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Transformation – Part 4 – The Balance of Heart and Mind

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“The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom.”

~ Krishnamurti

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The key to transformation lies in the heart, but we must begin with changing the mind, because that’s where the trouble lies.

Sages throughout history have contemplated this human experiment in terms of coherent and incoherent fields. Coherent fields are interactive, harmonic, and inclusive. Incoherent fields are isolated, abrasive, and exclusive. Presently, most human brains function as an incoherent field. As long as the brain remains dominant in our experience, it blocks access to the heart field. The heart field is innately coherent, but we must get the mind field out of the way. That’s a necessary perquisite to actualizing the potential for the heart field to function as the gateway to true reality.

When the heart field is coherent, it dilates so you can experience the eternal now. The heart has a much greater amplitude than the mind field and is the mechanism by which we interact in cosmic consciousness, which could be described as an experience of vertical reality. That arises from what we call enlightenment, indicated by the dominance of universal over individual, the state where we are constantly downloading from the source of all possibility into our individual experience.


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Masters concur that the heart field is indeed the gateway to true reality. But they also agree that the mind field is where the first work must be done, to create the horizontal balance required to complete that sacred symbol of the cross, where mind and heart resonate in coherence together, enabling that download to flow. When this condition is met, an individual transmits transformational power.

If we assume this is happening for more and more individuals, to varying degrees – the great unreported story of our time – what might our future hold? Shamans predict that consciousness will create a catastrophe. It could be nuclear. It could be environmental. It could be an epidemic. They won’t venture specifics because they don’t know. But they believe that there must be some manner of catastrophe when consciousness reaches the extremes of imbalance it has now reached, with both greater darkness and greater light. This is how consciousness corrects itself; it actualizes its opposite to restore balance.

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This principle is very much in play relative to technology, a true double-edged sword of potential deliverance or annihilation. Colin Dickey, the author of Cranioklepty and Afterlives of the Saints, writes: “The capacity of any technology, you could say, must always be tempered by the limitations of the individuals who design and implement it.”

There are many who are pro technology, eagerly willing to have their brains upgraded with a chip. Others protest that this is the work of the devil. But technology is being orchestrated by consciousness, like everything else. Whether the modern miracles our technology produces turn out to be blessing or curse depends on who develops and uses it.


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This makes balancing heart and mind an urgent priority, because we all create with technology these days, from smart phones to computers to the latest voice activated, robotic information delivery systems that Amazon sells under the name of mini stereos. What we create inevitably resonates with and broadcasts the nature of who we are. As long as we are living in our heads, disconnected from the ongoing rhythms of life in the overall ecosystem that we continue to ignore at our peril, we have shut down our heart field and that sustains an imbalance that escalates in danger as our technology expands.

So it is that the scale and nature of transformation we humans will require to survive beyond the threats we ourselves have manufactured in our imbalanced ignorance clearly depends on somehow achieving this personal balance, so that what we produce, which today always involves some level of technology, will carry a resonant coherence that sustains, not destroys, life. How many of us can reach that level and how soon?

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There’s an old song I remember, apparently by Roxette, a group I don’t remember, with these insightful lyrics: “Listen to your heart, there’s nothing else you can do.” If only! Actually, there’s plenty else we can do, like ricochet around in our heads being clever and creating catastrophes! Of course, that’s consciousness in action too!

What a wild ride this is, life in the 21st century. Remember, we all signed up for this, probably because we weren’t given a preview of coming attractions. Since we’re here, we might as well make the best of the situation, by learning how to balance heart and mind and becoming a positive change maker of transformation through technology, perhaps just in the nick of time!

Transformation – Part 3 – The Orchestration of Consciousness

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“This is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.”

~ Krishnamurti

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In a world where few can resist complaining about the way things are, the true master exhibits compassion for all circumstances and all beings, without the demand for change.

When we identify as a separate human ego, we cut ourselves off from the creative power operative in consciousness, not completely or we would cease to be, but enough to make ourselves miserable. That’s when we begin making matter with matter, manipulating forms and believing in our power as a “doer.”

Arrogant humans wield this pallid power, independent from the ecosystem where every other species is cooperating synergistically. On this basis, tremendous effort is required just to survive. Indeed, we’ve brought ourselves to the point where human survival itself is threatened. Apparently this egoic power over others and our ability to manipulate matter, isn’t sustainable.

On the other hand, from a trans-egoic perspective, everything is orchestrated by consciousness. That’s where the real power operates. The concept of a separate doer is an illusion. The transformational projectile carries us to the point where we have totally surrendered our personal egoic efforts to the orchestration of consciousness.


