To the question, 'Can the meta-state of oneness consciousness be induced (without chemicals) and maintained?', Larry Vorwerk (author of 'The Bartholomew Effect',) responded. He and I engaged in some email conversation, and this *long post* gives a snippet. As always, reader comments are invited.
A conversation between Gary Smith and Larry Vorwerk Larry A lot of times hindsight answers questions of why you should do something when at the time it may not make sense. I will start with something very personal that I didn’t fully understand until 15 years after the event. I'll start with a passage out of my book "The Bartholomew Effect: Awakening to Oneness." “The summer of 2004 provided another experience that profoundly affected me. One day I was scheduled for a Reiki healing touch session facilitated by Louise, a good friend. Lying comfortably on the massage table in a relaxed, meditative state, I suddenly felt a powerful jolt go through my body. At the same time, a message filled my whole being: Your first book will be called The Bartholomew Effect. This experience was similar to the one in which I received my life mission information many years earlier. The idea of writing a book had been on my mind, yet I hadn’t felt an urgency to pursue that path. I was content with handing out packets of my writings to interested individuals. Something changed, however, toward the end of 2008. It seemed as if I were being nudged by Spirit to advance my work, so I became serious about turning my packets into a book. I asked Spirit if I should still use the words The Bartholomew Effect as part of the title. The answer came back in the affirmative, and I began to compile "The Bartholomew Effect: Awakening to Oneness.” Now I had planned on putting my collection of writings that I had done over the years into this book without even mentioning my connection to Jesus, as one of his disciples, Bartholomew, 2,000 years ago. But my wife and my professional book editor said If Bartholomew is in the title you have to explain yourself. So understanding what they meant I started to do so. As I started to write my spiritual autobiography about my connection to Jesus, I realized that if I was going to do it right I needed to tell the whole story. As such my spiritual autobiography became almost half of the book. Even though on the surface I had an idea of what spirit had meant about The Bartholomew Effect being in the title of the book, I really didn’t have a full meaning or the real impact of what the title meant. At the time that I started to write my book, I started to feel Jesus's presence with me on a regular basis. But he was Jesus and I was me. In the last two years now Jesus essence literally started to merge with me whenever I wanted to feel his presence or connect with him. This part is hard to explain because it is outside of 3D experience. I’ve never had this kind of experience before, other than In my first Oneness experience when the other disciples had merged with me back in 1988. I often wondered why Jesus hadn’t merged with me at that time. I now know that if he had, I wouldn’t have returned to this dimension of reality at that time. The emotions and state of Oneness Bliss would have been too overpowering. This type of merging is a sixth-dimensional state of being which we all have when our soul is in that state of consciousness. I’ve learned that when we move into a fifth-dimensional state of existence living out our soul’s journey it will be common to also go into this state of awareness from time to time. If you are reading this now you will know we are living out our life journey in 3D. This will change as more and more of humanity awaken more fully to their true selves. The earth herself is moving into 5D reality or consciousness. I'm starting to realize that as I spend more and more time in moments of Oneness that it won't be such a shock when in my next lifetime I'm a part of a group consciousness of a newly evolving planet in 5D. (I've shared more about this in another writing.) So "The Bartholomew Effect" is really that merging of souls. This isn't only true with Jesus, but all souls and other avatars. In my case, it just happens to be Jesus and me. More recently I've come to realize that I've traveled with Jesus in many earlier lifetime experiences. Little did I know, at the time, the full meaning of the title "The Bartholomew Effect" really had. With hindsight, life experiences become a lot clearer. What have been some of your own hindsight clarities? Gary Larry ~ Hindsight clarities.... Yes, before 2000, I kept a journal to 'connect the dots' and try to make more sense of my life, to see in hindsight. Before I respond, nothing in my writing is meant as a fixed statement (anymore), it is rather exploring and discovering as I write. I appreciate correction and insights from 'others' as well. Like all of us, this lifetime has been shaped by many factors and influences, such as hereditary, environmental, astrological, and my soul qualities. My life has had its share of challenges, but not more than most. Just unique, as we all are. I will get to your ending question eventually.... I was born with neurological