DC's Teachings Through Experience.

Astral Ponderings

The term ‘astral’ is basically something that I have always assigned to those folks at a ‘lobby level’ of awareness – that is to say I generally dismiss it as romanticism, fantasy or to be blunt, yet another form of escapism from an otherwise unhappy life. With that rather narrow categorizing as my knowledge on the subject I figured I had better delve into it a bit deeper and compare the information I found online to my own experiences going from a beginner to Self aware.

The term ‘astral’ is a generic term that covers the states of existence from the grossly physical to the subtle or etheric – or human to the ‘divine’. The first mention of a concept of higher states of being that I could find online were from the teachings of Socrates and Aristotle. They did not use the term ‘astral’, but hinted at a level of experience higher than this physical plane of existence. Similar doctrines were commonplace throughout the mystery schools and gnostic sects of the Roman Empire and influenced the early Christian church.

As is the case with most concepts, whether built on fact or fantasy, each successive generation it seems added their own personal touches and flavors or changed it to fit their particular ideas of this ‘astral realm’. Once science came into vogue and there was no evidence of heavens populating the nighttime sky through telescopes the idea fell out of fashion. It was resurrected by Theosophists who seem to have coined the word ‘astral’ to signify the aether – a place rife with ‘planes’ of existence, from the etheric to the astral to the mental. Theosophy apparently got its ideology regarding planes of existence from Eastern teachings, but tweaked it a bit to fit their own emerging philosophies.

I am guessing that the usage of the word ‘astral’ stems directly in this day and age from the late 60′s and early 70′s new age spirituality movement. In his book Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda – a must read for any blossoming flower child new ager – Yogananda provided details given to him by his resurrected guru. I do not think any definition or description of the ‘astral plane’ is of any greater or lesser value than any other. In my opinion all information regarding the topic is suspect at best, and anyone using the term is likely expressing it knowing nothing of its history or its myriad of descriptions over the centuries since Plato and Aristotle’s time.

What I do know is this…there is the physical body and there is the Self. There is only one body in this reality and that is the physical body. There are no other bodies here. There is no such thing as an ‘emotional body’ either. The ‘aura’ is the extended Self at its natural state slightly outside of the body. Emotions are the result of chemicals flushing into the bloodstream which sets off all sorts of physical reactions. That heightened electrical chemical charge is not a separate body – it is the effect of the chemicals and electrical impulses on the one body that is real. The Self, which is not a body, can and does frequently experience beyond the physical body’s skin. The body after all is the point of entry to this reality for the Self, but the skin is not its limit to perceiving or sensing the greater world beyond its eyes and ears.

People who are astral traveling are really just moving their own awareness outside of the physical body to anywhere they are capable of expanding to. I can readily be present anywhere on the planet that I am capable of going. Not as a body, but as an extension of my own awareness. People sense me as presence, or vibrating energy. Any regular to the chat room has experienced me in their homes. The presence they feel is not online – it is not in a cyber place such as a chat room…if they feel me it is because I am there with them, or we are meeting somewhere in between. Much of the mystery of distance healing, remote viewing, psychic abilities, and other metaphysical ‘gifts’ are brought down to simple mechanics once one understands the nature of the extending Self.

I dismiss the use of the label ‘astral plane’ as it has too much baggage attached to it. It is not a one size fits all plane of existence either, as you will only experience what you resonate with – so the use of the word ‘plane’ is likewise next to useless. Once you free yourself from just the confines of your physical body and expand your awareness at a distance you are likely to meet up with all sorts of characters in your travels. Obviously if you are capable of extending your awareness past the body’s skin, then so too are other people looking for an ‘out of body’ experience. Do keep in mind however, that the eyes, ears, and skin are all back in the bedroom still connected to the physical body. That means any sensual experience that is derived from the use of physical senses is going to be your own imagination…it is your brain filling in the details. The Self has intuitive qualities, but not physical senses outside of the body.

If you have a lower level of awareness you will likely encounter spirits roaming around looking for any witness to the memories of their lifetimes. You will also likely draw the attention of any parasitic entity that you happen to be in the vicinity of that is attracted to your energy. A parasitic entity that has some experience moving from body to body likely always has an eye out for new and improved hosts to feed on. If it deems you worthy, it will likely follow you back home to the physical body.

One of the benefits of waking up is you fly too high for spirits, and parasitic entities find your energy very uncomfortable. There is nothing else populating the higher vibrational realities closest to this one. No person, spirit nor entity should be of any interest to you no more than going door to door to get to know strangers. You choose your company in life carefully, and you should do the same when exploring beyond the body in unknown territory.

Since most people that I have ever heard using the term ‘astral travel’ have base or vulgar intentions as their reason for visiting others, I am guessing their knowledge of the mechanics of expanding awareness beyond the body are limited to nonexistent. Sex is the most common goal I have heard others using this ‘ability’ for. Obviously if there are body appetites and behaviors at play then the experience has little to no value for Self awareness, and much potential for being a potential danger, or in the least a distraction ready made for easily distracted people.

~ DC Vision

Chatterbox Mind

Perhaps the most daunting obstacle for any aspirant to get past is the chatterbox mind. It plagues their days and haunts their nights, often keeping them from getting a good night’s rest. Do you know that I have had no thoughts in my mind for years unless I am the one doing the thinking?

I know most people do not understand the mechanics of the chatterbox mind – in fact most blame themselves for doing all that noisy thinking. Would it surprise you to learn that that chattering is not you at all? It is the brain doing what it does, which is to process information. You are not doing the thinking, you are in your brain listening to it doing its processing. Knowing this really helps to explain why there is virtually no success in trying to quiet the mind.

During meditation a person eventually will ‘quiet the mind’ by focusing on an external object. What they do not know is that they shifted their attention from the brain’s inner workings to the exterior of the brain, identifying with the object. The chatterbox in fact is still chattering away – you did nothing to stop this natural process – you simply stopped listening by moving beyond the brain.

This would also explain why practitioners of meditation often mention letting the thoughts ‘arise from the void’ without attachment to them. There is an unaware acknowledgement there that the thoughts are not their own. The problem with those meditators is they deduce that the thoughts are coming from the void when they are in fact originating from their own brains.

So the next time you find yourself in the throes of the chatterbox mind try and remember that it is not you doing the thinking, and to silence it is impossible – moving away from it is the only remedy. That is done simply by putting your attention external to the brain. That is why those meditations that have you focusing on a candle flame, or spot on the ceiling or your breaths can become very effective. Again nothing mysterious…just simple mechanics.

~ DC Vision

December 21, 2012

All of us have lived our lives with prophecy dates looming in the near future. We have seen these dates come and go with little to no upheavals. After a while there begins to form a desensitivity to prophets and prophecies, and business as usual is the theme of the day. No prophecy date in my lifetime intrigues me more than the hysteria surrounding December 21, 2012. There is a growing population of perhaps over a billion people today that have some belief that the winter solstice of 2012 is going to herald a significant event for our species.

The interesting thing about the 2012 prophecies is they are embraced almost entirely by capitalism rather than any critical thinking. The date has led to hundreds of books being published, as well as hundreds of thousands of websites, as well as billions of dollars flowing freely through the New Age circuit for ‘expert’ lecturers. The hysteria  surrounding the varied prophecies cover the spectrum from pseudoscience to channeling aliens to psilocybin mushroom ingestors. The central prophecy comes from the Mayan calendar, although there is no prophetic text regarding any occurrences happening on the date itself. Modern Mayans dismiss completely the Westernized borrowing of their ancestor’s calendar for apocalyptic doomsday predicting.

Within the growing hysteria of the 2012 date is a phenomena which I have observed in my years around the fringes of the New Age &amp; spiritual community – a serious lack of critical thinking accompanied by the borrowing of other people’s beliefs without knowing the actual origins of those beliefs. The psychology of the New Age movement is not too hard to figure out, even for a layman like myself. People dissatisfied and for the most part feeling left out of the unemotional technological machine that is humanity these days latched on to an idea that promises and promotes a new age of spiritual oneness and a return to earth-based pagan cultures. It is an emotional response to this intellectual age that is steamrolling over the sensitive people in its path.

Being an original thinker my whole life I have never been able to identify with the vicariously faithful. I still get amazed at how someone will defend ‘their’ beliefs until they get red in the face and hot under the collar – with little to no knowledge of where ‘their’ beliefs originated from. A great example is the Planet X or Niburu belief that a mysterious planet is whirling through space and is set to either collide or pass nearby the Earth in 2012, causing all manner of catastrophes. This belief is very widespread and originates from a channeled alien. That’s right, not the findings of astronomers, but the message of a channeled alien! Astronomers have calculated that such an object so close to the Earth would be visible to anyone looking up at the night sky.

There is a whole book and lecture industry surrounding the idea that the planet Niburu has inhabitants that are our alien progenitors. No one seems to have critical thinking regarding how a species could survive on a planet travelling through deep dark space without a constant nearby sun. They would have had to survive in an unbelievably harsh environment but somehow found the Earth habitable at some long lost date in the past to brred and seed our ancestors. Sounds beyond stupid if you just ask some questions of the idea.

We scoffed at Harold Camping as the May 21, 2011 rapture date came and went. We are quick to point out that Reverend Camping predicted incorrectly the end days being in 1994. The same critical eye is not cast on the Planet X or Niburu date of 2012 – given an earlier predicted date of 2003 came and went, so new calculations had to be devised – and new books written, and new lecture tours booked, and more millions syphoned from the pockets of the emotionally gullible.

That said, I will leave anyone interested in the myriad of predictions and prophecies regarding December 21, 2012 to investigate further online. My obvious skepticism of all things New Age does not denote that I do not believe there is something of import in our immediate or proximate future. I have had an intuitive sense of an event approaching for some years now, but rather than rely on other people for my speculation &amp; conjecture regarding it, I choose to keep with my own intuitions. I do not need to know the specifics or I would know the specifics. I have no intention of becoming another hysterical human with an end date.

What I am doing is living as if there is some meaning behind my intuitions of impending global change. I am preparing my Self so that I will not be one of the dumbfounded running around like a chicken with their head cut off. And that is why I ask any of you that believe December 21, 2012 will bring us some sort of cataclysm or global enlightenment…are you just passively waiting like a deer in the headlights?

What are you doing in preparation for massive global changes? If you are just talking to hear yourself talk, and are not doing anything to wake up or become enlightened then you deserve your hapless fate if the date turns out to be true. There are over a billion co-creators out there putting energy into that date, so who knows what that focued hysteria, fear or even hope is capable of creating?