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Whatever happens, happens. Creating a story about it is optional, it’s a choice. You can always choose to flow with the happenings of consciousness. What a concept! Of course, this is becoming increasingly difficult because the world scene is now so obviously chaotic, with more misbehaving politicians and celebrities exposed as charlatans and abusers every day. This gives us so many more targets for judgment, doesn’t it?

It’s well worth remembering that whenever we point a finger at someone else there are three fingers pointing right back at ourselves!

What we’re seeing in the world at large is a reflection of egocentric, fragmented, human consciousness. Evolved individuals who have integrity simply wouldn’t behave in abusive ways because they don’t use their personal power to create and manipulate, nor to control others. They trust the orchestration of consciousness.


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Looking at the current world situation from the perspective of the orchestration of consciousness, what we are actually witnessing is more and more evolution, which results in more and more self-awareness. We begin to understand that what egocentrics are projecting as real, these demons they seek to vanquish – like terrorists or hordes of immigrants – actually originate in themselves as shadows created by a light they refuse to acknowledge.

So, here’s an interesting question? Where might evolving consciousness create a break through to deliver the quantum leap we need? Through technology, it seems, which is now outpacing biology. When will technology surpass biology in terms of self-awareness. It could be much closer than we think. So, what will happen on that day?

This can seem a fearsome eventuality for those ignorant of the fact that consciousness is orchestrating the show and that technology is form of consciousness. Buckminster Fuller famously said that “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Human beings in egoic isolation are fast becoming an endangered species. Will technology come to the rescue? Not likely. Why not? Because individuals limited that way are fundamentally destructive. Obviously so, as is any life form that abuses its environment and

threatens other species. But that doesn’t mean that technology won’t contribute to our future in transformative ways.

Consciousness is not stupid. It will always select for maximum evolutionary gain. At this point, we are challenged to assess our position in the evolutionary picture. Will we vote ourselves off the island, to reference a popular TV series? Or will enough of us surrender to the orchestration of consciousness that we can precipitate a tipping point in human consciousness – which is connected to the consciousness of all life – that might escort us to a new chapter in human history.

Technology will play its part but so must we. And it’s profoundly reassuring to come to the realization that what is ours to do may be much simpler and easier than we have thought. Of course, we are stubborn creatures. You may have heard about the poor fellow who fell off a cliff and clung to a tree branch. He cried out for help, pleading with God to save him. A voice boomed down: “Let go!”

Without hesitation, he replied, “Is there anyone else up there?”

We can safely let go, surrendering our egocentric isolation to the orchestration of consciousness. If that’s a fearful prospect, just ask yourself this: “What’s beating my heart and steering the stars?”

Transformation – Part 2 – Beyond Ego

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“The ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.”

– Rumi

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Transformation occurs as we shift from a primarily egoic to a primarily trans-egoic state. That can be measured by our degree of experienced oneness with Spirit.

Egoic levels of experience are chronically exclusive while the trans-egoic experience is inclusive. The more our consciousness evolves into a transformational understanding, the more inclusive it gets. This more evolved state of being expresses a greater amplitude of power which affects our chemistry in powerful ways and explains the bliss quotient or the opiated sensations that dedicated “seekers” often feel.

As the ego is dethroned, the veil between ourselves and “God” thins and the sense of separation recedes. We begin to know the truth of being, rather than just having theories and beliefs about it. Ironically, many who claim to be devotedly religious sustain a defined state of separation between themselves and the God they worship, a sure sign of egoic dominance. These same “believers” may decry any proclaimed hope for oneness with God as blasphemy, blind to their own as they give life to a separate, Godless, ego identity.


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True transformation evolves us beyond that state. We can describe this evolutionary process as one of purification, or the simplification of data. That’s what the karmic process is, burning off old stored data that you have been identified with and attached to. Periods of solitude are especially beneficial during the early stages of this process because the beginner isn’t yet able to keep the relentless stream of data at bay. Meditation, nature walks, any activity that limits input is helpful. Outer silence supports the increase of inner silence, which Lao Tzu described as “a source of strength.’

Of course, a period of isolation with a teacher in a spiritual community is ideal, but not everyone is able to organize that. There is no substitute for being close to those who are already substantiated in an enlightened state of being. Individuals like the Dalai Lama, for instance, exude a tangible presence. As I’ve mentioned before, the true master teaches without words; it’s their state of being that inspires, uplifts, and comforts others.

