BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE TO FLY

A New and Radical Approach To Spiritual Evolution

By Stephen Davis Smashwords Edition, License Notes Thank you for downloading this free ebook !ou are welcome to share it with your friends This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non"commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form Copyright 2010 by L & G Productions, LLC

Table of Contents
#hapter $ % &ntroduction 'ART (NE % The )ovie Theater )etaphor 'reface to 'art (ne #hapter * % 'lato+s #ave #hapter , % -oining Together #hapter . % /hat+s /rong with This 'icture0 #hapter 1 % The Library #hapter 2 % The 3ield #hapter 4 % The 5ologram #hapter 6 % There is No 7(ut There8 (ut There #hapter 9 % The :reakout 'ART T/( % &nside the #ocoon 'reface to 'art Two #hapter ; % The #onsciousness )odel #hapter *$ % The 'layer )odel #hapter ** % The 5uman <ame )odel #hapter *, % The Two 5alves #hapter *. % The 'rocess #hapter *1 % Spiritual Autolysis #hapter *2 % =etaching > 7=esirelessness8 #hapter *4 % -udgment #hapter *6 % :eliefs > (pinions #hapter *9 % Resistance #hapter *; % 3ear #hapter ,$ % /ho Am &0 #hapter ,* % (n :ecoming a :utterfly 'ART T5REE % ?uestions > Answers 'reface to 'art Three #hapter ,, % (ne :ig 5ologram0 #hapter ,. % (ther 'eople #hapter ,1 % The 7Earth Environment8 Template #hapter ,2 % Are /e All (ne0 #hapter ,4 % (ne 'layer per &nfinite &0 #hapter ,6 % 'ast Lives0 #hapter ,9 % @arma, #ause > Effect #hapter ,; % Trust

#hapter .$ % )oney #hapter .* % The Ego #hapter ., % #ompassion #hapter .. % Robert Scheinfeld #hapter .1 % -ed )c@enna #hapter .2 % A < @rishnamurti #hapter .4 % The 3uture !ou are invited to write a book review, or offer comments, or download the free audio book version of this ebook by visitingB :utterflies3ree com

CHAPTER 0
INTRODUCTION
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Sweet reedo! whispered in !y ear "ou#re a butter $y %nd butter $ies are ree to $y &$y away, high away, bye bye C from So!eone Saved !y Li e 'onight, music by Elton -ohn, lyrics by :ernie Taubin

George had a problem

Although he hid it fairly well, <eorge was basically unhappy 5e was feeling unfulfilledD his life had become dull and boringD he hated his EobD he was probably going to be fired soon because of the economic recessionD his relationship with his wife had gone southD he couldn+t communicate any more with his kidsD he had no real life eFcept working, eating, watching TG, and sleepingD he could count his real friends on one fingerD and he saw no real way of changing anything, of making anything better :ut that wasn+t <eorge+s biggest problem at the moment 5is most pressing concern was that he had begun to walk in his sleep (ne night while <eorge was out sleepwalking, he fell into a very deep hole /hen he woke up, he discovered he was lying on the bottom in Eust his paEamas, and there was nothing in the hole eFcept him 5e looked up and saw the morning sky above him, with a few bare branches of trees overhanging the perfect circle of sunlight at the top &t was early spring, and there was a chill in the air 5e saw no one, but he could hear the faint sound of voices 5e knew he had to try to get outD but the walls of the hole were straight and slippery and high, and there was nothing to use for climbing Each time he tried, he fell back to the bottom, frustrated 5e started crying out for help Suddenly, there was a man+s face peering down at him from the top of the hole 7/hat+s your problem08 the man asked 7(h, thank <od,8 <eorge cried 7&+m stuck down here and can+t get outH8 7/ell, then, let me help,8 the man said 7/hat+s your name08 7<eorge 8 7Last name08 7Iimmermann 8 7(ne Jn+ or two08 7Two 8 7&+ll be right back 8

/hen the face disappeared, <eorge wondered what was so important about the spelling of his nameD and then the man was back 7This is your lucky day, <eorgeH &+m a billionaire, and &+m feeling generous this morning 8 The man let go of a small piece of paper he was holding in his hand and it floated slowly down into the hole <eorge caught it and looked up again The man was gone <eorge stared at the piece of paper &t was a check for a thousand dollars, made out in his name 7/hat the hell0 /here am & going to spend this down here08 he thought to himself 5e folded it and put it in his paEama pocket Then he heard another voice coming 7'lease help me,8 <eorge yelled to the empty space at the top A second man+s face appeared, a kind and compassionate face 7/hat can & do for you, my son08 <eorge could see the man+s clerical collar as he leaned over the edge 73ather, help me get out of this holeK please 8 7)y sonK 8 The voice was soft and loving 7& must perform mass at the church in five minutes, so & can+t stop now :ut we will say a special prayer for you today 8 Then he reached into his pocket 75ere, this will help,8 and he dropped a book into the hole before leaving <eorge picked up the :ible, studied it and tried to imagine any possible way to use it to get out of the hole Eventually he gave up and tossed it aside The neFt passerby was a woman /hen she understood <eorge+s predicament, she threw down some organic vegetables, along with vitamins and herbal supplements 7Eat only these,8 she said <eorge put them in a pile on top of the :ible A doctor stopped and donated a few bottles of the sample medications he was being paid to peddle that week A lawyer came by and talked for a while about suing the city for not putting a fence around the hole 5e left his card A politician promised to pass a law to protect sleepwalkers if <eorge would vote for him in the election tomorrow, assuming he could get out of the hole :y this time <eorge had taken a seat on the bottom of the hole, shivering slightly from the chill, starting to give up hope that anyone would help him get out 5e felt lonely, helpless, and a little fearful 5e moved the drugs aside, picked up an organic banana off the pile and took a bite 7& can help you get out 8 5e heard a strong, convincing, powerful female voice 5e wasn+t Luite sureK =id he recogniMe that voice0 5ad he seen her on TG or something0 7!ou Eust need to let go of all your negative thinking, learn to visualiMe, and then use the JLaw of Attraction+ 8 7:ut that+s eFactly what &+m doing % trying to attract someone to help to get out of this holeH8 <eorge protested 7!ou must not be doing it right,8 came the response She tossed something thin and sLuare that landed at <eorge+s feet <eorge yelled up to her, 7:utK waitH8 There was no one there to answer

5e picked up the =G=, still shrink"wrapped, and stared at the cover 'he 'eachings o %braha! (aster Course D)D Progra! 7At least you could have thrown down a portable =G= player,8 he said Luietly, to no one in particular &n a little while a Ien :uddhist sat down in a lotus position at the edge of the hole, wanting to teach <eorge to meditate 7&f nothing else,8 the )aster said, 7if you practice long enough, you+ll feel better about being in the hole /ho knows, you might even be able to levitate your way out in a few lifetimes 8 <eorge was about to resign himself to being in this hole forever when he heard the voice 7#an you move over a few feet, out of the way08 <eorge looked up 7/hat08 7#ould you please move away from the center of the hole08 <eorge stood up and took a few steps back toward the side 7/hy08 he was about to ask, when the man Eumped into the hole, landing at <eorge+s feet 7Are you craMy08 <eorge eFclaimed as the man got up and brushed himself off 7Now we+re both in this hole together #ouldn+t you Eust throw me a rope or a ladder or something08 The man looked at him gently 7They don+t work 8 75ow do you know08 <eorge asked incredulously 7&+ve been here before, and & know the way out 8 NNN & assume you+re asking for help, or you wouldn+t be reading this book Something+s not right in your life and you want to change it So &+m about to Eump into your hole, but not because & feel any desire or obligation to help anyone 5elping someone else is one of the biggest traps anyone can get caught in & also have no intention of becoming a teacher % yours or anyone else+s % or a guru, or a mentor, or a coach, or someone who pretends to have any or all of the answers &f you want, you can think of me as a 7scout8 % like a scout on a wagon train in the (ld /est, whose Eob it was to ride ahead looking for a way over the Rocky )ountains to reach the 'acific (cean, finding a path for others to follow with relative safety and security against the elements and the &ndians &+m not the only scout out there, and & don+t claim to have reached the ocean yet :ut &+m the only one who has taken this particular route, which turned out to be a very effective way to go and safe enough for me to return to talk about it (n my Eourney, & eFplored some very radical territory and collected a lot of information about which paths work and don+t work that might benefit someone else That+s the main reason &+m writing this book, to pass on that information, knowing there are others % not that many, but some % who want to go where &+m going and where &+ve been )aybe you+re one of them !ou hired me to be your scout Owhether you+re conscious of it or notP, but you should know that it doesn+t matter to me what you think about this information, or what

you do with it !ou can take it or leave it )y only Eob % and my total Eoy % is to report back to you what &+ve found So &+m Eumping into your hole because it seems like fun and in alignment with what the universe has in store for me at the moment 5owever, maybe you don+t want me in your hole !ou should really think about this &f you keep reading, there will come a point where there+s no turning back &n a way, switching metaphors, it will be like climbing )t Everest The Eourney can be very difficult, physically and emotionallyD and it takes a while As & said, &+m not yet at the summit, but it+s in sight &+ve reached a point high enough along the way that the appreciation, the Eoy, the peace, the serenity of being are already beyond eFpectation /hat & know with certainty % and confirmed for the most part by eye"witness reports from other scouts % is that arriving at the peak is definitely worth the effort of getting there !ou may or may not want to go all the way & will let you know when we reach the place where you can only go on and not back (n the other hand, you may decide you don+t want to leave your hole at all &f so, you should stop reading now There is nothing 7wrong8 with your staying there !ou+ll have enough money and good organic food and books to read and =G=s to watch and drugs to take to keep you occupied and entertained &t+s your choice

PART ONE:
THE MO IE THEATER METAPHOR
:ack to the Table of #ontents 'his is the on$y radica$ thin*ing that you need to do+ But it is so radica$, it is so di icu$t, because our tendency is that the wor$d is a$ready ,out there,independent o !y e.perience+ /t is not+ 0uantu! physics has been so c$ear about it+ " =r Amit <oswami

PREFACE TO PART ONE

are three things you should know before we begin our Eourney across the Rocky )ountainsK 1234 Although this book carries a copyright, you are hereby granted permission to print it, copy it, share it, give it away to anyone else, Luote it, do anything you want with it % eFcept you cannot sell any part or the whole book, or make money from it in any way, or assist anyone else in making money from it in any way & feel very strongly that the information in this book should always be available for free to anyone who wants to read it '514 &t seems many scouts encounter things that are hard to eFplain when they return to the group &t+s not easy trying to get people to understand something they have never directly eFperienced So from time to time & will use Luotations from other sources These Luotes are not there to prove & am 7right8 Eust because someone else whose name you might recogniMe said the same thing They are included mainly to try to further eFplain a concept which can be difficult to grasp and offer another viewpoint using words different than mine which you may relate to more easily /ith very few eFceptions, all the Luotes and many other references have footnotes to give you the opportunity to check out my sources for yourself Simply click on the purple footnote number and that will take you to the footnote which will contain an active &nternet link &f you want, you can then click on the &nternet link to go directly to the source material in your &nternet browser Then click on the word 7reading8 in the footnote to return to the point you were reading in the teFt and continue Try it here by clicking on the number* There are also links embedded in the teFt to various videos to watch as you read As usual, click on the purple hyperlink & have also included some 5ollywood movie

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suggestions at the end of a few chapters from time to time These movies are not supposed to be viewed as perfect eFamples of the information you Eust read, but close enough to the subEect matter to be interesting and pertinent as well as entertaining '67334 'eople apparently learn most easily when they can compare something new to something they already understand, called by some a 7datum of comparable magnitude 8, 3or eFample, if & were to try to tell you about a new game & saw while & was out scouting called 7:lat":lop,8 and suggest you might enEoy playing it, you+d most likely have many Luestions before being willing to engage and ask for further eFplanation :ut :lat":lop cannot be eFplained directly &t+s different than anything other game known to man So what do & do0 & tell you that :lat":lop is like American football, eFcept there+s no ball and no goal posts Now, at least, you have some idea of what &+m talking about, as craMy and incomprehensible as it sounds !our mind probably pictures a bunch of men running around a field all dressed up in heavy pads and helmets, which is true in :lat":lopD but you still have no idea what they+re doing or why /hen & said 7:lat":lop is like American football,8 & was using a si!i$e, comparing two different things to create a new meaning There+s something else called a !etaphor A metaphor is a figure of speech using one thing to mean another and makes a comparison between the two 3or eFample, ShakespeareQs line, RAll the worldQs a stage,R is a metaphor comparing the whole world to a theater stage A metaphor is a lot like a simile, but without the direct comparative wording /e could turn Shakespeare+s metaphor into a simile by adding the word 7like8B All the world is $i*e a stage (n the other hand, an ana$ogy shows similarity between things that might seem different % much like an eFtended metaphor or simile :ut analogy isnQt Eust a form of speech &t can also be a logical argumentB if two things are alike in some ways, they are alike in some other ways as well Analogy is often used to help provide insight by comparing an unknown subEect to one that is more familiar Then there is something called an a$$egory, which is a one"to"one comparison or substitution of something figurative for something literal /hile this is very similar to a metaphor, allegories are usually more subtle and a lot more involved, taking up entire books and pieces of art & say all of this for two reasons 3irst, &+m forced to use a lot of similes, metaphors, and analogies in this book % and begin the book with an allegory % to try to eFplain what &+ve seen as a scout that is difficult at times to describe, and very new in many cases & wish there were words and ways to say eFactly what &+ve found without having to make these comparisons, but there aren+t &t+s that simple Secondly, & apparently have a small brain malfunction O)aybe it+s the mad cow P =espite all previous efforts and diligent study, and the definitions and differentiation & wrote above between !etaphor and ana$ogy, & still can+t tell the difference So & warn you right now % and any English teachers who may be reading % that & might confuse those two words &f you wish, any such error can simply be chalked up to my personal weakness in this area

-ust be prepared for a lot of metaphors and analogies, whichever they may be LikeK

3((TN(TES * Now click on the word 7reading8 in % :ack to reading , =atum of #omparable )agnitude, or =atum of #omparable )agnitude % :ack to reading

CHAPTER !
PLATO"S CA E
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Imagine that for your entire life you have been sitting in a chair in a movie theater The place is dark, like all movie theatersD but you can feelK NoK waitH :efore we go thereK There+s a famous allegory called 7'lato+s #ave,8 written of course by 'lato &t+s a fictional conversation between 'lato+s teacher, Socrates, and 'lato+s brother, <lauconD and, essentially, the first part of the allegory goes like thisK Socrates asks <laucon to imagine a cave inhabited by prisoners who have been chained and held immobile since childhood Not only are their arms and legs held in place, but their heads are also fiFed so all they can see is a wall directly in front of them :ehind the prisoners is a large fire, and between the fire and the backs of the prisoners is a raised walkway As people and animals travel over the walkway between the fire and the backs of the prisoners, the light from the fire casts their shadows on the wall in front of the prisoners The prisoners can only see the shadows, but they don+t know they are shadows There are also echoes off the wall from the noises produced on the walkway The prisoners can only hear the echoes, but they don+t know they are echoes Socrates asks <laucon if it is not reasonable that the prisoners would think the shadows were real things, and the echoes were real sounds, not Eust reflections of reality, since they are all the prisoners had ever seen or heard Socrates neFt introduces something new into this scenario Suppose, Socrates surmises, a prisoner is freed and permitted to stand up and move around &f someone were to show him the actual things that had cast the shadows and caused the echoes % the fire, and the people and animals on the walkway % he would not know what they were and not recogniMe them as the cause of the shadows and soundD he would still believe the shadows on the wall to be more real than what he sees * The allegory goes on, but & want to stop here O&f you are interested, you can watch a three"minute animated video at 'latosAllegory comP NowK &magine that for your entire life you have been sitting in a chair in a movie theater The place is dark, like all movie theatersD but you can feel there are restraints % shackles % over your wrists and ankles, making it difficult to move your arms or legs The back of your chair is high, rising above your head so it is impossible to look behind you All you can see is the movie screen in front of you and the people sitting neFt to you in the same condition &n front of you, sweeping around on all sides of the theater as far as you can see, is a gigantic &)AS .= screen !ou sit there watching movie after movie, and it seems as if

you+re part of the movie itself, fully immersed in it O#lick here for /oody Allen+s eFample of a tota$ i!!ersion !ovie, from 'he Purp$e 7ose o Cairo P Like the shadows and echoes in 'lato+s #ave, these movies are all you have ever known They are, in fact, your only reality, your life The actors are good and the scripts well"written, and you get emotionally involved in these movies, feeling anger, pain, sadness, regret, Eoy, enthusiasm, antagonism, fear, and a wide range of other emotions depending on the storyline !ou have your favorite characters % family members and friends, for eFample % who show up often, and others you despise and wish would not appear at all Some movies are pleasurable to watch, even beautiful at times % happy, poignant, satisfying, enEoyable (thers are dark and ominous, disturbing, painful, producing reactions inside you which aren+t very comfortable !ou resist watching those and wish you didn+t feel what you were feeling !ou close your eyes at times, wanting the script to change :ut you+re content to stay there and watch, because you+ve been told % and have come to believe from eFperience % this is the only reality there is, and you have to accept it The vast maEority of people % ;2T of the Earth+s population, if & had to guess, maybe more % will die sitting in that movie chair 3or the others, something interesting will happen one day &n a particularly uncomfortable movie, you might scream 7NoH8 and forcefully twist your body in the chair Suddenly you+re aware that you no longer feel the shackles on your wrists and ankles, and you realiMe you can now move your arms and legs !ou use your hands to feel around and discover the shackles had no locks on them % ever % and your panicked movements simply pried them open All along you had Eust assumed % believed % you were a prisoner, like a dog who stays clear of an invisible fence !ou wonder what to do neFt !ou realiMe you no longer have to sit there and watch the movies if you don+t want to !ou could get upD but you don+t, not right away !ou might lean over to the person neFt to you and start telling them there are no locks on the shackles, but all you get is a 7Sshhhh8 in response The fear of standing up is enormousD the thought of walking away goes against everything you have been taught 3inally % maybe it+s curiosity, maybe it+s anger, maybe it+s Eust that you can no longer stand to feel what you+re feeling % you decide 7to hell with the fear 8 !ou get up Nothing happens No sirens go off, no one comes to make you sit down again, and you begin to think maybe there was nothing to be afraid of So you decide to walk As you move down the row toward the aisle, saying 7EFcuse me, eFcuse me,8 people look at you in astonishment and wonder and dismay Some even tell you to sit back down, get out of the way, behave &t+s clear they all think you+re craMy :ut there+s something inside of you that feels eFcited despite the fear and urges you on 3inally you make it to the aisle, turn and see that it leads up between the seatsD but you can+t yet see the rear of the theater /hat is clearer now is that the movie screen continues all the way around the building, .4$ degreesD and hanging down from the ceiling in the middle of the theater is a large black ball (ut of the ball very bright light is streaming toward the screen on all sides !ou have no idea what it is, or what it means As you walk up the aisle, you bump into a couple other people going in your direction, and some others returning to their seats The ones heading back to their seats

give you a dirty look, almost hateful, mainly terrified, and someone warns you not to go any further :ut you+ve gone this far, you think, and decide you want to find out what+s at the end of the aisle /hen you finally make it to the back, you can see the entire design of the circular theater &n one half are the seats from where you came, all facing in one direction, filled with people staring straight ahead at the movie screensD and behind the seats is a large space where people like you are walking around !ou also see a door in the middle of the far wall with a sign saying, 7=o Not Enter % EFtremely dangerous 8 Since the &)AS .= screen continues all the way around the structure, there+s no way to escape the movies that are playing &n other words, your reality, your life follows you everywhere :ut something+s different, even if you can+t say what at the moment The movies haven+t changed, but you have, in some way you can feel but don+t yet understand There seem to be little groups of people gathering here and there % others like you who had gotten out of their chairs and made it to the back % discussing something that sounds important &t+s all so new, so strange, so difficult to understand, so frightening, soK 7unreal 8 !ou think for a minute about going back to your seat, back to the reality you know so well Then you decide not to, to stay a little longer, at least for now !ou stop for a moment at the back of one group and ask, 7/hat+s going on08 7/e+re trying to change things,8 is the answer 7/hat do you mean08 you ask 7/e don+t like the movies that are playing /e want different ones,8 the voice clarifies /hile seated in the movie theater, you never considered the idea of changing the movies !ou didn+t know it was possible :ut now it+s an interesting thought, and you admit there were movies you wish you hadn+t had to be part of, aspects of your life you would have preferred not to watch and eFperience !ou eavesdrop on another group in time to hear a man say, 7!es, this is reality :ut there+s a better place we will all go to when we die, if you Eust have faith and follow a few simple rulesK 8 There+s a <uru in the neFt group admonishing his followers, 7!es, we can leave this reality, but we must all go together 5ave compassion for those left watching the moviesK 8 As you continue your trek around the back of the movie theater, you catch bits and pieces of other comments, like 7This doesn+t have to be your reality !ou have the power to change it, and & can show you howD8 and 7Love is all there isD8 and 7?uiet your mind 8 &n all the confusion, it finally occurs to you for the first time that you have the choice of what to do neFt, and it feels eFciting as well as scary, because you+ve Eust taken the first step toward self"responsibility and self"realiMation NNN (nce again, let+s stop here for a minute &n :ooks Two and Three of his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy, -ed )c@enna makes the distinction between a 75uman #hild8 and a 75uman Adult 8 This idea is worth playing with, especially in light of our )ovie Theater )etaphor

3irst of all, being a 5uman #hild or a 5uman Adult has virtually no relationship to physical age The vast maEority of the world+s population are 5uman #hildren, most of them older than twenty ,(ost hu!an beings cease to deve$op at around the age o ten or twe$ve+ 'he average seventy year8o$d is o ten a ten year8o$d with si.ty years ti!e8in8grade9+ 5e !ust $earn to see the di erence between a 6u!an %du$t and a 6u!an Chi$d as easi$y and un!ista*ab$y as we see the di erence between a si.ty year8o$d and a si. year8o$d+ 9 1ur societies are o , by, and or 6u!an Chi$dren, which e.p$ains the se$ 8perpetuating nature o this ghou$ish !a$ady, as we$$ as !ost o the si$$iness we see in the wor$d+-, 5uman #hildren are the ones sitting in their chairs in the movie theater They might complain a lot about the movies they+re watching, but they continue to watch without doing anything about it They+re convinced they are kept in their seats by some powerful, eFternal force, and that they are helpless to change anything &n fact, they believe the thing that needs to change is 7out there8 % someone or something they have no control over Even voting is an act of a 5uman #hild, a statement that change is only possible by changing 7them 8 They+re convinced the movies they+re watching are 7reality,8 life as it has to beD and they take no responsibility for their condition Some 5uman #hildren might actually have discovered their shackles were not locked and they were free to stand up and walk whenever they wanted 'erhaps a few might have stood, even fewer took a few steps toward the aisle :ut the fear soon becomes overwhelming, and back they go to their seats to put their shackles on again, comforted by the fact they are in such good and plentiful company ,6u!an Chi$dhood is the ego8bound state+ /t is, in :actua$; hu!an chi$dren, a hea$thy and natura$ state+ /n hu!an adu$ts, however, it<s a hideous a $iction+ 'he on$y way such an a $iction cou$d go undetected and unre!edied is i everyone were e=ua$$y a $icted, which is e.act$y the case+ 2o prob$e! is recogni>ed and no a$ternative is *nown, so no so$ution is sought and no hope or change e.ists+-. )any people are happy to spend their entire lives as 5uman #hildren, settled into their chairs, immersed in their moviesD and &+m not trying to suggest there is anything 7wrong8 with that There isn+t &t+s eFactly how it should be for them, and there is no reason at all to try to change their minds or make them into 5uman Adults, as we will discuss later :ut & assume you+re not one of them, or you wouldn+t be reading this book !ou+ve stood up, made your way to the back of the movie theater, and started to behave like a 5uman Adult This book is for you % about you % not them NNN &n 'lato+s #ave, the 5uman Adult is the freed prisoner who now stands behind the rest, sees the fire and the men walking, casting shadows on the wall :ut, as Socrates points out, the shadows still represent 7reality,8 and the fire and men and animals on the walkway remain some kind of uneFplained mystery

At a minimum, a 5uman Adult has become aware there is something 7wrong8 with the life it has been eFperiencing through the total immersion movies and is not willing to accept that 7reality8 at face value any more &n the classic *;64 movie 2etwor*, news" anchor 5oward :eale eFpresses what a number of new 5uman Adults feel when he rants, 7&+m mad as hell and &+m not going to take it any moreH8 A 5uman #hild lives in ignorance, thinking they are awake with their eyes open when in fact they are sound asleep with their eyes closed A new 5uman Adult has taken the first step of opening their eyes, even though they are still asleep and do not understand what they are now seeing -ust so no one gets confused, 5uman Adulthood is not the state of so"called 7spiritual enlightenment,8 although it+s what most 7seekers8 are actually looking for and most 7gurus8 are actually selling O/e+ll talk more about this later as well P ,'he di erence between %du$thood and 3n$ighten!ent is that the or!er is awa*ening within the drea!state and the $atter is awa*ening from it9+ Sha$$ow, ear$y8 stage %du$thood is o ten !ista*en or, and so$d as, Spiritua$ 3n$ighten!ent, but it<s not+ /t<s ?ust the irst rea$ g$i!pse o $i e+-1 5ave you ever had a dream in which you wake up and realiMe it+s Eust a dream, but you+re actually still dreaming and never really woke up, that waking up in the dream was part of the dream itself0 That+s what -ed is talking about A 5uman #hild is asleep and dreaming, but thinks itQs awake and thinks the dreams are real A 5uman Adult is asleep and dreaming and wakes up as part of the dream, but doesnQt wake up from the dream itself Like a 5uman #hild, it thinks itQs awake, but itQs really not The neFt step % actually waking up from the dream % is what this book is about :eing a 5uman Adult is not a 7bad8 way to spend your life, especially if you compare it to 5uman #hildhood :ut it does have its limits As a 5uman Adult, you might be able to figure out how to better cope with the movies coming at you that define your life There are all kinds of groups in the back of the theater claiming to be able to teach you various methods of filtering or improving or avoiding or denying or processing or dealing with the emotions that arise as a result of your immersion in your reality /e+re going to look closely at some of these groups in the neFt chapter :ut becoming a 5uman Adult is not the endD it+s really Eust the beginning NNN & don+t know whether it+s helpful to remember when you transitioned from a 5uman #hild to a 5uman Adult, getting up from your chair in the movie theater Stories abound about life"changing car accidents, sudden and uneFpected divorces, the loss of a loved one, a near"death eFperience, drug"induced glimpses of another world, and the like 3or me, it was very clear & was in my second semester at a small southern college, saying & wanted to become a doctor, but actually more interested in philosophy and religion Two years prior a friend of mine in high school had recommended a book called 'here is a 7iver4 'he Story o

3dgar Cayce, by Thomas Sugrue 2 (ne day during the semester break at college, & suddenly remembered it while browsing through a bookstore in New !ork #ity :ack at school & cut classes for a week and read and re"read that book &t blew my mind Antil then, & had been asleep % sound asleep )y childhood and teenage years were spent being 7normal,8 like everyone else /ell, maybe my family was slightly more dysfunctional than mostD but still, & was seated in my chair, watching the movies, eFperiencing all the discomfort, wishing things 7out there8 would change, and trying to find as much pleasure as & could to compensate for the pain 'here is a 7iver ended with about .$ pages of philosophy from what are called #ayce+s 7Life Readings 8 &t talked about the origin and destiny of humanity @A%$$ sou$s were created in the beginning, and are inding their way bac* to whence they ca!e+A PD about reincarnation and astrologyD about universal laws O7 %s ye ?udge others, so sha$$ ye be ?udged+APD about meditation and eFtrasensory perceptionD about body, mind and spirit OASpirit is the $i e+ (ind is the bui$der+ Physica$ is the resu$t+A PD about Atlantis and Earth changesD and about the unknown life of -esus, whom #ayce called our 7e$der brother 8 )y life changed overnight, in the same way #ayce predicted one day northern Europe would change 7as in the twin*$ing o an eye 8 )y fraternity brothers didn+t know what to do with me 3or one thing, & stopped eating pork, which had been my favorite meal and & would literally live for /ednesdays when pork chops were served for lunch at the frat house & also spent the neFt summer working for #ayce+s son, 5ugh Lynn, at the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Girginia :each & stayed in school another year after reading the book, although & stopped going to classes As one cleaning woman once told me, 7=on+t worry about it noneH /hat they+re teaching you here ain+t right anyway 8 & was a now a 5uman Adult, although & would need time to adEust to my new surroundings The conseLuences of getting up and walking to the back of the movie theater seemed overwhelming for me )y mother, of course, was against it So was my girlfriend & would be wasting a lot of money already spent on an education and maybe never get a diploma & would most certainly never become a doctor & had no idea of what & would do neFt, no prospects on the horiMon & would be leaving all my friends and a life that contained some moments of Eoy and pleasure forK what0 And perhaps most critically at the time, & would lose my college deferment and be subEect to the draft, most likely ending up as a soldier in Gietnam, a war & opposed from the beginning &n the end, however, my discontent and discomfort with sitting in my chair in the movie theater won out over the fear of leaving it

3((TN(TES * /ikipedia % Allegory of the #ave % :ack to reading , )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy " :ack to reading .+ /bid " :ack to reading 1+ /bid+ " :ack to reading 2 Sugrue, Thomas 'here is a 7iver4 'he Story o 3dgar Cayce " :ack to reading

CHAPTER #
$OINING TOGETHER
:ack to the Table of #ontents Adults who have Eust made it to the back of the movie theater will usually display some common personality traits 3irst, they begin to understand there are possibilities that were inconceivable to them as a 5uman #hild Even their freedom to walk around is a new sensation that takes some getting used to :eing up and out of their seats has given them new hope and new energy They don+t necessarily understand what+s happening, but it eFcites them to find out, to eFercise this freedom and eFplore these possibilities Secondly, anger might come to the surface for all the time they spent sitting in their chairs as a 5uman #hild % anger and resentment toward those who had put and kept them there &t doesn+t matter that the shackles were never lockedD there can still be the feeling of having been a victim of eFternal forces, for it+s way too soon for a new 5uman Adult to take full responsibility for their condition as a 5uman #hild NeFt might come defiance, a determination never to go back to their seat They could if they wantedD it+s not too late :ut like the freed prisoner in 'lato+s #ave, it+s seems unimaginable for a new 5uman Adult to consider voluntarily returning to their shackles, chained to their seats, seeing nothing again eFcept the movies playing out in front of them 7&+ll be damned if &+m going back there,8 although some eventually do And fourthly, they make a decision to change things /hat they decide to change % themselves, or what+s 7out there8 % can depend on a lot of factorsD but their defeatist attitude of 7can<t change things8 as a 5uman #hild becomes an overwhelming obsession of 7!ust change things8 as a 5uman Adult The movies that make up their life are still playing all around them, the .= pictures enveloping them, immersing them, coming at them from all anglesD and they still view these movies as the only 7reality8 there is, like the shadows on the cave wall They also have virtually the same emotional reactions they+ve always had to the movies, which reinforces their need to re"write the scripts As a new 5uman Adult, you most likely eFperienced at least one or two of these feelings, if not all of them A fairly good eFample of this was the 5ippie )ovement The Gietnam /ar playing out on the movie screen was the catalyst that led a lot of 5uman #hildren to stand up and shout 7NoH8 As they walked to the back of the theater Othey called it 7dropping out8P, they soon discovered there were other possibilities of how to live and began eFperimenting with their new"found freedom There was anger about the war and the people in charge who were making the movies There was a defiance to no longer be part of that movieD and there was a decision to make things change ,5e Can (a*e /t Better, 5e Can Change the 5or$d 2ow, 5e Can Save the Chi$dren, 5e Can (a*e /t 6appen,sang #hicago in *;6, * As far as & can tell, the Gietnam /arU5ippie )ovement of the late *;4$+s and early J6$+s provided the incentive for more new 5uman Adults than any other event in recent history !oung people by the thousands stood up in their chairs and started walking out

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The )ovement died fairly LuicklyD but a lot of people woke up swearing never again to return to their seats, and it left a huge legacy in the back of the movie theater The 5ippie )ovement is also a good eFample of another common trait of a new 5uman Adult % the longing to be part of a group &n many cases, it+s more than a longingD it+s a necessity After all, you+ve spent your entire life surrounded by other 5uman #hildren and took comfort in being part of the group &n all the strangeness and newness of the back of the theater, you now seek solace and support as a 5uman AdultD you search for others wanting to change the same things you doD you start looking around for a new group to Eoin 3ortunately the back of the movie theater is full of groups consisting of 5uman Adults who have found others of like mind and banded together for a common cause 'erhaps you might wander around for a little while first, standing on the edge of various gatherings, listening, seeing if you agree with what+s being said by the leader, looking for Eust the right one :ut very soon, you Eoin one of them !ou must !ou feel too alone and you need camaraderie, other people around you who will let you know you+re not craMy to have left your seat, new friends who will help you change things NNN The year & stayed in college after reading 'here is a 7iver, & passed the time playing golf, playing bridge, and going to frat parties &n other words, & spent a year roaming around the back of the theater, Eust trying to escape the movies somehow Shortly after my twentieth birthday & Eoined my first group and participated in the creation of a musical eFtravaganMa to become known as Bp 5ith Peop$e , The idea was to change the world through music and an ideology called )oral Re"Armament . )oral Re"Armament was based on a certain level of self"responsibility, believing the movies % the world, life, reality % could change if everyone would adhere to a strict moral code of absolute love, absolute purity, absolute honesty, and absolute unselfishness &t was our duty to live that way ourselves, and then go out and get everyone else to live that way as well /e decided to present our cause through a highly entertaining and professional musical, couching our morality in clever and catchy song lyrics such as 73reedom &sn+t 3ree8 and 7/hat #olor &s <od+s Skin081 3or almost two years & gave it all & had, ,1U6U.42D and & had a hell of a lot of fun and did things and saw places and had eFperiences that were way over the top & still have many friends from those days, and some of the lyrics and music Bp 5ith Peop$e created were very powerful 7#oming 5ome,8 7/here the Roads #ome Together,8 and 7)oon Rider82 will probably always move me to tears of Eoy and appreciation for this time of my life and this group &t was so much fun that & was able to overlook the glaring inconsistencies and errors in groupthink 4 3or eFample, in *;44 & was the only one who was against the war out of hundreds directly involved in the program, even in the light of 7absolute love 8 :ut as was inevitable in those days, & was drafted and offered an all"eFpenses"paid, one"year"long tour of beautiful downtown Gietnam as an Army medic in *;4; % which means & missed /oodstock & also missed out on the drug scene &n fact, & was in uniform for the maEor part of the 5ippie )ovement, which would have been a very interesting group to Eoin had & been able

:asically, & had three choices when & was drafted, considering my opposition to the war (ne, & could flee the country and go to #anada or Sweden, remaining as a 5uman Adult and Eoining the group of other young men doing the same :ut & was afraid & might never be able to return to the A S A , a country & loved and did not want to leave forever )y second choice was to go to Eail as a war resister, again remaining as a 5uman Adult and Eoining a group of other young men also choosing incarceration to being a soldier :ut & was afraid in this case & would lose the support of my girlfriend and my mother and other friends who simply could not or would not understand This choice also generated many very big Luestions about how this Eail time could affect my future So in the end, and based on my fears, & voluntarily gave up being a 5uman Adult, left Bp 5ith Peop$e, went back to my seat in the theater, became a 5uman #hild once more, and spent the neFt three years immersed in a war movie The minute & was honorably discharged, & bolted out of my seat again and ran to the back of the movie theater Lying on my bunk in Gietnam & had made a decision not to return to Bp 5ith Peop$e when & got out of the Army, but to get elected 'resident of the Anited States instead As 'resident, & figured & could really make some changesD so & Eoined a political group, starting my career by getting elected to the AriMona state senate at the age of twenty" eight 5owever, one term as a senator was all & needed to realiMe that not only did this group have no chance of changing anything, but that government the way it is practiced today is actually the cause of most of the problems in the first place and the thing that reLuires changing the most & ran for re"election anyway, not knowing what else to doD but & made sure & lost with some conscious decisions that could have no other outcome, like dropping my affiliation with any maEor party and running as an &ndependent, not campaigning, and taking a woman who was not my wife to the <rand #anyon in full public view & nearly won despite it allD but late on election night, as it became clear & would lose, my friends started to file out of the hotel room where we were watching the returns, eFpressing their condolences and even crying for my loss & tried hard to look disappointed, but inside & was relieved and happy as & could be That+s when & realiMed there was something wrong with !e & should probably address before continuing to try to change the world & had Eust thrown away a brilliant political career as the new 7darling8 of the AriMona Republican 'arty, and yet & was utterly thrilled with the outcome That, to me, was completely illogical and ineFplicable So & started looking for an eFplanation, searching the back of the theater for a group who could help me understand, and ended up Eoining one of the most controversial and radical groups & could findB the #hurch of Scientology &t didn+t take long to make my way to the top, as an (T4 and a #ommodore+s Staff Aide to L Ron 5ubbard & will talk more about this eFperience in a different conteFt a little later 3or now, all & want to say is that my stint with the #hurch lasted less than two years NNN This can be Luite common among 5uman Adults, to go from one group to another, staying only a limited time &n the last forty years, since the 5ippie )ovement and the resulting large influF of new 5uman Adults, more and more groups have sprung up with

a wide variety of different approaches and techniLues for changing thingsD so when one group turns out to be unsatisfactory for some reason, another one is always there waiting for you Today the back of the theater is overflowing with them, and & want to take a closer look at some of these groups and their characteristics &n general we can say the basic difference between a 5uman #hild and a 5uman Adult is the demand for change, coupled with a self"determined action on the part of the 5uman Adult 5uman #hildren might complain about the movies and their predicament, but they will never do anything about it, paralyMed instead by fear Therefore, for a group to last any length of time in the back of the theater, they must cater to and satisfy the 5uman Adult+s need to be part of a group and their obsession to change things So they all promise certain very specific things to their followersK * They claim they can teach a 5uman Adult how to change the content of the movies they are watching % how to change their life, their reality % (R , They claim they can teach a 5uman Adult how to change their emotional reactions to the movies they are watching, even if they can+t change the movies themselves % AN= . They claim their followers will be happier, more prosperous, more loving, more peaceful, more wise, more powerful, more of everything 7good8 if they follow the group+s instructions &t+s not possible to talk about all of the individual groups % there are far too many of them % but there is some value in looking at a few of the general categories you have to choose from 3irst, there are the 7Activists 8 These are the groups whose intent is to change the movies themselves by actually doing somethingB animal activists, environmental activists, political activists, social activists, black activists, human rights activists, consumer activists, women+s activists, peace activists, intentional communities, Save the /hales, Save the #hildren, Save the 'lanet, and so on 3or eFample, over the last fifty years there have been more than eighty anti"nuclear groups operating in the Anited States alone 6 Then there is a category & will call 7altered states of consciousness 8 &n this group you can find meditation, hypnotherapy, breathing techniLues, yoga, prayer, the *,"Step programs, all kinds of prescription and illegal drugs, biofeedback, stress management, laughter therapy, tantric seF, and more The goal of all these groups is to change the way you view your movies % your life, your reality % by changing your awareness, or in some cases, by escaping the movies entirely through greater unconsciousness The third maEor category is the New Age, which includes a whole slew of yogis, shamans, swamis, and gurus, along with meditation, Abraham, 'he Secret, the 7Law of Attraction,8 % Course in (irac$es, 5eart)ath, dolphin"assisted therapy, light and color therapy, Reiki, Emotional 3reedom TechniLue, Electromagnetic 3ield :alancing OE)3P, magnetic field therapy, Thought 3ield Therapy, 'sych"@, channeling, Native American teachings, and the list goes on seemingly forever These groups attempt to give you some sort of control over your life by offering techniLues, ceremonies, and rituals designed to produce an alternative reality, if used correctly % to change your perception about your reality

And then there are the 7Eternal :liss Seekers,8 which can also be called the 75eart" #entered Approach,8 touting meditation, positive thinking, compassion, salvation, love, happiness, abundance, prosperity, goodness, beauty, mindfulness, inner tranLuility, peace on earth and good will toward men The basic idea of these groups is that 7negativity is bad computer programming89 that can be removed through 7a powerful Eourney of the heart in which we come to understand the role each of us plays in creating the life % and the world % we long to live in, the one perfectly designed to help us live in happiness, fulfillment, and bliss 8; O!ou+ll notice that 7meditation8 appears in each of the last three groups &t+s the techniLue of choice for many 5uman Adults % ancient, but very popular these days % and offered as part of the agenda of a number of different groups with different goals % like a cure"all P NNN To be clear and complete, & also need to mention some groups you won<t find in the back of the theater 3or eFample, you won+t find groups representing the world+s maEor religions % #hristianity, &slam, 5induism, :uddhism, and -udaism Owhich comprise about three"Luarters of the world+s populationP &nstead, they are part of the movies playing out on the screen /hile these religions might pay lip service to greater happiness in the 7here and now,8 their underlying and ultimate message is that their followers should not eFpect any real improvement in their lives % any real change in their reality % while alive, but focus on adhering to various rules and regulations of beliefs and behaviors with the hope of being rewarded later % most typically after they die This kind of message is perfect for the 5uman #hildren sitting glued to their chairs, but not at all acceptable to a 5uman Adult who wants change N(/H That doesn+t mean there are no 5uman Adults involved in these maEor religions There are, some (ften they are kind and loving and compassionate and well"intentioned, and have chosen to go back into the seated portion of the theater to minister to the 5uman #hildren /hat you more commonly find in the back of the theater are splinter groups of these religions % much smaller clusters of 5uman Adults who claim to have found new ways to lessen the pain and suffering of life in the moment while clinging to the basic tenets of their faith, such as Ien :uddhists, :aha+i, Advaita Gedanta, #hristian Scientists, to name Eust a few There is also a very long list *$ of other splinter groups, commonly called 7cults8 Odepending on who+s doing the callingP, that attract those 5uman Adults who have given up on conventional religion but still need some kind of organiMed system of morality Scientology and )oral Re"Armament, my personal choices in the past, fall into this category The same thing holds true for politics &n the Anited States, maEor parties such as the Republicans and =emocrats are in the movies you watch :ut in the back of the theater you+ll find the Libertarians, the <reen 'arty, the #onstitution 'arty, the Tea 'arty, America+s &ndependent 'arty, and so on, that afford a 5uman Adult the opportunity to Eoin a political group as their method of trying to change things, despite the odds, and knowing full well they are up against a well"entrenched two"party system whose real goal

is not to change anything Owhich is why they are preferred and maintained by the votes of the 5uman #hildrenP #onventional medicine is also part of the .= movies, since its main focus is on suppressing symptoms pharmacologically rather than changing the cause of any disease 5owever, in the back of the theater you+ll find over one"hundred alternative therapy groups such as acupuncture, AleFander techniLue, A@, aroma therapy, ayurveda, :ach flower remedies, body work, chelation therapy, #hinese medicine, chiropractic, craniosacral therapy, crystal healing, and that+s Eust through the 7#+s8 in the alphabet ** 5eteroseFuality, marriage, and the nuclear family are part of the movies as well, and these haven+t changed at all in human history :ut in the back are groups practicing homoseFuality, swinging, polygamy, polyamory, free love, :=S), voyeurism, eFhibitionism, and celibacy, for eFample :asically, if you turn on the TG any day of the week and watch the soap operas, you+ll see what+s in the movies keeping the 5uman #hildren entertained and pacifiedB conventional religions, conventional politics, conventional medicine, and conventional seFuality /hat you won<t see in the soaps are the groups available to 5uman Adults in the back of the theater % with the eFception of some mocking and fleeting reference in a movie or two to make sure the 5uman #hildren don+t believe any of the promising rumors that might find their way around the theater & don+t mean to imply you can+t be a 5uman Adult if you are a monogamous Republican who still goes to church and sees a doctor #onventional religion, conventional politics, conventional medicine, and conventional seFuality are the four cornerstones of the movies % the life, the reality % all 5uman #hildren and Adults are immersed in every moment of every day, no matter where they are standing or sitting in the movie theater The 7conventional8 is all they have ever known, never really Luestioned, and therefore find them hard to leave This is especially true of new 5uman Adults who need to belong to a group and have not yet found sufficient replacements in the back of the theater /hat & a! saying is that this will change over time As a 5uman Adult becomes more comfortable in its new surroundings and finds new groups to Eoin, conventional religion, conventional politics, and conventional medicine will be replaced by groups in the back of the theater, while conventional seFuality hangs on for dear life NNN (bviously, there are many, many more groups for 5uman Adults to Eoin than & have mentioned % literally hundreds, probably over a thousand of them now, some of which do not fall into one of my main categories, either 3or eFample, there are more than two doMen 7A3( religions8 listed in the /ikipedia *, that can be found in the back of the theater So this was not meant to be a complete list of groups or categories, but intended to give a cursory idea of the kinds of opportunities available to a new 5uman AdultD and & don+t know any new 5uman Adult who has not Eoined at least one of these groups within a short time of leaving their chair After Scientology, & Eoined the #hiropractic group, who Luite clearly state their goal is to change the world by correcting vertebral subluFation, one person at a timeD and & stayed connected with this group for more than twenty years

The fun part is that you can Eoin more than one group at a time if both groups will permit it /hile part of the #hiropractic group, & also later belonged to Loving )ore, Applied )etapsychology, the Royal"'riest channeling group, Al"Anon, and the <roup for the Scientific Reappraisal of the 5&GUA&=S 5ypothesis /hile not actually Eoining officially, & also 7audited8 groups connected with the 7Seth8 books, with /alsch+s Conversations with God and Sitchin+s 3arth Chronic$es, with % Course in (irac$es, Brantia, meditation, numerology, astrology, Tai #hi, 3ocusing, and Rosicrucianism & attended numerous self"help seminars and workshops, tried 'he Secret, listened to Abraham, watched 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e, and read everything & could from 'eter )arshall, -ohn :radshaw, Sai :aba, Ayn Rand, - @rishnamurti, A < @rishnamurti, =eepak #hopra, Eckart Tolle, )ahatma <andhi, and others Then in *;;. & Eoined one of the most radical and promising groups & ever encountered in the back of the movie theater &t was an intentional community called IE<< that had a ten"year history before & Eoined, now located about an hour outside of :erlin, <ermany & was attracted to this group by their 'we$ve 'heses or a 2on8)io$ent Society*., written by =ieter =uhm, and their practice of free love IE<< no longer promotes the writings of =r =uhm, nor do they practice free love any more The maEority of people & knew there during the *;;$+s have since moved on to create another intentional community called Tamera in southern 'ortugal, which &+ll talk about at a later time :ut for more than a decade & thought this group was really going to change things and & was eFcited to be part of it /hich groupOsP did you Eoin0

3((TN(TES * #hicago G Dia$ogue, Part 'wo O*;6,P, re"mastered and re"released in ,$$, by Rhino Records % :ack to reading , /ikipedia % Ap /ith 'eople % :ack to reading . /ikipedia % )oral Re"Armament % :ack to reading 1 Bp 5ith Peop$e song lyrics % :ack to reading 2 /bid+ % :ack to reading 4 /ikipedia % <roupthink % :ack to reading 6 /ikipedia " List of anti"nuclear groups in the Anited States % :ack to reading 9 'ublisher+s /eekly review of Terry #ole"/hittaker+s book, Live "our B$iss % :ack to reading ; /elshons, -ohn E , author of (ne Soul, (ne Love, (ne 5eart in his review of Terry #ole"/hittaker+s book, Live "our B$iss % :ack to reading *$ List of cults % :ack to reading ** List of alternative therapy groups % :ack to reading *, /ikipedia " List of A3( religions % :ack to reading *. Twelve Theses for a Non"Giolent Society % :ack to reading

CHAPTER %
&HAT"S &RONG &ITH THIS PICTURE'
:ack to the Table of #ontents irtually all 5uman Adults have gathered together in various groups in the back of the theater, each group trying to discover how to change their reality, usually with a leader providing guidance to the followers, often with some written teFt or rules or guidelines Each 5uman Adult has achieved at least a modicum of self"responsibility at this pointD and some of the groups even give lip service to 7individual change,8 although the main focus is still on 7them,8 7out there,8 who continue to involve people like us in movies full of pain and suffering :ut as & said earlier, being a 5uman Adult is not a 7bad8 way to spend your lifeD and there are some amaMing results that can be achieved by belonging to one or more of these groups &t+s possible, for eFample, the content of the .= movies in which you are still immersed might appear to change slightly after applying something you learned in a group Some 5uman Adults might see more changes than others &t+s also possible the movie content doesn+t change, but you find certain techniLues of how to better deal with the pain and suffering inflicted by the movies Some 5uman Adults might learn to deal with it better than others !ou can even have all kinds of mystical or eFtrasensory or paranormal or psychic eFperiences, moments of 7union with <od8 or 7oneness with All That &s8 or 7cosmic consciousness8 or so"called 7enlightenment 8 !ou could learn to control your heart rate, lie on a bed of nails, move obEects and bend spoons, make parking spaces appear where you want them, do psychic surgery, have out"of"body eFperiences, become telepathic or clairvoyant, even levitate &f these are your goals, you can accomplish them all as a 5uman Adult in the back of the movie theater, assuming you find the right group and apply yourself diligently to the task :ut there+s a problem A big one Several big ones, as a matter of fact /hen they arrive at the back of the movie theater, most 5uman Adults believe, ultimately, life should not include any pain and suffering at all, that your reality could actually be one of constant and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love % 5eaven on Earth, if you will :ut you+re not there yet, despite all the work you+ve done and all the techniLues you+ve learned and all the meditating you+ve 7satsang8 through /hy not0 3or two reasons (ne is the belief in life without pain and suffering is Eust that % a be$ie D and there+s no evidence this belief is true 5ave you ever met % &+m not talking about hearing or reading second"hand stories from the past % have you ever !et anyone in present time living in constant and true and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love0 O7#onstant and true and abiding8 eliminates those few who spend their lives trying to fake eternal bliss P &f it were possible, don+t you think it would have happened Eust once to some 5uman Adult in the back of the theater whom you know, or your friend knows,

or your friend+s friend knows0 After all, many of these groups claim it+s possible for everyone to achieve The second reason is that life inside the movie theater is not designed to include constant and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love, as we+ll see in a later chapter &t will never happen there True, you might be able to have more financial success, for eFample, as a result of Eoining some groupD but your love life then goes to hell (r you might find your 7soulmate8 and have years of marital bliss, but for some reason you can+t make enough money for the things you want (r many circumstances around you can seem to be going well, but then you or a family member or a loved one suffer an uneFpected accident or illness and everything changes again !ou might even develop a mystical power or two and have moments of 7oneness,8 only to have the high wear off eventually and discover you+re still not happy with your life most of the time The truth is, as a member of a group in the back of the movie theater, you will never change the basic storyline of the movies, at least not in any significant and lasting way, or in the way you think you want to )any have tried, but virtually none has succeededD so you+re not alone in your desire or in your frustration 'ut very simply, a 5uman Adult in the back of the movie theater can never get all its ducks in a row at one time, no matter what it does or believes or pretends &t+s Eust not possible /hy0 The first huge problem is that none of these groups actually work % none of them produce the results they claim they can :efore you slam this book closed and try to defend your personal choice of a particular group or two, please take an honest and obEective moment to considerK C when you look at the world today, do you really think the human race as a whole is more peaceful, more loving, more tolerant, more fulfilled, happier, safer, better fed and better housed than it was ten years ago0 (r fifty or a hundred years ago0 /hen you watch the evening news, doesn+t the opposite appear to be true0 =oesn+t it seem like the world % as portrayed in the .= movies surrounding you % is heading in the 7wrong8 direction, away from constant and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love and into greater depths of pain and suffering despite all the efforts of all the different groups that have grown eFponentially over the same period of time0 C after hundreds upon hundreds of years, of hours upon hours of meditation by millions upon millions of people, not much has been achieved, other than maybe a few very isolated cases After that much meditation, where are all the so"called 7enlightened ones,8 and why don+t they comprise a bigger percentage of our population0 C if 'he Secret or the 7Law of Attraction8 actually worked, we should see a large number of their followers manifesting wonderful things in their lives on a regular basis & wouldn+t even reLuire a *$$T success rate to consider these kinds of techniLues effective &f 'he Secret or the 7Law of Attraction8 worked 2$T of the time for 2$T of the people who tried it, & might deem it worthy of attention and praise :ut when only a very

few people get results only a very few times out of many when they use these techniLuesK C after all the positive thinking and compassion and pilgrimages and prayers and altars and sweat lodges and stone circles and ceremonies and rituals and sit"ins and demonstrations and protests and endless Course in (irac$es< meetings, we+re still no closer to peace on this planet than we+ve ever been Even the 5ippie )ovement had little or nothing to do with ending the Gietnam /ar, and at the moment we+re involved in two more wars Eust like it C all the profound changes in human history have come from a single individual, not a group % both 7good8 O-esus, :uddha, )uhammad, )oses, #onfucius, )artin Luther, #opernicus, Einstein, Thomas Edison, AleFander <raham :ell, and #ai Lun % who invented paper in #hina in *$2 A=P and 7bad8 O<hengis @han, 5itler, Stalin, )ao, 'ol 'ot, etc P & repeat, none of the groups in the back of the movie theater produces anything close to what they claim for the overwhelming number of their followers & do not say any of this EudgmentallyD & am not blaming them, or criticiMing them, or saying they are 7wrong8 for their lack of success O&n fact, & know their lack of success is perfect for the way the movie theater is designed P & am merely stating fact, pointing to the elephant in the room, eFplaining that the emperor is naked Nor am & saying none of these groups work because they didn+t work for me As you read, & was involved with a lot of so"called spiritual and self"help groups for more than forty years, involving hundreds if not thousands of people & have never met one person out of those thousands whom & would say has achieved what the group promised 5ave you0 & also want to remind you that & decline to be a guru, teacher, coach, mentor, or leader of any group, so & have no vested interest in making them all 7wrong8 and myself 7right8 in order to get you to follow me instead & am not interested in 7followers,8 so & am completely free to tell you the truth as & see it, and as anyone else can see it if they look closely and carefully and honestly NNN Some of the groups conveniently eFplain why they are so ineffective, offering reasons like, 7No pain, no gain,8 or 7&t takes years and years, and even lifetimes, for our techniLue to work,8 or 7!ou must be doing something wrong,8 or 7!our desire is not pure and sincere enough,8 or 7!ou+re not spiritual enough to make it work,8 or 7Remember, there are siFty"four levels to go through to be enlightened 8 The most common eFcuse a group makes for its ineffectiveness is, 7we don+t have enough people in our group to make it work 8 So every once in a while, one or more of these groups will go back into the main theater and try to get some of the 5uman #hildren up out of their seats to Eoin them, with some success some of the time, on the theory more members in the group will make it more effective (ccasionally a few new

5uman Adult recruits make their way to the back of the theater as a result, but not enough to make any difference )y biggest obEection to things like 'he Secret and the 7Law of Attraction,8 for eFample, is that when they don+t work, we feel like it+s our fault, that there+s something wrong with us After all, there are supposedly all these other people who use them successfully, so it must be me &+m not good enough to make it work &+m doing something wrong &+m worthless &+m a failure The problem is 7all these other people who use them successfully8 don+t eFist either Sure, there are isolated cases where someone used 'he Secret and 7manifested8 a new car % we+ll find out later whether that was actually true % and, of course, Rhonda :yrne probably 7manifested8 a lot of money for herself when she made up 'he Secret The Truth is there is nothing wrong with you, and there never has beenD the error is with the group and its philosophy, techniLue, ceremony or ritual They simply don+t work consistently for even a small fraction of their followers &f any group in the back of the theater were really successful in producing constant and true and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love, don+t you think word would get around Luickly and everyone else would leave their group and Eoin that one0 &f any one of them were even moderately successful in changing the movies or a person+s reaction to them, thereby providing real relief from the pain and suffering % rather than being Eust a temporary and well"marketed fad % don+t you think most 5uman Adults would be beating down their door to Eoin0 &nstead what we see are new groups popping up like popcorn in our movie theater /hat more proof does anyone need that the eFisting groups don+t work0 /hen 5uman Adults can step back from the groupthink and be honest with themselves, they know their group doesn+t work The problem is we don+t want to admit it, because one of these groups has to work /e want them to work, very badly /e need them to work /e have to believe the group we+ve Eoined offers us the relief we seek from the pain and suffering &f none of the groups work, we+ll feel hopeless % no better off than the 5uman #hildren still sitting in their seats % and that+s the worst feeling in the world, to be avoided at all costs There comes a time for many 5uman Adults when they cannot escape or deny the obvious forever and decide the particular group they belong to at the time is not working % is not successful in creating the change they want At that point they will simply move on to a different group, still convinced so!e group must work and all they need to do is keep looking for the 7right8 one (ver the lifetime of a 5uman Adult, they might belong to a few, if not doMens, of these groups, trying desperately % and futilely % to find one that works, that does what it says it can do, that offers constant and true and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love NNN -ed )c@enna doesn+t have very nice things to say about the yogis and swamis and shamans and gurus and leaders of all these ineffective groups, calling them 7snake oil salesmen,8 as if they were doing something 7wrong 8

,Gurus and !editation and spiritua$ teachings are a$$ gent$e deceptions !eant to soothe the inner coward, not orge the inner hero9+ Gurus are the worst egotists the wor$d has ever seen+ %$$ gurus are we$ are organi>ations providing petty e.periences to their o$$owers+ 'he guru ga!e is a pro itab$e industry4 try and !a*e two !i$$ion do$$ars a year any other way+-* /hile all this might be factually accurate, & don+t share -ed+s Eudgment that goes along with it !es, maybe there are a few leaders of these groups who are out to make a name and fame and fortune for themselves, and realiMe leading a group of 5uman Adults in the back of the theater can produce eFactly that for the!, even if the group doesn+t produce any results for its followers :ut even that isn+t 7wrong 8 (n the whole, & like to think many of these leaders are sincerely trying to find some answers After all, someone has to be able to figure this out, don+t they0 'lease0 :ut all leaders of all groups end up hitting an impasse, mainly because their philosophy or techniLue or practice contains maEor and irreparable inconsistencies There is a theory in social psychology called 7cognitive dissonance,,8 which is 7an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by Eustifying or rationaliMing them 8. As a 5uman Adult, for eFample, you may be opposed to cruelty to animals, but you still want to eat meat This causes you a problem you must resolve in your mind somehow ,%n ear$y version o cognitive dissonance theory appeared in Leon &estinger#s 1FGH boo*, I5hen Prophecy &ai$s+< 'his boo* gave an inside account o be$ie persistence in !e!bers o a B&1 doo!sday cu$t, and docu!ented the increased prose$yti>ation they e.hibited a ter the $eader#s Iend o the wor$d< prophecy ai$ed to co!e true+ 'he prediction o the 3arth#s destruction, supposed$y sent by a$iens to the $eader o the group, beca!e a Idiscon ir!ed e.pectancy< that caused dissonance between the cognitions, Ithe wor$d is going to end< and Ithe wor$d did not end+< %$though so!e !e!bers abandoned the group when the prophecy ai$ed, !ost o the !e!bers $essened their dissonance by accepting a new be$ie , that the p$anet was spared because o the aith o the group+-1 -ed )c@enna suggests a 5uman Adult will eFperience something similar which he calls 7Spiritual =issonance8K ,% co!!on e.a!p$e o Spiritua$ Dissonance wou$d be4 / God $oves us, why does 6e a$$ow so !uch su eringD 'he certainty o God<s $ove is the interna$ be$ie + 'he obviousness o hu!an su ering is the e.terna$ rea$ity+ /s God unab$e to end su eringD 2o, we !ust answer, because 6e can do whatever 6e wants+ 'here ore, 6e !ust a$$ow or even cause su ering+ But how can that be i 6e $oves usD So!ething so!ewhere has to give or, pre erab$y, we avoid as*ing the =uestion in the irst p$ace+-2 =ifferent groups offer different solutions for this Spiritual =issonance (ne common techniLue is to create a new belief that builds a bridge between the two conflicting onesB

/nterna$ be$ie 4 7<od loves us 8 3.terna$ rea$ity4 7There is suffering in the world 8 Bridge be$ie 4 7/e only suffer because we are not worthy of <od+s love 8 (rK /nterna$ be$ie 4 7/e were made in the image of <od, who is perfect in every way 8 3.terna$ rea$ity4 7/e do bad things as human beings 8 Bridge be$ie 4 7Life is a school, a training center, where we are supposed to learn and mature into perfect souls 8 )y favorite eFample comes from my recent eFperience in the intentional community of Tamera in southern 'ortugal (ne of the spiritual leaders there knows, deep in her heart, 7Eudgment is wrong8 % her first contradiction, for to say 7Eudgment is wrong8 is a Eudgment itself :ut because of her compassion for others, she wants to change the world and make it a better place to live She+s smart enough to realiMe wanting to change the world is a Eudgment things are wrong and need to be changed, so she comes up with a solutionB 7/e must accept things Eust as they are, without Eudgment, and then we can change them 8 /hat 0H Simple logic says if you don+t Eudge something as 7good8 or 7bad,8 or 7right8 or 7wrong,8 you will see that 7something8 as perfect eFactly the way it is Any action you then take will not be motivated by the need or wish to change it at all O/e+ll talk a lot more about this concept in later parts of the book P :ut none of the groups in the back of the theater is completely logical <laring contradictions show up very Luickly in all the groups when an honest and obEective mind shines the light of reason and discernment on them Some groups simply pass off their inconsistencies to a higher authorityB 7The Lord works in mysterious ways,8 or 7&t+s the Eob of the clergy to grapple with such imponderable issues 8 (r they tell their followers to ignore the tough Luestions altogether, or deny them, or simply stay occupied and distracted so these kinds of Luestions and countless others like them can never gain a foothold in our awareness The main obEective, however, is to stop the discomfortK ,'he !ost sincere see*ers are 9 not see*ing truth or answersJ they<re see*ing re$ie ro! Spiritua$ Dissonance+ Providing this re$ie is the $i eb$ood o the re$igious and spiritua$ !ar*etp$ace+ /t has nothing to do with truth or awa*ening+ /n act, ?ust the opposite+ /n the ina$ ana$ysis, stripped o a$$ its ho$y pretensions, the entire spiritua$ !ar*etp$ace is rea$$y nothing !ore than an e.istentia$ =uic*8$ube shop, and whi$e there !ay be an end$ess variety in pac*aging, there is rea$$y on$y one product+ Spiritua$ Consonance is what a$$ see*ers see*J an end to disco! ort9+ But the consonance they see* can on$y be ound in deeper unconsciousness9 'o the best o !y *now$edge, spiritua$$y8inc$ined peop$e, ro! a$$ wa$*s and discip$ines, at a$$ stages, are rea$$y doing nothing !ore than !aintaining or deepening their entrench!ent, and !aybe pidd$ing around with !i$d$y a$tered states+-4

& still have many, many people & call my friends in all of the groups &+ve belonged to % intelligent, well"meaning, well"intentioned 5uman Adults who care a lot about this world, probably a lot like youD and somehow it becomes easy to overlook these contradictions in order not to rock the boat the group is sailing in The truth is we don+t want our group to have inconsistencies and contradictionsD so they don+t, as far as we are concerned, even though they are written all over the elephant in the middle of the living room Recently one of the leaders of a group & belonged to declared its -ewish members should no longer observe Shabbat, supposedly to help them break old patterns of religious tradition on the way to creating a new culture 5owever, the main group itself % basically #hristian % continued to hold their Sunday morning services, complete with %!a>ing Grace as a hymn, and even called one of their daily meetings the 7<ospel 5our 8 No one spoke up or asked Luestions or issued a yellow card for hypocrisy /hen you+re outside one of these groups looking obEectively at their beliefs, it+s relatively easy to spot many of the inconsistencies and contradictions /hen you+re inside the group, however, it+s very difficult not to succumb to groupthink After all, there has to be so!e group that can produce what they claim, doesn+t there0 !ou+ve looked everywhere and decided the group you+re in is the best you+re going to find, so who are you to Luestion the wisdom and authority of the group leader, even in the face of obvious illogic0 And you still have an overwhelming need to be part of a group and not be 7out there8 all alone, so you will swallow almost anything that sounds half"way plausible in order to Eustify and eFplain away the fallacies in their thinking (ne of the best techniLues any group can use to cover up their inconsistencies and contradictions is called 7#rimestop,8 as defined by <eorge (rwell in his novel 1FKLK ,Cri!estop !eans the acu$ty o stopping short, as though by instinct, at the thresho$d o any dangerous thought+ /t inc$udes the power o not grasping ana$ogies, o ai$ing to perceive $ogica$ errors, o !isunderstanding the si!p$est argu!ents i they are ini!ica$ to /ngsoc, and o being bored or repe$$ed by any train o thought which is capab$e o $eading in a heretica$ direction+ Cri!estop, in short, !eans protective stupidity+-6 NNN #an all these groups be 7wrong8 about everything all of the time0 (n the surface, that sounds Luite ridiculous and impossible :ut think about it for a minute &magine you+re trying to solve a long and involved math problem, and the first eLuation is 7,V,W08 &f you get that answer wrong, every other calculation you make after that is going to be wrong, too /ell, technically & guess that isn+t eFactly true There may be other eLuations within the problem that don+t depend on your first answer, and you could get them right !ou could also make other mathematical mistakes in the process and Eust happen % by chance % to arrive at a right answer along the way :ut your final answer is always going to be wrong There+s no way around that &n other words, if your basic premise is faulty, all subseLuent results that depend on that basic premise will be faulty as well

,/n $i e, contradictions do not e.ist+ 5henever you thin* you are acing a contradiction, chec* your pre!ises+ "ou wi$$ ind that one o the! is wrong+-9 ,/t !eans there aren<t !i$$ions o things wrong, ?ust one, right at the source, and everything e$se that appears wrong ste!s ro! that sing$e core error+-; This is not Eust true of math problemsD it+s also true of every religion, philosophy, spiritual practice, self"improvement techniLue, belief system, ceremony and ritual Every group in the back of the theater is 7wrong8 and cannot and will not produce the results they claim they canD and the simple reason is that they all begin with the same incorrect premise &n the neFt few chapters, weQre going to find out what that incorrect premise is NNN Everyone is looking for solutions to lessen the pain and suffering of life, to change the reality they feel subEected to in the .= movies surrounding them The problem is those answers cannot be found in the movie theater Some have come close at times, but no one has put it all together, because it cannot be put all together No 5uman Adult is going to find constant and true and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love as long as they are in the back of the movie theater &t doesn+t work that way &+m sure by now you have figured out the most important reason whyB All the 5uman Adults and all the groups they belong to are still inside the !ovie theater Not one freed prisoner has ever left 'lato+s #ave at this point in the metaphorD and with very few eFceptions, everyone still considers the shadows on the wall % the .= movies they are watching % to be 7real 8 (nce in a while, someone will look up at the black ball hanging from the center of the movie theater and see those bright lights shooting toward the wrap"around screens, wondering what the hell that+s all about :ut almost no one seems to know And the sign on the door in the back wall says, 7=o Not Enter % EFtremely dangerous 8

3((TN(TES * )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading , /ikipedia % #ognitive dissonance % :ack to reading . 3estinger, L 'heory o cognitive dissonance % :ack to reading 1 3estinger, L , Riecken, 5 / , > Schachter, S 5hen prophecy ai$s % :ack to reading 2 )c@enna, -ed /d+ % :ack to reading 4 /bid+ % :ack to reading 6 (rwell, <eorge 1FKL % :ack to reading 9 Rand, Ayn %t$as Shrugged % :ack to reading ; )c@enna, -ed /d % :ack to reading