~ DC Vision

Evolution vs Intelligent Design

Intelligent design or the theory of evolution? If one looks at the huge holes in the theory of evolution, one has to adopt intelligent design. If one looks at the huge gaps in an intelligent designer, one has to adopt the theory of evolution. What if both sides had some portion of the truth? What if awareness itself was the designer? Spiritual, religious and philisophical people have always had some measure of belief that we are creators in the flesh.

There is no need for a supreme deity as creator. After all it is obviously absent from the countless experiences of pain and suffering that are experienced by all species in any given moment. An impotent deity is certainly not worth praising. Don’t weigh yourself down with the freewill argument. Any moral and aware person would not let a toddler run into a swimming pool if it was unable to swim. Everyone I have ever met would risk their own lives to save that child from drowning – it is the hallmark of intelligence and morality that you do not allow ‘freewill’ to the unaware. Deities however seem to have little problem with the pain and suffering, and horrific deaths of unaware children, or adults for that matter.

Surely something external had to be the creator of the sheer magnitude of varied species and diversity within species – whether it be a deity or the environment? No. The consciousness of the body and the consciousness of the sleeping Self are perfectly capable creators that can readily know what is limiting about the body. Personal experiences as well as witnessing unfortunate outcomes of relatives would be more than adequate to produce a focused thought for a more efficient form to house their awareness.

Those able to create a lucid mental image of improvements impart their creativity into the body’s DNA so that generation to generation improvements can be realised and sustained if beneficial. We see this exact capability today with insects breeding an immunity to a particular poison into their offspring. As we have become more and more aware up through the chain of complex forms, the body and Self’s combined creative abilities have improved. Mostly it had been involved with how to not be eaten, and how to better catch what will be eaten. The human form with its intelligence inherent has shown quite clearly that we are the king of consumers. As a species one has to be in awe of how much we have done in such a short span of history of this planet.

People forget the world is just animated forms and the discarded bodies as consciousness moved onward and upward in complexity. Why does there need to be an external creator involved at all? Because of mathematical complexity and perfection? How many imperfect attempts are ignored or not even known of. When you have a universe to work with, and theoretically an infinite number of parellel universes, eventually there is going to be a perfect setting for awareness to evolve and awaken within. We may seem special here, but given infinity anything potentially could be produced.

Contemplate on the idea of consciousness in its aggregate – referred to as awareness – being the creator itself. Like everything involved in my ontological system, it is a matter of changing from subjective to objective perception. Did you adopt your deity from experience of it, or was it handed to you? Did you adopt your scientific mindset from intellectual snobbery or disgust at a silent absent deity? What if both of you were right, and both of you were wrong at the same time? The answer more often than not exists somewhere between the polar opposites.

~ DC Vision

Karma

There is no such thing as karma. It is an absolute rubbish ideology based upon an awareness  of reincarnation, but with no understanding  of why someone would have to come back. The obvious answer to anyone not familiar with the evolution of consciousness would be a reward/punishment system, where one’s clean living diminishes one’s bad karma, and where one’s wrong living adds to the accumulative bad karma. Who decides what is good or bad in this system? One society’s sin is another society’s honor. Karma would be a very useful tool in trying to keep the ignorant masses in line. Why do animals reincarnate if they supposedly have no awareness of good or bad? It really is just another human-centric guess at the mysteries of the world.

Karma is another example of a belief system that has no reflection in the manifest world. Bad people often are rewarded with riches and long happy lives, where good people are often walked upon, taken advantage of in the world. The fact is there are no guarantees that bad or good behavior will have any particular outcome. There is however some guarantee that very smart people tend to make out better in life than very dumb people. But smart does not equal good or bad…both dispositions have been known to live long, healthy and fruitful lives.

No one has ever come back here with a previous life report card to let them know which actions got them good karmic grades and which actions gave them bad karmic grades. The very idea of there being some deity or natural law that decides your fate pretty much eliminates the delusion of free will. Karma is no different than any other limited belief in that with a little critical thinking there simply are too many holes in the idea. What makes more sense to you: that there is some cosmic good/bad rating system, or that experience leads to awareness  which leads to larger, more complex brains as we go on this long journey from pond scum to pre-frontal lobes to eventual wakefulness?

The Self is just a passive passenger until the awakening process begins, so it doing any willed good or bad deed makes no sense whatsoever. The values of good and bad make no sense given the Self is not even a conscious creative force here until it has evolved into some semblance of Self Awareness. Karma just doesn’t fit into what I know of the evolution of consciousness, and the awakening to Self Awareness. But it does neatly fit into a world four thousand years ago where knowledge of such higher awareness was not available. Karma should be placed on the shelf next to heaven and hell as part of the dusty catalogue of obsolete ideas from primitive times and primitive mysterious god beliefs.

~ DC Vision

Learning Dialogue

I have come to understand that we are all essentially looking at the same view, just interpreting it in our own particular and peculiar ways. The trick to successfully sharing the picture is in figuring the language of the one you are sharing with. This only happens when you become able to hear and see the other person. Debate presupposes that the other person is wrong, and that you are right. Dialogue accepts that the other person’s awareness is appropriate to all of their experiences and inheritances. No one person is right or wrong. There is just the difference of how much of truth is being experienced by either.

It helped me in the past to ascertain my motivation regarding my sharing. Sometimes it was out of loneliness of having a unique viewpoint. Sometimes it was out of the joy of discovery. I have witnessed many times where a seeker tries to prove their perceptions, and disprove the other’s. What does it harm you that another person does not share your perceptions? Why would you expect them to?

We most certainly are not all one. We are individuals with unique personal experiences that have shaped our beliefs. I have seen many people with the desire to find the flaws in other people’s beliefs. They will offer very little but borrowed words, and will not attempt to see or hear the other person they are trying in desperation to correct. Were they capable of turning off their reactions to the words, they might discover that the other person speaks of the same truth as they do, but in a language unique to their experience (much like two people witnessing the same accident, but giving different reports of it). It might appear like a young child and a college student describing the same experience perceived through different awarenesses.

I have evolved past the awareness level where I needed to value, judge, compare, or destroy another’s beliefs. Debate has always seemed limited and self serving to me. By placing another on the defensive I lost any opportunity that was possible for us to reach out and share different perspectives. In dialogue however, by accepting that the other person’s perceptions are supposed to be different from my own, since they’ve had a history different than I have, it has always been my experience that both of our eyes and ears tended to be more open, with much more food for thought having been shared.

I also had to learn how to deal with someone who had no interest in my perceptions, but insisted theirs was worth hearing. I do not have a responsibility to take on the emotional neediness of the ones I come into contact with. Sometimes the best way to teach is by setting an example that if the other person is not able or willing to be mature in their interactions, then you will not entertain them. They should be made aware of what is appropriate and what is inappropriate behavior. A person whose interest is exploration should not be made to suffer these antagonists who are bored with themselves and require conflict to be satiated. One does not have to throw a rock very far to hit someone who has read a book and thinks themselves an expert that can debate you.

It is the sad fact that meaningless public conflicts are a secret addiction for many. Just like in the school yard when a fight breaks out, a crowd gathers to be entertained. Do not be a part of a community that has this poison seething under its surface. A mature community that has progressive goals in mind will have administrators that will not tolerate such foolishness. Every time you settle for the dumbing down of interaction, you have no one to blame but yourself when it becomes your turn to be the target of some hateful or emotionally needy person.

There is a good exercise one can utilise while learning dialogue. I have a saying that I have been teaching for years…”If the mountain is bullshit, it does not matter who is king”. It takes a person secure in their own awareness to allow another person their awareness. Does it matter if they are ‘wrong’ and you do not ‘correct’ them? I have a secret for you…if you allow another person to be ‘right’, they will move on to the next person to have their argument with – an argument you would not have won, anyways. They were not interested in truth. They just wanted you to be absolutely clear what their truth was. Your truth, as you have come to understand over the years, was not even part of the conversation. They cannot hear you until they mature enough to not hear themselves. Let them be ‘right’ and you will find a lot more time on your hands to find people that do not need to be right all the time.

You will know you have mastered the art of dialogue when you can go into any forum, chat room or live discussion and sit on your opinions, allowing everyone else their perceptions without needing to correct them. Like yourself, they will get closer to truth at their own pace, with their own experiences. Would you deny your Self that rich tapestry of exploration and experiences that came to shape you into what you are today? You cannot allow for your own growth, then deny another their natural unfoldment.

~ DC Vision

Master Healer

I spent exactly one evening of my life in a class that was offered to teach me to become a healer. I was only a few months into my calling and the idea of healing someone with my hands was something that really appealed to me. Throughout the class there was an internal dialogue taking place inside of me where I found myself disagreeing with most of what I was being taught.

That strong sense of Self was new to me, but the information it was countering the classroom teacher’s with made a great deal of sense to me. Mostly it had to do with the teacher telling me to give away my own powers and to channel some outside guide or force. To me this made little sense as I had an inherent knowing that I was the source of the healing power, and giving my abilities over to some imaginary guide or imagined deity seemed like an unnecessary and inefficient process.

If you are right handed, that is your healing hand, and the left is your receiver. I being left handed am opposite. I heal with the left, and draw things out with the right. One of the things I found I immediately disagreed with was the idea of ‘hands on’ healing. The act of placing my hands on another seemed to greatly limit my ability to ‘see’ inside of them to where the problem was. I am clairsentient. That means I sense things metaphysically. My left hand being the pointer to the issue, I simply extended my Self beyond the fingertips and entered into the physical body of the one I was healing. Once in their body I was naturally drawn to the ‘worst thing first’. The inner terrain of another resembled a three dimensional drawing on a screen in my mind.

That was an interesting phenomena – to be both within the other person’s body using my external sense (clairsentience), while also being inside my body using the brain as a screen to project the information on. My awareness was in two locations at once, with the internal awareness directing the external awareness, and the external awareness informing the internal awareness. Awake using the brain to interpret information, not asleep letting the brain do the interpreting for me. Awake active, asleep passive.

Becoming a Master of healing is like becoming the Master of any trade…removing the mystery and figuring out the mechanics. Pain for all its distraction and drama is a very simple mechanism. It is an alarm system. It is not the damage. It is the alarm pointing to the damage. It is a signal to the brain loud and clear, ‘hey there is something wrong here!’. Shutting off the alarm does nothing to heal the person, but it does take away the majority of what they are suffering with.

Learning to manipulate nerves was very useful early on in my healing work. Nerves respond to energy without reservation. It is their function to send and receive information. They deal in communication between the brain and its internal environment. Master a relationship between yourself and the nervous system and you have figured out much of the mechanics of being a healer.

For complex issues it was simply shut off the alarm system and tell the client to seek medical assistance. Mastery is knowing what is within your ability, and what is the territory of medical experts. No healer can heal everything. Knowing this can save clients from suffering unnecessarily. For simple issues you need a general understanding of the body’s systems, and what foods, vitamins, herbs, supplements or exercises could be implemented to correct the problem.

