As we look for ways to expand our awareness of how things work these days; positive thinking, the law of attraction, and similar “mind over matter” concepts are being sold as the new Messiah. Motivational gurus make some good points about human potential. However, it seems to me there are some wrinkles in this new religion.
My parents visited from out of town the other day, and they tried to teach me how to play cribbage while they were here. My mom was explaining the strategy and told me once that we wanted to draw a 5. So, I cut the deck and got a 5. It did help us, but it helped my son and father even more, so we lost that hand. Next, Mom told me we were hoping for a 6, so I cut and we got a 6. Same thing – we got a couple points but our opponents got even more, so we lost again. This little game reminded me why I stopped following conventional guidance many years ago.
Lately, the current wisdom that most of us hear says “Take control of your life. Manifest what you want to happen!”
Sometimes, people ask “Does it work?”
Yes! Of course it works!
The question we should be asking is “Is it in our best interest to work that magic?”
Like those hands of cribbage I lost when I made things happen that I thought I wanted, it’s incredibly easy to force the wrong situations into our lives. During these times of change (i.e. destruction, and the threat of destruction, of just about everything in our lives) pulling a rabbit out of a hat could be really handy! Still, it’s really important to learn to rely on the only thing that is really reliable, and destroy all of our other illusions before they try to destroy us.
Learning to harmonize rather than using all the forces at our disposal to force our own way is the difference between mysticism and magic. Magic make things happen that we want to happen. Mysticism puts our desires and energy in action but leaves us detached from the results, placing our faith instead on the intelligence of the universe.
Those who are religious might want to remember Commandment #1. Reliance on the wisdom of our own ego instead of on our supreme source is a violation of that commandment. The rest of us pragmatic types probably just need to realize that whenever we try to take complete control of a situation, we’re on thin ice. We need to take responsibility for our lives, but that’s entirely different from taking control away from the intelligent, mystical force around us.
Hunt Henion
www.shiftawareness.com
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Channeling - a matter of consciousness
Someone wrote a very nice note to me today explaining why the channeling we do is totally invalid. Her point was that direct intuitive knowledge is the only reliable divination technique. After writing her a rather lengthy reply about why channeling , and our channeling in particular can be valid, I decided to post it here, so that WHEN I get a similar challenge, I'll be able just direct them here without breaking my pace.
Her point was that direct intuitive knowledge is the only reliable divination technique. After writing her a rather lengthy reply about why channeling , and our channeling in particular can be valid, I decided to post it here, because i didn't really think I'd be facing these challenges from this group.
Anyway, here's my reply to her (cleaned up a little):
A lot of people feel the same way you do about channeling. And I know there's a lot of schlock out there that was supposedly channeled. It all comes down to personal consciousness. Just as some people are wiser than others, some attract wiser and more cooperative entities than others.
Many years ago, I tried using a Ouija board. I could tell that the first entity who came through had nothing important or serious to say, so I just dismissed him/her and asked for someone with a better message. My wife has a system of protection that she always puts up. She tells others about this too, and i suppose it's necessary, but I've never had the need. I can just tell if the entity has anything of importance for me. I can feel the love and good intentions - or not.
Anyway, I sincerely believe that channeling can be a useful tool, especially the way we do it! Danna channels her brother, whom she greatly loves. He was also a holy man in a previous lifetime, and I've started using that name, Rasha, instead of Billy, 'cause that seems to impress more people. She's also channeled an entity we both have a lot of history with. He gave me a series of lessons on how to get back to nature. She's also channeled a being who said his name was Othello, and that he was "the reader of the stars." Turns out he's a navigator for the Ashtar Command, and he has the highest energy either of us has ever been exposed to.
Besides, direct experience is not without it's pitfalls. People are comfortable with it because they trust their own perceptions and conclusions. However, that can be a big mistake, especially when people have to make leaps of faith to get past their natural mental censors of such info. Often they'll assume a depth and knowledge that's really beyond their experience. I've had lots of direct experiences, and Billy/Rahsa has had to correct the details many times.
Direct experience told me I had an affinity with Moses. Someone else might have jumped to the conclusion that they were Moses. Or a malicious entity may have confirmed it for them in channeling just to sit back and watch the fun. As it was, Billy told me I was his scribe, and together we worked out some of the details from that experience. I had memories, and he put a fine point on them.