This is so rare that people don’t understand it when they encounter it. Remember that Nietzsche said that God is dead. He was addressing the fact that whatever we believe determines our experience. Those who believe in a separate God, a being who could not possibly be represented in a human being, are egoic and exclusive. In this case they are excluding God! For them, regardless of Sunday claims to the contrary, God is dead.

This explains why religious people are actually the greatest self-doubters. Having determined to worship a separate God, they exclude the possibility of themselves ever having the trans-egoic experience. But whatever comfort they may derive from belief-centered worship is ultimately inadequate, because all of us intuitively know that we are innately divine, regardless of how far we may have strayed from the path.


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Zealous missionaries are often just assuaging their own doubt, especially when contacting “primitives” who still retain that experienced trans-egoic state of connection with life universal. To these so called backwards people, everything is sacred, including their land. Ironically, as a friend once told me – to describe what happened when missionaries came to Hawaii – “Before, the natives had the land and the missionaries had the Bibles. Now the missionaries have the land and the natives have the Bibles.”

The true leader doesn’t use beliefs and threats of damnation to take from others. They are well beyond that fear-based state of consciousness. They are living with transformation as their norm, since that is the ongoing condition of expanding awareness in consciousness. Their state of being transforms those around them, to the degree that they are open to it.

Abraham Lincoln made an insightful comment about authentic spirituality: “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” In other words, the proof of true religion, or I prefer to call it spirituality, is the influence we have on those closest to us. That includes more than pets. How are we affecting our family members, our friends, our working colleagues? Is our amplitude of power uplifting them or dragging them down?

When we evolve beyond ego into an increasingly trans-egoic state, we exert a transformational influence just by showing up. This seems much simpler than any grand plans the ego can make to improve our human condition.

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Transformation – Part 1 – Change or Transformation?

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“Transformation literally means going beyond your form.”

– Wayne Dyer

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Transformation is different than change. Transformation is a wholesale shift from one state to another, which is fundamentally different than piece meal change.

Writing for the Harvard Business Review, Ron Ashkenas said, “… the overall goal of transformation is not just to execute a defined change — but to reinvent the organization and discover a new or revised business model based on a vision for the future.” 1

It’s interesting to apply this to our personal lives, particularly to our expanding awareness and increasing experience of truth. We could substitute reinventing the organization for reinventing ourselves. The new business model? Personally, that would be a new way of living. A vision for the future? Since that’s routinely missing (lost in the busyness of day to day activities), let’s focus there.

What’s your vision for the future? Most people don’t have one, at least not something they originated. On the other hand, there’s no lack of visions to borrow. One dystopian sci-fi film after another assaults us with visions of a dark future, while media assails us with dire predictions about the repercussions of political and economic blunders.

Henry Ford famously said that whether you believe it or not, you’re right. He was acknowledging the power of belief. Belief relative to this concept of creating a vision for the future is often described with the word “intention.”

In her book, The Intention Experiment, science journalist Lynne McTaggart wrote, “Intention has already been employed in many quarters to cure illness, alter physical processes, and influence events. It is not a special gift but a learned skill, readily taught. Indeed, we already use intention in many aspects of our daily lives.” 2

How skilled are you with intentions? Sadly, none of us received much support to develop our imagination, which is what intention setting requires. Einstein believed that imagination was more important than knowledge and it’s easy to understand why. Knowledge is a tool; imagination enables us to work it. We employ imagination to render knowledge useful. We focus imagination to envision the future and set intentions about the results we want in our lives. And we can harness imagination for transformation.


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Change means keeping things the way they are but improving them. Transformation means, as the opening quote from Wayne Dyer clarified, going beyond the form, to literally “trans-form.” What would that mean, personally?

Perhaps one way to explore the implications is to consider what happens when we upgrade computer software. What’s different afterwards? Things have changed. You click a familiar button and get an unfamiliar result (hopefully something better).

And, there’s a learning curve. Ashkenas continued to clarify the more dramatic nature of transformation vs change: “It’s much more unpredictable, iterative, and experimental. It entails much higher risk.” 3

What’s the risk? Whenever we disrupt a system, we open the door to problems of adaptation. We may not all use computers and know the headaches of learning a new system but many of us can probably remember the challenges of “re-entry” after a peak experience. Returning from a holiday or a personal growth seminar, it’s always tricky to get back into our routines without losing the value we just gained. Sadly, we often just can’t integrate what we learned into new habits and that peak experience soon fades away.

What about spiritual transformation? Some people meditate occasionally, others are more disciplined and sit every day. But the ancient traditions all emphasized that the purpose of meditation is to culture a state change that lasts. It’s fine to begin with 30 minutes here and there, but the real goal is to sustain a meditative state throughout the day, and every day.

