting physical difficulties. He would through the years begin to approve of spontaneity in one more area – spontaneity in class [Jane’s Seth class], for example – or with Sumari poetry, or in finally approving his own psychic writings. The disapproval was still present, however; yet now and then through the years would come a period of release, of sudden ease and sudden physical improvement—each time when he suspended self-disapproval, and when for your reasons, you began to suspend your own.

The situation and the faith that you managed to build up in Framework 2 have come to your aid.

The “ommm” exercises and the rune exercises are showing results because some of the material has come through again to you from the sessions, and you are jointly suspending your self-disapproval. In religious terms, you would realize you were saved, or a child of God. You have stopped to a degree identifying yourselves with any limitations. When this happens you actually symbolically say “Let thy will be done,” meaning “Let my greater nature, my spontaneous nature, flow through me without impediment, and without quibbling.”

Then the benefits from Framework 2 can begin to flow without impediment. The body can right itself, and the methods that you use, work. Do you want to rest your hand? [As Seth speaks through Jane, Rob records the sessions by hand. – Pete]

(No, I’m okay.)

Ruburt’s eyes are definitely improving these last few days, as the strain is being relieved from the rest of the body – the neck area particularly, the jaws and muscles of the brow. Nearly all eye difficulties are related to other stresses in the body.

(I should have asked Seth what he meant by “nearly”.)

Ruburt is quite correct: his vision has fluctuated through the years, and in periods of mental ease, understanding, and physical improvements, his vision also improves. You both became extremely depressed, thinking in time terms and concentrating upon past failures with which you identified. The notes Ruburt wrote yesterday are extremely important, with their emphasis upon my old the spontaneous self is the guardian, and added to that, from which your very life springs.

You can will your spontaneity to express itself, even as you can will it not to. Tell Ruburt that if he continues in this manner, and if the two of you can manage to maintain your peace of mind long enough—over a two or three day period, for example, then you can expect rewards in all areas. The inner keys have been turned once again.”

(Seth’s material here on the use of the will came about, I think, as a result of some older material I gave Jane to read this afternoon. It concerned the amazing powers of her will, and is from Session 713, Volume 2, of The “Unknown” Reality. This happens to be the session in that book that I’m working on now. I recommend that it be kept in mind and referred to every so often, for it certainly contains many clues to individual capacities.)

Now, I bid you a fond and encouraging good evening.

(May I ask a question?)

You may.

(This is off the subject, but your material about Christ reminded me of a letter we received from a young woman not long ago. She wanted to know what really happened to Christ, if he wasn’t crucified)

Give us a moment…

That question in the larger context is very difficult to answer. (Eyes closed) There were several men who, together, performed the exploits reported in the Christ story—exploits occurring only roughly in the 33-year period given (for Christ’s life).

A man was crucified, but he was not one who made up the Christ entity. You understand from stories that have come to you the elaborations and half-truths that people can be convinced are true. None of the men who made up that entity were crucified. They each died—one I believe in India.

People do not understand that their dreams become reality, and that the greater dramas of history and myth often bear little resemblance to the actual occurrences, but are greater than the physical events.

End of session.

(With loud good humor) You will get bits and tidbits on that now and then.

(Okay, thank you, Seth)

(See Chapter 21 of Seth Speaks for more on the Christ entity. According to history, Christ was crucified, and the other two members of Seth’s Christ entity, John the Baptist and St. Paul, were beheaded. Seth hasn’t mentioned India before in connection with any of the three, so that information would be new. It would be interesting to get more data on the whole Christ question. As I told Jane after the session, Seth’s Christ material tonight reminded me of the idea of the Christ book, which Seth mentioned in Personal Reality.)

From Deleted Session, January 9, 1978 by Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts.

Republished with permission from current copyright holder, Laurel Davies-Butts.

Roger “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Seth: There is More Evidence for Reincarnation than for Black Holes

by Pete on 11/27/2010

Posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by “Oceanside Rick”, Nov. 26, 2010 7:58 am (PST)

Seth: “You are taught not to trust your subjective experience, which means that you are told not to trust your initial and primary connection with reality.

Evidence for reincarnation is quite available. There are enough instances of it, known and tabulated, to make an excellent case; and beside this there is evidence that remains psychologically invisible in your private lives, because you have been taught not to concentrate in that direction.

There is enough evidence to build an excellent case for life after death.

All of this involves direct experience episodes, encountered by individuals, highly suggestive of the after-death hypothesis; but the hypothesis is never taken seriously by your established sciences. There is far more evidence for reincarnation and life after death than there is, for example, for the existence of black holes. (With amusement) Few people have seen a black hole, to make the most generous statement possible, while countless people have had private reincarnational experiences, or encounters that suggest the survival of the personality beyond death.