CHAPTER (
THE LIBRARY
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There are three other doors in the back of the movie theater & haven+t mentioned
(ne has a sign saying, 7)en+s RoomD8 another says 7Ladies RoomD8 and above the third door is a sign saying, 7Library,8 and that door is never closed &n between groups, or as & began to realiMe the particular group & belonged to at the time wasn+t going to produce what they were offering and my membership was coming to an end, & would go into this Library and read, looking for new inspiration and hope &+ve mentioned in passing some of the titles and authors & spent time with, and & had the chance to study many of the teFts written by the founders and leaders of various groups, saving me the trouble of actually Eoining that group in order to discover its inconsistencies and contradictions )ost of the books in the Library aren+t worth mentioning, at least in this discussion :ut there is some very important information & discovered while reading you should know about, if you don+t already % information absolutely critical to anyone wishing to change their reality So &+m going to make a big Eump right now from philosophy and religion to science, from metaphors and analogies to cold, hard scientific eFperiments The subEect is Luantum physics and what has become known Oand widely misunderstoodP as the 75olographic Aniverse8 % monumental discoveries made in the last few decades which literally change everything we have believed about our physical universe =on+t worry &+m not going to get scientifically technical or say something any 5uman Adult couldn+t understand :ut if you are still not satisfied with any of the groups you+ve Eoined % if you+re looking around trying to find out why none of the groups have produced anything close to what you want to eFperience and what you think is possible to eFperience % then you should spend the neFt few chapters in the Library with meD and bring your computer & want to say at the outset & am not an eFpert in Luantum physics, so & have invited the real eFperts % 'h = +s in physics, professors of Luantum physics at maEor universities worldwide, authors of many books % to speak to you directly by using a lot of their written Luotes and video interviews :asically, & want to assure you that what you will be reading will not be my opinions, but those of the people who really know what they+re talking about &+ve included a number of links to videos to watch, and & strongly suggest you visit those links and watch those videos as you read (kay 5ere we goK NNN

/e+ve known for a long time % at least, & was taught in school more than fifty years ago % the physical world around us is not as 7solid8 as it looks and feels &n fact, the universe is made up of mostly empty space This becomes very clear when we take a ride on a rocket into outer space and see so much 7nothing8 between a few particles of matter called stars and galaFies As the technology has improved and we have gone deeper and deeper into 7inner space8 as well, we find the same thing in the atomic and sub"atomic worlds % mostly 7nothing 8 The very best and most fun way to eFperience this for yourself is to watch a nine" minute video called Powers o 'en, from the office of #harles and Ray Eames, which they produced for &:) in *;66 !ou can watch it here There have been other videos made along the same linesB Cos!ic )oyage O*;;4, produced for &)AS and narrated by )organ 3reemanP, and Cos!ic Moo! O*;49, produced by the National 3ilm :oard of #anada P The most important thing to see in these videos is that 7outer space8 and 7inner space8 look very much alikeD there+s hardly anything there eFcept empty space 3or eFample, if you took the nucleus of a hydrogen atom and blew it up to the siMe of a basketball, the electron that defines the outermost 7edge8 of that atom would be twenty miles away from the nucleus And in between0 Nothing Nada Iilch -ust empty space 75ithin a$$ the ato!s and !o$ecu$es E a$$ the space within the! E the partic$es ta*e up an insigni icant a!ount o the vo$u!e o an ato! 8* 7/n act, the universe is !ost$y e!pty 8, SoK the first thing we have to understand is that matter is not 7solid,8 even though it looks and feels that way to us 7(atter is not what we have $ong thought it to be 8. )atter is, in fact, full of empty space NNN The Powers o 'en video ends at the limit of our understanding at that time O*;66P, looking at a single proton in the nucleus of a carbon atom :ut as the technology improved over the years, and scientists were able to dive deeper and deeper into 7inner space,8 they discovered the very small particles they found did not behave as they were supposed to, at least not according to all the laws of physics we had believed for the last hundreds of years The most famous eFperiment that caused a real commotion is called the =ouble Slit &t was actually first done with light in *9$* by an English scientist, Thomas !oung !oung demonstrated that light was not actually a particle, as had been believed forever, but acted like a wave instead Then in *;4*, this same eFperiment was performed with electrons rather than light 1, and finally in *;61 with Eust one electron at a time 2 Since then it has been repeated and refined and repeated again, over and over, with the same result every time

&n September ,$$,, this =ouble Slit eFperiment was voted 7the most beautiful eFperiment84 by readers of Physics 5or$d, and noted Luantum physicist Richard 3eynman has said 7a$$ o =uantu! !echanics can be g$eaned ro! care u$$y thin*ing through the i!p$ications o this sing$e e.peri!ent 86 That+s how important this eFperiment is, and how much it has changed everyone+s thinking of how the world works So let+s take a look at how this eFperiment is done and why its results are so startlingK

/e+re going to start by taking small pieces of matter, like little ::+s, and shooting a stream of them out of a gun against a barrier that has a single slit in it

:ehind the barrier is a sensitive screen, so when a :: hits it, it makes a mark, like thisK

)ost of the ::+s hit the barrier, but the ones that go through the slit hit the screen and make a pattern Eust like the shape of the slit

All that makes perfect sense So now we+ll add a second slit in the barrierK

Kand shoot the ::+s at it againD and we get what we+d eFpect to getB a pattern of two slits on the screen

(kay, so far so good Now, what would happen if we sent waves of water toward the screen instead of firing ::+s at it0

/ith Eust one slit in the barrier, part of the wave goes through the slit and forms a pattern on the screen that looks a lot like the :: pattern with only one slit The most intensity on the screen is where the top of the wave hits, directly in line with the slit

:ut if we put a barrier with t)o slits in it between the waves and the screen, a completely different thing happens

/hen the water goes through both slits, the new waves created by the slits on the other side of the barrier hit each other on the way to the screen

/hen the top of one wave hits the bottom of another wave, they cancel each other out This is called 7destructive interference 8 !ou can easily see this when you drop two pebbles in a pond some distance apart and watch what happens when the ripples meet So when we send waves through a barrier with two slits, we get what is called an 7interference pattern8 on the screen, like thisK

The bright lines on the screen are where the tops of the waves Eoined each other Oconstructive interferenceP and then made it to the screen The dark spaces in between are where the top of one wave hit the bottom of another wave O destructive interferenceP, canceling them both out and never making it to the screen So, when we send 7particles of matter,8 like the ::+s, through two slits, we get two definite patterns on the screen that look like the slits they came through /hen we send 7waves8 through two slits, we get an inter erence pattern on the screen Simple enough Now let+s try this eFperiment with electrons instead of ::+sK

/e have always thought about an electron as a really, really small :: whirling around the nucleus of an atom % a very small 7particle of matter,8 and solid, like a :: So we would eFpect to see the same pattern on the screen we got when we shot ::+sD and we do when there is one slit in the barrierK

Kand when we shoot a beam of electrons through two slits in the barrier, we would eFpect to get a pattern of two slits on the screen Eust like the ::+s BUT &E DON"T*

&nstead, we get the same interference pattern we got when we sent 7waves8 through two slits

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(riginally, scientists thought this might be because they were firing a lot of electrons toward the screen at one time, and maybe some of the electrons were crashing into each other on the other side of the barrier, canceling each other out and not making it to the screen :y *;61 they were finally able to develop a way to fire one electron at a time at the screen, so there was no way possible for them to interfere with each other :ut they still got an inter erence pattern OTo watch a short and well"done animated video of this =ouble Slit eFperiment from 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e, click here P 5ow is that possible0 5ow is it possible to send one tiny particle of 7matter8 at a time through two slits and have it form a wave interference pattern0 There was only one eFplanation that made any senseB An electron is a wave rather than a particleD it is not a solid piece of matter as we have always thoughtH )ore recent eFperiments have discovered the same thing holds true for the nucleus of an atom, not Eust the electrons 7(atter is not what we have $ong thought it to be+ 'o the scientist, !atter has a$ways been thought o as sort o the u$ti!ate in that which is static and predictab$e9+ 5e $i*e to thin* o space as e!pty and !atter as so$id+ But in act, there is essentia$$y nothing to !atter whatsoeverJ it<s co!p$ete$y insubstantia$+ 'a*e a $oo* at an ato!+ 5e thin* o it as a *ind o hard ba$$+ 'hen we say, I1h, we$$ no, not rea$$y9it<s this $itt$e tiny point o rea$$y dense !atter right at the center9+< But then it turns out that that<s not even right+ 3ven the nuc$eus, which we thin* o as so dense, pops in and out o e.istence ?ust as readi$y as the e$ectrons do 89 So the very building blocks of what we call our 7physical universe8 % the nucleus and electrons of atoms % are not Eust particles of matter, but in fact eFist as waves &n Luantum physics this is called 7wave"particle duality 8 That blew everybody+s mindD but it+s not the end of the storyK

3((TN(TES * Tiller, /illiam, 'h = , 'rofessor Emeritus, Stanford Aniversity+ 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading , 5ameroff, Stuart, ) = , Associate =irector of the #enter for #onsciousness, Aniversity of AriMona /d+ % :ack to reading . Satinover, -effrey, ) = , 'h = , Teaching 3ellow in 'hysics, !ale Aniversity /d+ % :ack to reading 1 -Xnsson # , 3$ectron di raction at !u$tip$e s$its, American -ournal of 'hysics O*;61P Golume 1,, &ssue *, pp 1"**2 % :ack to reading 2 'he (er$i8(issiro$i8Po>>i 'wo8S$it 3$ectron /nter erence 3.peri!ent % :ack to reading 4 Physics 5or$d % :ack to reading 6 <reene, :rian The Elegant AniverseB Superstrings, 5idden =imensions, and the ?uest for the Altimate Theory % :ack to reading 9 Satinover, -effrey /d+ % :ack to reading

CHAPTER +
THE FIELD
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Electrons are both waves and particles0 (ne minute they act like a particle, and the
neFt minute they act like a wave0 At the time, no one could really believe any of this was actually true Something must be wrong, they thoughtK

So the scientists modified the eFperiment to 7watch8 Owith a measuring deviceP a single electron as it went through the double slits to see if it really acted like a wave instead of a particle

5owever, the moment they observed the electron, an even stranger thing happened They got a standard 7particle8 pattern on the screen that looked eFactly as if they had fired ::+s through the two slits

The simple act of 7watching8 the electron meant it went back to behaving like a particle instead of a wave, and therefore only went through one slit, not both, and formed a pattern like the ::+s SoK the final conclusion is thisB &n its natural state, an electron is a wave rather than a particle, unti$ it is observed Then it becomes a particle with a fiFed position in space and time 7'he e$ectron is very pecu$iar in the sense that when you<re not $oo*ing, the e$ectron can be here, can be there, or can be over there9+ /t can be a$$ over this roo!, so to spea*+ But whenever we $oo* E this is the strange thing about this e$ectron E we a$ways ind the! to be in one particu$ar Geiger counter, a$though we have a roo! u$$ o Geiger counters+ 'his is the unda!enta$$y i!portant stu about the e$ectrons 8* 7'here is co!pe$$ing evidence that the on$y ti!e =uantaN ever !ani est as partic$es is when we are $oo*ing at the!+ 5hen an e$ectron isn<t being $oo*ed at, it is a$ways a wave 8, ON&n the early *;$$s, scientists had started using the term 7Luanta8 referring to the energy associated with an electron bound to an atom Oat restP which results in the stability of atoms, and of matter in general So the term 7Luantum mechanics,8 and now more commonly 7Luantum physics,8 has to do with the study of electrons and their energy

7'he word ,=uantu!- is a$so synony!ous with ,waveOpartic$e,- a ter! that is used to re er to so!ething that possesses both partic$e and wave =ua$ities 8.P Now this was truly radical % an electron is a wave until it is observed, and then it becomes a particleH The ramifications are enormous &t means reality % the physical universe which we have always thought of to be 7solid and predictable8 % is not 7real,8 not 7solid and predictable8 at all, because the basic building blocks of that universe are not particles of matter, but waves of possibilities % waves of potential locations where an electron might appear as a particle when it is observed :ut who is this 7observer08 And how does an observer change the electron from a wave into a particle0 The first Luestion is not easy to answer completely at the moment The 7observer8 can be a human being looking at somethingD it can be a machine or a device set up to watch, record, or measure somethingD it can literally be anything that attempts to 7see8 something 7out there8 in the physical universe :ut there is another level to the answer which needs more information before it can make senseD so we+ll Eust have to wait Right now it+s worth repeating the inescapable conclusions of the =ouble Slit eFperimentB According to Luantum physics, the atoms Onucleus and electronsP that make up the physical universe we consider to be so solid and so real only appear to be solid and real when they are being observed /hen they are not being observed, they return to a wave state of infinite possible locations OTo watch a short and well"done animated video of how an 7observer8 affects the =ouble Slit eFperiment, from 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e, click here P So now let+s talk about how an observer changes an electron from a wave into a particleK /ait a minuteH No one really knows the answer to the Luestion of how % or why % the observer changes an electron from a wave into a particle The eFperts can only speculateK 7Partic$es aren<t rea$$y what they see! to be+ 'hey<re !o!entary !ani estations, !o!entary Ipoppings< o this =uantu! wave unction in which there is no partic$e E there<s ?ust this waviness which can spontaneous$y pop out as partic$es 81 &n other words, when an electron is viewed by an observer, these waves of possibilities 7pop8 and assume a specific location in space and time, which is what we see as 7reality 8 This is called 7collapsing the wave function 8 7#ollapsing the wave function8 can be very successfully eFplained and predicted mathematically, using compleF Luantum mathematicsD but it+s very hard to describe in simple English :asically, it means an electron normally lives in a wave state Oa wave functionP that includes many possibilities of where it could end up as a particleD and when the electron is observed, those multiple wave states are 7collapsed8 to one state, the state of being a particle in a specific location 'hysicist Nick 5erbert says this sometimes causes him to imagine that, behind our back, the world Owhere we are not looking and cannot observeP is always 7 a radica$$y a!biguous and cease$ess$y $owing =uantu! soup 82 :ut whenever we turn around and

try to see the soup, our glance instantly freeMes it and turns it back into 7reality 8 5erbert believes this makes us all a little like )idas, the legendary king who never knew the feel of silk or the caress of a human hand because everything he touched turned to gold 7Li*ewise hu!ans can never e.perience the true te.ture o =uantu! rea$ity because everything we touch turns to !atter 84 So where are these electrons living as waves of possibilities when no one is observing them and collapsing their wave function into a particle0 The answer to that Luestion has gone through a lot of revision over the years, and has been called a lot of things as the research has progressed, includingB C the 7'lanck Scale8 Oby the physicist )aF 'lanckP C the 7implicate order8 Oby the physicist =avid :ohmP C the 7vacuum state8 C the 7Luantum wave function8 C the 7Mero point field8 C the 7superstring field8 C the 7)8 field C the 7unified field8 Today it is mainly Eust called 7The 3ield 8 &n her book, 'he &ie$d, Lynn )cTaggert defines it simply as 7a ie$d o a$$ possibi$ity 86 Everything you can think of, and everything you can+t think of, and everything no one can think of already eFists in this 3ield as waves of possibilities =r -ohn 5agelin eFplainsK 7Progress in our understanding o the universe through physics over the past =uarter century has been e.p$oring deeper $eve$s o natura$ $aw, ro! the !acroscopic to the !icroscopic, ro! the !o$ecu$ar to the ato!ic to the nuc$ear to the subnuc$ear $eve$s o nature<s unctioning9+ and what we<ve discovered at the core basis o the universe, the oundation o the universe, is a sing$e universa$ ie$d o inte$$igence9+ So a$$ the orces o nature, and a$$ the so8ca$$ed Ipartic$es< o nature9 are now understood to be9 ?ust di erent ripp$es on a sing$e ocean o e.istence9+ /t<s ca$$ed the ,uni ied ie$d,- or ,superstring ie$d,- at the basis o everything E !ind and !atter9+ 'hat ie$d is a non8 !ateria$ ie$d+ P$anets, trees, peop$e, ani!a$s, are a$$ ?ust waves o vibration o this under$ying uni ied superstring ie$d9+ /t<s the ountainhead o a$$ the $aws o natureJ a$$ the unda!enta$ orces, a$$ the unda!enta$ partic$es, a$$ the $aws governing $i e at every $eve$ o the universe have their uni ied source in the uni ied ie$d9+ /t is pure abstract potentia$, which rises in waves o vibration to give rise to the partic$es, to the peop$e, to everything we see in the vast universe9+ 'his isn<t the wor$d o e$ectronsJ it<s the wor$d o potentia$ e$ectrons9+ %nd that<s what we<re !ade o 89 Kand =r 3red Alan /olf puts it this wayK 7Physicists give this a na!eJ they ca$$ it a I=uantu! wave unction,< because it see!s Iwavy+< 6owever, this wave unction isn<t ?ust a wave o !atter, $i*e an ocean wave or a sound wave, or any *ind o wave o !atter+ /t<s a wave o possibi$ityJ it<s a

*ind o Ithought< wave+ %nd because it is a wave o thought, or possibi$ity, or Inot8 !atter,< it<s invisib$e to us+ But we can<t e.p$ain what we do see as !atter9un$ess we picture that these !atter partic$es so!ehow co!e out ro! or e!erge ro! these thought8wave patterns 8; O!ou can watch a video interview about The 3ield with =rs 5agelin and /olf from 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e by clicking here P The problem is no one can prove that The 3ield eFists !ou can+t see itD you can+t photograph itD you can+t measure itD you can+t hold it in your hand :ut when Luantum physicists assume The 3ield is there, they can make incredibly accurate mathematical predictions about the physical universe and how it behaves, which they can+t do without taking The 3ield into account As 3red Alan /olf said, 7 5e can<t e.p$ain what we do see as !atter9un$ess we picture that these !atter partic$es so!ehow co!e out ro! or e!erge ro! these thought8wave patterns 8 Think of it as electricity !ou can+t see electricity itselfD you can only see what electricity produces (ne American comedian Eoked that he wouldn+t pay his electric bill until the company showed him the electricity he was paying for :ut we can see the light electricity makes, and the power, and the other effects we count on every day and now take so much for grantedD and when we see those effects, we know electricity must eFist The same thing is true for The 3ield Even though we can+t prove it eFists scientifically, nothing makes sense without it in light of the results of the most recent eFperiments Another eFample might help make this clearerK &f you were an Aborigine living in the (utback of Australia with no contact with the outside world, and someone brought you a radio, you might wonder how it works when you hear music coming out of the boF !ou might even take it apart, looking for an orchestra of very little people inside playing the music you hear :ut after a while, you+d realiMe the only way to eFplain the music is to assume there are invisible radio waves in the air, and this boF simply captures those waves and translates them into sound % even though you couldn+t prove it /e have finally reached the point of human understanding % now supported by scientific evidence % that there are waves all around us :ut this time they+re not radio waves, they+re not ocean wavesD they+re waves of The 3ield They+re waves of potentialityD and when they are 7observed,8 they turn into the physical universe we see &+ll talk a lot more about this concept in later chapters 3or now it is enough to know The 3ield must eFist, it is outside of space and time, and it includes an infinite number of possibilities, but only in wave form This field does not contain particlesD it is not matterD it is not part of the physical universe &nstead it is what the entire universe is made from % from these waves of possibilities :ut how did this 3ield come into eFistence0 /ho made it0 /here did it come from0 Science has no answer for these Luestions They only know The 3ield must eFist So & will not speculate about how The 3ield was created, or who might have created it, or how it already contains all possibilities, becauseK well, simply because there is absolutely no way a 5uman Adult can understand or have a direct eFperience of anything

that happens on the other side of The 3ield This will also become clearer in later chapters The neFt Luestion we can ask, though, isB 5ow is 7physical reality8 created from this 3ield0

3((TN(TES * <oswami, Amit, 'h = , theoretical nuclear physicist 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading , Talbot, )ichael 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse, p .1 % :ack to reading . /bid+ % :ack to reading 1 /olf, 3red Alan, 'h = , theoretical physicist 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading 2 5erbert, Nick 76ow Large is Star$ight4 % Brie Loo* at 0uantu! 7ea$ity,8 Revision *$, no * OSummer *;96P, pp .*".2 % :ack to reading 4 /bid+ % :ack to reading 6 )cTaggert, Lynne The 3ieldB The ?uest for the Secret 3orce of the Aniverse, p FFi % :ack to reading 9 5agelin, -ohn, 'h = , 'hysics 'rofessor, )aharishi Aniversity 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading ; /olf, 3red Alan /d+ % :ack to reading

CHAPTER ,
THE HOLOGRAM
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How is 7reality8 created from The 3ield0

)ost Luantum physicists agree it is a very similar process to the creation of a hologram &n other words, the universe we see is a 7holographic universe 8 75hen we $oo* at so!e o the scienti ic views o Irea$ity< that have tried to get down, down, down to the nitty8gritty, we see at its u$ti!ate $eve$9 that rea$ity is not so$id E it<s !ost$y e!pty space E and whatever so$idity it has see!s !ore to rese!b$e a ho$ogra! picture rather than !ateria$, harsh, so$id rea$ity 8* 7Bniversity o London physicist David Boh!, or e.a!p$e, be$ieves9 that despite its apparent so$idity, the universe is at heart a phantas!, a gigantic and sp$endid$y detai$ed ho$ogra! 8, Let+s back up for a minuteK ?uantum 'hysics is actually a science of mathematics, and it is the most accurate mathematical science to date to eFplain what we see in our 7reality 8 70uantu! !athe!atics E which is, in our be$ie , the !ost unda!enta$ !athe!atics, the !ost accurate !athe!atica$ description o nature that we have discovered E this !athe!atics shows us c$ear$y that the !ove!ents o ob?ects are describab$e on$y in ter!s o possibi$ities, not the actua$ events that happen in our e.perience 8. The mathematics used in Luantum physics to 7describe nature8 and eFplain the behavior we see in our 7reality8 is also the same mathematics used to create a hologram This is why Luantum physicists say the universe seems to be more like a hologram than solid reality So, to understand the 7holographic universe,8 we have to understand how a hologram is created :ut first, a very brief backgroundK 5olography was invented by a 5ungarian physicist, =ennis <abor, for which he received the Nobel 'riMe in physics in *;6* :ut it was not until the laser was invented in *;4$ that holography became workable and practicable Today it is used for many things, including credit cards and product packaging There are actually three different kinds of holograms, some using lasers and others using white light :ut let+s talk about the basic laser process for creating a hologram, in simplified form The first thing to understand about creating a hologram is that it is a two"step process

The first step is that you shoot a laser beam out of a gun, and then immediately split it into two beams (ne half of the original beam Ocalled the 7reference beam8P is directed toward a special holographic film Oor plateP The other half of the original beam hits and bounces off an obEect, and then goes to the same piece of holographic film

At this point, what you+ve got is a holographic image Oa patternP on the holographic filmD but you can+t see the image of the obEect &f you look at the film, all you can see is a bunch of nothing % indiscernible waves !ou may remember a craMe in the *;;$+s about so"called 7."= pictures 8 These were pictures where, if you looked at them normally, all you could see wasK nothing, really -ust a bunch of wavy lines

Looking at the original image on a piece of holographic film after Step * is very similar !ou really can+t see anything :ut now let+s do Step , &f you take the reference beam from Step * and shine it on the holographic film againK

Kout pops the obEect from Step * This would be the eLuivalent of changing your focus to have the ."= picture pop out as a discernible image Now, the most interesting thing about this holographic image of an apple that pops out in Step , is that it looks very real and very solid % so real that your mouth can water, and you want to pick it up and take a bite :ut if you try to pick it up, your hand will go right through it, since there+s nothing there 7Creating the i$$usion that things are $ocated where they are 21' is the =uintessentia$ eature o a ho$ogra!9+ / you $oo* at a ho$ogra!, it see!s to have e.tension in space, but i you pass your hand through it, you wi$$ ind there is nothing there9+ Despite what your senses te$$ you, no instru!ent wi$$ pic* up any energy or substance where the ho$ogra! appears to be hovering+ 'his is because a ho$ogra! is a virtua$ i!age, an i!age that appears to be where it is not 81 So how can Luantum physics say we live in a holographic universe0 That doesn+t make any sense /hat we see and touch looks and feels very real and very solid /e can reach out and grab and eat the apple we see in front of usD so how can it be a hologram0

/e also don+t fall through the floorD nor can we walk through walls OwellK the vast maEority of us can+tP The first answer is to say that many Luantum physicists don+t actually say our physical reality is a hologramD they says it acts $i*e a hologram, since the mathematics used to eFplain both is the same :ut more and more scientists are now going further and suggesting we do, indeed, live in a hologram, based on the most recent eFperiments 3or eFample, in ,$$9 #raig 5ogan, director of 3ermilab+s #enter for 'article Astrophysics, said, 7 / the G31H00 resu$t is what / suspect it is, then we are a$$ $iving in a giant cos!ic ho$ogra! 82 7'he idea that we $ive in a ho$ogra! probab$y sounds absurd, but it is a natura$ e.tension o our best understanding o b$ac* ho$es, and so!ething with a pretty ir! theoretica$ ooting+ /t has a$so been surprising$y he$p u$ or physicists wrest$ing with theories o how the universe wor*s at its !ost unda!enta$ $eve$ 84 And according to =r -acob :ekenstein, 'rofessor of Theoretical 'hysics at the 5ebrew Aniversity of -erusalem, 7%n astonishing theory ca$$ed the ho$ographic princip$e ho$ds that the universe is $i*e a ho$ogra!9+ 'he physics o b$ac* ho$es E i!!ense$y dense concentrations o !ass E provides a hint that the princip$e !ight be true+-6 So at this point & would simply ask you to suspend all Eudgment and consider the possibility we live in a holographic universe, as the scientific results of Luantum physics suggest !ou don+t have to 7believe8 this foreverD Eust try it out as an eFperiment & admit this is a radical way of thinkingD but after all we+ve been through trying to find 7the truth8 % most of which didn+t work very well % maybe it+s time to get a little more radical 7/t is re$ative$y easy to understand this idea o ho$is! in so!ething that is e.terna$ to us, $i*e an app$e in a ho$ogra!+ 5hat !a*es this di icu$t is that we are not $oo*ing at the ho$ogra!J we are part o the ho$ogra! 89 NNN &f we look around carefully and pay attention, there are 7clues,8 or 7hints,8 we+re being given all the time about how this universe actually works &+m going to mention a few of those hints over the course of this book, and &+m going to be suggesting some 5ollywood movies for you to rent and watch Now you might say, 7That+s all Eust fictionD it+s Eust a movieD8 and you would be right :ut fiction and movies can also give us hints about what is really going on Especially science fiction /hen & was young there was a comic book called Dic* 'racy, and =ick had this really incredible wrist"watch"two"way"radio"thingy & say 7incredible8 because in the *;2$+s it was pure science fiction Today it+s a reality ; & could % and you could % list hundreds of things in the field of technology, for eFample, first mentioned in some artistic medium that have come true in the last few decades, not the least of which are <eorge (rwell+s 1FKL and Ayn Rand+s %t$as Shrugged % unfortunately

So there are two short videos on !ouTube & want you to watch to get a better idea what this whole holographic concept is about, and how real a hologram can seem (ne is a scene from the movie, 'he 'hirteenth &$oor &n this movie, a <erman scientist figured out how to create a full"blown hologram that one can become part of, like a total immersion movie :ut the scientist gets murdered, and his friend and partner O=ouglas 5allP wants to find out who did it So =ouglas gets in the 7hologram machine8 and enters into a hologram of Los Angeles in *;.6 where the scientist had left him a clue about his murder The scene you will watch is =ouglas+ first time in the hologram machine 'lease note how he reacts to being in a hologram and his astonishment at how real it looks and feels to him #lick here to watch the video The second video clip is from Star 're*4 'he 2e.t Generation OEpisode *4, 11001001P Since the Starship Enterprise was traveling around the universe all the time, they had to figure out how to make it possible for the crew to take a vacation So they created the 5olodeck % a room where any hologram could be reLuested and created for their relaFation and enEoyment The scene you will watch is #ommander Riker asking to spend time in New (rleans playing some EaMM, with a very interesting audience Again, notice how surprised he is that the woman looks and feels and smells so real #lick here to watch the video :ut if all of this is possible, the Luestion then arisesB 5ow is our holographic universe created for us to eFperience as the physical universe0

3((TN(TES * Ledwith, )iceal, 'h = , 'rofessor of Systematic Theology, )aynooth #ollege, &reland 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading , Talbot, )ichael An essay also entitled 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse % :ack to reading . <oswami, Amit, 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading 1 Talbot, )ichael 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse, p ,2 % :ack to reading 2 #hown, )arcus 1ur wor$d !ay be a giant ho$ogra!, New Scientist, -anuary *2, ,$$; % :ack to reading 4 /bid+ % :ack to reading 6 :ekenstein, -acob = , 'h = , 'rofessor of Theoeretical 'hysics at the 5ebrew Aniversity of -erusalem /n or!ation in the 6o$ographic Bniverse, Scientific American, August ,$$. % :ack to reading 9 Talbot, )ichael /d+, p 14 % :ack to reading ; Sutter, -ohn 6P deve$oping a #Dic* 'racy# wristwatch, #NN, -une ., ,$*$ % :ack to reading

CHAPTER THERE IS NO .OUT THERE/ OUT THERE

:ack to the Table of #ontents @arl 'ribram has had a long and illustrious career :orn in Austria in *;*;, 'ribram is both a neurosurgeon and a neurophysiologist who spent many years trying to find out where memories are stored in the brain The problem was that in the *;,$+s a brain scientist by the name of @arl Lashley had found 7no !atter what portion o a rat<s brain he re!oved, he was unab$e to eradicate its !e!ory o how to per or! co!p$e. tas*s it had $earned prior to surgery 8* So 'ribram set out to solve the mystery of memory storage that seemed independent of brain cells OneuronsP :ut it wasn+t until he met =avid :ohm, one of the pioneers in Luantum physics, that 'ribram found his answer 7Boh! he$ped estab$ish the oundation or Pribra!<s theory that the brain operates in a !anner si!i$ar to a ho$ogra!, in accordance with =uantu! !athe!atica$ princip$es and the characteristics o wave patterns 8, Technically, 7Pribra! be$ieves !e!ories are encoded not in neurons, or s!a$$ groupings o neurons, but in patterns o nerve i!pu$ses that crisscross the entire brain in the sa!e way that patterns o $aser $ight inter erence crisscross the entire area o a piece o i$! containing a ho$ographic i!age+ /n other words, Pribra! be$ieves the brain is itse$ a ho$ogra!+8. )emory storage is not the only thing that becomes more understandable in light of 'ribram+s theory 7%nother is how the brain is ab$e to trans$ate the ava$anche o re=uencies it receives via the senses @$ight re=uencies, sound re=uencies, etc+P into the concrete wor$d o our perceptions+ 3ncoding and decoding re=uencies is precise$y what a ho$ogra! does best+ Qust as a ho$ogra! unctions as a sort o $ens, a trans$ating device ab$e to convert an apparent$y !eaning$ess b$ur o re=uencies into a coherent i!age, Pribra! be$ieves the brain a$so co!prises a $ens and uses ho$ographic princip$es to !athe!atica$$y convert the re=uencies it receives through the senses into the inner wor$d o our perceptions 81 &n short, 'ribram believes 7our brains !athe!atica$$y construct Ihard< rea$ity by re$ying on input ro! a re=uency do!ain 82 (kay Let+s translate all of this into simple English According to @arl 'ribram and the results of many scientific eFperiments, the human brain itself is a hologram &ts function is to receive holographic wave freLuencies and translate them into the physical universe we see 7out there 8 And now the fun beginsK & want to talk about two specific scientific eFperiments % out of many % that not only seem to prove 'ribram+s theory, but go beyond it to an amaMing conclusion The first began in the *;6$+s with a researcher in the physiology department of the Aniversity of #alifornia, San 3rancisco, =r :enEamin Libet 'ut very simply, Libet

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would eFperiment with brain surgery patients during their operations The patients+ brains were eFposed and they were fully conscious, having received only local anesthetic Libet would, for eFample, stimulate the patients+ little finger on one hand Olike a pin prickP and ask the patients to tell him when they felt it Then he would stimulate the area of the brain associated with that little finger, and ask the patients to tell him when they felt that as well :efore & tell you what he discovered, we need to understand how we feel things, like a pin prick The stimulus Opin prickP is transmitted from the location on the body where it happened to the brain, and then the brain lets us know about the sensation Technically, we don+t actually 7feel8 things where they happenD we 7feel8 them in the brain So it would make sense that if you stimulate someone+s little finger, it would take time Ofractions of a secondP for the nerves to move that sensation to the brain where it would be 7felt,8 since the physical body is limited by space and time and nothing in the physical universe Oaccording to EinsteinP can travel faster than the speed of light :asically, it would take time for a stimulus on the little finger to get to the brain and for the person to then become 7aware8 of it (n the other hand, it would also make sense that if you stimulated the brain directly at the eFact location where the little finger sends the sensation to be 7felt,8 the person would be 7aware8 of it immediately &n other words, there would be no time delay since the brain already has the information about the stimulus and only needs to alert the person to the sensation /hat Libet found, and others after him, was that the eFact opposite was true &n fact, you will probably read many times in this book that the information we+re getting from the scientific research in Luantum physics is proving that the opposite of a lot of what we have always believed is true Libet+s patients would tell him instantly Ono time delayP when he stimulated their little finger, and yet there was a delay when he stimulated the brain directly O/atch a video here P Libet was flabbergasted 5e tried to find an eFplanation, as did many other scientistsD and the prevailing theory became that time can travel backwards &t+s called the 7time reversal theory,8 or 7subEective backward referral,8 or 7antedating 8 5owever, after trying to prove this and failing, Libet himself later said 7 there appeared to be no neura$ !echanis! that cou$d be viewed as direct$y !ediating or accounting or the sub?ective sensory re erra$s bac*ward in ti!e 84 &n other words, there is no evidence in the brain for time reversal as the eFplanation for this phenomenon 3or now, Eust file that information away and let+s talk about another eFperimentK This one started in the *;;$+s conducted by =r =ean Radin and other colleagues =ean Radin is a Senior Scientist at the &nstitute of Noetic Sciences, on the AdEunct 3aculty at Sonoma State Aniversity, and part of the =istinguished #onsulting 3aculty at Saybrook <raduate School and Research #enter 5e earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Aniversity of )assachusetts Amherst, and both a master+s degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in educational psychology from the Aniversity of &llinois at Arbana"#hampaign 5e worked at AT>T :ell Labs and <TE Labs, mainly on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services, and then held appointments at 'rinceton Aniversity, Edinburgh Aniversity, Aniversity of

Nevada, Las Gegas, SR& &nternational, &nterval Research #orporation, and the :oundary &nstitute & say all that because Radin+s research is admittedly not widely accepted by the mainstream scientific community, which is why you may have never heard of it, although his credentials are beyond Luestion 5ere+s why his results are so hard for some scientists to swallowK Radin would hook a person up to various machines to measure a number of different bodily responses, such as heart rate, E@<, skin conductants, the amount of blood in the fingertip, and respiration The person then sits in front of a computer screen with a button in their hand They+re told to press the button whenever they+re ready, and five seconds later the computer will randomly select a picture and display it on the screen There are two different types of pictures the computer can choose from (ne group of pictures will evoke an emotional response in normal people % like a picture of violence, or war, or rape, or ugliness, or the Twin Towers coming down on ;U** The other group of pictures are designed to be neutral, to normally not have any emotional impact when viewed, like a scene of a city street in Anytown /e already know what happens in the body when people see an emotional image % what happens to their heart rate, to their E@<, skin conductants, the amount of blood in the fingertip, and respiration They 7spike 8 /e also know what happens in the body when people see a neutral Onon"emotionalP image They remain 7calm 8 /hen the person in this eFperiment pushes the button, the computer has not yet chosen which picture to display, or from which group, and will not make that decision until five seconds later when it immediately puts the picture on the screen Now here+s the amaMing thingB The person+s bodily responses being measured would occur be ore the computer chose the picture and displayed it on the screen &n other words, the person+s heart rate, E@<, skin conductants, the amount of blood in the fingertip, and respiration would all spike prior to the picture coming up if the picture were an emotional picture, and the bodily responses would all remain calm if the picture about to appear would be neutral To repeat, all of these bodily responses Oor lack of bodily responsesP would occur be ore the computer had even chosen which picture to put on the screen The only conclusion that makes any sense is that the brain knows what picture is coming before the person is aware of it % indeed, before the computer has even chosen which picture to display % and the body is responding accordinglyH6 O/atch a video here P NNN The very latest evidence O-uly, ,$*$P comes from a ::# documentary called Neuroscience and 3ree /ill 5ere+s the setupK The subEect lies in a #T scanner holding a button in each hand All the subEect has to do is decide to press the button in his left hand or the button in his right hand, and then press the appropriate button immediately while the #T scanner records his brain activity The result is that the brain clearly shows up to H seconds in advance which button the person will press " left or right This is 4 seconds be ore the subEect consciously

decides which button he will press The brain activity is so clear and *$$T consistent that the technician watching the scanner could easily predict with absolute certainty which button the subEect would press before the subEect makes his own conscious decision !ou really need to watch the video to believe itH This gives further proof of the Radin eFperiments and verifies what =r Andrew Newberg saysK 7'here have been other studies that have shown that when peop$e are beginning to !ove a hand, or beginning to say so!ething, there is actua$$y activity in certain nerve ce$$s o the brain even before they beco!e conscious$y aware o what they<re trying to do 89 NNN /hat does all this mean0 :efore & answer that Luestion, & have to introduce one last scientific concept called 7(ccam+s RaMor,8; a principle that+s been hanging around for almost seven"hundred years &t is often paraphrased as, 7All other things being eLual, the simplest solution is the best,8 although that+s technically not the correct interpretation of (ccam+s RaMor &t is also called the 7scientific principle of parsimony,8 which is a 7preference for the least compleF eFplanation for an observation 8*$ The general rule is that the best answer reLuires the least number of assumptions and postulates the fewest entities There have been many different attempts to eFplain the results of these brain eFperiments, by as many different scientists :ut the simplest and most logical eFplanation % the one that seems to satisfy (ccam+s RaMor the best % is that the brain knows what is going to happen before it happens 7out there8 in the physical universe The seLuence, apparently, is that the brain receives holographic wave information, and then sends it 7out there,8 creating a physical universe for the person to perceive and eFperience 3or eFample, in the Libet eFperiments, the brain 7knew8 the little finger was going to be stimulated before the actual stimulation took place, and therefore there was no time delay for the person to become aware of it 5owever, when the brain was stimulated directly % as if a new hologram was being downloaded to it % it took time for the brain to send the sensation out to the little finger and bring it back to the brain to be perceived &n Radin+s eFperiments, the only thing that makes sense is that the brain knew what picture would appear because it was creating the reality that was about to happen, not simply responding to a reality after it happened Let me repeat that, because it is so critical to understanding how the 5olographic Aniverse worksK the brain *new what picture wou$d appear because it was creating the rea$ity that was about to happen, not si!p$y responding to a rea$ity a ter it happened+ So let+s put this together with 'ribram+s holographic brain modelK 'ribram says the human brain is itself a hologram, and it will 7mathematically construct Jhard+ reality by relying on input from a freLuency domain 8 Remember The 3ield0 The 3ield is 'ribram+s 7freLuency domain8 % an infinite number of possibilities eFisting as waves of freLuencies

So 'ribram is saying the brain receives wave freLuencies from The 3ield, which it then translates into 7+hard+ reality8 % what we normally call the physical universe &n fact, all these eFperiments suggest your brain receives a hologram in wave freLuencies from The 3ield, collapses the wave function and converts them into particles to create physical 7reality,8 and then sends that 7reality8 7out there8 for you to eFperience This is confirmed by the #T scan eFperiments in the ::# documentary, Neuroscience and 3ree /ill &n fact, if you watch the video, you can even see the eFact area of the brain where it is converting the downloaded wave freLuencies into the hologram that siF seconds later will be proEected 7out there8 for you to become aware of and eFperience &t means, first of all, the human brain is the 7observer8 that 7collapses the wave function8 that & talked about in #hapter 3ive, since Luantum physics says it is the 7observer8 that changes an electron from a wave into a particle 'ut more simply, it+s the brain that takes those wavy ."= picturesK

Kand converts them into something we can see

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&t also means our senses % seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching, etc % are not really sensing some independent 7reality8 7out there,8 but in fact are proEecting that reality so it appears to be 7out there 8 &n addition to being 7receivers,8 then, our eyes are 7proEectors,8 since your brain knows what you are about to eFperience before you perceive it with your senses Apparently, once our brain converts the wave freLuencies from The 3ield, it proEects them 7out there8 and makes it appear we are surrounded by a 7total immersion movie 8 Then, and only then, our senses 7read8 what has been proEected 7out there8 and bring that information back to the brain ,David Boh! had suggested that were we to view the cos!os without the $enses that out it our te$escopes, the universe wou$d appear to us as a ho$ogra!+ Pribra! e.tended this insight by noting that were we deprived o the $enses o our eyes and the $ens8$i*e processes o our other sensory receptors, we wou$d be i!!ersed in ho$ographic e.periences+-** & don+t think anyone knows eFactly how this works right now, but & feel confident as the research in Luantum physics continues, someone will discover the process )eanwhile, we have been given a big clue % one of those 7hints8 & talked about in the last chapter % in the form of the modern computerK )ost computers currently use what is called 7binary code,8 which is made up of nothing but Mero+s and one+s *, &f you look at the Mero+s and one+s themselves, they look random and chaotic, like the ."= pictures :ut inside every computer is a #'A % a #entral 'rocessing Anit % that acts as the 7brain8 of the computer This #'A receives the binary code in seLuences of Mero+s and one+s, translates that binary code, and proEects the results onto a computer screen where we can see it in a form that makes sense to us A computer also has its own sensory perceptions, which include things like a mouse, a touch screen, a microphone, a video camera, etc /hen we interact with the computer through one of its senses % like clicking the mouse % that message gets sent back to the #'A for further processing Therefore, in the same way a computer+s #'A receives its binary code, translates it, proEects the results onto a screen, and then processes the inputs that come back through the mouse and other sensory perceptions, our human brain receives wave freLuencies from The 3ield, translates them into particles by collapsing the wave function, proEects the results 7out there,8 and then processes the inputs that come back through our own sensory perceptions & invite you to try an eFperiment yourself <o outside, or Eust look around wherever you are, and imagine for a moment you are not looking at some independent or obEective reality 7out there,8 but you are proEecting that reality 7out there8 much in the same way a proEector puts a movie onto the theater screen 7/ the ho$ographic brain !ode$ is ta*en to its $ogica$ conc$usions, it opens the door on the possibi$ity that ob?ective rea$ity E the wor$d o co ee cups, !ountain vistas, e$! trees, and tab$e $a!ps E !ight not even e.ist9+ /s it possib$e that what is Iout there< is

rea$$y a vast, resonating sy!phony o wave or!s, a I re=uency do!ain< that is trans or!ed into the wor$d as we *now it on$y after it enters our brainD8*. =avid :ohm said 7the tangib$e rea$ity o our everyday $ives is rea$$y a *ind o i$$usion, $i*e a ho$ographic i!age+ Bnder$ying it is a deeper order o e.istence, a vast and !ore pri!ary $eve$ o rea$ity that gives birth to a$$ the ob?ects and appearances o our physica$ wor$d in !uch the sa!e way that a piece o ho$ographic i$! gives birth to a ho$ogra! 8*1 7/ the concreteness o the wor$d is but a secondary rea$ity, and what is Iout there< is actua$$y a ho$ographic b$ur o re=uencies, and i the brain is a$so a ho$ogra! and on$y processes so!e o the re=uencies out o this b$ur, what beco!es o ob?ective rea$ityD Put =uite si!p$y, it ceases to e.ist+ %$though we !ay thin* we are physica$ beings !oving through a physica$ wor$d, this is an i$$usion+ 5e are rea$$y Ireceivers< $oating through a *a$eidoscopic sea o re=uency+8*2 &n other words, as 3red Alan /olf and Lynne )cTaggert both say, 7 there is no Iout there< out there, independent o what is going on Iin here +8*4 O/atch a video of them from 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e by clicking here P 7/hat is Iout there,+8 says )ichael Talbot, 7is a vast ocean o waves and re=uencies, and rea$ity $oo*s concrete to us on$y because our brains are ab$e to ta*e this ho$ographic b$ur and convert it into the stic*s and stones and other a!i$iar ob?ects that !a*e up our wor$d 8*6 ,5hat is rea$D 6ow do you de ine Irea$D< / you<re ta$*ing about what you can ee$, what you can s!e$$, what you can taste and see, then Irea$< is si!p$y e$ectrica$ signa$s interpreted by your brain+" )orpheus, from 'he (atri. NNN Time to sum all of this up in a nice neat little paragraphK /hat we have always thought of as our life, our reality, is not real % according to Luantum physics % but actually a holographic .= movie we have been immersed in, whose wave freLuencies have been downloaded from The 3ield to our brain, where they are translated into particles located in space and time and proEected 7out there8 for us to perceive through our senses /hat this means is that there is no independent, obEective reality 7out there,8 but a wholly subEective reality created totally dependent on what+s 7in here 8 &n short, there is no 7out there8 out there 7'here is evidence to suggest that our wor$d and everything in it E ro! snow $a*es to !ap$e trees to a$$ing stars and spinning e$ectrons E are on$y ghost$y i!ages, pro?ections ro! a $eve$ o rea$ity so beyond our own that it is $itera$$y beyond both space and ti!e 8*9

Even Einstein is reported to have said, 77ea$ity is !ere$y an i$$usion, a$beit a very persistent one 8 7'his is the on$y radica$ thin*ing that you need to do+ But it is so radica$, it is so di icu$t, because our tendency is that the wor$d is a$ready Iout there,< independent o !y e.perience+ /t is not+ 0uantu! Physics has been so c$ear about it 8*; NNN )(G&E SA<<EST&(NB 'he 'hirteenth &$oor, starring #raig :ierko O*;;;P

3((TN(TES * Talbot, )ichael An essay also entitled 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse % :ack to reading , /ikipedia % =avid :ohm % :ack to reading . Talbot, )ichael /d+ % :ack to reading 1 /bid+ % :ack to reading 2 /bid+ % :ack to reading 4 Libet, :enEamin (ind ti!e4 'he te!pora$ actor in consciousness % :ack to reading 6 Radin, =ean 'he Conscious Bniverse4 'he Scienti ic 'ruth o Psychic Pheno!ena % :ack to reading 9 Newberg, Andrew, 'h = , =irector, #enter for Spirituality and the Neurosciences, Aniversity of 'ennsylvania, 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading ; /ikipedia % (ccam+s RaMor % :ack to reading *$ /ikipedia % 'arsimony % :ack to reading ** /ikipedia % @arl 'ribram % :ack to reading *, /ikipedia % :inary #ode % :ack to reading *. Talbot, )ichael 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse, p .* % :ack to reading *1 /bid+, p 21 % :ack to reading *2 Talbot, )ichael An essay entitled 'he Bniverse as a 6o$ogra!4 Does 1b?ective 7ea$ity 3.ist, or is the Bniverse a Phantas!D % :ack to reading *4 /olf, 3red Alan and )cTaggert, Lynne, 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading *6 Talbot, )ichael 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse, p 21 % :ack to reading *9+ /bid+, p * % :ack to reading *; <oswami, Amit 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading

CHAPTER 0
THE BREA1OUT
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As & walked out of the Library into the back of the movie theater again, & looked up
at the black ball hanging from the center of the ceiling with its bright lights streaming toward the wrap"around &)AS screens 3inally, & knew with certainty what the ball was &t was proEecting the images of the .= movies onto the screens, creating the holograms we are all part of, totally immersing us, making them appear to be our lives, our reality &n fact, 'ribram said that black ball was a human brain % !y human brain % and the movies it produced were not real at all According to Luantum physics, nothing is 7real,8 as we have always understood that word % not Eust the shadows on the wall of 'lato+s #ave, but also the fire and the men on the walkway that produce the shadows, and the #ave itself as well &t+s all a hologram, popping in and out of eFistence as & observe itD and by definition, a hologram is not real :ut all of this brought up a lot more Luestions than it answered C /ho or what is creating the holographic movies &+m eFperiencing as my reality0 C &f the movies &+ve been watching and thinking were my life aren+t real Oalong with the movie theater itselfP, then what is real0 C /hy do the movies seem to contain so much drama and conflict and pain and suffering, both internal and eFternal0 C /hat does it all mean in the end0 And perhaps even more importantly, in light of the discoveries in Luantum physics, & had to rethink all my previous answers to the LuestionsB C /ho am &, really0 C /here did & come from0 C 5ow did & get here0 C /hat am & doing here0 & stood there staring at the black ball hanging from the ceiling as if it would suddenly and magically speak and give me the answers & needed NNN & was about to turn siFty"two years of age, sitting in my apartment one day when & realiMedK C & had no Eob & had responded to a few want ads that would have been perfect for me, but no one wanted to hire me

C & had no money and didn+t know how & was going to pay the neFt month+s rent C & had no relationship, no one to love, no female who wanted to be part of my life in an intimate way C & had two marriages, both of which failed after *2V years because of my own issues C Although & had a few close friends, none of them lived within a thousand miles of me at the time C & had a wonderful family, including three fantastic grandchildrenD but other than my daughter and her husband, & hardly got to see them C & had written two books about A&=S and 5&G no one was buying and apparently no one wanted to read C & had no future plans, no idea how anything would change Kand & thought to myself, 7)y life couldn+t get any moreK 8 The word & used, if & recall correctly, started with an R3 R :ut as & sat in the apartment that day taking stock of my life and realiMing how limited it had become, & did not feel any depression, any regret, any sadness or loneliness at all &t wasn+t apathy or resignation, either The 738 word was Eust a habit with no emotion behind it &nstead, it was a moment devoid of all Eudgment or resistance to my situation % a moment as if & were suspended in time and looking at myself from afar, a moment in which & completely surrendered to Rwhat isR without any desire or need to change it &f & had any reaction at all, it was more like, 7(h So that+s the way things areD8 and what & felt the most was gratitude for still having a roof over my head and enough food to eat NNN /hen it wouldn+t speak to me, my eyes finally left the black ball and came to rest on the door at the back of the theater, the one with the sign saying, 7=o Not Enter % EFtremely =angerous 8 & knew the answers & wanted % & needed % were not going to be found inside the movie theater, or in any group, or in the Library & knew my life had reached a turning point, perhaps like an alcoholic or drug addict who hits bottom and takes an honest and dispassionate look at his life & knew & was tired of fighting, Eoining this group and then that one, trying to make things happen, working hard to make things go right, only to end up here & had been there, done that, and brought home both the t"shirt and the hat, neither of which fit & could feel something inside me literally pushing me toward that door, almost as if & had no other option There was nothing left in the movie theater for me, so why should & stay when there was somewhere else to go & had never been, and staying here made no sense at all &t was with both fear and eFcitement that & walked toward the door, opened it, and went through NNN

The rest of this book will be my written report to you as your 7scout8 of what & found on the other side of the door At this point & want to repeat and eFpand on something & said in the &ntroduction & am not writing this book to try to talk you into anything & am merely passing on information & have discovered during my own Eourney /hether you believe that information or not is none of my business or concern, and & am not interested in convincing you & am right &f at any time it sounds like & am arguing a point to try to get you to believe it, rest assured that is not the case )y only Eob, as & see it, is to try to pass on the information as clearly and completely as possible, and sometimes that isn+t easy & will often go to great lengths to make sure & have eFpressed the information in a way you can at least understand what & am saying, whether you agree with it or not & also promised you in the &ntroduction & would let you know when we reach the place in the book where you can only go on and not back /e+re there (f course, you can keep reading the rest of the book out of pure curiosity, maintaining some distance, not getting too involved, never going through the door, not reading as if the book were about you and your own spiritual evolution There+s no danger in that =o whatever you want, and remember you can never do anything 7wrong 8 :ut & have to warn you, if you keep reading, the information is going to make its way into your mind and will stay there forever !ou can do your best to ignore it and return to your life as a 5uman Adult inside the movie theater, but eventually it will begin to have its impact, maybe a little bit at a time That+s fine, too & suggest, however, if you really don+t want to let this affect your life in any way, you stop reading now, put the book down, and walk away This book will always be there in the Library in the movie theater, if and when you decide you want to pick it up again All but a few 5uman Adults spend the rest of their lives in the back of the movie theater belonging to some groupD and they die there as well )ost have no idea there+s an alternative, so no one can blame them :esides, the sign on the door says, 7=o Not Enter,8 and 5uman Adults have a tendency to respect authority The sign also says, 7EFtremely =angerous,8 and most 5uman Adults are still controlled by their fears :ut maybe you+re not one of them, and now you know there is an alternative NNN & want to give you as much information as & can for you to make a decision about how you want to proceedD and at this point &+m going to introduce a new metaphor, apparently a fairly common oneK ,'he co!p$ete !eta!orphosis o a butter $y has been used as a !etaphor or eterna$ $i e, as the Iearth8bound< caterpi$$ar trans or!s into the Ietherea$ butter $y<,- says the New /orld Encyclopedia * & said before that the Aniverse provides many hints and clues in plain sight for us to see and understand when we+re ready The butterfly metamorphosis is one of them, so it doesn+t surprise me that various writers have picked up on it from time to time

(nce again, however, their metaphor is wrong because it+s based on a faulty premise The metaphor of metamorphosis has nothing to do with 7eternal life 8 &t has everything to do with becoming a butterfly in the here and now Let+s first understand that 7metamorphosis8 is actually the whole series of changes an insect undergoes from egg to adult )etamorphosis commonly has four stages, which we can easily eLuate to our discussions about the movie theaterK Stage (neB The embryo or egg, i e , the 5uman #hild Stage TwoB The larva, i e , the 5uman Adult Stage ThreeB The pupa, i e , what comes after 7the door8 Stage 3ourB The adult or imago, i e , the so"called 7spiritually enlightened8 /hat we+re talking about at the moment is going from Stage Two, a 5uman Adult, into Stage Three, the pupa That+s precisely what happens if you walk through the door at the back of the theater &n insect metamorphosis, the pupa stage is when the caterpillar transforms into its adult form Othe imagoP ,/t is during the ti!e o pupation that the adu$t structures o the insect are or!ed whi$e the $arva$ structures are bro*en down+ Pupae are inactive, and usua$$y sessi$e @not ab$e to !ove aboutP+ 'hey have a hard protective coating and o ten use ca!ou $age to evade potentia$ predators+-, This 7hard protective coating8 takes different forms in different insects, but is most commonly known as a 7cocoon 8 Technically, most butterflies do not have a 7cocoon 8 &nstead, they have a 7chrysalis 8 A 7cocoon8 is a silk casing spun by a caterpillar which totally encloses them during their transformation into a moth, for eFample A 7chrysalis8 is created when a caterpillar that will become a butterfly sheds its outer layer of skin, leaving a hard shell hanging from a leaf or twig in which it is encased for the transformation :ut &+m going to take some literary license here and from now on use the word 7cocoon8 rather than 7chrysalis8 in my butterfly metamorphosis metaphor After all, it+s Eust a metaphor, and 7cocoon8 is a lot easier to type and pronounce, and much more commonly understood SoK if you decide to walk through the door in the back of the theater, you will be leaving Stage Two and entering Stage Three, stepping into a cocoonD and one of the reasons & like this metaphor so much is that there are many similarities between a caterpillar cocoon and what+s on the other side of the door 5ere+s what you can eFpect, should you take this stepK A cocoon is small and confining and desolate and lonely and dark, and it means the death of the caterpillarD and that+s eFactly where you will find yourself @now right now that you will not be walking into the blinding white light of eternal bliss &nstead, things will look pretty much the same as they always have in the first few daysD it will take you some time to realiMe Eust how different they are, as you begin what has been referred to

Obut ultimately misunderstoodP by various religions inside the movie theater as the 7dark night of the soul 8 ,<Dar* night o the sou$< is used to describe a phase in a person#s spiritua$ $i e, !ar*ed by a sense o $one$iness and deso$ation9+ /t is re erenced by spiritua$ traditions throughout the wor$d+++++ 'he ter! Idar* night @o the sou$P< is used in Christianity or a spiritua$ crisis in a ?ourney towards union with God9+ 'ypica$$y or a be$iever in the dar* night o the sou$, spiritua$ discip$ines @such as prayer and consistent devotion to GodP sudden$y see! to $ose a$$ their e.perientia$ va$ueJ traditiona$ prayer is e.tre!e$y di icu$t and unrewarding or an e.tended period o ti!e9+ 'he individua$ !ay ee$ as though God has sudden$y abandoned the! or that his or her prayer $i e has co$$apsed9+ 7ather than resu$ting in devastation, however, the dar* night is perceived by !ystics and others to be a b$essing in disguise, whereby the individua$ is stripped o the spiritua$ ecstasy associated with acts o virtue+ %$though the individua$ !ay or a ti!e see! to outward$y dec$ine in their practices o virtue, they in rea$ity beco!e !ore virtuous, as they are being virtuous $ess or the spiritua$ rewards obtained and !ore out o a true $ove or God+-. Let+s Eust say in your cocoon on the other side of the door, you will eFperience situations that will challenge every single belief, theory, opinion, Eudgment, and attitude you ever had and held sacredD and none of your prior training in any spiritual philosophy or self"help techniLue will do you the slightest bit of good 3or eFample, spiritual philosophies or self"help practices designed to alter your state of consciousness, such as meditation and breathing techniLues and dream analysis, are the last thing you will want to do inside your cocoon, because you need to be in full and conscious control of all the faculties of your mind O&+m not saying you will 7think8 your way into being a butterfly, but you+ll Luickly learn that any techniLue or practice you may have learned in the back of the movie theater that involved closing your eyes was actually leading you in the eFact opposite direction of where you wanted to go Everything you will need to become a butterfly will appear right there in front of you, and you+ll want to be wide awake and fully focused on the here and now P ,Qust hypothetica$$y, what i you ound out that in order to achieve the en$ighten!ent you spea* o , you had to re?ect a$$ the teachings you<ve ever received+ Cou$d you abandon a$$ this *now$edge you<ve ac=uiredD-1 5ow 7dark8 will this 7dark night8 be0 That depends on you All & can say right now is that the intensity of the 7darkness8 will depend on how resistant you are to letting go and dying, in the same way a caterpillar could make his transformation a living hell if he fought it inside the cocoon /hat else can you eFpect if you walk through the door0 To be totally alone Every caterpillar has its own cocoon, and so will you That doesn+t mean you have to disconnect from family or friends and go off in the woods somewhere by yourself, although some haveD but your family and friends will not be able to help you, nor will they understand what you+re doing or why (nly those who have gone before you % the scouts % will have any idea what you+re going through, and contact with them only happens rarely while

you+re in the cocoon &t means there will be no group to support or comfort you like there was in the back of the movie theaterD you+re on your own /ill the movies you+ve been watching in the theater change0 Not really, not that much in the beginningD but there is definitely a change in their purpose, from leading you into more limitation in the movie theater to giving you the opportunity to eventually break out of your cocoon as a butterfly !ou+ll have to read the neFt part of this book to fully understand that concept 'erhaps the most disturbing prospect of walking through that door into your cocoon is your certain death A caterpillar must 7die8 in order to transform into a butterfly !ou, too, must die % that is, the 7you8 you think of as 7you8 must die &t is only through this death that you can discover who you really are 5ow long will you stay in the cocoon0 ,Pupation !ay be brie , or e.a!p$e 2 wee*s as in !onarch butter $ies, or the pupa !ay enter dor!ancy or diapause unti$ the appropriate season or the adu$t9+ Pupation !ay $ast wee*s, !onths or even years+-2 3rom reports of two other scouts and my own eFperience, & can say you will probably stay in the cocoon about two to three years Not all that time will be the 7dark night of the soulD8 it gets easier as you get closer to the end :ut you should be prepared not to emerge as a butterfly any time soon, like neFt week or neFt year &t all sounds like a lot of fun, doesn+t it0 Actually, it is, or it can be once you get the hang of it ONo pun intendedK a chrysalis hangs from a leaf orK oh, never mind P :ut consider thisK if you decide to climb )ount Everest, you should be prepared for a lot of hard training and difficult conditions in order to reach the summit &f you want to be an (lympic swimmer, there+s years of sacrificing a 7normal8 life and hours a day in the pool and weight room Eust to try to LualifyD and then there+s no guarantee of a medal & doubt any good coach or trainer would sugarcoat all the preparation you must go through if you want to achieve such lofty goals The same is true in this case (n the other hand, no one attempts to climb )ount Everest or win (lympic <old or do anything challenging without knowing the end result is worth the effort That would truly be insane &n this case, what awaits you as a butterfly is constant and true and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love /ell, maybe &+m still in the last part of my cocoon stage, so & won+t guarantee anything /hat & can say from my current position is that & am eFperiencing all the things & wished for and believed possible while still in the movie theater as a 5uman AdultB true contentment, peace of mind, more abundance than & could have imagined, total relief from worry and stress, more fun and eFcitement than & ever dreamed of, with virtually no drama and conflict or pain and suffering, and much more love and appreciation for myself and everyone else and the Aniverse as a whole 'lus, & have the answers & needed to my LuestionsD and perhaps more importantly, & have no more doubts To me, that alone makes the Eourney worthwhile, and &+m not yet at the final destination NNN

& found it amusing that in his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy, -ed )c@enna spent the entire first book telling you all about what it+s like to be 7spiritually enlightened,8 painting a very wonderful, accurate, and appealing picture Then in :ook Two, he made it very clear how difficult and demanding it is to get there, using eFamples of -ulie+s spiritual autolysis and the travails of #aptain Ahab in (oby Dic* :ut in :ook Three -ed seems to go to great lengths to try to convince you not to go there, but to stay in the movie theater as a 5uman Adult ,5ho wants to be cast per!anent$y adri t on a shore$ess seaD 5ho wants to spend the rest o their $i e tu!b$ing through in inite spaceD 2o one, o course+ 5hat<s the point o point$essnessD 6ow can you want nothingD-4 &t+s true So"called 7spiritual enlightenment8 is not at all what people have dreamed it to beD and despite what some teachers and gurus have said, it is not something that happens overnight in a blinding flash of light, or as the result of a special meditation session where all of a sudden you commune with <od <etting there is eFtremely difficult and demanding, but so is reaching the summit of )t Everest Sure, you could stay in :ase #amp and enEoy the view and appreciate the beauty and have a fairly decent life (r you could climb to the top /hy would anyone do that0 :ecause it+s there, of courseD and because you simply cannot not do it :ecause there+s something inside you that says you absolutely !ust go through that door 3or some people the choice is clear and easy /hat+s the point of staying inside the movie theater when you know it+s not real and the answers you+re seeking can+t be found there0 3or others, the choice can be really tough, especially for younger 5uman Adults Oin chronological ageP who have their entire lives ahead of them & wonder whether it takes a certain amount of time spent in the movie theater before one is ready to consider another option After all, there+s a lot of fun and enEoyment and pleasure to be found as a 5uman Adult % limited and restricted though it is % that someone in their twenties or thirties might not be so anFious to miss out on The thought of leaving your group and ending up totally alone before getting to eFperience everything the #ave has to offer might not be that appealing (f course, it+s also possible the younger ones don+t believe me that the answers they+re seeking can+t be found inside the theater 'erhaps they don+t want to believe me, having Eust Eoined a group they think can offer them the constant and true and abiding Eoy, abundance, power, and love they+re seeking, and want to give it a go &+m all for it % give it all you+ve got for as long as you can Nothing you do will be 7wrongD8 the door at the back of the theater will always be there :ut & have often thought while writing this book that & could be talking almost eFclusively to the :aby :oomers, the former 5ippies now in their late 2$+s and 4$+s who have spent enough time in the back of the theater to fully appreciate its limitations and have virtually nothing to lose by going through the door /e+ll see NNN So, there it is That+s everything & can think of to help you make your decision

The door is standing there right there in front of you, unlocked and ready for you to walk through it O:y the way, did & mention that once you walk through, it closes and locks behind you, and you can never change your mind0P As & said in the beginning, it+s your choice NNN )(G&E SA<<EST&(NB 'he 'ru!an Show, starring -im #arrey O*;;9P

3((TN(TES * , . 1 2 4 2ew 5or$d 3ncyc$opedia % )etamorphosis % :ack to reading 5i*ipedia % 'upa % :ack to reading 5i*ipedia " =ark Night of the Soul % :ack to reading )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading 5i*ipedia % 'upa % :ack to reading )c@enna, -ed /d+ % :ack to reading

PART T&O:
INSIDE THE COCOON
:ack to the Table of #ontents 'here is nothing in a caterpi$$ar that te$$s you it<s going to be a butter $y+ C R :uckminster 3uller

PREFACE TO PART T&O

&elcome to your cocoonH

The sound you Eust heard was the door closing and locking behind you, so let+s not waste any timeK O:y the way, what often happens first as you enter your cocoon is that you get a gift from the 7Aniverse,8 a little 7reward8 for taking your first step toward self"realiMation This will be different for everyone, so you+ll want to be open and alert and on the lookoutD and it helps to eFpress some appreciation % to no one in particular, if you like % when the gift arrives P NNN :efore we start there+s an important distinction that must be made between a 7belief system8 and a 7model 8 A model is defined as 7a schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics*,8 and 7a systematic description of an obEect or phenomenon that shares important characteristics with the obEect or phenomenon Scientific models can be material, visual, mathematical, or computational and are often used in the construction of scientific theories 8, There+s a simpler definition at Answers com that says 7a scientific model is a representation of an obEect or system An eFample of a scientific model would be a diagram of a cell or a mapK even a model rocketH8. &n other words, a model takes the evidence already at hand % in our case, the results of the scientific eFperiments in Luantum physics and brain research % and develops a theory or representation of how that evidence might be applied if taken to the neFt level A model is designed to be tested and challenged to see how well it performs (n the other hand, a 7belief system8 is often formed in contradiction to the evidence at hand, and cannot withstand testing and challenging &n fact, a belief system tries to avoid being tested or challenged at all costs

The remainder of this book will be talking about models, not belief systems % models that have been tested and found to work !ou are not going to be asked to believe anything &nstead, you are invited and encouraged to test these models for yourself All & can say as your scout is that the models & will present worked for me and got me where & am today % standing here looking at the 'acific (cean, a truly amaMing place & am very happy to be

3((TN(TES * The3ree=ictionary com % model % :ack to reading , Science !our=ictionary com % scientific model % :ack to reading . Answers com % what is a scientific model % :ack to reading

CHAPTER 2
THE CONSCIOUSNESS MODEL
:ack to the Table of #ontents

Ramana )aharshi taught that you could achieve the stage of butterfly if you simply
,%s* yourse$ again and again, I5ho a! /D<-* ,'he in=uiry #5ho a! /D# wi$$ destroy a$$ other thoughts, and $i*e the stic* used or stirring the burning pyre, it wi$$ itse$ in the end get destroyed+ 'hen, there wi$$ arise Se$ 8 rea$i>ation+-, That+s much more easily said than doneD and like any other teaching in the back of the movie theater, if it worked, there would be a lot of butterflies populating the Earth by now So you+re going to take a little different approach that does work 3or approFimately the neFt two years in your cocoon, you+re going to focus on answering the Luestion, 7/ho Am & not08, along with the Luestion, 7/hat is true08 At least, that+s what worked for me and a few other scouts and got us where we are today :asically, before you can find the true answer to 7/ho Am &08, you have to strip away all the a$se answers you+ve collected during your lifetime, especially those you picked up belonging to various groups in the back of the movie theater Remember that in order for a caterpillar to transform into a butterfly, it has to first realiMe it+s not a caterpillar any more ,/t is during the ti!e o pupation that the adu$t structures o the insect are or!ed whi$e the $arva$ structures are bro*en down+-. So we+re going to take a closer look at some of the beliefs commonly held around the topic of 7/ho & Am8 and whether they are true or notD and one of the most common that has become very popular among New Age groups isB 7!ou create your own reality 8 :ut is that true0 3irst of all, since the New Age apparently never found out that 7reality8 is actually a holographic image, and not 7real8 at all, the saying is not true right off the bat :ut that+s Eust a minor error, and &+m very willing to amend their slogan slightly to conform to Luantum physics and say, 7!ou create your own holographic universe,8 so we can focus on the important issues 7!ou create your own holographic universe 8 &s that true0 &f so, eFactly who is the 7you8 who is creating your own holographic universe0 Let+s find out by picking up where we left off in our study of Luantum physics in the last part /e saidK

,5hat we have a$ways thought o as our $i e, our rea$ity, is not rea$ E according to =uantu! physics E but actua$$y a ho$ographic RD !ovie we have been i!!ersed in, whose wave re=uencies have been down$oaded ro! 'he &ie$d to our brain, where they are trans$ated into partic$es $ocated in space and ti!e and pro?ected ,out there- or us to perceive through our senses+Kand the Luestion we asked was, 7/ho or what is creating the holographic movies &+m eFperiencing as my reality08

!ou+ll remember that a hologram is a two"step process, and in the second step the reference beam is directed toward the holographic plate Oor filmP containing the obEect in order to get the obEect to pop out into 7reality 8