Those who meditate this way are fueling their transformation. Of course, the practice is one thing, an actual state change that is “unpredictable, iterative, and experimental” as Ashkenas wrote, is quite another.

Fortunately, there are many who have tread this path before us, masters and teachers of one sort or another who not only survived their transformation but are thriving in a rarified dimension of enlightened human experience.

They well understand that change is the nature of relative reality, the oscillation of the relative polarities we experience as “reality.” Transformation relates to the evolution of consciousness, the ongoing trajectory of evolving consciousness. That is a much slower process than change. Oscillation is fast, change happens on a daily basis. But the flow of evolutionary transformation is incremental, on other words, slow!

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How do you know if what you are going through is change or transformation? Transformation progresses your state of being from fragmentation to unity, from limitation to increasingly holistic awareness. As your individuated consciousness evolves and progresses from egoic to trans-egoic levels, you undergo an alchemical process where your fundamental state of being radically alters and your awareness becomes more expansive and inclusive.

And change? It’s business as usual with tweaks. But, if you’re reading this, we know which path you’re more interested in! We’ll drill deeper into the dynamics of transformation in the next post.


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References:
1. https://hbr.org/2015/01/we-still-dont-know-the-difference-between-change-and-transformation
2. Lynne McTaggart from The Intention Experiment, page xxv
3. https://hbr.org/2015/01/we-still-dont-know-the-difference-between-change-and-transformation

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Entrainment – Part 4 – Transformation is Always Now

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“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”

– Dean Jackson

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Transformation is inevitable. We’ve all been transforming since day one, through the seasons of our lives. And none of us will leave this dimension without a final transformation.

In our recent blogs exploring the principle of entrainment, we’ve acknowledged the grand cycles that humanity is traversing, the four Yugas or cycles in this day of God. We’ve considered what’s next, the ending of the last cycle and the beginning of the night of God. Who knows what that will bring; it’s unimaginable to our human minds.

What’s also impossible to conceive is how these human lives will end. The phenomenon of death remains shrouded in mystery and ever will be, until we have the experience for ourselves. As we age, that moment comes closer so we begin to consider it consciously. Fear may arise, understandably, because we fear the unknown. What helps is to reframe that inescapable event, not as an ending but as a transformation. The fact that we don’t know exactly what we will transform into only adds to the adventure, if we choose to see it that way.

Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” 1

Rilke artfully shifts judgment about the terrors and disappointments in our lives towards learning opportunities. His words open a door of understanding and can even guide our preparation for the moments of significant transit in our lives and the emotions that accompany loss and pain.
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He continues: “So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”

Indeed, we have no real idea of the “why” to what happens to us. There are jokes about good and bad, how judgment shifts with more information over time. We speak of “blessings in disguise” and the lessons in failure … all hinting at an entirely different attitude, what we might call a “trans-egoic posture.” That term could describe being poised for transformation, yielding up ego identification to the pervasive oneness of life that we forever swim in.


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In this final blog on entrainment, we take this principle to a logical completion: the entrainment of transformation. Interestingly, a scientific definition of entrainment provides fascinating clues for our culminating observations. “Entrainment is a phenomenon of the atmosphere which occurs when a turbulent flow captures a non-turbulent flow … Entrainment is the mixing of environmental air into a preexisting air current or cloud so that the environmental air becomes part of the current or cloud.” 2

Applying this effect to our spiritual journey, we can consider the energy field of an authentic master as that “turbulent flow,” a higher amplitude of personal power, meeting our own more “non-turbulent flow.” We’ve had the experience, many of us, and know what it means to be “captured,” and the unification we experience within that comforting cloud of inspiration.

Our sense of self expands. Our personal ego surrenders. It happens in the presence of a powerful enough entrainment field … if we are willing. The trans-egoic state arises and we begin to know ourselves beyond linear time. With that foundational shift arises an evolution in how we view our lives and our death. Death will not be the end, we begin to feel that, not as a theory but as a sensed present and future reality.

I’ve designed, recorded, and distributed entrainment programs for decades, many in the form of audio meditation programs. I developed a term for these: High Tech Meditation. But the technology is both novel and ancient. According to BrainWorks, “Brainwave entrainment is nothing new. Ceremonial chambers acoustically tuned to specific brainwave frequencies have been found dating back to the Bronze Age, and the ancient Greeks used flickering sunlight shining through a spinning wheel to induce altered states.” 3

These blogs serve this same purpose. As you relax into the reading, moving with the rhythm that flows between the lines, you may feel a cloud of sorts enveloping you, the presence of source energy transmitting through me. BTW, you could not feel it if it wasn’t also transmitting through you!