Those experiences are usual. They have been reported by peoples of all kinds and in all ages, and they represent a common-sense kind of knowledge that is frowned upon by the men of learned universities.”

Republished with permission from current copyright holder, Laurel Davies-Butts. Roger “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Anita Moorjani’s Extraordinary Near Death Experience

by Pete on 11/24/2010

Republished with permission from Anita Moorjani. – Pete

This is the original NDE description that Anita Moorjani submitted to The Near Death Research Foundation (the NDERF website) in August 2006. The owner of the site, Dr. Jeffrey Long, an oncologist and author of Evidence Of The Afterlife: The Science Of Near-Death Experiences, contacted Anita within hours of her submitting it, asking follow up questions, which appear below the experience description. Shortly after, this story went viral, spreading to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world via email. (A summary of Long’s book can be read here.)

EXPERIENCE DESCRIPTION:

I had end stage cancer (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma), and was being cared for at home. I was connected to an oxygen tank, and had a full time nurse. But on this morning, February 2nd 2006, I did not wake up. I had fallen into a coma. My husband called my doctor who said I needed to be rushed to hospital. The senior oncologist looked at me and told my husband that it was now the end, and that my organs were now shutting down. I would probably not make it beyond the next 36 hours. However, the oncologist said he would do whatever he could but prepared my husband that I would most likely not make it, as my organs were no longer functioning. They determined this because my body started to swell up and I had open skin lesions. They started me on a cocktail of medication on a drip and poked me with tubes and pipes for nourishment, drugs and oxygen.

I thought that I was drifting in and out of consciousness during this time, because I was aware of everything that was going on around me. But it was confirmed to me later by my family and the doctors that I was in a coma the whole time. I saw and heard the conversations between my husband and the doctors taking place outside my room, about 40 feet away down a hallway. I was later able to verify this conversation to my shocked husband. Then I actually “crossed over” to another dimension, where I was engulfed in a total feeling of love. I also experienced extreme clarity of why I had the cancer, why I had come into this life in the first place, what role everyone in my family played in my life in the grand scheme of things, and generally how life works. The clarity and understanding I obtained in this state is almost indescribable. Words seem to limit the experience – I was at a place where I understood how much more there is than what we are able to conceive in our 3-dimensional world. I realized what a gift life was, and that I was surrounded by loving spiritual beings, who were always around me even when I did not know it.

The amount of love I felt was overwhelming, and from this perspective, I knew how powerful I am, and saw the amazing possibilities we as humans are capable of achieving during a physical life. I found out that my purpose now would be to live “heaven on earth” using this new understanding, and also to share this knowledge with other people. However I had the choice of whether to come back into life, or go towards death. I was made to understand that it was not my time, but I always had the choice, and if I chose death, I would not be experiencing a lot of the gifts that the rest of my life still held in store. At first, I did not want to come back, because my body was very sick, and I did not want to come back into this body as the organs had already stopped functioning and I had all these open skin lesions. But it seemed that almost immediately, I became aware that if I chose life, my body would heal very quickly. I would see a difference in not months or weeks, but days!

I then started to understand how illnesses start on an energetic level before they become physical. If I chose to go into life, the cancer would be gone from my energy, and my physical body would catch up very quickly. I then understood that when people have medical treatments for illnesses, it rids the illness only from their body but not from their energy so the illness returns. I realized if I went back, it would be with a very healthy energy. Then the physical body would catch up to the energetic conditions very quickly and permanently. I seemed to become aware that this applies to anything, not only illnesses – physical conditions, psychological conditions, etc. I became aware that everything going on in our lives was dependent on this energy around us, created by us. Nothing was real – we created our surroundings, our conditions, etc. depending where this “energy” was at. The clarity I felt around how we get what we do was phenomenal! It’s all about where we are energetically. I somehow knew that I was going to see “proof” of this first hand if I returned back to my body.

It felt as though I was drifting in and out between the two worlds, this physical world and the other side, but every time I drifted into the “other side”, I seemed to go deeper and experienced more “scenes”. There was one where I saw how my life had touched all the people in it – it was sort of like a tapestry and I saw how I affected everyone’s lives around me. There was another scene where I saw my brother on a plane, having heard the news I was dying, coming to see me (this was verified to me as when I started to come round, my brother was there, having just got off a plane). I then saw a glimpse of my brother and me and somehow seemed to understand it was a previous life, where I was much older than him and was like a mother to him (in this life, he is older than me). I saw in that life I was very protective towards him. I suddenly became aware he was on the plane to come and see me, and felt “I can’t do this to him – can’t let him come and see me dead”. Then I also saw how my husband’s purpose was linked to mine, and how we had decided to come and experience this life together. If I went, he would probably follow soon after.