The body has a remarkable healing system in place. Remove the distraction of the pain alarm, offer advice of appropriate nutrition or exercise to assist, and the body will do its thing as it has for millenia. Most of what you will come into contact with as a healer can be resolved with the information just shared. Do not give away your natural ability to actively heal to any outside guide or source of power. You are the source and you have lived in a body with its immune system for decades. You will be surprised how much information you have picked up over those years as to how your body operates.

Explore with people that understand you are experimenting with discovering your innate abilities as a healer. Insist the person being healed be absolutely honest with you as to your affectiveness. Once you have enough experience to trust yourself, then branch into healing clients that you do not know. The idea is this work is not about appearances. It is about alleviating pain and suffering. Do not be afraid to say ‘I don’t know’. Most people are going to prefer you be honest than be blindly poking around energetically inside of them.

You are going to come across issues that are simply beyond your experience. Direct the client to other healers more experienced than yourself. Once you have been doing this for a while you learn that you are never sent someone that you cannot assist on some level…even if that assistance is to direct them elsewhere. So get to know other healers, too, and their areas of effectiveness. Ask if they can help you to become more aware of their specific type of healing. We should be a community of reaching out and assisting others to be the best they can be to help those who cannot afford, or who are getting no results from the medical industry.

I can tell the experience of a healer the moment they start to offer medical advice. As a healer if you ever witness someone telling a person to quit their medications call them on it immediately. This is where the low level inexperienced healers can be so dangerous. You must never tell another person to go against the advice or medications of a professional doctor. You can attempt to heal the person of the affliction and if successful, tell them to see their doctor with the new state of being healed. The doctor will choose to drop the medication or not. Whether a Master Healer or not, as far as the world is concerned, you are not a professional and should act responsibly.

What makes a healer become a Master Healer is knowledge and experience removing parasitic entities. If you have not come into contact with parasitic entities before then you have no business calling yourself a Master. Most unexplained, incurable illnesses can be directly attributed to them. A parasitic entity is a Self that has not gone to the light. Earthbound, they look for the nearest and easiest warm body to parasite off of. Once they attach to the person’s nervous system, an all out battle takes place between the body and this parasitic entity.

I am not going to go into removing parasitic entities or describing the phenomena beyond this introduction. The reason is simple. This is not an area an inexperienced healer should be delving into without some guidance. If it interests you then find a Master Healer that is willing to teach you the ropes of parasitic entity removal. Once the entity has been removed the body stops fighting and defending itself and the person finds they return to some semblance of the natural state of health they possessed before the possession took place. Again, simple mechanics. The body uses all of its defenses including imposed illness to drive out the entity. Once removed the body returns to business as normal. Some of the body’s defenses can be quite inventive and very uncomfortable for the Self  in the middle of this battle.

I have removed over 1000 of these over my years as a Master Healer. I did not have a teacher to help me, but I did have a very strong innate sense to take the exploring of them slowly and safely. It took a few of them attaching themselves to me after removing them from another person for me to take the experimentation seriously. Dabbling in this area of the metaphysical is highly not recommended for a beginner. I am not available as a teacher so do not ask. For now as a healer or aspiring Master Healer take what I have offered and build upon it. I generally do not comment on existing traditions such as reiki because any healing is good healing…even if the modality is Self limiting. I figure you will figure that out as you go.

It might seem as if I only skimmed the surface of what healing is, but knowledge of your ability to send and draw energy, of the body’s inherent healing abilities, nerves, nutrition and exercise is the key to the majority of ailments that you will work on. The rest will either be beyond the abilities of a healer – such as long standing or genetic conditions that require professional medical services, or parasitic entities which neither the medical institutions or you will have any effect on unless you gain experience as an apprentice with a Master Healer. It really does come down to simple mechanics as much of my essays point out.

~ DC Vision

Master Teacher

When you come to Self awareness by your own unique path it is difficult to communicate your perceptions with others who arrive from a lifetime of vicarious information. When all you have is the words you have heard or read, then those are what you base your beliefs on. The limitation of this approach is that the original author or experiencer may be hundreds of times and centuries removed from the conversation.  It is likely their perceptions have been so watered down by the time they reach the belief system of today’s follower, an experiential person can hardly hold a meaningful dialogue with the believer.

I knew from nearly the beginning of my calling that I was going to be a teacher. It was in my nature, and I seemed to have an inherent gift of putting Self awareness in a practical language that most anyone new or seasoned to the path could easily comprehend. What I was also aware of from the early stages of my service work is that from person to person my approach, and even my teachings themselves differed greatly. It was only over time that I realised that I was not sharing or imparting my awareness, but that of the student.

This became apparent to me when I would teach something that I know was not my own present understanding on a topic. At first I would attempt to give them my awareness, but after numerous instances of the student simply not getting it I knew my approach had to change. In the early days it was important for me to impress upon the student my advanced wisdom of the information because I was new to teaching and not very sure of myself. It did not take long to recognise that this approach was about me and not about the person I was trying to serve.

I became aware that if I were to step aside and focus on the student, my awareness would contract to match theirs. This took a while to master without attachment, because my behavior would also change to that level of awareness. This was very uncomfortable for me because I found myself back in unwanted familiar territory from my past unconscious life. Over time though I knew the pure mastery of this approach. What better language than the student’s to use if you want them to hear and see you? It was a small price to pay, having to suffer their level of Self awareness in order to effectively move them quickly past that level.

It did take a few years to get comfortable with my appearance to others that might witness my teaching someone else. To the casual viewer over time my awareness would seem to be all over the place as from person to person I shared varying levels of teachings. The unaware witness may believe these teachings were my own awareness, and not understand it was the student’s awareness I was sharing.

I have no desire to come across mysterious to people. There is no benefit for me to string a student along unnecessarily for months or years. The quickest, most affective pace that the student can handle was always my approach. My goal was never to bring the person to the end of the path – I doubt there is one in fact – but only up to that point where they were able to teach themselves. I will not shy away from the word ‘teacher’ even though in spiritual circles it has become vogue to dismiss anyone claiming to be one. The work I do is not about conceptual Self awareness, but about being the Self.

~ DC Vision

Multidimensions?

Any physical object is going to have the same 3 dimensions of measurement – height, width & depth. With that in mind I have always found the term ‘mutidimensional’ to be curious language. You hear people talk of beings from the 8th dimension, or some such number, and it leaves me scratching my head. Of course saying your guide comes from the 11th dimension sounds cool, but what other measurements are these people thinking are involved in an additional 8 dimensions?

All species on this planet see within a similar collective ability, light waves on a spectrum…to be precise, visible light is the portion of electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light has a wavelength in a range from about 380 or 400 nanometres to about 760 or 780 nm, with a frequency range of about 405 THz to 790 THz. And all species hear on this planet within a similar collective ability, sound waves on a spectrum…to be precise, hearing is normally limited to frequencies between about 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz (20 kHz). Other species may have a different range of hearing, but the same general frequencies are shared by all, with some perceiving higher or lower.

What seems low to our perceptions could perhaps be very high to another being whose eyes and ears are tuned to a different spectrum of light and sound. It would appear normal to their sense organs, just as light and sound appear normal to ours. What seems high to our perceptions could perhaps be very low to another being whose eyes and ears are tuned to a different spectrum of light and sound. Again it would seem normal to their sense organs, just as light and sound appear normal to ours.

Ask any quantum physicist and they will tell you we are ‘made up of’ mostly space. There is enormous space between the subatomic particles that make up matter. We perceive matter by sight and touch primarily. So what if instead of ‘multidimensional’ beings, they were really multi vibrational beings? That would make sense to me because our sense organs, the eyes and ears, would not be able to perceive them – not because they were higher or lower awareness, but because they existed in a reality of different spectrums of vibration for light and sound…and solidity.

Word usage says a lot about a person…it tells me whether they really question their beliefs or not, or whether they just ‘borrow’ their beliefs because it sounds cool. It would make sense that like dogs or other highly perceptive animals to sound…perhaps there are humans that can sense slightly higher or lower than the general populace, and like two ships passing in the fog, they could call out and hear the calling out of beings in a different vibrational reality than ours. Does this make more sense to you…or do you think multidimensional beings sounds more likely? Can you tell me what these other measurements of a physical object might be?

The implications of multi vibrational realities are many…not the least of which are many realities coexisting in the same space that we do, but because each reality has its signature of sound and light, we never are aware of each other except via a more metaphysical sense. Interesting contemplation material in the least.

~ DC Vision

Parasitic Entities

Knowing how to discern the difference between spirits & entities is an ability that is often underdeveloped and could be potentially dangerous if a naive spiritual seeker finds their body an unwilling host for a parasitic entity. Many people that I have come into contact with in my years of service have gone blindly into communication with spirit, or have trusted their health and welfare to an inexperienced spiritual teacher. The seeker rarely questions the motives of either. New Age spirituality is a billion dollar a year business. With that kind of money being passed around, it invites all sorts of charlatans and woefully inexperienced individuals.

I have seen too many take it for granted that because spirits & entities are not physical, that they must be more aware then humans are regarding the workings of the metaphysical. The truth is, nothing could be further from the truth. First of all spirit is nothing more than body consciousness after the body has become deceased. An entity is a Self that sheds the body, but because of fear, attachment or other reasons did not ‘go to the light’. Entities are no more intelligent or aware than they were as incarnated humans. They are also just as dishonest and manipulative as they were incarnated. A Self without a body is not going to experience anything besides darkness and confusion if it does not go to the light. That means the last awareness they possessed in a body is the same awareness they have without one.

Spirit is the disembodied dream. Entities are the disembodied dreamers. Spirits are harmless. Entities can be potentially very harmful. Spirits do not need a body to ‘survive’. Entities require a host body to continue existing in this reality. Spirit can only present itself as what it was in its lifetime – be it the personality of the grandmother, brother, parent, child, friend, etc. Aside from some characteristics of the persona lived in its life, spirits have no deep or enlightening things to offer. Mediumship readings are essentially a laundry list of attachments and lingering behavioral patterns between spirit and people still here that the spirit resonates with.

Entities, however, are a completely different creature altogether. They need to either move in on your body’s energies without asking, or be invited in by gullible spiritual seekers that want the mysterious visitor to be their ‘spirit guide’. People are not even aware that they allow their bodies to become hosts for these parasitic entities. They rarely question the quality of information being offered. Be it a holy figure, and angel, an alien emissary, or whatever guise it takes – I have never once read or heard any channeled or offered information that exceeded what a 13 year old girl could come up with. But the person gets intoxicated on the mysterious connection.