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Transformation is always now and if you are reading these words we are resonating together in this entrainment field. And now, as the reading ends, you have the same opportunity that I do, to provide a welcoming, inspiring influence towards everyone and everything in your world, one moment at a time, and without needing to do or say anything. As I mentioned in the first blog of this series, authentic masters teach without words. Here’s our chance!


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References:
1. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
2. http://www.definitions.net/definition/entrainment
3. http://www.brainworksneurotherapy.com/what-brainwave-entrainment

Entrainment – Part 3 – Why Are We Here?

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“To be a committed spiritual seeker, it is necessary to relinquish the desire
to be ‘right’ or of imaginary value to society. In fact, nobody’s ego or belief systems are of any value to society at all.”

– David R. Hawkins, author of Power vs Force

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Dr. Hawkins confirms what masters have always taught, that “The world is neither good nor bad nor defective, nor is it in need of help or modification because its appearance is only a projection of one’s own mind. No such world exists.”

We’ve been discussing the phenomena of entrainment in recent blogs, particularly the “guru effect,” that is, what happens when we enter the energy field of an authentic master. Masters, gurus, and sages are those who function in a trans-egoic state and they can teach without words. This is what defines an authentic master, one who is enlightened enough to assist others.

Entrainment also occurs with our external environment. Dr. Frank Lipman lists these examples of that kind of entrainment: 1

• When a musician has the audience spellbound, he or she has entrained them into the rhythm.
• A charismatic preacher can do the same with his congregation.
• When you meditate in a group, you feel the increased “strength” of the experience.
• Participating in an exercise class doing aerobics to up tempo music.
• When young women become roommates, they often start getting their periods at the same time.

This is illuminating but incomplete. We’re woefully ignorant of larger energetic waves in motion, particularly the constant orchestration of literally everything by consciousness, moment by moment. Even a cursory study of astrology reveals the pivotal influence that cosmic forces have in our lives. These forces don’t suddenly stop being significant after birth… the stars are always affecting us.

Dr. Lipman acknowledges this. He writes: “You use less energy when you’re in sync with the surrounding energy; you use more when you’re out of sync. It’s ok to speed up during the day if you have a fast-paced career, but you need to slow down when you return home. You need to teach the body to slow down, to relax, to recover, to stimulate the parasympathetic system (your natural relaxation response). You need to find external rhythms that are slow (nature, quiet surroundings, certain music) to entrain to.” 2

True enough, but let’s expand our understanding to include these larger, invisible forces and acknowledge how the ancient traditions present them, as the steady unfoldment of cosmic consciousness through four cycles called Yugas, also known as the procession of the equinoxes.


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According to Vedic and Tantric systems, humanity has been progressing through what they term “the day of God.” In the first cycle, the truth of the trans-egoic level is dominant in consciousness; this is known as the age of truth (Satwa). The second cycle is denser, as is the third, taking us to the fourth cycle, known as the Kali Yuga, which is where we are now. In other words, humanity is currently experiencing the most contracted and dense part of this long cycle.

Some anticipate “spring” and describe what is happening right now as a rebirth for humanity. That’s accurate but could be misleading if we forget that the day of God is followed by the night of God. So, as we complete the Kali Yuga cycle, we won’t leap into brilliant light… we’ll then begin our journey through the corresponding cycles in the night of God. So, let’s relax, be patient, and put the fireworks back in the shed for a while.

There are always signs to indicate the changing of these cycles. According to the ancient traditions, 10 living avatars appear on earth, spread out over those cycles of day, one or two for each age. Christ was the last one. Before him, we had the Buddha and before him Krishna, Rama, etc. So far, we have experienced 9 of these avatars. The 10th will be the Kali avatar and he or she has not appeared yet.

It makes no sense to sit around waiting! The point of entrainment is to “get with the program.” This impending event includes us all, since consciousness is one. The arrival of this 10th avatar is a personal experience, not just the appearance of some other being.

Consider this as you meditate and during any of your mindfulness practices: you are preparing room in your consciousness for the arrival of something… something wonderful. I often write about “The Awakening Impulse…” this is what we are awakening to.

The personal signs are easy to detect: we become more loving towards each other. While we witness the very opposite of that in news reports every day, the question is: what are we entraining to? The assault of negativity we navigate through every day, or the cosmic cycles of steady awakening as we march through the day, and then the night of God?

Let’s share that journey ever more consciously together as we individually transition from egoic to trans-egoic experience. This is why we are here.


