Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion

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Consciousness and Remembering

The energy behind Memorial Day in the United States of America is of recognizing and remembering those who had died while serving in wars for this country. It became a united effort out of different locations in this nation after our Civil War in the mid 1800's and recognized as a legal holiday soon after. 

Over 150 years later we are still remembering those have died in service. 

I will spend today thinking of them and us today. How far we have come, how far we have not come.

And through it all I will be grateful to those no longer present in form who are still with us in mind and spirit, if not body. 

Janet Barrett

Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetb@janetandbeyond.com 

Ep 10 JIE Blog/ The Wholeness in Our Holes

Ep 10 Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet 

The Wholeness in our Holes

Every time we come across something that we might register as wrong or weak or compromising it can feel like a hole in our sense of Self. Courtesy of AZQUOTES, here are a variety of voices that speak of how those holes are just part of something grander that we each are and actually enhance our lives. Here is a navigational guide for your Journey Into Enlightenment.  

“Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.”

  Parker J. Palmer

“To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.”

  Dogen

“You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.”

  Maya Angelou

“The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”

  Alan Watts

“You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.”

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.”

  Albert Einstein

“The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.”

  Gary Zukav

“Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden.”

  Rachel Naomi Remen

“When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.”

  Margaret J. Wheatley 

“Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.”

  Richard Rohr

“The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.”

  Carl Jung

Happy trails to you on your journey,

Janet Barrett

Host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet 

www.janetandbeyond.com 

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

Consciousness and Moving into the State of Something Different Happening Now

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” 
― Mother Theresa

What are you feeling as you read Mother Theresa's quote about time? Resistance and story starts validating or? 

Our day to day realities, our stories about who we are in life, have us moving forward in some sense of time and space. Most are also bringing their pasts forward with them and all too often they are living with the past events actively making their choices still.  

In this state what we call the present then is only the past still engaged. That is how we can predict the future with reasonable certainty. Not many of us like the idea of the unknown which would be unreasonable certainty I guess.

When we talk about being present we are talking about shifting from the State of Past Moving Forward to the State of Something Different Happening Now. Only then does the past become the past. It now serves only reference to how we got to our now. And now, right now, will determine our future.

We can have many attachments and feel all kinds of things about our past. Lots of powerful emotions are active, lots of thinking active.  

Have you heard this one? "Nothing ever changes for as much as things change, they stay the same." It is a morphic field in effect. Means nothing really ever changes. Really? That things change and then change again and still things are the same? It can certainly seem that way when we lump things together. What it really means is that you registered a change and then another change and then it went back to what it seems it was. This speaks to our choices and how powerful we are in making the same choice or a different choice. 

We notice this in using consciousness technologies. Someone comes to us about an issue and it clears and another shows up maybe even worse than the first. The issue then is only symptom and not the agenda in play.

Did things truly change back to what they were? Or, were we perhaps too slow or too fast because of our stories to recognize change when it happened or when the opportunity was right in front of us and we settled for what was familiar. You have to develop ones own awareness in noticing shift. 

Did I mention that time is a sense as is space and malleable in quantum realities? That's the subjective quality we experience it as. The minutes that are ticking away in orderly fashion on the clock is a man made construct representing predictability of time which is useful to share collectively in our physical world to keep things running on schedules that we feel are important. Our mind and emotions can have a different sense of time than your body is holding. We can not, at times, keep up with how fast things happen. And then they can seem to take forever.

You can take the time out of a pattern. You can end the measurement. If you do this only from your wounded thoughts and emotions you will blink and and continue to bring the past forward with nothing changing. 

Making the time to stop and look around yourself and what you have created behind you puts you into the present. You are stopping the story. You are gaining perspective. If you do this in Heart Centered Awareness you can stop the old story running and start another. 

What is it like to sit in Heart Centered Awareness where time and space are sensory and malleable? Where the story and you have a chance to separate into the now?

Give it a chance. Sit in awareness and let some issue come into mind. If you are crunched for time do this while sitting in the bathroom. Instead of reading your texts you might as well sit and be creative in a different way!

In any relation there is our story, their story, our perceived sense of their story and so forth. 
What is is like to let go of your story and what you think their story is to allow for something new?

Just notice what comes to mind and play with it. Register a shift in some way and let it. Be open to feeling different or breathing easier and sit. Let it register. Give yourself time to recognize what being present is all about now. 

Janet Barrett

Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetb@janetandbeyond.com 

Consciousness and Truth

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

President Lincoln stood on the battlefield of Gettysburg in the aftermath of destruction of life. He spoke about unity, the nation and two sides of separateness and the cost for both sides of an issue.