Without a body, an earthbound Self attaches itself to the most likely candidate that is still incarnated, be it a loved one, friend, or someone they resonate with through appetites such as drugs, drinking, or sexuality. The physical consumption of being incarnated is changed to an emotional consumption. It is through your emotions that these parasitic entities get to again feel alive. Over time they become very adept at tweaking severe mood swings in the host. Drugs and alcohol are the easiest and most common way to offer your body as a potential host for a parasitic entity. The lower the body’s natural defenses and your personal will, the easier it is to parasite.

The most common place to pick up a parasitic entity is in a hospital or nursing home. This is for two reasons – number one it is likely where their bodies have died, and number two both buildings are full of weakened immune systems. A body with a healthy immune system can easily defend against a mild parasitic attack. But a body under anaesthesia or distracted by trauma is like having the house unlocked while thieves are roaming about. When the immune system is unable to remove the parasite then more drastic measures are undertaken. Many ‘incurable’, ‘unexplained’ illnesses can be directly attributed to a body trying to fight off a parasitic entity. I know, I have removed over 1000 of them over the years and in all cases the mysterious ailments disappeared within a few days.

Most bodies can drive out an inexperienced parasitic entity with fevers or other mild forms of quick responses. If the entity has been around for some time however, and has learned how to move from body to body it may have become very adept at using a body up before moving on to the next. The goal of the body when confronted with these unwelcomed guests is to make the body as uncomfortable as possible. Many unexplained, sudden illnesses can be readily explained if one imagined a defensive battle taking place within the body. The more uncomfortable the body appears in an unexplained illness, the more likely it is dealing with a very adept parasite.

Stripped away of the romanticism and mysterious nature of what inexperienced seekers think are spirits, we can soon begin to get a picture of the unhealthy relationship of parasite and host that has existed nearly unchecked for millenia between embodied humans and disembodied humans. Many spiritual seekers never question the identity or motives of ‘helpful’ entities, and fall headlong into the romanticism of having a special relationship with a very ‘knowledgable’ teacher. It makes no more sense to surrender your personal space to an unseen entity stranger than it does to invite human strangers into your home without any reservation. I do not make these claims without a wealth of experience.

I also had a circle of ‘spirit guides’ in my early years as a seeker. It was what the teachers in the spirituality class told me was the correct guidance to have. They were all except one Native American. As a beginner I felt so honored and special to have them assisting me. But given my nature to question answers to death until I run out of questions to ask, I noticed very early on the limited guidance and outright incorrect information I was often receiving from them. I saw the same relationship with the people I was going to classes with. Their ‘guides’ offered very basic wisdom that the seeker likely already knew, but because the information came from these ‘spirit guides’ it somehow gained more depth than was evident. Entities are exceptionally cunning at telling their hosts whatever they emotionally desire to hear.

Not all entities are bad/evil. Some are just frightened souls that do not know how to move on, or do not want to for whatever attachment they have here in this world. But in order for a disembodied soul to experience anything earthbound it must have a body to exist within. Without a body’s sense organs it is essentially darkness. That might explain why the light is such an unmistakably bright white light. It is designed to draw the newly separated Self to their next physical destination.

The entities that have spent a very long time here have lost their morality or sense of humanity for the most part and can be very close to what one might label ‘evil’ or a ‘demon’. They move from host to host and leave a trail of used up bodies and emotionally traumatized people in their wake. I have battled with some very potent nasty parasitic entities in my day. Without a body to experience within, they must attach to another unconscious Self that still possesses a physical body.

I purposely did not get very deep into spirits. I have never come across a spirit that was anything but harmless, albeit on occasion a bit annoying. Mediums are essentially just tapping into the dreams that your loved ones had while incarnated. That ‘seeing my life pass before my eyes’ episode is the Self being stripped of its spirit before making the journey to the light. This is why most people that return from a near death experience and witness the panoramic life view often become spiritually advanced individuals having had their fictions stripped away. Key to remember is spirits are the dream, entities are the dreamer.

What I would suggest, for those who are open to at least questioning their relationship with ‘spirit’ is this – do the research on them. When they give you an identity, such as Chief LottsaBull, or Cleopatra, or Jesus, or Archangel Michael, etc etc…question them, and do not accept half answers. If they truly possess such a wealth of information or holiness then they should know the basics such as…full name, place of incarnation, date of incarnation, description of surroundings during incarnation. And check the facts. If it is a famous personality, especially religious figures, ask yourself why are they working with me, and does my awareness and emotional state reflect being aided by such a holy master?

Always question your own motives. How does your relationship with this ‘spirit’ make you feel? Are you feeling special because they have chosen you to working with? Are you ignoring all the times that this entity has steered you wrong, or didn’t know anything that you couldn’t have figured out yourself? Is it fear of self-reliance that keeps you needing an external teacher and guide? Beginners in Self awareness will not be happy with me saying that spirit guides, angels, channelled beings, and visitations by holy figures are parasitic entities. But I am just as experienced as any medium or spiritual teacher that is incapable of questioning their money makers and their standing in a very competitive spiritual community.

The information in this essay are my perceptions based on my experiences, during and after my relationship first working with, then eventually removing entities from a parasitic role with people. If you are not even going to question your knowledge of, or relationship with ‘spirit’, then I would guess that you are where you will be. I do not remove parasitic entities from anyone that does drugs or drinks alcohol – to any degree. I do not remove parasitic entities from anyone that is still at a level of awareness where they welcome them into their lives dabbling into witchcraft, ouija boards etc. And I do not use my precious time scanning everyone with emotional issues to see if they have one…so don’t ask.

~ DC Vision

Past Lives

The very nature of past life beliefs welcomes all sorts of escapism from present life disillusionment to a wide range of emotional explanations for unhealthy and undisciplined present behavior. Setting aside what you think you know regarding the subject, and the assorted characters you believe you have been in past lives, here are some facts you might contemplate upon…

The Self does not carry from lifetime to lifetime body awareness. The Self only retains an aggregate of its own incomplete Self Awareness as it enters a new infant form. That panoramic view of this life’s memories that people speak of in near death experiences is the Self shedding itself of the body’s consciousness. The Self’s awareness is placed into the new brain and sits there dormant until the Self begins the awakening process. Before that process is set into motion, the Self is subject to body consciousness alone, as it is asleep subjectively living the body’s beliefs. When the awakening process kicks in the Self becomes mostly guided by its own awareness.

Any past life memories that are based upon a life where the Self was still asleep in the dream is either complete emotional fantasy or the influence of a parasitic entity or spirit. You were asleep in the former life, and the dormant aggregate Self Awareness is the only awareness that passes to the present life. The body’s inherited awareness passes only through DNA. If you are not awake then you are not operating from Self Awareness – you are conscious primarily of the body’s awareness. Unless your former bodies are an ancestor of your present body then they are unrelated and awareness of past bodies incarnated within would not be passed down to the present body. DNA passes only from parent to child. Body consciousness is shed at death. The math is there…figure it out for your Self.

The ‘study’ and pseudoscience of past life regressions invite all sorts of charlatans, and financial gains for experts and therapists whose knowledge does not stand up to any knowledgeable scrutiny. As noted above, there is simply no way a Self would retain a former body’s consciousness. Nature does not allow for it. Awareness is not memories of past experiences – awareness is the measure of ability to perceive, discern and sense. It is the measure of how open your eyes and ears are to truth. It is not the experiences that led to that truth. Memories are located in a brain, by a brain, and for a brain. You are not your body, and its memories are not your’s to take lifetime to lifetime. The Self has only one very long lifetime with many dreams called lives. The Self only knows the ‘now’, whether it is sleeping through it or not.

So then what are past life memories? There are three possibilities for these memories. The first is spirit, or body consciousness that sill lingers here on earth. As someone who has worked as a medium for many years I can tell you it is not hard to pick up on the memories of spirits. They are essentially memory of a lifetime left behind after that lifetime has expired. People with any degree of psychic or telepathic ability – in other words everyone – could easily pick up on these ethereal memories floating around. If the person picking up the spirit’s memories were not aware of their metaphysical ability they might believe these memories were their own, and not perceive them as external information.

The second possible source for past life memories is parasitic entities. A parasitic entity is the Self that has not gone on to the light and remains earthbound for whatever reason. Since they did not shed their lifetime memories, just as with spirits anyone with any amount of clairsentient skills could easily pick up on their personalities and assume they were an internal memory. Worst case scenario is the entity is a parasite of the person’s body, and thus its memories are side by side in the brain with the person’s sense of self. This is where I believe the most highly  touted reincarnation evidence falls into – a parasitic entity sharing a body and its personality with the presently incarnated. The ‘memories’ of this parasitic entity’s life would seem like additional life memories to the host.

The third possible source for past life memories is of course the vivid imagination of gullible, unaware and emotionally needy people. This is the category where most past life believers most likely fall under. It is mysterious with the ‘wow’ factor turned up to the maximum to find out or recall that you have had other lives which can be dialed up on demand. If this life is lackluster and not fulfilling enough, then open up your imagination and create all sorts of wonderful alternative lives to read like a good romance novel.

To give a great personal experience, I was once invited to a New Age cookout and gathering. There was a wild-eyed woman making the rounds telling everyone she had been Jessie James in a past life. She had a few birth marks on her body which she showed as evidence where the bullet holes were when he had been shot to death. A while later she was making the rounds again telling everyone very matter of factly that she had been Sitting Bull, the great Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man and tribal chief. Everyone ‘oohed and ahhed’ her as she went table to table and recounted her lifetime as the great Native American – until she got to the table where I was. As she began her story I interrupted her and said, ‘you probably did not realise Jesse James and Sitting Bull were alive at the same time…so you are either telling everyone you were two different people in past lives at the same time, or you are full of shit.’ Needless to say, I ruined her day

Marks on your body, aches and pains within your body, or unexplained physical or emotional phenomena do note lead in a straight line to a past life experience. Again as stated above, memories of past bodies can only pass through DNA, not the Self’s awareness. There are most likely more medically inclined explanations, or psychological ones that can be properly addressed. The fact that sometimes past life regressions remove pain and illness are less a sign of validity of past life memories stored in present life bodies, than the mind’s ability to heal the body if it believes it can be healed.

Regardless of your beliefs regarding past lives there is one fact that should be staring you in the face…evolution moves in one direction, so this life is your most advanced one, and the only one you can be absolutely sure of. A little critical thinking regarding the silliness surrounding the billion dollar belief system that is today’s New Age spiritual movement might get you back on track to finding your Self in this lifetime.