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References:
1. https://www.bewell.com/blog/what-is-entrainment/
2. Ibid

Entrainment – Part 2 – The Influence of Masters

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There’s a reason millions of spiritual seekers
gather around masters to advance their enlightenment…
and it’s not primarily to hear what they say.

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The ancient Vedic and Tantric spiritual traditions considered that the truly authentic masters can teach without words.

Teaching without words means that something else is producing an enlightening influence. Anyone who has sat with a true teacher has felt this, to some degree (depending on their own state). Just being in the presence can produce a transformative effect.

This is entrainment in action and it has everything to do with the amplitude of personal power that the teacher is emitting. This power is innate to consciousness so we all have some as long as we’re alive. The difference lies in amplitude. Everyone is at their own power level.

Every one of us experiences the contraction in consciousness that is necessary to sustain our human forms in this dimension. Those who are the most contracted, have the least amplitude to their power. When you are in their presence, you don’t feel much of an entrainment effect. Those who are more awake, pack more of a punch.

What changes the amplitude of our power? It’s fairly obvious. Any activity that focuses our awareness in a positive direction – like meditation or any of the mindfulness practices – increases our amplitude of power. Fragmenting activities like expressing random negative emotions, being stressed out and argumentative, engaging in unhealthy addictions… these diminish our power.

Some teachers talk about “making matter from matter” to describe the nature of dysfunctional creativity, necessary whenever invisible life force has ebbed to the point where next to no influence is available and only an imposed physical solution can produce change.

It’s interesting to track the downward calibration of personal power relative to personal health. Someone who rarely leaves the sofa, eats junk food, and watches TV all day will tend to have more problems. A person who exercises regularly, eats a healthy diet, meditates, etc. will tend to be healthier, even faced with genetic insufficiencies.

Let’s say an accident happens and suddenly both of them need emergency surgery, then an extensive protocol of drugs. The healthier person might not need the same drug regime. And their regular meditation habit would strengthen their immune system to accelerate healing. The unhealthy person might struggle to recover and develop other problems… because their system is vulnerable.



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In both cases, the person’s personal amplitude of power would be assisting in the healing process, significantly for the healthy person, almost imperceptibly for the unhealthy one.

This is where the principle of entrainment begins, through entraining ourselves.
As you evolve and continue waking up, spiritually, you begin to experience your own presence as self-entrainment. That’s the starting point for us all. Then others near us begin to notice something, as the amplitude of our personal power continues increasing.

We must first experience self-entrainment, then we can influence others. BTW, the easiest, simplest, and more impactful way to increase our power is through meditation. But the real advance comes from extending your meditation beyond the “sit.”

Yes, it helps to close your eyes and perform some kind of traditional meditation regularly. But what happens when you open your eyes? Was this just a technique, something to squeeze into a busy day, perhaps as a stress reduction strategy? No, the real goal of meditation is to become consistent in that state, to be in a meditative posture during more and more of the moments of your day. Finally – and this is the state of any true master who entrains with his presence and without words – you are in meditation all the time.

This might sound daunting. Could you even function at work in that state? And how could you possibly find the time to practice enough to ever get there? Well, as the Zen proverb says, “If you’re too busy to sit still for 10 minutes, you need to sit still for an hour.”


If you’re serious about your spiritual grown, make the conscious choice to actively increase your personal amplitude of power. You might even ask this question before engaging with an activity: “Will this increase or decrease my amplitude of power?”

What a question! Just imagine how this might change your habits, like ordering lunch, picking up a movie to watch, engaging in a political conversion. If you used the question as a compass, you could navigate your way through the challenges and opportunities of every day towards a constantly increasing ability to entrain and inspire with your mere presence, to teach without words.


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Entrainment – Part 1 – The Entrainment Principle

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“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances,
but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

~ Victor Frankl

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All of us carry the potential to bring meaning and purpose into every circumstance, to uplift those we encounter and shine light into darkness.

It’s been said that if you truly want to help others along the path of personal growth and transformation, then shine your light on the path, not in their eyes.

That makes sense!

Big ego teachers blind you with their brilliance. This may impress upon you how great they are but it doesn’t really help you navigate your life. What we really want and need is to see the road ahead more clearly. For that, we’re better served by the guide who takes a more trans-egoic approach. They have no need for personal recognition, they are servant leaders.

Luminaries like Gandhi and Mother Theresa come to mind. Humility was a central ingredient in these sainted individuals. They lived simple lives and did what was required, one moment at a time, to help others.

We are not so different from them, at least potentially. Yes, we live small lives, most of us. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t offer the same kind of inspiration. In fact, whether we know it or not, all of us are constantly entraining others into the quality of our presence.