The same thing happened with Dante. I said that whenever I read Dante or thought about the man, it felt really familar. Someone else might have taken that direct experinece and closeness with Dante and jumped to the conclusion that they were him in that past life. As it turns out I was Dante's grandfather. That info opened me up to other memories and issues that relate to other past lives - which Billy confirmed.
It's not that channeling is unreliable. Consciousness in this world is unreliable. If someone has a direct experience or memory or a channeled message, it can simply be be wrong because it has to filter through our human consciousness.
I've come to a very comfortable understanding about what I'm doing, and there are lots of checks and balances. I'll do conventional research, run it by my own intuition and contemplate it. Then I'll make a list of questions to ask in channeling.
When I ask specific questions in channeling, the answers are very clear, and I believe they have a very good chance of being correct. A very common sense picture of the issue in question always develops by the time I go through this process.
When I ask vague questions or personal questions like what am I supposed to do, or what's my purpose, I'm told to ask my own guides. I'll run all i get in channeling by my own guides anyway. The process begins and ends with a personal contemplation, and then I'll present the big picture back to Billy/Rasha in channeling.
Usually, he'll agree, but he might make minor corrections to some of the facts. I end up feeling very comfortable that I've gotten to the bottom of the researched subject. However, because channeling is subject to a consciousness that can screen and verify the facts given, and because many out there who are capable of a trance aren't capable of a high degree of digression, channeling has gotten a bad name.
It's too bad too. On the other hand, we all sacrificed a tremendous amount of awareness when we came into this world. I'm sure putting up walls to that awareness now that we're here is also part of that natural mechanism. Illusion is the name of the game in the 3D world, and just because truth is available doesn't mean it's always desirable. Still, when it is, I don't think we should entirely rule out channeling.
Blessings,
Hunt
www.shiftawareness.com
Her point was that direct intuitive knowledge is the only reliable divination technique. After writing her a rather lengthy reply about why channeling , and our channeling in particular can be valid, I decided to post it here, because i didn't really think I'd be facing these challenges from this group.
Anyway, here's my reply to her (cleaned up a little):
A lot of people feel the same way you do about channeling. And I know there's a lot of schlock out there that was supposedly channeled. It all comes down to personal consciousness. Just as some people are wiser than others, some attract wiser and more cooperative entities than others.
Many years ago, I tried using a Ouija board. I could tell that the first entity who came through had nothing important or serious to say, so I just dismissed him/her and asked for someone with a better message. My wife has a system of protection that she always puts up. She tells others about this too, and i suppose it's necessary, but I've never had the need. I can just tell if the entity has anything of importance for me. I can feel the love and good intentions - or not.
Anyway, I sincerely believe that channeling can be a useful tool, especially the way we do it! Danna channels her brother, whom she greatly loves. He was also a holy man in a previous lifetime, and I've started using that name, Rasha, instead of Billy, 'cause that seems to impress more people. She's also channeled an entity we both have a lot of history with. He gave me a series of lessons on how to get back to nature. She's also channeled a being who said his name was Othello, and that he was "the reader of the stars." Turns out he's a navigator for the Ashtar Command, and he has the highest energy either of us has ever been exposed to.
Besides, direct experience is not without it's pitfalls. People are comfortable with it because they trust their own perceptions and conclusions. However, that can be a big mistake, especially when people have to make leaps of faith to get past their natural mental censors of such info. Often they'll assume a depth and knowledge that's really beyond their experience. I've had lots of direct experiences, and Billy/Rahsa has had to correct the details many times.
Direct experience told me I had an affinity with Moses. Someone else might have jumped to the conclusion that they were Moses. Or a malicious entity may have confirmed it for them in channeling just to sit back and watch the fun. As it was, Billy told me I was his scribe, and together we worked out some of the details from that experience. I had memories, and he put a fine point on them.
The same thing happened with Dante. I said that whenever I read Dante or thought about the man, it felt really familar. Someone else might have taken that direct experinece and closeness with Dante and jumped to the conclusion that they were him in that past life. As it turns out I was Dante's grandfather. That info opened me up to other memories and issues that relate to other past lives - which Billy confirmed.
It's not that channeling is unreliable. Consciousness in this world is unreliable. If someone has a direct experience or memory or a channeled message, it can simply be be wrong because it has to filter through our human consciousness.