/hat we didn+t discuss yet is that a single piece of holographic film is capable of storing many, many obEects, and in fact holography may soon replace other laser"based storage techniLues because of its capacity to hold so much information O7The advantage of this type of data storage is that the vo$u!e of the recording media is used instead of Eust the surface 81P /hich obEect or obEects pop out when you direct a reference beam at the film depends on the angle of the reference beam &n other words, you can choose which holographic images to create by using different angles for the reference beam to select the eFact wave patterns you want that are stored in the holographic film Now let+s apply that to our holographic universeK

Some sort of reference beam % we don+t know what yet % is directed at The 3ield, which is like a gigantic piece of holographic film that already contains all the wave freLuencies reLuired for an infinite number of hologramsD and out pops 7reality 8

So now we can ask our Luestion even more specificallyB /ho or what is the re erence bea! that chooses certain wave freLuencies from The 3ield to create our holographic reality0 The best answer anyone has come up with so far is 3ons34o5sness+ Cons34o5sness is what chooses the precise wave freLuencies in The 3ield and downloads them to a human brain, which then converts them into spaceUtime particles and out pops our 7reality 8

(f course, this process is not two"dimensional or linear as portrayed in this picture A more realistic depiction might be three"dimensional concentric circles, with 7reality8 in the middle, The 3ield around it, and 3ons34o5sness around The 3ield

!ou could think of it like a peach, where the peach pit is 7reality,8 The 3ield is the meat of the peach that you eat, and 3ons34o5sness is the skin 5owever, we+re stuck with two"dimensional linear pictures right now, at least until this book can be made holographically NNN Consciousness is what chooses the precise wave re=uencies in 'he &ie$d and down$oads the! to a hu!an brain, which then converts the! into spaceOti!e partic$es and out pops our ,rea$ity+This is where Luantum physicists split into two main groups (ne group % the 7pure8 scientists % cannot accept this answer, although it is the most logical and the simplest, and therefore satisfies (ccam+s RaMor and the principle of parsimony That+s because 3ons34o5sness cannot be measured or dealt with in the normal scientific way Cons34o5sness simply does not lend itself well to mathematical eLuations or statistical research :ut there are a significant number of Luantum physicists who understand that 3ons34o5sness is not only the best answer, but also the most workable (ne of those is =r Amit <oswami, in my estimation one of the great thinkers of our time =r <oswami is 'rofessor Emeritus in theoretical physics at the Aniversity of (regon, Senior Scholar in Residence at the &nstitute of Noetic Sciences, and author of eight books on ?uantum

'hysics, including 'he Se$ 8%ware Bniverse and Science and Spiritua$ity4 % 0uantu! /ntegration =r <oswami saysB 70uantu! Physics enab$es us to see direct$y that we can !a*e sense o the wor$d on$y i we base the wor$d on consciousness+ 'he wor$d is !ade o consciousnessJ the wor$d is consciousness9+ 0uantu! Physics !a*es this as c$ear as day$ight9+ Consciousness !ust be invo$ved,9 and so or the irst ti!e, science encounters I ree wi$$+< Consciousness is ree because there is no !athe!atica$ description o the sub?ect in our scienceJ on$y ob?ects can be described !athe!atica$$y, and on$y to the e.tent that they are possibi$ities+ 'he =uestion sti$$ re!ains para!ount4 5ho is the IchooserD< %nd when we see that9 we see that there is reedo! o choice, and out o that reedo! o choice co!es our actua$ e.perience 82 =r -effrey Satinover, Teaching 3ellow in 'hysics at !ale Aniversity, has these thoughtsK 7/ you put it that there is an intangib$e wor$d that e ects the tangib$e wor$d o our e.perience, and i you then say, I'hat<s what =uantu! !echanics says,< E and granted, that<s a air way o trying to put into 3ng$ish so!ething which is very, very di icu$t to grasp E but it then $eads =uite natura$$y to the conc$usion that =uantu! !echanics says that there is a spiritua$ wor$d that !a*es this choice, that there is another wor$d that is intangib$e that e ects and in $uences the physica$ wor$d+ 'hat intangibi$ity, however, is itse$ the bedroc* o physica$ rea$ity+ /t !ay be intangib$e, but it is E we$$, we can<t rea$$y say what it is or why it<s there E but it is in act the !ost unda!enta$ eature o !atter 84 3red Alan /olf, theoretical physicist, puts it this wayK 70uantu! Physics says that consciousness is p$aying a ro$e in the universe+ /t says that there is a secret underground that see!s to be e ecting the rea$ity we $ive in, and that this rea$ity we $ive is not at a$$ what it appears to be+-6 And =r Andrew Newberg, =irector for the #enter for Spirituality and the Neurosciences at the Aniversity of 'ennsylvania, asksK 75hether or not we<re ?ust $iving in a big I6o$odec*< is a =uestion we don<t necessari$y have a good answer or9+ /t is conceivab$e that a$$ o this rea$$y is ?ust a great i$$usion9+ So what is the re$ationship between consciousness and !ateria$ rea$ity E whether or not the !ateria$ wor$d can actua$$y be derived ro! a consciousness rea$ity, or whether consciousness itse$ cou$d even be the unda!enta$ stu o the universe, so to spea*, instead o the Ico$d, dar* !atter< or other aspects o !atter that physicists have been $oo*ing orD9 (aybe it has so!ething !ore to do with consciousness+ /n that regard, then, we rea$$y can thin* about the universe as being !ore a state o consciousness9 !uch !ore so than the !ateria$ rea$ity that we nor!a$$y $oo* at 89

So a number of highly respected and thoughtful Luantum physicists have concluded that 3ons34o5sness is what chooses the eFact wave freLuencies from The 3ield it wants to use to create our holographic eFperiences 5owever, Eust like The 3ield, no one can prove 3ons34o5sness eFists :ut also like The 3ield, when we assume 73ons34o5sness must be involved,8 as =r <oswami says, we can then build a very successful model of how our world works and use that model in very practical and successful every"day applications So the statement 7!ou create your own holographic universe8 is not true, since the 7you8 you think of as you, the one on the 7reality8 side of The 3ield, is not creating that reality &t might be closer to the truth to say, 7!our 3ons34o5sness creates your own holographic universe 8 :utK what eFactly is 3ons34o5sness0 &f you would like a good laugh, click here to watch a short video from 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e, where some of the brightest people in the field of Luantum physics try to give an answerH Now, after you+ve stopped laughing, please appreciate the honesty and humility with which all those great minds struggled with the Luestion, because defining 3ons34o5sness is not easy at all The )erriam"/ebster =ictionary defines 3ons34o5sness as 7the =ua$ity or state o being aware, especia$$y o so!ething within onese$ 8; &n philosophy, 7at its !ost basic $eve$, 3ons34o5sness !ay be said to be the process o a thin*er ocusing the thought on so!e aspect o e.istence 8*$ 7/n hu!an beings, consciousness is understood to inc$ude I!eta8awareness,< an awareness that one is aware 8** &n many spiritual teachings, 3ons34o5sness is synonymous with the human soul or spirit, the immortal part of a human beingD and 7 higher consciousness E a$so ca$$ed super consciousness @"ogaP, ob?ective consciousness @Gurd?ie P, Buddhic consciousness @'heosophyP, God8consciousness @Su is! and 6induis!P, Christ consciousness @2ew 'houghtP, and cos!ic consciousness E are e.pressions used to denote the consciousness o a hu!an being who has reached a higher $eve$ o evo$utionary deve$op!ent+8*, :ut, 7we !ay be orced to ad!it that consciousness, $i*e in inity and the partic$e8 wave concepts in =uantu! !echanics, is a property that cannot be !ade intuitive$y straight orward+ Consciousness E $i*e gravity, !ass, and charge E !ay be one o the irreducib$e properties o the universe or which no urther account is possib$e 8*. &f you visit Answers com and /ikipedia com and search for 3ons34o5sness, you will find essay upon essay % doMens of them % from respected researchers trying to eFplain what 3ons34o5sness is, all with a little different take on the word 3or me, the last Luote is perhaps the most significant and worth repeatingK ,Consciousness E $i*e gravity, !ass, and charge E !ay be one o the irreducib$e properties o the universe or which no urther account is possib$e 8 So & think it+s clear no one really knows eFactly what 3ons34o5sness is or how to properly define it The truth is we will never knowD we only know it must eFist /e are, in fact, incapable of knowing, and always will be incapable of knowing, simply because we are on the other side of The 3ield from 3ons34o5snessD and our brains % at least according to 'ribram % are designed as holographic receivers and translators, and have no capacity or ability to access or process any information on the other side of The 3ield

/e do know that 3ons34o5sness is not the body, the brain, the mind, the intellect, or anything else in the holographic universe &t is not a thingD it is the creator of things Am & saying that we % the 7&8 who is writing this book and the 7you8 who are reading it % have no 3ons34o5sness0 No, &+m saying the word 3ons34o5sness has been applied to mean a great many things in our holographic universe, and it+s very confusing to then use it to describe what eFists on the other side of The 3ield !es, we % 7you8 and 7&8 % have a kind of consciousness, which is self"consciousness /e are aware of our 7selves,8 and we are aware of being awareD as the dictionary said, 7the =ua$ity or state o being aware, especia$$y o so!ething within onese$ 8 That+s fine, but that+s not the 3ons34o5sness we+re talking about that chooses wave freLuencies from The 3ield Rene =escartes saidB 7/ thin*, there ore / a! 8 =escartes lived inside the movie theater like everyone else, and as & mentioned before, in Luantum physics we are finding the opposite of what we have always believed is actually closer to the truthB 7 I am, therefore I think 8 The 3ons34o5sness we+re now talking about is the 7& amD8 you and & and our self" consciousness are the 7& think 8 NNN 3or a long time & hesitated to do this, probably in reaction to the two complete dictionaries of new words and meanings L Ron 5ubbard created for Scientology & don+t even enEoy reading poetryD & like to read plain and simple English with clear and well" accepted words and meanings :ut because of all this confusion about the word 3ons34o5sness, and because this concept is so essential to understand on your path to becoming a butterfly, & feel it+s necessary to come up with a new label to properly describe the 3ons34o5sness on the other side of The 3ield % this 7irreducible property of the universe8 % and differentiate it from us on this side of The 3ield & decided Luite early & could not use terms like 7higher self,8 7higher power,8 7higher consciousness,8 or 7eFpanded self,8 since they, too, are so over"used and misunderstoodD and frankly, they all take a 5uman Adult in eFactly the opposite direction of where you want to go if you want to become a butterfly /e+ll see why shortly Likewise, & didn+t want to use 7soul8 or 7spirit8 or anything else with any religious connotation This isn+t about theology or ascended masters or higher levels of spirituality & finally decided on the term, 7&nfinite &,8 which admittedly makes some assumptions, but in the end and for our purposes turns out to be Luite useful The assumptions are that whatever consciousness eFists on the other side of The 3ield has Lualities and attributes that are infinite, such asB C infinite Eoy C infinite abundance C infinite wisdom C infinite power C infinite and unconditional love C and an infinite desire to play and eFpress itself creatively*1

This may or may not turn out to be the 7Truth8D perhaps we+ll find out when we die % or not :ut for now it+s as close to the truth as we+re going to get, and, like the concept of The 3ield, provides a very workable model to continue our transformation into a butterfly &t also serves the purpose of making a clear distinction between the /n inite / on one side of The 3ield, and 7you8 and 7me8 on the other side, walking around in holographic bodies on a holographic Earth Therefore, the /n inite / is not the 7&8 who writes these words, and it+s not the 7you8 who reads them O&+m going to give another name to that 7you8 and 7&8 in the neFt chapter P & also want to emphasiMe that when & say R /n inite /,R & am talking about a single, individual 3ons34o5sness % not consciousness in general Oas the word is sometimes usedP, or some 7collective consciousness,8 or 7cosmic consciousness,8 or 7<od 8 Each of us has an /n inite / O'erhaps the closest anyone in the movie theater has come to this concept, as far as & can tell, is -ane Roberts in her novels, 'he 1versou$ Seven 'ri$ogy,*2 based on the 7Seth material 8P

So from now on & will refer to the &nfinite & as the one who chooses the precise wave freLuencies in The 3ield and downloads them to a human brain, which then converts them into spaceUtime particles and out pops our 7reality 8

:efore we go on, & want to be very clear about this /n inite /, because & don+t want any confusion with other concepts you may have developed inside the movie theater The /n inite / is not your 7higher self8 or 7eFpanded self 8 There are two things wrong with the term 7higher selfD8 one is the word 7higher,8 and the other is the word 7self 8 3irst, 7higher8 has no relevance here &tQs a Eudgment word, a comparison, and we will soon see that Eudgment is the glue that keeps the illusions together inside the movie theater The word 7self8 implies that what we think of as our 7self8 has a higher version :ut what we think of as our 7self8 is not true % any of it &n fact, where weQre headed with all this is toward 7no"self 8 So the last thing we want to think of in terms of the /n inite / is that it is some eFpanded version of us &t+s not Nor is the /n inite / some 7advanced8 or 7spiritualiMed8 or 7ascended8 or 7purified8 or 7better8 version of you &t is not some 7enlightened8 or 7evolved8 or 7avatar8 or 7holy8 version of you, either &t is not something you will ever grow into being !ou will never 7become8 your /n inite /, no matter what you do, how 7good8 you are, how much you meditate or eat only organic food, or pray, or perform certain ceremonies or rituals &t is not 7<od,8 or 7All That &s,8 or Allah, or -ehovah, or !ahweh, or 7The Source8 either &t is also not your super consciousness, obEective consciousness, :uddhic consciousness, <od"consciousness, #hrist consciousness, universal consciousness, or cosmic consciousness Those are all movie"theater versions of the truth, and therefore skewed &t is 3ons34o5sness, yes % your 3ons34o5snessD but not the consciousness you eFperience as a human being, which is self"consciousness

Although you are in constant communication with your /n inite / Owhether you realiMe it or notP, you and it eFist in entirely different worlds % on different sides of The 3ield The best analogy & can think of is an astronaut on the moon, representing 7you,8 and )ission #ontrol in 5ouston, representing your /n inite /, with all that space OThe 3ieldP in between & like this analogy because not only did your /n inite / send you to the moon in the first place, but it is also your best friend and partner in this adventure :ut then what is the /n inite /, you ask0 <ood Luestion & don+t know & know from direct eFperience of testing and challenging the model that my /n inite / eFists, and it created me and your /n inite / created you & can tell you what it+s not, but & cannot tell you what it is yetD and as & said, & don+t think it+s possible for anyone to tell you what it is, in truth, as long as we are on this side of The 3ield The only thing & can say in all my dealings and contacts with my own /n inite /, it is something & would be proud to take home to meet the parents NNN So here is the 7#onsciousness )odel8 in a nutshellK !our /n inite / chooses an eFperience for you in the form of wave freLuencies from an infinite number of possibilities in The 3ield and downloads them to your brain !our brain receives those wave freLuencies and translates them into physical 7reality,8 and sends them 7out there8 for your senses to perceive !ou assign power to the holographic universe you perceive to make it RrealR and to the persons, places, and things you see :ut this suggests that there is nothing you can see, hear, taste, feel, smell, or eFperience in any way that your /n inite / has not chosen for you to eFperience and then sent to your brain to process into 7reality 8 Every moment of every eFperience you have now % or have ever had and will ever have % has been carefully chosen and created for you by your /n inite /, eFactly the way it is and eFactly the way your /n inite / wants it to be, down to the smallest detail RememberK T5ERE &S N( 7OUT THERE/ OUT THERE*

3((TN(TES * 7obert %da!s# b$og about Sri 7a!ana (aharshi % :ack to reading , )ahadevan, T ) ' , in the &ntroduction to 5ho %! /D4 'he 'eachings o Bhagavan Sri 7a!ana (aharshi % :ack to reading . 5i*ipedia % 'upa % :ack to reading 1 5i*ipedia % 5olography % :ack to reading 2 <oswami, Amit 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading 4 /olf, 3red Alan 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading 6 Newberg, Andrew 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading 9 Satinover, -effrey 5hat the B$eepCD E Down the 7abbit 6o$e % :ack to reading ; )erriam"/ebster =ictionary % consciousness % :ack to reading *$ /isegeek com % consciousness % :ack to reading ** Answers com % consciousness % :ack to reading *, Answers com % higher consciousness % :ack to reading *. Ramachandran, G S with :lakemore, #olin, Answers com % consciousness % :ack to reading *1 Adapted from the various writings and seminars of Robert Scheinfeld % :ack to reading *2 Roberts, -ane 'he 1versou$ Seven 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading

CHAPTER !0
THE PLAYER MODEL
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!ou are not your /n inite / !ou are not the one who is choosing the wave freLuencies from The 3ield and creating your eFperiences !ou are not even infinite !our body, mind, intellect, and everything associated with them are part of your holographic universe They aren+t real, much less infinite !our /n inite / is the 7& Am,8 and you are the 7& think8 part of the eLuation &f you can really get this at the beginning of your cocoon stage, your metamorphosis will be so much more fun and easy and enEoyable 5owever, right now your ego % the false personality you+ve constructed over time % is probably screaming in your ear that this is all bullshit and to close the book Luickly and stop listening to this lunaticD because your ego wants you to think you+re something you+re not, something 7more,8 something 7special8 that is in fact immortal That way, as long as 7you8 never die, it doesn+t have to either :ut that+s eFactly what needs to happen in the cocoonB you and your ego must die Eust like the caterpillar & realiMe every religion and every spiritual teaching &+m aware of in the movie theater % including the New Age % preaches that you are really a spiritual being Oyour 7soul8P having a physical eFperience Oin your bodyP Even Robert Scheinfeld, who was my mentor and fellow scout, said your /n inite / Owhich he called your 7EFpanded Self8P is 7the sun of who you really areD8* and if everybody says it, why shouldn+t you believe it0 :ecause it isn+t trueK Kand it is perhaps the greatest error inside the movie theater that prevents all 5uman #hildren and 5uman Adults from becoming butterflies As an astronaut on the moon, would you say you were really )ission #ontrol, in charge of the mission0 &f you were the right tackle on a football team, would you say you were really the Luarterback calling the plays0 &f you were a trumpet player in an orchestra, would you say you were really the conductor0 &+m sure you+d like to think you are your 3ons34o5sness, that you are the 7& AmD8 but the simple fact you+d like to thin* you are your 3ons34o5sness is evidence of which side of the eLuation you are actually on &n the end, all that can be known and said to be true is that your /n inite / is the one on the other side of The 3ield who is creating all your holographic eFperiences for you, and you are not your /n inite /D and, really, that+s all you need to know NNN /hat+s the big deal0 /hat+s the problem if we want to think we are our /n inite /<s, the one creating our holographic eFperiences0

&f the astronaut on the moon thought he was )ission #ontrol, what do you think would happen to the mission0 &f the right guard on the football team thought he was the Luarterback, how many games do you think that team would win0 &f the trumpet player in the orchestra thought he was the conductor, what do you think the symphony would sound like0 :ut more importantly, every moment you spend trying to be your /n inite / is a distraction from the real Eob you were created to do Now that you+re in the cocoon, the sooner you can stop trying to be your /n inite /, the more time you will have for finding out who you really are Let me use another analogy to make sure &+m being clear about this &f an /n inite / saw the Atlantic (cean and decided it wanted to go swimming, it might first wonder about the temperature of the water, and then decide to create a big toe on its right foot to test the water before taking the plunge The Eob of that big toe would be to have the eFperience of immersing itself in the water of the Atlantic, and then sending back its feelings to its /n inite / through the feedback connection !ou get the picture !ou are the big toe !ou are not the whole body, or the brain, or the 3ons34o5sness !ou are the big toe &f this were the case % if you were the big toe % would you go around telling everyone you were actually the /n inite /0 &f you truly understood why you were created and your role in relationship to your /n inite /, wouldn+t you be satisfied to do your specific Eob and do it well, and not try to be more than you are0 :ut as long as you constantly try to claim you 7really are8 your /n inite /, can you see you become more of a pain in the ass than a big toe0 !our /n inite / has shown an infinite patience while you have tried to take its Eob away your entire life, and in the process ignored and denied your actual purpose for eFistence :ut even that wasn+t 7wrong,8 and worked perfectly for your eFperiences while in the movie theater &t Eust won+t work well in the cocoon Some of this has to do with the ego, and some with being told by all religions and spiritual teachings we aren+t good enough eFactly the way we are, that we+re more than 7Eust8 a big toe &f we didn+t feel such shame about who we are, we wouldn+t need anything 7better8 or 7higher8 to be or become /hen you+re finished with this process in the cocoon, you will know who you rea$$y are and be totally satisfied with that and not need to be anything else 7Serenity of being8 is what & call it NNN )aybe you don+t believe there is anything other than yourself and your own mind creating all your eFperiences % nothing 7higher,8 no soul or spirit or anything like that 'erhaps while in the movie theater you reEected any concept that suggested some 7higher power8 was at work in your life =enying the eFistence of your /n inite / is as much of an error as thinking you are your /n inite /, and in direct conflict with Luantum physics and the human brain studies &t may have served you well as a caterpillar, but not any more 5owever, & don+t blame you or Eudge you, especially since the 7higher power8 everyone was trying to convince you eFisted made no sense in the way they portrayed it As 'hilip @ =ick said in his novel, )a$is, 7The #reator is insane 8

:ut there is no doubt so!ething Owhat & am calling the /n inite /P is on the other side of The 3ield creating you and your holographic eFperiences 3rankly, it is only your ego that would like you to believe differently, to think you % on this side of The 3ield % have the power to create anything !ou will have a direct eFperience of this truth in the cocoon, if you can allow yourself to see it NNN &f you are not your /n inite /, then what are you0 And eFactly what+s your relationship to your /n inite /0 The best answer is that you are a 7'layer8 % and so am & % a 'layer created by your /n inite / to play a game, which it loves to do O&n the neFt chapter we+ll start talking specifically about the game you+re playing P Shakespeare told us over four"hundred years agoB R %$$ the wor$d#s a stage, and a$$ the !en and wo!en !ere$y p$ayers+8, )aybe we could have paid more attention & have suggested, and will suggest often, there are 7hints8 and 7clues8 all around us in plain sight about how this holographic universe works (ne of them is the computer video games that have become so popular &f you+ve never played a video game, you should They can provide some very deep insights along with a lot of fun & recommend going to Pirates o the Caribbean 1n$ine, which is free from =isney and a good eFample of what &+m talking about )ost sophisticated video games, like Pirates, begin by creating a 'layer to represent you in the game &n Pirates, you can create a new 'layer from scratch, choosing the genderD the shape of the bodyD the heightD the skin toneD all sorts of designs for the faceD the shape of the Eaw, lips, and cheeksD the eye color, eyebrows, and shape of the eyesD lots of choices for the nose and earsD the hairstyle and color, including a beard and mustacheD and then all combinations of clothing The last thing you do is choose a name for your 'layer & still marvel at this technologyH &t seems as if you could create an infinite number of variations of 'layers from all the different choices Now go back to Pirates and create another player Othey let you create two for freeP This time, however, imagine yourself as an /n inite / who wants to play and eFpress itself creatively, and you want to design a player who will be your representative in this adventure, since you can+t go inside the game and play it yourself The point is that you % and & % were created by our /n inite /<s and custom"designed the way they wanted us to look, down to the bridge of our noses They even gave us our names O3or those who might still believe what we were taught in school that our appearance is the sole result of =NA inherited from our parents, & recommend 'he Bio$ogy o Be$ie by =r :ruce Lipton P NNN Am & saying you are totally 7separate8 from your /n inite /0 No, not at allD not any more than a big toe is 7separate8 from the rest of the body

A big toe has its separate function, its specific Eob to do, but it is part of the whole A big toe, however, would never think it was the whole body That would be delusion, which is what all 'layers in the movie theater suffer from &nstead, a big toe is constantly connected to its body, and happily and willing receives commands from the brain &n the same way, you % as a 'layer % are constantly connected to your /n inite /D and as soon as you stop trying to be something you+re not, your connection to your /n inite / will get a lot clearer NNN :y now you know & like to let you read Luotes from other people who are saying essentially the same thing but in different words, to give you another perspective &n this case, &+m going to bypass Luantum physics and go instead to metaphysics =arryl Anka is a channel, and the entity who supposedly speaks through him is called 7:ashar 8 5ere+s what :ashar has to say on this topic, which & really like even though he uses the term 7higher self8K ,(ost o you are a!i$iar with the idea that you have a physica$ consciousness E a persona$ity as a physica$ being E that you re$ate to as Iyourse$ +< But then there is this !ysterious idea o the Ihigher se$ +< Si!p$y put, !ost o you understand or at $east intuit that the so8ca$$ed Ihigher se$ < is 9 non8physica$+ 3ven !ore si!p$y you cou$d say that there is a vibrationa$ re=uency above physica$ rea$ity E ?ust beyond physica$ rea$ity E in which resides what you !ight re er to as a Ite!p$ate< or physica$ rea$ity or upon which your physica$ e.perience is constructed+ ,/t !ight surprise you to *now, as persona$ity constructs E as physica$ !inds E you do not conceive o any ideas+ 'he persona$ity does not conceive o concepts+ /t perceives conceptsJ it does not conceive the!9+ 'he Ihigher se$ < conceivesJ the physica$ brain receivesJ the persona$ity !ind perceives+ 'hat<s a$$ it does+ %ny idea, any inspiration, any i!agination Iyou< have ever had doesn<t co!e ro! the physica$ !ind portion o youJ it co!es ro! the Ihigher se$ < portion o you through the receiver E the brain E and is trans$ated by the brain into a vibration that the physica$ !ind then perceives as a re $ected rea$ity+ ,'his !ay sound at irst so!ewhat $i!iting, but in act it<s very, very reeing, because you can a$$ stop thin*ingC "ou can a$$ stop thin*ing you<re in charge+ "ou can a$$ stop thin*ing that you have to thin* o everything+ "ou can a$$ stop thin*ing you<re the one guiding the ship+ "ou<re not+ "ou are ?ust $oo*ing at the road+ "ou<re ?ust e.periencing the path9+ ,'he reason you get into troub$e, the reason you ee$ stuc* as a physica$ !ind is because you have been taught to be$ieve that the physica$ !ind is the one co!ing up with a$$ this stu + %nd it<s not+ So when you try to !anipu$ate it, it doesn<t wor*, because the physica$ !ind is not designed to create those concepts+ /t is on$y designed to perceive the e ect o the creation o :your Ihigher se$ <; through the receiver, the physica$ brain+ ,'his a$$ows you to $ighten up your $oad, stop carrying so !uch baggage, stop trying to do your Ihigher se$ <s< ?ob, and ?ust do your own+ 'hat<s why so !any o you are so tiredJ it<s because you<re trying to do a ?ob you weren<t designed to do+ 'hat<s e.haustingC StopC "ou were not hired to do that ?ob+ "our Ihigher se$ < a$ready has that

?ob and it<s wor*ing or you per ect$y9+ Qust do the ?ob you were designed to do, which is perceive+-. NNN Apparently :ashar, or =arryl, can miF metaphors as well as & canH 7 "ou can a$$ stop thin*ing you<re the one guiding the ship+ "ou<re not+ "ou are ?ust $oo*ing at the road+ "ou<re ?ust e.periencing the path9+- % ship, road, pathK So let me say it this wayB !ou are not the one driving the bus !our /n inite / 7hired8 you % created you % to sit in the back of the bus and perceive and react and respond to the scenery as it goes by, and that+s all :ut you haven+t done the best possible Eob at that either, since you+ve spent a lot of time up front trying to take the bus driver+s Eob away from him !ou do not create the scenery Oyour holographic eFperiencesPD you do not choose which scenery to look atD you do not decide what direction the bus will travel All those Eobs belong to the bus driver, your /n inite /

/ho am & not0 !ou are not the bus driver !ou are not the one creating your reality !ou % on the same side of The 3ield as reality itself % have no power to create anything, as a matter of fact

/hen you finally surrender and accept this fact, it should actually come as Luite a relief After all, we worked very hard while inside the movie theater to create our reality % a reality we wanted % thinking we did indeed drive the bus and were responsible to decide what direction it took and what scenery we would seeD and, of course, it didn+t work At least we didn+t create a reality we really wanted Now we can sit back and relaF and enEoy the ride, allowing our /n inite /<s to do the driving and know our only Eob is to react and respond to the scenery % to the eFperiences that pop up in front of us 7<o <reyhound, and leave the driving to your /n inite / 8 NNN A few people, when they first hear this, react angrily % almost violently % to the whole idea, thinking &+m suggesting they are nothing more than a puppet or a slave of their /n inite /, who pulls all the strings and the 'layer dances accordingly Nothing could be further from the truth That, in fact, would defeat the entire purpose of the game the /n inite / has created you to play, which is coming in the neFt chapter &n order for the game to work for your /n inite /, you, as a 'layer, must always be free % must always have free will % not to choose or create which holographic eFperiences you have, but how you will react and respond to them &n fact, this is why you eFist as a 'layer, to use your free will to choose your reactions and responses, and to eFperience the ee$ings associated with those reactions and responses &t+s the ee$ings the /n inite / wants from youD and if you didn+t have free will to choose your feelings, the whole point of the game would be moot

So you are far from being a puppet or a slave, manipulated by some /n inite / you can+t see and are not even sure eFists !ou are an integral 'layer in the game, performing a valuable and uniLue service to your /n inite / Think about itK if your /n inite / has to focus on driving the bus all the time, wouldn+t it make sense it would create a part of itself, a representative of itself, to sit in the back of the bus to be the one who could focus solely on the scenery, and then send the feelings from the reactions and responses to the scenery back to the /n inite / through a strong and constant connection0 =o you think the astronaut on the moon considers itself a puppet or slave of )ission #ontrol0 =o you think the right guard on the football team considers itself to be a puppet or slave of the Luarterback0 =o you think the trumpet player in the orchestra considers itself to be a puppet or slave of the conductor0 (bviously not They know their role and eFecute it willingly Another analogy Eust occurred to me At =isney/orld, Pirates o the Caribbean is a real amusement ride % as compared to the online version & spoke of earlier !ou sit in a little boat and are taken on a Eourney through a number of different scenes and eFperiences, all of which are designed to give you an inner eFperience, which can range from Eoy and eFcitement to fear and tension The path of the Eourney and the scenes you see were created by the designer of the ride, and you don+t choose where the boat goes or what eFperiences you encounter !our only Eob is to sit in the boat and enEoy the ride, reacting and responding to what you see in any way you wantD and, of course, no reaction or response you might have could ever be 7wrong 8 All the designer of the ride is interested in, and wants, are your ee$ings to the eFperiences he has created for youD but & have yet to meet anyone who thinks they are a puppet or a slave of the designer of Pirates o the Caribbean+ &t+s only your ego, feeling threatened, that is resisting the idea of being a 'layer for your /n inite /, coming up with this 7puppet8 and 7slave8 argument &t also has to do with being unwilling to relinLuish control Apparently we all want to be the one in control of our life, the )aster of our =omain, even though we+d have to admit we haven+t done a very good Eob of it so far, since no one seems very pleased with the reality they already have :ut that+s eFactly the way it was supposed to be as long as you were in the movie theater !ou had to believe % as every religion and spiritual philosophy led you to believe % you were the one driving the bus &t was perfect for that purpose !ou+ve left the movie theater now and want to become a butterfly An important and essential part of that process is giving up the need and the desire to be in control % to let go of the steering wheel, to be willing to do the Eob you were created for and not try to be the bus driver NNN 7(kay, okay So &+m not a puppet for my /n inite / & still want to at least be a co" creator of my eFperiences,8 my friend insists & want to be very careful with this one, because in a sense we are co"creators % but not the way we normally think of that word 5owever, it+s possible our reactions and responses to one eFperience can have an impact on the neFt eFperience we have

&f my /n inite / is driving the bus, and &+m sitting in the back reacting and responding to the scenery that goes by my window, & might have a particular reaction or response my /n inite / finds especially interesting and wants to eFplore So it might turn around and drive by that scene again, giving me the same eFperienceD or it might drive by another similar scene to see if & respond the same way !ou could say my reactions and responses to the first eFperience helped to 7co"create8 the same or similar eFperience later 3or instance, if & react with fear to something in my hologram, my /n inite / might decide to send me another very similar hologram to see how & would react the neFt time )aybe it was fascinated by my fear, when it knows there was nothing to be afraid of in the eFperience it had created for me and wonders why & was so terrified (r maybe it wants to give me the gift of discovering for myself there is nothing to be afraid of (r maybe it Eust wanted to feel my fear again vicariously Owhich we+ll discuss in the neFt chapterP <oing back to our eFample of the Pirates o the Caribbean amusement ride, if the designer were trying to create a successful ride, & assume he would be very interested in the reactions and responses from the participants to the scenes he created for them, and their feedback would play a role in his evolving design % the path the boat took and the eFperiences they had There are all kinds of possibilities The point is that our reactions and responses to certain eFperiences might influence the eFperiences we are given in the future So & guess you could say, technically, you were 7co"creating8 those future eFperiences with your /n inite / as a result of your reactions and responses to the present eFperience :ut that+s stretching the definition of 7co"creator8 as far as & am concernedD and it doesn+t have to happen that way at all !our /n inite / is always free to create whatever future eFperiences it wants for you, regardless of your reaction or response to the present oneD and you are never in any way part of the actual creation process of any eFperience itself Anfortunately, that won+t make my friend very happy, because he wants to be a full" fledged co"creator of his eFperiences to satisfy his own ego and maintain the illusion of some semblance of control over his life NNN & consider L Ron 5ubbard to be both a genius and a madman Some of his Scientology techniLues for letting go of the past can be Luite workable for a 5uman Adult inside the movie theater :ut ultimately he committed an 7overt8 Oa wrong actionP by telling his followers, 7The supreme test of a Thetan is the ability to make things go right 8 O7Thetan8 was his word for the soul or spirit P #onsider 5ubbard+s two most 7Galuable 3inal 'roducts,8 -ohn Travolta and Tom #ruise & wonderK in light of the family tragedies and professional pitfalls, do you think they feel like they are 7making things go right8 all the time0 5ow do you feel when you+re told you+re 7less than8 if you fail to meet some arbitrary spiritual standard0 &nside the movie theater, not everything can 7go right,8 everD it was designed that way -ohn Travolta and Tom #ruise are no different from any other 5uman Adult who can achieve a few spectacular things in some areas of their lives, but can never get all their ducks in a row at one time as long as they belong to a group in the back of the theater

Not only is 7making things go right8 a Eudgment that keeps 5uman Adults stuck in the movie theater, but as you now know, a 'layer has no ability to make anything happen at all A 'layer+s only Eob is to react and respond to what is happening in the holographic universe created for them by their /n inite / So you can stop working so hard trying to control your life, trying to 7make things go right,8 trying to create and manage the holographic images that make up your reality and your life &t+s not possible, it+s a waste of time, and it will wear you out and leave you thinking you+re a failure /e spent a lot of time as 5uman Adults in the movie theater taking responsibility for things over which we have no control, and denying or ignoring those things over which we do The *,"Step program is very close to the truth when it praysB ,God grant !e the serenity to accept the things / cannot changeJ courage to change the things / canJ and wisdo! to *now the di erence+-1 !ou cannot change your holographic eFperiences, since you did not create them !ou can change your reactions and responses to them !ou+re in the process of gaining the wisdom you need to know the difference !ou can relaF now and enEoy the rideD you are not responsible for creating your reality, for making things go right in your life, for you or anyone else !ou are only responsible for your reactions and responses to the life your /n inite / creates for you, one moment at a timeD and it turns out every single one of your reactions and responses as a 'layer % even the ones you might consider 7bad8 or 7wrong8 % have been valuable and cherished by your /n inite / since you were born Let me repeat that because it is so importantB Every reaction and response you have had to every moment of your life % the holographic movies created for you by your /n inite / % has been 7right8 and perfect !ou have never done anything 7wrong8 or made any mistake % ever !our /n inite / wants each and every feeling you send to it, no matter what that feeling is & can say all that, and you might understand it right now intellectually % or notD but you will spend the neFt two years in your cocoon processing it until you have it on a cellular and emotional level as well % until you ee$ it as well as *now it 5owever, & imagine it might all make more sense if you know what game you+re playing SoK

3((TN(TES * Scheinfeld, Robert, 'he Business Schoo$ o Consciousness4 6ow to Bust Loose ro! the ,1$d- Business Ga!e % :ack to reading , Shakespeare, /illiam %s "ou Li*e /t % :ack to reading . :ashar, channeled by =arryl Anka, from the :ashar /eekend Event called Per!ission S$ips, -une ,., ,$$6, Los Angeles, #A % :ack to reading 1 5i*ipedia " Serenity 'rayer % :ack to reading

CHAPTER !!
THE HUMAN GAME MODEL
:ack to the Table of #ontents ,Let !e te$$ you why you<re here+ "ou<re here because you *now so!ething+ 5hat you *now you can<t e.p$ain, but you ee$ it+ "ou e$t it your entire $i e E that there<s so!ething wrong with the wor$d+ "ou don<t *now what it is, but it<s there $i*e a sp$inter in your !ind driving you !ad+" )orpheus, from 'he (atri. is no way any human being in this holographic universe can know with certainty why their /n inite / created them The story & am about to tell you, therefore, cannot be called the Truth &nstead it+s a model Olike The 3ieldP that comes closer to the Truth than any other model and is eFtremely workable and effective in the metamorphosis to a butterfly And it+s high time for a new model The models of how the universe works we used inside the movie theater are no longer valid, all based on the wrong premise that the movies we are watching are real /ith the recent results in Luantum physics and other scientific eFperiments, we need to come up with a new model that conforms to our new understanding of the holographic universe Robert Scheinfeld* was the one who introduced me to this model in my early days as a scout Although & have made certain modifications Owhich he may or may not agree withP, & want to give him the credit for it &t+s called The 5uman <ame )odel Let+s eavesdrop on a couple of /n inite /<s who are having a conversationK 7!ou know, &+ve been thinkingK8 ,P$ease te$$ !e not to worry+ "ou *now what the Chie said the $ast ti!e97Not to worry This is different 8 77ight 8 7&+ve been thinking & want to go to the <A' tonight 8 ,5hereD7The <reat Amusement 'ark 8 7/s that a$$D 'hen you<re onC %$$ the di erent ga!es and attractionsK 8 7!es, but tonight & want to tie one hand behind my back in the dart game 8 ,5hatD7Am & not speaking clearly0 & said & want to tie one hand behind my back in the dart game 8 7/ heard you per ect$yJ you<re ?ust not !a*ing any sense+ 5hy wou$d you want to do thatD7/ell, & keep breaking all the balloons every time & play and bringing home another stuffed animal Now my closet+s full of them 8

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75hat e$se can you e.pect when you have in inite power, in inite wisdo!, in inite abundanceK 8 7:ut & want to eFperience something a little different for a change % more of a challenge, maybe & mean, a game you win all the time can get a little boring 8 7So you<re going to throw darts with one hand tied behind your bac*08 7!es & thought &+d try it at least 8 7'his / gotta seeK 8 7!ou know, &+ve been thinkingK 8 71h, no+ 6ere we go again 8 7Throwing darts with one hand tied behind my back doesn+t do much & still break every balloon, and now &+ve got a second closet full of stuffed animals 8 7/<! we$$ aware o that+ 'he second c$oset used to be !ine, re!e!berD8 7So tonight &+m going to tie both hands behind my back 8 ,/ beg your pardonD 6ow are you going to throw darts with both hands tied behind your bac*08 7& don+t know yetD but as you said, & have infinite power and infinite wisdom, so &+ll figure something out 8 7'his ti!e /<! the one who<s been thin*ingK 8 7About what08 7%bout the act that / had to bui$d another c$oset or your stu ed ani!a$s+ (aybe tonight you shou$d try throwing darts b$ind o$dedK 8 7/owH <reat ideaH8 7'his isn<t wor*ing, you *now+ /t<s a good thing we<ve got in inite space or an in inite nu!ber o c$osets 8 7!es, & know There+s gotta be a wayK 8 7% way to do what08 7A way to eFperience what it would be like not to be soK Jinfinite,+ soK Jperfect+ all the time 8 ,/<! not o$$owing97& mean, here we are, with infinite Eoy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite abundance, infinite and unconditional loveK /e+re Eust soK so perfect /ell, maybe & want to feel what it would be like to miss a balloon or two every once in a while % to eFperience what it would be like not to be so infinite, Eust for the fun of it /ho knows, maybe &+ll even appreciate my infinite nature more when & know what the opposite feels like 8 ,But it<s not possib$e+7/hat+s not possible08 ,2ot being in inite+ / !ean, that<s who we are9 in inite beings+ /t<s not possib$e not to be in inite+7)aybe not At least, not for us directly :ut what if we create a new game, and then create a player to play it for us08 ,/<! sti$$ not o$$owing you9+-

7!ou know the Tunnel of Love in the 'ark where we eFperience those fantastic images from all the beautiful universes08 ,1h, yes+ /t<s one o !y avorite rides+ / especia$$y $i*e the !usic that goes a$ong with itC Sing it with !e9 /t<s a s!a$$ wor$d a ter9+7&+m not singing that right now &+m trying to have a conversation with you about creating a new game where we could eFperience what it would be like to be limited instead of so bloody infinite and perfect all the timeH8 ,1h, we<re going to be serious, are weD 5e$$, as / said, it<s not possib$e+ 5e<d a$ways *now we were in inite, so the ga!e wou$dn<t wor*+7!ou+re rightD it+s not possible for us to limit ourselves, which is why & keep breaking all the balloons no matter what & do As & said, that+s why we have to create an attraction where we don+t actually go in and play &nstead we create a player to go inside and play for us, to represent us in the game 8 ,6ow !uch un cou$d that be, i we<re outside and the p$ayer is insideD 5ou$dn<t the p$ayer have a$$ the un insteadD %nd i the p$ayer is p$aying the ga!e, how wi$$ we have the e.perienceD7/e stay connected to our playerK8 ,"ou !ean, $i*e we<re a$ways connected to the /n i2etD7!es, a lot like thatD and the player would send back its feelings through that connection while it was being limited, so we could eFperience those feelings vicariously 8 ,Let !e see i / have this right9 you want to create so!ething $i*e a video ga!e, with a p$ayer who you put through various e.periences in which they react to being $i!ited, so they can send bac* to you their ee$ings during those e.periences o what it<s $i*e not to be in inite+7'reciselyH8 ,/ !ust ad!it it sounds $i*e it cou$d be un, and interesting+ But how are you going to create these $i!iting e.periences or your p$ayerD7(h, that+s the easy part &+ll Eust go to The 3ield, collapse some Luantum wave functions and make some holograms 8 ,'he &ie$dD %re you sure the Chie wou$d approve o using 'he &ie$d to create a ga!e where the goa$ was $i!itation rather than e.pansionD7/hy not0 !ou know the #hief doesn+t consider one eFperience to be Jbetter+ or Jworse+ than any other All eFperiences are eLual And the #hief created The 3ield % whose full name, Eust to remind you, is The 3ield of Anlimited 'ossibilities % because it affords us unlimited possibilities to play, which has to include the possibility to eFperience limitation as well as eFpansion Right08 ,"ou<ve got a point+ But do you rea$$y thin* you can create a ho$ographic ga!e so rea$, where the p$ayer wi$$ be so convinced they are being $i!ited, they wi$$ react with ee$ings you cou$d e.perienceD7/ell, &+ve got some details to work out, but doesn+t it sound like a blast08 ,/ don<t *now about a Ib$ast<9 !aybe !ore $i*e a Ibig bang+< But de inite$y very creative+ /<! sti$$ not convinced it<s possib$e to $i!it un$i!ited power or wisdo!, so $et !e *now how this wor*s or you97&+ve got a prototype 8

,&or whatD7=id you really forget our conversation, or are you Eust Eerking me around08 ,7e!ind !e97&+m creating a game where we can eFperience what it+s like not to be so infinite 8 ,1h, yeh, that one+7And & created a player to play the game for meK 8 ,7ea$$yD7!es & went through a lot of trial and error, but & finally came up with something that works Adam 8 ,5hatD7& call it JAdam +8 ,/nteresting+ / won<t as* why right now+ Go on97And & created a whole bunch of different holographic scenarios for Adam to eFperience being limitedK and he+s been sending back his feelings to me from those eFperiences &t+s so cool, and it really worksH /anna see08 ,Sure, /<$$ ta*e a $oo*9,5owC 'hat<s a beauti u$ ga!e wor$d E c$ear b$ue s*ies, $ush green orests, tur=uoise oceans9 rea$$y a!a>ing+ %nd you did a$$ this with ho$ogra!sD7!es Like & said, that was the easy part & call it JEarth +8 ,1*ay9 whatever+7The hard part was figuring out how to make the holograms appear in space and time so Adam would think he was inside something like a total immersion movie 8 ,%ndD7And so & created a Jbrain+ 8 ,/ can see /<! going to need a dictionary be ore we<re through+ 5hat<s a <brain<D7A Jbrain+ is a kind of holographic processor /hat & do is download the Luantum wave freLuencies &+ve chosen from The 3ield for my Earth Environment to one side of Adam+s brain, usually while he+s asleepK8 ,%nd %da! doesn<t *now what<s happeningD7Actually, when he wakes up, he has theseK well, sort of memories of something occurring during the night, but all the pictures are Eumbled together and nothing makes any sense to him % kind of like trying to read a Mip file 8 ,1*ay, go on97Then when &+m ready, & unMip them and move them to the other side of his brainD and in the process of moving from one side to the other, the brain translates the wave freLuencies into particle locations, creating a holographic picture, which it then proEects out through the senses into space and time for Adam to perceive and eFperience 8 ,/t sounds air$y si!p$e9+7!eh, it+s basically like the central processing unit in our computers that takes binary code and translates it into what we see on our screens :ut Adam thinks it+s happening Jout there,+ and all around him, independent of his own brain " as if it were some kind of obEective reality 8 ,So what e.act$y is %da! doing nowD7#hasing a rabbit 8 ,% whatD-

7& call that little furry white thing a Jrabbit +8 ,5here are you getting these na!esD 1h, never !ind+ 6e<$$ never catch the rabbit, thoughJ it<s too ast or hi!+7EFactly, and that+s the point Adam is eFperiencing the limitation of having a body, and he+s sending his feelings about that back to me 8 ,5hich are9D7& would say right now he+s a littleK frustrated And that+s perfect % an amaMing thing to feelH &f & were chasing that rabbit here, &+d catch it every time, Eust like & break every balloon This is precisely what & was hoping to feelH8 ,/ can<t ee$ anything+7(f course not Adam+s my player &+m the only one who can feel what he+s feeling 8 ,So, i / want to have a si!i$ar e.perience9+7!ou have to create your own player 8 ,/s that possib$eD7& can work on it 8 NNN This may sound incredible, and you might be laughing or thinking &+ve totally lost it :ut is it any more incredible than all the other creation stories found in every one of the world+s religions0 &s it any more theoretical than a 7big bang8 no one can find or eFplain0 &s it any stranger than aliens from the Twelfth 'lanet genetically engineering ho!o sapiens by combining the =NA of apes with themselves, as our Sumerian forefathers apparently believed0, &t+s actually not entirely out of the realm of possibility that an /n inite / wanted to eFperience what it e$t like to be imperfect, to limit unlimited power and Eoy and abundance and wisdom and love, to be involved in drama and conflict and pain and suffering After all, if you remember, one of the attributes & gave an /n inite / was the infinite desire to play and eFpress itself creatively & can imagine a game where an /n inite / could eFperience being the opposite of what it really is might be very interesting and eFciting % not to mention eFtremely difficult to pull off 5ow does one limit unlimited power0 5ow does one restrict unlimited wisdom0 5ow does one forfeit unlimited Eoy and love0 And how does one create scarcity in the face of unlimited abundance0 The conversation went onK 7Are you ready08 ,&or whatD7To create your own player 8 ,1*ay+ Show !e+73irst, there are some rules of the game you must agree to before we start Number (ne, the #hief has been very clearB Any creation must have complete free will (nce you+ve created your player, you cannot interfere with their decisions and choices at any time for any reason 8 ,"ou !ean, / ?ust create a p$ayer and turn the! $oose on your I3arth<D-

7(h, no way !ou have to create every second of every eFperience for your player, down to the smallest detail They can+t create anything They+re part of the hologram They+re on the wrong side of The 3ield and have no power at all to create any eFperiences for themselves :ut once you+ve created an eFperience for them, they must have total free will to choose how they want to respond or react to that eFperience 8 ,/ have no prob$e! with that+7<ood Rule Number Two, your player can+t know it+s your playerD otherwise, it taps into your infiniteness through the connection &t must think it has its own consciousness and identity, and is not Eust a temporary representative, an eFtension of you created for the game 8 ,/ can agree to that+7Rule Number Three, your player also can+t know it+s a game &t has to believe it+s real &t has to take it seriously or it doesn+t work 8 ,"ou !ean, %da! doesn<t *now it<s a$$ a ho$ogra!D7NoH Adam is part of the hologram A hologram looks and feels real to anything inside the hologram itself Adam thinks the garden & made for him actually eFists % he even eats the holographic apples, for eFampleH8 ,5e$$, / won<t te$$ hi! it<s not rea$+7!ou+re right % you can+t tell him, unless & agree, which is Rule Number 3our !ou+re going to create your own player with its own eFperiences, but &+ve figured out how different players+ holograms can interactK 8 ,5ait a !inute9 are you saying /<! not going to use your ho$ogra!sD7No, you can+t !ou can use the collection of holographic JEarth Environments+ &+ve created as a template for your player, if you want And & actually suggest you do that, because if your player and my player interact, & think it would be easier if they both saw virtually the same things in their hologramsD otherwise they+ll spend all their time arguing about the color Jblue,+ for eFample, or whether there are one or two suns in the sky 8 ,5e wou$dn<t want that now, wou$d weD7Actually, it could be interesting % probably result in some strange feelings coming back through the connectionD maybe eventually get some players really upset if the reality they saw was too much different from other players :ut & think it would work better for now at least if our two players saw pretty much the same things 8 ,But !y p$ayer<s ho$ogra!s wi$$ be co!p$ete$y separate ro! %da!<sD7Absolutely Each player must have its own separate individual and uniLue reality !ou create your own player+s reality, and & create my player+s reality :ecause of the way &+ve worked it out for players+ holograms to interact with each other, they might think they+re connected, that they+re all Jone,+ or that they share the same holographic universeD but it won+t be true That+s the only way this can work 8 ,5hy<s thatD7/ell, getting back to what we were talking about, Rule Number 3our is % if we decide we want your player and my player to interact % your player can never do or say anything in my player+s holograms & have not agreed to beforehand (therwise, you would actually be creating eFperiences for my player % and me for yours 8 ,%nd that wou$d be bad, because9+7:ecause the #hief insists no one can ever be a victim of anything at any timeD and if you had the ability to create eFperiences for my player by doing or saying something &

didn+t want or didn+t approve of or didn+t know about, my player could then become a victim of your creations )y guess is that a player might ee$ like it+s a victim from time to time % and that+s good for us because it will simply lead to more limitation % but it can never actually be the case & must always have *$$T script approval for every detail prior to anything happening in my player+s holograms And the same thing goes for you and your player 8 7/ got it+7So now are you ready08 ,"es, but / want a p$ayer very di erent ro! %da!+7/ell, do you want a human player, or an animal player % maybe a dolphin08 ,% do$phin $oo*s $i*e a $ot o un+ But what<s %da!D7Adam is a human being This is called the 5uman <ame 8 ,So / want a hu!an, too+ But sti$$, / want a hu!an that<s di erent9+7(kay, you can create whatever you want as long as it has two legs, two arms, two eyes, two earsK 8 7/owH That+s interesting /hat do you call it08 ,3ve+NNN /ord about the new 5uman <ame apparently spread Luickly all over &nfiniteLand via &nfi)ail Soon there were many other /n inite /<s who wanted to play and the human population on Earth began to grow And thenK 75ait a !inute+ / have another idea 8 7!our last one was pretty good /hat+s this one08 7Let<s divide the 6u!an Ga!e into two parts+ 'he irst ha$ wi$$ be to see how ar into $i!itation we can ta*e our P$ayers, and then the second ha$ wi$$ be to bring the! bac* out again 8 75ere+s a million that says & can take my 'layer further into limitation than you can take yours and still bring it home safelyH8 ,"ou<re onCNNN Again, &+m not trying to claim any of this is true /e may never know :ut human beings seem to have an abundance of curiosityD so although it+s futile and irrelevant to speculate on why an /n inite / would create the 5uman <ame, we do it anyway &+m no different 5ere are a few of the thoughts &+ve had over the yearsK =o 'ete Sampras or Roger 3ederer or )artina Navratilova or the /illiams sisters get bored after a while playing tennis so well0 =o they play with the 7wrong8 hand occasionally Eust to see if they can % Eust to make the game more interesting % Eust for the challenge and the eFperience0 =oes anyone play darts sometimes with their eyes closed, Eust for the fun0 & remember when & was three or four years old, the house & lived in had a brick walkway from the front door leading to three steps which went down to the street &

would take my tricycle, back it up against the front door, peddle as hard and fast as & could down the walkway, and then slam on the brakes and see how close & could get to the edge of the top step before & fell over OThe last time & tried this was when & fell down the stairs into the street, splitting my lip wide open P So & can totally relate to the idea of playing a game to its maFimum limits, to see how far one can push oneself & also remember wanting to go higher and higher on a rollercoaster, eager to find the biggest one & could, even though the first hill up was always a bitch (r maybe an /n inite / wants to play the 5uman <ame purely to eFperience what a physical universe feels like There was an interesting *;;4 movie with -ohn Travolta called (ichae$, in which Travolta plays an archangel who came to Earth to eFperience how it felt to have a body 5e reveled in it % smoking, drinking, eating as much sugar and meat as he could, eFercising his very active libido, and enEoying every moment (f course, most 7new"agers8 didn+t like the movie because nearly everything )ichael did was contrary to their beliefs of what an 7enlightened8 being would do :ut once again this movie could provide a 7clue8 to an /n inite /<s motivation &+m sure you+ve heard the saying, 7As above, so below 8 Now we understand the opposite is true, 7As below, so above 8 /e all go to the movies, watch sports, or listen to music in order to have an 7inner eFperience8 from the 7outer eFperience 8 Even golf is played for the inner eFperience it creates, according to the eFperts The 5uman <ame, then, could be an 7outer eFperience8 created for a 'layer by its /n inite / so the /n inite / can have the 7inner eFperience8 % the feelings it receives through the connection to its 'layer There may be many other reasons why an /n inite / would create a 'layer to eFperience life on Earth, and maybe you+ll come up with one or more on your own :ut the bottom line is, it doesn+t matter whyD and we will probably not know the complete answer as long as we are 'layers on this side of The 3ield 3ortunately, not knowing why doesnQt affect the way we play the 5uman <ame here and now /hat matters is that the 5uman <ame, as a model, answers a lot of Luestions more logically and more understandably and more consistently than any other model to date % like why our movies seem to be filled with drama and conflict, pain and suffering, and what our purpose is to be here This model could change as we get more information, as more research is done in Luantum physics, as more scouts come back with new reports of what they+ve found :ut the most important thing is, right now, this model leads to very practical, useful, and effective ways to go through our metamorphosis in the cocoonD and that+s the only real value in having such a model So what if the opposite of everything we believed while in the movie theater is true0 C /hat if life is not a school, or a training ground, or a test, or a 7bitch,8 but a fun ride in an amusement park instead0 C /hat if the purpose of life on Earth is not to learn something OthinkingP, but to eFperience something OfeelingP0 C /hat if we as 'layers are supposed to feel 7separate8 from our /n inite /<s, rather than bemoaning the fact or trying to 7reconnect80 C /hat if our connection to our /n inite / has never been broken, but we were supposed to think it was in order to play the <ame0

C /hat if every eFperience we have ever had and will ever have is eFactly the way our /n inite / wants it, and there+s nothing to be changed, fiFed, or improved in our holograms0 C /hat if all the things we have resisted are actually what our /n inite /<s have wanted us to eFperience, and it is only our Eudgment and resistance causing our pain and suffering0 C /hat if we have never done anything 7wrong,8 but only think we have, and believe everyone else when they tell us we+re defective and deficient, sinners who need to be saved0 C /hat if the Earth doesn+t need to be saved either % that it has its own /n inite / who is creating the precise eFperiences it wants as well0 C /hat if it is only our ego that says we have the power to create or change anything about our reality, and that all power actually resides with the /n inite / on the other side of The 3ield0 C /hat if we don+t need any 7self"help8 % no magic formulas, no 7 Secrets,8 no 7spiritual laws,8 no gurus, and no special techniLues to try to make things different than they are0 C /hat if, no matter what we do in the first half of the 5uman <ame % like meditate, pray, eat only organic food, and so on % it will not change anything until we have eFperienced all the imperfection and limitation and restrictions our /n inite / wants and it+s ready for us to play the second half0 C /hat if all we need to do is relaF, enEoy the eFperiences our /n inite / creates for us Owhatever they may beP, and stop Eudging those eFperiences to be 7good8 or 7bad,8 7better8 or 7worse,8 7right8 or 7wrong80 C /hat if humankind itself has never made any mistake either, but instead has eFplored the heights of limitation as a species eFactly as the /n inite /<s wanted0 C /hat if, not understanding this, we have made up many 7stories8 to try to eFplain what we eFperience % religions, philosophies, and beliefs % many of which contain some truth, but which are always altered so they actually lead into more limitation0 C /hat if it+s now time in the 5uman <ame for many more people to enter their cocoons, to play the second half of the 5uman game, to go over the top of the first hill on the rollercoaster and enEoy the ride back to &nfiniteLand0 NNN )(G&E SA<<EST&(NB 'he Ga!e, starring )ichael =ouglas O*;;6P

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CHAPTER !#
THE T&O HAL ES MODEL
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Before we go on, & want to make sure &+m not confusing you with too many miFed
metaphors and analogies Oand there are more on the wayHP 3or eFample, we Eust said the 5uman <ame was divided into two halves 5ow does that line up with the )ovie Theater and :utterfly metaphors0 The first half of the 5uman <ame % going deeper and deeper into limitation and restriction, with all the drama and conflict and pain and suffering % would be Stages * and , of a butterfly Othe egg and caterpillarP, or everything that happens inside the movie theater to the 5uman #hildren and 5uman Adults The second half of the 5uman <ame would be Stages . and 1 Othe cocoon and the butterflyP, or everything that happens once you walk out the back door of the movie theater and into your cocoon &f we take a look at the different rules for both halves of the 5uman <ame, & think it might become more obviousK The rules for the first half of the 5uman <ame Oinside the movie theaterP areB* * The 'layers must forget who they really are and believe they are something else instead % at the eFtremes, for eFample, that they are their body or their /n inite / , The 'layers must believe their holographic eFperiences are real and what they perceive with their senses is actually happening 7out there,8 in some obEective and independent reality . The 'layers must believe what they encounter 7out there8 has power over them and the power to affect their lives 1 The 'layers must believe in the Eudgments of 7good and bad,8 7right and wrong,8 7better and worse,8 7good and evil 8 2 The 'layers must believe there is something 7wrong8 with the reality they see 7out there8 that needs to be changed or fiFed or improved 4 The 'layers must believe they have the power to create a different reality than what they are eFperiencing and therefore feel defective and deficient Omore limitedP when they fail 6 The 'layers must believe they can think their way out of the 5uman <ame by using their mind, or love their way out of it by using their heart

9 The 'layers must believe they can 7make something happen,8 and when they fail, blame themselves for not being smarter or better or working harder ; The 'layers must believe there are goals to be reached or agendas to be satisfied or lessons to be learned *$ The 'layers must believe they, and they alone, are responsible for meeting their own needs and wants, which they have to fight for ** 3ear and resistance are the foundations of the first half of the <ame, and Eudgment and their resulting beliefs are the glue that keeps the illusions working *, These illusions must never break down or the 'layers would see through the <ame =id any of those sound familiar0 According to this model, the first half of the 5uman <ame was designed to eFperience limitation and restriction % in all shapes and siMes % and all these rules lead to that So if you have been following the rules Oand you literally could not do anything elseP, you have most likely eFperienced a great deal of limitation and restriction in your life !ou Eust didn+t know why until now, because you weren+t supposed to & understand you probably didn+t like the limitations and restrictions of the first half of the 5uman <ame, that they didn+t feel 7good,8 that they didn+t feel 7right,8 and that you thought you had been doing something 7wrong 8 :ut you didn+t do anything 7wrong,8 and neither did & /e played the <ame eFactly as we should, eFactly as our /n inite /<s wanted us to Even our resistance and Eudgments weren+t 7wrong,8 since they led to more limitation, which is precisely what the /n inite / wanted to feel &n other words, we+ve been doing a fantastic Eob as the 'layers we were created to be /e Eust didn+t know it and couldn+t appreciate it from our vantage point 5ere+s something we might be able to appreciate % how an /n inite / pulled this off, how it managed to limit unlimited power, unlimited Eoy, unlimited abundance, unlimited wisdom, and unlimited love /hat a creationH /hat a gameH NNN

Since the first half of the 5uman <ame is intentionally the opposite of the natural state of an /n inite /, it takes an enormous amount of power to create it and keep it going, like a rollercoaster in an amusement parkK

The first thing that happens when you get on a rollercoaster is that you go up a big hill % and for many people, the higher the better :ut getting up this hill reLuires us to defy all natural laws, like the law of gravity &t takes a lot of power to pull us up that first hillD and on the way, we go through all kinds of 7inner eFperiences 8 &n many people, fear is the most commonD others have a wide variety of responses, from eFcitement to panic and even nausea & would resist that first hill with everything & had & didn+t like it, it didn+t feel good, it wasn+t natural, and all & wanted to do was get out of there :ut & also knew what was coming, the fun Eust over the crest of the hill Likewise, going as much as possible into limitation and restriction produces the same reactions as going up the first rollercoaster hill % you don+t like it, it doesn+t feel good, it isn+t natural, and all you want to do is get out of there So we resist the first half and wonder why we+re having these eFperiences :ut it+s supposed to feel like thatD that+s the <ame Another reason & like the rollercoaster analogy is that we can never eFperience or appreciate the ride to come if we don+t first go up the big hill Also like the 5uman <ame, a rollercoaster has two 7halves8 % you go up the hill in the first half, and down the hill in the second half &f looked at obEectively, the first half is

no 7better8 or 7worse8 than the second half &n fact, the second half could not eFist without the first half So there can be no 7Eudgment8 that one half is better than the other )ore importantly, someone riding on the second half of the rollercoaster is no more 7enlightened8 or 7better8 or 7more advanced8 or 7ascended8 than someone going up the first hill They+re Eust at a different point on the ride Therefore someone like me, near the end of my cocoon stage, is no more 7enlightened8 or 7better8 or 7more advanced8 or 7ascended8 than someone still inside the movie theater &+m Eust at a different point in my metamorphosis, that+s all, having already eFperienced much of the ride that comes after the top of the rollercoaster hill The last reason & like this analogy is that it reverses how we normally think about limitation Rather than going 7down8 into limitation, or 7down8 into the depths, the first half of the rollercoaster is 7up 8 So instead of saying we hit 7bottom8 in our lives, it+s better in my mind to say we reach the pinnacle, or the peak, or the apeF of limitation, when it+s then time to start the second half of the <ame 3or me this also helps take away the Eudgment The day & told you about, sitting in my apartment, realiMing & had no Eob, no money, no this and that, was my moment at the top of the rollercoaster hill % a brief moment of seeming weightlessness, when you+ve stopped climbing that interminable and awful first hill, when you can let go of all the resistance you had going up but have not yet started the ride down This is the moment of no Eudgment, the moment of clarity, the moment of complete obEectivity This is a very brief moment when you can be appreciative you made it to the top, and even appreciative of the climb itself !ou+re not even looking ahead to the neFt part of the ride, but simply suspended in space and time And then you walk through the door in the back of the movie theater and the second half of the 5uman <ame begins O5ow+s that for miFing metaphorsHP NNN :asically, the second half the 5uman <ame is the opposite of the first half OSome of these will be discussed in more detail in later chapters P * The 'layer knows what it has been calling 7reality8 is not real at all, but a hologram created by its /n inite / to play the 5uman <ame This <ame is being played by consciousness, in consciousness, and for consciousnessD and in fact 7there is no Jout there+ out there,+ no independent obEective reality , The 'layer knows once it has moved into the second half, all holograms eFperienced by the 'layer will be totally in support of its metamorphosis into a butterfly, rather than toward more limitation and restriction . The 'layer knows it can never and will never eFperience anything in any hologram its /n inite / has not created and wanted to eFperience, and that its /n inite / has written and approved the script being used by anyone else appearing in the 'layer+s hologram No one in the 'layer+s hologram can ever do or say anything its /n inite / has not reLuested

1 The 'layer knows its focus changes from thinking to feeling &n the second half there is nothing to analyMe, dissect, or understand % never any reason to ask 7why08 Thinking and studying are now only the result of an inner curiosity to eFpand one+s knowledge instead of being reLuired to figure out the world or make a 'layer 7better8 or more 7enlightened 8 2 The 'layer switches from Rgiving its power awayR to make a hologram real, to Rtaking its power backR from it /hen holograms appear that cause any kind of discomfort, it is an indication that the 'layer assigned some power to that hologram to make it real while playing in the first half, and this is the opportunity to recogniMe the hologram was in fact not real at all and reclaim that power from it 4 The 'layer leaves behind any and all Eudgment of anyone or anything in any hologram at any time, such as 7good8 and 7bad,8 or 7right8 and 7wrong 8 As Rudyard @ipling said in his poem, / B 7&f you can meet with Triumph and =isaster, and treat those two imposters Eust the sameK 8 6 The 'layer knows there is never anything that needs to be fiFed or changed or improved in the holograms it eFperiences 9 The 'layer changes from being 7proactive8 to being 7reactive 8 There is nothing the 'layer ever again needs to 7make happen 8 :eing 7reactive8 means that when a holographic illusion that appears 7out there8 seems to reLuire a decision, a response, or an action, the 'layer takes it Oas long as it does not include discomfortP (r, when the 'layer feels an internal motivation or impulse to act, it does &n other words, the 'layer follows its inner eFcitement as long as it is fun and brings total Eoy ; The 'layer lives from moment to moment, one day at a time There are no goals, no planning, no targets, no obEectives, and no agendas There is no past and no future % Eust 7now 8 *$ The 'layer develops a deep love and sincere appreciation for its /n inite /, for itself as the 'layer, and for all the first half holographic creations, even though at the time of the eFperience they may have seemed less than Eoyful The 'layer marvels in awe at the beautiful, perfect, and miraculous Eob the 'layer did in the first half to convince itself it was real, and that the holographic world it saw around it was real ** The 'layer has the 7knowing8 and the complete trust its /n inite / will take care of all its needs Oincluding moneyP, and there is no reason to worry about anything The /n inite / would not create a hologram it wanted the 'layer to eFperience if it did not also give it everything it needs for that eFperience *, The 'layer wakes up each day looking forward with curious anticipation to the eFperiences its /n inite / will create for it that dayD and the 'layer buckles up, relaFes, and enEoys the ride

NNN At the risk of overkill, & would like to offer two more analogies Oor are they metaphors0P to ensure &+ve eFpressed myself well Actually, & mentioned one before, which & now want to eFpand onK &magine a <reyhound bus driving down the highway At the wheel is an /n inite / The /n inite / realiMes it cannot drive the bus and fully enEoy the scenery along the way at the same time, so it creates a 'layer to sit in one of the seats and enEoy the scenery for it &n fact, the /n inite / realiMes it can create forty different 'layers, if it wants, to occupy all the seats in the bus and get forty different viewpoints of the scenery O&f this surprises you, read #hapter Twenty"SiF, 7(ne 'layer per &nfinite &08, in 'art Three of this book P There is a wire connecting the /n inite / in the driverQs seat to each of its 'layers in the passenger seats, like an Ethernet connection Through this wire the /n inite / downloads a holographic movie to each of its 'assengerU'layers, which is then proEected on the window neFt to the 'assenger :ut rather than Eust seeing the .= movie that is proEected on the window, the 'assenger actually becomes immersed in the scenery and part of the movie itself Each 'assenger can only see out its own window, and therefore each 'assenger has a totally uniLue eFperience As it reacts and responds to the scenery it sees, it sends its feelings back up the Ethernet wire to the /n inite /, which can then eFperience the scenery vicariously through this 'assenger The 'assengerQs Eob is not to drive the bus or decide what pictures it will eFperience &ts Eob is simply to have the eFperience and the feelings that result from it =oes this make the 'assenger RseparateR from the driver0 !es, in a sense &t has to be separate in order not to think about driving the bus so it can fully eFperience the scenery :ut no, itQs not Rseparate,R in that it was created by its /n inite / as an eFtension of itself and is always connected to the /n inite / through the Ethernet wire &s it 7wrong8 to feel like we are separated from our /n inite /<s0 Absolutely not That+s the way the <ame was designed to work (ur problem as 'assengers is that we have been trying to drive the bus, trying to decide what eFperiences we will have, mainly because we have had eFperiences in the past which we Eudged to be RwrongR or Runcomfortable,R and decided we wanted to avoid those eFperiences in the future and so tried to take over the bus driverQs Eob (r we had eFperiences in the past we liked a lot and wanted to repeat Any 'assenger who truly accepts their role as a 'assenger and lets go of any Eudgments or beliefs about the scenery it eFperiences can sit back and relaF and totally enEoy the ride There is also tremendous relief in realiMing, as a 'assenger, no reaction or response it has can be RwrongR % that every reaction and response of each 'assenger on the bus is valuable and desirable and wanted by its /n inite / NNN The second analogy has to do with one of my favorite games, a treasure hunt &n fact, & considered calling this book 'he Great 'reasure 6unt, and using that as the main metaphor, because that+s what the 5uman <ame really is