~ DC Vision

Perceptions

Look, there is a man. He is in his early 30′s, and he is wearing a nice open necked shirt. Behind him there appears to be a desert scene. The sun is shining on his face, and it looks like there is a light breeze blowing his hair. He looks really happy…at peace. Maybe he is on vacation. There are mesas back behind his shoulders. Your perceptions expand…

Look, that man is leaning against an auto. His arms are on his hips, and he is on the side of a highway somewhere in the southwestern US. The vehicle is a convertible, which explains why his hair looks like it is being brushed by wind. If he is on vacation I do not see any luggage in the car. It is a sub compact like a Mazda Miata, or something similar. But by the look on his face he is really enjoying his drive through the desert. There are a variety of cactus behind him in the expanse of brown desert. You can almost smell the sagebrush too, but the wind maybe is not blowing in this direction. Your perceptions change…

Whoa…it was a photograph of a man leaning against his vehicle in the southwestern desert. It must be a digital photograph, because it looked so real to me that I swear I could feel the heat of the desert on my skin, too. Now I have to wonder if he was really on vacation, or was this photographed pose on purpose to look like a man on vacation? Maybe it was an advertisement for the car?. Who would have a photo of this man? Is it a relative, or a friend…perhaps the man himself? I can’t believe I believed a photo was an actual physical man. Your perceptions change…

No wait…it is not just a photograph. It is a woman holding a photograph of a man leaning on a car in the southwestern desert. The look on her face tells me this is someone that she loves. Or maybe loved. Is it her husband…boyfriend…best friend…brother? I think she is smiling, but her head is slightly turned down and her hair is in her profile, but she appears to be happy…or maybe she is sad. I can’t really tell, but she seems like she knows the man in the photograph. She is wearing a really nice white summer gown with small flowers in the print. The room she is in is designed in mostly whites and minimal colors. She seems to be wealthy by the quality of the furniture and articles that are in view. Your perceptions change…

Ah she is a model being photographed. There is a photographer behind a tripod giving her slight orders on how she needs to pose. He is very professional. You can tell by the assistants he has with him, and the way he carries himself. He seems to be dissatisfied with the pose, and walks away from the camera…perhaps to get a mental and creative break from the photo shoot. He has a look of exhaustion on his face as he looks out of a nearby window. Perhaps he is having second thoughts about career choice. Perhaps he is doing someone a favor by using this particular woman, and she simply is not working out for him. Your perceptions change…

No way! Even the photo shoot is fake…it is on a movie set and by the sounds of it a foreign film is being made about this photographer’s life. Or is it perhaps about the woman’s life? It sounds like the director is speaking french…must be one of those art house films. There are all sorts of people coming and going across your field of vision who are working behind the scenes of this production. The catering table looks very welcoming right now. Your perceptions change…

This is your life. This is the spiritual path you have been on. This is you stepping back just enough to see the truth about perceptions, and being right…speaking truth. At each level of perception I described the scene as I was capable of experiencing it. What began as a story about a man in the desert kept changing, and as it changed the main character of the perception before was let go of for the main character that evolved from it. The man was forgotten when we felt it was the woman who was the central figure. The woman was not focused on once we realised the photographer was the central figure. And like all good spiritual paths, all the lesser players were detached from once we experienced the production that goes on behind the scenes.

Look back over your evolution of awareness and see if there were a lot of truths that you outgrew along the way – some that might even be painful to admit to. The truth is, that truth is as good as the level of awareness perceiving it. Unless you are wide awake, and at the end of the evolutionary journey, then you have to assume that the truths you hold now will also be truths that will eventually be let go of. Everyone is right. Everyone’s truth is appropriate for their level of awareness, experiences, and inheritance of beliefs. The brain loves a good story, and will attach itself to every new truth it perceives. The Self knows that truth is mutable and fallible.

Protecting The Aura

When you are not present you are essentially a sponge for other people’s energies. If you are not healthy on some level – be it physical, emotional, mental or spiritual – you are unprotected from other people’s energies. I do not think most people realise how often their moods are  influenced by those around them, more so than their own choice. Since you are not creating your reality, but co-creating it with any number of folks you come into contact with on any given day, it pays to have some awareness for shaking off other people’s vibrations from your own. The following exercise has been shared many times in the chat room, but I offer it here as a visual tool .

The aura can best be described as the extended Self’s awareness beyond the skin. The aura is highly sensitive to energetic influences. In many ways its interactions could be considered your ‘sixth sense’ as you encounter the world metaphysically long before your physical body even registers the external environment. We see proof of this when a highly negative person enters a room and you ‘feel’ them before they ever open their mouths.

The external influence touches your aura. That encounter triggers the appropriate chakra. The chakra is the translator from energy level awareness to physical body awareness. The chakra downloads the information to the associated gland in the section of the body best associated with the information. That gland then secrets the appropriate chemical to alert the nervous system that an event is occurring. The brain receives that information and comparing to data on file initiates an appropriate reaction.

This downloading from energy level to physical matter takes place in an instant. The results of it could be a woman meeting a gentleman for the first time and for whatever reason the brain determines, she crosses her arms over her chest in a defensive posture. That is the end result of that chain of information being digested. Obviously it may be an erroneous response, but given the amount of possible outcomes to our daily interactions the brain does a fairly good job protecting us from others and ourselves.

The problem with other people’s energies is that they are creative in nature, and tend to stick around long after the person has moved on to other distractions. What this means for you is that if you are not awake and aware this other person’s emotional baggage may suddenly become your own. The person with the most awareness, or highest vibration in the room is the most powerful creator present. If you are distracted, then you may not be the most powerful creator in any situation. So how do you shake off the unwanted creative energies of people you encounter every day? There is a very simple exercise that will work wonders. If you sit quietly away from distractions you will actually feel the effects of doing this exercise.

Of the human body, the hands are our most affective director of energy. Mindful intent is the engine that drives it, but the hands are our primary physical tool for the sense of touch. As such the hands are also an effective control switch for the aura. To prove this to you I want you to make the ‘ok’ symbol with both hands as demonstrated in the photo below:

You will notice a sudden pull inwards of the energy around you. Like a blanket being drawn around you to protect you from the cold. That is the aura being drawn in from its natural expanded state. The distance the aura expands outward depends on the individual. Experiment with this phenomena by releasing the ‘ok’ signs, then wait a few moments and do the ‘ok’ symbol again. You should, if in a quiet space, be able to easily sense the pulling or drawing in effect.

Doing this drawing in, and then reversing it – pushing outwardly – works to shake off any debris you have picked up during your day. It is something you can do discreetly during the day to keep the aura, and thus your entire creative energy system refreshed. To push the aura outward, you make a steeple with your hands – fingertip to associated fingertip of opposite hand. Shown in the photo below, it is important to push against the opposite fingertip…you should feel an immediate pressing outward of the energy around you – like giving you breathing space.

 

Incorporating this practice into your daily life will keep the aura free of negative energies of others, and will also serve to keep you mindful of Self and the present moment. This guarantees that you will remain the most powerful creator in any situation, and be able to deflect negativity naturally. Asleep you react or are in receive mode. Awake you are free to create and prevent with intent.

Hope this tool is of use to you. Certainly if you come into contact with a very angry or negative person, using the ‘ok’ symbol discreetly will minimize the amount of ‘You’ that they will come into contact with. After they move away, which they often do when not finding a willing audience, you can do the ‘ok’ to ‘steeple’ exercises leaving several moments between reversals.

~ DC Vision

Protecting The Aura

When you are not present you are essentially a sponge for other people’s energies. If you are not healthy on some level – be it physical, emotional, mental or spiritual – you are unprotected from other people’s energies. I do not think most people realise how often their moods are  influenced by those around them, more so than their own choice. Since you are not creating your reality, but co-creating it with any number of folks you come into contact with on any given day, it pays to have some awareness for shaking off other people’s vibrations from your own. The following exercise has been shared many times in the chat room, but I offer it here as a visual tool .

The aura can best be described as the extended Self’s awareness beyond the skin. The aura is highly sensitive to energetic influences. In many ways its interactions could be considered your ‘sixth sense’ as you encounter the world metaphysically long before your physical body even registers the external environment. We see proof of this when a highly negative person enters a room and you ‘feel’ them before they ever open their mouths.

The external influence touches your aura. That encounter triggers the appropriate chakra. The chakra is the translator from energy level awareness to physical body awareness. The chakra downloads the information to the associated gland in the section of the body best associated with the information. That gland then secrets the appropriate chemical to alert the nervous system that an event is occurring. The brain receives that information and comparing to data on file initiates an appropriate reaction.

This downloading from energy level to physical matter takes place in an instant. The results of it could be a woman meeting a gentleman for the first time and for whatever reason the brain determines, she crosses her arms over her chest in a defensive posture. That is the end result of that chain of information being digested. Obviously it may be an erroneous response, but given the amount of possible outcomes to our daily interactions the brain does a fairly good job protecting us from others and ourselves.

The problem with other people’s energies is that they are creative in nature, and tend to stick around long after the person has moved on to other distractions. What this means for you is that if you are not awake and aware this other person’s emotional baggage may suddenly become your own. The person with the most awareness, or highest vibration in the room is the most powerful creator present. If you are distracted, then you may not be the most powerful creator in any situation. So how do you shake off the unwanted creative energies of people you encounter every day? There is a very simple exercise that will work wonders. If you sit quietly away from distractions you will actually feel the effects of doing this exercise.

Of the human body, the hands are our most affective director of energy. Mindful intent is the engine that drives it, but the hands are our primary physical tool for the sense of touch. As such the hands are also an effective control switch for the aura. To prove this to you I want you to make the ‘ok’ symbol with both hands as demonstrated in the photo below:

You will notice a sudden pull inwards of the energy around you. Like a blanket being drawn around you to protect you from the cold. That is the aura being drawn in from its natural expanded state. The distance the aura expands outward depends on the individual. Experiment with this phenomena by releasing the ‘ok’ signs, then wait a few moments and do the ‘ok’ symbol again. You should, if in a quiet space, be able to easily sense the pulling or drawing in effect.

Doing this drawing in, and then reversing it – pushing outwardly – works to shake off any debris you have picked up during your day. It is something you can do discreetly during the day to keep the aura, and thus your entire creative energy system refreshed. To push the aura outward, you make a steeple with your hands – fingertip to associated fingertip of opposite hand. Shown in the photo below, it is important to push against the opposite fingertip…you should feel an immediate pressing outward of the energy around you – like giving you breathing space.

 

Incorporating this practice into your daily life will keep the aura free of negative energies of others, and will also serve to keep you mindful of Self and the present moment. This guarantees that you will remain the most powerful creator in any situation, and be able to deflect negativity naturally. Asleep you react or are in receive mode. Awake you are free to create and prevent with intent.

Hope this tool is of use to you. Certainly if you come into contact with a very angry or negative person, using the ‘ok’ symbol discreetly will minimize the amount of ‘You’ that they will come into contact with. After they move away, which they often do when not finding a willing audience, you can do the ‘ok’ to ‘steeple’ exercises leaving several moments between reversals.