I've come to a very comfortable understanding about what I'm doing, and there are lots of checks and balances. I'll do conventional research, run it by my own intuition and contemplate it. Then I'll make a list of questions to ask in channeling.
When I ask specific questions in channeling, the answers are very clear, and I believe they have a very good chance of being correct. A very common sense picture of the issue in question always develops by the time I go through this process.
When I ask vague questions or personal questions like what am I supposed to do, or what's my purpose, I'm told to ask my own guides. I'll run all i get in channeling by my own guides anyway. The process begins and ends with a personal contemplation, and then I'll present the big picture back to Billy/Rasha in channeling.
Usually, he'll agree, but he might make minor corrections to some of the facts. I end up feeling very comfortable that I've gotten to the bottom of the researched subject. However, because channeling is subject to a consciousness that can screen and verify the facts given, and because many out there who are capable of a trance aren't capable of a high degree of digression, channeling has gotten a bad name.
It's too bad too. On the other hand, we all sacrificed a tremendous amount of awareness when we came into this world. I'm sure putting up walls to that awareness now that we're here is also part of that natural mechanism. Illusion is the name of the game in the 3D world, and just because truth is available doesn't mean it's always desirable. Still, when it is, I don't think we should entirely rule out channeling.
Blessings,
Hunt
www.shiftawareness.com
Monday, May 18, 2009
Awareness of a Better Way and a New Day
Normally the best mannered people in the world, the British, were rioting a while back because of surveillance infringements on their personal lives. Today, their fighting mad about of some MPs who padded their expense accounts.
The Queen is reportedly “deeply troubled” over this too. Still, I have to wonder if she’s more concerned about the corruption or the fact that it’s becoming discovered by the public.
It seems to me that what’s happening all over the world is that the more people become aware of government corruption, the more government officials try to get their share of the ill-gotten gains before the party’s over. The smart thing might be to lie low for a while, but their instinct of is to get what they can while they can. So the tensions build, and the established foundations of societies all over the world are undermined – by their own greed and avarice, so that when they tumble and crumble, no one will mourn their loss.
Yet, this is just one reason for the current chaos around the world. The other problem speaks more directly to the issue of people not realizing we’re all one. For instance, the Hindus and Buddhists that coexisted happily thousands of years ago in Sri Lanka have been butchering each other so badly lately that the government can’t even maintain their positive spins anymore. So, they kicked out all foreign media.
The process I see going on in the world today is that we’re all being disinfranchised of our old roles in order to become more receptive to new ones as we approach 2012 and the promised new world. People are being laid off their jobs and are left wondering who they are and what they’re supposed to do now. Every position of power is being threatened and people are fightning to secure their place in the scheme of things.
This scheming and fighting causes tensions to escalate even more. Even while most seem to be expecting a solid recovery any time now, the old order continues to collapse. It’s being undermined by awareness of a better way and the dawning of a new day.
The Queen is reportedly “deeply troubled” over this too. Still, I have to wonder if she’s more concerned about the corruption or the fact that it’s becoming discovered by the public.
It seems to me that what’s happening all over the world is that the more people become aware of government corruption, the more government officials try to get their share of the ill-gotten gains before the party’s over. The smart thing might be to lie low for a while, but their instinct of is to get what they can while they can. So the tensions build, and the established foundations of societies all over the world are undermined – by their own greed and avarice, so that when they tumble and crumble, no one will mourn their loss.
Yet, this is just one reason for the current chaos around the world. The other problem speaks more directly to the issue of people not realizing we’re all one. For instance, the Hindus and Buddhists that coexisted happily thousands of years ago in Sri Lanka have been butchering each other so badly lately that the government can’t even maintain their positive spins anymore. So, they kicked out all foreign media.
The process I see going on in the world today is that we’re all being disinfranchised of our old roles in order to become more receptive to new ones as we approach 2012 and the promised new world. People are being laid off their jobs and are left wondering who they are and what they’re supposed to do now. Every position of power is being threatened and people are fightning to secure their place in the scheme of things.
This scheming and fighting causes tensions to escalate even more. Even while most seem to be expecting a solid recovery any time now, the old order continues to collapse. It’s being undermined by awareness of a better way and the dawning of a new day.
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