&n a good treasure hunt, someone hides something and then makes up clues for the players to try to find it The game eFcites me so much because it combines mental acuity % figuring out what the clues mean % along with obstacles to overcome, and in some cases physical demands as well in the process of finding the treasure &n the 5uman <ame, it was even harder /e didn+t know we were playing a gameD we didn+t know we were looking for a treasure or what the treasure wasD we didn+t know all the eFperiences we were having were perfect for the gameD we didn+t know there were clues we were being given from time to time, nor what the clues meant /e even got stuck during the treasure hunt, stopping in one particular location or situation or eFperience and staying there, never getting to the treasure itself &n short, most of us didn+t have a lot of fun &n fact, many people get really pissed at their /n inite / for putting them through such drama and conflict and pain and suffering in the first half of the 5uman <ameD and yet those same people seem to enEoy a good treasure hunt, where they have only hints and clues and many obstacles to overcome before they can find the treasure No one gets pissed at the designer of a good treasure hunt, do they0 Gery few people & know get angry at their parents for bringing them into this world as a defenseless, helpless, totally dependant baby :ut they rage at their /n inite /, for some reason, for creating them to play the 5uman <ame 7That+s all well and good,8 you might be saying, 7but & didn+t agree to being a 'layer for my /n inite / & didn+t agree to go through years of pain and suffering so my /n inite / could play some kind of sick game for its own entertainmentH8 )aybeD maybe not :ut this anger, while seemingly Eustified on the surface, is full of Eudgment and blame &t+s also not true !our /n inite / did not create your pain and sufferingD your resistance to your eFperiences did /e will talk more about this later The important thing is that it+s all over now !ou got to the treasure chest and opened it There was a note inside saying, 7&t isn+t realD it+s Eust a gameD8 and now you+re on your way back to the starting line to claim your priMe There is only one problem The only way to get back to the starting line is to flyD and on your way to the treasure, you picked up a lot of baggage at each of your stops % too much baggage and too heavy to fly with as a butterfly So now you+ve got to let go of all that baggage, which in this case is the personality you constructed along the way % your 7self,8 your ego NNN Now that the two halves of the 5uman <ame make more sense, you might be asking, 7/hat+s the point of all of this08 The point is, what are you going to do in your cocoon0 /hat+s going to happen now that you+re playing the second half of the 5uman <ame0 =uring the first half, you encountered numerous holographic eFperiences which, based on the fears we will discuss later, you Eudged as 7bad,8 7wrong,8 7worse,8 7evil,8 or Eust plain 7undesirableD8 and you tried everything in your power to change or fiF or improve those eFperiences &n doing so, you assigned power 7out there8 and made the holograms seem real

As time went on, you formed beliefs and opinions about the eFperiences, about other people, and about the world around you Those Eudgments and beliefs and opinions, in fact, defined who you believed you were They became part of your 7self,8 the layers of false identity called the ego Now it+s your Eob to reverse that process Every Eudgment you made while inside the movie theater of 7good8 and 7bad,8 7right8 and 7wrong8, 7better8 and 7worse,8 good8 and 7evil8 % both as a 5uman #hild and a 5uman Adult % are no longer valid Every belief and opinion you held was based on a false premise % that the movies you were watching were real % and are therefore untrue Every attachment you made to these Eudgments, beliefs and opinions created a new, false layer of identity you believed was who you really were So now you+re going to be given the opportunity by your /n inite / to revisit all those Eudgments and beliefs and opinions and, this time, change your reaction or response to the eFperiences that created them &n the process you will be able to let go of the layers of false identities that make up your ego % and the fears underlying them % and make your way toward the true answer to 7/ho Am &08 5ow this happens is relatively simple &n fact, you don+t have to do anything &t+s much better if you don+t try to make things happen any more !our /n inite / will create everything for you, as it has always done All you have to do is become fully conscious and aware of your reactions and responses to your eFperiences on a moment"to"moment basis, and be willing to look at them in the present time honestly and without Eustification This means you have to stay awake with your eyes open, and not in some meditative sleep or altered state of consciousness :ut this is no cake walk &t reLuires high mental acuity, and includes deep emotional and even physical demands :asically, you will 7re"live8 or 7re"visit8 many of the key eFperiences from your past, which means the movies that surround you in the cocoon for the neFt little while will look very much the same as they did in the movie theater Some of the characters involved may be slightly different than the first time through the movie, but the basic theme is the same or very similar This time, however, you have the choice of changing your reaction and response to these eFperiences by seeing the power you assigned 7out there8 to make your holographic universe seem real, and then letting go of the Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions you formed as a result This will be a good start, and then it+s on to the neFt eFperience & want to be clear that you don+t have to go searching in your past for an eFperience to process !our /n inite / will re"create these eFperiences in the present for you to deal with in the here and now This is not psychotherapy designed to discover your mother didn+t breastfeed you long enough, or to overcome a dysfunctional family history &t+s about 7what is, now 8 &t+s about letting go of the fears that dominate your thoughts in the present and about the attachments to your 7self,8 the layers of false identities, the personality construct called the ego you think is you &t+s about a war with )aya, the <oddess of &llusion, as -ed )c@enna would say &t+s about finding out who you really are

&t+s about discovering what is true &t+s about becoming a fully realiMed 7no"self8 with serenity of being

3((TN(TES * :ased loosely on the work of Robert Scheinfeld % :ack to reading

CHAPTER !%
THE PROCESS
:ack to the Table of #ontents

I said at the end of the last chapter Ryou will Qre"liveQ or Qre"visitQ many of the key
eFperiences from your past, which means the movies that surround you in the cocoon for the neFt little while will look very much the same as they did in the movie theater Some of the characters involved may be slightly different than the first time through the movie, but the basic theme is the same or very similar This time, however, you have the choice of changing your reaction and response to these eFperiences by seeing the power you assigned Qout thereQ to make your holographic universe seem real, and then letting go of the Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions you formed as a result R =ifferent scouts have different methods for processing the holographic eFperiences created for you in the cocoon by your /n inite /, and & doubt there+s a 7right8 way or a 7wrong8 way, or Eust one way There+s no Luestion there+s only one place to end up % as a butterfly :ut there may be as many ways to emerge from the cocoon as there are routes across the Rocky )ountains to the 'acific (cean &t might be helpful to look at a couple methods used by other scouts to give you a clue about where and how to find what works for you NNN Robert Scheinfeld, whom & have called my mentor, came up with a 'rocess that goes something like thisK * , . 1 2 4 Remind yourself it isn+t real =ive right smack into the middle of it 3eel the Rdiscomfort energyR fully /hen it reaches a peak, call it what it is and tell the truth about it Reclaim your power from the creation EFpress appreciation*

&n other words, as you continue with your life, immersed in the movies in your cocoon, there will be times when an eFperience brings you less than total Eoy % 7discomfort8 Robert calls it, which includes mental discomfort as well as physical and emotional discomfort, all the way from a slight emotional reaction to intense pain and suffering The easiest way to spot this is that you will wish something about your present hologram would change, because you don+t like some part Oor allP of it very much Let+s be very clear and specific about what we mean by 7discomfort 8 'hysical discomfort should be fairly obvious, ranging from an 7owie8 to severe and debilitating pain Emotional or mental discomfort, on the other hand, can be a little more subtle

L Ron 5ubbard invented an 7emotional tone scale8 in which he lists a lot of the 7uncomfortable8 emotions we can feel from time to time, including Oin partPB anger, antagonism6 anFiety, apathy, blame, covert hostility, despair, dying, fear, grief, hate, hiding, hopeless, hostility, no sympathy, pity, propitiation, regret, resentment, self" abasement, shame, sympathy, terror, total failure, uneFpressed resentment, useless, victim , & can think of some other feelings that could be considered as 7discomfort8 as well, such as bitterness, condemnation, condescension, depression, embarrassment, envy, eFasperation, frustration, humiliation, impatience, indecision, indignation, intolerance, Eealousy, mistrust, reproach, revenge, sadness, sarcasm, spite, worrying :ut we can make this very simple by saying 7discomfort8 is anything you feel that is less than total eFcitement, Eoy, and enthusiasm /henever we feel one of these emotions, or physical pain, the first thing we do is Eudge it to be 7wrong8 or 7bad8 or 7undesirable8 % something we don+t want to feel Then we resist it Then we assign power 7out there8 to the person, place, or thing that made us feel less than totally Eoyful 75e,8 7she8, or 7it8 caused me to feel this way, whether it+s an emotional upset or an upset stomach &n other words, we 7blame8 whatever is 7out there8 that 7did this to me 8 Then we try to change, fiF, or improve that situation somehow Even those of us who have believed for years 7you create your own reality8 do this, whether we like to admit it or not, or whether we might think we+re too 7enlightened8 for that /e do it anyway, in greater or lesser ways, if we+re really honest with ourselvesD and rightfully so, because it+s an intrinsic part of the first half of the 5uman <ame which we played for so long and which led into more limitation &n the cocoon you+re going to have similar eFperiences to those from the first half of the <ame :asically, you+re going to find yourself immersed in movies with people, places, and things that make you feel 7discomfort8 from time to time Some of the people you encounter, for eFample, might piss you off the same way they did the first time you met them % or the second time, or the umpteenth time Rest assured this is not a hologram created by your /n inite / in order to create more limitation in your life This hologram is a gift to you from your /n inite /, showing you eFactly where you assigned power in the past to something 7out there,8 and, most importantly, where that power sti$$ resides &t is your chance to respond differently to this hologram % to, in a sense, 7reclaim8 the power you gave away and rewrite the ending to this storyline /henever you feel this discomfort % whenever you have the slightest thought you wish something 7out there8 in your present eFperience would change % Robert says to run his 'rocessD so let+s take a little closer look at it OAgain, Robert may or may not agree fully with some of my eFtended eFplanations P * 7e!ind yourse$ it isn<t rea$ Remember that you are immersed in a hologram, and by definition a hologram is not real !ou only make it real if you assign it the power to be real and give it control over you , Dive right s!ac* into the !idd$e o it This is the opposite of what we normally did in the first half of the 5uman <ame /henever we would meet something 7out there8

that made us uncomfortable % pain and suffering, for eFample % we would try to get away from it, resist it, suppress it, change it, ignore it, drug it, deny it, hide from it, escape it, or otherwise make it go away Robert says, on the other hand, to embrace it fully, to see it in all its glory, to invite it closer and get yourself into the middle of it as completely as possible . &ee$ the ,disco! ort energy- u$$y Rather than rushing through the 'rocess as soon as you feel the least little discomfort, let it build as much as possible There+s a very simple reason for this /hat we want to do neFt, according to Robert, is 7reclaim the power8 we assigned 7out there8 in these holograms &n many cases, we have 7given8 a lot of power away to certain people, places, and things that resulted in our feeling less than Eoyful &n fact, it may take more than one eFperience in the second half of the 5uman <ame to switch off that power flowD and the more we can get at one time, the faster and easier the process will be to 7reclaim8 it all Therefore let the discomfort grow as much as possible to process as much as you can at one timeD and then be prepared to do it again later, either with the same person, place, or thing, or a similar situation, until all the power you have placed 7out there8 has been turned off OThere are some workable techniLues you might want to use to help the discomfort build, like 73ocusing8 developed by =r Eugene <endlin .P 1 5hen it reaches a pea*, ca$$ it what it is and te$$ the truth about it /hen the discomfort has become as much as you can stand at that moment, it+s time to honestly assess the situation and look for your Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions 3or eFample, is there someone or something in this eFperience you think is 7wrong8 or 7bad8 and should change or be different than it is0 /ho or what, specifically0 And is that true0 &s there a belief you hold causing the discomfort0 EFactly what is it0 And is it true0 =id you form an opinion that is now causing you discomfort in this eFperience0 /hat is it, and is it really true0 O&t can help a lot to actually write these things down as you go through the 'rocess, at least in the beginning P (ne of the things you don<t ask is 7/hy8 this eFperience is happening to you That+s a distraction that has no relevance and will keep you from focusing on what does matter Asking 7/hy8 is what everyone does inside the movie theater, because it leads into more and more limitationD but inside the cocoon it+s a useless concept )aybe you will understand 7/hy,8 and maybe notD it doesn+t matter As the eFperiences in your cocoon continue, you might start to see patterns in your life that revolve around certain key Eudgments and beliefs and opinions !ou can eFpect to have similar holograms appear that give you the opportunity to follow those patterns, perhaps back to the first time you formed that Eudgment, or adopted that belief, or created that opinion So 7calling it what it is8 means acknowledging and owning up to the fact that your discomfort is based on the Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions you formed as a reaction or response to this situation The 7truth about it8 is that no one and nothing 7out there8 is going to change to make you happier "ou<re the one who+s going to have to change your reactions and responses to your eFperiencesD you<re the one who+s going to have to take *$$T responsibility for

how you feel and your condition in lifeD you<re the one who Eumped into this uncomfortable hole, rather than being pushed or forced or tricked into it The 7truth about it8 is that no one can ever be a victim of anyone or anything at any time in any eFperienceD likewise, there are no unwanted perpetrators As long as you feel like you+re a victim, you have assigned power 7out there8 that isn+t real The 7truth about it8 is that you have no power to change the eFperience or anyone or anything 7out there 8 The only power you have as a 'layer is using your free will to change the way you react and respond to the holographic eFperiences created for you by your /n inite / 2 7ec$ai! your power ro! the creation 7Reclaim8 is Robert+s word, and & think it can be a little misleading A 'layer has no powerD we didn+t create the hologram to begin with /e definitely made the hologram real by assigning it power, but the power we assigned was as imaginary as the hologram itself 7Reclaiming your power8 also suggests that when you have finished with the 'rocess, you will have more power than before you started, by taking the power back you had assigned to the hologram 7out there 8 This is also not true /hat & prefer to say is that you disconnect or turn off the power you assigned to the hologram, like pulling the plug or turning off a light switch &t was your Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions that provided the power in the first place Think of it this wayK &n the first half of the 5uman <ame, you entered a holographic eFperience and flipped a switch that lit it up and made it appear real &t+s still there, fully illuminated, when you re"visit it in the second half % which is helpful, because you need it as bright as possible to clearly see the Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions that were your reactions and responses, and which became part of your false self, the personality construct, the ego you have been thinking is you /hen you have finished processing that hologram, you simply unplug the power source or turn the light switch off &n the beginning, it helped to visualiMe myself doing that O&f there are still Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions associated with that holographic eFperience % in other words, you didn+t get them all the first time % the light won+t go off completely and your /n inite / will give you another opportunity later to run the 'rocess on the same or similar circumstances again P 4 3.press appreciation EFpressing appreciation is perhaps the most important step Even if you don+t 7like8 the eFperience you are having, do whatever possible O7fake it until you make it8P to eFpress appreciation to your /n inite / for the eFperience % and especially thanks and appreciation to the person, place, or thing that was causing you the discomfort After all, your /n inite / has Eust given you the gift of showing you where you assigned power 7out there8 in the past, and that+s worthy of some appreciationD and the people, places, or things that caused your discomfort have given you the gift of eFpertly playing a role in your holographic movie to assist you in your process of becoming a butterfly % definitely worthy of appreciation & realiMe this may be difficult in the beginningD but in fact, you may soon be wanting other people, places, or things who make you feel less than totally Eoyful to show up in your holograms as much and as often as they can, Eust so you can see where youQve

assigned power Rout thereR and RreclaimR it O3or a more complete discussion of 7other people8 in your holographic eFperiences and the roles they play, please see #hapter Twenty"Three, 7(ther 'eople,8 in 'art Three of this book P &f you keep doing this 'rocess, you will eventually come to sincerely and completely appreciate each and every eFperience you have had, and all the people, places and things in it for the absolute perfection they represent NNN Remember what you+re seeing 7out there8 causing you discomfort is Eust a total immersion movie &f you went to a play one night and were moved to tears by an emotional scene % let+s say a woman who was dying of cancer, Y la Love Story % you wouldn+t blame the writer or director or the actors for making you feel bad That+s why you went to the play in the first place, to have an 7inner eFperience8 from the 7outer eFperience 8 &f you then went to the cafZ neFt door after the play and saw the actress who played the part of the dying woman, & doubt you+d blame her for causing your discomfort, or consider yourself a victim of her performance, or ask her to change the way she plays her part To the contrary, you+d probably praise her for doing such a good Eob to elicit your emotional response That+s what Robert+s 'rocess is all aboutK recogniMing we are immersed in an amaMing .= holographic movie in order to have an 7inner eFperience8 from the 7outer eFperience,8 that our /n inite / is writing and directing every scene of that movie down to the smallest detail, that there are actors playing their roles in our movies to which we are reacting and responding, that any discomfort we feel is based so$e$y on our reactions and responses and the power we assigned 7out there8 to the movie, that the only power we have is to change our reactions and responses if we are not happy with them, and then eFpress our appreciation to the writer, director, and actors who did their Eob so well to show us the true source of our discomfort and give us the opportunity to write a new ending for ourselves NNN & found Robert+s 'rocess easy to do and very effective for the first little while inside my cocoon, and & recommend it Oas & have eFplained it aboveP for all 'layers new to their cocoon At least it gets you started and produces some beneficial results in letting go of Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions &n this chapter and the neFt, & want to give you a couple eFamples in some detail from my own life that might be helpful in better understanding this 'rocess This first eFample contains virtually all of the elements &+ve Eust been discussingK & had been in my cocoon about siF months and & was living with two"hundred good friends in an intentional community in southern 'ortugal called Tamera (ne of my Eobs for the community was running an evening cafZ, which & totally enEoyed &t was a chance to see many friends from the community & wouldn+t normally meet during the day, who would come to the cafZ at night to relaF and have fun & loved creating a special

atmosphere and energy for them, and serving them and treating them with popcorn and great music This cafZ was a source of pride and pleasure for me, and & treasured it and protected it, which is why on this one particular evening & got very upset There was one member of the community, &+ll call her :etty, whom & had known for fifteen years, ever since the community of IE<< in <ermany &t wasn+t that & didn+t like :ettyD & hardly gave her a thought :ut & didn+t enEoy her company, and & honestly don+t know anyone who did She seemed to always have this sour and angry and arrogant attitude that was simply not fun to be around 3or some reason the community never kicked anyone out % at least not for being sour and angry and arrogant % so she was still there after fifteen years 3ortunately, & didn+t have to see her a lot 5owever, on this particular night of my cafZ, :etty suddenly drove her car onto the same gravel lot where & ran my cafZ and parked it <ranted, the car was off to one side somewhat, so it didn+t really bother my guestsD but it was ugly sitting there, ruining the ambiance & worked so hard to create :esides, there was a rule against parking cars in that location )y first reaction was to assume :etty had Eust parked there temporarily since her room was close by and perhaps she had to unload something and would be back soon to move her car :ut when ten minutes went by and the car was still there, getting uglier by the second and infecting the entire atmosphere, & went to her room to make sure she would move it )y very polite reLuest was met with an antagonistic, 7)ind your own businessH8 & was beginning to feel more and more 7uncomfortable 8 7'issed8 is the better word & let another ten minutes go by and, when she hadn+t moved the car, went back to her room and ordered her with all the authority & could muster to park it where it belonged She was in the middle of an angry diatribe about 7/ho was & to tell her what to do8 when & turned and walked away She never did move the car &t sat there the entire night poisoning my carefully orchestrated cafZ ambiance & was too busy at the time serving drinks and popcorn to have the time and space & needed to run the 'rocess, but & couldn+t let myself look at the car or think about :etty or & would get seriously angry As 7luck8 would have it, that particular night a female guest in the community fell and broke her leg, and we had to call an ambulance The way :etty+s car was parked was blocking one of the main dirt roads the ambulance could use to get to the inEured guest, so my indignation at her refusal to move it suddenly gained legitimacy &t was no longer Eust my personal desire to have the car gone from my beloved cafZD it was now interfering with a serious medical emergency, which is one of the reasons why there was a rule against parking there So & went back to :etty+s room and told her to move her car one more time before the ambulance arrived She didn+t That was :etty OThe ambulance eventually found another route to get to the inEured patient P The neFt morning & allowed myself to let the discomfort % the anger & felt % come back up & wanted to make :etty 7wrong 8 & blamed her for ruining one of my greatest pleasures at the time, my cafZ night & knew if she would only change what she was doing, & would be a lot happier

So & began running Robert+s 'rocess, or at least my version of it, and & reminded myself that the discomfort was a red flag pointing to where & had assigned power to this hologram to make it seem realD and & let the discomfort build and build inside me until & was feeling it full force & had long since stopped asking 7/hy8 this had happened & knew 7/hy,8 or & knew the only reason that counted for anythingB )y /n inite / was trying to help me by showing me something So & didn+t waste time speculating about the reason & had this eFperience &nstead & reminded myself none of it was real, that this was a holographic eFperience created specifically for me by my /n inite / as a gift on my path toward self"realiMation & had done this enough by this time that it only took five seconds before & knew with certainty this was true & Eust didn+t know what was inside the gift wrapping yet & admitted to myself & felt like a victim, that & believed :etty had interfered with the pleasure & got from my cafZ, and that & was Eudging :etty for being 7wrong8 for what she had done & even had a great Eustification for my Eudgment in the form an ambulance that needed the right of way &n fact, & could have found a lot of support from other members of the community about how 7right8 & was and how 7wrong8 :etty was :ut that road leads nowhere &nstead & decided to let go of all my Eudgments and stop blaming :etty, recogniMing instead she was simply reading a movie script my /n inite / had written for me This had nothing to do with her and everything to do with me :etty+s behavior was not 7wrong8 at allD in fact, she had performed her part in my movie with great eFpertise 5ow could & possibly blame her for that0 & also realiMed & believed she should follow the rules and that it was my place to make her do thatD and my opinion was that she didn+t even belong in this community, much less in my hologramH )y anger then eFtended to the whole community for not kicking her out sooner The 7truth of it8 was that / had given :etty the power to ruin the total Eoy & got from running my cafZ, and it had been my reaction and response to :etty that created my discomfort, not anything :etty did or said )ore importantly, they were reactions and responses & had full control over through my own free will and could change in an instant So & consciously 7reclaimed8 all the power & had given to :etty and to the incident itself to make it realD or at least that+s the way Scheinfeld would say it As & said earlier, & think in terms of turning off the power source to the hologram, of flipping the switch :y the time & had done all this, and it only took a few minutes, all my discomfort was gone, and & was feeling enormous appreciation to my /n inite / for the eFperience % thankful for the opportunity to see where & had formed Eudgments, beliefs and opinions & no longer wanted to hold :ut more importantly, & was deeply and sincerely appreciative to :etty for having played her part so well, for having been willing to accept that role in my holographic eFperience, and for not giving in to my 7authority8 but playing the scene out in its entirety &n fact, & was feeling such appreciation that & wanted to go to :etty and hug her and thank her and ask her, please, to continue playing these kinds of parts in my movies so & could uncover other places where & may have Eudged and blamed and given away my power

O&n the end & didn+t actually go to :etty and hug and thank her 5ow do you say to someone, 7!ou did such a great performance in my movie last night Thank you, sincerely, and please continue being the sour and angry and arrogant character you+re playing so & can see if there are other situations like that where & have assigned power and made real 8 & don+t think she would have understood P After this process, :etty never parked her car there again, although & never asked her not toD and & no longer had any discomfort being in her presence :ut here+s a warningB !ou cannot run this 'rocess with the hope or eFpectation that by doing so, your eFperience will change &n other words, you can+t lie to yourself and fool your /n inite / by letting go of your Eudgments and eFpressing your appreciation scheming that if you do, someone or something 7out there8 will change &t doesn+t work that way, and the someone or something 7out there8 won<t change !our /n inite / will keep creating eFperiences to show you where you assigned power and left it there until you honestly and completely accept the eFperience for eFactly what it is and your role in it &n other words, someone or something 7out there8 can only change when you no longer need or want anything in that holographic eFperience to be any different than it isD and then it doesn+t matter to you whether it changes or notH NNN :efore we leave this chapter, let me be very clear about one thingB This process is not about forgiveness, as wonderful and spiritual as most people consider that to be &t was not about me forgiving :ettyD and you are not trying to get to the point of being able to forgive someone for what they did &n most cases, forgiveness implies a Eudgment still eFists that a person did something 7wrong8 for which you are forgiving them &f that+s all the farther you get, you haven+t finished the process (n the other hand, % Course in (irac$es says, 77&orgiveness recogni>es what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred+ /t does not pardon sins and !a*e the! rea$+ /t sees there was no sin 81 That+s their definition of forgiveness, and a most accurate one, if everyone could understand it that way To put it simply, when you recogniMe the other person never did anything to you at all for which they need to be forgiven, you will be on your wayD and when you actually arrive at the point of sincerely and enthusiastically eFpressing your appreciation to them for what they did % for the role they played so well in your hologram % you will have arrived

3((TN(TES * Scheinfeld, Robert Qourney to the /n inite 6o!e 'rans or!ationa$ Syste! % :ack to reading , #hurch of Scientology &nternational /$$ustrated 'one Sca$e in &u$$ % :ack to reading . <endlin, Eugene T &ocusing81riented Psychotherapy4 % (anua$ o the 3.perientia$ (ethod % :ack to reading 1 A #ourse in )iraclesU/orkbook for Students, /ntroduction to Part // % :ack to reading

CHAPTER !(
SPIRITUAL AUTOLYSIS
:ack to the Table of #ontents average about a year into your cocoon time, based on the many successful results of your first"hand eFperiences using Robert+s 'rocess, you will know with certainty there is no 7out there8 out thereD that your .= holographic total immersion movies aren+t realD that your /n inite / is creating all your eFperiences for you, down to the smallest detailD that you cannot be a victim of anyone or anything at any timeD that if you feel any discomfort, it is solely the result of your reactions and responses to your movies, and you can run the 'rocess in a matter of minutes % even seconds sometimes % to locate and let go of any remaining Eudgments, beliefs, and opinionsD and that you live mainly in a state of awe and appreciation for the <ame and all the 'layers you encounter That+s a really wonderful place to get to and beD and yet you feel you+re not done, that there is something left to process, that you still have unanswered Luestions, that you do not yet have the one true answer to 7/ho Am &08, that you+re only at the point of mild contentment with your life rather than constant enthusiasm and Eoy, and that you continue to eFperience some moments of discomfort from time to time Although it produces some eFcellent results early on, & found Robert+s 'rocess has its limitations & know of others who reached this point as well O3or a more complete discussion of why, please see #hapter Thirty"Three, 7Robert Scheinfeld,8 in 'art Three of this book P Robert+s 'rocess can be very effective when dealing with discomfort that seems to come from 7out there,8 but it+s not as effective when you have reached the point where there is no longer any thought of 7out there8 and you are more interested in looking 7in here 8 That+s because Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions are only the tip of the icebergD and once you+ve gotten comfortable and been successful in letting go of them, you+re ready for the neFt stage of your metamorphosis Anderneath the Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions are the fears that led to them and the layers of the ego created as a result % the false self you thought yourself to be % that Robert+s 'rocess simply cannot address At least that was true in my case NNN &n ,$$., still inside the movie theater, & had a car accident which broke eleven bones in my neck and back, and & came within a millimeter of being paralyMed for life (ne vertebra in my neck had to be taken out and replaced with a titanium cage, and & then needed siF months in bed to recover )y eF"wife had been married to her new husband about three years by that time, and his mother had also recently come to live with them :ut out of their love and caring, and going way beyond any call of duty, they put a hospital bed in their living room and that+s where & spent those siF months recovering Then they bought a travel trailer at their own

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eFpense, set it up Eust a short walk from their house, and moved me in there as soon as & could walk sufficiently to get back and forth, continuing to feed and take care of me for another siF months =uring that year, my eF"wife+s new husband became my best friend, and his mother treated me as if & were her son After fifty"seven years, & finally had the kind of mother & wished for as a child, and a real brother to boot )y eF"wife+s parents, who also lived nearby, were a constant source of love and support as well /hat an incredible eFperienceH The car accident was indeed a very special gift from my /n inite / on many levels :ut how do you ever repay someone for that kind of love and caring0 & felt such gratitude to my eF"wife and her husband % and to the entire family % and spent the neFt seven years hoping to find ways to give back even a small percentage of what they had given me This turned out to be the subEect of a series of holographic eFperiences my /n inite / would create for me once & entered my cocoon =uring our seventeen years together, & had been my eF"wife+s scout and coach, as well as her husband 'art of my relationship to her, part of my ego identity, was to assist her % at her reLuest % in seeing when she had strayed off her own chosen path and help her get back on course * 5er new husband had, in fact, thanked me profusely many times for the eFcellent Eob & had done in this capacity Ten years after we separated & was still attached to this ego identity So about a year and a half into my metamorphosis, when my eF"wife and & suddenly and uneFpectedly started to have some communications problems, my ego said it would be a real gift to her and her husband if & once again eFercised my identity as her coach and offered my assistance and support % perhaps even a big enough gift to repay their love and generosity 7&f & could only get her to see and understandK8 :ut for the first time ever in our relationship, despite all the evidence & presented, my eF"wife did not agree she had strayed off course This communication problem lasted about siF months while & tried to do what & had done so well for her in the past, with Mero success this time & ran Robert+s 'rocess very early on, leaving me with no discomfort, no emotional or mental upset on my side with her or the situation we were in & did not blame her or Eudge her for anything she was saying or doing, and & no longer had any desire to fiF her or improve her or change her :ut still & knew something wasn+t 7right,8 with !eD and & needed help, something more than Robert+s 'rocess to find it So my /n inite / asked Robert Scheinfeld Ohow ironic and perfectHP to appear in my holographic eFperience via email and introduce me to -ed )c@enna and his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogyK ,'he e.terna$ searching is on$y one part o the story+ 'he other part is the interna$ partJ the s$ow, pain u$ s$oughing away o se$ , $ayer by $ayer, piece by piece+-, Through this communications problem with my eF"wife, & was ready to tackle some very tough layers of my ego and the fears that created them NNN

&n :ook (ne of his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy, -ed introduces us to a process he calls 7spiritual autolysis 8 &+m going to let -ed speak for himself a lot in this chapter and the neFt, because he says everything so clearly, and there+s no point in my trying to paraphraseK ,%uto$ysis !eans se$ 8digestion, and spiritua$ !eans, uh+ 6e$$, / don<t rea$$y *now+ Let<s say it !eans that $eve$ o se$ which enco!passes the !enta$, physica$ and e!otiona$ aspectsJ your roya$ /8ness+ Put the two words together and you have a process through which you eed yourse$ , one piece at a ti!e, into the puri ying digestive ires9+ /t<s an unp$easant process9+ basica$$y $i*e a Men *oan on steroids+ %$$ you rea$$y have to do is write the truth9+ Sounds si!p$e, doesn<t itD "es, that<s a$$ there is to it+-. The best description -ed gives of the actual process of spiritual autolysis is during a conversation with a student named Arthur in :ook (ne, Spiritua$ 3n$ighten!ent4 'he Da!nedest 'hingK ,Qust write down what you *now is true, or what you thin* is true, and *eep writing unti$ you<ve co!e up with so!ething that is true+8 7'i is the ratio of a circle+s circumference to its diameter,8 says Arthur ,Sure,- / agree+ ,Start with so!ething as see!ing$y indisputab$e as that, and then start e.a!ining the oundation upon which that state!ent is bui$t and ?ust *eep o$$owing it down unti$ you<ve reached bedroc*, so!ething so$id, so!ething true+7'i isn+t the ratio of a circle+s circumference to its diameter08 he asks ,'he =uestion presupposes that there<s a circ$e+7There+s not a circle08 ,(aybe+ / don<t *now+ /s thereD7/ell, if & draw a circleK8 ,/D 5hen did you con ir! the e.istence o an /D DrawD 6ave you a$ready raced past the part where you con ir!ed that you are a separate physica$ being in a physica$ universe with the abi$ity to perceive, to drawD 6ave youD / so, we have to switch seats+Arthur is thoughtful and silent for several moments 7& guess that+s what you mean by following it down This is very confusing & don+t even know where to start 8 ,/t doesn<t !atter where you start, ?ust grab a thread and start pu$$ing+ "ou cou$d start by using 7a!ana (aharshi<s =uery, I5ho a! /D< or I5hat is !eD<, and then ?ust wor* at it+ Qust try to say so!ething true and *eep at it unti$ you do+ 5rite and rewrite+ (a*e it c$eaner and cut out the e.cess and ego and o$$ow it wherever it $eads unti$ you<re done+7And how long does that usually take08 ,/ wou$d thin* a coup$e o years+ But when you<re done, you<re done+7And by done, you meanK08 ,Done+7(h &s this like Eournaling0 Like keeping a diary08 ,%h, good =uestion+ 2o+ 'his isn<t about persona$ awareness or se$ 8e.p$oration+ /t<s not about ee$ings or insights+ /t<s not about persona$ or spiritua$ evo$ution+ 'his is about what you *now or sure, about what you are sure you *now is true, about what you are that is true+ 5ith this process you tear away $ayer a ter $ayer o untruth !as=uerading as

truth+ %nyti!e you go bac* to read so!ething you wrote, even i it was on$y yesterday, you shou$d be surprised by how ar you<ve co!e since then+ /t<s actua$$y a pain u$ and vicious process, so!ewhat a*in to se$ 8!uti$ation+ /t creates wounds that wi$$ never hea$ and burns bridges that can never be rebui$t and the on$y rea$ reason to do it is because you can no $onger stand not to+5e lets that sink in for a few moments 7/hat+s the reason for writing it down0 /hy not Eust do it in your head like with koans08 ,'hat<s another good =uestion+ "es, *oans and !antras are done in your head+ 7a!ana (aharshi<s I5ho a! /D< =uery is done in your head+ 'he reason or writing it down on paper or on a co!puter where you can see it is because the brain, un$i*e$y as it !ay sound, is no p$ace or serious thin*ing+ %ny ti!e you have serious thin*ing to do, the irst step is to get the who$e shootin< !atch out o your head and set it up so!ep$ace where you can wa$* around it and see it ro! a$$ sides+ %ttac*, switch sides and counter8 attac*+ "ou can<t do that whi$e it<s sti$$ in your head+ 5riting it out a$$ows you to act as your own teacher, your own critic, your own opponent+ By e.terna$i>ing your thoughts, you can beco!e your own guruJ ?udging yourse$ , giving eedbac*, providing a !ore ob?ective and e$evated perspective+-9 7=oes that make Spiritual Autolysis a path of intellect as opposed to a path of heart or a path of devotion or a path of service08 Bgh+ ,&ran*$y, you start $osing !e a $itt$e bit there, %rthur+- 6e gives !e a perp$e.ed $oo*+ ,/ don<t *now what a$$ these di erent paths are, %rthur+ Spiritua$ %uto$ysis is an inte$$ectua$ endeavor, but / ba$* at ca$$ing it a path o inte$$ect+ /t<s a process o discri!ination, o un*nowing what is untrue, o progressive$y stripping away the a$se and $eaving on$y what is true+ Discri!ination is used in a !achete8$i*e !anner or hac*ing one<s way through the dense underbrush o de$usion, or, i you pre er, in a sword$i*e !anner or hac*ing o one<s own de$usion8ridd$ed head+ /nte$$ect is used as the sword with which ego co!!its a s$ow and agoni>ing suicideJ the death o a thousand cuts+ 5hether that !a*es it this *ind o path or that *ind o path doesn<t concern us hereJ that<s so!ething or a student o paths to worry about+ / the =uestion stays with you then it<s so!ething you can address or yourse$ in the process o Spiritua$ %uto$ysis+-1 NNN This was eFactly what & needed to process my current eFperience with my eF"wife & needed to see my emotional attachments to her and her husband, especially the tricky ones that seemed so Eustified by well"earned and well"deserved gratitude & needed to write down how these attachments were defining who & believed myself to be, and look honestly at the hold my ego had on me as a result & wanted to find out what was really true about any of this, and spiritual autolysis was a powerful tool in that process /hat & discovered, of course, was that my ego liked this role of being the coach for my eF"wife &t defined my identity, my relationship to her, especially since & was no longer her husband &n fact, my ego liked being a coach to anyone &t gave me the identity of a teacher, a mentor, a guru of sorts &t also satisfied a belief in helping others, in trying to mitigate their pain and suffering, in offering support by eFposing the inconsistencies and contradictions that were making their lives less happy than mine % none of which can

ever be true, of course &sn+t it amaMing how arrogant our egos can be, thinking we know what+s best for someone else or how they should live0 &t was my ego that wanted me to feel this eternal gratitude to my eF"wife and her husband % without any possibility of ever being able to pay them back % to keep me attached to this identity That+s the way the ego survives and grows and gains power :ut it was clear the time had come for me to detach from the identity of a coach or mentor or teacher or guru to my eF"wife % and anyone and everyone else % and from the endless gratitude to her and her husband =etaching does not automatically mean disconnecting, howeverD although in this case my eF"wife finally asked that & take her and her husband off my mailing list, which & did, although & hope the disconnection is not permanent or even lengthy =etaching meansK well, &+ll talk about it in detail in the neFt chapter 3or now, think of the ego like an onion =etaching is peeling off one of the layers and throwing it away (r maybe you prefer cutting it up into little pieces, throwing it in a hot pan with some butter, and eating it with great appreciation for the flavor it gives to a hamburger or Mucchini O3or more appreciation of the ego, please see #hapter Thirty"(ne, 7The Ego,8 in 'art Three of this book P (riginally, & was Luite surprised when my 7coaching8 offers were so adamantly reEected by both my eF"wife and her husband, given our history Now & am so eFtremely appreciative to both of them, for it was only through their resistance that & was able to find and let go of these ego layers /hat a relief it is not to feel like playing any of those roles any more, and what a gift they gave me once again % although this time & am not bound to the ego by the gratitude NNN There were many fears & discovered as well as & ran -ed+s spiritual autolysis on this incident with my eF"wife and her husband The bottom line was that & wasn+t enEoying our conversations any moreD & wasn+t having fun being involved in her dramasD and & didn+t look forward to listening to him recite conspiracy theories of government concentration camps ready to accommodate millions of Americans The only reason & kept putting up with it was this endless gratitude :ut & was afraid to let go of her and her husband, even knowing & could never repay them no matter what & did &n addition to feeling & shou$d feel grateful for the rest of my life, there was the fear of how it would look to others if & suddenly put an end to the endless gratitude & was afraid of what the rest of the family would think 5ow ungrateful would it seem if one day & said, 7!ou know, & am and will always be very appreciative of you and everything you did for meD but & can never pay you back, and & have to stop trying That part of my life is over, and & no longer feel Eoyful or interested % or compelled by gratitude % in walking down the road you seem to be heading at the moment 8 /hat would my children think0 =id & stand the chance of EeopardiMing my identity as their father if they disapproved of my behavior with their step"mother0 & was also afraid of losing the mother & had always wanted and Eust recently found, and the new brother & had come to love These layers of identity had made up for years of my dysfunctional childhood, and & cherished them

3inally, and most importantly, & was afraid this was the last chance & would have to get my eF"wife out of the movie theater and into her cocoon, which was the 7gift8 & had been trying to give her & still loved her and cared for her, and wanted her to find her way out of the drama and conflict and pain and suffering % the dreamstate she was so clearly still eFperiencing as a 5uman Adult (f course, my ego loved this, feeling secure in its eFistence as long as & felt responsible for and was focusing on her spiritual evolution instead of my own =etachment isn+t always Eust from the things we don+t want or like, but also from the things we want and love NNN & had to let go of the attachments to all of this, to all the fears that had created layer upon layer of my ego and formed the false belief of who & thought & wasB coach, friend, father, brother, son These were all Eust 7characters8 & played % none of which were who & really am at all, all of which are who & am not, in fact The fact is that every Eudgment & ever made in my life has attached me to that eFperience and formed another layer of my ego, defining who & thought & was Every belief adopted as a result of these Eudgments has been false, solidifying and Eustifying the ego Every opinion based on those false beliefs will turn out to be in error when viewed from a new perspective of truth That+s why our /n inite / gives us the opportunity to revisit, or re"live, those eFperiences while in the cocoonD to let go of those Eudgments, beliefs, opinionsD to look head"on at the fears and break the attachments that have formed the false identity layers of the ego NNN This is all well and good, you might say, for something as insignificant as a little emotional upset over :etty+s parked car, or a spat with your eF"wife % for the minor drama and conflicts in life :ut what about rea$ discomfort0 /hat about physical abuse0 /hat about a rape, domestic violence, divorce, child abuse, war, poverty, starvation, depression, severe illness, and the really difficult eFperiences of true pain and suffering0 The severity of the discomfort does not matterD the process is eFactly the same regardless of the content of the hologram None of it is real, no matter the intensity, whether it is a minor cut on your finger or a near"fatal car accident &t Eust see!s real % it looks and feels real % and the more emotional or physical pain, the more real it becomes, which means the more power we have assigned to it That+s why & suggest starting with Robert+s 'rocess to take the 7heat8 and the 7reality8 out of the situation, and then work your way into -ed+s spiritual autolysis, always reminding yourself that the eFperience has been created by your /n inite / to show you where you assigned power, to give you the opportunity to change how you react and respond, and then decide whether you want to continue living with the fears and the layers of false ego identities !es, it might take a little longer to process the more eFtreme feelings of discomfort, but the 'rocess itself doesn+t change &t might mean you 7reclaim8 some power the first

time through the 'rocess, but there+s still a lot left to go back and get the neFt time, or the third time, or the three"hundredth time through the eFperience The 7good8 thing is that each time you run the 'rocess on a particular situation and turn off some of the power associated with it, it gets less intense and therefore a little easier the neFt time Eventually, within a couple years, you will do all of this with ease and eFcitement, appreciating the eFperiences of discomfort % if they come up % as an opportunity to locate and process the last remnants of Eudgment and fear, but living more as a 7witness8 to your own life NNN &n :ook Three of his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy, called Spiritua$ 5ar are, -ed mentions 7witnessing8 in a conversation with a teenage student, )aggieK ,B$ti!ate$y, the on$y spiritua$ practice is observationJ seeing things the way they rea$$y are+ 'hat<s what Spiritua$ %uto$ysis isJ a too$ to he$p us do that, to see !ore c$ear$y, to use our brains the best we can+ /n witnessing, you want to ta*e a step bac* ro! yourse$ so you<re not ?ust $iving your $i e, you<re a$so observing it+ 2ot in re $ection, $i*e a diary, but as it<s happeningJ in rea$ ti!e+ Li*e right now, /<! sitting here ta$*ing with you, but /<! a$so in this witnessing !ode o i!partia$ observer+ / a! not u$$y in character, /<! a$so an audience !e!ber+ /<! aware that /<! acting on a stage and / a!, so!ewhat disinterested$y, !onitoring !y per or!ance+She looks confused but eager 75ow do & do it08 she asks ,5e$$, in a way, you<re a$ready doing it, e.cept your witness is *ind o un ocused+ She<s bored, hungry, aggravated, !u $ed+ "ou want to bring her into ocus, sit her down and have her pay attention+75er0 5er who08 ,'he $itt$e voice in the bac* o your !ind+ "ou *now what it<s $i*e when you<re bored, and in the bac* o your !ind you<re thin*ing about so!ething e$seD "ou<re not u$$y present, your !ind is so!ewhere e$seJ wandering, daydrea!ing+9 Daydrea!ing is a very good word or it because it suggests that we<re as$eep whi$e we<re awa*e, which is e.act$y the point+ 5e want to trans er our pri!ary awareness out o the character we<re p$aying and into the actor that<s p$aying the character+ 5e want to accentuate that distinction to he$p us stop b$ending the character we p$ay with the actor p$aying the character+ 5e want to ta*e up pri!ary residence in the actor instead o the character we<re portraying+ Does that !a*e senseD7& don+t know !ou mean like being self"conscious all the time08 ,"es, but in an i!partia$ sense, not in a ?udg!enta$ sense+ 5hen you have interna$ voices ho$ding i!aginary conversations or worrying that you wore the wrong b$ouse, those are character e$e!ents too+ 'he actor can ?ust sit bac* and watch a$$ that+ /n this way you can observe yourse$ ?ust $i*e you observe anyone e$se, e.cept with a better view+7&+m not sure & can do that 8 ,1 course you can, it ?ust sounds weird+-2

Sounds to me a lot like the 3air /itness in 5einlein+s Stranger in a Strange Land, for those of you who know the referenceD and as far as & am concerned, witnessing is an advanced process that takes a lot of training and discipline and is probably not suitable for the early stages in a cocoon :ut it+s how you begin to live all the time toward the end of your metamorphosis K ,'here<s nothing to it e.cept observation, awareness, vigi$ance+ 5a*e u$ness+ &irst you $earn to do it, to have this detached awarenessJ you do it conscious$y, a $itt$e at a ti!e, ?ust to get the hang o it+ Practice witnessing other peop$e to get the idea+ 5atch the!, wonder about the!, deconstruct and reverse8engineer the!, then ?ust watch yourse$ the way you<ve been watching others+ 'hen you start doing it !ore and !ore unti$ it beco!es second nature and you<re a$!ost a$ways in the witnessing !ode and you see your own character ro! the sa!e i!persona$ perspective as you see other peop$e+-4

3((TN(TES * Another pun, because my eF"wife+s 7own chosen path8 was % Course in (irac$es % :ack to reading , )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading . /bid+ % :ack to reading 1 /bid+ % :ack to reading 2 /bid+ % :ack to reading 4 /bid+ % :ack to reading

CHAPTER !+
DETACHING 7 .DESIRELESSNESS/
:ack to the Table of #ontents

I said in the last chapter that 7detachment isn+t always Eust from the things we don+t
want or like, but also from the things we want and love 8 That may sound like you have to forsake everything in order to become a butterfly, which would make becoming a butterfly a lot less attractive to many people :ut it+s not true So let me eFplain 7detachment8 a little moreD and, as usual, let+s first look at what 7detachment8 is notK 7=etachment,8 sometimes called 7non"attachment8 or 7desirelessness,8 is a concept that can be found in all the maEor religions inside the movie theaterD and, as is necessary, it has been altered and twisted so that it doesn+t work for the 5uman Adults who try it ,Detach!ent as re$ease ro! desire and conse=uent$y ro! su ering is an i!portant princip$e, or even idea$, in the BahS#T &aith, Buddhis!, Christianity, 6induis!, Qudais!, Qainis!, Uabba$ah and 'aois!9+ /n Buddhist and 6indu re$igious te.ts the opposite concept is e.pressed as upVdVna, trans$ated as Aattach!ent+- %ttach!ent, that is the inabi$ity to practice or e!brace detach!ent, is viewed as the !ain obstac$e towards a serene and u$ i$$ed $i e+ (any other spiritua$ traditions identi y the $ac* o detach!ent with the continuous worries and rest$essness produced by desire and persona$ a!bitions+-* ,1ne o the !ost i!portant teachings o Men Buddhis! is non8attach!ent+ 'he teaching o non8attach!ent !ay be easy to understand, but it is not easy to practice+ 2everthe$ess, it is very essentia$ to cu$tivate non8attach!ent i we are to $ive a serene and happy $i e in a wor$d o constant change9+ 1ur wor$d is a wor$d o desire+ 3very $iving being co!es orth ro! desire and endures as a co!bination o desires+ 5e are born ro! the desire between o our ather and !other+ 'hen, when we e!erge into this wor$d, we beco!e in atuated with !any things, and beco!e ourse$ves we$$8springs o desire+ 'hrough desire we give rise to attach!ents+ &or every desire there is a corresponding attach!ent, na!e$y, to the ob?ect o desire+ &or e.a!p$e, we are !ost conspicuous$y attached to our bodies+ 5hen so!eone threatens the body, we grow an.ious and try to protect it+ 5e re$ish physica$ co! orts and the en?oy!ent o the senses+ 'hus, we are strong$y attached to the body+ But i we consider this attach!ent, we wi$$ see that it is a potentia$ source o su ering+-, (ne of the main reasons this concept doesn+t work is that it is based on Eudgment % the Eudgment that desire is 7bad8 and desirelessness is 7good 8 &t also contains resistance to desireD and as many others have pointed out, to desire desirelessness is a desire in itself The truth is there is nothing 7wrong8 with desires and no reason to resist them or try to live without them /e are free to desire anything and everything we want (ur desires

make life interesting and eFciting The problem only starts when we become attached to having those desires fulfilled &n other words, you cannot be attached to realiMing or achieving your desires, so that whether you realiMe or achieve your desires or not has no effect on your happiness or state of mind &t is not the desire that needs to be detached fromD it+s the attachment to its u$ i$$!ent & can well imagine the :uddha knew this and taught this, but his followers either didn+t get it, or couldn+t do it So they made 7desire8 the focus of detachment rather than the attachment to the outcome of the desire As Luoted aboveK ,&or every desire there is a corresponding attach!ent, na!e$y, to the ob?ect o desire+No, no, noH The attachment is to the u$ i$$!ent of the desire, not the desire itselfH All suffering comes from being attached to the fulfillment of the desire, and being disappointed when that desire is not realiMed despite all the meditation, prayers, visualiMation and hard work The suffering is not because of the desire itself -ed )c@enna says it very simplyK ,%$$ attach!ents to the drea!state are !ade o energy+ 'hat energy is ca$$ed e!otion+ %$$ e!otions, positive and negative, are attach!ents+-. & have any number of desires &+m not attached to 3or eFample, & have a strong desire to build a 42"foot wingsail catamaran1 where & can spend my days as a butterfly sailing the oceans, scuba diving, and enEoying the company of the whales and dolphins :ut & am not attached to having that desire fulfilledD that will depend entirely on what my /n inite / wants me to eFperience & also don+t have the catamaran as a plan or a goal or an agenda, nor am & doing anything to try to make it happen other than what eFcites me in the moment & simply have fun with the desire, dream about it, enEoy drawing designs of the boat, and am curious to see if the ripples of my universe flow in that direction ,2o spiritua$ teaching that ta$*s about non8attach!ent has any right to+ 2one o the! are ta$*ing about this+ ICu$tivate a sense o detach!ent,< they say+ % sense o detach!entD 5hat p$anet are they ro!D 'hey have no idea whatsoever what detach!ent !eans+ 'hey see! to be ta$*ing about detaching ro! your desire or a B(5 or or (r+ 7ight+ 'ry detaching ro! what you $oveC &ro! what you areC &ro! everything that characteri>es your !e!bership in the hu!an raceC %nd that<s ?ust or starters+-2 NNN Gery briefly, you can consider yourself 7attached8 to someone or something when that someone or something can affect the way you feel &n other wordsK Kyou are attached to another person if something they do or say determines your happiness or lack of it Kyou are attached to something when it has to be 7right8 in order for you to feel 7right 8 Kyou are attached to a false layer of the ego when it defines who you think you are The detachment we+re most interested in is detaching from these layers of the ego that have led to a misconception of who we really are, and that detachment happens

automatically as we do our spiritual autolysis and discover who we are not /e don+t have to actively pursue or practice detachmentD those layers of false identity simply fall away, stripped off the onion and left for trash As we find out who we are not on our way to finding out who we really are, we detach from those identities in the process 'hat is detachment ,"ou can orget about non8attach!ent9+ "ou<re putting the cart be ore the horse+ 2on8attach!ent isn<t a *ey to $iberation, it<s a by8product+-4 NNN (ne of the many wonderful gifts & have been given by other 'layers in my life happened when & was fifty"five years old and fell in love with a woman who would soon start to act like my mother 3or the first time in my life, she allowed me to closely eFamine the attachments & still had to both my parents, even though they were already dead at the time Needless to say, these were less than pleasant memories &n fact, & cried almost every day for a solid year as & processed this part of my childhood &n addition to loving her, & became very attached to this woman, to the point that how & felt was totally dependent on what she did or said every minute of every day &t was so bad that if she didn+t kiss me eFactly right when we said goodbye in the morning, & was devastated and my day was ruined &t was the Al"Anon program6 that helped me break these attachments Al"Anon doesn+t teach that you have to leave an alcoholic you love, but that you can detach from them and the effects of their alcoholism, still love them, still live with them, and still be happy regardless of anything they do or say (nce & was able to detach from my parents and my fiancZe, my happiness was no longer dependant on anything she said or did, or how she kissed me, and & grew to love this woman unconditionally So when & talk about 7detaching,8 it doesn+t mean you have to give up anything eFcept your attachment &t doesn+t mean you can+t continue to love someoneD it means you can no longer be attached to that love, or to that someone either &t doesn+t mean you can+t continue to want nice things in your lifeD it means your Eoy in life can+t be attached to having those nice things &t doesn+t mean you can no longer find total pleasure in your favorite meal with a good glass of wineD it means your happiness can+t be dependent on whether you get it or not &t means letting go of the cave and your fellow prisoners in order to eFperience what it+s like outside the cave &t means letting go of the movie theater and your fellow 5uman #hildren and 5uman Adults in order to find out what is true and who you really are ,'he process o awa*ening $oo*s $i*e it<s about destroying ego, but that<s not rea$$y accurate+ "ou never co!p$ete$y rid yourse$ o ego E the a$se se$ E as $ong as you<re a$ive, and it<s not i!portant that you do+ 5hat !atters is the e!otiona$ tethers that anchor us to the drea!stateJ that ho$d us in p$ace and !a*e us ee$ that we<re a part o so!ething rea$+ 5e send out energetic tendri$s ro! the ne.us o ego $i*e roots to attach ourse$ves to the drea!state, and to detach ro! it we !ust sever the!+ 'he energy o an e!otion is our $i e orce, and the a!ount o $i e orce deter!ines the power o the e!otion+ 5ithdraw energy ro! an e!otion and what<s $e tD % steri$e thought+ % hus*+ /n this

sense, reeing ourse$ves ro! attach!ent is indeed the process o awa*ening, but such attach!ents aren<t what we have, they<re what we are+89 Think of it this wayK in order to become a butterfly, a caterpillar has to give up the attachment to its body, the feel of the earth as it crawled along, the leaves it enEoyed eating, the 1$$$ muscles it possessed, the hair it used as protection, and so on :ut letting go of those attachments is well worth it when the end result is a butterfly with its bright colors, light body, wings to fly, and the magnificent taste of flower nectar :eing a caterpillar is a wonderful eFperienceD being a butterfly is total freedom NNN &n :ook Two of his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy, called Spiritua$$y /ncorrect 3n$ighten!ent, -ed )c@enna includes the spiritual autolysis writings of one of his students, named -ulieK ,(y !ind is haunted, !y thoughts are haunted+ / a! hauntedJ possessed, p$agued with de!onsC (y !other is hereC (y unborn chi$dren are here+ (y uture is here, !y drea!s+ 3veryone who !eans anything to !e, good or bad, p$easant or unp$easant, is here+ 6ow do they a$$ itD 6ow cou$d / have not seen the! right awayD 1 course they<re here+ 'his is where they are+ (y attic is !e, there is no p$ace e$se+ 5hether or not they have physica$ counterparts out in the rea$ wor$d is !eaning$ess to !e, ?ust as the act that / !ight be a rea$ person in the rea$ wor$d is !eaning$ess to the!+ Perception is rea$ity+ / a! possessed by !y own perceptionsJ not by things and peop$e, uture and past, but by !y perceptions o the!+ 'hese are !y connections, !y attach!ents+ (aybe a$$ / rea$$y a! is the su! o a$$ these connections, these ear u$ $ongings and graspings+ 5hat is an attach!ent anywayD /t<s a be$ie , that<s a$$+ % strong one !aybe, but ?ust a be$ie + %nd yes, Qed, / *now4 2o be$ie is true+ 'he pen is !ightier than the sword, isn<t it QedD "ou wrote about a sword, but that was ?ust a !etaphor+ /t<s the pen+ Spiritua$ %uto$ysis is the power o the pen, which is the power o the !ind, the power to see, to see c$ear$y+ "es, / wi$$ *i$$ these peop$e inhabiting !y !ind+ / wi$$ *i$$ the! by c$ear$y seeing the attach!ents that *eep the! here+ / can see those attach!ents now+ / can see the e!otions at wor* and / a! starting to see the! or what they are+ / a! starting to understand o what stu this prison o se$ is rea$$y !ade+-; NNN & hope it is clear now what you are going to do as you go through daily life in your cocoon, first processing any physical or emotional discomfort that arises in your interactions with other people and the world 7out there,8 and then searching to find and let go of the false knowledge and emotional attachments that have formed layer upon layer of your ego, defining who you thought you were, until you discover who you really are 7'he e.terna$ searching is on$y one part o the story+ 'he other part is the interna$ partJ the s$ow, pain u$ s$oughing away o se$ , $ayer by $ayer, piece by piece+ Spiritua$

se$ 8debride!ent+ So!e $ayers o se$ hood ?ust a$$ away, so!e tear o in $ong strips or $abby hun*s, and so!e have to be !eticu$ous$y, pain8sta*ing$yJ surgica$$y re!oved+ 3verything / had beco!e in decades o $i e / now had to unbeco!e+ %$$ / rea$$y was was be$ie , so everything / be$ieved / now had to unbe$ieve+ (y new wor$d was co$d and bright and honest, but !y o$d !ind was sti$$ u$$ o a $i eti!e<s accu!u$ation o be$ie and opinion and a$se *now$edge and e!otiona$ attach!ent E a$$ the no.ious debris and to.ic waste that !a*e up the ego E and it a$$ had to go+ 'hat<s a process and it ta*es ti!e+ 'he wor$d !ight be annihi$ated in a $ash, but se$ ta*es a $itt$e $onger to burn away+ 'here<s no bo!b or that+ 'here<s no pretty Latin phrase or Sans*rit !antra that annihi$ates se$ =uic*$y or pain$ess$y+ 'here<s no rea$i>ation or insight or epiphany that wipes away the a$se se$ in a $ash+ 'hose who c$ai! to have awa*ened in a $ash are the !ost de$uded o a$$9 ,/t shou$d now be easy to understand that a true and co!p$ete spiritua$ teaching can be conveyed in three words :5ho %! /D;, whi$e those that re=uire entire $ibraries o boo*s and $egions o graybearded scho$ars to decrypt the! can succeed on$y in producing ever !ore dar*ness and con usion+ /t shou$d now be c$ear that there are no cases o instant en$ighten!ent, that awa*ening is not the resu$t o a sing$e epiphany, but o a $ong, arduous ?ourney wherein every step itse$ is a $ong, arduous ?ourney+ /t shou$d now be obvious that a$$ dog!a, be$ie s, doctrines and phi$osophies are strict$y drea!state pheno!ena with no independent e.istence in truth+ /t shou$d now be easy to $oo* at any teacher or teaching, at any boo*, at any spiritua$ or re$igious assertion, and to instant$y *now its e.act and certain va$ue+ /t shou$d now be easy to $oo* at every interna$ thought, be$ie and e!otion and *now without the possibi$ity o error what is rea$ and what is i!agined+ /t shou$d now be c$ear that there is no roo! or debate or opinion with regard to what is true and what is a$se+ 'he distinction is abso$ute4 'ruth e.ists+ Bntruth does not+-*$ NNN Robert+s 'rocess and Spiritual Autolysis &+m personally not aware of any other processes from other scouts that & know for a fact will work in your transformation into a butterfly :ut, of course, you are always free to come up with your own process if you think you+ve found something 7better 8 & would caution you to remember that any process developed inside the movie theater will not work in the cocoon, simply because it+s based on incorrect premises Oi e , the movies are realP Now the opposite of everything is true, so you would be wise not to try to bring any process into the cocoon with you 3urthermore, any process you come up with inside the cocoon is going to have to include certain specific elements, likeK Kacknowledging there is no obEective, independent reality 7out there8 and the eFperience you+re processing isn+t real Klocating and letting go of all Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears Kwithdrawing, disconnecting, or switching off any power assigned to a person, place, or thing within the hologram KeFpressing appreciation to the people, places, and things in your hologram for their role in your process, and to your /n inite / for its creations

Kidentifying and detaching from the layers of the ego that were created while in the movie theater, always with the purpose of finding the true answer to 7/ho Am &08 &n addition, any process must be done unilaterally and aloneD that is, it cannot depend on anyone or anything else outside of you saying or doing anything at all !ou initiate and run the process regardless of what anyone else does in your eFperience No one else has to change anythingD you Eust change your own reaction or response &t+s also worth repeating and emphasiMing that while you can do Robert+s 'rocess in your head, spiritual autolysis will only work well if you actually write it down The problem with doing stuff in your head when it comes to dealing with your fears and the layers of your ego is that the ego, threatened with its annihilation, will begin fighting back, finding ways to Eustify your fears, fooling you into thinking the layer of ego you found is true and necessary to hang on to So if you+re going to try to come up with your own process, you will have to find a way to get it out of your head, establishing some physical distance between you and what you are looking at /ho knows0 !ou might, indeed, come up with a new process that can benefit others as well as you scout a new path across the Rockies Then you can write a book about itH )eanwhile, the processes from Robert Scheinfeld and -ed )c@enna now have proven track records, so we know they workD and that+s saying something &n Eust two years, & have seen the kind of results using this combination of Robert+s 'rocess and -ed+s spiritual autolysis that many people spend lifetimes in meditation and visualiMation and still never achieve As they say in some *,"Step programs , it wor*s i you wor* it, and it<s worth it+ NNN &f you apply yourself diligently and faithfully to whatever workable process you choose, & can tell you where you will end up !ou will drop all Eudgments of everyone and everything !ou will see nothing any more as 7good8 or 7bad,8 7better8 or 7worse,8 7right8 or 7wrong,8 7good8 or 7evil 8 !ou will let go of all the beliefs you ever held, including the belief of who you thought you were !our opinions will cease to eFist and not be replaced !ou will eliminate fear from your life, including the fear of death and non"eFistence, knowing everything is perfect eFactly the way it is and there is never anything to be afraid of &n short, you will becomeK Knothing % a fully realiMed no8se$ ,** as others have called it % nothing but Eoy and appreciation and serenity of being 7'ru$y / have attained nothing ro! tota$ en$ighten!ent,8 said the :uddha A butterfly is nothingD and like the butterfly, you will finally be free % free of Eudgments and beliefs and opinions and false knowledge and ego attachmentsD free of drama and conflict and pain and sufferingD 7 ree to $y, $y away, high away, bye bye 8

3((TN(TES * /ikipedia % =etachment % :ack to reading , Thich Thien"An Men Phi$osophy, Men Practice, pp *$1"**, % :ack to reading . )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading 1 Cacha$ote+org % :ack to reading 2 -ulie+s spiritual autolysis in 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading 4 )c@enna, -ed /bid+ % :ack to reading 6 /ikipedia % Al"Anon % :ack to reading 9 )c@enna, -ed /d+ % :ack to reading ; -ulie+s spiritual autolysis in /bid+ % :ack to reading *$ )c@enna, -ed /d+ % :ack to reading ** <iles, -ames 'he 2o8se$ theory4 6u!e, Buddhis!, and Persona$ /dentity " ,'he no8se$ theory $ets the se$ $ie where it has a$$en+ 'his is because the no8se$ theory is not a theory about the se$ at a$$+ /t is rather a re?ection o a$$ such theories as inherent$y untenab$e+- % :ack to reading

CHAPTER !,
$UDGMENT
:ack to the Table of #ontents

After hours upon hours of spiritual autolysis, & finally wrote something that is trueB
Qudg!ent is the source o a$$ pain and su ering+ This might only be true for me, but & doubt it &f you+re like &, and many other people, you+ve had a personal eFperience confirming this truth you might not have recogniMedK 5ave you ever thought you cut yourself with a sharp knife, maybe while slicing vegetables, but you weren+t sureD so you stopped slicing and took a look, and then you saw the blood /hen did the pain start0 Not until you saw the blood and Eudged the inEury to be painful The cut itself caused no pain until you looked at it There are many other eFamples of people not eFperiencing very painful inEuries because they were focused on something else, like saving a child from a car accidentD and only when they stopped to take a look at themselves % or when a doctor or nurse had them focus on their own inEuries % did they feel any pain This, of course, is one of the theories behind firewalking and other popular motivational ceremonies Normally, however, we Eudge an eFperience to be painful % either physically or mentally or emotionally % as soon as it happens, or maybe even before it happens /e also go through life pre"Eudging that any number of different eFperiences would be painful if we should ever encounter them :ut it is the Eudgment that creates the pain and suffering and not the eFperience itself All holographic eFperiences created by all /n inite /<s for all 'layers are completely neutral &t is only the 'layer+s Eudgmental reactions and responses to those eFperiences that cause the drama and conflict and pain and suffering There, in a nutshell, is the answer to the age"old Luestion of why 7<od8 would create pain and suffering in the world 75e8 doesn+t 7/e8 do, by our reactions and responses to totally neutral holographic eFperiences NNN &nside the movie theater, the lives of the 5uman #hildren are based entirely on Eudgment They thrive on the conceptD they literally cannot imagine living without it, and some obEect strenuously and even get angry at the very suggestion 5ow could one possibly survive without Eudging everything to be 7good8 or 7bad,8 7right8 or 7wrong,8 7better8 or 7worse80 (f course, they can hardly imagine living without the drama and conflict, eitherD nor do they seem to want to All the world+s maEor religions and spiritual philosophies have Eudgment at their core as well 7<od8 is the supreme Eudge, for eFample, and 75e8 will Eudge you and your thoughts and actions to determine whether you will have an eternal life of bliss or damnation