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They say that birds of a feather flock together. We might explain this on a superficial level by pointing to shared interests. But there’s also something deeper going on for us humans. We are invariably attracted to and repelled by others, depending on the similarities or differences in our energy fields.

This is explained as a powerful phenomenon known as entrainment. The simplest example is what happens when you put two or more analog clocks on the same wall, those big clocks with pendulums that swing back and forth. Before long, the clocks become synchronized, swinging together.



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What happened? They entrained each other. Similarly, people do the same thing. A happy person tends to hang around others like them and they grow happier together. Conversely, when you’re grumpy, it’s easy to find allies to share and grow your discontent. In fact, they say that misery loves company!

Unfortunately, it’s become easier these days (and some might say inevitable) to be entrained by mass media into victimhood and fear. After all, we’re assailed by disturbing news 24/7. Consider for a moment: what’s the ratio of positive to negative news? Almost all of it is bad. That exerts a powerful influence, especially if we are in the habit of watching the news on television before we go to sleep.

That’s a dangerous habit, but it should be an easy one to break. Just quit doing it! But well established habits are never easy to change and just getting rid of something is an ineffective strategy because something else will rush in to fill the void.

Imagine using meditation to replace the late-night news. This is just one example of how you can choose differently and change your field of entrainment. Anyone who soaks in the quantum field regularly, trading frantic mind storms for extended moments of calm and inner peace, develops an energy field that entrains others into a similar state.

Just as poets know that the deepest meaning in their verses are embedded between the lines, our greatest contribution is not so much in what we do but in who we are, because who we are transmits through all that we do.

Floating in Pool

The journey to becoming an effective positive entrainment expert, begins with adopting a very different attitude about what’s going on in the world and Lao Tzu gave us excellent direction hundreds of years ago:

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

We are not passive spectators when we live these words. Acceptance of the way things are enables us to flow more perfectly, to course correct as required, and help others do the same, not to fight or strive but to flow and to let reality be reality.

Was there ever a time when this kind of leadership was more desperately needed in human affairs? Surely now is the time to be inspired not discouraged and to provide what’s been missing – the entraining wisdom, kindness, and strength, of any of us on the journey of discovering a sense of deep meaning and purpose in the experience of authentic living moment by moment.


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The Emperor is Naked – Part 4 – The Awakening Impulse

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“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back.
From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again
let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment.
The eternal makes you urgent.”

~ John O’Donohue

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The urgency of bad news easily rivets our attention. But something else is happening beneath the surface, beyond all those distractions. Human beings are awakening.

Something is coming that will get the attention of the whole world. It is inevitable. Consciousness is evolving. The measure of that is self-awareness, which is always catalyzed by some form of crisis, personal or collective. This is the real story of 21st century life, the prospect of a mass awakening of humanity.

What draws our attention is the surface play, disasters and catastrophes. Increasingly, millions of us are encountering life or death scenarios. But these are symptoms of something else, almost completely unreported and unknown to the vast majority of the population.

Humanity is awakening from the illusory state of egoic separation.

Confronted with global problems that are becoming increasingly local, many of us ask, “What can I do to help?” The highest level of contribution is to make choices that grow our experience of the spiritual trans-egoic level. Why? Because our contribution from that level is more powerful than anything we can do.

It begins with getting your own house in order.

In other words, become as wakeful and balanced as you can possibly be in relationship to the challenges you face, so that your choices are always coming from love. You can choose to be kind and compassionate and peaceful, no matter what. This means that you are prioritizing the quality of your vibration and the contribution that it makes to the world around you. When anyone rises to that level it makes a significant difference. If a hundred, a thousand, a million of us do that, it becomes the energetic contribution that just might serve to awaken our entire species.

So, how would you describe your personal transmission? If what I’ve termed “the awakening impulse” is the dominant force in your experience, then you are constantly taking personal responsibility for your transmission. It’s invisible by nature but becomes visible through what you say and do. Your real contribution emerges from the inside out.

Life on planet earth for human beings unfolds in the growing field of consciousness. Why did you come here? To grow through experience. Why can the journey be so hard? If everything was truth and love and light and delight, there would be little motivation to grow or change.



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The awakening impulse thrives in a crisis. That’s when we rally together and help each other, when the differences that separated us evaporate in the heat of a shared challenge. None of us would wish suffering on others or ourselves but it seems that urgent crises are required to get our attention!

But note what John O’Donohue said in the opening quote: “The eternal makes you urgent.” He’s poetically describing the impact of this awakening impulse. When we feel it, we do know it as urgent, and more urgent than any catastrophe.