In addition, I seemed to understand that, as tests had been taken for my organ functions (and the results were not out yet), that if I chose life, the results would show that my organs were functioning normally. If I chose death, the results would show organ failure as the cause of death, due to cancer. I was able to change the outcome of the tests by my choice!

I made my choice, and as I started to wake up (in a very confused state, as I could not at that time tell which side of the veil I was on), the doctors came rushing into the room with big smiles on their faces saying to my family “Good news – we got the results and her organs are functioning – we can’t believe it!! Her body really did seem like it had shut down!”

After that, I began to recover rapidly. The doctors had been waiting for me to become stable before doing a lymph node biopsy to track the type of cancer cells, and they could not even find a lymph node big enough to suggest cancer (upon entering the hospital my body was filled with swollen lymph nodes and tumors the size of lemons, from the base of my skull all the way to my lower abdomen). They did a bone marrow biopsy, again to find the cancer activity so they could adjust the chemotherapy according to the disease, and there wasn’t any in the bone marrow. The doctors were very confused, but put it down to me suddenly responding to the chemo. Because they themselves were unable to understand what was going on, they made me undergo test after test, all of which I passed with flying colors, and clearing every test empowered me even more! I had a full body scan, and because they could not find anything, they made the radiologist repeat it again!!!!

Because of my experience, I am now sharing with everyone I know that miracles are possible in your life every day. After what I have seen, I realize that absolutely anything is possible, and that we did not come here to suffer. Life is supposed to be great, and we are very, very loved. The way I look at life has changed dramatically, and I am so glad to have been given a second chance to experience “heaven on earth”.

Questions by Dr. Jeffrey Long; answers, by Anita, Aug., 2006

Q. Was this kind of experience difficult to express in words?

A. Yes. The experience was much more than words can express. Putting words to it makes the experience smaller and more limited. What I saw, perceived, and felt, and the clarity I experienced about life, was more than anything we are able to conceive, so words have not been created to describe it.

Q. At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?

A. I was dying of cancer, and the doctors had said I only had about 36 hours to live. It was at this point where I started drifting between another dimension and this one.

Q. At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?

A. Probably at the time when I was given the choice whether to go back.

Q. How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal every day consciousness and alertness?

A. More consciousness and alertness than normal

Q. If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain:

A. Even though I was in a coma, I seemed to be going in and out of consciousness, so I was aware of both “sides”. I was also aware of conversations taking place outside the room, beyond my earshot.

Q. Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect, such as clarity, field of vision, colors, brightness, depth perception degree of solidness/transparency of objects, etc.)?

A. Yes. I was aware that I was still in the room – even though to others, my eyes were closed and I was not awake – I was able to “see” everyone in the room, and at the same time, experience the other dimension as if it existed simultaneously.

Q. Did your hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in any aspect, such as clarity, ability to recognize source of sound, pitch, loudness, etc.)?

A. Yes. I was able to hear what was being said by the doctors and my family outside the room, well out of earshot.

Q. Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?

A. Uncertain.

Q. What emotions did you feel during the experience?

A. Felt tremendous love, more than anything I have experienced on earth. I felt very loved, like no matter what I did, I would still be loved. I did not have to do anything to deserve it or prove myself.

Q. Did you meet or see any other beings?

A. Yes. I was surrounded by many beings, including my father and my best friend who had passed on. I did not recognize the other beings, but I knew they loved me very much and were protecting me. I became aware that they were there all the time, even when I was not aware of it.

Q. Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?

A. Yes. I saw and heard a conversation taking place between my doctor and my husband outside of my room and down a hallway. I saw my brother on a plane coming to see me. Both of these were verified, including the conversation between my doctor and husband, which I repeated word for word.

Q. Did you have any sense of altered space or time?

A.Yes. I felt I was in the other dimension a lot longer than I really was. The amount I saw and learned would have taken a lot longer in this dimension. Also, with the medical tests that were done, even though the tests were done, the results were dependent on my choice of whether to come back into life or not. That really changed my concept of time!!

Q. Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?

A. Yes. The clarity was amazing! I understood why I had the cancer, I understood how people get what they do, and I understood that life is a gift, but we don’t realize it. I understood that we are very, very loved, no matter what. We don’t have to do anything to prove ourselves to god, and there is no “heaven” or “hell”. I realized we create our own heaven or hell here on earth, and I learned the key ingredients for creating my own heaven on earth!