~ DC Vision

Spiritual Drug Use

One of the troubling things I have seen lately is a rise in the use of drugs and hallucinogenics in spiritual practices. This seems to stem largely from that wing of the spiritual community that seeks a return of all things shamanic and pagan. The issue lies in the fact that younger truth seekers with short attention spans typically seek the shortest distance between desires and titillation. There is no patience in them for decades long disciplines and asceticism that are the hallmarks of more advanced awareness and philosophies.

Teenagers and young adults are especially prone to stick labels to their otherwise powerless lives. They become ‘satanists’, ‘atheists’, ‘pagans’, ‘shamans’, ‘witches’, ‘warlocks’, ‘priests & preistesses’, ‘wiccans’, ‘masters’, ‘lightworkers’ and any other flavor of the month title they can pin on their chests as a sign of graduation from the dreary life that society has placed before them. Since they actually do not possess any wisdom, knowledge or power that is derived from years of intense inward exploration, they resort to ingest hallucinogenics or any other garden variety of drug or plant to give them a sense of earned experiential knowledge. What they really purchased was brain consciousness alteration. Moods with cool light shows and imaginary otherworldly characters.

So let’s get down to the facts. Shamanism, medicine men, witchcraft and Wicca, paganism, and any religious entry level faith is the lobby. There are elevators to the back, but very few ever take them up to the higher levels because those levels require a drive and calling to wake up from the body’s dream. All of the lobby faiths are entry level where answers are external. It does not matter how much you wed your beginner awareness to higher awarenesses – such as East meets West approaches – it is still watered down pabulum. The lobby level beliefs are necessary to walk through in order to get to the elevators in the back. But when you get on the elevator, the lobby stays in the lobby.Some of you might have noticed how uncomfortable it is to have one foot in the lobby and one foot on the rising elevator.

Using drugs and plants to gain ‘heightened’ awareness is simply a lie. It is chemicals acting upon the brain and its perceptions. That means you are experiencing the brain’s reaction to these chemical stimuli. You did not go on any trips when you ingested. Your body was present before, during and after the experience. There are essentially two choices – the drugs and plants that bring you ‘out there’ and the ones that make you mellow and one with everything. There is a reason the word hallucinogen is attached to these drugs…it is a dream within a dream – neither of which is heightened or awakened. They both, as they serve only to change the brain’s perceptions are base awareness. It is not the first time that people who believe that they are not their body use the body for experiences.

These same wannabes of awareness do not see the deterioration of their thinking capacities or willpower over time using these drugs and plants. They do not see the addiction to the chemicals and the experiences, rather than the freedom heightened awareness affords an aspirant. Worst yet, they do not know the absolute danger that they place themselves in by lowering or altering the body’s natural defenses. I have removed over 1000 parasitic entities in my years of service, and one demographic that they really enjoy attaching themselves to is drug users. Drug users have several ready made favorable conditions present – an addicted and therefor distracted body, and a snoozing Self with little to no will. Easy prey. Parasitic entities are not rare – they are very common.

The Native American population here in the states are living in far below poverty levels of existence. There are two groups that managed to rise above the squalor. The first is the tribal government that keeps the monies syphoned from the federal government within their own families and clans for the most part. The second group is the ones that found a lucrative consumer in the mostly Caucasian spiritual community. The Southwestern United States is dotted with ‘reservations’ where these folks are living many miles from industry and jobs. Who can blame them for taking advantage of ignorant spiritual tourists. For $350 and a weekend in some desert retreat you, too, can become a papered shaman or medicine man.

Another introduction for drugs and plants in the spiritual community is of course the hippie movement with the experimentation of LSD and other hallucinogenics. These were dropouts and rebellious youth sticking the middle finger to the social structure of the 1950′s. Because a few of them had an intellect to begin with, and wrote groundbreaking books and gave lectures about the controlled scientific use of these brain chemistry altering substances, there has always been a sort of underground legitimizing of their use. Many of these forefathers of modern spiritual drug use wrote of contact with alien species, actual conversations with the plants themselves, or other just as foolish reporting of the trips they took. The imagination suddenly became a valid awareness guide.

Anyone with any ability of critical thought would notice that these drug induced journeys never produced any legitimate Self Awareness. The information they imparted came from their studies of eastern philosophy, not the drugs. In the end, like with all drug users it became about the next high, and not about progress in their evolving awareness. Where are those pioneering men and women today? Most of them died off, but some still try to marry their drug addiction with Buddhism or Hinduism. Guess you know why all the modern Buddha statues show him smiling and vacuous.

Let’s face it, if you are under 50 years old and spiritual you are likely to in the least smoke a little grass once in a while, or have a glass or two of wine. I am oftentimes surprised at how pervasive drug and alcohol use is in supposedly spiritual people. The thing about waking up is these states of awareness are supposed to free you of needing chemical enhancements to feel good about yourself. Are any of you that are frequent users pleased that you need these spiritual crutches? Do you really after seeing the impact they have had upon you over the years see yourself ever attaining advanced Self Awareness using them? They block legitimate transpersonal experience, not enhance them.

Please think for yourself. Before actually experimenting with any drug see what the affects are in the people that are inviting you to join in with them. If you are succumbing to peer pressure then Self Awareness is likely just going to be words you read but will not ever understand in this lifetime. To be Self Aware takes an enormous amount of Self will and drive and determination…one thing drugs and plants will never be able to give you. Don’t handicap your pace before you ever set the first foot forward on the journey.

~ DC Vision

Teacher Talk

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. If you are beginning or are a seasoned veteran of the spiritual journey then you will likely come into contact with an experienced guide, or be one of the rare ones who have an innate sense of aligning with their own inner guidance. To know whether or not a teacher is serving your best interest at this point in your journey depends solely if they are trying to get you to an awareness where you will no longer need them.Teachers come and go along the path, and knowing this can help ease attachments.

A teacher should be helping you to get direct communication with your inner voice. Teachers should likewise not be charging money for their services, as the exchange of money becomes a distraction ladened with expectations for both people involved. Receiving gifts or donations is acceptable as long as it is not expected. A teacher is provided for. Never too much, and never too little to distract from their service work. But do be aware that sometimes your donations are the support being offered by the universe.

Once you threshold into advanced awareness you should not need the tutelage of a guide for anything but minor adjustments as new awarenesses become available to you. A teacher will always tell you the bare minimum in order to get you relying on your own inherent ability to find your inner channel. A great teacher will help you to see how you think, as opposed to filling your head with what to think. What we think is largely conjecture & speculation, but realizing how we think is often what makes the difference between being unconscious and awakened.

There is no need to veil information in heavily mysterious tones. A teacher’s language should be practical. If a teacher is being unnecessarily esoteric or elusive towards you, then you may be dealing with someone who is trying to impress you with their mysteriousness. Selfless teaching is not so mysterious. The goal should be to find you the shortest path that is available so that you might begin to function in health and awareness in the least amount of time necessary. If it isn’t about you and your growth, but seems to be about the teacher and their appearance, then it might serve you best to move on and find someone devoted to serving the student and not themselves.

Do not confuse a teacher’s pace, however, with their ability to serve you. There is often a matter of timing involved in attaining awareness. The teacher should, though, in very straightforward terms be sharing the process with you as best as you are able to discern the language used. There should not be anything secretive going on, or mysterious. This only serves the teacher’s appearance and not the student, who has a right to know what they are getting into.

The most important thing to keep in mind once you enter into the advanced awareness is that what worked and was useful in entry-level spiritual awarenesses will most likely have little to no bearing. A teacher has every right in the world to turn you away if they feel you are not ready, or that you are hanging onto obsolete thinking. Be respectful of your teachers as you are taking up their valuable time, but also be mindful of the teacher and their goals or possible motivations. Like any level of teacher/student relationship, discernment is key.

~ DC Vision

Telepathy and Confirmation

Telepathy is something many spiritual people see as an advanced ability that humans have ‘lost’. We did not forget it, and we did not lose it – we evolved past it. Language and writing allowed more efficient, complex and abstract communication to emerge. Anyone that has witnessed nature in action will have seen telepathy at work in different species, such as an entire flock of birds or school of fish changing direction in an instant. We as humans still have it to some degree, but rarely give it more than a bemused thought – such as knowing when someone is about to call you, the bond between mother and child, or thinking about the next song on the radio before it plays, etc.

As someone that comes as close to possible to mind reading, I can assure you that being nakedly connected to other minds is not something to strive for. You might not be happy with someone’s honest opinion of you, or worse yet their honest attraction to you. If you think about it the average person’s internal dialogue would sound schizophrenic and hardly worth a glance. I value the safe and peaceful private room between my ears, and if you consider it you probably do, too.

The Self when awake is aware of its environment by clairsentience. Telepathy on the other hand is essentially a watered down version of the same faculty but utilized by the body as the Self was not awake. The whole of the universe is one big electrical dance of forces, and even lowly aware creatures show an adeptness at being aware of their natural environment. With all sentient beings, the moment you become distracted in your own thoughts you will likely become a meal by some predator focused on the vibrations of their hunting grounds.

Regaining a working level of telepathy can be as easy as figuring out what your particular ‘confirmation’ manifests as. To give examples, I had a student early on that when she asked a question of the universe, a ‘yes’ answer would produce goosebumps up her left arm. She did not have a ‘no’ response. But her ‘yes’, or confirmation was quite accurate. For me a ‘yes’ means I feel a rush of energy from midsection to crown chakra. A ‘no’ answer I feel a rush of energy from midsection to base chakra. Confirmation does not come from the universe of course – it is a response from body to Self, whether or not that Self is Self aware or not.

My sister’s cat was seen crossing the street, and after his near death weeks earlier my sister was in panic mode. She crossed the street and walked up the neighbor’s driveway while I stood at the end of our’s. I had a hunch that he was not across the road, but was in fact on our side. I asked my body to tell me which side he was on. If he was across the street let the front of my body light up with energy. If he were behind me on our property let the back side of my body light up with energy. The thought was not even out before the entire back length of my body ‘fired’ up with an electrical charge. A few minutes later it was confirmed that he was on our side.

Like developing any new ability, it takes practice figuring out how to communicate with your body. Unless a confirmation signal is absolutely proven to be accurate, then do not use it. There is some physical reaction that you will be able to utilise as a trustworthy way of getting yes/no answers. Remember too, that there is an ‘I don’t know’. The body is not always going to have the answers. An ‘I don’t know’ is neither a yes nor a no…just a neutral non-signal. Experience has taught me that the more emotional you are at requesting an answer, the least accurate that answer will be. Ask as detached as possible.

