What Dreams May Come
7/22/10
Dreams are curious things. At night they take us on a mystical, magical
tour of a simulated “Hollodeck” allowing us to explore the dark recesses of our
subconscious minds. During our daydreams
we imagine (image in) places of fantastic fantasies perhaps creating future
destinies for our soul’s journey. Dreams
are sometimes telepathic, empathic or precognitive. Or they can simply discharge negative
emotions that we’ve held onto which the conscious mind has a difficult time
letting go of.
Remember the popular film a few
years ago called What Dreams May Come
starring Robin Williams? There were some
profound messages concerning how we create our reality whether consciously or
unconsciously. Or, as the movie
demonstrated, we basically create our own
heaven or hell. Or how about the current
box-office hit, Inception, a
mind-bending twister about how we can create alternate realities or paradigms in
our dream states. Both movies bring to
mind the power of the subconscious mind being a tool for creation. When our
subconscious thoughts become more conscious, then we can consciously create the
“parallel universe” that we can eventually move right into. This is the importance of our conscious
connection to our subconscious mind.
In Bruce Lipton’s book, Biology of Belief (which I just finished
this weekend), he talks about the creative power of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is one of the most
powerful information processors known, processing some 20,000,000 environmental
stimuli per second. It specifically
observes both the surrounding world and the body’s internal awareness, reads
the environmental cues, and immediately engages previously acquired (learned)
behaviors—all without the help, supervision, or even awareness of the conscious
mind. But the conscious mind or
“self-aware mind” is a recent evolution of higher mammals, including chimps, cetaceans,
and humans and although it is an important evolutionary advance, it still only
processes 40 environmental stimuli per second.
Dr. Lipton concludes:
When it comes to sheer neurological processing abilities,
the subconscious mind is millions of times more powerful than the conscious mind. If the desires of the conscious mind conflict
with the programs in the subconscious mind, which “mind” do you think will win
out?
So why then, one might ask, do we
create belief systems and theologies which create states of “fear-based
realities?” And then unconsciously
inflict those fear-based beliefs upon our innocent children who are like blank
slates in which to write their life’s scripts on? If only we could bring to light or
“enlighten” ourselves to all of our fear-based strategies, then we could
under-stand them and then “stand-under” realities based on love rather than
fear.
Bruce Lipton also shares in his
cellular biology lessons that cells and organisms have two functional
categories of survival mechanisms—growth and protection. Cells either gravitate toward life-sustaining
signals such as nutrients, characterizing a growth response; or they move away
from threatening signals, such as toxins, characterizing a protection
response. Also, some environmental
stimuli are neutral so they provoke neither a growth nor a protection
response. But just as cells are either
open to the positive flow of energy or closed down to the negative flow of
energy we either function on positive or negative beliefs which leaves us in a
state of growth or protection. In
conclusion he states:
You can live a life of fear or live a life of love. You have the choice! But I can tell you that if you choose to see
a world full of love, your body will respond by growing in health. If you choose to believe that you live in a
dark world full of fear, your body’s health will be compromised as you
physiologically close yourself down in a protection response.
As many of you know, this weekend
Brad and I drove down to Sacramento, California to attend the annual Nudestock Celebration held at Laguna Del Sol (my new LDS
church;-). We hadn’t been there for
several years (five to be exact) and we didn’t know really what to expect after
five years. Well, this year’s Nudestock was my intentional creation of
“heaven on earth.” All the elements were
there: Garden of Eden nakedness, paradisiacal beauty, waterplay, sunbathing,
dancing on the grass to 70’s and 80’s bands, greeting old friends and meeting
new “soul-mates,” community barbeques, black light disco parties with photos of
everyone in the background, etc. But I
must admit the highlight of the event (actually there were many highlights but
this was kind of the finale) was when the band “Unauthorized Journey” was
playing the famous Journey song
“Believe” for their final number with about a hundred naked bodies “butt to
butt” on the lawn waving their arms back and forth in unison; the lead singer
then comes out into the audience, wades through the crowd with one hand in the
air and comes up to me and high-fives
me and then returns to the
stage! WOW!! The energy there was so electric you could
have lit up an entire galaxy!