All social mores O7any given societyQs particular norms, virtues or values,8 * or 7conformity to the rules of right conduct8,P are based on Eudgment of what is 7right8 or 7wrong8 behaviorD and we have set up 7Eudges8 to make those determinations in court :ut as 5uman #hildren make their way to the back of the movie theater, after a while some of them start to Luestion Eudgment as a concept 'erhaps it+s not so 7good,8 so 7right,8 so 7spiritual8 to be so Eudgmental of other people 5owever, not even the 5uman Adults talk in any serious way about giving up Eudgment entirely All of this is totally understandable and perfect, since Eudgment is the glue that keeps the illusion going in the first half of the 5uman <ame Letting go of Eudgment entirely is perhaps the most radical step any human being can take, which is why this book is subtitled, 7A New > Radical Approach to Spiritual Evolution 8 &t is also a most Eoyful way to live, for without Eudgment all eFperiences 7out there8 are seen as perfect and nothing needs to be changed, fiFed, or improved Now that you+re in the cocoon, &+m suggesting it+s time to let go of Eudgment altogether if you want to play the second half of the <ame and complete your metamorphosis into a butterfly So let+s take a closer look at 7Eudgment8 itself Like 73ons34o5sness,8 apparently it+s not easy to define 7Eudgment8 simply and precisely 5ere+s what the American 5eritage =ictionary says Otaking out the legal and religious definitionsPB 1+ 'he or!ation o an opinion a ter consideration or de$iberation 2+ 'he !enta$ abi$ity to perceive and distinguish re$ationshipsJ discern!ent R+ 'he capacity to or! an opinion by distinguishing and eva$uating L+ 'he capacity to assess situations or circu!stances and draw sound conc$usionsJ good sense G+ %n opinion or esti!ate or!ed a ter consideration or de$iberation, especia$$y a or!a$ or authoritative decision H+ %n assertion o so!ething be$ieved . Kand here+s what the )erriam"/ebster =ictionary saysB 1+ % or!a$ utterance o an authoritative opinion 2+ 'he process o or!ing an opinion or eva$uation by discerning and co!paring R+ % proposition stating so!ething be$ieved or asserted 1 At first glance, you might say these definitions have nothing to do with 7right8 or 7wrong,8 7better8 or 7worse,8 7good8 or 7bad,8 since those particular words are hardly mentioned :ut take a closer lookK 7=rawing sound conclusions8 reLuires a Eudgment that there are 7unsound conclusions 8 5aving 7good sense8 reLuires a Eudgment of there being 7bad sense 8 7=istinguishing relationships,8 7evaluating,8 7comparing8 all imply and reLuire a 7comparison8 % usually between 7right and wrong,8 7good and bad,8 Rbetter or worse,R or 7good and evil 8 Let+s also talk about what Eudgment is not Saying someone is fat, for eFample, is not a Eudgment if it is a true statement of fact &t becomes a Eudgment if there is the slightest belief the person is 7wrong8 for being fat, or needs to fiF, change, or improve something

about their 7fatness 8 Anfortunately, it+s very easy for the ego to try to hide and Eustify a Eudgment by claiming it is really Eust a factual observationD so in the early stages of the cocoon it is often wise to treat all thoughts and statements like this as Eudgmental The truth is that we are all taught from a very young age to be EudgmentalD that is, to form a belief and opinion about someone or something by deciding first which is 7better or worse 8 &n fact, we+re taught it+s 7good8 to have 7good Eudgment,8 and to know the difference between these dichotomies This is called 7duality % the state or Luality of being two or in two parts 82 /e all live in a state of duality as long as we are inside the movie theater NNN &f 7duality8 is 7the state or Luality of being two or in two parts8 % the dichotomies of 7right and wrong,8 7good and bad,8 7better and worse,8 7good and evil8 % then living without Eudgment, without dichotomies, should be called 7non"duality 8 5owever, that word has been taken to mean something else by a lot of different groups inside the movie theater &n fact, non"duality seems to have become the latest New Age fad, although it+s been around for a long time, beginning with the Apanishads O7advaita8P through ancient <reece to :uddhism and !oga and Ien Apparently it has more to do with 7(neness,8 or monism O7reality is a unified whole and all eFisting things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system4PK ,/ no $onger see !yse$ as a separate individua$ $iving in a wor$d o separate ob?ects but ee$ !ore $i*e a wave be$onging to the one ocean o energy+ 'here is a non8dua$istic view o the wor$d that has rep$aced the previous$y he$d, vast$y s!a$$er se$ 8identity+ Dropping the concept o being a separate se$ caused an energetic e.pansion ro! the $i!ited boundaries o the body outwards into everything+ % chi$d8$i*e ?oy and wonder has rep$aced the adu$t critic+ So!ehow it is recogni>ed that $i e<s essence is a sing$e unity+-6 & had trouble getting my head around that one since & don+t speak New Age O/e+ll talk more about this in #hapter Twenty"3ive, 7Are /e All (ne08, in 'art Three of this book P :ut then & ran acrossK ,2ondua$ity is a hard concept to grasp at irst because the !ind is trained to !a*e distinctions in the wor$d, and nondua$is! is the re?ection o distinction+-9 The reEection of distinctionK 5oorayH & thought Looks like someone gets it then he addedK and

,2ot to say that a$$ di erences are e$i!inated, !ere$y trans or!ed into re$ationships+-; (ops, sorry, & don+t get it /hat does that mean0 /here are the lines talking about our daily Eudgments, which themselves are relationships between 7good8 and 7bad,8 etc

Then & discovered there are thousands upon thousands of pages of books and other stuff written about non"duality Apparently it is Luite a difficult subEect to grasp and eFplain :ut & don+t see the problem or the need for all these books /hat is there to eFplain0 <ive up Eudgment, let go of the dichotomies, stop living in duality End of story /ell, if we can+t call the state of living in non"Eudgment 7non"duality,8 what can we call it0 Anfortunately, & couldn+t come up with any really cool term, so & settled on 7neutrality8 for now NNN &t seems the feeling we get the longer we remain a 5uman Adult % that deep"down wondering whether being so Eudgmental is such a 7good8 thing after all % has some basis in truth Thanks to Luantum physics and the 5uman <ame model, we now know there really is nothing to Eudge The holographic movies we call our lives are not real, so what good does it do to Eudge them0 The eFperiences we have, created for us by our own /n inite / down to the smallest detail, are perfect eFactly as they are and totally neutral, so what+s to Eudge0 And who are we to think we have the ability or the authority to decide what is 7right8 or 7wrong8 anyway, and on what basis0 No, spirituality is not reLuired any more in order to give up EudgmentD you don+t have to 7believe8 it+s 7better8 to be non"Eudgmental Although it might sound very radical, once you truly understand how our holographic universe works, letting go of all Eudgment is simply the neFt logical step )any people, when they get to this point, can+t go any further 7&t+s absolutely necessary,8 they say, 7to know the difference between right and wrong /ithout Eudgment, someone could do anything they wanted and the world would be in chaos 8 )y first response is to ask, 75ow do you think we+ve done so far with Eudgment08 &sn+t it Eudgment that has led to wars, violence, persecution, discrimination, inLuisitions, witch hunts, Eealousy, divorce, murder, torture, oppression, and a whole list of other traditional human activities0 &t+s true we+ve been told and taught and believed for the entire first half of the 5uman <ame that Eudgment is absolutely necessaryD and rightfully so, because it was essential for the first half to work :ut Eust like we finally discovered the Earth is not flat, nor is it the center of our solar system, it+s time to recogniMe our own Eudgment is the basic cause of our resistance to our eFperiences and therefore all of our pain and suffering The opposite of everything is trueB &t+s the Eudgment that causes the chaos, not the lack of itH :esides, 7someone could do anything they wanted and the world would be in chaos8 is a statement that assigns power 7out there8 and ignores the fact that the 7someone8 and the 7world8 referred to are part of your individual and uniLue holographic eFperience, and nothing more They have no independent, obEective reality & ran across this essay on the &nternet written in strictly #hristian terms by someone who+s clearly not an 7eFpert8 in anything Olike meP, and maybe his phrasing can help others understand this betterK

7God is a$$8$oving, so there cannot be a avored !ode o conduct @or thoughtP in the eyes o God+ / there is no avored !ode o thought and conduct, then a$$ thought and action !ust be a$$owed by God+ 'here ore there is no universa$ standard o thought or conduct, on$y persona$ ones+ / a$$ thought and action are a$$owed, there can be no ArightA way or AwrongA way+ 'here cannot be any ?udg!ent o thought or action, otherwise there are conditions p$aced on thought and action+ / there are no conditions p$aced on thought and action by the Creator, then there is no right or wrongC 7ight and wrong !ust then be a hu!an concept, not a universa$ one+ Qesus said4 #7esist not 3vi$# @(atthew G4RFP Qesus understood universa$ $aw+ 'here is no evi$, on$y contrast and diversity o thought and conduct+ 3vi$, ?ust $i*e right and wrong, is a ?udg!ent, usua$$y based in ear, p$aced upon the thoughts and actions o others+ 'he !ore so!ething is resisted, the !ore energy is supp$ied to it, and the $arger and !ore power u$ it beco!es+8*$ NNN Speaking of #hristianity, one of the biggest 7hints8 and 7clues8 that letting go of Eudgment is the neFt radical step for human beings is in plain sight in the first :ook of the 5oly :ibleK ,%nd out o the ground !ade the Lord God to grow every tree that is p$easant to the sight, and good or oodJ the tree o $i e a$so in the !idst o the garden, and the tree o *now$edge o good and evi$+-** 'lease note that in the middle of the <arden of Eden there was not Eust one tree, but two treesB the Tree of Life, and the Tree of @nowledge of <ood and Evil Then <od created man and womanK ,%nd they were both na*ed, the !an and his wi e, and were not asha!ed+-*, 'lease note that there was no Eudgment from the man or woman about their nakedness at this point Anfortunately, this lack of shame didn+t last long A snake convinced the woman, who then convinced the man, to eat some fruit from the Tree of @nowledge of <ood and EvilK ,%nd the eyes o the! both were opened, and they *new that they were na*edJ and they sewed ig $eaves together, and !ade the!se$ves aprons+-*. Eating from the Tree of @nowledge of <ood and Evil marked the beginning of Eudgment for the human race Not only did the man and woman Eudge that being naked was now something to be ashamed of and to hide, but they also Eudged that they had done something wrong 3rom this point forward, life on Earth would be full of the dichotomies of 7good and evil,8 7right and wrong,8 7better and worse,8 and it remains that way today So much for the Tree of @nowledge of <ood and Evil, which is Eust another name for the Tree of -udgment /hat about the Tree of Life0 /hat was its effect on man when he ate from it0

Anfortunately, according to the :ible, <od drove man out of the <arden of Eden before he could eat from the Tree of Life, leaving the human race to live its entire eFistence thus far in Eudgment ,'here ore the L17D God sent hi! orth ro! the garden o 3den, to ti$$ the ground ro! whence he was ta*en+-*1 That+s how the :ible begins :ut how does it end0 3rom the last :ook of the :ible, 7Revelation8K ,'o hi! that overco!eth wi$$ / give to eat o the 'ree o Li e, which is in the !idst o the paradise o God+-*2 So mankind is finally going to get to eat from the Tree of Life, if he 7overcometh 8 :ut 7overcometh8 what0 &n its conteFt, the meaning is clearB 7overcometh8 Eudgment, 7overcometh8 what started with eating from the Tree of @nowledge of <ood and Evil #ontrary to popular opinion, the :ook of Revelation is not about the end of the world, or even the final battle between <ood and Evil that <ood wins Obecause it doesn+tPD and although it is usually talked about as 7Armageddon,8 that word only appears once in the entire book Oat Revelation *4B*4P and probably refers to an actual location some siFty miles north of -erusalem *4 &nstead, the :ook of Revelation is about the realiMation Othe RrevelationRP that 7good8 and 7evil8 are Eudgments and the battle is to let go of both of them &n fact, the :ible can be seen not only as the story of mankind+s evolution, but as the storyline of a single individual Obut that metaphor would fill another book in itselfP (r, if you prefer the poet RumiB 71ut beyond ideas o wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a ie$d*6 8 !ou+ll recall that The 3ield is defined as 7a field of all possibility *98 % not Eust possibilities that are 7right8 in someone+s Eudgment, but a$$ possibilities &t is from this 3ield that an /n inite / creates an eFperience for its 'layer, and considering its source OThe 3ieldP, that eFperience cannot be 7right8 or 7wrong8 either NNN !ou might be thinking & am falling into my own trap and Eudging 7Eudgment8 to be 7wrong 8 Not so -udgment was the perfect tool to play the first half of the 5uman <ame, for it created the maFimum amount of limitation &t simply doesn+t work in the second half &t is part of the caterpillar whose 7$arva$ structures are bro*en down+7:utK butK but,8 you say, 7how can & look around at the horrible things going on in the world % crime, poverty, disease, starvation, destruction of the Earth, war, violence, child abuse, domestic abuse, and so on % and say those things are okay, that they+re Jneutral,+ that &+m not supposed to Eudge them0 & don+t want those things in my life, or

anyone else+s for that matter /here+s your heart0 /here+s your compassion for the pain and suffering of others08 <ood Luestions % too good to pass over lightly in this chapter So if you are really having trouble getting past this point, & recommend you read #hapter Thirty"Two, 7#ompassion,8 in 'art Three of this book, and then come back here to continue As far as 7not wanting those things in your own life,8 that+s called 7resistance,8 which we will discuss very soon NNN &t had been a long time since & had felt any discomfort at all & was simply appreciating life with great Eoy, living on the )editerranean coast of Spain and writing this book Then, as & was working on this particular chapter, & mentioned to a good friend a news item that Spain was trying to outlaw the )uslim burLa as 3rance had recently done & was amaMed when he responded with full and uneLuivocal support for this, and then launched into a list of Eudgmental opinions about the burLa, )uslim men, &slam, and religion in general & had listened patiently to other similarly Eudgmental opinions and beliefs on different topics over the last month, as & knew he was deep into his own process and these things would naturally come upD but this was more than & eFpected & had three immediate reactionsB incredulity, disappointment, and sadness /hen & first met this friend, he was an angry, arrogant, highly opinionated and depressed man, with a very big and stubborn ego, but a huge and generous heart and a willingness to learn and grow & say all that as an observation and none of it as a Eudgment, since & didn+t think he was 7wrong8 for being that way and had no need or desire for him to changeD besides, & was eFactly that way myself while a 5uman Adult inside the movie theater :ut & witnessed many changes in him over the past year of our friendship, mainly as a result of his studying the work of Robert Scheinfeld, reading all three of -ed )c@enna+s books, and numerous conversations we had on the subEect of the holographic universe and becoming a butterfly & really could not believe what & was hearing this time, since he seemed totally comfortable with these opinions and showed no sign of recogniMing their fully Eudgmental basis or the need to process them if he truly wanted to live in neutrality 3or about fifteen seconds & did Eudge him for this incident and wanted him to change, but Luickly remembered he, too, was only reading a script my own /n inite / had written or !e, and that his thinking and behavior were indeed perfect % which meant / had to run the 'rocess on my own discomfort and do my spiritual autolysis on it & saw clearly that my disappointment came from the thought % and fear % that & really was alone )y friend, in his interest in self"realiMation, had given me hope that it was possible for friends to go through this process together, to support each other, to even form a community of cocoons, and then later butterflies /e had spent hours talking about building a catamaran together and inviting others to sail with us for week"long workshops to get a taste of what it was like to live in non"Eudgmental neutrality Even though & knew making plans like these was pointless % that my /n inite / was in charge of creating all my eFperiences and not me % & totally enEoyed the daydreaming and loved the camaraderie :ut how, & thought, could & continue talking like that % talking about

providing an environment of non"Eudgment for others % with a man who was still Eustifying his own Eudgments )y sadness was based on the Luestion % and fear % that this whole subEect was too much for anyone to really 7get8 if he didn+t get at least that much after a year of working with me on a daily basisD and that & may be totally wasting my time writing this book & imagined -ed )c@enna looking at him and saying that )aya was winning the war for his ego % that most people don+t make it through the cocoon stage % and sadly wondered what would happen to him if that were true 7& can+t go back, can &08 asked Neo 7No,8 )orpheus answered NNN So & ran Robert+s 'rocess on all this emotional discomfort, and then & used spiritual autolysis to eFpose the underlying fears This is where & found layers of my own ego, one of them still thinking this book might have an impact on someone else, rather than Eust being my scouting reportD another layer of ego, despite what & told other people and all evidence to the contrary, still feeling arrogant enough to think it Eust might be possible to help each other as friends through this process & had to let go of my attachment to the boat and the future it representsD & had to let go of my attachment to this book and any result it may or may not have for anyone elseD and & had to let go of my attachment to my friend+s own spiritual progress toward becoming a butterfly After all, there must be a lot of different routes one can take over the Rockies to get to the 'acific (cean, and & wouldn+t % and couldn+t % Eudge which way was 7right8 for my friend & have to trust his /n inite / knows what+s best for him a lot better than / do, and the fact & would like him to take the same route & did Eust because & think it+s safer or easier than the one he appears to be taking has no relevance & silently eFpressed my appreciation to my friend and let go of it all % the boat, the camaraderie, the ego that still wanted to be a good enough writer that other people would understand what & was saying and might be able to use it successfully in their own lives &n this case, & didn+t have to disconnect from my friend at all All & had to do was let go of my own attachments and layers of ego, and then he was free to be who he was as well, without needing to be who / wanted him to be There+s another possibility & had to consider too, that my friend really does understand neutrality, but he had to 7play dumb8 so & could have the eFperience & needed 5e might wake up and know eFactly what neutrality is and means, and wonder how he could have possibly said those things today That+s what friends can do for each other % play the difficult and dangerous roles in their movies, giving each other the special gifts that may not be possible from anyone else As 5uman #hildren and 5uman Adults inside the movie theater, we lived our entire lives in Eudgment, in duality &t+s not going to be easy to change that pattern, and it probably won+t happen LuicklyD and you are going to be the one who has to spot your own Eudgments that need to be processed if you want to become a butterfly NNN

Sometimes this can be very difficult Sometimes the ego, sensing a real threat to its continued eFistence, will try anything and everything to slow you down or divert youD and sometimes that takes the form of some very inviting detours from the path with some intriguing logic whispered in your ear 3or eFample, after a year of processing in his cocoon, one friend was about to enter his 7dark night of the soul,8 getting close to a powerful layer of his ego which he would then detach if he continued in that direction 5e was having a lot of emotional discomfort, and his ego was able to convince him to stop doing any kind of process and take a 7detour 8 So he started challenging the theory of the 7consciousness model8 itself % not by testing it, which is always appropriate, but by intellectually arguing with it, as if by proving some part of it 7wrong8 he could escape processing his anger and Eudgments :ut there never is any escapeD the way out is the way through &f this model is anywhere close to the truth, unless he finds a new route across the Rocky )ountains &+m not aware of, this friend will most likely have to pick up where he left off and then face what he could not face the first time :ut there+s nothing 7wrong8 with that, with taking a break for a while, with standing still and regrouping and gathering new strength, like stopping on the way up )t Everest and resting at a base camp, getting used to the altitude and the cold :ut why not simply admit that+s what you want to do and not give the ego additional power by listening to its diversions and using them as an eFcuse for not continuing at that moment0 Learning to differentiate the sound of your ego from the sound of your own thoughts takes practice and radical honesty The only help & can offer is that whenever the 7thought8 is trying to take you away from discomfort, it is the ego, no matter how rational or attractive the 7thought8 may be There+s a big difference between taking a 7detour8 off the path out of the pure eFcitement and Eoy of eFploration, and doing it in order to escape discomfort !our friends might help by playing a part in the movie created for you by your /n inite / to bring these Eudgments and the voice of your ego to your attention, if you+re willing to hear it :ut you are going to have to be completely awake and aware and vigilant, and listen to your thoughts and the words you say very carefully, to detect these Eudgments when they come creeping in, to have the courage and honesty not to try to Eustify or deny or minimiMe them, and to process them instead !ou+ve heard of a 7bullshit detector08 Now you+re going to need a 7Eudgment detector8 to use on yourselfD because no matter what route you take over the Rockies, if you are serious about becoming a butterfly, you cannot hang on to your Eudgmental beliefs and opinions That simply will not get you where you say you want to go

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CHAPTER !BELIEFS 7 OPINIONS

:ack to the Table of #ontents :ruce Lipton began his scientific career as a cell biologist 5e received his 'h = from the Aniversity of Girginia at #harlottesville before Eoining the =epartment of Anatomy at the Aniversity of /isconsin+s School of )edicine in *;6., where his research on muscular dystrophy focused on the molecular mechanisms controlling cell behavior &n *;9,, =r Lipton began eFamining the principles of Luantum physics and how they might be integrated into his understanding of the cell+s information processing systems &n the process he discovered that the brain of a cell is not in the nucleus, which is what & was taught in school, but in the membrane % the outer surface, or 7skin8 of the cell 75is research at Stanford Aniversity+s School of )edicine, between *;96 and *;;,, revealed that the environment, operating through the membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell 5is discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, gave rise to one of today+s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics )any subseLuent papers by other researchers have since validated his concepts and ideas 8* 3pigenetics is to biology what Luantum physics was to physicsD it has turned our age"old understanding of biology upside downD or, as &+ve put it many times already, the opposite of what we have always believed is true 3rom epigenetics, we now know our perception of the environment controls our =NA, not the other way around :ruce is a brilliant man and a good friend Anfortunately, he still believes what+s 7out there8 % the human body in particular % is realD but despite that, through his best" selling book, 'he Bio$ogy o Be$ie , and his live seminars called 'he Bio$ogy o Perception, he offers some very important insights into the effects of beliefs on our lives 76ow we see $i e deter!ines our behavior, and since perceptions can be wrong, it is !ore accurate to say that be$ie s contro$ bio$ogy E what you be$ieve creates your $i e 8, The first eFample he offers is what is called the 7placebo effect 8. &t is normally used as a medical term, meaning a patient is given something neutral % like a sugar pill % and yet it makes them feel better There is no chemical reason in the placebo for it to have any effect at all on the body, but it does somehow That 7somehow8 is because the patient be$ieves it will, and nothing else &t is the patient+s belief that changes their biology and their behavior 7Statistics revea$ that one8third o a$$ !edica$ hea$ings are the resu$t o the p$acebo e ect 81

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:ut this 7placebo effect8 does not have to be limited to medicine or pills &n fact, it is in operation a lot of the time as we, the 'layers, believe something % anything % is good for us that is actually neutral, and yet it makes us feel better This, of course, is true for all homeopathic remedies as well 5omeopathy is still based on a belief that taking something from 7out there8 % 7natural8 though it might be % will have an effect 7in here 8 The other side of the coin, and not nearly as well known, is the 7nocebo effect 2 8 This is when a patient % or a 'layer % believes something, anything, that is actually neutral is harmful to themD and it makes them feel bad or worse, when in fact there+s nothing in the nocebo that can hurt them at all 7/ a doctor te$$s you that you have a disease, or the doctor te$$s you that you<re going to die, and you be$ieve the doctor because he<s a Ipro essiona$,< the be$ie wi$$ give you a disease or wi$$ cause you to die 84 The most famous 7nocebo8 currently may be 5&G According to =r @ary )ullis, Nobel 'riMe winner in chemistry, and over two"thousand other medical and scientific researchers, health care professionals, and Eournalists6, there is not one scientific paper that proves 5&G causes A&=S9 =r 'eter =uesberg, a member of the Anited States National Academy of Sciences and professor of molecular and cell biology at the Aniversity of #alifornia, :erkeley, was one of the world+s leading retrovirologists in the late *;6$+s and early 9$+s, who received acclaim early in his career for research on oncogenes and cancer =r =uesberg says there+s nothing about 5&G that can do damage to a human body, that 5&G is a 7harmless passenger virus 8 ; According to the staff report of a A S #ongressional Sub"#ommittee, and the (ffice of Scientific &ntegrity of the National &nstitutes of 5ealth, and the (ffice of Research &ntegrity of the =epartment of 5ealth and 5uman Services, the man who first claimed that he discovered 5&G and that 5&G was the cause of A&=S was guilty of 7scientific misconduct8, *$ and his research was called 7of dubious merit8** and 7really craMy 8*, &n fact, 5&G ai$s every traditional and accepted scientific test to be called the 7cause8 of A&=S*., and even the A&=S eFperts admit that more than half of those dying from A&=S are dying from organ failure " mostly liver failure " as a side effect of the antiretroviral drugs they are encouraged to take, and not 5&G*1 :ut if someone believes what we+re being told by the mass media, that 5&G causes A&=S and will result in death, then the stress caused by that belief is enough to destroy their immune system and give them A&=S, and they will die, according to =r :ruce Lipton &n both cases % the placebo and the nocebo % it is the 'layer+s belief and not the actual eFperience that controls their perceptions and determines their behavior 7/ you be$ieve that so!ething wi$$ be good or you, it wi$$ be goodJ and i you be$ieve that so!ething is har! u$, it wi$$ be bad 8*2 =r Lipton stresses the fact that a lot of our beliefs are 7learned8 from other people, and those learned beliefs can actually override our natural perceptions and instincts 3or eFample, all babies know how to swim when they are born :ut as they grow up and

watch the reaction on their parents+ faces whenever they get near water, the baby learns to be afraid of waterD and then it needs to be taught how not to fear water and to swim again at the proper age % when their parents are no longer afraid *4 :ruce likens our perception to a camera, taking snapshots of the 7physical world8 our brain has proEected 7out there 8 :ut, he says, our beliefs act like filters on that camera, filtering out certain freLuencies and changing the picture that comes inD and he offers a very good eFample of this during his workshops when he puts one slide on the screen that makes no real senseK

K and has the audience put on a pair of glasses he provides with green lenses and look at the picture 5ere+s what they seeK

Then he has them trade the green lenses for glasses with red lenses and look at the same picture, and here+s what they seeK

O!ou can watch a very short Opoor LualityP video of this here P &n eFactly the same way, =r Lipton concludes, our belief filters determine how we perceive our world and therefore how we react and respond to our eFperiences 7Li e has everything in it, but you wi$$ on$y see what you have be$ie i$ters to see 8*6 NNN

Take a Luick look at this playing cardK

&t+s a red siF of spades, right0 (r did you see it as something else0 There+s a classic psychology eFperiment *9 where this red siF of spades, along with other normal playing cards, is shown to a group of people who are writing down the cards they see )any people cannot see a red siF of spades the first few passes through the cardsD some can never see it as a red siF of spades, even when holding it in their hands ,'he conc$usion is that our be$ie s can i$ter and a ect what data co!es in through our senses+ 5e can end up seeing and hearing on$y what we be$ieve+ 'he stronger the be$ie syste!, the !ore power u$ wi$$ be its abi$ity to i$ter out data that contradicts those be$ie s+ "ou were taught and you be$ieve that seeing is be$ieving+ /t shou$d be the other way around+ "ou have co!e to understand that !etaphorica$$y spea*ing, the eye is a ca!era that passive$y co$$ects $ight and brings it in to record photographs o what is actua$$y out there, with no a$teration o the sense data going on+ 5hat / a! proposing is that in actua$ity the reverse o that si!p$e phrase is true4 be$ieving is seeing+ 5hat / a! proposing is that the eye is a ca!era that i$ters out !ost o the e$ectro!agnetic spectru! to on$y record visib$e $ight, and that the ca!era is contro$$ed by the photographer who chooses conscious$y or unconscious$y what to photograph+-*; &n this case, we start with a belief that a red siF of spades doesn+t eFist, so it+s difficult to see it for what it actually isD and for some with very strong and controlling belief systems, it+s virtually impossible NNN

& deliberated long and hard about whether to include this neFt eFample, because it is so controversialD but it is also the most perfect eFample & can think of to illustrate how our beliefs affect what we perceive 7out there8 and prevent us from seeing 7what is,8 and how those beliefs can contribute to so much pain and suffering in our lives Even if you are not a #hristian, you probably know -esus was crucified and died on a cross, to rise again from the dead three days later (ver the last ,$$$ years, many people have believed this and based their lives on it 5ere is the scripture from the 5oly :ible on which this belief is based OEven if you know this story already, please read it again now P Luke ,.B2$ 7%nd, beho$d, there was a !an na!ed Qoseph9+ G2 'his !an went unto Pi$ate, and begged : or; the body o Qesus+ GR %nd he too* it down, and wrapped it in $inen, and $aid it in a sepu$chre that was hewn in stone, wherein never !an be ore was $aid9+ GG %nd the wo!en a$so, which ca!e with hi! ro! Ga$i$ee, o$$owed a ter, and behe$d the sepu$chre, and how his body was $aid+ GH %nd they returned, and prepared spices and oint!entsJ and rested the sabbath day according to the co!!and!ent+ 2L41 2ow upon the irst day o the wee*, very ear$y in the !orning, they ca!e unto the sepu$chre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with the!+ 2 %nd they ound the stone ro$$ed away ro! the sepu$chre+ R %nd they entered in, and ound not the body o the Lord Qesus+ L %nd it ca!e to pass, as they were !uch perp$e.ed thereabout, beho$d, two !en stood by the! in shining gar!ents4 G %nd as they were a raid, and bowed down their aces to the earth, they said unto the!, 5hy see* ye hi! that $iveth a!ong the deadD H 6e is not here, but is risen4 re!e!ber how he spa*e unto you when he was yet in Ga$i$ee, W saying, 'he Son o !an !ust be de$ivered into the hands o sin u$ !en, and be cruci ied, and the third day rise again+ K %nd they re!e!bered his words, F and returned ro! the sepu$chre, and to$d a$$ these things unto the e$even, and to a$$ the rest+ 10 /t was (ary (ag#da$ene, and Qoanna, and (ary the !other o Qa!es, and other wo!en that were with the!, which to$d these things unto the apost$es+ 11 %nd their words see!ed to the! as id$e ta$es, and they be$ieved the! not+ 12 'hen arose Peter, and ran unto the sepu$chreJ and stooping down, he behe$d the $inen c$othes $aid by the!se$ves, and departed, wondering in hi!se$ at that which was co!e to pass+ 1R %nd, beho$d, two o the! went that sa!e day to a vi$$age ca$$ed 3!!aus, which was ro! Qerusa$e! about threescore ur$ongs+ 1L %nd they ta$*ed together o a$$ these things which had happened+ 1G %nd it ca!e to pass, that, whi$e they co!!uned together and reasoned, Qesus hi!se$ drew near, and went with the!+ 1H But their eyes were ho$den that they shou$d not *now hi!+

1W %nd he said unto the!, 5hat !anner o co!!unications are these that ye have one to another, as ye wa$*, and are sadD 1K %nd the one o the!, whose na!e was C$e#opas, answering said unto hi!, %rt thou on$y a stranger in Qerusa$e!, and hast not *nown the things which are co!e to pass there in these daysD 1F %nd he said unto the!, 5hat thingsD %nd they said unto hi!, Concerning Qesus o 2a>areth, which was a prophet !ighty in deed and word be ore God and a$$ the peop$e4 20 and how the chie priests and our ru$ers de$ivered hi! to be conde!ned to death, and have cruci ied hi!+ 21 But we trusted that it had been he which shou$d have redee!ed /srae$4 and beside a$$ this, today is the third day since these things were done+ 22 "ea, and certain wo!en a$so o our co!pany !ade us astonished, which were ear$y at the sepu$chreJ 2R and when they ound not his body, they ca!e, saying, that they had a$so seen a vision o ange$s, which said that he was a$ive+ 2L %nd certain o the! which were with us went to the sepu$chre, and ound it even so as the wo!en had said4 but hi! they saw not9+ 2K %nd they drew nigh unto the vi$$age, whither they went4 and he !ade as though he wou$d have gone urther+ 2F But they constrained hi!, saying, %bide with us4 or it is toward evening, and the day is ar spent+ %nd he went in to tarry with the!+ R0 %nd it ca!e to pass, as he sat at !eat with the!, he too* bread, and b$essed it, and bra*e, and gave to the!+ R1 %nd their eyes were opened, and they *new hi!J and he vanished out o their sight+ R2 %nd they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, whi$e he ta$*ed with us by the way, and whi$e he opened to us the scripturesD RR %nd they rose up the sa!e hour, and returned to Qerusa$e!, and ound the e$even gathered together, and the! that were with the!, RL Saying, 'he Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Si!on+ RG %nd they to$d what things were done in the way, and how he was *nown o the! in brea*ing o bread+ RH %nd as they thus spa*e, Qesus hi!se$ stood in the !idst o the!, and saith unto the!, Peace be unto you+ RW But they were terri ied and a righted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit+ RK %nd he said unto the!, 5hy are ye troub$edD and why do thoughts arise in your heartsD RF Beho$d !y hands and !y eet, that it is / !yse$ 4 hand$e !e, and seeJ or a spirit hath not $esh and bones, as ye see !e have+ L0 %nd when he had thus spo*en, he shewed the! his hands and his eet+ L1 %nd whi$e they yet be$ieved not or ?oy, and wondered, he said unto the!, 6ave ye here any !eatD L2 %nd they gave hi! a piece o a broi$ed ish, and o an honeyco!b+ LR %nd he too* it, and did eat be ore the! 8,$

:ut what if this were actually the account of a man who was taken down from his cross after Eust three hours, still alive, moved to a secret hiding place where he was treated for the wounds on his hands and feet and head and side, survived, left three days later under his own steam, and met his disciples on the road as he was walking out of -erusalem &n other words, & want to ask you to read the eFact same :ible passages again, without the prior belief that -esus died on the crossK Luke ,.B2$ 7%nd, beho$d, there was a !an na!ed Qoseph9+ G2 'his !an went unto Pi$ate, and begged : or; the body o Qesus+ GR %nd he too* it down, and wrapped it in $inen, and $aid it in a sepu$chre that was hewn in stone, wherein never !an be ore was $aid9+ GG %nd the wo!en a$so, which ca!e with hi! ro! Ga$i$ee, o$$owed a ter, and behe$d the sepu$chre, and how his body was $aid+ GH %nd they returned, and prepared spices and oint!entsJ and rested the sabbath day according to the co!!and!ent+ 2L41 2ow upon the irst day o the wee*, very ear$y in the !orning, they ca!e unto the sepu$chre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with the!+ 2 %nd they ound the stone ro$$ed away ro! the sepu$chre+ R %nd they entered in, and ound not the body o the Lord Qesus+ L %nd it ca!e to pass, as they were !uch perp$e.ed thereabout, beho$d, two !en stood by the! in shining gar!ents4 G %nd as they were a raid, and bowed down their aces to the earth, they said unto the!, 5hy see* ye hi! that $iveth a!ong the deadD H 6e is not here, but is risen4 re!e!ber how he spa*e unto you when he was yet in Ga$i$ee, W saying, 'he Son o !an !ust be de$ivered into the hands o sin u$ !en, and be cruci ied, and the third day rise again+ K %nd they re!e!bered his words, F and returned ro! the sepu$chre, and to$d a$$ these things unto the e$even, and to a$$ the rest+ 10 /t was (ary (ag#da$ene, and Qoanna, and (ary the !other o Qa!es, and other wo!en that were with the!, which to$d these things unto the apost$es+ 11 %nd their words see!ed to the! as id$e ta$es, and they be$ieved the! not+ 12 'hen arose Peter, and ran unto the sepu$chreJ and stooping down, he behe$d the $inen c$othes $aid by the!se$ves, and departed, wondering in hi!se$ at that which was co!e to pass+ 1R %nd, beho$d, two o the! went that sa!e day to a vi$$age ca$$ed 3!!aus, which was ro! Qerusa$e! about threescore ur$ongs+ 1L %nd they ta$*ed together o a$$ these things which had happened+ 1G %nd it ca!e to pass, that, whi$e they co!!uned together and reasoned, Qesus hi!se$ drew near, and went with the!+ 1H But their eyes were ho$den that they shou$d not *now hi!+ 1W %nd he said unto the!, 5hat !anner o co!!unications are these that ye have one to another, as ye wa$*, and are sadD

1K %nd the one o the!, whose na!e was C$e#opas, answering said unto hi!, %rt thou on$y a stranger in Qerusa$e!, and hast not *nown the things which are co!e to pass there in these daysD 1F %nd he said unto the!, 5hat thingsD %nd they said unto hi!, Concerning Qesus o 2a>areth, which was a prophet !ighty in deed and word be ore God and a$$ the peop$e4 20 and how the chie priests and our ru$ers de$ivered hi! to be conde!ned to death, and have cruci ied hi!+ 21 But we trusted that it had been he which shou$d have redee!ed /srae$4 and beside a$$ this, today is the third day since these things were done+ 22 "ea, and certain wo!en a$so o our co!pany !ade us astonished, which were ear$y at the sepu$chreJ 2R and when they ound not his body, they ca!e, saying, that they had a$so seen a vision o ange$s, which said that he was a$ive+ 2L %nd certain o the! which were with us went to the sepu$chre, and ound it even so as the wo!en had said4 but hi! they saw not9+ 2K %nd they drew nigh unto the vi$$age, whither they went4 and he !ade as though he wou$d have gone urther+ 2F But they constrained hi!, saying, %bide with us4 or it is toward evening, and the day is ar spent+ %nd he went in to tarry with the!+ R0 %nd it ca!e to pass, as he sat at !eat with the!, he too* bread, and b$essed it, and bra*e, and gave to the!+ R1 %nd their eyes were opened, and they *new hi!J and he vanished out o their sight+ R2 %nd they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, whi$e he ta$*ed with us by the way, and whi$e he opened to us the scripturesD RR %nd they rose up the sa!e hour, and returned to Qerusa$e!, and ound the e$even gathered together, and the! that were with the!, RL Saying, 'he Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Si!on+ RG %nd they to$d what things were done in the way, and how he was *nown o the! in brea*ing o bread+ RH %nd as they thus spa*e, Qesus hi!se$ stood in the !idst o the!, and saith unto the!, Peace be unto you+ RW But they were terri ied and a righted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit+ RK %nd he said unto the!, 5hy are ye troub$edD and why do thoughts arise in your heartsD RF Beho$d !y hands and !y eet, that it is / !yse$ 4 hand$e !e, and seeJ or a spirit hath not $esh and bones, as ye see !e have+ L0 %nd when he had thus spo*en, he shewed the! his hands and his eet+ L1 %nd whi$e they yet be$ieved not or ?oy, and wondered, he said unto the!, 6ave ye here any !eatD L2 %nd they gave hi! a piece o a broi$ed ish, and o an honeyco!b+ LR %nd he too* it, and did eat be ore the! 8 7:ehold my hands and my feet, that it is & myselfB handle me, and seeD for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have 8 & cannot imagine how that could be any

clearer -esus is saying he+s alive, that this was his actual physical body, not a spiritD and to prove it, he ate meat with them There are even more telling phrases in the other <ospels &n )atthew, ,* for eFampleK )atthew ,9B2 7%nd the ange$ answered and said unto the wo!en, &ear not ye4 or / *now that ye see* Qesus, which was cruci ied+ H 6e is not here4 or he is risen, as he said+ Co!e, see the p$ace where the Lord $ay+ W %nd go =uic*$y, and te$$ his discip$es that he is risen ro! the deadJ and, beho$d, he goeth be ore you into Ga$i$eeJ there sha$$ ye see hi! 8 KandK )atthew ,9B*$ 7'hen said Qesus unto the!, Be not a raid4 go te$$ !y brethren that they go into Ga$i$ee, and there sha$$ they see !e9+1H 'hen the e$even discip$es went away into Ga$i$ee, into a !ountain where Qesus had appointed the!+ 1W %nd when they saw hi!, they worshipped hi! 8 A resurrected body would not need to 7go before8 anyone else to any place &t would Eust appear there spontaneously Nor would it need to tell anyone to go someplace to see it The <ospel of )ark,, saysK )ark *2B1. 7Qoseph o %ri!athaea, an honourab$e counse$$or, which a$so waited or the *ingdo! o God, ca!e, and went in bo$d$y unto Pi$ate, and craved the body o Qesus+ LL %nd Pi$ate !arve$$ed i he were a$ready dead 8 The synonym for 7marvel8 is 7wonder8 % 'ilate wondered how -esus could be dead, because he had only been on the cross for three hours, and crucifiFions normally would take a lot longer than that to kill someone 7The Romans used crucifiFion as a prolonged, agoniMing, humiliating deathK &t is possible to survive crucifiFion, if not prolonged, and there are records of people who did 8,. KandK )ark *4B* 7%nd when the sabbath was past, (ary (agda$ene, and (ary the !other o Qa!es, and Sa$o!e, had bought sweet spices, that they !ight co!e and anoint hi! 8 To 7anoint8 means 7to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance,8 ,1 which even today is a common medical treatment for the wounds of a body that is still alive KandK )ark *4B; 72ow when Qesus was risen ear$y the irst day o the wee*, he appeared irst to (ary (agda$ene, out o who! he had cast seven devi$s+ 10 %nd she went and to$d the! that she had been with hi!, as they !ourned and wept+ 11 %nd they, when they had heard that he was a$ive, and had been seen o her, be$ieved not+ 12 % ter that he

appeared in another or! unto two o the!, as they wa$*ed, and went into the country+ 1R %nd they went and to$d it unto the residue4 neither be$ieved they the! 8 7And when they heard that he was a$ive8HH 5ow can that be misunderstood0 KandK )ark *4B*1 7% terward he appeared unto the e$even as they sat at !eat, and upbraided the! with their unbe$ie and hardness o heart, because they be$ieved not the! which had seen hi! a ter he was risen 8 And in the <ospel of -ohn,2K -ohn *;B.; 7%nd there ca!e a$so 2icode!us, which at the irst ca!e to Qesus by night, and brought a !i.ture o !yrrh and a$oes 8 Nicodemus was 7a wealthy and popular holy man reputed to have had miraculous powers 8,4 )yrrh and aloes were not Eust used for embalming, but as medicine for wounds )yrrh is currently used in some liniments and healing salves that may be applied to abrasions and other minor skin ailments &n alternative medicine, it is said that miFing myrrh gum into vinegar increases its ability to relieve pain ,6 The <reeks and Romans used aloes to treat wounds,,9 as we also do today KandK -ohn ,$B4 7'hen co!eth Si!on Peter o$$owing hi!, and went into the sepu$chre, and seeth the $inen c$othes $ie, W %nd the nap*in, that was about his head, not $ying with the $inen c$othes, but wrapped together in a p$ace by itse$ 8 The cloth around -esus+ head where he had wounds from the thorny crown was in a different place than the rest % not likely if his body resurrected and left his 7linen clothes8 lying there Kand, finallyK -ohn ,$B*; 7'hen the sa!e day at evening, being the irst day o the wee*, when the doors were shut where the discip$es were asse!b$ed or ear o the Qews, ca!e Qesus and stood in the !idst, and saith unto the!, Peace be unto you+ 20 %nd when he had so said, he shewed unto the! his hands and his side+ 'hen were the discip$es g$ad, when they saw the Lord 8 & need to add that it+s Luite likely -esus+ disciples really thought he had died on the cross, so & can understand their astonishment to find out he didn+t :ut even the :ible, when read without a prior belief, is Luite clear that -esus survived his crucifiFion 3or ,$$$ years, #hristianity has been based on the belief -esus died on the cross Omany say Rfor our sinsRP and rose again from the dead Think of the impact this one belief has had on the world, and on many of us personally /ars have been fought,

millions have died, and millions more have lived lives of guilt and shame based on this belief :ut there is ample evidence this belief is not true,,; and even the :ible does not say it happened that way, unless you read the <ospels with that belief already in placeD and then you still have to make some very big assumptions ORemember (ccam+s RaMor, that the best answer is the one with the fewest assumptions P So we start with a Eudgment that we are all, as human beings, innately defective Othe Roman #atholic church calls it 7original sin8PD we form a belief % despite the evidence % that a Son of <od has been resurrected from the dead in order to save us from our sinful natureD and we are of the opinion that anyone who doesn+t believe in 5im cannot make it into 5eaven &t makes for a very interesting gameH NNN 5ere+s another Luick eFample of how this Eudgment"belief"opinion cycle happensK Let+s say you Eudge prostitution to be 7wrong,8 for whatever reason !ou then form a belief that the government should do something to stop it, and you hold the opinion that any man or woman who engages in prostitution is acting immorally And let+s say your /n inite / creates an eFperience for you in your cocoon where you come face to face with this, such as your husband or wife or lover or son or daughter or good friend % someone you love and respect and admire % gets arrested on charges of prostitution, either soliciting or selling seF for money & can imagine this might cause you some discomfort, severe discomfort if it were your husband or wife, &+m sure So this is your chance to run Robert+s 'rocess first, to take the 7heat8 and 7discomfort8 and 7reality8 out of the situation, and then run -ed+s spiritual autolysis to discover the false belief, false information, and layers of ego that resulted from this Eudgment )ost of the time you can simply follow the discomfort % the emotion or pain, for eFample % to uncover the Eudgment &n this eFample it should be fairly easy to find the underlying Eudgment, that you consider prostitution to be 7wrong,8 and to use spiritual autolysis to ask, 7&s that true08 :ut sometimes it+s not that easyD the Eudgment is not so readily available, buried more deeply, hiding from your awareness So instead you can follow the emotion to find the belief, and then follow the belief to find the Eudgment (r, if the belief is also hard to get at, follow the emotion to find the opinion, then follow the opinion to find the belief, then follow the belief to find the Eudgment !ou get the picture Remember what -ed )c@enna saidK ,%$$ attach!ents to the drea!state are !ade o energy+ 'hat energy is ca$$ed e!otion+ %$$ e!otions, positive and negative, are attach!ents+Kso consider every emotion you have that is less than total Eoy, eFcitement, and enthusiasm to be a signpost % a red flag % leading you to your opinions, beliefs, and Eudgments

&n fact, you can do this for any opinion or belief at any time, without needing your /n inite / to create a catalytic eFperience for you &f you hear yourself offering an opinion % any opinion % look for the belief that led you to that opinion, then look deeper for the Eudgment that led to the belief Remember that all Eudgments, beliefs and opinions were formed inside the movie theater and are based on incorrect premisesD so they are all untrue This may be difficult for some people to accept who have become very attached to their opinions with multiple layers of ego for each one, piled on top of each other :ut it is eFactly these attachments, and letting go of them, that are the point of this whole process in the cocoon NNN 7(kay,8 you might say, 7& can see living without EudgmentsD & can even imagine living without beliefsD but living without opinions0 &sn+t that kind ofK boring0 =o you Eust accept anything and everything that is put in front of you in your hologram without Luestion or discrimination08 !es, and no !es, you accept anything and everything that is put in front of you, since your /n inite / created 7anything and everything8 for you it wants you to eFperience, down to the smallest detail &t+s true & no longer live with Eudgments and beliefs and opinions, eFcept those occasional times when one might pop up for me to identify and process :ut, no, life is far from boring, and & do have my preferences -ed )c@enna started off :ook Two of his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy saying, 7& hate L A 8 & never could figure out whether -ed was eFpressing a Eudgmental opinion, or Eust using some literary license for effect & don+t 7hate8 anythingD but & 7prefer8 a lot of things /hat+s the difference0 &t can be very subtle and tricky at times, but &+ll try to eFplain An opinion, based on a belief and Eudgment, includes resistance to the opposite opinion A preference has no resistance, but is merely an eFpression of choice & prefer not to play Tic Tac Toe, unless & am engaged with a very young child & find the game very boring or !e, since it+s unwinable when playing with anyone who has even the slightest clue of what+s up Now that & know a game like backgammon eFists, & prefer to play it instead & have no resistance to playing Tic Tac Toe, no Eudgment about it, no beliefs about it, no opinions about it as a game & Eust prefer not to play it under most circumstances Likewise, & prefer not to play the Eudgment game, the belief game, the opinion game, the fear game, the first half of the 5uman <ame inside the movie theater & have no resistance to playing any of it if the appropriate circumstances were to arise and it was clear my /n inite / was creating that for my eFperience at the momentD and & have no Eudgment about it, no beliefs about it, no opinions about it other than how perfect a game it was at one stage of my metamorphosis, and how perfect it is for other people who still want to play it :ut & also prefer not to spend a lot of time with people who are playing the first half of the 5uman <ame & enEoy living in a way that &+m not surrounded with the constant noise of other people+s drama and conflict & prefer not to talk about Tic Tac Toe & prefer

not to listen to Tic Tac Toe players who spend the vast maEority of their time talking about the game, rehashing prior games they played, accusing someone of cheating in a game they seem to have lost, describing in detail how much of a victim they are when they lose, or even discussing new strategies of how to win a game that+s unwinable :ut & don+t Eudge them &n fact, & totally support them to continue doing eFactly what they+re doingD & Eust don+t find it at all interesting or fun to be part of that myself & prefer silence to the sound of motorcycle engines & prefer not to drink alcohol because of the way it makes me feel & prefer to sail than motorboat & prefer to eat protein and vegetables rather than carbohydrates & prefer warm weather to cold, sun to snow, the beach to the mountains, and less Oor noP clothes to more & prefer watching a movie to small talk, a concert to a cocktail party, a solitary walk listening to good music in my earphones to a dinner party & prefer diving forty feet deep in the ocean to walking on land Those would be my choices if & could choose :ut & will be wherever my /n inite / wants me to be and eFperience whatever my /n inite / wants me to eFperience with full Eoy and without hesitation or Eudgment or resistance, because & totally trust my /n inite /, and that is my Eob as its 'layer in the 5uman <ame & would caution especially those who are new to their cocoon to be very wary of this opinion"preference thing -udgments are sometimes hard enough to spot for processing without making it any harderD and it seems so easy to say, 7& prefer not to be around that kind of person,8 and think it+s a statement of preference when in fact it+s a statement of Eudgment & found it a lot easier in the beginning to simply assume that any preference & wanted to eFpress was in reality an opinion based on a Eudgment and belief, and process it accordingly After about a year, when & was more comfortable with letting go of my Eudgments and beliefs and opinions % when & felt fairly secure & could spot when my ego was trying to slip something by on me % & allowed myself to have preferences again :ut & remain very vigilant and still challenge my 7preferences8 on a regular basis to make sure & am not resisting anything, for resistance is the key

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CHAPTER !0
RESISTANCE
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After more hours upon hours of spiritual autolysis, & wrote something else that is
trueB 5hat you resist persists & think & first heard that from L Ron 5ubbard % one of his 7genius8 moments as a scout many years ago % before others started saying it, and before he got lost on his way So it is not something & came up withD but & did test it, and & did find it to be true &n searching the &nternet, & see references to this sentence attributed to a lot of different sources and groups, from the famous psychiatrist #arl -ung Oalthough & could never verify he said itP, to EST Oalthough /arner Erhard took the basics of EST from L Ron 5ubbardP, to Neale =onald /alsch in Conversations with God &t was also used in Rhonda :yrne+s 'he Secret :ut as is necessary inside the movie theater, the true meaning and application were altered so the 5uman Adults who try to use this gem of wisdom for their own self"improvement would find themselves going deeper into limitation instead ,3very ti!e we resist so!ething, we are spending our energy in the wrong way+ /t is !uch better E and !uch easier indeed E to stop resisting what we don<t want and ocus on attracting what we do want+ /nstead o resisting poverty, and strugg$ing to !a*e !ore !oney to prevent it by getting a second ?ob, try to ocus on attracting prosperity by having positive thoughts whi$e wor*ing+ / you hate your ?ob and are thin*ing about this every !orning, you are resisting going to wor*+ 'here ore, it wi$$ be harder to get a pro!otion or ind a better ?ob+-* ,'he Law o %ttraction si!p$y says that you attract into your $i e whatever you thin* about+ "our do!inant thoughts wi$$ ind a way to !ani est+-, :y now you should be able to see what is not true about this interpretation of 7what you resist persists,8 how it was twisted inside the movie theater to make it unworkable for a 5uman Adult Oas all things must beP :ut Eust in case, let me state it clearlyK The premise is that you should stop thinking negative thoughts and focus on the positive thoughts, because if you focus on the negative thoughts, they will persist and make it impossible for the positive thoughts to manifest 3air enough0 :ut that entire premise is based on a EudgmentB 7negative8 thoughts versus 7positive8 thoughts &t is also based on the untruth that you can manifest anything in your holographic universe, much less attract the 7positive8 things if you focus on them The truth is that all resistance is based on a EudgmentD or put the other way, resistance would not eFist without a prior Eudgment &f you Eudge something to be 7negative,8 you resist it So the solution is not to try to deny or ignore the 7negative8

thoughts and focus on the 7positive ones,8 but to eliminate the Eudgment altogether that is the source of the resistance !ou want a 7better8 Eob0 Stop Eudging the one you have and you will stop resisting it at the same time Although & don+t want to state this as 7Truth,8 it has been my eFperience that as long as & Eudge and resist something, & stay in that eFperience (nly when & stop Eudging, and therefore automatically stop resisting, is it possible for my eFperience to change )y first eFample of this came when & was twenty years old & was deep into 'eter )arshall at the time, and & called <od, 7The #hief,8 as he did & was in #aracas, GeneMuela, helping to create the Spanish eLuivalent of Bp 5ith Peop$e for that country & had been with Bp 5ith Peop$e about a year and spent most of that time as the drummerD but & wanted to be more than that & wanted to be a musical director, and & kept Eudging my drumming to be 7less than8 what & wanted and was capable of, and therefore resisted it (ne day as & was going to sleep in #aracas, & had a maEor transformation and said a very sincere prayer 7#hief, & have made a decision &f you want me to be a drummer for the rest of my life, if that+s the best way & can serve you and the rest of mankind, & will do it % Eoyfully, gladly, and enthusiastically & promise 8 And & meant it Kand & gave up all Eudgment and resistance to drumming at that moment The very neFt day & received a call from the #E( of Bp 5ith Peop$e, telling me he was creating a third cast and asking me to come back right away to be its musical director & could give you numerous other eFamples like this from my life, but & think you get the point NNN 5hat you resist persists &n fact, the more you resist 7negative8 thoughts and try to replace them with 7positive8 thoughts, the more 7negative8 thoughts you will have &sn+t that what it says0 :y trying to focus only on the 7positive8 thoughts, aren+t you automatically resisting the 7negative8 ones0 And then won+t they persist0 &t+s like the old game, 7try not to think about elephants 8 (f course, elephants are all you can think about then That+s why 'he Secret and the 7Law of Attraction8 don+t workD or at least, it+s one reason The other reason is that they were part of life inside the movie theater and therefore couldn+t work eFcept to create more limitation 3or eFample, there seem to be a lot of 7peaceworkers8 springing up all over the place these days :ut if you resist war, war is what you will getD if you resist violence, violence is what you getD and if you are a 7peaceworker,8 you are resisting war and violence, despite what some of them will try to say So as more and more 7peaceworkers8 appear, we get more and more war and violence in the world -ust read the news these days 'eaceworking is a great distraction from the real issue % you and your Eudgments and the layers of your ego )ahatma <andhi said 7be the change you wish to see in the

world 8 5e didn+t say, 7be the change you wish to see in the world, and then go out and change the world,8 or 7then go out and try to make everyone else to be the way you are 8 &t+s really pretty simple (nly when you stop Eudging war and violence to be 7wrong8 or 7bad8 and understand and embrace them as perfect, along with everything else in your hologram, will you stop resisting them, at which point they no longer need to persist -esus saidK ,But / say unto you, 'hat ye resist not evi$4 but whosoever sha$$ s!ite thee on thy right chee*, turn to hi! the other a$so+ %nd i any !an wi$$ sue thee at the $aw, and ta*e away thy coat, $et hi! have thy c$oa* a$so+ %nd whosoever sha$$ co!pe$ thee to go a !i$e, go with hi! twain+ Give to hi! that as*eth thee, and ro! hi! that wou$d borrow o thee turn not thou away+-. So it+s not Eust about not resisting &t+s about embracing what you resistD about not trying to fiF or change or improve something, but about realiMing it is all perfect, war and violence included That+s what 7what you resist persists8 means And what is there to resist0 Every eFperience you have, down to the smallest detail, was created for you by your /n inite /, so why resist it0 /hat are you actually saying when you resist an eFperience0 !ou+re saying your /n inite / got it wrong and you don+t trust it NNN :y now &+m sure you understand that writing this book is part of my own spiritual autolysis, so it doesn+t surprise me when an eFperience pops up in my hologram to point out something to me to process as well as include it in the book As & was writing the last chapter, some family of my friend had come to visit for a couple weeks, along with their four"year"old son who had a habit of screaming at the top of his lungs, both in anger and in eFcitement The screams were piercing, magnified by echoes off the walls and surrounding buildings They hit a pitch that would shatter a glass The parents did nothing when he screamed, eFcept laugh a little /hen & asked my friend, he said this was the way <ermans and Swiss bring up their children, that only the A@ would try to 7suppress8 their kids from screaming (kay, & can accept that different cultures have different attitudes toward childrearing, and & had no Eudgment about it, although it+s not the way & raised my children nor would raise them today Owhich has nothing to do with 7suppression8PD and & had also recogniMed from the time & spent living in Europe that Europeans in general were often more oblivious than Americans to anyone else around them, whether they were driving a car, or standing in the center of a busy doorway, or ignoring the effects of a screaming child on those around it So & did resist these screams for a few minutes, especially since & was trying to finish #hapter Seventeen Then & took some moments to process my resistance, realiMing & was attached to this ego layer of being an author and needing my space to write (nce & had

let go of that, & was free to follow the flow and decided my /n inite / wanted me to take a break before starting the neFt chapter in the book 3ortunately, the day was cooler than usual for the middle of the summer, cloudy with a few thunderstorms buildingD so & could take a walk for the first time in several weeks without the scorching heat, something & really enEoyed doing & donned my mp. player and set off down the beach along the )editerranean toward town, listening to Abba+s greatest hits, doing my own version of the boogie to 'a*e a Chance on (e and Dancing 0ueen &t was so great to be out walking again, something & appreciated very much and took as a reward from my /n inite / for the hard work & had been putting in on the book :ut it got better the further & walked The wind and the Sea were picture"perfect, and & met beautiful women along the way, one after the other (ne woman was so beautiful & had to stop and tell her so, which she answered with a smile and a 7Thank !ou,8 in EnglishH At the far end of the beach, & sat at a cafZ and had a couple ice teas and some potato chips % a treat & had not indulged in for a little while & was so happy to have taken this walk and eFperienced so much pleasure and enEoyment and refreshment for both body and mind (f course, & eFpressed my appreciation OsilentlyP to the four"year"old boy, his parents, and my friend for playing their parts to allow me to see and detach from another layer of my ego, and to get me away from my computer and out on the beach againD and to my /n inite / for the amaMing and beautiful eFperienceD and to myself for be willing to eFamine my resistance as soon as it came up & wouldn+t have missed that walk for the world This time & doubt the boy will stop screamingK /owH 5e didn+t stop completely, but the freLuency is a $ot less, and now it doesn+t bother me nearly as much NNN & had a friend many years ago who made an obscene amount of money scraping old rubber off airport runways Around the age of fifty"five, he was diagnosed with cancer and given two years to live Rather than resist the cancer, he decided to accept his fate and wanted to spend his last two years giving something back to the country he loved so much and had given him such incredible opportunities 5e started a magaMine called 7The =uck :ook,8 educating his readers about the true nature of the A S economic system, and sold lifetime subscriptions for [*$ % his lifetime, not yours 5e figured he+d be dead in two years, so what the hell Two years later his cancer had disappeared Now he had a new problemB thousands of lifetime subscriptions for [*$ to honor That was solved when he was assassinated within a few years in #osta Rica, having become too much of a threat to the world+s financial cartel :ut that+s not the point, obviously The point isK well, you get it, not resisting the cancerK NNN

&n ,$$; & delivered some workshops in Europe on the topic of the 5olographic Aniverse and the 5uman <ame Naturally, as part of any workshop, you want to have some eFercises the participants can do to make the theories real to them, to give them a personal eFperience of the truth you+re trying to impart There were three particular eFercises & used the most and highly recommend for you as well The first is to take one day % Eust twenty"four hours % and do nothing that doesn+t eFcite you to do No 7must do+s,8 no 7have to do+s,8 no 7should do+s 8 !ou are allowed to do only what you want to do and brings you Eoy !ou might find it+s not as easy as it sounds After all, we have a lot of habits hanging over from our days in the first half of the <ame % beliefs that might pop up in the process :ut Eust remind yourself it+s an eFperiment for a day and nothing more and see what happens 3or eFample, see if your /n inite / gives you a sign or rewards you in some special way, Eust to let you know it works, and will work for you as well The second eFercise is, again, to take Eust twenty"four hours and not try to do anything to 7make something happen,8 but to only react and respond to the eFperiences you encounter, that come to you No goals, no agendas, no obEectives No thinking you have to do anything at all to make things happen in life Simply react and respond to the eFperiences your /n inite / creates for you and see what kind of eFperiences you get, and whether they bring you more Eoy and happiness than you+re used to The third eFercise is my favorite 3or one day % Eust twenty"four hours % the participants in my workshops were only allowed to say 7!es8 to whatever appeared in their hologram They had to take the word 7No8 out of their vocabulary and Eust say 7!es8 to everything that came their way After all, if our /n inite / is creating each and every eFperience we have, down to the smallest detail, why not simply say 7!es8 to whatever it creates and see what happens0H !ou can+t imagine the resistance & encounteredK 75hat i so!eone as*s !e to do so!ething / don<t want to doD8 7!ou say J!es+ and do it 8 7But what i so!eone e$se tries to ta*e advantage o !e, *nowing / can on$y say I"es,<D8 7That+s another fear you+ll have to face 8 7But what i it<s i$$ega$ or i!!ora$D8 Kand the obEections went on and on, all based on fear and EudgmentD and of course, that was the whole point, eFposing these fears and Eudgments for them to see % that, and giving the participants the eFperience of saying 7!es8 and realiMing they could trust their /n inite / and the eFperiences it would create for them Then & found out there was a movie released in ,$$9 which & had never seen Oor heard of, since & had been isolated in 'ortugal the whole timeP called 'he "es (an with -im #arrey /hen & finally saw it, & thought it was one of the most brilliant films ever made, and one of the best 7hints8 and 7clues8 ever presented to 5uman Adults inside the movie theater &f you haven+t seen it, & highly recommend it Some have tried to minimiMe its 7!es8 message, claiming the guru character, Terrence, retracts his own advice in the end :ut that+s not so at all

5ere+s the set"upK -im #arrey believes he has made a covenant to only say 7!es,8 and if he breaks that covenant, something bad will happen to him 5e did, in fact, break the covenant and is in the hospital with Terrence after a car accident ,'errence, you have to re!ove the covenant+ /t<s *i$$ing !eC7There is no covenant There never was & was Eust riffing 8 ,7i ingD7/ell, & had to say something !ou were being difficult, embarrassing me in front of my crowd 8 ,So the who$e I"es< thing is a$$ bu$$shitD7No, you Eust don+t know how to use it, that+s all 8 ,"eh, / do+ Say I"es< to everything E rea$ tough to grasp+7No, that+s not the point /ell, maybe at first it is, but that+s Eust to open you up to it, to get you started Then you+re saying J!es,+ not because you have to, or because a covenant tells you to, but because you know in your heart that you want to 81 That+s the whole pointB /hy wouldn+t anyone want to say 7!es8 to any eFperience their /n inite / creates for them0 /hy would anyone want anything else than the eFperience they are having right at the moment, knowing their /n inite / designed it especially for them, down to the smallest detail0 /hy would anyone resist anything in their hologram0 Actually, & can think of a couple reasons why, and pretty good ones at that The first is that they simply don+t trust their /n inite /, and you can+t blame them After all, they Eust spent their entire lives inside the movie theater having one eFperience after another they weren+t too thrilled about, or at least wished would be 7better8 and thought there was something about them that needed to be changed, fiFed, or improved Said more simply, a lot of first"half eFperiences resulted in drama and conflict and pain and suffering % which we now know were caused by our own Eudgments and resistance :ut we have a history and a habit of saying 7No8 to those eFperiences and assume those kinds of eFperiences would continue, even multiply, if we started saying 7!es 8 Another reason is that we+re control freaks % all of us, to a certain degree /e spent a lot of time inside the movie theater trying to control everything % our lives, our money, the people around us, the dangerous world we live in, and so on (f course, it was Eust an illusion that we had any control at all over our eFperiences other than our reactions and responses to them Saying 7!es8 reLuires giving up that illusion of control, reLuires releasing the steering wheel, letting go of the tiller, going totally with the flow with no resistance :ut at the same time, starting to say 7!es8 and making a new habit out of it is the easiest and fastest way to gain trust in your /n inite /, once you see where it leads you &t may also be one of the most powerful and effective ways of transforming into a butterfly So give it a try for twenty"four hours and see for yourselfK Saying 7!es8 is the antidote to resistance Twenty"four hours is not a lot to ask % no lifetime commitment :ut if you like the results of these eFperiments, you might want to do them for forty"eight hours neFt timeD then for a week, and then forever And remember, at the end of each day be sure to

eFpress appreciation to your /n inite / for your eFperiences, and appreciation to yourself for your role as its 'layer and for the great Eob you did (ne noteB you cannot do any of this 7wrong 8 There+s no trick, nothing you have to be careful of, no way to screw it up So don+t worry As Nike used to say, 7-ust do it 8 NNN /hen my younger son was siFteen, we had a heart"to"heart, which he may or may not remember & told him if he woke up one morning and was overcome with eFcitement to rob a bank, & wanted him to do Eust that, to go out and buy the mask and the gun Oa toy one, preferablyP and anything else he needed, and walk up to that bank as if he were going to rob itD because, & suggested, it didn+t mean he would actually have to rob the bank, although & was not able to Eudge whether that would be a 7good8 thing or a 7bad8 thing in the end :ut there were other possibilities 3or eFample, he could be walking up to the bank putting his mask on when a movie producer Othis was in 5ollywoodP would come by, stop him and say, 7!ou+re eFactly what &+ve been looking for & have this part in my movie for someone Eust like you, and &+ll pay you [*$$,$$$ if you+ll take the role 8 &n 'he "es (an, -im #arrey realiMes he would never have met the love of his life if he had not said 7!es,8 even though it was under the false impression he had to because of some covenant NNN !ou remember the day, a few years ago, when & sat in my apartment realiMing & had no Eob, no income, no money, no prospects, no lover, and so onD and & totally surrendered to the reality of 7what was8 without emotion or regret or any desire to change my situation Now & can say, and you will understand, that & let go of all resistance to my holographic eFperience at that moment /ithin three days, Robert Scheinfeld appeared in my hologram Ovia one of his =G= 7home transformation systems8P and showed me the door in the back of the movie theaterD at which point & walked through it & can look back on that eFperience now from a slightly different perspective, that when & stopped Eudging and resisting, & became useless to my /n inite / as a 'layer in the first half of the 5uman <ame & was no longer going to have or send back to my /n inite / emotional feelings in reaction or response to eFperiences of limitation and restriction, which is why & was playing the first half of the <ame to begin with & can imagine my /n inite / has other 'layers it created that may still be playing the first half of the 5uman <ame, who can continue to feed it the feelings it wants of imperfection &t didn+t need me, and & wasn+t going to suit its purposes any more in that role &nstead, & began to feed it the feelings from the second half of the <ame % what it feels like once you+re over the top of that first hill on the rollercoaster and into the neFt part of the ride % which are Eust as valuable to it, &+m sure This doesn+t mean that anyone can fake non"resistance in order to fool their /n inite / to take them into the second half of the <ame Eust so they can get out of the first half,

which they still don+t like !ou can+t deny or ignore or suppress resistanceD you must totally and willingly let it go out of your system entirely !ou must be willing to fully embrace every moment of every eFperience created for you by your /n inite /, and love and appreciate it no matter what it is As long as you Eudge and resist playing the first half of the 5uman <ame, you can never move into the second half As long as you resist total surrender, letting go of all Eudgments and beliefs and opinions, you can never make it to the 'acific (cean As long as you resist giving up your identity as a caterpillar, you can never become a butterfly )ore easily said than done, perhaps, and very scaryK

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CHAPTER !2
FEAR
:ack to the Table of #ontents the movie theater, & prided myself on not being afraid of anything, or not much at least Talking dolls in horror movies were one big eFception 3or some reason it scared the crap out of me when a plastic doll+s head would turn, its mouth would open, and it would speak 3reaked me out (nce & got inside my cocoon, & had to be honest that & was, and had always been, afraid of a lot of things /e all are &n fact, fear is not only the first emotion we ever feel as a baby, but the basis of all Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions we form during the first half of the 5uman <ame According to the 5oly :ible, fear was also the first reaction Adam and Eve had after they ate the apple from the Tree of @nowledge of <ood and EvilK ,%nd the L17D God ca$$ed unto %da!, and said unto hi!, 5here art thouD %nd %da! said, / heard thy voice in the garden, and / was a raid+-* &f & tried to list out all the things & have been afraid of, it might take a whole book in itself :ut there are a few fears & want to look at more carefully that you might have also eFperienced from time to time, so maybe you can relate NNN Some fears are Luite obvious, and everyone cops to them 7&+m afraid to walk through #entral 'ark at night 8 There+s no shame being afraid of that, is there0 &t Eust makes good sense, right0 /ell, not actuallyK (thers are more subtle, perhaps, as well as more pervasiveD and there are a few that remain unspoken but almost everyone seems to share Not many people would come right out and say, for eFample, they are afraid of life itself, believing the world is a dangerous place to live :ut that is the case with the vast maEorityD and they teach that to their children -ust think for a minute what people go through to protect themselves from what+s 7out there8 % both physical protection and mental or emotional protection 5ome security, for eFample, is a multi"billion dollar business , & have always found it strange someone could think a few small pieces of metal on a door or window % called a 7lock8 % could protect them from anyone who really wants to rob them, as if a serious burglar would arrive at the house, find the door locked, and say, 7(ops, door+s locked #an+t rob this house tonight 8 (f course, a lock also ignores the fact that if your /n inite / wants you to be robbed % if that+s the eFperience it has decided to create for you at the moment % you+re going to get robbed regardless of a few pieces of metal The same applies to surrounding your house or car or loved one with 7white light,8 which is also based on fear :esides, if you