Q. Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?

A. Yes. I reached the point where I felt I had to make the choice whether to go back to life or onward into death. My best friend was there (who had died of cancer 2 years before) and she told me that this was as far as I could go or I would not be able to turn back. “You have come to the edge. This is as far as you can go” she said. “Now go back and live your life fully and fearlessly”.

Q. Did you become aware of future events?

A. Yes. I was aware my body would heal very quickly, and it did. I was aware that all the tests would show phenomenal results, and they did. They found no trace of any disease on my scans, my biopsies, etc. My organs are functioning normally, my appetite came back, and I was made aware all of this would happen. It has only been 6 months since my NDE, and I am still awaiting all the other gifts that were shown to me. However, I can see my life changing in a direction where all of this is very possible. One of the things I saw was a very long life ahead of me!

Q. Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?

A. Yes. I have been much more intuitive since the experience. When I am alone, I often get the awareness of being surrounded by beings (the same beings I felt when I crossed over), and being very, very loved – that same feeling I got during the NDE.

Q. Have you shared this experience with others?

A. Yes. Within days after it happened, as soon as I was well enough to talk, I started sharing it with my close family members – my husband, my brother (who I had seen on the plane), my mother. We were all very emotional and in tears. And the were all shocked with my account of events, the test results which I knew would be normal because I chose to come back, the conversations I “heard”. Then they saw the speed of my recovery, the shock of the doctors who could no longer find any trace of cancer – it has changed my whole family. I also shared with my best friend who has been by me during this experience, and it has changed her life too. Going out and meeting people after coming out of hospital changed a lot of people, because the last they saw or heard of me, I was on my death bed! I had looked very, very sick, and could not walk or breath properly at that time. Now I looked totally healthy and normal. The first time I walked into a group gathering after coming out of hospital, everyone’s jaw dropped. They looked at me as if they had seen a ghost. They could not believe how quickly I had recovered – everyone thought I was going to die! Then I shared my experience with everyone in the room, and all of them believed me because they had seen the “before” and “after”. Some of them said I had changed their lives.

Q. Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?

A. Yes. I have read about NDEs but never expected to experience one. My NDE felt completely different to anything I have read because there was no light, tunnel, no religious figure, and I did not see my whole life flash before my eyes. While I was experiencing it, I had no idea that I was experiencing an NDE or an out of body experience. It felt very normal at the time. It was only after that I realized I had slipped to another dimension.

Q. How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:

A. Experience was definitely real I knew it was real because nothing else could explain the miraculous way my cancer just disappeared from my body!!! (I have the scans and medical tests to prove it)! And the charge I felt from the empowerment and the understanding – nothing else could explain the shift I felt in my way of thinking!

Q. Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?

A. The whole thing was very powerful – I cannot imagine anything more empowering happening to me. However, two main things impacted me – one was being able to change the outcome of the test results. That made me realize that nothing is solid (or real). We can change anything. The second thing, even more impacting, is how my body went from being almost dead from cancer to totally healthy without a trace of illness in such a short time! It not only makes me feel that everything (including cancer) is not real (a shift in consciousness made it disappear!) but it also makes me feel very powerful, and I have a totally different understanding of life now.

Q. How do you currently view the reality of your experience:

A. Experience was definitely real. First of all, I am enjoying the wonders of my healthy body. I haven’t felt this way in a while! Secondly, I feel very “connected” in a way I never have before. Sort of “guided”. I don’t feel afraid of anything anymore. I know I won’t die until I complete everything I came here to do. And even then, I am not afraid of death. Many, many more “coincidences” have been occurring in my life since the experience (hence the “guided” feeling). Things have been falling into my lap when I have wanted them, the right people call, I have been bumping into the right people, getting e-mails which answer questions I need answered, etc. Life has just become a lot easier, however it has only been a few months since I have been well. I am still feeling very high, and at the moment am still feeling the reality of the whole thing.

Q. Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?

A. Yes. I have become even closer to my family, but my social circle has changed. A lot of my old friends have drifted away from me because I am not the same person they used to know, but I have made a few new friends since this experience, who know and accept who I am now.

Q. Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?

A. Uncertain. I was never very religious to begin with. I still don’t believe in any particular religion, however this experience has transformed my “belief” in the afterlife into “knowledge” that it is really true (gnosis).

Q. Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?

A. Yes. I am able to go back to that “connected” feeling of being loved, and feeling the other beings surrounding me, particularly when I am sitting still in a quiet environment.