I have only recently begun to use the telepathy of my body for other instances where a little non-physical help could be useful. Such as with my sister’s cat, I asked the body for directions rather than a yes/no response. You will simply want to experiment with this mostly untapped ability of your body to see what benefits you might derive from it. This way too you can find your own answers instead of constantly seeking outside of your personal experiences for guidance. Like all new exploration, don’t bet the farm on a hunch. Learn to discern a reliable answer from a emotionally charged desired answer.

To figure out what your confirmation signal is, simply ask your body. At first there may be multiple physical responses to the request for a sign. Keep trying until some physical phenomena stands out. Then test the accuracy of the confirmation, all while keeping open to other physical signals that might be not noticed before. Eventually you will find your own personal physical signature confirmation. I know mine has saved me from a lot of grief over the years I have used it. It is a great backup to an already accurate intuition, and a good way to have a beneficial relationship with your body. Learn to ask your body and learn to listen to it. It is a very useful discipline to be present, and to objectify the body.

~ DC Vision

The Holy Spirit

Imagine that…an atheist writing about the ‘holy spirit’. How many of those who claim to be atheists have ever experienced the “holy spirit”? Do you suppose that the religious & spiritual base their faith on fallible books and vivid imaginations alone?

The first time I experienced ‘the holy spirit’ was when I was a child and lent my voice to ‘Amazing Grace’ at my sister-in-law’s Nazarene church. Because it had always been a favorite song of mine, I opened up my valves and belted out my soulful rendition…and I had one hell of a voice. This was a church not used to any emotional pulse, but as my voice whirled through all of theirs I felt a great opening to which the usual sad congregation sounded as if a choir of angels were injecting them with perhaps their first true experience of the holy spirit. As a child I longed for distinction from the adult world, and in that song I let everyone know I was present and that my voice counted. Church was boring, uninspiring and not nearly as transformative as my record collection at home. That was the one and only time I uplifted a Christian church.

The next time I felt the holy spirit was upon entering my first rock concert. The audience, as one, was in sync with the band that was on stage. The light show was a head trip for a young teenaged boy, and with the opening of ‘Lunatic Fringe’ by the band Red Rider striking up, my entire body surrendered to the experience. It was nirvana for the senses, and I was immediately hooked on this new drug of being part of an ocean of fans immersed in much loved songs being performed live. Every time in the 30 years since when I hear ‘Lunatic Fringe’ my body’s memories light up the tissues and I feel a return rush of that same holy spirit. Music as anyone who has been a visitor to our chat room will tell you is a powerful spiritual motivator and can induce metaphysical phenomena.

The next time I felt the holy spirit I was more prepared for it. I was at a Native American powwow in Massachusetts and the drummers started chanting and laying down a sonic beat for anyone that wanted to dance around the center of the circle. I immediately felt the kundalini charge so I opened up far and wide influencing everyone in my wake. I leapt into the fray and just let my body become one with the other dancers and the drummers pulse. I was young and beautiful at the time, and my lower back length hair was flying in the night breeze as I lost myself and rode the sonic waves. I was aware of others staring slack jawed at me with light in their eyes. I knew I was the holy spirit and danced this mystery into their yearning hearts.

Obviously since being awake and transferring awareness to others I am very familiar with energy and the mechanics of how it can be shared and utilized as a tool. The holy spirit as it has always been experienced and shared is entirely the affect of the Self’s presence upon bodies. The people in the church as a child, the folks cheering and participating in the rock concerts of my youth, and the spectators at the powwow all had one thing in common: they were all asleep. I was asleep too, but aware enough to know that it was not a separate deity pulling our strings. It was the aggregate of our opened energies focused on a shared experience. Since awakening I have no doubt of this fact.

I feel sorry for those I have met over the years that try and deny their experiences of the holy spirit because they have fallen from the beliefs of their religion of inheritance. The holy spirit is nondenominational and can be experienced through all disciplines and beliefs. It does not manifest any differently from faith to faith, person to person. It is the same mechanics regardless of concepts and depth of experience…it is the body experiencing its reality through the power of the Self briefly let out of its cage. That bird can fly any time you want it to if you only learn how to slip your skin and focus that creative influence. Just don’t fall under the spell of the body’s perceptions – you are not one with that power – you emanate it.

~ DC Vision

The Weight of Fiction

In contemplation the other night I tried to bring up any one person that I know, or have known of in my life that I could say with honesty was a happy person. I drew a blank. Odd that such a revelation had never really come to me before, but given the nature of our nature, I do not think we are really hardwired for happiness. Even bliss, the ultimate or perhaps perfect attainment of sensation does not take place in our reality, but rather in an escape from it. Happiness it seems is handed out in sample sized fleeting moments that we pretend offset the real meal.

I come from a deeply unhappy genetic line of people. On both sides of my family tree are folks who not only did not see the glass as half empty, they saw it as having fallen to the floor and shattered into countless pieces of disappointment and disillusionment. I always thought we were a bit off kilter until I had traveled some and come to realize that off kilter has always been the norm for virtually anyone with working brain cells and a relationship to their environment. The world does not manifest happy things or joyful concoctions. It is left to the individual to find those things that they can relate to on that intimate of a level.

The world itself, even the prettiest of flowers, could care less whether we approve or not of their aesthetics – their design was for the one that would pollinate and spread their seed…we in fact have a tendency to kill them and stick them in a glass vase for a quick fix of our own appetites. The world has its own agenda and like it or not we are usually either thwarting it or it is thwarting us. It is hard to find any sense of meaning or belonging once we removed ourselves from the natural world. Why do you get up each day and do what you do? Did you ever really know? Have you forgotten or just never allowed a quiet enough moment to even ask?

The lack of quietude is by design…have no doubts about that. There is a very good reason why people fill their lives with sound and repetitive routines. Left alone in silence for just the shortest of intervals and that avalanche of mental jabberwocky would bury you up to your neck in fiction. The brain has no relationship to what its billions of years of development designed it for – cohabitation in the natural world. It knows how to survive in a wild competitive world…something we tamed and labeled and neutered in the past hundred years or so. When there is no non fiction left, a storyline has to be created or our very cerebral existence becomes meaningless.

Meaninglessness is the new normal for our big complex brain. Our lives have become so vanilla and predictable our brains have gone crazy seeing threats in every shadow and around every corner just for something to do. The brain is one of the most amazing machines of action that has found itself in absolute numbing pre-defined, pre-labeled, and pre-determined boredom. We are trapped between two very uncomfortable truths – we are sleeping our very existence away, and in that sleep is a dream of utter meaninglessness. It has been forcibly handed down generation to generation that our purpose is to consume and breed new consumers. Our entire story has been reduced to this. Everyone knows it. Everyone agrees to not remind each other.

The meaninglessness, ironically, has become the new bogeyman. In our fiction we have built up an arsenal of protection against the truth of what our lives have become in these times. Who would want to wake up to the decades in blur to find out that our youth was spent, our aspirations were starved, and that death was our only true friend? At least death deals an equalizing blow to the horrible inequity we have to endure daily. Deaths come in various sizes and degrees. The death of your fiction, although it is very tough on the relationship you have with this world, is the only real chance you will have to know meaningfulness.

My first suicide attempt was when I was 8 years old. I swallowed a bottle of pills that were in the medicine cabinet. As it were, I was not a knowledgeable chemist and ended up ingesting a bottle of mild pain relievers. End result I had no headaches for the next six months. Later that year, no less unhappy with my life I nearly drowned at a summer camp. If it were not for the 13 year old boy that noticed I was going to come up under the swimming float on the lake I would not be here today. It, death, was terrifying to me coming up under that float and gasping for air underwater. I fought to live, and I cried at being saved by that kid. My life has been this reoccurring dichotmoy of wanting the fiction to die, and fighting to live and find meaning in that life.

My last suicide attempt happened in Oklahoma, where under the influence of behavioral medication (seratonin uptake inhibitors) I came out of a fugue to find a razor blade being pressed against my wrist. The undertow of desire to rake that blade across the tender skin there was palpable. It took all of my will to lift the blade and set it down. I remember shaking for hours at how close I had come. I had lost count a long time ago at how many times I had the impulsive thought to end the nightmare by whatever means I had at my disposal at the time. That time in Oklahoma was different, however. I was awake. I had not had the desire to commit suicide after my awakening, so to find that blade on my wrist was confusing as it was frightening.

It took a few nights to recover from that suicide attempt before I dared to revisit the feelings I was having that had built up over the weeks, months and years I had been living in Oklahoma. The weight of my fiction was breaking my spirit. I lived in a place that was not home. I had a job that was meaningless to an awakened master. I had bills that were greater than my paycheck…and there was no end in sight of the daily repeat of this life that I had not chosen but had ended up in. I, to this day, am not sure whether it was the brain or the Self that held the blade down…nor which fought to lift it up. I find that very interesting – so much so that I revisit that evening every so often to see if there are any new insights.

In the many years that I have been doing my Self awareness work I have helped thousands of people in some fashion or other. To become Self aware is to come face to face with what you are trying to hide from yourself…that your life is meaningless in the greater scheme of things, and that you are desperately trying to keep that fact hidden for fear of a million painful deaths and all of the suffering inherent in exposure. There can be only one outcome to shining a light on a sleeping Self…they get a really well lit picture of the fiction their lives have become. Many I have helped have had their entire life and sense of self turned upside down. It is the nature of waking up. In the long run it leads to liberation, but in the short term…I have seen many turn their backs to the long run benefits.

If you are awakening there are two points of reference to become aware of. There is the recognition of the weight and mechanics of your fiction, then there is the letting go of ‘who’ you were for the ‘what’ you are becoming. There is one hell of a price to pay for this awareness…the fiction will not fit through the eye of the needle. To pass, you have to die unto yourself. This has less to do with whether you could choose to do this, but really if you are even capable. Evolution happens to us, not by us. Most find themselves completely adrift in uncertainty – with no appetite for employment, mountains of things, or relationships built on lies.

The weight of fiction becomes apparent when letting go of it. This part of the long journey I am sure most of you would rather not have to endure, but evolution moves in one direction…if not this lifetime, then one of the next you will have to come face to face with what keeps you unconscious of what you are. Is there any light at the end of this tunnel? I am proof that there is. Although I still am not what you would call a happy personality, I have finally come to know peace, progress, meaning and direction. I am what I am. 

~ DC Vision

Vibration & Awareness

I have noticed over the years that there is a bit of confusion between what vibration and what awareness is. Oftentimes people of high vibrations mistake themselves as people with likewise high levels of awareness. I have known many people in my life with exceptional high levels of vibration emanating from them who had precious little Self awareness. One is an emanation of one’s creative energies, and the other is a measure of wakefulness.