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do get robbed, perhaps your /n inite / is simply helping you get rid of some of the attachments that keep you from becoming a butterfly (n the other hand, it isn+t the lock that keeps a burglar away from your houseD it+s your /n inite / who is not creating the eFperience of your being robbed & don+t care how much a burglar wants to rob your house, or what kind of high"tech tools he has to penetrate your security, he+s not getting in if that+s not what your /n inite / wants 5e won+t even be able to get through an unlocked door !ou will soon begin to understand this and have enough eFperiences under your belt to start demonstrating your trust in your /n inite / by ceasing to lock anything % home, car, briefcase, locker, whateverD and it+s important, once you+ve let go of some of these lesser fears, to behave differently in your daily life, acting on your new understanding and letting go of old habits along with the fears Seat belt laws, helmet laws, laws that reLuire children to ride in the back seat strapped into a plastic shell, are all based on fear and our attempts to legislate against it As a child myself, & always rode in the front seat without any restraints, like all other children my ageD it+s amaMing my generation ever made it into our twentiesH &n the two car accidents & had % one at age siFteen, the other age fifty"seven % if & had been wearing a seat belt & would have died in both cases, needing to be able to move about in the car as it rolled and crushed the roof down onto the frame !es, & might be the eFception, or at least that+s how the general public could look at it :ut the truth is that a seat belt is neither going to protect you or save you if your time as a 'layer for your /n inite / is over &+m not saying it+s 7wrong8 to wear a seat beltD Eust recogniMe and admit that it+s based on fear % either the fear of a dangerous world or the fear of getting a ticket from a cop % and don+t try to Eustify it as 7logical8 or 7necessary 8 NNN Then there are the mental and emotional protections we put up against fear :etter not commit to something or someone because it might not work =on+t give your heart completely because you never know when you+ll be hurt @eep some money in reserve in case something bad happens As & said, & could go on and on, and & won+t !ou know what you+re afraid of now, and you+re going to find out all the other fears you+re not aware of as you continue your transformation in the cocoon :ut there are two fears in particular & want to address (ne you+re probably aware of % the fear of death The other you might not recogniMe % the fear of non"eFistence There was a famous saying that became popular for a while, 7Today is the first day of the rest of your life 8 & assume it was supposed to convince people to think about each day as a new start, a new beginning, and free them from their past Not a 7bad8 thought, and it might work for some people, especially if they use it to let go of all past Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears :ut we both know that+s not what normally happens, even though the saying on its surface might be true Then came 7Live today as if it were your lastD8 or, as )ahatma <andhi is reported to have said, 7Live as if you were to die tomorrow 8

Also not too 7badD8 7better8 in fact )ost people, thinking today were their last, might put aside all their 7should+s8, 7must+s8, and 7have to+s,8 and live their eFcitement, doing what brings them Eoy That, in fact, is how we could live every moment regardless of when we think we will die And then there is the Native American saying, 7Today is a good day to die 8 #an you say that to yourself right now0 Are you living your life so if you died today, you would have no regrets, no sorrow, no remorse0 #ould you meet death today and welcome it with open arms0 !ou will find yourself living eFactly that way when you get a little further into your cocoon and start to let go of all the fears you are carrying :ut &+m starting to sound like some other new"age philosophers, suggesting we need to let go of our fear of deathD and that+s not really what &+m trying to say at all &+m saying we need to stop resisting death and begin to meet it eye to eye, embrace it, bring it into our conscious awareness on a daily basis, and make it our constant companion &+m suggesting we need to stop Eudging death as 7wrong8 or 7bad8 and life as 7right8 or 7good,8 to stop living in duality when it comes to life and death &t turns out that a lot of minds greater than mine have eFpressed this very thought 3or eFample, /olfgang Amadeus )oMartK ,%s death, when we co!e to consider it c$ose$y, is the true goa$ o our e.istence, / have or!ed during the $ast ew years such c$ose re$ations with this best and truest riend o !an*ind, that his i!age is not on$y no $onger terri ying to !e, but is indeed very soothing and conso$ingC %nd / than* !y God or gracious$y granting !e the opportunity o $earning that death is the *ey which un$oc*s the door to our true happiness+-. Kand )ichel de )ontaigneK 7Death has us by the scru o the nec* at every !o!ent9+ 'o begin depriving death o it<s greatest advantage over us, $et us adopt a way c$ean contrary to that co!!on oneJ $et us deprive death o it<s strangeness, $et us re=uent it, $et us get used to itJ $et us have nothing !ore o ten in !ind than death+ 5e do not *now where death awaits us4 so $et us wait or it everywhere+ 'o practice death is to practice reedo!+ % !an who has $earned how to die has un$earned how to be a s$ave+-1 Kand Sogyal RinpocheK ,Perhaps the deepest reason why we are a raid o death is because we do not *now who we are+ 5e be$ieve in a persona$, uni=ue, and separate identity E but i we dare to e.a!ine it, we ind that this identity depends entire$y on an end$ess co$$ection o things to prop it up4 our na!e, our Ibiography,< our partners, a!i$y, ho!e, ?ob, riends, credit cards9 /t is on their ragi$e and transient support that we re$y or our security+ So when they are a$$ ta*en away, wi$$ we have any idea o who we rea$$y areD 5ithout our a!i$iar props, we are aced with ?ust ourse$ves, a person we do not *now, an unnerving stranger with who! we have been $iving a$$ the ti!e but we never rea$$y wanted to !eet+ /sn<t that why we have tried to i$$ every !o!ent o ti!e with noise and activity, however boring or trivia$, to ensure that we are never $e t in si$ence with this stranger on our own0 5hen you start preparing or death you soon rea$i>e that you !ust $oo* into your

$i e E now E and co!e to ace the truth o your se$ + Death is $i*e a !irror in which the true !eaning o $i e is re $ected+-2 Kand the =alai LamaK ,%wareness o death is the very bedroc* o the entire path+ Bnti$ you have deve$oped this awareness, a$$ other practices are obstructed+Kand SocratesK ,'o ear death, !y riends, is on$y to thin* ourse$ves wise, without being wise4 or it is to thin* that we *now what we do not *now+ &or anything that !en can te$$, death !ay be the greatest good that can happen to the!4 but they ear it as i they *new =uite we$$ that it was the greatest o evi$s+ %nd what is this but that sha!e u$ ignorance o thin*ing that we *now what we do not *nowDEven -ed )c@enna has a few nice things to say about death as wellK ,5e have ta*en death out o $i e and that a$$ows us to $ive unconscious$y+ Death never $e t, o course, we<ve ?ust turned away ro! it, pretended it wasn<t there+ / we wish to awa*en E and that<s a !ighty big i E then we !ust we$co!e death bac* into our $ives+ Death is our persona$ Men (aster, our source o power, our path to $ucidity, but we have to stop running ro! it in a b$ind panic+ 5e need on$y stop and turn around and there it is, inches away, staring at us with unb$in*ing ga>e, inger poised, every second o our $ives9+ ,5hat / a! now $ives in constant death8awareness, it is su used throughout !y drea!state being the way ear and death8denia$ used to be+ Death is a$ways be ore !y eyes+ / never hide it or deny it or push it away+ Death is the dia!ond heart o !y drea!state being+ /t is the de ining eature that shows !e the va$ue o everything / see9 Death gives de inition to $i e+ Death8awareness is $i e8awareness+ Death denia$ is $i e denia$9+ / $ove the act o !y death+ /t has !ade !y $i e possib$e+ 'here cou$d have been no awa*ening without it+ /t<s how / *now the va$ue o things+ /t<s how / *now what beauty is+ /t<s why / a! gratitude8based instead o ear8based+ /t<s a$so how / *now :a 6u!an; Chi$d ro! :a 6u!an; %du$t, as$eep ro! awa*e+ /t<s how / can $oo* at so!eone and *now i death wa$*s be ore the! or behind9+ 'his isn<t about death in the abstract, it<s about death in the !ost persona$, inti!ate senseJ your death+ Death is the !eaning in the drea!J the drea!state shadow o no8se$ + Death is the boogey!an+ "ou can<t *i$$ hi! or hide ro! hi! or get away ro! hi!, you can on$y turn toward hi! or away ro! hi!+ / you turn toward hi!, be riend hi!, u$$y e!brace hi!, not super icia$$y, but as your own essentia$ truth, then death is the de!on you can ride into every batt$e+-4 /ell saidH :ut please don+t misunderstand me &f &+m scuba diving at one"hundred feet and my air supply suddenly stops, & will probably not Eust sit there and do nothing and let death do with me as it wants & mayD it would depend on the circumstances :ut most likely & will try to get to the surface, try to survive, try to find air somehow % not out of the fear

of death, but more from instinct than anything else &n fact, while &+m making my way up and thinking & would like to be able to breathe again, &+ll be appreciating the beautiful opportunity of dying in a place & love more than anywhere else on Earth % in the ocean with the fish and whales and dolphins & had such an eFperience /hen & first lost control of my car, doing 62 mph down the &nterstate on cruise control, and it swerved and started to roll over, my first thought was, 7&s this how &+m going to die08 & remember asking the Luestion with no emotion and no resistance and no panicD and the answer came back immediately, 7No 8 So & continued to completely relaF, not resisting, not trying to stop the rolling, not trying to brace myself against anything, Eust totally going with the flow and the motion, letting my body move freely wherever the car wanted to take it &n fact, my non"resistance to what was happening is without Luestion the physical reason & was not killed as the roof caved in during the first roll /ould & have reacted any differently if the answer had come back, 7!es, this is the way you+re going to die 8 & doubt it &n that case, what+s the point of resisting0 NNN -udgments, beliefs, opinions, and the fear of death & stumbled on a great eFample & think ties all this together in a nice neat packageK /e begin with the fear of death, and therefore fear of anything that can cause that death Skin cancer can cause death, so we fear skin cancer /e+re told, and buy into the Eudgment that eFposure to the sun is 7bad,8 because it causes skin cancer /e believe we have to protect ourselves from the sun and its harmful rays, and we form the opinion that we should never go out into the sun without sunscreen or we+ll get skin cancer and die Now let+s look at the truth Skin cancer was fairly rare until the *;2$+s, the sa!e ti!e that #oppertone began marketing its patented sunscreen and created the now"famous #oppertone <irl Let me say that againK the incidence of skin cancer began rising steadily in the *;2$+s6, which is Ocoincidentally0P when #oppertone began marketing its sunscreen 9 Then, as more and more people used sunscreen between *;2$ and ,$*$, skin cancer became 7the most common form of cancer in the Anited StatesD8 ; and 7each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colonD8*$ while 7since the *;6$Qs, our country has witnessed a .$$$T increase in the sales of sunscreen products 8** =on+t we have to ask, 7=oes sunscreen actually prevent skin cancer, or cause it08 &sn+t it strange that the more people use sunscreen to prevent skin cancer, the more skin cancer we get0 /e resisted death, we resisted the sun, and we resisted the skin cancerD and we did all this on a massive scale As a result of this resistance, we took measures to try to prevent what we feared The result, of course, was more skin cancer and more deathD and we+re back to 7/hat you resist persists 8 That+s how it works inside the movie theater, and it+s a good eFample of what you need to do in your cocoon % work this eLuation backwards, starting with your opinions and the actions you take based on them, digging deeper to find the beliefs that are under the opinions, finding the Eudgments and resistance that led to those beliefs, and not

stopping until you can clearly state the fear that began it all Then you do your spiritual autolysis, asking yourselfB &s that fear really true0 &n this case, you are probably well aware of your opinion not to go out in the sun without sunscreen &t should not be very difficult to Luickly realiMe you hold a belief that you have to protect yourself from the sun and its harmful rays 3rom there you should be able to find the Eudgment that eFposure to the sun is 7bad,8 because it causes skin cancer And then it+s Eust a short Eump to the fear of skin cancer and death ,%$$ e!otions are attach!ents and the energy source o a$$ attach!ents is ear+-*, & want to repeat at this point that the choice is always yours !ou can decide you like these fears, that these fears are 7right8 and Eustified, and you don+t see any point in getting rid of them &+m not trying to convince you of anything )y only Eob as the scout is to point out that the choice is between continuing to live in fear, or living free as a butterfly NNN 5ow do you deal with the fear of death0 !ou make death your friend, your partner in life, your daily companion !ou welcome it, accept it, embrace it, appreciate it !ou understand it, look forward to it, and above all stop Eudging and resisting itK ,'he conte!p$ation o death, o one<s own !orta$ity, is a rea$ and power u$ !editation+ Death8awareness is true >a>en, it<s the universa$ spiritua$ practice, the on$y one anyone ever needs and the one everyone shou$d per or!, so yes, you<d want to do whatever you have to in order to bring this $iving awareness into your $i e+ Deve$op the habit o thin*ing o death every ti!e you $oo* at a watch or c$oc*, every ti!e you sit down to a !ea$, every ti!e you go to the bathroo!+ 'a*e a wa$* a$one every day and thin* about what it !eans to be a$ive, to wa$*, to see and hear, to breathe+ /t<s not an e.ercise, it<s not so!ething you<re trying to !a*e yourse$ be$ieve $i*e an a ir!ation+ /t<s so!ething that<s rea$ and centra$ to your every thought and act+ / you *new you were going to die to!orrow, what wou$d you do todayD %nd why the he$$ aren<t you doing itD-*. :asically we+re talking about letting go of our attachments to life itself, peeling off the layers of the ego that determine our identity and dictate our behaviors based on our fear of death This is a big step you will take in the cocoon :ut not the biggest As you process your fear of death and begin to embrace it with eFcitement, you+re going to discover there is a more fundamental fear, a more basic fear, a more hidden and powerful fear on which the fear of death depends and from which it grows &t is the fear of non"eFistence Like an iceberg, the fear of death is only the part sticking up above the water, with the fear of non"eFistence as the biggest part lurking below where you can+t see itD and like the Titanic, you+re going to hit this iceberg, guaranteed 5ow you handle the collision with your fear of non"eFistence will determine whether you survive your transformation into a butterfly or not

So & want to take a close look at this fear of non"eFistence As we+ve discussed, when an /n inite / creates a new 'layer, it gives it free will )aybe it didn+t have to, maybe there+s not some ultimatum from The #hiefD but that+s actually the way the 5uman <ame works best, if a 'layer has total free will to choose their reactions and responses to the eFperiences created by its /n inite / This free will and the process of choosing reactions and responses reLuire a certain level of self"consciousness in order for them to work This self"consciousness is a personality construct % what we normally call an 7ego 8 As we react to our fears and form Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions, we add layer upon layer to this ego % each layer with its own false identity % and the sum total of these layers creates the overall identity, the personality construct we call 7& 8 &nside the movie theater, the ego has a very important roleD and we begin to identify with the ego, begin to think it is who we are So when we get inside the cocoon and begin to annihilate the ego, one layer at a time, we+re liable to encounter some resistance from the ego itself &n short, the ego will fight for its life, wanting us to believe we are something we are not % it % and that we cannot live without it The fear that develops is all about who we are if we are not the egoD in other words, the fear of being nothing without it % the fear of non"eFistence Since the beginning of recorded history until the present time, all religions, spiritual philosophies and belief systems Oincluding the most recent New Age theoriesP have all had one thing in commonB a solution for this fear of non"eFistence % the idea we are really an immortal soul which will continue to eFist after our physical death :ut is that true0 =oes that stand the test of spiritual autolysis0 &s there any proof, any evidence we are really anything more than a temporary self"consciousness that will cease to eFist when we die0 &s the idea of a soul, and the immortality of that soul, simply our solution to the fear of non"eFistence, leading to more Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions0 &s it possible 7being an immortal soul8 is Eust another layer of ego we need to let go of0 & see myself as a 'layer in a <ame, much like =ouglas 5all discovered in the movie 'he 'hirteen &$oor & cannot honestly say it+s true 7&8 will survive the death of this body 'erhaps, like =ouglas, & might find myself on another level, in another gameD but that remains to be seen, and there+s nothing to suggest that here and now & realiMe this is all theoretical at the moment, but it will become very real to you as you progress inside the cocoon and start peeling off layers of the egoD and & can guarantee you the fear of non"eFistence will come up in full force &f you continue with your transformation into a butterfly, you+re going to have to answer these Luestions for yourself

3((TN(TES * The 5oly :ible, @ing -ames Gersion Genesis, . ;"*$ % :ack to reading , )ulti#hannel News 2et Bpstarts Brea* /nto 6o!e Security, -une *6, ,$$6 % :ack to reading . )oMart, /olfgang Amadeus in a $etter to his ather, Leopo$d Oc *696P % :ack to reading 1 de )ontaigne, )ichel essay entit$ed 'he Laws o (anu % :ack to reading 2 Rinpoche, Sogyal 'he 'ibetan Boo* o Living and Dying % :ack to reading 4 )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading 6 'ropica$/n o+org % &ncidence of skin cancer % :ack to reading 9 5i*ipedia % Sunscreen % :ack to reading ; Skin #ancer 3oundation S*in Cancer &acts % :ack to reading *$ /bid+ % :ack to reading ** Sunscreen4 % 7ecipe or Disaster % :ack to reading *, )c@enna, -ed /d+ % :ack to reading *. /bid+ % :ack to reading

CHAPTER #0
&HO AM I'
:ack to the Table of #ontents

Finally & have the opportunity to tell you how & feel standing where & am, looking at
the 'acific (cean, close to emerging from my cocoon as a butterfly 3or me, life is full of eFcitement, Eoy, amaMement, appreciation, fun, laughter, surprises, fulfillment, relaFation, and especially peace of mind & don+t worry about anything any more, particularly money & know with certainty from direct eFperience of testing and challenging the model that my /n inite / will provide everything & need for the eFperiences it wants me to haveD and it always has &f it doesn+t, & can+t have those eFperiences since & have no power as a 'layer on this side of The 3ield to create anything for myself & may not know where the money is coming from all the time, but & don+t need to know & Eust know it will be there, often from sources & would never have guessed or planned for OSee #hapter Thirty, 7)oney,8 in 'art Three of this book P & live in total trust of my /n inite / That+s easy for me to do because &+ve had so many eFperiences that have proven my /n inite / is fully trustworthy, that it loves and cares for me as its representative in the 5uman <ame, and that it will create for me % and always has % eFactly what it wants me to eFperience down to the smallest detail OSee #hapter Twenty"Nine, 7Trust,8 in 'art Three of this book P & have no personal needs or wants or desires that have to be fulfilled, although & do have my preferences as & eFplained previously & never think about what & do not have, but only eFpress my appreciation for what & do have After all, our needs and wants are often based on Eudgment % needing and wanting something we donQt have because we think itQs 7better8 than what weQve got The truth is, as you let go of Eudgment and beliefs and opinions, the only thing you ever need and want is eFactly what+s right in front of you & don+t plan for the future, and & doubt whether the past ever eFisted & have no goals, no agendas, no obEectives, nothing & feel & need to do or should do or have to do or must do & live in the moment :ut & can still dream Rudyard @ipling said it best in his poem, 7&f8K ,/ you can drea! and not !a*e drea!s your !asterJ / you can thin* and not !a*e thoughts your ai!J / you can !eet with 'riu!ph and Disaster %nd treat those two i!posters ?ust the sa!e+-* & have very minimal drama or conflict in my daily life and virtually no pain or suffering, with one eFception &+ll speak about in a minute & am free of the world of dichotomies, which means & simply do not see 7right8 or 7wrong,8 7good8 or 7bad,8 7better8 or 7worse,8 good8 or 7evil8 in my holographic eFperiences (nly occasionally, when & still need to process some lingering layer of ego

in my cocoon, & might Eudge something 7out there8 that & encounterD and & trust my /n inite / will create holograms for me in order to see those Eudgments and process them, so & don+t have to go looking for anything :ut it+s been a long time now since any of those eFperiences of any conseLuence have appeared The vast maEority of the time & see only perfection all around me % not only in the magnificent Earth Environment my /n inite / has created for me, but also in the wars, the violence, and the pain and suffering as well After all, & know from my direct eFperiences of testing and challenging the model that none of it is real, but a game being played by consciousness, in consciousness, and for consciousness The way & relate to other people, to the world, and to myself is the way & have always wanted to relate & have a wonderful family and many friends whom & love but am not attached to & do not belong to any group, but & never feel alone or lonely & wake up every morning with eFcitement and curious anticipation to discover what holographic eFperiences my /n inite / has in store for me that day &t+s such a relaFing way to live knowing & do not create the eFperiences & have, and not having to think & must do something, to make something happen As long as my /n inite / wants me as its 'layer, & know from direct eFperience it will provide everything & need to survive, and & don+t have to be constantly striving to make ends meetD and it+s Luite a load off to realiMe & have never done, and can never do anything 7wrong8 % that every reaction and response & have to every eFperience is valuable and wanted by my /n inite /, that no reaction or response is 7right8 or 7wrong8 or 7better8 than any other & marvel every day at the beauty, the splendor, the magnificence of my life and my world 5ere & am, on the )editerranean coast of Spain, surrounded with water and trees and beach and blue sky and warmthK & am in constant awe of the hologram and its creator ?uite often & laugh, eFpress my appreciation to my /n inite /, and wonder OrhetoricallyP how & got here, and about the holographic universe in general 5ow amaMing that each 'layer has its own uniLue and independent holographic eFperience, and yet those individual holograms can interact so seamlessly and perfectly that we can give each other gifts /hat a gameH & don+t meditate or pray, but try to stay fully awake and aware and observant of the ripples of the Aniverse going on around me, and follow them with my hands off the tiller O5ow+s that for a koan0P & observe % & 7witness8 % what goes on 7out there8 with other people, places, and things without getting involved or attachedD and although & wish everyone else could eFperience the Eoy and peace and serenity of being & now enEoy, & know whatever eFperience they are having at the moment is perfect for them as wellD and that any change in that eFperience will reLuire a self"determined decision on their part about their reactions and responses, and there is nothing & 7should8 be doing other than 7being the change8 & would wish for them & have no fear of death and no fear of non"eFistence Antil proven otherwise, & assume & will cease to eFist when this body dies, my role as a 'layer in the <ame being overD and &+m very okay with that &t+s been Luite a ride while it lasted :ut & know all the feelings & ever had as a 'layer have been transmitted to my /n inite / through our connection and will forever remain part of its infinite nature & feel so relaFed and relieved not to be carrying around the layers of ego that were defining me and determining my identity & no longer have to be the father, husband, eF"

husband, son, lover, friend, coach, teacher, mentor, student, musician, politician, pilot, chiropractor, businessman, management consultant, Eack"of"all"trades"and"master"of" none, and the list went on forever Soon & will also let go of 7scout8 and be completely free to be me, which is nothing &n short, life is even more than & ever imagined it could be, and who & am now is who & only hoped & could be for many, many yearsD and & haven+t yet finished my transformation into a butterfly, so perhaps there is more to come & know & have done my Eob well and fulfilled my purpose, because, most importantly, & now know who & am and my purpose for being here & am a 'layer for my /n inite /, created by my /n inite / to represent it in the 5uman <ameD and & am totally honored and privileged to be that and nothing more & have given up trying to be something &+m not & call it 7Serenity of :eing8 % that state of complete acceptance with total Eoy and appreciation for 7/ho & Am 8 NNN & remember a night in *;;2 when & was sailing in the east Atlantic (cean from )adeira to Tenerife in the #anary &slandsK &t was a night straight out of a dream & was standing at the wheel of the Uairos, an eighty"foot wooden schooner, looking up into a midnight sky overflowing with stars There was no other light, no land in sight A gentle wind filled the sails, and the only sound was the ship responding with ease through the peaceful waters 3rom time to time, dolphins would leave green phosphorescent trails as they darted toward the bow & was alone on deck There were twenty others on board that week for a workshop, including a doMen beautiful women who would say 7!esH8 if & askedD but at this hour they were asleep below, trusting me to captain them safely to our neFt destination 7#ould there be anything more perfect08 & thought, turning the wheel slightly to adEust our course :ut with the neFt thought, the dream was gone 7So why am & not happy08 &t was trueB /hen & honestly looked at the way & felt in that moment fifteen years ago, & wasn+t happy There & was, fifty years old, surrounded with everything & thought & wanted out of life &n fact, & had more than & had asked for & had achieved it all and found myself in the very scene & always assumed would deliver me to Nirvana This was the moment & had been working and waiting for my entire lifeD and yet & wasn+t happy (f course, that was while & was still inside the movie theater, and of course & couldn+t really be happy then :ut it+s interesting for me to compare that moment to the present, some fifteen years later, and observe how the opposite of everything is true Now & really a! happy, and it has nothing to do with what+s going on outside of me at all NNN -ed )c@enna said you reach a place in spiritual autolysis when you+re 7done8K ,%t a crossroads a coup$e o !i$es ro! the house, Pau$ ?oined !e+ / was p$eased to see hi!+ /<! a$ways p$eased to see anyone when they get where / be$ieved Pau$ was at

that point+ 6e ?oined !e si$ent$y and we wa$*ed on+ /t was ten !inutes be ore he spo*e+ I/<! done+< / s!i$ed as war!th poured through !y heart+ 5ar!ed by the !e!ory o the day / ca!e to the sa!e start$ing and i!probab$e conc$usion or !yse$ , and war! or the ti!es / had heard it ro! others+ 5ar! *nowing the ?ourney one ta*es to arrive at such a p$ace and war! *nowing what $ies ahead+ 'hat<s how it is when you get hereJ no be$$s and whist$es, no radiant bac*$ighting, no choirs o ange$s+ %s Lay!an P<ang put it, you<re I?ust an ordinary e$$ow who has co!p$eted his wor*+< I/ have no !ore =uestions,< Pau$ said+ 6e didn<t ?ust !ean he had no !ore =uestions or !e, he !eant he had no !ore =uestions, period+ 'hat<s how it is when you get to the end, you<re ?ust done+-, & may not have any more Luestions, or at least none of any real importanceD but & can+t say &+m 7done 8 &+m not, and & know that &+m still in the cocoonD and even though & can see it, like a bright light at the end of a tunnel, the 'acific (cean is still some distance away & made it across the Rocky )ountains, although the climb up to the =ivide . was difficult and full of limitations and restrictionsD & made it through the great North American =esert1, where & had to get rid of a lot of baggage & had collected along the way if & was going to surviveD and & made it past the Sierra Nevada 2, the last of the 7ups8 and 7downs8 before reaching the ocean &n the process & found a way that was safe for others to travel to the same place % not an easy route, but a safe route % if they want to go there So & chose to stop here and write this 7scouting report8 of what & have discovered thus far before & forget a lot of the details or lose the motivation :efore & actually get to the 'acific, however, & have a big layer of the ego left to tackle &t has to do with the body, and it+s sitting here waiting for me to process during the rest of the stay in my cocoon Robert Scheinfeld calls these packages of baggage 7eggs8 % emotional eggs, money eggs, fear eggs, and so on % and we have to open these 7eggs8 and process the stuff inside them The body 7egg8 is perhaps the last and most difficult aspect of the ego to let go of % at least for me, but & think also for many people After all, we identify ourselves a lot with the bodyD we consider it to be who we are in many cases Even when a 5uman Adult starts to get used to the idea there is no 7out there8 out there % that nothing in the holographic universe it perceives is real % it has a tendency to leave itself out of that eLuation, still thinking 7it8 is real or its body is real while everything else isn+t & found it so!ewhat difficult to process my mental, spiritual and emotional 7eggs,8 but & am finding it e.tre!e$y difficult to process my physical 7egg 8 &n other words, it was relatively easy for me to let go of the Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, fears, and associated layers of the ego when it came to something 7out there,8 but not nearly as easy when it comes to my own body &+ve been working on this for a while now and have made a little progress, but it+s as if my ego knows this is probably its last stand before virtual annihilation and is fighting back with a vengeance & have this image of me standing on a hilltop looking at the 'acific, knowing my body cannot take me there in the condition it+s in & recogniMe & put it through a lot on the Eourney across the Rockies and the desert and the Sierra NevadaD and & admit & didn+t take very good care of it while in the movie theater either

'ut very simply, as & write these words, &+m currently in a fair amount of physical pain NowK & can tell you the pain isn+t real, and that the body isn+t real & can tell you the body is Eust a hologram, and it can change in an instant and & could be totally pain" free in the neFt minute, as evidenced by the documented cases of multiple personality disorder 7(u$tip$e Persona$ity disorder, or (PD, is a bi>arre syndro!e in which two or !ore distinct persona$ities inhabit a sing$e body+ )icti!s o the disorder, or A!u$tip$esA, o ten have no awareness o their condition+ 'hey do not rea$i>e that contro$ o their body is being passed bac* and orth between di erent persona$ities and instead ee$ they are su ering ro! so!e *ind o a!nesia, con usion, or b$ac*8out spe$$s+ (ost !u$tip$es average between eight to thirteen persona$ities, a$though so8ca$$ed super8!u$tip$es !ay have !ore than a hundred subpersona$ities9+ ,/n this sense beco!ing a !u$tip$e !ay be the u$ti!ate e.a!p$e o what :=uantu! physicist David; Boh! !eans by rag!entation+ /t is interesting to note that when the psyche rag!ents itse$ , it does not beco!e a co$$ection o bro*en and ?agged8edged shards, but a co$$ection o s!a$$er who$es, co!p$ete and se$ 8sustaining with their own traits, !otives, and desires+ %$though these who$es are not identica$ copies o the origina$ persona$ity, they are re$ated to the dyna!ics o the origina$ persona$ity, and this in itse$ suggests that so!e *ind o ho$ographic process is invo$ved9+ ,%nother unusua$ eature o (PD is that each o a !u$tip$e#s persona$ities possesses a di erent brain8wave pattern+ 'his is surprising, or as &ran* Putna!, a 2ationa$ /nstitutes o 6ea$th psychiatrist who has studied this pheno!enon, points out, nor!a$$y a person<s brain8wave pattern does not change even in states o e.tre!e e!otion+ Since brain8wave patterns are not con ined to any sing$e neuron or group o neurons, but are a g$oba$ property o the brain, this too suggests that so!e *ind o ho$ographic process !ay be at wor*+ Qust as a !u$tip$e8i!age ho$ogra! can store and pro?ect do>ens o who$e scenes, perhaps the brain ho$ogra! can store and ca$$ orth a si!i$ar !u$titude o who$e persona$ities9+ ,/n addition to possessing di erent brainwave patterns, the subpersona$ities o a !u$tip$e have a strong psycho$ogica$ separation ro! one another+ 3ach has his own na!e, age, !e!ories, and abi$ities+ 1 ten each a$so has his own sty$e o handwriting, announced gender, cu$tura$ and racia$ bac*ground, artistic ta$ents, oreign $anguage $uency, and /0+ ,3ven !ore noteworthy are the bio$ogica$ changes that ta*e p$ace in a !u$tip$e#s body when they switch persona$ities+ &re=uent$y a !edica$ condition possessed by one persona$ity wi$$ !ysterious$y vanish when another persona$ity ta*es over+ Dr+ Bennet Braun o the /nternationa$ Society or the Study o (u$tip$e Persona$ity, in Chicago, has docu!ented a case in which a$$ o a patient#s subpersona$ities were a$$ergic to orange ?uice, e.cept one+ / the !an dran* orange ?uice when one o his a$$ergic persona$ities was in contro$, he wou$d brea* out in a terrib$e rash+ But i he switched to his nona$$ergic persona$ity, the rash wou$d instant$y start to ade and he cou$d drin* orange ?uice ree$y9+ ,%$$ergies are not the on$y thing !u$tip$es can switch on and o + / there was any doubt as to the contro$ the unconscious !ind has over drug e ects, it is banished by the

phar!aco$ogica$ wi>ardry o the !u$tip$e+ By changing persona$ities, a !u$tip$e who is drun* can instant$y beco!e sober+ Di erent persona$ities a$so respond di erent$y to di erent drugs+ Braun records a case in which G !i$$igra!s o dia>epa!, a tran=ui$i>er, sedated one persona$ity, whi$e 100 !i$$igra!s had $itt$e or no e ect on another+ 1 ten one or severa$ o a !u$tip$e#s persona$ities are chi$dren, and i an adu$t persona$ity is given a drug and then a chi$d#s persona$ity ta*e over, the adu$t dosage !ay be too !uch or the chi$d and resu$t in an overdose+ /t is a$so di icu$t to anestheti>e so!e !u$tip$es, and there are accounts o !u$tip$es wa*ing up on the operating tab$e a ter one o their Aunanestheti>ab$eA subpersona$ities has ta*en over+ ,1ther conditions that can vary ro! persona$ity to persona$ity inc$ude scars, burn !ar*s, cysts, and $e t8 and right8handedness+ )isua$ acuity can di er, and so!e !u$tip$es have to carry two or three di erent pairs o eyeg$asses to acco!!odate their a$ternating persona$ities+ 1ne persona$ity can be co$or8b$ind and another not, and even eye co$or can change+ 'here are cases o wo!en who have two or three !enstrua$ periods each !onth because each o their subpersona$ities has its own cyc$e+ Speech patho$ogist Christy Lud$ow has ound that the voice pattern or each o a !u$tip$e#s persona$ities is di erent, a eat that re=uires such a deep physio$ogica$ change that even the !ost acco!p$ished actor cannot a$ter his voice enough to disguise his voice pattern+ 1ne !u$tip$e, ad!itted to a hospita$ or diabetes, ba $ed her doctors by showing no sy!pto!s when one o her nondiabetic persona$ities was in contro$+ 'here are accounts o epi$epsy co!ing and going with changes in persona$ity, and psycho$ogist 7obert %+ Phi$$ips, Qr+ reports that even tu!ors can appear and disappear @a$though he does not speci y what *ind o tu!orsP+ ,(u$tip$es a$so tend to hea$ aster than nor!a$ individua$s+ &or e.a!p$e, there are severa$ cases on record o third8degree burns hea$ing with e.traordinary rapidity+ (ost eerie o a$$, at $east one researcher E Dr+ Corne$ia 5i$bur, the therapist whose pioneering treat!ent o Sybi$ Dorsett was portrayed in the boo* Sybi$ E is convinced that !u$tip$es don#t age as ast as other peop$e9+-4 !es, it+s true )y body could change in the blink of an eyeD my pain could be gone and & could be totally healthy All that would be reLuired is for my /n inite / to download a new hologram of my body and in the neFt second &+m off and running & know all of that intellectually, but damnK right now the pain is still there

3((TN(TES * , . 1 2 4 @ipling, Rudyard / % :ack to reading )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading /ikipedia % #ontinental =ivide % :ack to reading /ikipedia % North American =esert % :ack to reading /ikipedia % Sierra Nevada % :ack to reading Talbot, )ichael 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse, pp 61"64, ;6"*$$ % :ack to reading

CHAPTER #!
ON BECOMING A BUTTERFLY
:ack to the Table of #ontents

So why doesn+t my /n inite / simply download a healthy holographic body for me

and take this pain away0 &t couldD & know that :ut that+s not the point of the transformation in the cocoon &t+s all about the process, and my process is not over yet That+s why & don+t want my /n inite / to take my pain away until &+m finished & have run Robert+s 'rocess hundreds of times on this body egg over the last two years and uncovered a number of Eudgments, beliefs and opinions 3or eFample, as a result of my #hristian upbringing as a 5uman #hild and later beliefs in New Age spiritual theories as a 5uman Adult, & Eudged the body itself to be 7bad,8 that it was 7wrong8 % unspiritual % to have a body in the first place & always thought &+d be better off without a body, that it was more of a hindrance than a gift, something to 7rise above,8 an indication & had dropped down a level or two from my innately immortal soul After my car accident & gained a lot of weight because & couldn+t move easily or eFerciseD and eating good food is one of my great pleasures in life Eating without eFerciseD not a beneficial combination So & still carry some of that eFtra weight, and & think of my body as 7fat8 % and & say that, unfortunately, with shame and as a Eudgment and not Eust a statement of fact &n short, & cannot yet eFpress full and sincere appreciation for my body the way it is, or even for having a body at all #learly there are more Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions for me to process in this egg & have uncovered some of the fears associated with my body as well (ne is the fear that if & don+t have a perfectly healthy body, people are going to discount the scouting information &+m offering &+ve done eFactly that myself in the past, especially in Eudgment of all the celibate 7holy men8 and teachers and gurus and saintsB 75ow can he talk about world peace when he can+t even create a peaceful relationship with a woman08 So in my mind & hear people saying, 75ow can he talk about serenity of being if he+s in pain and can+t even heal his own body08 A lot of this also has to do with vanity & admit &+m vainD it+s one of the layers of my ego & haven+t fully gotten rid of yet & have always taken pride in my appearance, probably too much pride & still like it when people tell me & look ten years younger than & actually am & had fun signing autographs when & was a 7star8 drummer in my twentiesD & enEoyed being asked for my autograph when & was in my thirties by people who thought & was Tom Selleck, and then again in my fifties by people who thought & was @enny RogersD and for years & was sure #arly Simon was talking about !e in her song Another fear & uncovered had to do with dying /hen & wrote in the last chapter, 7& have no fear of death,8 this is true Ever since & started believing in reincarnation over fifty years ago, & have not feared deathD but & was still afraid of dying, still resisted a long, drawn"out and painful death /hen my /n inite / decides & have finished my role as its 'layer, & prayed, & want to go Luickly

& watched live with great empathy as people Eumped out of the /orld Trade Towers on September **th and fell one"hundred stories to their certain death & could feel the choice they made not to stay inside and slowly burn alive, but to end it Luickly and painlessly That+s how & wanted to go So as long as the Eudgments about my body and the resistance remain, the pain will too & know thatD and even though & have done a lot of work on this body egg, there is obviously stuff left inside to process &n the meantime, & am doing my best to appreciate the pain, to thank my /n inite / for the gift, for the opportunity the pain gives me to process all these Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears, and let go of the associated layers of the ego & have honestly gotten to the point where & don+t want the pain to leave until &+ve finished processing whatever is there inside the egg NNN &n the last couple of weeks, since & started working on this chapter and processing the pain, & have run into one of the most key beliefs about the body, and about life in generalB the belief in the 7law of cause and effectD8 and it+s powerful % a very core belief for everyone in this holographic 5uman <ame, it appears :ut it+s too early in my process to say much more than the so"called 7law of cause and effect8 is simply another belief system formed inside the movie theater and a function of the hologram itself, like space and time #learly the diabetes associated with one of the multiple personalities discussed in the last chapter is not 7caused8 by some malfunction in the body, since it disappears as soon as a different personality takes over 5owever &+m not prepared at this point to give a scouting report on the 7law of cause and effect 8 That, it seems, will have to wait, and may be the subEect of another book altogether % the final stages of my cocoon NNN )eanwhile, since & know all pain is the result of Eudgment and resistance, & have to askB /hat am & resisting0 :ecoming a butterfly0 !es, truth be told, & am &t doesn+t feel like it has anything to do with ear of being a butterfly, howeverD or at least & can+t see it that way /hen & think of being a butterfly, sailing around on my beautiful catamaran, it is a most wonderful picture full of eFcitement and Eoy, with no twinge of fear & can find & look forward to it with great anticipation & am also not aware of any lingering fear of non"eFistence :ut Eust as it+s possible not to be afraid of death and still be afraid of dying, perhaps buried very deep is the fear of the final stages of the cocoon, of not knowing what becoming a butterfly would mean in my relationship to the people & love % my children and grandchildren, most specifically O& know they+re not 7real,8 but & love them anywayHP Am & really ready to let go of everything, unconditionally, if that what+s reLuired0 (ne of the problems is that other scouts who could provide any clue of what is reLuired in the final stages of the cocoon % especially in relationship to other 'layers whom & care for so much % are few and far between

-ed )c@enna doesn+t talk much about family or wife or kids 5e mentions having lunch with his sisterK ,)isiting your sister and having $unch shou$dn<t be a con using ordea$, but it is+ /s she rea$$y !y sisterD 5hat does that !eanD 5e share so!e history and ac=uaintances, such as chi$dhood and parents+ %re !y parents rea$$y !y parentsD Genetica$$y they are re$ated to !y body, but the person who $ived !y chi$dhood is no $onger here+ 'he past / share with this person is about as rea$ and i!portant to !e as i /<d read it in a brochure9+ /<! an actor p$aying a ro$e or which / ee$ no connection and have no !otivation9+ %ctua$$y, it<s not rea$$y con using+ / possess not the $east shred o doubt about who and what / a!+ 'he tric*y thing is that who and what / a! is not re$ated to this pretty, pro essiona$, sa$ad8eating wo!an across ro! !e9 / have so!e residua$ ondness or !y sister and i she died /<d be saddened to thin* that she was no $onger in the wor$d, but the si!p$e act is that our or!er re$ationship no $onger e.ists+ 1*ay, so why a! / te$$ing you thisD Because that<s what / do+ / try to ho$d this en$ighten!ent thing up or disp$ay and this see!s $i*e an interesting aspect o the who$e dea$+ 6ow do you re$ate to the peop$e who were !ost i!portant to you be ore awa*ening ro! the drea! o the segregated se$ D-* That+s not very encouraging The last time & saw Robert Scheinfeld he had a wonderful family and what looked to be a very close and loving relationship with his wife and two children Then he talked about a 7dark night of the soul8 that involved his family, so &+m not eFactly sure of that situation &t doesn+t matter, though, because & don+t think of Robert as a scout who+s close to becoming a butterfly, as & will eFplain in #hapter Thirty"Three in 'art Three of this book -esus may have been a scoutD he may even have become a butterfly & find the allegoric symbols of his life, especially his crucifiFion Othe death of the caterpillarP and his emergence from the cave Ohis cocoonP three days later, to be fascinatingD but that will have to wait until the neFt book The point is that all the evidence suggests -esus had a wife and childD but that after he became a butterfly he never saw them again, since they went to the south of 3rance and he went to live Oand finally dieP in a community in @ashmir , There may be other scouts who have maintained so"called normal family relationships with ones they loved after they transitioned into a butterfly, but & don+t know their stories So there is the chance that once you complete your transformation into a butterfly, real communication with 'layers in the cocoon or the movie theater is no longer possible, which is why we don+t hear from any butterflies or read their books &t may be that you have to take the last step in the cocoon on total 7faith,8 without anyone to let you know what it+s like, as 5arrison 3ord did in /ndiana Qones and the Last Crusade when he had to step out from a canyon wall and risk falling into a deep gorge, not knowing there was a camouflaged bridge that would take him across to the other side O/atch the video here P So whether it+s out of fear or eFcitement, & have to admit &+ve had the thought & would like to postpone my final transformation into a butterfly and stay where & am in the

cocoon for a while 'erhaps this is my own thoughtD perhaps it has been put there as part of a hologram by my /n inite / & don+t know yet 5owever, & am eFcited and very curious about a game & see developing, if &+m reading the ripples in the Aniverse correctly & have a lot of friends, and am witnessing many thousands more 5uman Adults who seem ready to break out of the movie theater and transform into butterflies The situation in the Earth Environment also appears to be getting more intense, like a rubber band being stretched to its limits before it breaks 5ow much more pain and suffering and limitation and restriction is reLuired before millions of 'layers surrender, understand it is their own Eudgments and resistance causing that pain and suffering, and are willing to begin processing the false knowledge and layers of ego that are part of life inside the movie theater0 & think it would be a cool game to play to see how many 5uman Adults can be encouraged to enter their cocoons and then guided safely through their transformation into a butterfly Everything that+s needed is in place now for a mass eFodus from the movie theater, and the trail has been blaMed There are even some 7hints8 and 7clues8 the Earth % itself a 'layer in the 5uman <ame % might be ready to transform as well NNN There have been eFperiments done with rats, putting them in a water maMe and observing them finding their way out &t seems 7each new generation of rats learned to escape Luicker After ten years, the latest generation of rats could escape ten times faster than the original rats &nterestingly, rats of the same lineage in other areas of the world also escaped ten times faster, a phenomenon which cannot be eFplained by any localiMed instruments 8. 'erhaps &+m simply one of the first generation of rats to find their way to the 'acific (cean, and perhaps those who come after me will find it much easier and faster :ut it means &+m Eust a rat like everyone elseD and & don+t want to leave this book without paying tribute to all the rats who came before me and made my maMe a little easier to navigate, and especially to all those other rats who died trying to find their way out of the water Then, maybe, if Rupert Sheldrake+s theory1 of morphic resonance turns out to be correct, all the rats who come after me will escape ten times faster, without so many wrong turns, and this process will spread throughout the world until a critical mass is reached and all the rats turn into butterflies 5ow much fun & have miFing metaphorsH NNN /hat+s it going to be like when & finally finish processing the layers of ego with my body0 All & can do is speculate, because & don+t personally know anyone who has actually become a butterfly & know there must be some, but & have no idea who they are -ed )c@enna % whoever he might really be % claims he emerged from his cocoon and thenK

7/ spent the ne.t ten years trying to !a*e sense o this new wor$dJ a non8wor$d in which a non8/ neverthe$ess see!ed to reside+ 'he wa*ing drea!state+ /t was $i*e the wor$d had turned ro! hard so$idity into shi!!ering !irage+ / cou$d sti$$ see the wor$d / had a$ways *nown, but / cou$d not ind its substance+ 5hatever / reached out to touch, !y hand passed through+ 5hatever / thought about disso$ved in !y !ind+ 5hoever / $oo*ed at, / saw through $i*e vapor, !yse$ inc$uded+ / $oo*ed at !y own character, and it was $i*e a ace you see in a c$oud or a second be ore it<s gone+ ,(y rea$ity now is the awa*ened, untruth8unrea$i>ed state, and it<s the sa!e or !e as or anyone who co!es to it+ 'here are no !asters or novices here+ 'here are no teachings or be$ie sJ no 6indus or Buddhists or Qnanis or %dvaitinsJ no !asters or yogis or swa!isJ no discorporate entities or higher $eve$ energies or superior beings+ %wa*e is awa*e+ 3verything e$se is everything e$se+-2 @eep peeling away layers of an onion and what do you have when you get through0 Nothing &t isn+t that you peel away the layers and finally get to the onion !ou get to the no"onion The same thing is true for the self After peeling away all the layers of the ego, you get toK no"self -ed says it takes about ten years to get used to living as a no"self, to get accustomed to being 7awake from the dreamstate,8 to operate without false knowledge and a false ego & don+t know about that, because & assume he+s talking about living those ten years after emerging from his cocoon as a butterfly 3irst, &+m not certain it+s true he+s a butterflyD and secondly, & won+t know until & get there & do know it is a very different way to live % a very wonderful and Eoyful and peaceful and eFciting way to live % and even where & am now takes some getting used to NNN There were a lot of Luestions & had as & blaMed this trail to the 'acific (cean, and in the neFt part of this book & want to share some of the answers & came up with based on the information & found along the way :ut before & goK & began this book talking about 'lato+s #ave, that a 5uman #hild is like a prisoner who is chained and can only see the wall in front of themD that a 5uman #hild believes the shadows it sees on the wall are realD that when a 5uman #hild realiMes it is not really chained at all, it gets up and walks to the back of the cave and sees the fire and the men on the walkway that create the shadows on the wallD that this new 5uman Adult begins to recogniMe that the shadows are not realD and that a few 5uman Adults will eventually walk through the door in the back of the cave and out of the cave entirely Then & switched metaphors and said this 5uman Adult, once through the door, will enter a cocoon, where it will undergo a process of transformation, letting go of its Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, fears, and layers of ego that it believed itself to be as a caterpillar & have said & am near the end of my cocoon phase, standing at a point overlooking the 'acific (cean, poised to become a butterfly, and that anyone who wants to can Eoin me here

& have achieved this serenity of being by a strong will and determination to find the truth, a lot of hard work, a lot of processing, and a lot of support from my /n inite / & did it by following my discomfort % physical and emotional % to locate the Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions & had formed during my time inside the movie theater & did it by going further to eFpose my fears and embracing them, especially the fear of non" eFistence & did it by identifying the layers of the ego & had created and throwing them away, one by one, until there is virtually nothing left & did it by letting go of the self that wasn+t true and finding the no"self that was Anyone who wants to can stand where & am standing now Anyone can reach the 'acific (cean and emerge from their cocoon as a butterfly & am not special, & am not any 7better8 than anyone else, and & certainly am not any more 7enlightened 8 7Enlightenment8 is a word that belongs inside the movie theater, in the first half of the 5uman <ame, since it automatically carries a Eudgment with it % a Eudgment that one state of being is better Omore 7enlightened8P than another &+m simply near the end of the rollercoaster ride, reporting back to those still going up the first hill and those Eust at the top ready to take the plunge, trying to give some clarity and some encouragement about the ride to come and how much fun it can be &f you+re still inside the movie theater, my best advice would be to realiMe it+s Eust a game, that it isn+t real, and % now that you know the true source and reason for all your drama and conflict and pain and suffering % to let go of your resistance and relaF and learn to appreciate and enEoy every moment of every eFperience you+re having Remember you+re on a rollercoaster, and that going up that first hill is an essential part of the ride The more you resist that hill, the more needless pain and suffering you will have &f you+ve walked out of the movie theater and are starting off in your cocoon, hang on for the ride of your lifeD and if you meet me on the road, it means &+m still playing the 7scout 8 So kill me4, and then go further

3((TN(TES * )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading , :aigent, )ichael et al 6o$y B$ood, 6o$y Grai$ % :ack to reading . -effrey, Scott 6ypothesis o &or!ative Causation @(orphic 7esonanceP " ONoteB & cannot verify this report because & cannot find the original 5arvard study P % :ack to reading 1 /ikipedia % Rupert Sheldrake % :ack to reading 2 )c@enna, -ed /d+ % :ack to reading 4 =ae @wang Ui$$ the Buddha % :ack to reading

PART THREE:
8UESTIONS 7 ANS&ERS
:ack to the Table of #ontents ,/ *now why you<re here, 2eo+ / *now what you<ve been doing+ / *now why you hard$y s$eep, why you $ive a$one, and why night a ter night you sit at your co!puter+ "ou<re $oo*ing or hi!+ / *now because / was once $oo*ing or the sa!e thingJ and when he ound !e, he to$d !e / wasn<t rea$$y $oo*ing or hi!+ / was $oo*ing or an answer+ /t<s the =uestion that drives us, 2eo+ /t<s the =uestion that brought you here+" Trinity, from 'he (atri.

PREFACE TO PART THREE

Robert Scheinfeld says when you move into the second half of the 5uman <ame
Owhich he calls 7'hase ,8P, there+s no point any more to ask 7/hyD8 and there are some good reasons for that !ou can+t thin* your way out of this <ameD it isn+t a matter of understanding, but of feelingD asking 7why8 can often be a diversion, a distraction from doing the 'rocess itselfD and the answer to 7why8 really doesn+t matter and won+t change anything &t+s true that once inside your cocoon, there really is only one answer to the Luestion 7/hy08B :ecause your /n inite / has created it that way for you as a gift (n the other hand, we seem to be very curious as 'layers, and 7why8 can be something that eFcites and interests us Nothing 7wrong8 with that :esides, since you+ve gotten this far in the book, you+re well aware we+re talking about a new and very radical approach to life, one that is often the opposite of everything we were taught while in the movie theater So, for me, it+s totally understandable and very legitimate to ask various Luestions, to better understand how this new model works, to be clear about how it is different from anything else you+ve ever encountered, and to more easily let go of previous false knowledge by seeing there are new and viable alternative ways to answer the more important Luestions that occupy our thoughts & also think 7don+t ask why8 can be used as a cop"out sometimes, to avoid having to come up with answers to the tough Luestions Any model that+s worth its salt should be able to logically and consistently withstand all kinds of scrutiny So & welcome all legitimate Luestions, and by 7legitimate8 & mean the Luestion comes from a sincere desire to learn and fill in some gaps in understanding this new model, or Luestions that result from the actual testing of the model in operation ?uestions coming from the ego, from )aya, from an attitude of proving me 7wrong,8 or simply to intellectually debate have no interest for me They+re always Eust another attempt to Eustify some Eudgment or belief formed while inside the movie theater

&n the following pages, then, you will find some of the Luestions & had, and have been asked, and the answers & came up with from my own research and eFperience as a scout Some of the answers will be very shortD others will fill a normal"siMed chapter 2one of the answers should be taken as 7Truth 8 They are simply the most logical, consistent, and 7best guesses8 & can find, especially since some deal with Luestions about the other side of The 3ield, which we can never know with any certainty &f they aren+t the 7Truth,8 then at least they serve the purpose of demonstrating there are logical alternatives to the old and inconsistent and contradictory answers we believed for so long The main point is to realiMe there are other answers to our burning Luestions about life that make sense, that this model is complete and workable and consistent with the latest findings in Luantum physics, and that we can begin to let go of the old belief systems that kept us limited and go totally radical

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ONE BIG HOLOGRAM'
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Question4 & thought that when we speak about a holographic universe, it means we
were all part of one big hologram %nswer4 That+s a very common misconception, but it simply can+t be true &f neurophysiologist @arl 'ribram is correct when he says the human brain is a holographic receiver and translatorK ,'he brain is itse$ a ho$ogra!9 which !athe!atica$$y constructs Ihard< rea$ity by re$ying on input ro! a re=uency do!ain+-* Kthen there cannot be one big hologram &f the physical universe we live in were one giant hologram that was shared by all of us, there would have to be one giant brain to receive it as it was downloaded from The 3ield and convert it from its natural wave state into particles we could perceiveD and we would all perceive those particles eFactly the same way /e would all see the same reality That, obviously, doesn+t happen Each person, in fact, seems to see a slightly different reality than anyone else &n fact, our mental hospitals are full of people we call 7psychotic8 who see a very different reality than the rest of us O7'sychosis means an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a Jloss of contact with reality+K 'eople eFperiencing psychosis may report hallucinations or delusional beliefs 8,P Standing in a room neFt to someone who is psychotic, you might see a pleasant, safe atmosphere The psychotic, on the other hand, could see a torture chamber That simply would not be possible if there were one big hologram both of you were perceiving &t is possible, however, if you are each perceiving your own reality % a separate hologram downloaded to each separate brain A simple car accident, viewed by ten different people, can have ten different 7realities8 of what happened !ou could walk out of a restaurant and your friend could comment on how rude the waitress was, and although you heard the waitress say the same words, you thought she was fine and helpful (rK 7/ho are you going to host your website with08 ,X"M co!pany+7/hatH Them08 ,"es, whyD7& tried them once 5orrible eFperience They really screwed me up 8

,/<ve been hosting with the! or ten years, a$ways had great service, and they<re never down+There+s even a better eFample & assume has happened to all of us at one point or another !ou see someone walking down the street and you turn to a friend and say, 7/owH &s that :rad 'itt08 And your friend looks and says, 75e doesn+t look anything like :rad 'ittH8 And you insist, 7!esH 5e looks eFactly like :rad 'ittH8 So what happened here0 /hen you look at the movies or pictures in a magaMine, you see :rad 'itt one way, and the person you saw walking down the street looked Eust like that, to you !our friend, on the other hand, sees :rad 'itt in movies or magaMines differently, and also sees the person on the street differently, and therefore doesn+t agree with you &f we all lived in a giant common hologram % one big 7holographic universe8 % we would all see both :rad 'itt and the person walking down the street the same way, and there would be common agreement on how they look So each individual human brain receives and translates its own separate hologram downloaded by its own /n inite / from The 3ield This, of course, is inherent in the truth 7you create your own reality,8 if we would Eust pay attention to what those words really say and mean

3((TN(TES * Talbot, )ichael An essay also entitled 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse % :ack to reading , /ikipedia % 'sychosis % :ack to reading

CHAPTER #%
OTHER PEOPLE
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Question4 &f we don+t share one big common hologram, how can you and & go out at
night and see the same stars, or watch the same movie, or see the same people0 5ow could someone else agree with me so much on what we call 7reality8 unless we were actually seeing the same thing0 %nswer4 :efore we talk about whether you and 7someone else8 are seeing the same reality, & have to find out who you think this 7someone else8 is who+s agreeing with you =o you think they really eFist0 0uestion4 (h, wellK (kay So what about the other people who appear in my hologram0 Aren+t they 7real,8 or is my /n inite / creating them too0 %nswer4 The first thing you have to remember is that nothing in your hologram is 7real8 % not the people, not this book you are reading, and not the eyes you are reading the book with &t+s all a hologramD and by definition, a hologram isn+t real % at least not in the way we have always thought about things as 7real 8 So let+s change the Luestion a little, because & know what you+re trying to askK 7=o the other people & see in my hologram eFist as separate individuals0 Are they 'layers in their own right, as & am, with their own /n inite /<s0 (r are they Eust created by my /n inite / for my personal hologram and have no life of their own08 Right0 Even among the growing number of people who understand how life works in a holographic universe, there is no general agreement on the answer to this Luestion % which is a good eFample of why some of these Luestions aren+t important and don+t really play a role in the daily workability of these concepts Some of these people have decided their /n inite / creates everything and everyone they see in their holograms, and that no one else eFists independently from them That may well be true, and one day maybe we+ll find outD or maybe we won+t (n one hand, it is very important to realiMe and remember that everything we eFperience % and everyone in those eFperiences % is created by our own /n inite /D and it can be so easy to forget that and assign independent power to whom and what we see 7out there8 to make them real Therefore it is very helpful to emphasiMe that nothing and no one can appear in your holographic universe that your /n inite / has not created or agreed to So it might be useful to adopt the belief that you are creating the 7other people8 you encounter in your life, and that they don+t eFist outside of your hologram :ut for me, this smacks too much of 7solipsism,8 which has an overtone & don+t resonate withK ,/ on$y / !atter, then other peop$e, ani!a$s, environ!ents on$y !atter inso ar as they i!pact !yse$ + 'his !ay be an antisocia$ phi$osophy 8* So here is what makes the most sense to me and feels the most comfortableK

&f the holographic universe is like a total immersion movie, someone had to write the script for everything that happens in that holographic movie That 7someone8 is your /n inite / :ut that script would be very limited and lonely if you were the only actor in itD and there are god"knows"how"many other /n inite /<s in <reater )etropolitan &nfiniteLand who have 'layers representing them as well So let+s say my /n inite / wants me to eFperience a car accident, for whatever reason Owhich is eFactly what my own /n inite / didHP )y /n inite / could create a hologram where & have that car accident by myself, with no one else involved in the accident Owhich is what happened to mePD and that+s fine :ut let+s say for some reason my /n inite / would prefer me to eFperience a car accident that involved other people, rather than Eust me )y /n inite / could send an &nfimail around &nfiniteLand asking if there is anyone who wants to have their 'layer be part of this car accident as well )ost car accidents today involve more than one person, so apparently there is a lot of interest in &nfiniteLand for this kind of holographic eFperience Therefore my /n inite / gets some positive &nfimail responses from other /n inite /<s, and together these /n inite /<s work out the details and write a Eoint script for this accident 7movie 8 :ut there is one catchK No 'layer can say or do anything in any other 'layer+s hologram that their own /n inite / has not approved &n other words, whatever one 'layer says or does to another 'layer has been reLuested and approved by its /n inite / This means no one can be a victim of anything that is said or done in any hologram they eFperience, because their own /n inite / has either written the script itself or had *$$T script approval prior to the hologram being downloaded to its 'layer No victims, no perpetrators, period So, now these 'layers get in their car accident Each 'layer can, and probably will, eFperience that accident slightly differently than any other player, since each 'layer has their own individual hologram as their reality &n fact, two 'layers will often disagree % honestly and sincerely % about what actually happened in that accident /e already know virtually everyone who witnesses a car accident will have a different story of what happened :ut the 7other person8 & get into a car accident with, more than likely, will be another 'layer representing another /n inite /, as & see it So while my /n inite / 7created8 them in my hologram, they actually do 7eFist8 as a separate 'layer with their own self" consciousness and their own /n inite / This seems to me to be true for all the 7other people8 who have an impact on our lives & would say almost anyone who has a 7speaking part8 in your holographic total immersion movie is another 'layer, whose /n inite / has agreed for them to read the script your own /n inite / wrote for the eFperience it wanted you to have According to Robert Scheinfeld, 7other people8 serve three main purposes in your holographic eFperienceB * To reflect something you think or feel about yourself , To give you the gift of information or insight . To set something in motion to support you,

NNN (n the other hand, there are a lot of 7eFtras8 in your holographic total immersion movie who have little or no impact on your life They are there to make your total immersion movie seem more 7real 8 &t would be very strange to walk down 3ifth Avenue in New !ork #ity and see no one else, Eust like it would be very strange to watch a movie about New !ork #ity with no people in it O!ou can watch Tom #ruise freak out in eFactly that situation in the movie, )ani$$a S*y P 7EFtras8 play an important role in our hologramsD but, as in 5ollywood, those 7eFtras8 can be computer generated % a product of special effects % and do not necessarily need a life of their own There was a recent mini"series on 5:( called Qohn %da!s O:rilliantHP They also aired a short segment on how the mini"series was made, which you can watch on !ouTube Not only is this a great eFample of how a background set is made to provide the scenery for a holographic movie eFperience, but there is a segment of this video starting around three minutes in that eFplains and shows how a crowd of *$,$$$ people was created using Eust *2 eFtras &f we+ve figured out how to do that in our physical universe, imagine what your /n inite / can do in your holographic universeH O/atch the video here P So the 7other people8 you see in your hologram are 'layers whose /n inite /<s have volunteered their 'layers to play a role for you and to read the script your /n inite / has writtenD or, they are 7eFtras8 created by your /n inite / to fill up your 7reality 8 0uestion4 :ut if they+re not Eust computer"generated 7eFtras,8 how does my /n inite / know how to create that significant 7other person8 in my hologram to look and act like they do0 %nswer4 :y using the template available in The 3ield for this 7other person,8 tagged with their name on it &n other words, there+s a template in The 3ield with the name 7Stephen =avis,8 which contains the wave freLuencies used to create me in a hologramD and there+s a template in The 3ield with your name on it as well All other 'layers that have been created by their /n inite /<s have templates also /hen the other 'layer+s /n inite / agrees to play a role in your hologram, it gives permission to your /n inite / to access the template in The 3ield that describes the other person % their name, height, weight, eye color, attitudes, etc % and then your /n inite / plugs that template into the holographic eFperience it is creating for you :ut that 7other person8 must read the script word"for"word your /n inite / wrote for you Looked at from the other direction, your /n inite / has agreed and volunteered you to play a role in other 'layers+ eFperiences as well, and they access the template with your name on it and plug you into the hologram they create for their own 'layer :ut then you are always reading the script their /n inite / wrote for the! NNN

'erhaps you+ve been fortunate enough to have a 7virtual reality8 eFperienceK

&t, of course, looks and feels very real According to Luantum physics, life itself is a 7virtual reality8 eFperience, a holographic universe created for us by our /n inite /<s So what about the people you meet while in one of these 7virtual reality8 machines0 They have been created by the software programmer who wrote the eFperience you are having, were they not0 Everything they do or say has been pre"determined and is part of the virtual reality script NowK what if two people, each in their own virtual reality machine, could interact0 &n other words, what if someone else doing their own virtual reality trip could appear in your virtual reality eFperience0 The person on the other machine would have to be pre" programmed into your machine so they appeared normally and not in their virtual reality gearD and visa versa See what & mean0 This is not out of the Luestion, not some ridiculous science fiction fantasy The technology is not that far away when it will be possible for two virtual reality eFperiences to interact /hat a 7hint8 or 7clue8 that will beH And that+s basically what happens in our holographic reality /e meet people, whom & am calling 7eFtras,8 who are pre"programmed into the script of our eFperience to make it seem more realD and we meet people who are 'layers in their own right whose holographic eFperiences interact with ours Really an amaMing game when you think about itH So & take the viewpoint that the 7other people8 & meet in my holographic eFperiences who play any kind of significant role in my life are 'layers in their own right, with their

own self"consciousness, who have agreed to play a role and read a script for me and either reflect something & think or feel about myself, give me the gift of information or insight, or set something in motion to support meD and visa versa &n this way, we can give each other lots of gifts of eFperiences &n fact, each and every interaction between 'layers is a gift from one to the other, and back again, no matter how one or more 'layers might Eudge that eFperience and the other 'layer+s role in it NNN Now that we have that all cleared up, you can ask your original Luestion againK

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CHAPTER #(
THE .EARTH EN IRONMENT/ TEMPLATE
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Question4 &f we don+t share one big common hologram, how can you and & go out at
night and see the same stars, or watch the same movie, or see the same people0 5ow could someone else agree with me so much on what we call 7reality8 unless we were actually seeing the same thing0 %nswer4 The answer to that depends on how you view 7other people8 in your holograms, based on what we discussed in the last chapter &f you take the position that the 7someone else8 in your hologram agreeing with you was created by your own /n inite / and has no eFistence as an independent 'layer on its own, then what =r Andrew Newberg said is very pertinentK 75hen / cross8re erence with so!ebody, they<re part o !y rea$ity+ / / hear so!eone agreeing with what / thin* is going on out there, it sti$$ has to do with what / a! perceiving+8* &n other words, cross"referencing % when someone in your hologram agrees with you about the reality you are perceiving % is totally useless as proof that the two of you are seeing the same thing Therefore it doesn+t matter whether they see the same stars, or movie, or people you do, since they+re nothing more than part of the hologram created by your /n inite / :ut let+s say that you+ve decided 7other people8 in your hologram are 'layers in their own right, with their own self"consciousness, who have agreed to play a part in your holographic eFperience Now the discussion gets interestingK The first problem is that what you and any other person in your hologram see is most likely not eFactly the same thing, and there is no way to prove they are the same /e think when we see the color blue, for eFample, someone else is seeing the eFact same color :ut how do you know that0 )y eF"wife and & would have interesting debates on whether a particular house was painted 7off"white8 or 7pale yellow 8 OShe always won P This wasn+t Eust because we disagreed on the colorD but at a more basic level, we were actually seeing two slightly different colors 5owever, let+s face itD most 'layers seem to be able to agree for the most part on most things, like the stars or the movies or the people we see Right0 So how can that be0 )y guess is that there is a 7template8 in The 3ield for the 7Earth Environment,8 so when an /n inite / wants to create a 7normal8 holographic eFperience for its 'layer, it doesn+t have to create the Earth, the stars, the sun and moon, this book, or the rest of the universe from scratch every time &t simply uses the template for the basis of the hologram and then adds whatever uniLue touches it wants for each situation for its 'layer

&t only makes sense to do it this way so 'layers can focus on their uniLue eFperiences and not have to deal with or spend much time arguing about whose 7reality8 is 7real 8 OAs noted, there are 'layers whose /n inite /<s do not use this 7normal8 template, and we consider them to be craMy :ut it+s Eust further proof we+re dealing with individual holographic universes, not a common oneD and it+s entirely possible for an /n inite / to choose whatever reality it wants for its 'layer P This 7Earth Environment8 template is a lot like the software program in sophisticated video games The 7background8 is basically the same for all players, but there is a wide variety of eFperiences an individual player can have using that same background !ou could also say itQs like using one stage set and props in a movie or play but the different characters all have different eFperiences within it &f that kind of uniLue and individual eFperience is possible using the same template, why create a new one each time0 (r this might make more senseK when you apply for a Eob, you go into your computer+s teFt"writing program and choose a 7template8 to write a resumZ !ou add your own personal information to that template to create a uniLue and individual resumZ for yourself, but otherwise your finished product looks Eust like anyone else+s who used the same template So here+s how it apparently worksK An /n inite / wants to have an eFperience in the physical universe on Earth &t, obviously, cannot come here itself % an infinite being could not come into a finite world % so it elects to create a 'layer to represent it &t goes to The 3ield and chooses specific wave freLuencies to create that 'layer, and this uniLue group of wave freLuencies in The 3ield are tagged and used as a template for that 'layer Then the /n inite / decides to create an eFperience in the physical universe for its 'layer &f it wants to create a so"called 7normal8 eFperience, it will grab the 7Earth Environment8 template from The 3ield % which includes all the things we generally agree on, like the position of the stars and planets, the location of New !ork #ity, the color purple, what broccoli looks like, and so forth This will allow its 'layer not to spend all its time arguing with other 'layers about what a 7circle8 is, but be able to focus instead on the core eFperience the /n inite / wants (n the other hand, maybe the core eFperience the /n inite / wants is to eFplore differences of opinion, and therefore it might make slight modifications in this normal 7Earth Environment8 template, or even maEor modifications that would result in significant disagreements with other 'layers about 7reality 8 The point is that when an /n inite / wants to create an eFperience for its 'layer in the 5uman <ame, it doesn+t have to create the sun and the stars and the moon and spaghetti each time The template is already there, available for all /n inite /<s to use as they see fit % which is why the template can look almost the same to many 'layers NNN The current buMMword for 7template8 is 7matriFD8 and Eust to be clear, there is no 7evil8 matriF8 or 7sacred matriF,8 as some have suggestedD but only one matriF that is totally neutral

,'he !atri. is everywhere+ /t is a$$ around us, even now in this very roo!+ "ou can see it when you $oo* out your window or when you turn on your te$evision+ "ou can ee$ it when you go to wor*, when you go to church, when you pay your ta.es9+ Bn ortunate$y, no one can be to$d what the !atri. isJ you have to see it or yourse$ +" )orpheus, from 'he (atri.