Q. Did the questions asked and information you provided so far accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?

A. Yes.

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Supplementary Comments:
In view of how remarkable this account is, I e-mailed some additional questions to Anita. Her responses are below the questions.
- Dr. Jeffrey Long, NDERF

My questions:

1. You write remarkably well!!! Have you lived in any English speaking area of the world for any period of time?
2. You had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Was this diagnosed by biopsy? How was the diagnosis made?
3. How long after the chemotherapy was started did all the (swollen) lymph nodes you had go completely away?
4. The fact that the medical tests, already done, would have their outcome changed depending on your choice is remarkable. If you had chosen not to return to earth, do you have a sense when the medical tests would have changed- after your choice in earthly time, or would your choice have affected the tests at the time the blood was drawn, which, in earthly time, I understand would have been before you made your choice to return to earth. Any further comments you have on this would be greatly appreciated.
5. You said “It not only makes me feel that everything (including cancer)is not real (a shift in consciousness made it disappear!) but it also makes me feel very powerful, and I have a totally different understanding of life now.” As a doctor who treats cancer, any further insights you have on this would be greatly appreciated.
6. Would the doctors who treated you be interested in communicating with me? We would all need your prior approval to share information about your medical diagnosis and treatment. If your doctors were interested in writing up your experience to publish it as a “case report” in the medical literature, I would be delighted to help in any way that I can. This could certainly increase the awareness of NDE in your country.

Anita’s response to questions 1 and 2:

Thank you so much for your response, and on your compliments to my English! I attended a British private school for my entire schooling here in Hong Kong, as this used to be a British colony up until 1997. There were British schools set up specifically for the children of the British officers and most of the large corporations in Hong Kong were also run by British. After I finished school, I did some further studies in Manchester, UK, but returned to Hong Kong after I finished. I married someone here, who shared a very similar background as myself – a fellow ethnic Indian born and raised in Hong Kong, with no real attachment to our parents’ native country. I have also been working here in Hong Kong.

Before I go further, I just want to share with you that your e-mail gave me goosebumps. When I had my NDE, and I was able to see and perceive certain aspects of my future, I perceived that one of the reasons I had to go back was because I was supposed to touch and inspire people’s lives. In that state, I somehow knew that I was meant to inspire thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people. But it was not clear how I was meant to do it – I just knew I was supposed to be doing something to inspire people. I specifically got the feeling that I didn’t need to do anything for this to happen, I just had to be myself and enjoy life. Then recently, I had been thinking about this, and now that I am well and want to do something productive with my life, I have been trying to figure out what it is I am supposed to do that inspires others. And this morning I got your e-mail which said “Over the years, tens of thousands of people will read your experience and, I am sure, be inspired.” I now understand why I was made to feel I didn’t have to do anything!! I was doing it by having the NDE!!!

Regarding your questions, I am sorry if the answers seem a bit long, but I want to make it as clear as possible:

About 3 and a half years ago, I had a needle biopsy on a swollen lymph gland at the base of my neck where it meets my shoulder on my left side, and the results indicated I had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. A scan staged it at 1A at that time, however more tests still needed to be done. If I can explain some details, which I did not think was necessary in my earlier account as it had nothing to do with the NDE itself: My best friend had just died of cancer – she had a sarcoma in her chest area. The sarcoma had been removed surgically, and then she was given chemo. Her physical condition deteriorated very badly after starting the chemo, and continued to deteriorate until she died. Her family felt very strongly it was the chemo that killed her, not the cancer. I was with her through her experience and watched her suffer through her chemo experience, which was horrific, and then watched her die. This was my friend whom I had known since grade school, and we had grown up together.

When I was then subsequently diagnosed the same year she died, I was shocked, as were a lot of people in our circle of friends. I was very, very afraid of chemo, so refused treatment, and went to see a naturopath who specialized in cancer treatment. At first, the swollen lymph nodes seemed to shrink. We felt the therapy was working, and I was very happy that I would not have to have chemo. But although they got smaller, they did not disappear completely. I was living in a lot of fear at that time – fear of the cancer, and fear of chemo. I cleaned up my diet, did colon therapy, and took all the pills the naturopathic doctor gave me. But around 2 years ago, the lymph nodes seemed to be growing again, and so the doctor changed my therapy, and also sent me to a herbal specialist.