Any person of high creativity, or a dominant personality will emit a high vibration. My mother had an exceptionally high vibration, but the woman was completely unaware of her Self. Most performers in entertainment give off a high level of vibration, but can be absolutely existing on the basest level of Self awareness. The hormones testosterone and estrogen can contribute greatly to a person’s vibrational level, however they can likewise greatly diminish a person’s Self awareness levels.

Vibration is simply not a measure of one’s awareness. Vibration is creative energy one emits. Energy can be expended entirely unconsciously. Awareness is the aggragate of one’s knowing derived from experiences over lifetimes. Seekers often confuse their high vibration for spiritual superiority, when in fact that powerful vibration can handicap them from being aware of their behavior and Self delusions. It is just another example of the ‘wow’ factor distracting and stagnating the evolution of one’s awareness.

The truth is vibration and awareness are not dependent on each other for their levels whatsoever. The two can exist within one person with both being of exceptional high levels. But the person with high Self awareness levels is also very aware of the energy that they emit. The same high vibration that can be utilised in healing can be corrupted in a moment of anger and become a destructive force. This is why it pays to know the difference between vibration and awareness.

High vibrational people if unaware of Self can be the most hurtful to those around them as their creative energies are often used unconsciously to create unhealthy bonds and destructive behavioral patterns. Of course if you have such a person in your life you don’t need me to tell you how much chaos usually follows them wherever they go, or how much it costs you to have a relationship with them. They tend to be the perpetual victimising victim, or as I am fond of branding them, emotional vampires.

~ DC Vision

What Belongs To You?

From a child you will attract what the body believes needs addressing. If your earliest experiences are of being molested, then the body will attract people that are sexually predatorial in nature. Your body’s script will resonate vibrationally with any predator that falls within the proximity of your creative influence. As a child you were not able to defend yourself, or correctly discern the mechanics of the experience.

The repetitive attraction of predators is the way the body attempts to have the now, adult, process the experience in a healthy manner, rather than holding the trauma within the cellular tissues where over time it becomes poisonous to the body as well as to any meaningful and lasting relationships. This is part of the body’s natural healing process.

Attracting what on the surface seems disadvantageous is the body’s way of addressing internal trauma and conflict so that the organism may function in the most advantageous way. It stands to reason that there must be a reason why we would attract negative relationships or situations over and over again regardless of our desire not to. It is because the one attracting is not you today, but an unresolved echo of you from your earliest childhood.

Over the years since I have awoken those echoes of creation for me have lessened in frequency and severity as I became aware of what did not belong to me, and correctly labelled and defined those negative attractions as part of the dream which had become obsolete. The cure is recognition that the experiences today that seem self inflicted and harmful are the body’s way of repeating past experiences so that they may be processed properly.

Why blame or identify with what you dreamt in this lifetime if you were not awake and conscious of the cause and effect of your experiences? It is no less silly to blame yourself for what you dream at night while the body sleeps. You have no control over those dreams. You likewise have no control over this life if you are not awake and Self aware.

Recognise that as a child your awareness was incomplete, and that any trauma that happened to you was by adults with unhealthy behavioral patterns. The mechanics are no more mysterious than that. If you had had an adult’s awareness and physical strength do you think you would have passively allowed anything you deemed not beneficial to happen to you or would you have fought back and been able to articulate your boundaries better?

~ DC Vision

What Do You Want To Create?

The better question is what exactly are we capable of creating? The answer is ‘not much’. Creation is one of those words that gets tossed around a lot and yet the use of the word is almost always erroneous. Upon quick contemplation the only thing that I could ascertain that we can create here is art in its many manifestations. Much of what people say they are creating is in reality changes in their relationship to their environment – not actual changes to their environment.

The reality that your body resides within is not really ‘creation’ at all – unless you are specifically alluding to a deity’s creation. What you can see with your eyes is going to be one of two things…either another embodied consciousness such as yourself, or dead bodies that have either been shaped into another form (e.g. trees into houses) or that lie rotting. Reality as it is is no more mysterious than that – it is an aggregate of evolving embodied Selves from the densest (rocks) to the most advanced (homo sapien sapien). People often forget that in their body’s maddening march to give their world some meaning beyond the obvious.

True creation would be to materialize a chair in the center of your room out of thin air. Anything short of that is really just taking preexistent materials and rearranging them into something aesthetic. Even the words I am ‘creating’ this essay from are words already known and used – to be a creator of merit would be to formulate an entirely new language to express myself…but then only I would get the jokes. Jokes fall flat without an audience.

Most approaches to ‘changing your creation’ are really just attempts at trying new ways to relate to your environment. ACIM, The Secret and other ideologies regarding ‘laws and/or rules of attraction’ are introducing the unconscious dreamer to better dream management…since you are likely not capable of manifesting a chair out of thin air, these approaches are one way to be more mindful of how you perceive and relate to your world not as a creator…but as a participant in evolution.

The way that evolution seems to work is that when the necessity is realized, nature mutates into new types and varieties of bodies. If you take a good look at your body most of what is seen is there because it serves a purpose in giving you some advantage over previous bodies you have incarnated into. So my question to you, and challenge to your slumber is…what do you want to create? Or more accurately, what do you want to attract to your next incarnation? – since you are stuck in the form you presently have until it draws its last breath. What would you benefit from in the next lifetime if you had the opportunity to give your input to design?

Sounds like a dumb exercise in contemplation, and yet…wouldn’t it be nice to have some input into incarnation, rather than be placed by default into a ‘good fit’ for your awareness? What works from this life, and what would you like to see changed regarding the body you will be housed in next…and the environment, too? If your answers reflect this reality then you will know you are still asleep…an awake Self has some very interesting forward desires that likely have little to do with this world.

~ DC Vision

Why Do I Serve?

Why do I serve, and do I believe that I have to? I first need to define the word ‘service’. To serve means that if you have the ability to lessen or end the pain and suffering or to illuminate the way for someone struggling at any task, then you offer your awareness, physical help and abilities. It should be a selfless act, but I have been aware at times of benefits for myself in being of use to another. I do not think there is any good/bad, right/wrong assessment that can be placed upon self interests via serving – it is just that sometimes action reaps rewards for more than the person being helped.

I can honestly say that I do not seek out situations where I can be of service, so the idea of my being a selfless and entirely altruistic person can be cast aside. What I can say with certainty is that when I come into contact with someone needing help there has always been little hesitation on my part to offer my services. I do not wait to see if anyone else will rise to the occasion. It simply is in my nature to be helpful. This is a quality that I can trace back to my early life.

My mother placed me in preschool at the age of 4. The women who ran the establishment were very pleased to have me join them as I had a tendency to not only help the other children in their games and activities, but I had also elected myself as the one that picked up after the other children. My mother was a house cleaner, so during my earlier years I was dragged along behind her while she cleaned. I always thought it was likely that I developed my desire for cleanliness and order from those impressionable years as her junior assistant. I can tell you that my home is quite orderly. Wherever I have visited I am likely to be putting everything back in its place, and picking up after the hosts before moving on.

Beyond being a clean person, I have always been aware of the people around me. I can assure you that most people are very unaware of the people that share their environment. I can remember going up to people that seemed lonely and just striking up a conversation with them. I did this throughout my childhood. This was back in the day when it was safe to speak to strangers. This habit produced in me an ability to listen – another rare quality it seems in our species. Most people I have met, including me at times use two way conversations as a means to one way monologues. Humans like conversation mostly if it is about ‘me me me’.

As an explorer by nature, the idea of listening to other people’s highs and lows was my version of reading a good book or seeing a great movie. I especially liked speaking to the elderly. It was like I had a collection of other people’s experiences that I could add to my own. I know that listening opened the explorable world up much further than my ability to experience and travel ever could.

My ability to hear another afforded me an amazing luxury in life. I did not make many mistakes. Most people talk about their problems. Somewhere in my brain I started making lists of the pros and cons of every life situation that was shared with me. By paying attention to these lessons of others, as soon as potential hardship was lurking the red flags and alarm bells went off in my head to warn me of likely outcomes to situations. I can tell you that this made my life so much easier than my peers. I made wise choices and avoided many pitfalls.

This quality of being aware of others led me to becoming a natural servant. I have always been acutely aware of my trespassing in other people’s personal space. I think of all our unconscious behavior, the lack of awareness of personal space is one of the worst. It just never occurs to some people that they are not the center of the universe. That does not stop them from injecting their wants, needs, anxieties and sense of self righteousness into anyone’s personal space that has the unfortunate luck of being in their way. It goes beyond narcissists just being a nuisance.

Some people are simply not concerned or aware of the condition of people around them. It is the oblivious consumer that pulls into the front handicapped space in a busy parking lot because he or she is in a hurry. It is the person that does not open the door for the person behind them. They got there first and the ones coming in behind them simply do not exist in their minds. It is the person that calls you on the phone or contacts you in an instant messenger, and rolls right out with the ‘me me me, I want I want I want’. It simply does not occur to them that you were not sitting there waiting for their invasion of your personal space.

I am not sure if someone inflicted of narcissism can really be helped. Any attempt by me to point the infliction out always got an angry look. This is why I think being of service to others is a necessary part of the evolving process. You have to have the ability to get out of your own ‘me’ space to notice that there are other people’s realities co-existing and being co-created right alongside your own life.

I do not see my abilities as gifts. I earned them by becoming aware of what I am and exploring what I could do. They were not bestowed upon me by gods or mysterious means. Ultimately serving is an integral part of becoming Self Aware. Those abilities do not emerge and become known by sitting in a vacuum. I learned that I was not bound by the body’s skin by expanding beyond it and moving into another’s space to heal them. I discovered my awareness of other people’s awareness by teaching them and figuring out a way to gauge their present understanding. So in some part serving can be beneficial to trigger metaphysical experience.

So I return to the questions again, ‘why do I serve?’ and ‘do I feel as if I have to?’ The answer to the first question is ‘because I can.’ The answer to the second question is ‘no.’ I give healings because I am damned good at it, and hope that if I am not feeling well someone will have the time and ability to help me, too. These days I am far more aware of who I work with, and take some time before offering my services. I see if there is any level of independence in another before I give them an opportunity to become dependent on my energies.

I have rare abilities to offer. I am keenly aware that there are hardly any healers with experience removing parasitic entities. That means when I come across a person with one, I may be the only experienced healer that can help. All other attempts at healing are going to fall short if an inexperienced healer addresses the body’s defences rather than being aware of what triggered those defences. As someone with very advanced awareness, sometimes I find a seeker that is beyond where the general spiritual community is capable of guiding. Do I leave them alone in that confusion? Or do I in the least let them know that they are not crazy and are experiencing normal phenomena of advanced Self awareness? Those I have served know the answers to these questions.

~ DC Vision