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:ack to the Table of #ontents Do 5e UnowD and 'he Secret and many other 7new age8 philosophies say 7we are all one80 &n fact, doesn+t Luantum physics say 7we are all connected,8 and haven+t some of the recent eFperiments proven that0 5aven+t we been told if a butterfly flaps its wings in :raMil, it can set off a tornado in TeFas0* %nswer4 !es, yes, yesK that+s what we+ve been told :ut is any of it really true0 3irst of all, there is no 7we 8 There is only 7&8 and 7other people8 who appear in the uniLue and individual hologram my /n inite / creates for me Even if you believe Oas & doP that many of the 7other people8 who appear in your hologram are other 'layers in their own right, with their own /n inite /<s, they have their own uniLue and individual holograms as well since there is no one big common hologram we all share So how did 7we are all one8 become such a popular new"age fad0 &n the early *;9$s, physicist Alain Aspect performed some very famous eFperiments with collaborators in 3rance that have been used ever since to claim 7we are all one,8 or, at a minimum, that 7we are all connected 8 :ut that+s not what the eFperiments proved at all /hat Aspect did, basically, was to send two protons Overy small particlesP from a calcium atom away from each other in different directions These two protons had opposite OcomplementaryP charges associated with them when they separated 5e then changed the charge of one of the protons, and the other proton 7magically8 changed its own charge simultaneously , This became known as 7spooky action at a distance,8 . since there was no eFplanation of how the two protons were influencing each other at distances that would disallow any communication between them Stated more simply and generally, the eFperiment provides strong evidence that a Luantum event at one location can affect an event at another location without any obvious mechanism for communication between the two locationsD and this was Eumped on by the 7new age8 as proof 7we are all one and connected 8 :ut Aspect+s results don+t prove that at all At most they prove everything within one ho$ogra! is connected, which we already know to be true &f you cut off a little piece from a larger holographic film, you can still produce the complete holographic image from that piece O&t+s dimmer, but the whole picture is still there P This is called 7entanglement8 in Luantum physics1, which basically says all the different 7particles8 that make up a hologram are connected So everything is connected within a single hologram, and maybe if a butterfly flaps its wings in :raMil in !y hologram, it can set off a tornado in TeFas in !y hologram :ut since there is no one big common hologram we all share, and each 'layer has its own uniLue and individual holographic eFperiences, Aspects+ results cannot be interpreted to prove we are all one, or even all connected

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&f a butterfly flaps its wings in :raMil and sets off a tornado in TeFas in both my hologram and yours, it simply means this scenario was part of the 7Earth Environment8 template used by both your /n inite / and my /n inite / when they created our individual holographic eFperiences :ut it still doesn+t mean 7we are all one 8 Think of it this wayB The 3ield contains an unlimited number of possibilities in wave form, and therefore can be the source of an infinite number of holograms 3or eFample, my /n inite / could go to The 3ield and decide to pop out a hologram of an apple for me !our /n inite / could go to The 3ield and decide to pop out a hologram of an orange for you :ut these two holograms are not connected They may be 7interacting8 in a way we don+t understand yet, but it doesn+t mean they+re 7connected 8 There+s a big difference between the two &n other words, & could do something with my apple in my hologram and it would have no effect on the orange in your hologram Every 'layer+s holograms are totally independent from every other 'layer+s holograms A butterfly flapping its wings in :raMil in !y hologram will not automatically set off a tornado in TeFas in your hologram At least, we currently have no scientific proof for the theory that 7we are all connected,8 despite what the 7new age8 says Let me try to say this in a different wayK Every 'layer+s holograms are totally independent from every other 'layer+s holograms That+s the only possible way that each /n inite / can create its own reality for its 'layer &t+s the only way there can be no victims or perpetrators &t reminds me of the psychology fad in the 9$+s and ;$+s around 7co"dependency 8 (ne 'layer+s holograms are not co"dependent on any other 'layer+s holograms There may be interaction going on being two independent 'layer+s holograms, but what happens in one 'layer+s hologram is not co"dependent on what happens in any other 'layer+s hologram &n short, there is no 7co"creation8 happening &f you wanted to say 7everything & see in !y hologram is one,8 you would be correct :ut to say 7we are all one8 at the holographic level is not true Now, we can go to a different level, both in Alain Aspect+s eFperiments and in our own individual eFperiences )y hologram of the apple and your hologram of the orange have the same source % The 3ield % Eust like the two protons in Aspect+s eFperiment had the same source % a calcium atom &n The 3ield, everything is connected to everything else, waves upon waves of potentiality, of infinite possibility :ut when some of those specific waves are chosen by an /n inite / and downloaded to a human brain, that connection in The 3ield does not follow into the physical universe &t would be true to say something like, 7All our holograms have the same source % The 3ield,8 Eust like it+s true to say a brother and a sister have the same source % their parents :ut Eust like the brother and sister are not 7connected8 at the level of the physical universe Oignoring the rare anomaly of Siamese twinsP, and Eust as they are clearly not 7all one,8 neither are our individual holograms we perceive as the physical universe we live in At the level of The 3ield, however, not only are we all one, but everything is all one, since The 3ield is the source of everything in the form of wave freLuencies that later appear in the holographic universe as particles NNN

/e+ve been talking apples and oranges Now let+s talk apples and apples, which gets a little trickier )y /n inite / pops out an apple in my hologram !our /n inite / pops out an apple in your hologram (ur two holograms interactD and although you see your apple slightly differently than & see my apple, both apples are sitting in the same location on a kitchen counter we both have in our holograms & pick up the apple and eat it, and you watch & say, 7&+m eating the apple,8 and you say, 7!ou+re eating the apple 8 :ut now we+re back to what =r Newberg said, that cross" referencing proves nothing &t is still impossible to prove my eating the apple in your hologram, or your telling me &+m eating the apple in my hologram, are evidence of any connection between the two holograms As & said, it+s entirely possible the apple both of us see sitting on the kitchen counter is part of the 7Earth Environment8 template our /n inite /<s used to create this particular eFperience, and therefore common to both your hologram and mine :ut that still doesn+t mean your hologram and my hologram are connected, or that you and & are 7all one 8 &magine sitting at a table in a restaurant having a conversation with a friend of yours /hat she is saying to you is a script written for her to read by your /n inite /, to be part of your holographic eFperience /hat you are saying to her is a script written for you to read by her /n inite /, to be part of her holographic eFperience !et it appears that these two holograms are interacting Now imagine that in your hologram, the music playing in the background is much too loud and annoying, disrupting your ability to hear and concentrate on the conversation with your friend !our friend, however, hardly hears the music and has no problem with it !our friend+s problem is that there is man sitting at the neFt table who is chewing food with his mouth open, making her sick !ou see the man, but he doesn+t appear to be chewing with his mouth open to you, and he doesn+t bother you So what+s happened here0 Each /n inite / has used the 7Earth Environment8 template to create an eFperience for the two of you in this particular restaurant, and both of you see essentially the same thingsB the tables and chairs, wait staff, bar, drinks, food, etc :ut each /n inite / has custom"made the holographic eFperience for its own 'layer, adding little personal touches here and there &n your friend+s hologram, the music is literally not too loud &t+s not Eust that she doesn+t hear it as too loudD it literally is not too loud % a different volume entirely for her than for you !ou might even ask her if she doesn+t think the music+s too loud, and she would say, 7No &t+s fine 8 &n your own hologram, the man is not chewing with his mouth open at all &t+s not Eust that he is and it doesn+t bother youD he+s not !our friend might even ask you if it doesn+t bother you that the man is eating with his mouth open, and you would say, 7& didn+t notice 8 /hile they might be 7interacting,8 how can anyone try to say these two separate holographic eFperiences are 7connected,8 or that you and your friend are 7all one80 At most, two interacting 'layers might be eFperiencing the same 7Earth Environment Template,8 but that+s it

There is even one philosophy that believes the idea 7we are all one8 is a kind of hypnotic implant that is finally coming to the surface to be seen as an error and cleared away 2

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Question4 &s an

/n inite / limited to having only one 'layer representing it in the

5uman <ame0 %nswer4 & can+t say for sure, of course, but probably not Think about it this wayK An /n inite / has infinite power, infinite Eoy, infinite wisdom, infinite abundance, infinite love, and an in inite desire to p$ay and e.press itse$ creative$y & can+t imagine, with the infinite number of games to play in an infinite universe, an /n inite / would limit itself to playing Eust one game % the 5uman <ame on Earth % with Eust one 'layer :ut it+s possible (ur egos would like us to think we+re very special % each one of us % and that we must each have Eust one /n inite / that created us and looks after us, and only us :ut & doubt it &t would make more sense that a uniLue and individual /n inite / would have a number of different 'layers in a number of different games, perhaps even in a number of different universes To take this one step further, it+s also possible a uniLue /n inite / can have more than one 'layer on Earth at the same timeH & had a friend who was 7remembering8 Oin tranceP a lifetime during /orld /ar && when she was a :ritish soldier and got involved in a firefight with a <erman soldier They killed each other at the same time over a foFhole As my friend+s 7soul8 left her :ritish soldier+s body, she 7saw8 the 7soul8 of the <erman soldier leave its body as wellD and to her great surprise, she realiMed they both belonged to the same /n inite /H /hy not0 An /n inite / is not limited to the number of 'layers it can have in the 5uman <ame, even simultaneously 'erhaps your wife, or your husband, or your children, or your best friend, or your worst enemy, is another 'layer from the same /n inite / /on+t we all be surprised to find out one day0H :ut the fact that your /n inite / may also have another 'layer % or more % does not affect your relationship with that /n inite / at all -ust like a parent who has more than one child, there is not Oor should not beP any favoritism, any more or less love for one than another, any dilution of the caring and the guidance and the energy for you as one of its 'layers simply because there may be others &n fact, each of us can actually think about our /n inite / as our 7own,8 if somehow that makes things easier &t really doesn+t matter The possibility that you might 7share8 an /n inite / with another 'layer has no relevance or bearing on how you play the 5uman <ame &t is interesting, however, to consider the possibility that the person causing you the most discomfort in a particular holographic eFperience may, in fact, be your 7brother8 or 7sister8 % that you share the same /n inite /H

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Question4 /hat about past lives0

%nswer4 & love this Luestion, because & believed in past lives for about fifty years, before encountering Luantum physics and the truth of the 5uman <ame model Not only did & be$ieve, but & had many detailed 7memories8 of a number of those past lives :ut before we can talk about past lives, we have to talk about timeK 3rom the research in Luantum physics, we know time does not eFist in The 3ield, where all eFperiences are created that make up the physical universe Space and time are created as part of a hologram % scientists would say spaceUtime is a 7function of the hologram8 % and therefore time is not 7real8 in the same way the hologram is not 7real 8 &n fact, as many others like Seth* and Eckart Tolle, have said over and over again, the only thing that+s 7real8 % or better, 7relevant8 % is the present moment This not only applies to 7past lives,8 but the 7past8 in this present life as well, which should be self" evident when we see how someone can change their past by getting new information or changing their perceptions of what happened 7back then 8 Einstein said 7reality is merely an illusion % albeit a very persistent oneD8 and it+s true that 7reality8 seems to have continuity, as one moment blends into the neFt moment :ut it+s also possible to look at those moments as individual holograms coming Luickly one after the other, like a movie consists of one individual frame and then another in rapid succession Therefore, the 7persistence8 itself is illusory &t+s even possible there actually is nothing eFcept the present moment, and that everything we consider to be the 7past8 is created in each present"moment hologram @arl 'ribram spent years trying to find the location of 7memory8 in the brain and finally decided the brain itself was a hologram So what if 7memory8 really doesn+t eFist at all0 /hat if our 7memory8 of the 7past8 is being created in the present"moment hologram instead0 /hat if, when we say someone is living in their past, the opposite is actually trueB that their past is living in their present0 So the 7past8 may be a 7story8 that is part of the present hologramD and we are free to rewrite the ending to that story at any time by changing our reactions and responses to the eFperience, letting go of the Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears This is clear, and actually very necessary, when you move into the second half of the 5uman <ame /hen the Eudgment is dropped, for eFample, of how 7bad8 your childhood was, and you gain appreciation and thankfulness for the perfection of those eFperiences in creating limitation in the first half, the 7past8 changes dramatically /hat+s actually happening is that the story in your present hologram about the 7past8 is changing &n essence, you are creating a new 7past8 in the present, since there really is no 7past8 per se A good actor does this &f it+s not part of the script itself, an actor will make up a past for their character, giving them a reason % the 7motivation8 % for any line or action they have in the movie :ut that character+s past is not real and only eFists in the present

moment when the actor is acting, using it to give background for how they deliver their lines Am & making myself clear0 Since time is not real, all 7past memories8 could actually be nothing more than parts of the present"time hologram which fill in the storyline of our total immersion movie /hat we call our 7history8 % personal history, human history, even the history of our planet and the physical universe % could simply be one small storyline in the current 7Earth Environment8 template downloaded to a 'layer for its present"time eFperience L Ron 5ubbard, in another one of his genius moments, called these 7service facsimiles8 % 7Jservice+ because they serve himD Jfacsimiles+ because they are in mental image picture formK The service facsimile is therefore a picture containing an eFplanation of self condition 8. &n other words, we may well be making up our 7past8 in the present time to eFplain our current condition in life :elieving in past lives was, at least for me, a very important part of that process & could use a past life as a reason for my present"time behavior, Eust as we use a dysfunctional childhood to eFplain a dysfunctional adult ?uick eFampleK & had so"called 7memories8 of being a pharaoh in Egypt in the *1 th century :# who was murdered by the priesthood when he tried to take away their power This eFplained why, in this present life, & had done everything possible to get out of politics once & got elected, believing on some level that rising up the political ladder would eventually result in my death :ut for me, past lives eFplained more than Eust the 7negative8 behavior in the presentK NNN & had very little sailing eFperience in this life, limited mainly to building and sailing a twelve"foot Sunfish in my teens, taking my wife for a ride on a 5obie #at on our honeymoon Obad ideaHP, and skippering a 1,"foot )organ from Los Angeles to #atalina to scuba dive with friends Then in *;;1 & stepped onto the Uairos % an eighty"foot wooden schooner % to be the cook for a year :ut somehow & knew eFactly what to do and how to sail her perfectly % even single"hand her % including how to tie all the standard sailing knots /ithin a short time & was replacing the captain when he went onshore for eFtended vacations, performing difficult anchoring maneuvers in pitch dark, turning the ship *9$ degrees in a one"hundred"foot harbor, and sailing her precisely for three days and nights on open ocean from the #anary &slands to )adeira

'he Uairos & cannot eFplain my behavior from anything & eFperienced in this lifetime 5owever, & had these 7memories8 of what & thought was a 7past life8 as a merchant marine, sailing back and forth from :oston to the )editerranean in the early *;$$+s There+s no Luestion in my mind the knowledge and eFpertise & had in 7that life8 was accessible to me in this life when & needed and wanted it :ut if there is no 7past8 and therefore no 7past lives8 % if we are making up our past in the present % how can & eFplain this behavior0 5ow could & know how to sail such a ship with virtually no eFperience0 There is another eFplanation, one that aligns nicely with Luantum physics

'hysicist 3red Alan /olf wrote a book called Para$$e$ Bniverses4 'he Search or 1ther 5or$dsD and there is a maEor theory within Luantum physics called the 7)any" /orlds &nterpretation O)/&P 8 7(any8wor$ds c$ai!s to reso$ve a$$ the parado.es o =uantu! theory since every possib$e outco!e to every event de ines or e.ists in its own Ihistory< or Iwor$d+< /n $ay!an#s ter!s, this !eans that there is a very $arge, perhaps in inite, nu!ber o universes and that everything that cou$d possib$y happen in our universe @but doesn#tP does happen in so!e other universe@sP9+ Prior to I!any wor$ds,< this :universe; had been viewed as a sing$e Iwor$d8$ine+< (any8wor$ds rather views it as a !any8branched tree where every possib$e branch o history is rea$i>ed 81 3red Alan /olf saidK 75hat is a para$$e$ universeD Li*e an everyday universe it is a region o space and ti!e containing !atter, ga$a.ies, stars, p$anets and $iving beings+ /n other words, a para$$e$ universe is si!i$ar and possib$y even a dup$icate o our own universe+ 2ot on$y in a para$$e$ universe !ust there be other hu!an beings, but these !ay be hu!an beings who are e.act dup$icates o ourse$ves and who are connected to ourse$ves through !echanis!s on$y e.p$ainab$e using =uantu! physics concepts9+ 'he possibi$ity e.ists that para$$e$ universes !ay be e.tre!e$y c$ose to us, perhaps on$y ato!ic di!ensions away but perhaps in a higher di!ension o space E an e.tension into what physicists ca$$ superspace+ (odern neuroscience through the study o a$tered states o awareness, schi>ophrenia, and $ucid drea!ing cou$d be indications o the c$oseness o para$$e$ wor$ds to our own 82 &n other words, there is speculation among very prominent and respected Luantum physicists that other worlds might eFist simultaneously with our world, and that we might have a connection to them This opens to the door to a fascinating theory about past livesK & talked in #hapter Twenty"SiF about the possibility an /n inite / could have many 'layers representing it in many different <ames, or even within one <ame, at one time /hat if the 7past lives8 we think we remember are not 7past8 at all, but happening now, in a parallel universe0 /hat if an /n inite / wanted to eFperience a number of different times and places in the 5uman <ame and created separate 'layers for those times and places0 And what if we, as 'layers in this space and time, had access to those other 'layers in other spaces and times, and could receive information about them and from them through the conduit of a mutual /n inite /0 & understand now that my life as a merchant marine was not a 7past life8 at all, but a simultaneous life going on in a parallel universe, and that the merchant marine is a 'layer Eust like me, but in a different time and spaceD and he and & share the same /n inite / 3rom my perspective it seems like & was able to tap into his life via our common /n inite / and bring the information & needed through into mine & have other eFamples as well from my own eFperience about the 7many"worlds interpretation8 of Luantum physics :ut first & will relate a story about -ane Roberts who channeled the entity known as Seth 4 Apparently one day while -ane was in her trance

and Seth was speaking, someone showed Seth a picture of -ane when she was about twelve years old and asked if this was the -ane Roberts who was sitting in front of them at that time Seth said No, it was a picture of the -ane Roberts who had gone on to become a nun Seth eFplained that -ane had been torn about her future when she was young, and part of her wanted to follow a strict religious training At the point of decision, 7one -ane8 went into another universe and became a nun, and the -ane that was in front of the group 7stayed8 in this universe, according to Seth )y own eFperience was when & had to make a decision to go into the Army and to Gietnam, or go to Eail as a protestor & really wanted to go to Eail, to stand on my principles and register my opposition to the war :ut my fiancZ and my mother weren+t too keen on the idea, and & wound up volunteering to become a 'hysician+s Assistant in the Army Oto make sure & never had to kill anyoneP & now am certain there is a Stephen =avis in another universe who went to Eail instead, living out his life based on that decision (nce & made one choice, the other choice played out in another 7world 8 And why not0 The whole point of the 5uman <ame is for an /n inite / to have as many eFperiences as possible of what it feels like to be limited in power and Eoy and wisdom and abundance and love /hy shouldn+t an /n inite / have many 'layers in the <ame at one time0 /hy shouldn+t an /n inite / eFplore all the various options that arise in the course of the <ame for any particular 'layer in many different simultaneous, parallel worlds0 The 7many"worlds interpretation8 basically says all possibilities occur, in one universe or another, and Seth says % especially when faced with a life"changing decision % both alternatives continue in parallel universes :ut perhaps the most interesting part of this is the possibility of communication between the various 'layers As we progress inside the cocoon and restore conscious communication with our /n inite /, will we have greater access to all the 'layers who share our /n inite / by leaving behind the Eudgments and beliefs that currently block that communication0 &t+s no wonder access was limited during the first half of the <ameD but now that we+re heading away from limitation, who knows what+s possible The bottom line is that it+s very likely your /n inite / has many 'layers in many universes % including many 'layers in the 5uman <ame at many different times and places % and that what we have been calling 7past lives8 are actually 7present lives8 occurring simultaneously This, of course, would completely change the idea of 7past lives8 being some kind of progression of identities from which we are supposed to learn 7lessons,8 which naturally brings up the Luestion of @armaK NNN )(G&E SA<<EST&(NB S$iding Doors, with <wyneth 'altrow O*;;9P

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Question4 So what about karma0

%nswer4 As &+ve said all along, there is a grain of truth in every philosophy, every religion, every spiritual pathD but in the first half of the 5uman <ame, that truth had to be perverted to a greater or lesser degree in order for a 'layer to eFperience limitations and restrictions or the <ame wouldn+t work &n this case, the truth about karma has been twisted in many ways until it means many different things to many different peopleB 7an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth*D8 7you reap what you sow,D8 you will be rewarded for being good and punished for your sinsD you have to suffer retribution for wrong done in previous livesD if you+re bad, you+ll come back as a lesser form of life neFt timeD if you do spiritually valuable acts, you deserve and can eFpect good luckD or conversely, if you do harmful things, you can eFpect bad luck !ou can see first"half 7thinking8 and 7Eudgments8 and 7beliefs8 in every one of those concepts % clear evidence that karma, no matter what it means, belongs inside the movie theater So what+s the truth about karma0 ,Uar!a is not punish!ent or retribution but si!p$y an e.tended e.pression or conse=uence o natura$ acts+ Uar!a !eans AdeedA or AactA and !ore broad$y na!es the universa$ princip$e o cause and e ect, action and reaction that governs a$$ $i e+-. @arma, therefore, at its most basic level is 7cause and effect 8 @arma means if you do this, that will happen 7:ad8 karma is seen as having done something 7wrong8 in the past Oor in a past lifeP that will come back to you in the present or future for you to 7work out 8 7<ood8 karma is seen as having done something 7right8 in the past Oor in a past lifeP that will come back to you in the present or future as a reward :ut if a 'layer can never do anything 7wrong8 % which is the Truth % how could there ever be any karma to work out0 @arma is simply another belief that will fall by the wayside during your transition in the cocoon NNN Actually, most 'layers in the 5uman <ame hold the belief that if & do this, that will happen, even if they don+t call it karma )ost people Eust call it the 7law of cause and effect8K KeFcept there is no 7law of cause and effect 8 &n truth, the 7law of cause and effect8 is nothing more than a belief system, and, like space and time, is a function of the hologram and is therefore not real

Remember that 7believing is seeingD8 so if you believe in the 7law of cause and effect,8 you will see it in action all around you :ut what if you don<t believe in the 7law of cause and effect08 Garious people over the years have demonstrated what could be called a 7total disregard8 for the 7law of cause and effect 8 -esus, for eFample, ignored the law of cause and effect when he walked on water 1, or fed the multitude with a few fish and some bread2, or healed the sick4 or raised the dead 6 Sai :aba apparently ignores the law of cause and effect when he produces vibuti or Eewelry out of thin air 9 &n his book, 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse, )ichael Talbot mentions other documented eFamples of lesser"known individuals demonstrating feats outside the law of cause and effect 3or eFampleK ,:Bio$ogist Lya$$ 5atson was investigating; one o the so8ca$$ed Phi$ippine psychic hea$ers, but instead o touching a patient, a$$ he did was ho$d his hand about ten inches over the person<s body, point at his or her s*in, and an incision wou$d appear instantaneous$y+ 5atson not on$y witnessed severa$ disp$ays o the !an<s psycho*inetic surgica$ s*i$$s, but once, when the !an !ade a broader sweep with his inger than usua$, 5atson :hi!se$ ; received an incision on the bac* o his own hand+ 6e bears the scar to this day+-; 71ne investigator, a !e!ber o the Paris Par$ia!ent na!ed Louis8Basi$e Carre de (ontgeron, witnessed enough !irac$es to i$$ our thic* vo$u!es on the sub?ect9+ /n one instance a convu$sionaire bent bac* into an arc so that her $ower bac* was supported by Ithe sharp point o a peg+< She then as*ed that a i ty8pound stone attached to a rope be hoisted to Ian e.tre!e height< and a$$owed to a$$ with a$$ its weight on her sto!ach+ 'he stone was hoisted up and a$$owed to a$$ again and again, but the wo!an see!ed co!p$ete$y una ected by it+ She e ort$ess$y !aintained her aw*ward position, su ered no pain or har!, and wa$*ed away ro! the ordea$ without even so !uch as a !ar* on the $esh o her bac*+-*$ Stories abound of yogis who can sleep on a bed of nails without pain or evidence of skin damage**D and there are perhaps some 2,$$$ members of the 'entecostal 5oliness churches*, who show no effects from the bite of a poisonous snake or from drinking poison (f course, the phenomenon of firewalking*. Omade popular in the /est by Tony RobbinsP is nothing more than convincing people to temporarily suspend their belief in the 7law of cause and effect,8 and walk across hot coals which would normally 7cause8 burns on the feet without suffering the 7effects 8 &n #hapter Twenty & talked about multiple personality disorder and the large number of cases where the human body seems to defy 7cause and effect 8 There are many other eFamples of diseases occurring without any 7cause,8 or not occurring when the so"called cause is present but the effect is not &f smoking 7causes8 cancer, for instance, how can some people smoke their entire lives and never get cancer0 &f 5&G 7causes8 A&=S, how can thousands of people have lived for thirty years diagnosed 5&G"'ositive, not take any medications and still be happy and healthy*10

The movie, 'he (atri., was all about Neo learning to break out of his belief in the 7law of cause and effect 8 There are two famous scenes toward the end that demonstrate his success % first, when Neo is shot close range with siF bullets, seems to die temporarily, and then gets up again to continue the fightD and then when he unravels the matriF and stops the bullets coming at him, plucking one out of the air and looking at it, then letting them fall on the ground in front of him (ur tendency is to eFplain away these eFamples as 7supernatural,8 when in fact they are simply occurring outside the belief system of 7cause and effect 8 % Course in (irac$es says, 7This is a course in cause and not effect 8*2 The great Luantum physicist =avid :ohm ,argued that the way science viewed causa$ity was a$so !uch too $i!ited+ (ost e ects were thought o as having on$y one or severa$ causes+ 6owever, Boh! e$t that an e ect cou$d have an in inite nu!ber o causes9+ Boh! conceded that !ost o the ti!e one cou$d ignore the vast cascade o causes that had $ed to any given e ect, but he sti$$ e$t it was i!portant or scientists to re!e!ber that no sing$e cause8and8e ect re$ationship was ever rea$$y separate ro! the universe as a who$e+-*4 :ut despite much evidence to the contrary, 7cause and effect8 remains one of our most basic, most ingrained, and most unchallenged belief systemsD and its history goes way back to the beginning when our :iblical ancestors, Adam and Eve, were told it was eating the apple that caused them to get in trouble with The Lord ,%nd he said, 5ho to$d thee that thou wast na*edD 6ast thou eaten o the tree, whereo / co!!anded thee that thou shou$dest not eatD-*6 NNN There is an interesting phenomenon & want to mention that, on first glance, might appear to be 7karma,8 or 7cause and effect,8 but it+s not As 'layers in the 5uman <ame, we seem to eFperience similar holograms from time to time &n fact, patterns of eFperiences seem to follow us % in some cases, plague us % repeating over and over A woman might constantly attract a certain kind of man, an alcoholic who abuses her, for eFample A man might find himself getting fired from one Eob after another, always for the same reason &+m sure you+re aware of at least a few of your own patterns So what+s going on here0 (ne way to look at 7karma8 and 7cause and effect8 is that we, as 'layers, can continue to eFperience similar holograms as long as we feel like we+re victims of someone or something 7out there8 % the 7effect8 of someone or something else that is the 7cause,8 until we have accepted the fact we cannot be the 7effect8 of anyone or anything at any timeD until we have let go of the ideas of victim and perpetratorD until we no longer think the 7cause8 is anywhere eFcept with our own /n inite / This is even true in the beginning of the second half of the 5uman <ame, as our /n inite / creates situations for us similar to what we encountered in the first half when we assigned power 7out there,8 to give us the opportunity to 7reclaim8 that power and no longer see ourselves as the 7effect8 in our holographic eFperiences

&n other words, 7karma8 could be seen as a series of holographic eFperiences created and offered by an /n inite / to give the 'layer the opportunity to assume full self" responsibility % *$$T 7cause8 % for their own reactions and responses (n the original 7grade chart8 developed by L Ron 5ubbard for Scientology in the *;6$+s, the E' O73nd Phenomenon,8 or end resultP of the level called (T G&&& was 7at cause over life Omatter, energy, space and timeP 8 This was revised in *;99 *9 Oafter 5ubbard+s deathP since it was impossible to achieve using the techniLues offered by the #hurchD but it was a good thought to begin with And it is achievableD but part of the process of getting there involves dealing with this belief in the 7law of cause and effect8 and the Eudgment and fear beneath it As & said in #hapter Twenty"(ne, this is a tough one, and &+m not finished with it myself So that+s all & can say about it for now

3((TN(TES * The 5oly :ible, @ing -ames Gersion 'he Gospe$ according to St+ (atthew, 2 .9 % :ack to reading , &bid Ga$ations, 4 6 and Qob, 1 9 % :ack to reading . /ikipedia % @arma % :ack to reading 1 /ikipedia % walking on water % :ack to reading 2 /ikipedia % feeding the multitude % :ack to reading 4 Qesus 6ea$s the Sic* at Gennesaret % :ack to reading 6 La>arus 7aised ro! the Dead % :ack to reading 9 5araldsson, Erlendur and @arlis (sis, 'he %ppearance %nd Disappearance 1 1b?ects /n 'he Presence 1 Sri Sathya Sai Baba % :ack to reading ; Talbot, )ichael 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse, pp *,4"*,6 % :ack to reading *$ /bid+, p *.$ % :ack to reading ** 5i*ipedia " :ed of nails % :ack to reading *, 5i*ipedia " #hurch of <od with Signs 3ollowing % :ack to reading *. /ikipedia % 3irewalking % :ack to reading *1 Living5ithout6/)Drugs+co! % :ack to reading *2 #ircle of Atonement % Course in (irac$es, T",* G&& 6 % :ack to reading *4 Talbot, )ichael 'he 6o$ographic Bniverse, p 1$ % :ack to reading *6 The 5oly :ible, @ing -ames Gersion Genesis, . ** % :ack to reading *9 (peration #lambake 1' Leve$s & Con identia$ (ateria$ Su!!ary List % :ack to reading

CHAPTER #2
TRUST
:ack to the Table of #ontents Ron 5ubbard once said, 7(n the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth80 %nswer4 No, not really, because the way he said it makes it sound like we should be working to learn to trust each other, and if we could succeed, we+d have peace on Earth That+s Eust another incorrect twist to the Truth that happens inside the movie theater The intentional community & have been associated with for over seventeen years has spent most of that time trying to learn to trust each other, using various techniLues and processes, such as 7The 3orum 8 & can say they+ve made some progress, and their community is perhaps more 7peaceful8 than other places to liveD but & can+t say they+ve gone very far Trusting each other, however, is not a goal to be worked forD it+s a by"product % like -ed )c@enna talked about 7non"attachment 8 &t+s something that happens as a result of something else The only thing anyone ever has to trust is their /n inite / &f you trust your /n inite /, you automatically trust everyone and everything in your holographic eFperiences, since your /n inite / creates them all for you down to the smallest detail &f you trust your /n inite /, and someone appears in your hologram, you know you can trust them, too % trust them to read the movie script written by your /n inite / word for word % since they are only there at the reLuest and approval of your own /n inite / &n fact, it+s futile to spend time trying to trust each other when there is always the possibility in the back of your mind that someone 7out there8 could do something 7bad8 to you &f you fully trust your /n inite /, you know that+s simply not possible Therefore, it would be more accurate to say, 7(n the day when you can fully trust your /n inite /, you will eFperience peace on Earth 8 !es, individual peace is possible, regardless of what is going on 7out there8 in your hologram &n fact, individual peace is the only thing you have any control over through your free will to react and respond to your holographic eFperiences /ar and violence may be raging all around you, and you can still be in peace because you fully trust your /n inite / and the eFperiences it creates for you /e could also say, on a larger scale, 7(n the day when we all can fully trust our /n inite /<s, we will eFperience peace on Earth 8 :ut that will only happen one 'layer at a time, unilaterally trusting their own /n inite /K Kwhich, as & said in #hapter Eighteen, is not something that comes easily at first /e have spent many years not trusting our /n inite /, blaming it for our condition in life, resisting the eFperiences it was creating for us &t can take time to change that :ut if you use Robert+s 'rocess and spiritual autolysis, and let go of your Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears % and especially the layers of ego that want you to think you+re driving the bus % you will soon know with certainty your /n inite / can be trusted, and in fact is the only thing you ever need to trust All else follows

Question4 &s it true, what L

As the 5oly :ible saysK ,'here ore ta*e no thought, saying, 5hat sha$$ we eatD or, 5hat sha$$ we drin*D or, 5herewitha$ sha$$ we be c$othedD 9 or your heaven$y &ather *noweth that ye have need o a$$ these things+ But see* ye irst the *ingdo! o God, and his righteousnessJ and a$$ these things sha$$ be added unto you+-* 'araphrased in the language of the holographic universeK 7&ocus on trusting your /n inite / and *now that it wi$$ ta*e care o a$$ the rest 8 7:ut,8 you ask, 7are you saying & really do not have to do anything0 & mean, am & Eust supposed to sit back and trust that my /n inite / will feed me, or clothe my family, or keep a roof over our heads and take care of all our needs0 &sn+t that being Eust a tad bit Jirresponsible+08 /ellK !es, that+s what &+m sayingD and No, it+s not Jirresponsible+ at all, which of course would be a Eudgment and a belief, again probably learned from the parents After all, who else can create the hologram with the food and clothes you and your family need, and the roof over your heads, other than your /n inite /0 :ut & want to make sure we+re putting the emphasis on the right wordB 7=o & really not have to do anything08 All you have to do is be the 'layer and eFperience the holographic universe your /n inite / creates for you Nothing else & don+t want to give the impression that all a second half 'layer does is sit around all day That would be totally boring Ounless it brings you total Eoy to do soHP &n fact, life in the cocoon is fuller and more interesting and more active than ever :ut instead of trying to 7make something happen,8 or having goals or agendas or plans or obEectives, you simply react and respond moment by moment to the present circumstances created by your /n inite / &n the second half, the only way you can live is in 7reactive mode,8 as Robert Scheinfeld calls it :y the word 7reactive,8 & also don+t want to imply that you don+t make decisions !ou doD sometimes even decisions that involve the future, like scheduling to give a seminar, or agreeing on a date for a child+s wedding /hen a holographic eFperience appears in our 7reality,8 we are free to act on it % to take whatever action is appropriate and necessary in that moment That+s a lot different than trying to 7make something happen,8 or believing we must 7do something8 in order to have a life An /n inite / probably has a lot of interesting eFperiences planned for its 'layer % especially in the second half of the <ame % if we would stop trying to create our own lives and trust our /n inite / to bring us a life we could only dream of, and certainly are not capable of creating ourselves !ou+re reading this book, & assume, because you aren+t totally happy with the way things are going in your life & also assume you<ve been trying to be the bus driver /hy not give your /n inite / a shot at it % really trust it, let go and give it a chance0 !ou can start by eFperimenting with the three eFercises & outlined in #hapter Eighteen, doing only what it brings you Eoy for twenty"four hours, not trying to make anything happen for twenty"four hours, and Eust saying !es to everything that appears in your hologram for twenty"four hours :y the end of those three days, & have full

confidence you will have enough direct eFperience that your /n inite / can be trusted, and you will start eFercising that trust more and more All trust begins with trusting your own /n inite /

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CHAPTER %0
MONEY
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Question4 !ou must be rich to be having all the eFperiences you talk about % sailing,
traveling around Europe, scuba diving and stuff 5ow do you make money0 %nswer4 As & write these words, & have eFactly [,$ to my name, total assets & don+t think that Lualifies for 7rich 8 :ut &+ve already said & never worry about money at all, which is one of the reasons & can give this book away for free on the &nternet &t+s more than that, really &t+s that & have an unlimited supply of money to have whatever holographic eFperience comes up for me in each momentD and so do you, although you don+t realiMe it yet :ut & don+t 7make money 8 No one makes money /e only think we do That+s part of the illusion inside the movie theater & realiMe money is one of the biggest issues for most people They can+t get enough of itD they can+t keep what they+ve gotD and they have tried everything to change that situation with very little success /orse than that, actually, they have been promised there is a 7secret8 to 7attracting8 moneyD but they follow the steps religiously and it doesn+t work So they blame themselves for not doing the 7magic8 Eust right As one student told me, 7&+ve tried to use 'he Secret and the JLaw of Attraction+ and other self"help techniLues to manifest money, but they didn+t work &+m still broke, so there must be something wrong with me, or & must be doing something wrong 8 5ere+s the real secretB The problem is not the person % not youD it+s the 7magic8 that doesn+t work most of the time for most people &t+s that we have developed this false knowledge about money and where it comes from while inside the movie theater, and it+s time to find out how money really works in a holographic universe NNN As & was doing my 5olographic Aniverse workshops in Europe, & started collecting different beliefs the participants had about money /hat follows is a list of the maEor ones /hich ones do you think are true or false for you0 C & have to earn money C & have to work for money C & can+t afford everything & want C There+s a limited supply of money available to me C Every time & spend money, my supply of money decreases C Nothing & really want is free C &f & want more money, & have to work harder, or smarter, or deliver more value C &+ve got to have a plan to make money, invest it wisely, and build wealth over time C &f & have money, & have to protect it or & could lose it

C & have to be 7responsible8 with my money C & must be fully, totally, and truly committed to making money C There+s never enough money C There+s something 7dirty8 about money and those who have a lot of it C )oney is the root of all evil C The rich get richer and the poor get poorer C )ore money is better C )oney doesn+t grow on trees C Some have the 7gift8 of making money and others don+t C )oney doesn+t come easy C !ou can+t have money and be spiritual C )oney comes from 7out there,8 and you have to go 7out there8 to get it and bring it 7in here8 to you So, how many of these beliefs did you think were True0 All of them0 5alf of them0 A few of them0 )y favorite on this list is 7money doesn+t grow on trees 8 & used to hear that a lot when & was youngD and it always puMMled me, becauseK !es, it does grow on trees )oney is made of paper, and paper is made from treesH So that one is 3alse /ould it surprise you to know none of the list above is True0 Not one % not in a holographic universe They are all beliefs people have about money, 7stories8 they make up to eFplain why they think they don+t have enough money, or can+t make more money, or in many ways feel like they are a victim of the 7money game 8 RepeatB All of these beliefs are false in a holographic universe, which should be eFpected since they were all formed while inside the movie theater Let+s take a closer look at why they+re all falseK Remember that 3ons34o5sness creates everything from The 3ield !our /n inite / is 3ons34o5snessD therefore, your /n inite / is creating everything you eFperience in your holographic universe as the 'layer, down to the smallest detail

Look at this picture again carefullyK

The 'layer is on the other side of The 3ield, from which all things are created All power resides in the /n inite /, and a 'layer has no power to create anything Said the other way, everything we have, everything we see, everything we eFperience has been created for us by our /n inite /<s This is the first and most important concept to understand, especially about money :ut it+s also the most difficult for the ego to accept The ego would like to think the 'layer could create something, manifest something, make something happen :ut it+s simply not possible in a holographic universe, since we % the 'layers % are on the other side of The 3ield, with and in the hologram (nly an /n inite / can create a hologram, and only an /n inite / can create money in that hologram :ut if an /n inite / chooses certain specific eFperiences from The 3ield it wants its 'layer to have % and the only reason an /n inite / would create a 'layer is for that 'layer to have eFperiences % wouldn+t the /n inite / also give its 'layer all the tools it needs to have those eFperiences as well0 =oes it make sense any /n inite / % with infinite resources at its disposal % would want its 'layer to have a certain eFperience and then not give it everything it needs to have that eFperience, including all the money reLuired, especially since the 'layer has no power to create anything on its own0 So the first thing to understand about money is that it is created by your /n inite /, and if your /n inite / wants you to have any particular holographic eFperience, it will have to provide all the money you need to have that eFperience as well OThe eFception to this, of course, is if your /n inite / wants you to eFperience not having money for some reasonD but it+s still providing all the money you need for that eFperience, even though 7all the money you need8 might mean 7not enough8 as far as you are concerned P NNN

&t+s true most 'layers think they 7make money,8 and they have developed all kinds of beliefs about how that money has to be 7made8 % by working, by selling something, by getting loans or gifts, by inheritance % by many different methods The truth is the /n inite / is the one who creates the money for its 'layerD but it can only 7send8 that money to its 'layer in ways that the 'layer thinks it can receive it This is where the 'layer+s beliefs come in So let+s look again at that list of beliefs about money we had aboveK C & have to earn money C & have to work for money C & can+t afford everything & want C There+s a limited supply of money available to me C Every time & spend money, my supply of money decreases C Nothing & really want is free C &f & want more money, & have to work harder, or smarter, or deliver more value C &+ve got to have a plan to make money, invest it wisely, and build wealth over time C &f & have money, & have to protect it or & could lose it C & have to be 7responsible8 with my money C & must be fully, totally, and truly committed to making money C There+s never enough money C There+s something 7dirty8 about money and those who have a lot of it C )oney is the root of all evil C The rich get richer and the poor get poorer C )ore money is better C )oney doesn+t grow on trees C Some have the 7gift8 of making money and others don+t C )oney doesn+t come easy C !ou can+t have money and be spiritual C )oney comes from 7out there,8 and you have to go 7out there8 to get it and bring it 7in here8 to you &f you happen to have any of these beliefs and think they are true, then that+s the only way your /n inite / can 7send8 you money, since you will only be able to perceive that money based on your beliefs An /n inite / could create a million dollars in a 'layer+s bank account 7out of thin air,8 and the 'layer would think it was 7some kind of mistake8 if their beliefs say it can+t happen that way, or think they can only get money in other ways (ne woman owed her bank [*$,$$$ (ne day she got a statement saying her balance was [$ She immediately called the bank, which was very Luick to agree with her that it was definitely a mistake and sent her a new statement restoring the [*$,$$$ balance OTrue story P Another woman, who understands how money works in a holographic universe, owed her bank [.$,$$$ /hen she received a statement that her balance was [$, she simply eFpressed her deepest appreciation to her /n inite / and went on with her life OTrue story P

& like to call these beliefs we have about money, 7stories 8 A 'layer needs a 7story8 to eFplain how they get money The /n inite / needs no 7story8 to eFplain its creation of moneyD only the 'layer, with its limited mind and limited beliefs and limited thinking, needs a 7story8 to receive it This is eFactly how it is supposed to be in the first half of the 5uman <ame, because reLuiring a story creates a lot of limitation &f there are only a few ways you believe you can get money % earning it, winning it, or inheriting it, for eFample % then there are severe limitations put on how you can get money and how much you can get The /n inite / has no such limitations on how much money it can create for its 'layerD and in the second half of the 5uman game % when a 'layer is no longer eFploring how limited it can become % it is time to leave behind all the beliefs, all the stories we have made up about money Notice & said 7leave behind all the beliefs 8 & didn+t say, 7change the beliefsD8 and this is a very important point All these self"help techniLues, all these 7secrets8 someone tries to share with you about manifesting more money and more cars and moreK everything, are all based on several skewed premises, which is why they don+t work for most people most of the time 3or instanceK C They say you have the power to manifest anything you want !ou don+t &t+s that simple =espite what your ego wants you to believe, only your /n inite / can manifest something in your holographic eFperienceD not you C They say you can attract money and cars and such into your life by meditating or praying or visualiMing them, or repeating certain affirmations !ou can+tD at least, not on a consistent basis O/e+ll talk more in a minute about why this might work occasionally P C They say all you have to do is to change your be$ie s, like the 7power of positive thinking 8 /hat+s wrong with the 7power of positive thinking08 Again, nothing 7wrong8 with it &t+s perfect for the first half of the 5uman <ame because it leads into such limitationD first, because it+s 7thinking,8 which belongs to the first half while 7feeling8 belongs to the second halfD secondly, because the 'layer has no 7powerD8 and thirdly, because it simply trades one belief for another True, a positive thought might be 7better8 than a negative thought if you+re in the first half of the 5uman <ame :ut in the second half, that+s a EudgmentD and as we+ve seen, Eudgments keep us limited Anderneath all beliefs are Eudgments &f there was no Eudgment, there would be no need for a belief and it would cease to eFist :ut if you try to 7change your beliefs8 without changing the Eudgment, nothing really changes at all !ou+re Eust substituting one belief for another while the Eudgment remains intact &f there really were a 7secret8 to manifesting everything we want, it would work for all the people who use it all the time The actual result from all this self"help is that when it doesn+t work % which means for most people most of the time % the person feels worse about themselves than when they started, thinking there is something wrong with them,

that they can+t do it 7right,8 that they+re deficient or defective somehow The ironic perfection is that+s eFactly what every first"half techniLue or religion or theory is designed to do % make you feel more limited So & am not suggesting you 7change your beliefs8 at all &+m suggesting you see your beliefs for what they are % limiting filters on your perceptions % and leave them behind altogether Even in the powerful eFample =r Lipton used in his seminar, where people saw one picture of 3EAR with one set of glasses and another picture of L(GE with another set of glasses, it was still trading one filter for anotherD and neither filter allowed you to see the whole picture As 'layers in the second half of the 5uman <ame, we don+t need beliefsD we don+t need stories /hat we need to do now is to see the whole picture % both 3EAR and L(GE % end our Eudgments of both of them, and % like Triumph and =isaster % start to 7treat those two imposters Eust the same 8 NNN

/e talked in #hapter Twenty"3our about 7virtual reality8K

&f part of your computer"generated 7virtual reality8 eFperience was to look at your bank account and see a million dollars in it, & wonder whether you would say, 7This must be a mistake & didn+t earn that money 8 )ost likely you would realiMe it was created out of thin air by the designer of your 7virtual reality8 eFperience and would not need to figure out how it got there &n fact, you would know how it got there :ut according to Luantum physics, life itself is a 7virtual reality8 eFperience, a holographic universe created for us by our /n inite /<s &f we, as 'layers, would stop needing some 7story8 about how money can come to us, it would take away all the limitations we put on receiving money and make the /n inite /<s Eob so much easier NNN (ne Luestion & hear a lot from friends, especially peaceworkersK 75ow do we get our /n inite /<s to create more money for us, since we want to do Jgood+ things with it08 The answer may be difficult for some people to takeB 7The Luestion itself is a lot of the reason you may be having trouble 8 /hy0 3irst of all, the thought that you 7want to do Jgood+ things with money8 is still a Eudgment &n fact, there+s even one group who thinks there is something innately 7wrong8 with money and that it needs to be 7humaniMed,8 * which they would be happy to do if you Eust give it to them As far as your /n inite / is concerned, there are not 7good8 things or 7bad8 things that can be done with money )oney % like everything else % is neutral )oney does not need to be 7spiritualiMed,8 or 7humaniMed,8 or 7purified8 by using it for 7all the right reasons 8

There are no 7right ways8 or 7wrong ways8 to use moneyD that+s Eust another Eudgment to let go of As you recall, in the first half, the game was to see how much limitation a 'layer could eFperience on the outside so the /n inite / could have an 7inner eFperience 8 That means the /n inite / can use money, for eFample, as a tool to create limitation 3or some people, it might mean not having much money, or none at all That alone can produce a great deal of limitation 3or other 'layers, their /n inite / might choose to give them all the money they can have % even more than they can spend % and eFperience the limitations that come with wealth, like realiMing that peace and Eoy are not the result of having a lot of money &+m sure you know people who are wealthy but very unhappy at the same time &n fact, having money can often be more limiting than not having it (r maybe an /n inite / gives its 'layer money, and they lose it and eFperience limitation that way (r maybe a 'layer is very comfortable financially, but something happens to the economy and the 'layer feels victimiMed by 7powers beyond its control8 when the fortune they think they worked so hard to create is suddenly gone All of these possibilities and more can lead to limiting eFperiences in the first half of the <ame The bottom line is that it is the /n inite / who decides how much money you+re going to have based on the eFperiences it wants you to have and the best way it decides it can create those eFperiences That+s true in the second half of the 5uman <ame as well &n the second half the /n inite / wants you to enEoy infinite abundance, and that includes having all the money you want and need :ut this isn+t going to mean that as soon as you start playing the Second 5alf your bank account is automatically going to be full to overflowing, because you still have Eudgments about money that you developed in the first half, and beliefs about how you can get that money that have to be dealt with :etter said, in the first half of the <ame you assigned a lot of power 7out there8 in relationship to money % who creates it, what you have to do 7out there8 to bring it 7in here,8 and so onD and as we+ve discussed, the first thing you will be doing in the second half is having eFperiences that show you where you have assigned this power in order for you to 7reclaim8 it and recogniMe the true source of abundance % your /n inite / NNN So can we Eust ask our /n inite / for money, or pray for it0 !es, you can !ou can send a message to your /n inite / in any way you feel is appropriate that you would like some money !ou should feel free at any time to let your /n inite / know your wishes % which it probably already does, but it doesn+t matter Ask anyway :y the way, you only need to ask once !our /n inite / will hear you the first time and doesn+t need a reminderH Asking more than once looks a lot like a Eudgment that something+s wrong because you haven+t gotten it yet Remember, your /n inite / may decide not getting what you ask for is the most appropriate eFperience for you and it, even in the second halfD so you cannot have any eFpectations attached to your reLuest when you ask, no need to have you wish fulfilled 'erhaps your /n inite / has something else in store that might make you even more Eoyful and more abundant than what you were asking forH

This was certainly true for me )y /n inite / knew how much & loved the ocean, and sailing, and whales and dolphins & often dreamt of living on a boat, but & had no money to make that happen &nstead of giving me a couple million dollars, my /n inite / created an eFperience for me sailing around the east Atlantic (cean on an eighty"foot sailboat with some of my best friends, swimming with the whales and dolphins, playing music, and having the time of my life for a yearD and it didn+t cost me a penny & could never have created that on my own, or even thought about that possibility So why ask for money in the first place0 &f you want to ask for something, why not ask instead for what you know you+re going to get anyway % whatever eFperiences your /n inite / wants you to have, along with all the money needed for those eFperiencesD and if you+re still in the phase of recogniMing where you have assigned power 7out there8 about money, you really should be asking for eFperiences when you don<t get the money you want so you can clearly see the limiting Eudgments and beliefs you still have about money 7:ut wait a minute,8 a good friend says to me 7& decided & wanted a motorcycleD so & used 'he Secret, visualiMed what & wanted, and & got oneH8 3antasticH & am sincerely happy for you and glad you got what you wanted :ut & have to disagree with you about how you got it, since you have no power to create anything, and neither does some secret law of attraction (nly your /n inite / could create a motorcycle for you, and & can think of a lot of other eFplanations of how and why you got what you wanted 3or eFample, since & know you, & know what a really good man you areD and if & were your /n inite /, & would give you a motorcycle too, Eust to reward you for what a great Eob you+re doing as my 'layer & can also imagine it happened the other way around % that your /n inite / wanted you to have a motorcycle, and has wanted that for a long time, but your beliefs made it difficult to get one for you until you decided you could 7manifest8 one using a secret formula OThat, by the way, is the one benefit of 'he Secret and the 7Law of Attraction8 % that you eFpand your beliefs about how things can come into your reality P (r maybe your /n inite / wanted you to begin to realiMe that it was the source of all your eFperiences, and deepen the connection and communication with youD and the best way it could find to do that was give you a motorcycle, and then later give you this paragraph in this book to let you know where it really came from The possibilities are endless The only possibility that is not possible Owhat0HP is that you 7manifested8 the motorcycle, because it simply cannot be something you did independent of a holographic eFperience created by your /n inite / RecogniMing that fact is an important step to take in the cocoon =espite what the ego would like us to believe % that we have the power to create a motorcycle, for eFample, or money, or a house, or anything because of something we, as a 'layer, did % this is one of those beliefs inside the movie theater that can only lead further into limitation :y design, it+s important the 'layer !isassign the true source of its eFperiences in the first half or the illusion would be broken and the <ame would be up As & said, since & know you, & also know you+ve tried to manifest other things before using this same 7secret,8 and they haven+t worked /hat+s important to understand is that it wasn+t you who did anything wrong in those other cases &n fact, you % and all of us % have done everything perfectly as 'layers, whether we realiMe it or not The techniLues

we have used to try to make our eFperiences different are what do not work !es, they all contain some truth and some workability some of the time for some peopleD but they are anywhere from slightly skewed to way off target in order to make the first half of the <ame possible NNN Now that we+re playing in the second half, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth can be revealedD and as 'layers we will be given new opportunities to eFperience something very different 3or instance, off the top of my head & can think of siF general ways in which we blocked the flow of money in the first half of the 5uman <ame that we might have to take a close look at in the second half in order to start behaving in the opposite wayB * 5aving Eudgments and beliefs about money , /anting money because you think something has to be fiFed, changed or improved in your eFperiences or 7out there8 . Thinking you have the power to create money 1 Thinking you have to 7do something8 to get money 2 Thinking money has to have a 7story8 of how it comes to you 4 Not trusting the /n inite / /e+ve talked a lot about most of these already, so let me Eust make a few additional commentsK & know so many people who want money because they want something 7out there8 to be different )aybe it+s to save the whales, or end poverty or hunger, or create world peace Noble thoughts, all of themD but still Eudgments that something+s wrong and needs to be fiFed, changed or improved Remember that the whales, poverty, hunger, war and violence are showing up in your holographic eFperience, created by your /n inite /, for a reason &n the first half of the <ame, the reason was to create more limitation &n the second half, it+s to show you where you assigned power 7out there8 and forgot the fact your /n inite / was creating everything in your hologram and none of it was 7real 8 So in the second half it+s doubtful your /n inite / % who wants only infinite Eoy and abundance for you % will financially support the continuation of these first"half Eudgments (ne of the biggest beliefs to let go of is that we, as 'layers, not only have the power to create money, but that we have to go out and 7do something8 in order to get it % in other words, to be 7pro"active,8 especially when it comes to money :ut, literally, there is nothing we can do (ur /n inite / is doing it all for us, and our only part is to leave behind our Eudgments and beliefs and therefore be more able to receive the abundance trying to come our way The fact is that we only think we have to do something because we have these made" up stories of how money can get to us /hen we let go of those stories, money can start to flow in many different ways we can hardly imagine Let me offer two eFamples Obased on actual eFperiencesP from a different gender perspective, beginning with Rladies firstR

!our parents are about to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and youQve been working for months to collect pictures of them since they were very young to make into a movie celebrating their lives together !ou found the final picture you wanted last night, and now youQre ready to start creating the video There is this really cool software program you ran across on the &nternet to make videos with music and voice"over and animation and everything, and it costs [**; ;2 /hen you paid your credit card bill last time, you knew you only had about [*2$ in available credit, and you also need some new shoes for work :ut you are so eFcited about this gift for mom and dad that you decide to buy the software anyway and worry about the shoes later The video is a total success and your parents are very touched /hen your credit card statement arrives, you still have [*2$ available credit This doesnQt make sense !ou look and see your credit limit had not been raisedD and then you notice the charge for the software program is not on the statement, although you had received confirmation of the charge from the company #oncerned that the company had not actually been paid, and not wanting to do anything unethical, you call them R!es, we received payment for your purchase No problem R So you decide to wait, eFpecting the [**; ;2 charge to be on the neFt credit card statement :ut itQs not Nor is it on the neFt monthQs !ou really need those shoes by now, so you purchase them on the same credit card They donQt show up on the neFt few statements either &n fact, none of the charges you make on this credit card are showing up on any statements, although the merchants and vendors are getting paid 3inally, as a second half 'layer, you realiMe your /n inite / is creating money for you in a new and very inventive way, and you eFpress your deep appreciation NNN And now from a male perspective !ou decide to go out to dinner with some friends, and you look in your wallet and see you+ve got [*$ !ou get to the restaurant, look at the menu, and your mouth waters when you read about a T"bone steak !our entire body is filled with Eoy at the thought of eating this T"bone, and your eFcitement grows with each passing minute Then you see the price of the steakB [*1 !ou remember you only have [*$ NeFt you remember the news story last night that red meat is bad for you, and you decide you really shouldn+t eat the steak anyway Then you look across the table at a woman you have been dying to hook"up with and realiMe she+s a vegetarian who only eats organic foodD and since you want to impress her, you don+t want the steak after all /ith each new thought, your eFcitement level goes down and down, until you+re no longer happy you came to dinner 3inally you decide on a #aesar salad Owith no grilled chickenP, which costs [6, so you+ll have a little left for a drink and tip and taF :ut no beer, because your doctor said you have to lose weight, although now you really want one

!ou leave the restaurant an hour later, without the woman of your dreams, sad and lonely and unsatisfied, and [*$ poorer (n top of that, the #aesar salad was terrible and the waitress was rude !ou regret the whole evening (rK !ou decide to go out to dinner with some friends, and you look in your wallet and see you+ve got [*$ !ou get to the restaurant, look at the menu, and your mouth waters when you read about a T"bone steak !our entire body is filled with Eoy at the thought of eating this T"bone, and your eFcitement grows with each passing minute Then you see the price of the steakB [*1, but you remind yourself your /n inite / wants you to follow your eFcitement and Eoy, and will reward you when you do now that you+re playing the second half of the 5uman <ame So you order the steak, and a beer The woman sitting across from you eating her baked potato and broccoli leans over and whispers, 7Strange & really wanted a steak tonight, too & wish & had ordered thatH8 After dinner, saying she really enEoys being around you because you+re such a free and happy person, she gives you her phone number The whole night was a total successD the food was prepared perfectly, and the service was impeccable :est of all, you wake up the neFt morning having lost a couple pounds :ut waitH 5ow did you pay for the steak0 /hen the bill came, you looked in your wallet and there was [,$, not [*$ /ell, you think, you must have miscounted before you left the house )aybe :ut Eust maybe your /n inite / changed your hologram and downloaded [,$ into your wallet instead of [*$ when it was clear you weren+t going to let your Eudgments and beliefs get in the way of your eFcitement After this happens to you a few more times, you finally accept the fact your /n inite / has found another way to create money for you =o this a few times % give your /n inite / the opportunity to support your eFcitement financially % and your life will never be the same Soon you+ll be 7finding8 money in places you never dreamed of, receiving money in ways you never thought possible, and forgetting to look at your bank balance because you know it+s not real anyway and can be changed in the twinkling of an /n inite / NNN RAre you serious0 =oes this really work08 !es, it does At least, it has for me and many other people & know who understand how money works in a holographic universe &+m not saying & always have a lot of money in my pocket or in my bank account :ut & know without a doubt & have access to an unlimited supply of money through my /n inite /, and that & will always have all the money & need to have the eFperiences my /n inite / wantsD and that+s a fantastic place to be, because & never have to worry about money again &t+s really pretty simpleK if my /n inite / wants me to have an eFperience, it will give me all the money needed for that eFperience &f &, as the 'layer, think & want to have an eFperience, but my /n inite / disagrees with me, the money won+t be available no matter what & might try to make happen !ou can+t get any simpler than thatH

:ut & don+t think that+s really the Luestion )ost probably the real Luestion on your mind is, 7/ill this work for you08 Specifically, in the first half of the 5uman <ame, we believed we had to be 7pro" active,8 believed we had to 7do something8 to 7make something happen 8 (ut of that belief came others related to money, like having to work for it, or go 7out there8 and get it, or make other people give it to us in one form or another &n fact, the only ways we thought we could get money were totally dependent on other people, to whom we assigned a lot of power &n reality, even in the first half, our /n inite / was creating all the money we were getting as part of the holograms it downloaded to our brains, the amount of money limited of course by our Eudgments and beliefs about the ways it could come to us &t Eust $oo*ed like we were 7making money 8 &t Eust $oo*ed like we were dependent on other people to give it to us &n the second half, we can leave all that behind with the absolute certainty that all the money we need for any eFperience will be part of any hologram our /n inite / downloads to us :ut please don+t misunderstand &+m not suggesting that all you do in the second half is sit in your chair and wait for the money to be magically deposited into your bank account, unless that+s what brings you the most Eoy and all you+re motivated to do at that moment & a! suggesting that whatever you feel eFcited to do, whatever brings you Eoy, is where you should focus all your attention and energy, rather than doing something that doesn+t bring you Eoy because you feel you 7have to make money 8 )aybe the resentment and other discomfort you feel working at a Eob you don+t like simply for the money is your /n inite /<s way of saying 7Stop itH8 and find out what eFcites you to do the most, regardless of the money The only thing stopping most people from doing Eust that is fear :ut who knows0 'erhaps what really eFcites you would bring in more money than whatever Eob you hate now There+s only one thing & can guarantee you, based on my own eFperience and the results of testing and challenging this modelB (nce you+ve processed your Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears about money, your /n inite / will have a much easier Eob getting the money to you to follow your eFcitementD and you will grow to trust your /n inite / completely that it will provide all the money you need to have the eFperiences it wants NNN & could give you Luite a few eFamples from my own life when money appeared in my bank account or my wallet for absolutely no reason % eFactly the amount & needed to do something, and eFactly right on time % with the paperwork to prove itD and & have no idea where the money came from &n fact, now &+m so used to money showing up out of thin air that &+m no longer surprised when it does 5owever, an /n inite /<s financial support doesn+t always take the form of cash or credit card charges that never show up on the statement Sometimes your /n inite /, in its infinite wisdom and power, has a better way to create an eFperience for you that you thought was going to take cash The year & spent on the whale and dolphin research ship

is a good eFample, where it didn+t cost me a penny, nor did & have to find a half"million dollars to build the ship & will admit, however, there are times & wonder how my /n inite / is going to 7pull this one off 8 3or eFample, it became very obvious recently that my /n inite / wanted me to go back to the Anited States for a while & don+t yet fully understand why, or for how longD and & was very surprised because & am so happy living in Europe :ut it seemed like the flow was in the direction of 7home8 from reading all the ripples in the Aniversal ocean, including almost magical 7coincidences8 of finding the perfect flight at the perfect time for the perfect price :ut & still didn+t have the money to pay for the ticket & wasn+t worried about where the money was coming from &n fact, if the money didn+t show up, & would simply have understood that & was reading the ripples incorrectly and & wasn+t supposed to go back to the States after all :ut & did wonder, when the ripples became clear, how my /n inite / was going to come up with a fairly large sum of money this time &n the past, as & said, it has Eust 7appeared8 in my bank account, and & eFpected something similar in this case :ut that+s not what happened &nstead, a friend loaned me the money Normally & don+t like borrowing money from people & used to do that inside the movie theater, but hadn+t since & walked out the back door, making it clear to my /n inite / that & wasn+t totally comfortable with that method of getting money to me % a Eudgment of mine about 7other people+s8 money 5owever, my /n inite / chose this opportunity for me to let go of this particular belief on how money can come to me, letting me see the Eudgments and fears and layers of the ego underneath, and reminding me 7other people8 are in my hologram 7to set something in motion to support me 8 &n fact, & could accept this 7loan8 from my friend because & also knew with certainty it was what his /n inite / wanted to happen for him, although & may never know why NNN 5ere+s the best way & can come up with to eFplain this in a nutshellK /e+re playing a very sophisticated video game, using the 7Earth Environment8 template, but designed uniLuely for each 'layer by their /n inite / That /n inite / has certain eFperiences it wants its 'layer to have % 7outer eFperiences8 in order for the /n inite / to have the 7inner eFperiences 8 &n most good video games, a 'layer needs certain things to play, stay alive, and make it to the final destination % such as weapons, ammunition, energy packs, special tools or skills, keys, clues, and so on &n our video game, we need a lot of things as well, but mostly we need money so we can buy everything else &n a video game, the designer creates everything and makes it available during the game so all the player has to do is find it and grab it and add it to their inventory &n our video game, the same thing is true All the money we need to play, stay alive, and make it to our final destination is created by our /n inite / % since we, as a 'layer have no power to create anything % and it+s all right there for the 'layer to take So it+s the Eob of the /n inite / to create the money we need and make it available &t+s the Eob of the 'layer to find it and grab it 73inding it,8 however, is made difficult when

the 'layer believes the money can only be in certain locations, and they can only get it if they work for it or win it or inherit it orK /hen a 'layer lets go of these belief systems about money, they can begin to see it in many different places and their /n inite / can make it more easily available :ut it+s still the 'layer+s Eob to reach out and take the money That+s what+s meant about a 'layer having total free will over their reactions and responses to the eFperiences created for them & could have, for instance, not taken the loan from my friend to buy my airline ticket back to the States, choosing instead to hang on to my Eudgment and belief about 7other people+s8 money &n that case & would not have been able to ride the ripple and follow the flow in the direction my /n inite / was offering So there are two basic reasons & can give for this phenomenon & eFperience with money 3irst, & have let go of virtually all my Eudgments and beliefs about moneyD and secondly, & have taken off almost all the limits on the ways my /n inite / can get that money to me, giving it many more possibilities & will admit, however, having money Eust appear in my outstretched hand would still freak me out )aybe one dayK

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THE EGO
:ack to the Table of #ontents !ou+ve been pretty hard on the ego throughout this book &sn+t that a Eudgment in itself0 %nswer4 EFcellent point, and &+m glad for the chance to clarify it 3irst, let+s make sure we agree on what we mean by the 7ego,8 since that word has been used a lot and means different things to different people &n this book & have used 7ego8 to mean the personality construct we create while playing the 5uman <ame &t is composed of many layers of false identities we assume as we encounter the limiting and restricting holographic eFperiences in the first half &n fact, the ego is what allows us to play the first half of the <ameD otherwise we could not form our Eudgments, beliefs, and opinions and fulfill our purpose for the /n inite / All of our fears, for eFample % with the fear of non"eFistence as the most basic % are the result of some threat to one or more layers of the ego, which fights back for its very eFistence &n that sense, we can eFpress great appreciation to the ego for the role it has performed so well while in the movie theater &t, too, was as perfect as everything else in our holographic eFperience The process inside the cocoon, as & have described it, is becoming aware of all these layers of the ego % the false identities we have assumed % and letting go of them &t+s a process of finding out who we are not, and then ultimately finding the true answer to who we are :ut we have assigned the ego a lot of power during the first half of the 5uman <ame, and we have rewarded it time and time again for the good Eob it has done, to the point that it seems to have taken on a life of its own &n his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy,* -ed )c@enna actually personifies the ego, making it female and calling it 7)aya8K ,the goddess (aya, architect o this !agni icent pa$ace o de$usion9,(aya E goddess o con usion and !isdirection9,(aya, Lord o the Prison o Dua$ity9-ed speaks a lot in terms of fighting a battle with )aya on the road to becoming a butterflyK ,(aya, goddess o de$usion, has been doing her ?ob with supre!e !astery since the irst spar* o se$ 8awareness $ic*ered in so!e !on*ey<s brainbo.9-