Another highlight of the “journey”
(I must admit) was meeting the real Criss
Angel (actually his name is spelled slightly different) who was practically the
mirror image of me—in male form! It was
almost too one-der-ful to believe! He’s an energy wizard and lightworker, a
Gemini who’s studied and practiced Tantra for over 30 years, about my same age,
lived a good portion of his life in Maui, a writer, singer and musician, and
polyamorous by nature. Not to mention
that he’s tall, buff, tan, and drop-dead
gorgeous (he’s a cross between
Michael and Kirk Douglas). There was so
much energy alignment between the two of us that is was practically
palpable. But enough said as I want to
honor Brad and my relationship at the same time and not “jinx” anything that
might develop between the three of us.
Also, as I mentioned earlier in a
newsletter and to several friends, I may be heading to Hawaii (Maui to be exact)
as things seem to be energetically moving in a big way in that direction. Things in Utah are a bit “frozen” for now and
until they “unthaw” I think I will be consciously creating an intentional
community of heaven on earth in a tropical paradise. Want to join me? The only element missing is YOU!! So show up for yourself in your life—and consciously create your own
heaven on earth (wherever that is) filled with love, joy, peace and
bliss—with all of your own “soul-mates.” That’s what I’m doing and so can you!
As a final thought—on our way home I
mentioned to Brad that there are three ways that we show up for ourselves and
others in our life. Grudgingly,
Willingly, or Enthusiastically. Check in
with the energy of each word and see where it is that you fit. If it’s not where you want to be—then change
it! Or as Wayne Dyer so aptly
states—change your mind…change your life!
As a correction to one of my past
newsletters describing a group of monkeys I misinformed everyone as being the “Rhesus
monkeys.” I apologize—I was totally
incorrect—I tried googling that monkey tribe but didn’t get the correct
information. According to Bruce Lipton
it was the bonobos who were the peace-making species of chimps. I’ll leave you with the description of these
monkeys along with several more amazing quotes from Bruce’s book, Biology of Belief (a must-read book I
can say).
One species of chimps, the bonobos, create peaceful
communities with co-dominant males and females in charge. Unlike other chimps, the community of bonobos
operates not with a violence-driven ethic but an ethic that can be described as
“make love, not war.” When the chimps in
this society become agitated they don’t engage in bloody fights; they diffuse
their divisive energy by having sex.
Recent research by Stanford University biologists Robert M.
Sapolsky and Lisa J. Share has found that even wild baboons, among the most
aggressive animals on this planet, are not genetically mandated to be
violent. When many of the aggressive
males died out due to eating contaminated meat from a tourist garbage pit,
research suggests that females helped steer the remaining, less aggressive
males into more cooperative behaviors, which led to a uniquely peaceful
community.
In contrast, the violence among humans that is directly
linked to securing sustenance or in the process of mate selection is quite
minimal. Human violence is more often
associated with the acquisition of material possessions beyond what is
necessary for sustenance or the distribution and purchase of drugs to escape
the nightmare world we have created or child and spousal abuse passed down
generation after generation. Perhaps the
most widespread and insidious form of human violence is ideological control. Throughout history, religious movements and
governments have repeatedly prodded their constituents into aggressiveness and
violence to deal with dissenters and nonbelievers.
Most human violence is neither necessary nor is it an
inherent genetic, “animal” survival skill.
We have the ability, and I believe an evolutionary mandate, to stop
violence. The best way to stop it is to
realize, as I emphasized in the last chapter of this book, that we are
spiritual beings who need love as much as we need food. But we won’t get to the next evolutionary step
by just thinking about it just as we can’t change our children’s and our lives
simply by reading books. Join
communities of like-minded people who are working toward advancing human
civilization by realizing that Survival of the Most Loving is the only thing
that will ensure not only a healthy personal life but also a healthy planet.
And finally, in the words of Mahatma
Gandhi:
Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny
So choose your beliefs carefully so
that your destiny (and my Destiny) will be filled with love, peace, joy and
bliss always and forever—J. Bird (naked as ever!)
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