Again, it seemed to come under control for a little while, but around 1 year ago, I started to develop fluid in my chest area, and also my left arm became swollen. My doctor then performed a pleural effusion, and then the fluid came back and he performed the effusion several more times. During this time, my glands were getting more and more swollen, until January, 2006, when my health deteriorated dramatically in a span of 2 or 3 weeks. My breathing became more and more laboured. I was always out of breath, and I needed to carry a portable oxygen machine. I was losing weight and I could not eat, as I felt full all the time. My muscles were deteriorating to the point where I could not walk and was using a wheelchair. I had skin lesions which were oozing, and by February 2, I could not move. I could not open my eyes or get out of bed, let alone walk. I accepted this was it. I was going to die so I just completely let go. I did not feel any pain or discomfort. I was not on any medication at that point. I was in a state of total release.

My husband rushed me to hospital, and I was assigned an oncologist who, after examining me, said “its too late. There is nothing I can do.” My husband pleaded with her, and she then relented to assign someone else, as she felt it would be a “waste of her time”, or perhaps she did not want my death on her record. She was very annoyed with my naturopathic doctor, and felt it was his responsibility to send me to the hospital earlier, and made it clear that it was “his fault” that I was going to die.

The scans showed that the lymphoma had spread throughout my body, and my organs were compromised. My feet and hands now began to swell like balloons, and my face was all swollen. The oncologist said “her organs have already shut down – she is dying of organ failure”. Listening to my husband’s pleas, she called another oncologist, who said to my husband, “I can’t promise anything. I’ll see what I can do, however, the next 24 hours are critical. She is too unstable to even perform a biopsy to determine what drugs to inject. We will also begin to run the tests right away on her organ functions as all symptoms seem to indicate failure.”

This was the conversation that took place outside my room, some 40 feet away, and I heard and saw it, so I had obviously left my body at that time. Anyway, I then became aware of all the needles poking me, and some kind of chemo drugs went into me, but I don’t know exactly what the mix was. In addition, I was connected to an oxygen machine, a food tube and something that monitored my heart, pulse, blood pressure, etc. etc.

The next morning, (after drifting between the two worlds throughout the night, and after making my decision to come back into life), I started to feel more awake, and started to feel slightly more grounded in this world than that one. That was when the doctors came in and said my organs were showing normal function. I was still a bit fuzzy and said something like, “oh, I thought we knew that already”. My brother had arrived, having been on a plane overnight, and by that evening, I was really awake and ready to sit up. My whole family started celebrating. Within 4 days (my progress was remarkable), I was transferred from the ICU to a normal private room. There was significant reduction in my lymph nodes within those 4 days.

Because it now looked like I was going to make it, the doctor called for a wound specialist to look at my skin lesions. When he first looked at them, he said that surgery would be needed as the skin had been “eaten away”, however, he would wait until I became stronger. My wounds healed miraculously over the weeks and never needed surgery (one on the neck and one under the arm).

About a week after coming out of ICU, they performed a bone marrow biopsy, and could not find anything. About 10 days after that, they performed a lymph node biopsy. When I was sent for the lymph node biopsy the radiologist could not find a lymph node big enough to even suggest cancer. However, the oncologist pushed him to mark a lymph node anyway, which they biopsied and found nothing.

Each time, I knew the test results were going to be negative (no disease). The oncologist wanted to run these tests so he could determine what chemo drugs to use. Since he could find nothing, he said it was because I was responding extremely well to what he was currently using and he would keep giving me that. I said that if the cancer seems gone, why do I have to keep having the chemo? But he insisted that, even though my recovery was remarkable, he had to be sure to give me at least the minimum number of cycles because of the state I was in when I came in. He said he originally thought I would need a lot more cycles but was now reducing it drastically to the minimum he ever gives, which is six. I don’t know why, but I did not suffer major side effects from the chemo. I was so charged by my NDE, it was as if nothing was going to get me down. I now lost my fear of the chemo and knew that I was going to be fine – better than fine!

In answer to question 3, the lymph nodes were visibly reduced by about 80% around 4 days after the chemo. However, the biopsy was done about 2 weeks after that, where they could not find a lymph node to even suggest cancer. They were waiting for my body to be stronger before conducting the biopsy, which is why it was not done earlier. The bone marrow biopsy was done earlier, where they did not find anything.

Question 4: This is one of the points that is so hard to express with our limited 3 dimensional language. Time seems to have a completely different meaning on that side. What I felt was that all possibilities exist simultaneously – it just depends which one you choose. Sort of like being in an elevator, where all the floors of a building exist, but you can choose which floor to get off on. So if all the future possibilities exist for me to choose from, then I assume all the past scenarios exist too. So depending which future possibility I choose, that will also determine which past automatically comes with it (I chose life, so it affected the past, choosing the appropriate test result for the organ function).