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,'his is (aya<s house+ She contro$s everything+ She has every advantage+ 5e are patients in (aya<s asy$u! 9+,'hu!b through any !aga>ine, $ip through the channe$s o the '), go wherever there are peop$e, and you<$$ see nothing but a !orbid$y ?uveni$e, ear8in ected, stunted, runtish race over which (aya reigns supre!e and uncha$$enged9+Kand -ed seems to think )aya will win a lot of the timeK ,"ou thin* you<re on top o so!ething, but the on$y thing to be on top o is (aya, and she<s on top o you $i*e a house on a !ouse9+,'his is the one true war o which a$$ others are but shadows, and or which a$$ other con $ict is but a !etaphor+ /n the short ter!, (aya a$!ost a$ways crushes the rebe$$ion+ By !y esti!ate, her winO$oss ratio is better than 100,000,00041+&t should not surprise anyone that when you begin to dismantle the ego in the cocoon, the ego will fight back &t knows it is literally fighting for its life, because if you follow through with the 'rocess and spiritual autolysis, the end result is its virtual annihilation O/e will never eliminate the ego completely as long as we have a body and play the 5uman <ame P :ut we should not make the mistake of Eudging or blaming the ego, or view the transformation into a butterfly as an all"out war with the ego After all, the ego is simply another piece of the hologram that isn+t real, but only looks and feels realD and it has played its part perfectly in our holographic eFperiences Eust like anything and anyone else we have encountered while playing the 5uman <ame Any other approach will continue to assign power to the ego it does not possess on its own ,&ear o truth is the oundation upon which (aya<s Pa$ace o De$usion is erected+ She has no power but that we give her+,)iewed this way, the idea that (aya is evi$, that de$usion is negative, that the drea!state is a prison, or that the dua$istic universe is anything other than the grandest and !ost wonder u$ o a$$ b$essings is $aughab$y absurd+ 5hy hate (ayaD 5here wou$d you be without herDNNN &f you planned a walking tour from )aine to 3lorida, starting in -anuary, the first thing you+d do would be to put on some warm clothes As you walked, and the temperature went down even more, you+d keep adding layers of clothes to keep you warm :ut by the time you got to South #arolina in April, you+d start taking off those layers, one by one, since you no longer need them to protect you from the weather (nce you hit 3lorida, you would have discarded almost every piece of clothing you had & doubt you+d curse those clothes or consider them to have been 7wrong 8 )ore likely you would appreciate the warmth they provided you, be grateful to have had them,

and thank each piece as you threw it away for the role it had played on your successful trip NNN &n #hapter SiFteen & mentioned a good friend who had been in his cocoon for about a year and a half, making some real progress, when his ego % )aya % began fighting back with a vengeance As we all do, he was eFperiencing holograms that brought back to life the more difficult Eudgments, beliefs, opinions and fears he had formed inside the movie theater during his first"half yearsD and when the going got tough, he didn+t seem to like how he was feeling Apparently he thought he had done enough work by then and should only be eFperiencing holograms of the second"half variety, so he began blaming his /n inite / for 7f[\king him over, as usual 8 5e stopped running the 'rocess or doing spiritual autolysis and started to Eustify his Eudgments, maintain his beliefs, and strengthen his opinions Every 'layer has free will to decide how they want to react and respond to the holographic eFperiences they encounter, and this was his choice % to let )aya win this one, at least for the time being, even though he didn+t recogniMe that+s what he was doing 5e wasn+t 7wrong8 for making that decision, because that has to be perfect, too :ut my friend % who in so many ways has been such great support to me in writing this book % helped me to see Eust how clever )aya can be and gave me the opportunity to emphasiMe another important pointK &n the 'reface to 'art Two, & talked about presenting you with models, not belief systems, and that 7a model is designed to be tested and challenged to see how well it performs 8 &n this case )aya convinced my friend he was making a legitimate test or challenge to the model rather than escaping the discomfort and leaving her alone to survive in peace, by prompting him to ask Luestions about the theory of the model % Luestions that began with 7/hy8 and 7/hat if,8 and 7&+m not sure & agree thatK 8 5owever, the only valid and legitimate test or challenge to a model is to see how well it performs in app$ication, not in theory &n my friend+s particular situation, the model was clearly working perfectly, producing eFactly the kind of results it was supposed to 5e Eust didn+t like the way it felt at the time :ut no one said it was going to feel good all the way through the cocoon, especially if you hit a 7dark night of the soul 8 So if there+s still discomfort, keep running the 'rocess &t+s only the ego talking when there+s the thought to get out of what you+re feeling and go back into your headD and )aya speaks in very sophisticated, inviting, and clever ways So know this about the egoB you shouldn+t underestimate it, you won+t outsmart it, and you can+t resist it NNN There+s an old story about how you cook a frog !ou don+t boil a pot of water on the stove and drop the frog in, because it will Eust Eump back out to get away from the heat &nstead you put the frog into the pot while the water is cool and slowly turn up the heat while the frog sits there until it+s boiled

!ou also don+t take a big bite out of an onion or it will overpower you !ou eat an onion one slice at a time until it+s all gone Annihilating the ego is a similar process % one layer at a time as your /n inite / provides the appropriate holographic eFperiences As & said about death, you must meet the ego eye"to"eye, understand it, accept it, embrace it, appreciate it for what it is and the service it has provided for you, and then Luietly and systematically dismantle it one layer at a time until there+s nothing left % eFpecting each new layer to be more difficult than the last, and not Luitting until you+re done

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Question4 This whole model seems to me a very selfish way to live

/here+s your

heart0 /here+s your compassion for the pain and suffering of others0 %nswer4 & have no interest in Eustifying or defending 7selfishness 8 & will leave that up to people like Robert Ringer OLoo*ing 1ut or Y1P, Ayn Rand O'he )irtue o Se$ ishnessP, :ud 5arris OSacred Se$ ishness4 % Guide to Living a Li e o Substance P, =avid Seabury O'he %rt o Se$ ishnessP, the 5ellers O6ea$thy Se$ ishness4 Getting the Li e "ou Deserve 5ithout the Gui$tP, and )ahatma <andhi O7Be the change you wish to see in the wor$d+8P As for my heart, it is as open as it has ever been As you drop all Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears, your heart can+t do anything eFcept open wider and wider and be filled with love and appreciation for the perfection of everything, and especially love for your own /n inite / :ut co!passion is a very different story &t+s true co!passion is the new spiritual buMMword, perhaps helped a lot by the =alai Lama Like 7Eudgment,8 co!passion has been made to seem 7right8 and proper and a 7good8 thing to have &n fact, being compassionate has become the hallmark of enlightenment and the most important trait a 7good8 person !ust have, in the same way 7Eudgment8 has become a symbol of intelligence and reason :ut let+s find out what co!passion really meansK 7Deep awareness o the su ering o another coup$ed with the wish to re$ieve it 8* 7Sy!pathetic consciousness o others# distress together with a desire to a$$eviate it 8, &t should be clear by those definitions that co!passion belongs in the first half of the 5uman <ame, inside the movie theater, and not in the second half /hy0 /hat+s 7wrong8 with co!passion0 Nothing is 7wrong 8 That would be a Eudgment :ut co!passion as it is defined Oand practicedP automatically leads a 'layer to Eudge the eFperiences of someone else as 7bad8 or 7wrong,8 to think they have the power to change that person+s reality, and to entertain the wish to do soD and none of that is possible or appropriate in the second half of the 5uman <ame &t also inevitably leads the 'layer who+s trying to be compassionate into frustration, sadness, and sometimes even despairD or, in other words, it leads further into limitation and restriction Therefore, by its very nature, co!passion is not part of infinite Eoy &t also doesn+t feel like EoyD it actually feels 7bad8 to identify with someone else+s pain and suffering &n fact, we+re supposed to feel 7bad8 for someone else if we+re compassionate O7& feel bad for them8P The synonyms given in the dictionary for co!passion are 7pity8 and 7sympathy 8 & doubt anyone would suggest 7pity8 and 7sympathy8 feel Eoyful

&n a meeting of the intentional community in Tamera, a young man from &srael stood up and announced his recent revelation that his only Eob in life was to be happy Everyone cheered, and a feeling of Eoy and eFcitement and enthusiasm filled the room Then a young woman stood up, the daughter of the guru, and admonished everyone not to forget all the pain and suffering of others The bubble in the room Luickly burst Try to recall right now what it feels like to be compassionate =oes it feel like Eoy to you0 !ou can do the same thing with Eealousy, for eFample =oes it make you feel loving to feel Eealous0 =oes it make you feel eFpansive and powerful0 =oes it make you feel all warm and fuMMy like love does0 &n the same way that Eealousy cannot be part of infinite love, co!passion cannot be part of infinite Eoy &t+s as simple as that The only way co!passion could make you feel 7good8 is because you think by being compassionate, you+re being a 7good8 person NNN :ut there+s more to talk about Let+s really dissect this thing called co!passion, since it+s become such a big button in the first half of the 5uman <ame Remember that the holographic eFperiences you perceive are not 7real,8 and that your /n inite / is creating your own reality Remember also that the people you see in your holograms % the 7other people8 % are actors playing a role for you and reading a script word"for"word written by your /n inite / Think again about the analogy of our holographic universe to a total immersion movie, created as an 7outer eFperience8 to give you and your /n inite / an 7inner eFperience 8 /hatever you perceive, then, in your 7reality8 is being played out for you % for your eFperience, for your benefit % by actors, like a movie or a play &f you went to a play at your local theater, there might be an emotional scene where some character you cared about was killed, or maimed, or raped, or tortured, or starved, or displaced, or abused &f it+s a good play with professional actors, a convincing script and perfect scenery, you should 7feel8 what the writer of the play wanted you to feel % anger, frustration, sympathy, sadness, pain, regret, grief, sorrow, or a whole host of other emotions, none of which come close to Eoy :ut that+s what the play was designed to do Then after the play, you go neFt door to the bar for a drinkD and there, by chance, are the very same actors you Eust watched :ut they+re very much alive, healthy, happy, unscathed, enEoying a beer and Eoking around with the rest of the troupe /hen you see them there in the bar, would you feel the same emotions for them you did during the play0 (bviously not !ou would probably feel a little silly eFpressing compassion for the actor you had Eust watched starving that is now sitting in front of you eating peanuts and popcorn !ou might even go over and thank them for what a great Eob they did and for the eFperience they gave you, telling them how deeply you felt for them during the play, and then Eoining in their celebration The RrealityR you see Rout thereR as the physical universe is a movie % a fantastic ."= total immersion movie in which you play a part :ut nothing else is different from the play or movie you Eust watched Everyone you see in your RrealityR is part of a hologram and is playing a role your /n inite / has asked them to play and which theyQve agreed to perform at a professional level /hen that role is over, they get up from the battlefield, or

the hospital bed, or the slums, and revel in the good Eob they did to convince you the characters they played were real They gave you a gift of a powerful eFperience, which your /n inite / wanted and created :ut donQt confuse things and start to think the scenes they acted out were anything more than actors playing temporary roles at your /n inite /<s invitation Another big problem with co!passion is the part that makes you want to 7relieve8 or 7alleviate8 someone else+s suffering 3rankly, although it+s cloaked in a very acceptable social veneer, it is the height of arrogance to think we know better than their own /n inite / what eFperiences another person should be having Even )ahatma <andhi said, 7:e the change you wish to see in the world 8 5e didn+t say, 7<o out and change the world into the way you wish to see it,8 or 7<o out and change other people+s eFperiences into the way you think they should be 8 &n the same way you trust your own /n inite / to create the most appropriate eFperiences for you, we can trust the other person+s /n inite / to create the most appropriate eFperiences for them, regardless of how those eFperiences look to you or me on the surface &n fact, there is no other 'layer who appears in your holographic reality whose situation is your responsibility to change Nor do you have the power or authority to change it Their eFperiences have been as carefully chosen for them by their /n inite / as yours have been for you &t+s time we respect that, and respect and trust the choices of other /n inite /<s as well as our own, and not think we know better what they should be eFperiencing :esides, this desire to 7relieve8 or 7alleviate8 someone else+s suffering cannot do anything but produce frustration and anger and depression, since you have no power to do anything about it All you will do is try, and most times fail and feel worse in the end This is why co!passion is such a limiting concept that belongs strictly to the first half of the 5uman <ame NNN R"ou never change things by ighting the e.isting rea$ity+ 'o change so!ething, bui$d a new !ode$ that !a*es the e.isting !ode$ obso$ete+A " R :uckminster 3uller The concept of co!passion, by its very nature, tends to make us ignore this wisdom and fight against what we see happening in the world )any peaceworkers, for eFample, take up the slogan, 7Say No to /ar and Giolence 8 :ut the mere act of thinking or acting against war and violence because of co!passion is, indeed, fighting the eFisting reality 7:ut wait a minuteH8 you protest 7Are you saying & should do nothing when & see another+s pain and suffering in my hologram0 Are you suggesting & sit back and simply watch while a child gets beaten, or a woman raped, or people die from starvation or disease08 Absolutely not That+s not what &+m saying at all :ut rather than co!passion in the first half that can only lead to more limitation, empathy Orather than sympathyP and ethics and eFcitement will determine your reaction in the second half of the 5uman <ame 5ere+s what & meanK

(nce you have run the 'rocess on those holographic eFperiences you encounter as you start the second half % any time you have felt discomfort with someone or a particular situation % you will view those incidents of pain and suffering that might come into your hologram very differently :ut there is something eFtremely important to rememberB as long as you feel discomfort % and that includes the discomfort of co!passion % you are still assigning power 7out there8 and there is still Eudgment (nly when you can see someone else+s pain and suffering without the Eudgment it is 7bad8 or 7wrong8 or 7needs to be changed,8 can you cleanly take any action Then you are free to follow your eFcitement and Eoy in any specific circumstance 3or eFample, &+m often asked what & would do if a hologram popped up where a child was being beaten in front of me & honestly cannot give you a generaliMed answer, because so much of it depends on the situation :ut my own ethics might lead me to want to do something about it, since & am the caretaker of the holographic eFperiences my /n inite / has created for me )aybe & would step in between the adult and the child, and inform the adult & do not Eudge what sUhe is doing, but & reLuest sUhe beat me instead of the child, and & would not resist 5owever, that+s Eust one possibility Ander no circumstances would & Eudge what was going on as 7right8 or 7wrong,8 or 7good8 or 7bad,8 nor Eudge the actors playing their parts, nor think & !ust or shou$d change the action itself :ut right now & can imagine my personal feeling of eFcitement and Eoy would be to prefer to be beaten myself than to watch the child being beaten & would also never strike back or try to defend myself Neither would )ahatma <andhi, as he proved time and again (kay That+s a particular individual situation /hat about the millions of people starving in the world, those getting killed and maimed every day in countless wars and other violence, those who are homeless and hungry and sick % which is a fair number of the Earth+s population if we watch and believe the TG news0 /hat about them0 7:e the change you wish to see in the world,8 <andhi said So here+s another tough conceptK &n spite of all the pain and suffering we are shown 7out there,8 our only Eob as a 'layer in the second half of the 5uman <ame is to 7reclaim8 the power we assigned 7out there8 in the first half, and take the rollercoaster ride back to infinite Eoy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite abundance, and infinite love &t is solely our responsibility to live our own reality &n fact, when our holograms include pictures of pain and suffering 7out there,8 it is primarily because our /n inite / is trying to show us where we assigned power in the first half and give us the opportunity to 7reclaim8 it These holographic images of pain and suffering are not for us to do something about the!, but about us as individual 'layers to do something about us 'ut simply, someone else+s pain and suffering that finds its way into our holograms is an opportunity to leave Eudgment and co!passion behind and eFplore a new way of feeling and acting Remember what we said about 7other people8 in #hapter Twenty"3ourK 7(ther people8 serve three main purposes in your holographic eFperienceB * To reflect something you think or feel about yourself , To give you the gift of information or insight

. To set something in motion to support you. This includes all the 7other people8 who you are now Eudging to be in pain and sufferingD and nowhere on that list does it say 7other people8 serve the purpose of having you 7save8 them from their eFperiences Along the way, however, we will start to feel eFcitement inside % eFcitement that is prompting us to do something So if & see someone else in pain and suffering in my hologram, and & do not Eudge it or fall into the trap of wanting to change it, & might find it totally Eoyful and eFciting to take some action anyway /hat if someone in my hologram asks me for help0 & give it gladly, as long as it brings me total Eoy to do so % without Eudgment or discomfort % and as long as & have no eFpectations of the outcome 'lease don+t get me wrong & am often touched on a very deep level when & see someone in my hologram in pain or suffering, and & will give my help if asked if & can do it without the intention to fiF, change, or improve things :ut & also know it is impossible for them to be a victim, Eust as it is impossible for me to be a victim, of anyone or anything 7out thereD8 so & offer my support in any way & can while they have such a difficult and limiting eFperience, because & know they are playing in the first half of the 5uman <ame This is really no different than giving encouragement to someone on the first hill of the rollercoaster, supporting them in any way possible to 75ang in thereH8 This may be a crude eFample, but it+s the best & can think of at the moment Someone calls out to me from the rollercoaster going up the hill They say theyQre getting sick and need help & will do everything in my power to get to them, bring them a barf bag, hold their hair back while they get sick, offer them some encouraging words, or give them whatever assistance & can at the time /hat & won#t do is Eudge their eFperience as Rwrong,8 or that it should be different and needs to be changed, or sympathiMe with them, or pity them, or try to get them off the rollercoaster &Qve been thereD it doesnQt feel good, and & know it & also know the eFperience theyQre having has been carefully chosen for them by their own /n inite /, and it is perfect for them at that moment After all, they can+t ride the rollercoaster without going up the first hill NNN ThereQs an old saying in the recovery business that an alcoholic will not Luit until theyQve had enough to drink % Course in (irac$es says, Rif your brothers ask you for something, do it, because it doesn+t matter R 1 So if your alcoholic RbrotherR asks you for a drink, eFactly what is the RcompassionateR thing to do0 According to recovery principles and % Course in (irac$es, maybe it would be to give them the drink they ask for, rather than Eudging and trying to change the eFperience theyQre having because you know whatQs best for them There is, of course, a natural desire that all the 'layers we meet in our holograms eFperience the same Eoy and power and abundance and love we haveD and when we see someone else in our hologram not in that condition, we can easily wish something different for them, and want them to Eoin us in the Eoy and power and abundance and love of the second half :ut what we can not do is to Eudge their situation to be 7bad8 or

7wrong,8 or even that our situation is 7better8 than theirs, and then try to do something to change their circumstances )any years ago & gave up the idea of trying to 7save the world8 or even end war on this planet when & realiMed war had been a very valuable eFperience in my own life Oif nothing else, to show me who & was not and how & did not want to behavePD and 7who was & to try to limit other people+s eFperiences who might benefit from the same opportunities 8 Today & am eFcited about finding out how to download other freLuencies from The 3ield Oas will be eFplained in #hapter Thirty"SiFP that create a peaceful and harmonious life on 'lanet Earth, but without any Eudgment that all people should live that way, or that the way other people are living now is somehow 7wrong 8 NNN The point the young &sraeli man was making in Tamera was that rather than becoming bogged down in someone else+s pain and suffering, and feeling that pain and suffering himself, he decided his only Eob was to 7be happy8 % to provide others with the hope and the inspiration and the model of how their lives could be different & seriously doubt those in pain and suffering want us to Eoin them in their misery & don+t think they want us to 7pity8 them or 7feel their pain 8 & think, instead, they would prefer for us to 7be happy,8 so they know it is possible for them as well Therefore, rather than co!passion in the second half of the 5uman <ame, we follow our eFcitement and our Eoy and our passion, and take whatever actions we feel moved to take in relationship to our holographic eFperiences, as long as there is no Eudgment or discomfort involved After all, the world doesn+t need to be saved &t+s perfect eFactly as it is, down to the smallest detail Saving the world, as wonderful as it may sound on the surface, is not only the height of arrogance in thinking you know how the world should be, but also one of the most clever temptations the ego % )aya % has come up with to maintain her power and eFistence & realiMe there is a lot of social pressure to be compassionate these daysD but, in fact, this whole co!passion thing is one of the greatest lies that keeps people inside the movie theater, for the simple reason that focusing on co!passion for others keeps 'layers from looking at themselves As long as your time and attention is tied up trying to alleviate the pain and suffering of others, you will never have what it takes to process your own Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears &nstead you will hang on for dear life to this layer of the ego % this identity you are not % called 7compassionate 8 O&f you Eumped here from #hapter SiFteen, 7-udgment,8 you can go back to where you were reading by clicking here P

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Question4 !ou mention Robert Scheinfeld a lot, but you don+t Luote him very muchD
and it+s not clear eFactly what you think about his work %nswer4 & cannot tell you how much & appreciate Robert Scheinfeld and the role he played in my transformation &t was Robert % through his Busting Loose ro! the (oney Ga!e =G= home study course Owhich is no longer availableP % who ushered me through the back door of the movie theater and into my cocoon &t was Robert who introduced me to the concept of the 5uman <ame, and especially the two separate and opposite halves, which eFplained so much about me and my own life &t was Robert who provided the basic 'rocess which & used with success for the first year in my cocoon, letting go of the Eudgments and beliefs and opinions about what was 7out there8 and reclaiming the power & had assigned to make my holograms real &t was Robert who introduced me to -ed )c@enna+s 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy, which was the neFt step & needed in my transformation in the cocoon 3ortunately, & had the opportunity to meet and talk with Robert and eFpress that appreciation & attended one of Robert+s live workshops and went through three of his 7home transformational systems,8 along with following him on 3acebook and listening to his 7'hase , 'layers+ discourses 8 & consider Robert to be a fellow 7scout 8 :ut after the first year in my cocoon, & met Robert on the road, and & killed him Not literally, of course &f you don+t recogniMe the referenceK ,Men (aster Lin Chi spo*e thus, J&f you meet the :uddha, kill the :uddha &f you meet a 'atriarch, kill the 'atriarch + Lin Chi isn#t condoning !urder, he is using a !etaphor to e.p$ain the nature o Buddhis!+ Don#t be$ieve what so!eone says, no !atter how ho$y they are, ?ust because they say it+ Listen to their words and then e.p$ore the! yourse$ ++++-* O:ased on this, Sheldon @opp then wrote a best"selling book called, / "ou (eet 'he Buddha on the 7oad, Ui$$ 6i! P &t was clear to me when & met Robert on the road that he had stopped along his path as a scout and had gotten totally immersed in writing his books and creating his 7home transformational systems8 and offering his workshops :ut because he stopped, he didn+t get far enough to see that his work contained some vital errors which &+m sure he would have realiMed if he had gone further ORobert has announced he is leaving the 7scout8 game now to focus on other things &+m hoping part of those 7other things8 will include going further in his cocoon and correcting his mistakes % for his own sake P

&t+s strange, too, because the biggest errors have to do with his wording, and one of the 7tools8 Robert suggests using in the second half of the 5uman <ame is 7transformational vocabulary 8 &n other words, he Luite clearly sees the importance of the language we useD so & have to assume he Eust didn+t get the concept to begin with 3or eFample, what & have called the /n inite /, the 3ons34o5sness on the other side of The 3ield, Robert calls the 7EFpanded Self 8 /ithout belaboring the point, 7eFpanded8 is a Eudgment Eust like 7better8 or 7higher,8 and eFpanding the 7self8 is going in the eFact opposite direction we want to go in the cocoon % toward the 7no"self 8 Robert also talks about 7taking back your power8 as part of his 'rocess :ut we, as 'layers, never had any power to begin with, so how could we 7take it back08 :ut perhaps the most important mistake was a phrase that sounds really catchy and cool, and very much appeals to the new"age crowdB 7The sun of who you really are 8 Robert uses this in his 7cloud metaphor,8 eFplaining that what we are doing in the cocoon is drilling holes in the cloud cover so the 7sun of who we really are8 can come shining through 'eople love this, because it feeds the ego so well Everyone likes to think they are something more than Eust a 'layer, that they are really their infinite 3ons34o5sness who is running the show NowK it+s true the whole point of the cocoon is the discovery of 7who & am not8 on the way to finding out 7who & am 8 :ut to suggest the end result is letting 7the sun of who we really are8 shine through the cloud cover simply continues the illusion we are anything more than a 'layer representing our /n inite / in the 5uman <ame &t perpetuates the false knowledge and layers of the ego that say we really are our /n inite / after all Lastly, as & mentioned before, Robert+s 'rocess is eFcellent in addressing the Eudgments, beliefs, and fears we have created while in the first half of the 5uman <ame, as long as you+re dealing with what you think is 7out there 8 :ut it is simply not designed, or very workable, in finding the fears that lie underneath or detaching from the layers of false identities that make up the ego NNN & would love to be able to recommend Robert+s work, since it meant so much to meD and you could read and watch it with a discriminating eye, on the lookout for the errors, and it might be something helpful to you as well !ou can start at RobertScheinfeld com :ut & have known too many people who have followed Robert and call themselves 7'hase , 'layers8 who don+t have a clue about the deep fears and layers of the ego Robert+s work doesn+t address, and who go around talking about the reality they are creating, and the Eoy of reconnecting with 7the sun of who they really are 8 That being said, & want to acknowledge that Robert has done a wonderful Eob of making this information available in the back of the movie theater, and presenting it in such a way that many more 5uman Adults are entering their cocoons 5e is a marketing genius, no doubtD and, of course, even his 7errors8 are perfect & also want to point out, like Robert, & stopped while in the cocoon to write this book Oand maybe othersD we+ll seeP & went farther than Robert, but & still stopped )y only hope is that & have not made the kind of maEor mistakes Robert did

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Question4 !ou seem to use a lot of Luotations from -ed )c@enna, who isn+t a real
person % or at least that+s not his real name =o you think he+s actually for real0 %nswer4 & said Robert Scheinfeld stopped along his path as a scout & think -ed )c@enna also stopped at a certain point to write his 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy 5e claims to have emerged from the cocoon as a butterflyK ,%$$ that scorched8earth wandering wasn<t the end, it was ?ust the beginning+ / sti$$ had !y own persona$ deconstruction to do, which is how / spent a$!ost the ne.t two years, unti$ / got to a p$ace ca$$ed Done9+ (y rea$ity now is the awa*ened, untruth8 unrea$i>ed state9 / spent the ne.t ten years trying to !a*e sense o this new wor$dJ a non8wor$d in which a non8/ neverthe$ess see!ed to reside+-* Kbut & don+t know whether that+s true, for a couple of reasons (ne, & don+t believe it+s possible for -ed to write his three books without stopping in the cocoon and delaying the final transformation into a butterfly )aybe in the years after he finished his last book, he went on to become a butterfly That+s entirely possible, since we+ve never heard from him again Reason TwoK well, &+ll get to that 3irst &+ll answer your Luestion /hen & read 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy by -ed )c@enna the first time through, & knew immediately this man % whoever he really was % was totally authentic 5e had to have actually eFperienced what he was writing about or he couldn+t use those words and describe his condition so perfectly & knew here was a man % another scout % who stood in full view of the 'acific (ceanD and he was eFpressing the very same thoughts and feelings & have come to know can only be thought and felt when one has reached this point along the Eourney 3or eFampleK ,/ a! here, $ive, on the scene, and / have chosen to describe it as / see it+ / don<t de er+ / don<t re$y+ / what / describe con $icts with the ten8thousand other reports E no !atter how revered those reports and those who i$ed the! !ay be E then to !e those reports are nothing !ore than ab$e and o$*$ore and shou$d be consigned to the dustheap o history+ 'he si!p$e act is that / a! here and Ihere< doesn<t $oo* a$$ that !uch $i*e anyone says it does and /<! not going to waste !y ti!e or anyone e$se<s pretending otherwise+ /t shou$d be noted that Ihere< isn<t !ist8enshrouded or poor$y $it+ /t<s neither !ysterious nor !ystica$+ (y *now$edge is un $awed and !y vision is unobstructed+ 'his is a tric*y point to !a*e, but a critica$ one+ / a! not interpreting+ / a! not trans$ating+ / a! not handing so!ething down that was handed down to !e+ /<! here, now, te$$ing you what / see in the !ost straight orward possib$e ter!s+-

,/t<s very si!p$e9+ 3n$ighten!ent is truth8rea$i>ation+ 2ot on$y is truth si!p$e, it<s that which cannot be si!p$erJ cannot be urther reduced+,3n$ighten!ent isn<t when you go there, it<s when there co!es here+ /t<s not a p$ace you visit and then re!e!ber wist u$$y and try to return to+ /t<s not a visit to the truth, it<s the awa*ening o truth within you+ /t<s not a $eeting state o consciousness, it<s per!anent truth8rea$i>ation+ /t<s not a p$ace you visit ro! here, this is a p$ace you visit ro! there+,'he en$ightened view $i e as a drea!, so how cou$d they possib$y di erentiate between right and wrong or good and evi$D 6ow can one turn o events be better or worse than anotherD 1 what rea$ i!portance is anything in a drea!D "ou wa*e up and the drea! is gone as i it never was+ %$$ the characters and events that see!ed so rea$ have si!p$y vanished+ 'he en$ightened !ay wa$* and ta$* in the drea!wor$d, but they don<t !ista*e the drea! or rea$ity+,'he truth, though, is that nothing is rea$$y wrong+ 2othing is ever wrong and nothing can be wrong+ /t<s not even wrong to be$ieve that so!ething is wrong+ 5rong is si!p$y not possib$e9+ / so!ething isn<t wrong, then nothing needs to be !ade right, which wou$d !ean that nothing needs to be done+,'he en$ightened have awa*ened ro! the drea! and no $onger !ista*e it or rea$ity+ 2atura$$y, they are no $onger ab$e to attach i!portance to anything+ 'o the awa*ened !ind the end o the wor$d is no !ore or $ess !o!entous than the snapping o a twig+ I'he wise see the sa!e in a$$,< says the Gita+ I'he wise are i!partia$,< says the 'ao+ 'he en$ightened cannot conceive o anything as being wrong, so they don<t strugg$e to !a*e things right+ 2othing is better or worse, so why try to ad?ust thingsD,1nce you get past the notion that dua$ity @by any na!eP is Ibad< and unity @by any na!eP is Igood,< you a$so get past any need to Ihe$p< or Isave< anyone+ /, or instance, don<t do what / do because / thin* it needs doing+ / a! !oved by no ethica$ or a$truistic !otive+ / don<t thin* so!ething is wrong and that / have to !a*e it right+ / don<t do it to ease su ering or to $iberate beings+ / do it si!p$y because /<! so inc$ined+,/ heard that (aharishi (ahesh "ogi was very happy with his rec$usive $i e in the oothi$$s o the 6i!a$ayas and !ay never have re?oined society, but that he began hearing the na!e o an /ndian city in his head+ /t si!p$y appeared unbidden in his thoughts+ 5hen he ina$$y !entioned it to so!eone, they advised that the on$y way to get the na!e o the town out o his head was to go there+ 6e did, got swept into a spea*ing engage!ent, and the who$e 'ranscendenta$ (editation !ove!ent grew out o it+ 'hat !a*es sense to !e+ "ou observe events and you a$$ow the $ow o things to do the steering and you go where you go+,&ear, regard$ess o what ace it wears, is the engine that drives hu!ans as individua$s and hu!anity as a species+ Si!p$y put, hu!ans are ear8based creatures+ /t !ay be te!pting to say that we are e=ua$ parts rationa$ and e!otiona$, ba$anced

between $e t and right brain, but it<s not true+ 5e are pri!ari$y e!otiona$ and our ru$ing e!otion is ear9+ &ear o the ho$$ow core+ &ear o the b$ac* ho$e within+ &ear o non8 being+ &ear o no8se$ + 'he ear o no8se$ is the !other o a$$ ears, the one upon which a$$ others are based+ 2o ear is so s!a$$ or petty that the ear o no8se$ isn<t at its heart+ %$$ ear is u$ti!ate$y ear o no8se$ +,'his tra?ectory /<! on wi$$ ta*e !e as c$ose to non8e.istence as anyone can get and sti$$ have a body+ /n other words, / wi$$ continue to channe$ progressive$y $ess and $ess energy into !y drea!state being, !y teaching wi$$ reduce down to its !ost re ined and $east to$erant or!, !y interest wi$$ withdraw ro! the wor$d, and / wi$$ beco!e as !ini!a$ as a person can be+,/ had spent years as a c$oset butter $y !oping around with caterpi$$ars and drea!ing high$y ictiona$i>ed drea!s o beco!ing a butter $y+ / *new that / was distinct$y di erent ro! the caterpi$$ars+ / *new that an uncrossab$e chas! separated us, that / wasn<t one o the! any!ore, that they weren<t $i*e !e nor / $i*e they+ / *new / was ab$e to co!!unicate with the! on$y in the !ost super icia$ sense based on !y rapid$y ading !e!ories o their $anguage and habits+ 5hat it too* !e a whi$e to understand, though, was that the reason / wasn<t one o the! any!ore was because / was so!ething e$se, and that the di erence was abso$ute+ / had earned ad!ission to a who$e new rea$ity but / hadn<t yet passed into it because no one e.p$ained to !e that this new order o being / had beco!e was what caterpi$$ars !eant when they said Ibutter $y+<,%nd then, one day, there it is+ 2othing+ 2o !ore ene!ies, no !ore batt$es+ 'he sword that see!s we$ded to your hand can now be dropped, once your ingers can be pried ro! it+ 'here<s nothing $e t to contend against and nothing $e t that !ust be done, and there wi$$ never be anything that !ust be done ever again+,3n$ighten!ent isn<t $i*e graduating high schoo$ on$y to start co$$ege, or even inishing co$$ege to enter the Irea$< wor$d+ /t<s the ina$ graduation+ 2o !ore hunt, no !ore chase, no !ore batt$e+ 2ow you can go out in the wor$d and do whatever you wantJ $earn guitar, ?u!p out o airp$anes, write boo*s, tend grapes, whatever+NNN These Luotes are from Eust the first few pages of :ook (ne, Spiritua$ 3n$ighten!ent4 'he Da!nedest 'hing, and there are three books in all % definitely worth the read That being said, it is also clear to me -ed and & took different routes to get to the same place, which results in a disagreement on several key points & want to discuss those in some detail, mainly to let you know different scouts will have different ways of eFpressing the path, and that -ed and & are not *$$T in agreement eFcept about the end result 3or eFample, his underlying tone when discussing 5uman #hildren is one of Eudgment and criticism for being asleep within the dreamstate ,6u!an Chi$dhood is petty and ear u$ and grating9+ it<s a hideous a $iction+-

-ed obviously does not share the concept of the movie theater being intentionally designed to create limitation and restriction &f he did, he couldn+t Eudge the state of being a 5uman #hild, but would instead see it as a perfect part of the <ame (r, for eFample, -ed+s constant reference to )aya as the 7goddess of delusion,8 and as the personification of the ego, can easily lead one to believe there is some force 7out there,8 some entity, some power that is intentionally trying to keep people from Eoy and abundance and truth ,(aya !ight best be understood as the inte$$igence o ear+ She is the *eeper o the *ept, the warden o the Drea!state+ /t is (aya who bestows upon us the !iracu$ous and $i e8giving power to see what<s not and to not see what is+ /t is (aya who !a*es the Drea!state possib$e and escape ro! it near$y i!possib$e+ She enab$es the Drea!state to e.ist, and i you wish to awa*en ro! it, then it<s her you !ust destroy, $ayer by $ayer+/hich brings me to my third Luestion about -ed % his warlike vocabulary and his attitude that there is an 7enemy8 to be fought and destroyedK ,7ea$ spiritua$ity is a savage insurrection, the oppressed rising up in a do8or8die bid or reedo!+ /t<s not so!ething peop$e do to i!prove the!se$ves or earn !erit or i!press riends or to ind greater ?oy and !eaning in $i e+ /t<s a suicida$ assau$t on a oe o uni!aginab$e superiority+,Peop$e who ta*e this stu serious$y have no need o !e or anyone e$se, on$y o inding the ne.t =uestion, o ta*ing the ne.t step, o inding the ne.t ene!y and ighting the ne.t batt$e+ Peop$e who don<t ta*e this stu serious$y are invariab$y $oo*ing or ways to occupy and distract the!se$ves so they don<t have to ta*e any rea$ steps or ight any rea$ batt$es+5is third book is even entitled Spiritua$ 5ar are So & have to assume the route -ed took across the Rocky )ountains reLuired a lot of fighting to get throughD a lot of battles with the elements, the &ndians, the wild animalsD a lot of machete work to cut through the trees /hereas the route & took had very little of that &n fact, one of the key steps inside the cocoon is the realiMation there is no 7enemy,8 no 7out there8 out there, no duality of 7it8 or 7them8 versus 7me 8 -ed also makes no mention of Luantum physics, or of any real scientific understanding that 7it isn+t realD it+s Eust a game 8 &nstead, the general tone of his books is to take all this very seriouslyK ,Persona$ revo$ution is ue$ed by e!otiona$ energy o the purest intensity+ 'hat intensity co!es ro! ocus and that *ind o ocused e!otiona$ energy doesn<t $oo* $i*e $ove or tran=ui$ity or co!passion+ /t $oo*s $i*e seething rage or ug$y business, but that<s how it wor*s+ Suicida$ discontentJ that<s how revo$utions are won and that<s why they so se$do! are+ 7oc*ets aren<t $aunched into space on chanting and prayers, and escaping the ego<s gravity re=uires an e=uiva$ent a!ount o e.p$osive orce+ 5e have to ta*e a$$

the e!otiona$ energy we nor!a$$y b$ast out in a thousand directions to *eep our drea!state characters ani!ated and ocus it on a sing$e point+ /t<s a$$ or nothing+:ut, in fact, it+s all Eust a game % a wonderfully compleF, eFciting, challenging treasure hunt for the truth 3inally, -ed uses his first book, Spiritua$ 3n$ighten!ent4 'he Da!nedest 'hing, to describe his process and transformation inside the cocoon 5e speaks of the state of freedom from the movie theater in glowing terms, and the reader should come away from that book wanting to be where -ed is Then -ed spends half of :ook Two, Spiritua$$y /ncorrect 3n$ighten!ent, describing how difficult it is to get where he is, giving eFcellent eFamples from one of his 7students,8 -ulie, of her own spiritual autolysis process % a realistic look at the time everyone will spend inside the cocoon OThe other half of the book is -ed patting himself on the back for being the first ever to figure out )elville+s (oby Dic* P &n the third book, Spiritua$ 5ar are, -ed bends over backwards to try to convince the reader they don<t want to go where he is, but to stay inside the movie theater as a 5uman Adult insteadK ,'he !ost i!portant distinction to be !ade between these two states is that 6u!an %du$thood !a*es sense and 3n$ighten!ent doesn<t+ 'he !ain bene it !ost spiritua$$y inc$ined peop$e can derive ro! having a c$ear understanding o what it rea$$y !eans to be truth8rea$i>ed is not so they can achieve it, but so they can dispense with it and reset their spiritua$ sights on so!ething worthier than en$ighten!ent, which is, $itera$$y, the biggest nothing o a$$ ti!e+NNN & could mention other smaller areas where & disagree with -ed, but &+m not trying to be picky & simply want to point out that -ed+s viewpoint is biased by the route he took across the Rocky )ountainsD and although his description of the 'acific (cean is eFtremely accurate, his way of getting there is not the only way, and not everyone has to go through what he went through Nor will everyone feel the same way -ed does when he arrives & don+t, for eFample & also want to emphasiMe that you will find isolated sentences or two throughout -ed+s books that contradict the general tone of his writing, likeK ,/t<s a$$ ?ust consciousness, you are ?ust consciousness+ 'here is nothing e$se+,(aya, it shou$d be re!e!bered, is not an actua$ arch8deity thwarting us ro! on high+ (aya is inside us, a part o us9 she<s not a she and she<s not e.terna$ to you+ She<s inside you and those $ayers are the stu o which your ego is !ade+,/nstead o adopting a war$i*e posture, we !ust, counter8intuitive$y, $ower our shie$ds and de enses+ 'his see!s con using unti$ we understand that we are both the protagonist and the antagonist in this con $ict, both attac*er and de ender+ 'his is the

parado.ica$ nature o the strugg$e+ 5e can<t win by ighting+ 'he very thing that ights, that resists, is the thing we see* to overthrow+And -ed does, occasionally, eFpress his appreciation for all the things he seems to Eudge and criticiMe so freLuently, even )ayaK ,/ can<t thin* o anything !ore ascinating or $ove$y or worthy o appreciation than (ayaJ the architect o de$usion+,'he idea that9 the dua$istic universe is anything other than the grandest and !ost wonder u$ o a$$ b$essings is $aughab$y absurd+So if you read -ed+s books with a discriminating eye, overlook the general tone and be watchful for the key sentences, you are in for a real treat &n my opinion, the 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy is reLuired reading for anyone who wants to become a butterfly

3((TN(TES * All Luotes in this chapter are from )c@enna, -ed 'he 3n$ighten!ent 'ri$ogy % :ack to reading

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U9G9 1RISHNAMURTI
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Question4

A lot of things you have said sound like stuff & have read by A <

@rishnamurtiK %nswer4 &+ve read a lot of things from A < % no relationship to - @rishnamurti % that & like, too There are other things &+ve read where he seems to contradict himself a lot, things & disagree with, or maybe things & don+t totally understand :ut here+s a sample from this 7anti"guru8 of what & likeK ,Peop$e ca$$ !e an Ien$ightened !an< E / detest that ter! E they can<t ind any other word to describe the way / a! unctioning+ %t the sa!e ti!e, / point out that there is no such thing as en$ighten!ent at a$$+ / say that because a$$ !y $i e /<ve searched and wanted to be an en$ightened !an, and / discovered that there is no such thing as en$ighten!ent at a$$, and so the =uestion whether a particu$ar person is en$ightened or not doesn<t arise+ / don<t give a hoot or a si.th8century8BC Buddha, $et a$one a$$ the other c$ai!ants we have in our !idst+ 'hey are a bunch o e.p$oiters, thriving on the gu$$ibi$ity o the peop$e+,'he ho$y !en are a$$ phonies E they are te$$ing !e on$y what is there in the boo*s+ 'hat / can read E IDo the sa!e again and again< E that / don<t want+ 3.periences / don<t want+ 'hey are trying to share an e.perience with !e+ /<! not interested in e.perience+ %s ar as e.perience goes, or !e there is no di erence between the re$igious e.perience and the se. e.perience or any other e.perienceJ the re$igious e.perience is $i*e any other e.perience+ / a! not interested in e.periencing Brah!anJ / a! not interested in e.periencing rea$ityJ / a! not interested in e.periencing truth+ 'hey !ight he$p othersJ but they cannot he$p !e+ /<! not interested in doing !ore o the sa!eJ what / have done is enough+,/ had arrived at a point where / said to !yse$ IBuddha de$uded hi!se$ and de$uded others+ %$$ those teachers and saviors o !an*ind were da!ned oo$s E they oo$ed the!se$ves E so /<! not interested in this *ind o thing any!ore,< so it went out o !y syste! co!p$ete$y+,"ou hope that you wi$$ be ab$e to reso$ve the prob$e! o desire through thin*ing, because o that !ode$ o a saint who you thin* has contro$$ed or e$i!inated desire+ / that !an has no desire as you i!agine, he is a corpse+ Don<t be$ieve that !an at a$$C Such a !an bui$ds so!e organi>ation, and $ives in $u.ury, which you pay or+ "ou are !aintaining hi!+ 6e is doing it or his $ive$ihood+ 'here is a$ways a oo$ in the wor$d who a$$s or hi!+NNN

,'hey are a$$ $iars, ops, a*es and cheaters in the wor$d, who c$ai! they have searched or and to$d the truthC %$right, you want to ind out or yourse$ what this truth is+ Can you ind outD Can you capture the truth and ho$d it and say I'his is truthD< 5hether you accept or re?ect, it<s the sa!e4 it depends on your persona$ pre?udices and predi$ections+ So i you want to discover the truth or yourse$ , whatever it is, you are not in a position to either accept or re?ect+ "ou assu!e that there is such a thing as truth, you assu!e that there is such a thing as rea$ity @u$ti!ate or otherwiseP E it is that assu!ption that is creating the prob$e!, the su ering, or you+ Loo* here, / want to e.perience God, truth, rea$ity or what you wi$$, so / !ust understand the nature o the e.periencing structure inside o !e be ore / dea$ with a$$ that+ / !ust $oo* at the instru!ent / a! using+ "ou are trying to capture so!ething that cannot be captured in ter!s o your e.periencing structure, so this e.periencing structure !ust not be there in order that the other thing !ay co!e in+ 5hat that is, you wi$$ never *now+ "ou wi$$ never *now the truth, because it<s a !ove!ent+ /t<s a !ove!entC "ou cannot capture it, you cannot contain it, you cannot e.press it+ /t<s not a $ogica$$y ascertained pre!ise that we are interested in+ So, it has to be your discovery+ 5hat good is !y e.perienceD 5e have thousands and thousands o e.periences recorded E they haven<t he$ped you+ /t<s the hope that *eeps you going E I/ / o$$ow this or another ten years, i teen years, !aybe one o these days / wi$$9+< because hope is the structure+,/ discovered or !yse$ and by !yse$ that there is no se$ to rea$i>e E that<s the rea$i>ation / a! ta$*ing about+ /t co!es as a shattering b$ow+ /t hits you $i*e a thunderbo$t+ "ou have invested everything in one bas*et, se$ 8rea$i>ation, and, in the end, sudden$y you discover that there is no se$ to discover, no se$ to rea$i>e E and you say to yourse$ I5hat the he$$ have / been doing a$$ !y $i eDC< 'hat b$asts you+,2othing+ 'hat<s the discovery+ So8ca$$ed se$ 8rea$i>ation is the discovery or yourse$ and by yourse$ that there is no se$ to discover+ 'hat wi$$ be a very shoc*ing thing E I5hy the he$$ have / wasted a$$ !y $i eD< /t<s a shoc*ing thing because it<s going to destroy every nerve, every ce$$, even the ce$$s in the !arrow o your bones+ / te$$ you, it<s not going to be an easy thing, it<s not going to be handed over to you on a go$d p$atter+ "ou have to beco!e co!p$ete$y disi$$usioned, then the truth begins to e.press itse$ in its own way+ / have discovered that it is use$ess to try to discover the truth+ 'he search or truth is, / have discovered, absurd, because it<s a thing which you cannot capture, contain, or give e.pression to+NNN ,"ou see, !y di icu$ty with the peop$e who co!e to see !e is this4 they don<t see! to be ab$e to understand the way / a! unctioning, and / don<t see! to be ab$e to understand the way they are unctioning+ 6ow can we carry on a dia$ogueD Both o us have to stop+ 6ow can there be a dia$ogue between us bothD,/ a! not trying to se$$ anything here+ /t is i!possib$e or you to si!u$ate this+ 'his is a thing that has happened outside the ie$d, the area, in which / e.pected, drea!ed and

wanted change, so / don<t ca$$ this a Ichange<+ / rea$$y don<t *now what has happened to !e+ 5hat / a! te$$ing you is the way / a! unctioning+ 'here see!s to be so!e di erence between the way you are unctioning and the way / a! unctioning, but basica$$y there can<t be any di erence+ 6ow can there be any di erence between you and !eD 'here can<t beJ but ro! the way we are trying to e.press ourse$ves, there see!s to be+ / have the ee$ing that there is so!e di erence, and what that di erence is is a$$ that / a! trying to understand+ So, this is the way / a! unctioning+,Put it si!p$y+ / can<t o$$ow a very co!p$e. structure E / have that di icu$ty, you see+ Probab$y /<! a $ow8grade !oron or so!ething, / don<t *now E / can<t o$$ow conceptua$ thin*ing+ "ou can put it in very si!p$e words+ 5hat e.act$y is the =uestionD Because the answer is thereJ / don<t have to give the answer+ 5hat / usua$$y do is restructure the =uestion, rephrase it in such a way that the =uestion appears sense$ess to you+,/ so!ebody as*s !e a =uestion sudden$y, / try to answer, e!phasi>ing and pointing out that there is no answer to that =uestion+ So, / !ere$y rephrase, restructure and throw the sa!e =uestion bac* at you+ /t<s not ga!e p$aying, because /<! not interested in winning you over to !y point o view+ /t<s not a =uestion o o ering opinions E o course / do have !y opinions on everything ro! disease to divinity, but they<re as worth$ess as anybody e$se<s+,/t is the =uestioner that creates the answerJ and the =uestioner co!es into being ro! the answer, otherwise there is no =uestioner+ / a! not trying to p$ay with words+ "ou *now the answer, and you want a con ir!ation ro! !e, or you want so!e *ind o $ight to be thrown on your prob$e!, or you<re curious E i or any o these reasons you want to carry on a dia$ogue with !e, you are ?ust wasting your ti!eJ you<$$ have to go to a scho$ar, a pundit, a $earned !an E they can throw a $ot o $ight on such =uestions+ 'hat<s a$$ that / a! interested in this *ind o a dia$ogue4 to he$p you to or!u$ate your own =uestion+ 'ry and or!u$ate a =uestion which you can ca$$ your own+NNN ,"our natura$ state has no re$ationship whatsoever with the re$igious states o b$iss, beatitude and ecstasyJ they $ie within the ie$d o e.perience+ 'hose who have $ed !an on his search or re$igiousness throughout the centuries have perhaps e.perienced those re$igious states+ So can you+ 'hey are thought8induced states o being, and as they co!e, so do they go+ Urishna Consciousness, Buddha Consciousness, Christ Consciousness, or what have you, are a$$ trips in the wrong direction4 they are a$$ within the ie$d o ti!e+ 'he ti!e$ess can never be e.perienced, can never be grasped, contained, !uch $ess given e.pression to, by any !an+ 'hat beaten trac* wi$$ $ead you nowhere+ 'here is no oasis situated yonderJ you are stuc* with the !irage+,"ou see, peop$e usua$$y i!agine that so8ca$$ed en$ighten!ent, se$ 8rea$i>ation, God8rea$i>ation or what you wi$$ @/ don<t $i*e to use these wordsP is so!ething ecstatic, that you wi$$ be per!anent$y happy, in a b$iss u$ state a$$ the ti!e E these are the i!ages

they have o those peop$e9+ 'here<s no re$ationship at a$$ between the i!age you have o that, and what actua$$y is the situation9+ 'hat<s why / very o ten te$$ peop$e I/ / cou$d give you so!e g$i!pse o what this is a$$ about, you wou$dn<t touch this with a barge po$e, a ten oot po$e+< "ou wou$d run away ro! this because this is not what you want+ 5hat you want does not e.ist, you see+,5e don<t want to be ree ro! ear+ %$$ that we want to do is to p$ay ga!es with it and ta$* about reeing ourse$ves ro! ear+,"ou see, the search ta*es you away ro! yourse$ E it is in the opposite direction E it has abso$ute$y no re$ation+,'he search is a$ways in the wrong direction, so a$$ that you consider very pro ound, a$$ that you consider sacred, is a conta!ination in that consciousness+ "ou !ay not $i*e the word Iconta!ination<, but a$$ that you consider sacred, ho$y and pro ound is a conta!ination+,Bnderstanding is a state o being where the =uestion isn<t there any !oreJ there is nothing there that says Inow / understandC< E that<s the basic di icu$ty between us+ By understanding what / a! saying, you are not going to get anywhere+,'his consciousness which is unctioning in !e, in you, in the garden s$ug and earthwor! outside, is the sa!e+ /n !e it has no rontiersJ in you there are rontiers E you are enc$osed in that+ Probab$y this un$i!ited consciousness pushes you, / don<t *now+ 2ot !eJ / have nothing to do with it+ /t is $i*e the water inding its own $eve$, that<s a$$ E that is its nature+ 'hat is what is happening in you4 $i e is trying to destroy the enc$osing thing, that dead structure o thought and e.perience, which is not o its nature+ /t<s trying to co!e out, to brea* open+ "ou don<t want that+ %s soon as you see so!e crac*s there, you bring so!e p$aster and i$$ the! in and b$oc* it again+ /t doesn<t have to be a so8 ca$$ed se$ 8rea$i>ed !an or spiritua$ !an or God8rea$i>ed !an that pushes youJ anything, that $ea there, teaches you ?ust the sa!e i on$y you $et it do what it can+NNN ,5e have very strange ideas in the re$igious ie$d E torture this body, s$eep on nai$s, contro$, deny things E a$$ *inds o unny things+ 5hat orD 5hy deny certain thingsD / don<t *now+ 5hat is the di erence between a !an going to a bar or a g$ass o beer, and a !an going to a te!p$e and repeating the na!e o 7a!aD / don<t see any basic di erence9+ / a! not against escapes, but whether you escape through this avenue or that avenue, an escape is an escape+ "ou are escaping ro! yourse$ 9+ 5hat you do or do not do does not !atter at a$$+ "our practice o ho$iness, your practice o virtue E that is socia$$y va$uab$e or the society, but that has nothing to do with this+,By conserving se. energy, you are not going to i!prove yourse$ in any way+ /t is too si$$y and too absurd+ 5hy have they $aid so !uch stress on thatD %bstinence, continence, ce$ibacy, is not going to he$p to put you in this state, in this situation+-

,"ou don<t *now what is goodJ you *now on$y what is good or you+ 'hat<s a$$ you are interested in, that<s a act+ 3verything centers around that+ %$$ your art and reason centers around that+ / a! not being cynica$+ 'hat<s a act+ 2othing wrong with it+ /<! not saying anything against it+ 'he situations change, but it is that which is guiding you through a$$ situations+ /<! not saying it is wrong you see+ / it is not so, so!ething !ust be wrong with you+ %s $ong as you are operating in the ie$d o what they ca$$ the Ipair o opposites<, good and bad, you wi$$ a$ways be choosy, in every situation, that is a$$ E you cannot he$p doing that+,% I!ora$ !an< is a Ichic*en<+ % I!ora$ !an< is a rightened !an, a chic*en8 hearted !an E that is why he practices !ora$ity and sits in ?udg!ent over others+ %nd his righteous indignationC % !ora$ !an @i there is oneP wi$$ never, never ta$* o !ora$ity or sit in ?udg!ent on the !ora$s o others+ 2everC,0uestioning !y actions be ore and a ter is over or !e+ 'he !ora$ =uestion E I/ shou$d have acted this wayJ / shou$d not have acted that way+ / shou$d not have said this< E none o that is there or !e+ / have no regrets, no apo$ogiesJ whatever / a! doing is auto!atic+ /n a given situation / a! not capab$e o acting in any other way+ / don<t have to rationa$i>e, thin* $ogica$$y E nothing E that is the one and on$y action in that particu$ar situation+NNN ,"ou are as*ing !e I6as anything any purposeD< Loo* here, a $ot o !eanings and purposes have been given to you+ 5hy are you sti$$ $oo*ing or the !eaning o $i e, the purpose o $i eD 3verybody has ta$*ed o the !eaning o $i e and the purpose o $i e E everybody+ %nswers have been given by the saviours, saints and sages o !an*ind E you have thousands o the! in /ndia E and yet today you are sti$$ as*ing the sa!e =uestion, I6as $i e any purpose or !eaningD< 3ither you are not satis ied or you are not rea$$y interested in inding out or yourse$ + / sub!it that you are not rea$$y interested, because it<s a rightening thing+ /t<s a very rightening thing+ /s there any such thing as truthD 6ave you ever as*ed that =uestion or yourse$ D 6as anybody to$d the truthD,/n a way, the who$e o $i e is $i*e a great big drea!+ / a! $oo*ing at you, but / rea$$y don<t *now anything about you E this is a drea!, a drea! wor$d E there is no rea$ity to it at a$$+ 5hen the e.periencing structure is not !anipu$ating consciousness @or whatever you want to ca$$ itP, then the who$e o $i e is a great big drea!, ro! the e.perientia$ point o view E not ro! this point o view hereJ but ro! your point o view+ "ou see, you give rea$ity to things E not on$y to ob?ects, but a$so to ee$ings and e.periences E and thin* that they are rea$+ 5hen you don<t trans$ate the! in ter!s o your accu!u$ated *now$edge, they are not thingsJ you rea$$y don<t *now what they are+,Courage is to brush aside everything that !an has e.perienced and e$t be ore you+ "ou are the on$y one, greater than a$$ those things+ 3verything is inished, the who$e tradition is inished, however sacred and ho$y it !ay be E then on$y can you be yourse$ E

that is individua$ity+ &or the irst ti!e you beco!e an individua$+ %s $ong as you depend upon so!ebody, so!e authority, you are not an individua$+ /ndividua$ uni=ueness cannot e.press itse$ as $ong as there is dependence+,(y $i e story goes up to a point, and then it stops E there is no !ore biography a ter that+ Desire$essness, non8greed, non8anger E those things have no !eaning to !eJ they are a$se, and they are not on$y a$se, they are a$si ying !e+ /<! inished with the who$e business+NNN & said at the beginning of this chapter 7there are other things &+ve read where he seems to contradict himself a lot, things & disagree with, or maybe things & don+t totally understand 8 Apparently A < agreesK ,/ a! a$ways negating what / a! saying+ / !a*e a state!ent, but that state!ent is not e.pressing a$$ that is being said, so / negate it+ "ou say / a! contradicting !yse$ + / a! not contradictory at a$$+ / negate the irst state!ent, the second state!ent, and a$$ the other state!ents E that is why so!eti!es it sounds very contradictory+ / a! negating it a$$ the ti!e, not with the idea o arriving at any pointJ ?ust negating+ 'here is no purpose in !y ta$*ing+-*

3((TN(TES * 'he 3ssentia$ BG " R)y teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright !ou are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody R % :ack to reading

CHAPTER %,
THE FUTURE
:ack to the Table of #ontents & thought & Eust read in #hapter Twenty"Seven that time doesn+t eFist /hat are you doing calling the last chapter in this book 7The 3uture08 %nswer4 !ou+re right :ut & also said in #hapter Twenty that 7& can still dreamD8 and that+s what &+d like to do % dream a little about the future % as long as & don+t get attached to the fulfillment of those dreams Actually, toward the end of your time in the cocoon, you begin to see ripples in the Aniversal ocean, movement in the 7Earth Environment8 templateD and sometimes it+s fun to speculate % in a general sort of way % where those ripples might be heading &+m seeing a couple ripples & want to focus on for a few minutes before & end this book, simply because & find some of this stuff fascinating The first ripple & see is that the drama and conflict and pain and suffering and war and violence and hardship in the 7Earth Environment8 template are actually increasing across the world, despite % or perhaps, as eFplained in #hapter Eighteen, in part as a result of % the resistance of more and more 7peaceworkers 8 Some of the 7developed8 countries haven+t been so hard hit yet, but they will be as the global economic system becomes more chaotic &t seems like every day the news is full of more deaths from war and violence, and from natural disasters as well )ore people are out of work around the world, more barely living from hand to mouth, more losing their homes, more with no idea how they or their families will survive )ore economies are failing, more governments are collapsing or being challenged, and more theories of everything are falling by the wayside 3or me, however, this is not a 7bad8 thing at all &t may actually be signaling the beginning of a mass eFodus out of the movie theater with large numbers of 'layers gathering around the garden ready to eat from the Tree of Life &n other words, the screws may be tightening, the rubber band may be stretching to its limits, the situation deteriorating until more and more 5uman #hildren are willing to stand up in their seats and yell, 75e<re !ad as he$$ and we<re not going to ta*e it any !ore 8 % and more 5uman Adults realiMe what+s in the back of the movie theater isn+t working either and head for the door Sometimes things have to get pretty 7bad8 for that to happen :ut &+ve been overly optimistic before, so & can+t be sure As Alan Shore said in one of his closing arguments in an episode of Boston Lega$K ,5hen the weapons o !ass destruction thing turned out not to be true, / e.pected the %!erican peop$e to rise up+ 'hey didn<t+ 'hen, when the %bu Ghraib torture thing sur aced, and it was revea$ed that our govern!ent participated in rendition E a practice where we *idnap peop$e and turn the! over to regi!es who specia$i>e in torture E / was sure then the %!erican peop$e wou$d be heard ro!+ 5e stood !ute+

Question4

,'hen ca!e the news that we ?ai$ed thousands o so8ca$$ed Iterrorist< suspects, $oc*ed the! up without the right to a tria$, or even the right to con ront their accusers+ Certain$y we wou$d never stand or that+ 5e did+ ,%nd now it<s been discovered the 3.ecutive Branch has been conducting !assive i$$ega$ do!estic survei$$ance on its own citi>ens E you and !eJ and / at $east conso$ed !yse$ that ina$$y E ina$$y E the %!erican peop$e wi$$ have had enough+ 3vident$y we haven<t+ ,/n act, i the peop$e o this country have spo*en, the !essage is, I5e<re o*ay with it a$$ E torture, warrant$ess search and sei>ures, i$$ega$ wiretappings, prison without a air trai$, or any tria$, war on a$se pretenses+ 5e as a citi>enry are apparent$y not o ended+ 'here are no de!onstrations on co$$ege ca!pusesJ in act there<s no c$ear indication that young peop$e even see! to notice+-* )aybe it+s an encouraging sign that 7young people8 aren+t demonstrating on college campuses, or otherwise protesting in general 'erhaps it means they are beginning to realiMe that 7changing things8 isn+t working, but they also see the futility in resistance, the purposelessness in Eoining groups in the back of the movie theater, the rampant contradictions and inconsistencies in all Eudgmental belief systems )aybe 7young people8 are simply numb, fed up with the whole thing, but with no clue of what to do, no concept yet of a viable alternative to the outdated and inaccurate models of life found inside the movie theater 'erhaps they+re ready for this 5uman <ame model As & asked in #hapter Twenty"(ne, 75ow much more pain and suffering and limitation and restriction is reLuired before millions of 'layers surrender, understand it is their own Eudgments and resistance causing that pain and suffering, and are willing to begin processing the false knowledge and layers of the ego that are part of life inside the movie theater08 So Ripple \* appears to me headed in the direction of more pain and suffering, and says to me the rollercoaster is nearing the top of the first hill, when things get really tough and the going gets really rough for those inside NNN Ripple \,, going in the opposite direction, is that there are also signs more and more 'layers are waking up from their dreamstate, or at least waking up within their dreamstate !ou recall & talked about a 7template8 Oor matriFP for the 7Earth Environment8 in #hapter Twenty"3our Let+s speculate a little on how that template might change from time to timeK Remember The 3ield0 7% ie$d o a$$ possibi$ity 8, 7'he oundation o the universe is a sing$e universa$ ie$d o inte$$igence9 the ountainhead o a$$ the $aws o natureJ a$$ the unda!enta$ orces, a$$ the unda!enta$ partic$es, a$$ the $aws governing $i e at every $eve$ o the universe 8.

75e can<t e.p$ain what we do see as !atter9un$ess we picture that these !atter partic$es so!ehow co!e out ro! or e!erge ro! these thought8wave patterns+-1

An /n inite / goes to this 3ield and chooses certain specific wave freLuencies to create the holographic eFperiences it wants for its 'layer

:ut rather than having to re"create the car and the buildings and the briefcase % and the galaFies and the solar system and this planet % each time, it uses a template in The 3ield & have called the 7Earth Environment8 for its basic 7total immersion movie set,8 and adds whatever uniLue aspects it wants for its individual 'layer Then it downloads that hologram to its 'layer+s brain & also talked about the human brain receiving these holographic wave freLuencies from The 3ield and translating them into our 7physical reality,8 like a radio that receives sound wave freLuencies and translates them into music and words we can hearD and this is where the 'layer comes in Let me eFplainK A radio has a certain range of freLuencies it can receive and translate into sound The A) range is 2.2"*4$2 @5M, and the 3) range is usually 99 " *$9 )5M, although this can vary slightly from country to country (bviously, there are sounds to be heard outside of those freLuencies, but a radio receiver doesn+t pick them up This is also true for humans, who can hear only a limited range of sounds as well =ogs, dolphins and other creatures can hear different freLuencies than we do, for eFample There is some scientific evidence our brains are receiving a much wider range of freLuencies than we are able to perceive )ichael /eliky from the Aniversity of Rochester conducted a study which led him to conclude that perhaps as much as 9$T of the freLuencies we receive are Rlocked in our heads,R2 unable to be perceived Regardless of how wide a range of freLuencies the human brain might be able to receive from The 3ield, itQs clear there is a limited range of freLuencies we can actually perceive /hat eFactly is determining this range of freLuencies0 The Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears we form in the first half of the 5uman <ame So at any given moment, the 7Earth Environment8 template in The 3ield available to an /n inite / to

create a hologram for its 'layer is limited to a certain range of freLuencies the 'layer can perceive based on their Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears & want to say that a third time because itQs so importantB 1ur ?udg!ents, be$ie s, opinions, and ears $i!it the range o re=uencies our /n inite / can use ro! 'he &ie$d to down$oad a ho$ographic e.perience we can perceive+ This is demonstrated so well by =r :ruce Lipton in his eFercise with the two sets of colored glasses and the pictures of 3EAR and L(GE 4 /ith that in mind, & want to take a look at the freLuency range of our current template of the 7Earth Environment,8 but this is going to be a little tricky because of the wording and the analogy to a radio & want to emphasiMe before we start that no freLuency is 7better8 or 7worse8 than any other freLuencyD and when & use certain numbers to represent freLuencies, it does not mean one number is 7better8 or RworseR Eust because it+s a 7higher8 or 7lower8 number 3or eFample, the music at ;* . on a radio dial is no 7better8 than the music at *$1 6 &t+s Eust a different freLuency with different content !ou may prefer to listen to one kind of music over another, but that doesn+t make it 7better 8 To help remove all Eudgments about the numbers, & have intentionally reversed the following graphics from what we would normally eFpect to see &n fact, doing it this way is more in keeping with our rollercoaster analogy, where the 7higher8 you go on the first hill, the more limitation you eFperience

(kay LetQs arbitrarily say the total freLuency range in The 3ield available to our /n inite / to create a holographic eFperience goes from $ to ,$$$, somewhat like this

5owever, most 'layers today can only perceive part of that freLuency range O2$$" *9$$P because of their Eudgments, beliefs, opinions and fears, somewhat like this

&f we were to graph the 'layers on Earth and the freLuency ranges they could perceive, it might look like a :ell #urve

with very few whose eFperiences consist mainly of total Eoy and abundance Oapproaching no limitationsPD also very few eFperiencing catastrophic disasters and plagues Ocomplete limitationPD and the vast maEority with an REarth EnvironmentR template ranging from beauty, sunsets, happiness, and love to war, violence, abuse, and fear At any given time, itQs interesting for me to look at the template for the 7Earth Environment8 that appears in my own hologram, to see the freLuency range and how it is changing As & said, it seems to me more and more 'layers are eFperiencing more war, violence, abuse, and fear The sheer numbers of people who are in pain and suffering have seemingly increased dramatically in the last fifty years compared to previous templates /hat this tells me is more and more 'layers are nearing the pinnacle of limitation in the first half of the 5uman <ame, and more and more /n inite /<s might be ready for their 'layers to enter the second half =id & make that clear0 Rather than Eudging the increasing deaths occurring so freLuently now from natural catastrophes, or the crash of the world financial system, or the melting of the glaciers as Rbad,R they may simply be an indication the amount of limitation appearing in the 7Earth Environment8 template is reaching its maFimum threshold and could result in more 'layers moving into the second half of the 5uman <ame % as & said, like a rubber band being stretched to its limits before it breaks

NNN

So how can we start perceiving a different range of freLuencies in the 7Earth Environment8 template0 :y letting go of our Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears on an individual 'layer level /e have the free will and the ability to do thatD and in the process we will shift the freLuency range of the 7Earth Environment8 template we can perceive, and therefore the freLuency range our /n inite / can use to create our holograms, from thisK

to thisK

!ou+ll notice that war and violence and abuse and fear are no longer perceivable in this new range They still eFist, as all freLuencies do, but we simply do not eFperience them any more as individual 'layers This is what happens as a 'layer moves further in their cocoon as they run Robert+s 'rocess and do their spiritual autolysis, letting go of their Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears, and especially stripping away layers of the egoD they simply stop having the limiting eFperiences they had inside the movie theater appear in their holograms (n the other end of the spectrum, we begin to eFperience more than Eust beauty, sunsets, happiness and love as we move toward unlimited Eoy and abundance & want to emphasiMe it+s not necessary to 7send new information to The 3ield8 to create these new freLuencies as some teachers have suggested, because The 3ield, by definition, already contains all information and all possibilities, and because we as 'layers cannot create anything anyway &t is also not necessary to change the number of =NA strands, or achieve a certain level of 7enlightenment,8 or eat only organic food, or meditate, or anything else in order to begin to perceive this new range of freLuencies All that is reLuired is to let go of the Eudgments, beliefs, opinions and fears that determined the freLuency range for the first half of the 5uman <ame Now the interesting Luestion isB /hat if a large number of 'layers were to leave the movie theaterD make their way through their cocoonD let go of their Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fearsD and were able to perceive this new freLuency range0 /hat effect would that have on the 7Earth Environment8 template in The 3ield % the one the /n inite /<s use when creating holographic eFperiences for their 'layers0

&n other words, what might be the effect, if any, if a large number of 'layers begin the process of transforming into butterflies0 /ould the bell curve then look like this0

NNN A :ritish biologist, Rupert Sheldrake, has a theory he calls 7morphic resonance,8 or 7morphic field theory 86 :asically the theory says when enough members of a species have adopted the same behavior, a critical number is reached, called a 7critical mass,8 and this new behavior is automatically and rapidly transferred by 7morphic resonance8 to the entire species 7'he ter! :!orphic ie$ds; is !ore genera$ in its !eaning than !orphogenetic ie$ds, and inc$udes other *inds o organi>ing ie$ds in addition to those o !orphogenesisJ the organi>ing ie$ds o ani!a$ and hu!an behaviour, o socia$ and cu$tura$ syste!s, and o !enta$ activity can a$$ be regarded as !orphic ie$ds which contain an inherent !e!ory 89 Sheldrake+s theories have been heavily criticiMed by mainstream biologists for many years 5owever, some Luantum physicists have supported SheldrakeQs hypothesis, and even =avid :ohm suggested it was in keeping with his own ideas of what he called the RimplicateR and ReFplicateR order ;

& know from my direct eFperiences of testing and challenging this model that an individual 'layer can significantly change the range of freLuencies its /n inite / can use to create its holographic eFperiences by letting go of Eudgments, beliefs, opinions, and fears, and stripping away the layers of ego So & wonderK &f more and more 'layers were to enter their cocoons, would the transformational process become faster and easier for each new generation0 /ould a critical mass eventually be reached where all the 'layers on Earth automatically walk out of the movie theater and into their cocoons0 /ould the Earth, as a 'layer itself, no longer need a movie theater and begin an entirely new game0 That+s Ripple \, &+d like to stay around long enough to see where it goes

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