Would President Lincoln be heartened to know that his words in 1863 still live on and serve as comment to all of us now in 2019?  We do note and remember what he said there. We don't want to forget and need to remind every generation that follows. He might be surprised that we are still here as a country, but maybe not. He was wise to the drives and motivations, the best and the worst in people.  

I found myself contemplating life as I drove to appointments. Once again I was struck by his wisdom and value of life and the importance of appreciating how priceless life is. 

Not how precious life is. How priceless life is. We have and continue to  demonstrate repeatedly throughout history how little some have valued life, their own and others, the quality of that life and the life of this planet we call home. 

We now have knowledge and technologies of ourselves in terms of global as well as local applications. There is no separateness to any of it. We are all connected and to think otherwise just shows how silly and stupid we can be when we only live in a state of separateness and not a state of wholeness and separateness, as Consciousness is.   

Take time this week to access Heart Centered Awareness and feel how you recognize the value of life and your life. Consider what your thoughts are and the actions they lead to. 

Play it forward in thoughts and actions to those around you, be they strangers or loved one or acquaintances. Notice how you are treated. 

What would you do differently to acknowledge your own humanity, theirs and the wonder in Being? What might your call to action be? Life is priceless and limited. Being the best we each can be brings out the best in each other,
and in this nation, within Consciousness. 

Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
www.janetandbeyond.com 

JIE Episode 8/ Consciousness and Following the Bliss of Curiousity

Ep 8 Blog for Consciousness and Following the Bliss of Curiosity

Curiosity is one of the most instinctive drives we can know in being alive. All animals demonstrate it. It leads to questioning, creativity and actions. It leads to exploring and looking for something different or just because. It leads to maturing and finding one’s place under the sun. It can shorten a life or extend a life and totally shape the quality of that life.

Something propelled life out of the seas and onto land. It had to then adapt and evolve in order to maintain a totally different breathing in this new environmental relationship. It isn’t because there wasn’t enough room in the ocean. What if it was curiosity? 

Curiosity is what pushes our innocence to gain knowledge of all kinds and what we feel about that knowledge and where that takes us. Life shapes and forms and evolves. 

Curiosity is a neutral state. It is not good or bad. But what comes from being curious leads to outcomes. Consciousness has no agenda, so it has no outcomes, it has no attachment. This is in each of us as our core. The human we are will judge the outcomes developing biases and predictability. It shapes our curious nature. We can give it license to develop and stimulate new processes or it can be set to limit.

Consciousness technologies celebrate curiosity that leads to creativity and actions in our quantum realities. New patterns of behavior come not because we force them to. They come because we are curious and ask a question. A great question is “What would it be like if this could be different”?  It is our invitation to the Unknown. Something so simple in this quantum state is the most powerful generator of potential in action as energy.  When one has no attachment to outcome but is open to something different. And when one holds that whatever comes as the change enhances one’s life, no matter what it looks like, there is no fear about what comes in being different.

This is the power of curiosity. Non attachment, innocence experiencing new information. We are always retaining our innocence. About things, about feelings, about thoughts about stuff. Inquiring minds want to know, right? Doesn’t matter if it is about the barking dog next door or the answer about black holes. Each is an outcome of questioning and that questioning comes from curiosity. The emotions that may overlay at the time are by products. 

Life is about potential and possibilities. It is our curiosity that activates the potential and possibilities into reality. Satisfying our curiosity brings a certain sort of sense of completion.

It can be as simple as picking up a book and letting it take you where it leads you and that sense of “Ah” at the end or the “Hmm” at the end. Or trying a new recipe or when you just throw given ingredients together on “Chopped”. 

As adults we are responsible for helping children develop their curiosity. We are being given a remarkable gift in fostering potential that we maybe don’t value enough. We might leave it to our schools and teachers who may be in overwhelm. We may feel overwhelmed with the endless questions that you may have a knowledgeable answer to, or you may have no answer or don’t want to have to think of an answer or have to know something different. 

Remember how you had to ask your question at the right time, or the right parent when you were a child? There are all kind of reactions and responses and how you handle this is reflecting your own relation to Curiosity. Letting it become something you explore together shares with the child that we are never too old to learn and to question.

Maybe our own curiosity has been stifled. We act mindless in our lives when we are not encouraged to find our own answers. Questioning authority of any kind is a healthy premise in the right context. It helps keep our alignment of Essence and Self in harmony and our subsequent health happy. 

Our curious natures are present from the baby grabbing on to some thing and putting it in their mouth and learning it and asking a few years later the eternal “Why?” Isn’t this our cue to Curiosity engaging?

If we are lucky. we never stop putting something new in our mouths and asking “Why?”

Janet Barrett

Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com 

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com