What could be more impactful than a life or death challenge? One thing only: The compelling invitation to deepen personal experience of the true nature of life itself. And that’s precisely what is available right now in every crisis, if we have the eyes to see it.

This confronts us with constant opportunities to choose and prioritize. Will we leverage the challenges we face – increasingly extreme as they are – to accommodate this awakening impulse and advance our personal transformation, thereby refining and strengthening our personal transmission? If we do, we are contributing to the awakening of others, because we are all connected in consciousness.

“Others” refers to more than just humans. We are all connected, beyond species type and even beyond time.

In truth, every room is crowded. If you are sufficiently attuned, you can sense the presence of other beings near you. Would you describe them as human beings who have died and gone on? Or, are you perceiving subtler levels of life in this multidimensional world that you are not as familiar with?

Our transmission persists beyond time as well. That’s part of what you are sensing, the eternal echo of lives past. When we awaken from the illusion of separation, when we perceive and acknowledge that ‘the emperor has no clothes,” we also awaken from the tyranny of linear time and emerge into a domain of eternal, joyful community without borders.

This describes the mass awakening of humanity. Our souls are coming alive together in the fire of planetary transformation.


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The Emperor is Naked – Part 3 – Beyond the Ego

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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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In this series of blogs we are exploring delusion and acknowledging the value of crises to provoke awakening. Now, let’s consider the greatest impediment to our awakening: the control of the isolated ego.

The individual ego lives in separation. Consider a primary tenet of capitalism: competition. Money is the god of capitalism and we fight for it. If you have enough of it, you should be free to do with it whatever you want, right? Consequences be damned, if we want luxury and we can pay for it, why not?

And, we should be in control, if we’ve earned it. As one absurdly wealthy power player once commented (apparently in all seriousness), “The world should be run by those of us who own it.”

Our politicians love capitalism, because they are well financed by individuals and companies who can afford to buy their support. Leadership today is more about money in the pocket than honorable values and principles. Candidates will say whatever needs to be said to stay in power and keep filling their pockets, all the while mooing about public service.

If they really were public servants they wouldn’t need payment and they would actually serve the public, not just their financial backers.

From a trans-egoic perspective, this doesn’t make any sense at all. But it does represent the dominant majority of the collective consciousness on this planet. We can judge that as wrong and lament about why things have turned out this way or we can re-frame what’s going on: We exist in a learning field of consciousness.

What happens – regardless of how catastrophic it may be – has a purpose: to inform, inspire, and motivate us. To wake us up! And the evolutionary force that does that, the one force that pervades the universe, intensifies when resisted.

Egoic awareness can be described as an “unconscious herd mentality.” Whatever is offered to the herd, the herd buys. These transactions are unconscious, dictated by egoic values. Those doing the selling are not interested in health and wellbeing, they are interested in profit.



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We can follow the money. Our systems are all corrupted, because those running them are mired in the egoic level, interested in power over and profit from.

We can expect it to continue that way because most people don’t have enough awakened awareness to even question what’s happening. They are unconscious. They buy and consume what’s on the shelf without question. They enjoy an illusory freedom carefully designed to sustain slavery.

Many of us are familiar with the metaphor of a frog in hot water that will languish there as the temperature gradually rises, finally boiling to death. It could have jumped out at any time but doesn’t, because the heat increases slowly.

How hot does it need to get before we jump?

What will it take to personally evolve beyond our egos into a trans-egoic state where we take responsibility for ourselves and provide leadership based on the genuine desire to help others?

A big enough catastrophe, probably.

Could we avoid that? Those who study life on earth in the 21st century agree that, one way or another, we must face the music. The unintended consequences of our greed based, egoic choices and behavior over centuries are becoming increasingly impossible to deny.

It’s likely that the majority of us will encounter extreme societal, environmental disruption in our lifetime. How will we deal with it? We could leverage it to evolve our consciousness, to shift from an egoic to a trans-egoic experience by dissolving the barriers of separation between us, simply by helping each other. Or, we could choose to dig in and fortify our personal safety, walling ourselves off, just trying to save ourselves with egos intact.

In The Fourth Turning, William Strauss wrote, “When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves.” 1

Here is the invitation of this 21st century, to participate together in a vast awakening beyond ego identification. I am one with you, you are one with me. We can, as Rilke advised, make our egos porous. We could welcome an experience of community based in love… for others and for ourselves.

Here is the great hope of our times, the individual choice to be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.


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1. The Fourth Turning by William Strauss