I hope I am making sense. It’s very clear in my thoughts, but it is hard to write. When I was being presented the choice, I actually saw a vision of my lab report which said, on the heading: Diagnosis: Organ Failure. Then on the body of the report: Death due to organ failure caused by Hodgkin’s lymphoma. When I actually saw the report after coming back, the sheet of paper looked almost identical, and the heading matched word for word: Diagnosis: Organ Failure, however, the body read: There is no evidence of organ failure. I actually got goosebumps looking at that report, knowing what it could have read.

Question 5: I now know that a lot more exists than we are consciously aware of, or capable of understanding. Each day, I am understanding more and more since the NDE. I am finding out that there are things I now feel I “know” or “understand”, which I never did before.

The best example I can think of is: imagine there is a huge warehouse, which is dark, and you live in this warehouse with one flashlight. Everything you know about this warehouse is seen through the light of this one small flashlight. Whenever you want to look for something, you may or may not find it, but it does not mean the thing does not exist. It is there, but you just haven’t flashed your light on it. You can only see what your light is focused on.

Then one day, someone flicks on a light switch, and for the first time, you can see the whole warehouse. The vastness of it is almost overwhelming, you can’t see all the way to the end, and you know there is more than what you can see. But you do see how all the products are lined up on all the shelves, and just how many different things there are in the warehouse you never noticed before, you never even conceived existed, yet they do, simultaneously, with the things you know existed (those are the things your flashlight had been able to find).

Now, when the light switch goes back off, nothing can take away the understanding and clarity of your experience. Even though you are back to one flashlight, you now know how to look for things. You know what is possible, and you even know what to look for. You start viewing things differently, and it is from this new springboard that your experiences start to happen. And so I find that in my daily life, I am referring to different aspects of my experience at different times, and I am understanding things in a different way, and knowing things I did not know I knew.

I saw all people as “energy”, and depending where our energy level was, that was the world we created for ourselves. The understanding I gained from this was that if cancer was not in our “energy”, then it was not in our reality. If feeling good about ourselves was in our energy, then our reality would be positive. If cancer was in our energy then, even if we eradicated it with modern medicine, it would soon come back. But if we cleared it from our energy, the physical body would soon follow.

None of us are as “real” or physical as we think we are. From what I saw, it looked like we are energy first, and “physical” is only a result of expressing our energy. And we can change our physical reality if we change our energy.

Some people have mentioned I use the term “Vibration”. For me, personally, I was made to feel that in order to keep my energy/vibration level up, I only had to live in the moment, enjoy every moment of life, and use each moment to elevate the next moment (which then elevates my future). It is in that moment of elevating your energy level that you can change your future (like my test results). It sounds very simplistic, but it felt very deep when I was experiencing the understanding of it.

Question 6: As yet, I have not told my doctors of my NDE because they seem a little old fashioned, and I don’t know how they will respond. However, I am willing to give it a try. I am seeing them on Thursday morning for a general check up, and I will broach the subject. It had occurred to me earlier to mention it to them but the time never felt right. They had commented however, all through my stay in hospital, about how remarkable my recovery was. I will keep you informed as to how it goes with them, and as long as they agree, I have no problems with you communicating with them.

I hope I have been able to answer your questions. I am very excited about being posted on your site, especially at the thought of being on the archives of the exceptional experiences. My brother forwarded me the link to your site about 10 days ago, as he started to read up on NDEs after my experience. I started to fill out the questionnaire immediately.

[Subsequent to this writing, Dr. Peter Ko, oncologist from the US, took an interest in Anita’s case and flew to Hong Kong to meet her. He made a copy of all the relevant information in her medical records and studied them in great detail. His comment to her was, "Any way I look at it, you should be dead!

After reviewing the records, he submitted his findings to cancer institutes around the globe, all of whom responded, they have no record of any such event occurring before. Dr. Ko conducted a public forum with Anita and was also interviewed on the radio about his findings of her case, which has been recorded and and can be heard on this (Anita Moorjani’s) site.]

Visit Anita Moorjani’s Website to view the 20 minute video of her and Dr. Ko at a public forum. There, you can also sign up for her newsletter.

Roger “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Be Fearless: A New Message From VERONICA

by Pete on 11/23/2010

Veronica is channeled by Deep Trance Channel, April Crawford

"In the current reality, it may appear that it is at the brink of disaster, every moment being filled with a crescendo of negativity. One wonders where it will all lead as the parameters of your world waver. Many of you feel that the end is near, but is it?

Without fear, it is a beginning.

Know that spirit is ever present for all within every heartbeat in the physical. Often in the chaos one feels separated from the soul while walking through their lives. It is important to remember that you create your reality and it must be done from a fearless place.

Being physical at this time does require great courage. So much fear is being hurled into the mass consciousness that many of you have become paralyzed within it.

Attempt to regain your balance while moving past fear into your own soul. It is in this space you will find the bravery to defeat negativity.

By creating in a fearless space there is great hope for your planet. Connecting with others positively will change the imbalance that is now occurring.

The end is not near. What will happen is the evolution of the planet and the advancement of your soul.

Be fearless!" –VERONICA

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Seth: A Loving Technology… and a True Scientist

by Pete on 11/22/2010

Posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by “Oceanside Rick”, Nov. 21, 2010 7:54 am (PST)

“So-called objective science gives you a picture, a model, that has served well enough in its own fashion, enabling you to travel to the moon, for example, and to advance in a technology that for a time you set your hearts upon. In the framework of objective science as it now exists, however, even the technology will come up against a stone wall. Even as a means, objective science is only helpful for a while, because it will constantly run up against deeper inner realities that are necessarily shunted aside and ignored simply because of its method and attitude.

No objective science or splendid technology alone will keep even one man or woman alive, for example, if that individual has decided to leave the flesh, or finds no joy in daily life.

A loving technology, again, would always add to the qualitative and spiritual deepening of experience.

The inner order of existence and true science go together. The true scientist is not afraid of identifying with the reality he chooses to study. He knows that only then can he dare to begin to understand its nature. (Read: Inside Ivy and search the Internet for other examples of direct Interspecies Communication. If you find anything really good, let me know. – Pete)

There are many unofficial scientists, true ones in that regard, unknown in this age. Many are quite ordinary people in exterior terms, with other professions. Yet it is no accident that greater discoveries are often made by ”amateurs” – those who are relatively free from official dogmas, released from the pressure to get ahead in a given field-those whose creativity flows freely and naturally in those areas of their natural interest.

Without an identification with the land, the planet and the seasons, all of your technology will not help you understand the earth, or even use it effectively, much less fully. Without an identification with the race as a whole, no technology can save the race (? – Pete).

Unless man also identifies himself with the other kinds of life with which he shares the world, no technology will ever help him understand his experience. I am speaking in very practical terms. Gadgets will, ultimately, teach you nothing about the dimensions of your own consciousness. When you use them (biofeedback, for instance) even to attain alterations of consciousness, you are programming yourselves, stepping apart from yourselves.”

Session 702, from the Seth book, The Unknown Reality, Vol. I

Roger “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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Response to Jon Rappoport on “Clarifying My Work” Article

by Pete on 11/17/2010

Jon,

This letter is in response to the latest post Jon sent me, entitled, Clarifying My Work. His website is: http://www.nomorefakenews.com.

Why can’t we value our oneness and individuality at the same time? Why can’t we appreciate that we are both the product of creation and creation itself, simultaneously? Do all things have to be a matter of either, or? Why do governments, businesses and people become “corrupt”? How can we move beyond superficial cleverness if we refuse to question beliefs that underlie our behavior? Who are we? What is “reality”? What is the purpose of life?

Here are some unrelated questions I just released into the electronic aether. They emerged from discussions regarding a question on my Facebook Page. The question was: do you think it’s possible to create a moneyless society with the proper set of ideas?

Can love (love of creation) be as strong a motivator as fear (fear of suffering and death)? In other words, can love (internal motivation, natural passion) compete with fear (external threat) in enabling us to cooperate in creating the kind of world we want to live in, in being the kind of person we want to be? Will we do for love the things we do for money?

What gives us greater freedom and autonomy, love or fear? Inspired by love, what are the limits of creation; what are the limits of imagination?

Regards,

Pete -http://realtalkworld.com

Afterthoughts: While preparing to share this letter on my blog, the relationship between love and fear became more apparent. Love (curiosity and passion; the love of creation) is our gas peddle and natural fear (recognition of immediate danger) is our brake. We need both to survive in biological terms whereas, in dreams or inner reality, we die and get up again. The problem arises when unnatural fear enters the human equation. Unnatural fear results from scaring ourselves with thoughts of possible danger. Carried to extremes, unnatural fear or imagined threats, paralyze us in one way or another.

Like greed, imagined threats can serve as an excuse for warring with those around us as well as with ourselves. As many of us know, unnatural fear can manifest itself in countless ways!

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

How we define ourselves, and the world around us, forms our intent, which, in turn, forms our reality.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are responsible and accountable for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

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If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

How we define ourselves, and the world around us, forms our intent, which, in turn, forms our reality.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are responsible and accountable for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

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