anomalies of misophonia (the automatic hatred of selective sounds), the autism spectrum, and HSP. In hindsight, my life probably 'would have' been much lighter if I'd realized that earlier. But there was no professional diagnosis for misophonia until about ten years ago. I learned the word six years ago, while a houseparent to at risk youth, with my wife. Up to that time, I thought I was the only person who experienced the pain of being in social situations. I did manage, and at times it is better, but aggravated when I am stressed. My older brother died when the car he was driving went off a mountain road. He was 19, I was 12. Nine years later my beloved younger brother died when the car he was driving was hit head on by a drunk driver. He was 17, full of life and promise, and our relationship just just started to grow deeper. Nine years later my mother died while in heart surgery. Nine years my wife went into surgery to remove a tumor on her brain stem. Nine years later we divorced. About 11 years later my Dad died at age 90. I was drawn to the mystical as a small child, and lived through several belief systems, including Catholicism, metaphysics, the occult, eastern religion, evangelical Christianity, New Age, and unlabeled! In a comment on one of my posts, a reader wrote, "Good issues raised. But wouldn't it be impractical and scary to maintain an individuality in a void without anyone else? I think the the system disconnects our individuality to protect us from the immense power of the void it's more like a circuit breaker. Individuality and oneness are not meant to be experienced at same time. Any experience of oneness emanates from same biological entity seeking extension of its limited existence. It could be the ego too deceiving us." Larry, how do you feel about the reader's comment? Larry Gary ~ Thanks for sharing your story with me. Yes, It look like you had more than your share of losses in your early life. What did you learn from that? and how have you grown through that? I know you have or you wouldn't be in the level of awareness that you are now. Now I'll answer your question. Since I've experienced both individuality and oneness I feel I have some thoughts on the subject. I don't feel oneness is an escape from being in the void but rather an expansion of who we really are. I like to use metaphors. When we are experiencing life as an individual it is like being a red blood cell flowing through your blood vessels. Your only awareness is that within the blood vessel. Experiencing Oneness is like being the whole person experiencing a beautiful nature scene or a party. True it is impossible to experience both as an individual and Oneness at the same time, but I think you can go back and forth between the two, to some degree at least, while in our human bodies. Or at least I have. To live in the full Oneness of our greater selves you would have to leave your physical body behind. I realized that from my first Oneness experience years ago that I talked about in my book. But a person can get what I would call glimpses of that oneness while in human form. I know you also say "Any experience of oneness emanates from same biological entity seeking extension of its limited existence. It could be the ego too deceiving us." I question that because I don't think the ego would be able to give you true high vibrational experiences of Oneness. The ego operates on a low frequency I believe. There may be some other form of what some might call Oneness under those conditions, but the experience would carry a totally different vibration. In my way of thinking at least. Anyway those are my thoughts on this. Take from it what you like. In response to this statement from you "Before I respond, nothing in my writing is meant as a fixed statement (anymore), it is rather exploring and discovering as I write. I appreciate correction and insights from 'others' as well." Here is my take on this. I agree first off with what you said and I do the same. As I like to say when something new comes at me and I don't know if I should believe it or not, I then "put it on a shelf," As new information about it comes forward I will then sometimes take that earlier information off of the shelf and reexamine it. Sometimes it then becomes my new understanding and sometimes not. Anyway thanks for the thoughtful questions and sharing of your life. Gary Larry ~ Thank you for your insights and for asking what I learned from the losses and what I gained from the experience. I relate to your metaphor of the blood cell and the body, it is really a useful way to think of it. Also, what you wrote about moving between oneness and individuality is like what I've felt, and is helpful to me. It may not have been clear that the comment I asked you about is from a reader, and is not my view. May I reprint what you wrote? What I learned is that life/consciousness is a continuum and not composed of separate events as it seems. What I experience depends largely on how and where I focus and unfocus my attention. Now I must focus to write, but this can be balanced with unfocused attention over the day, and my aspiration is to expand unfocused attention to oneness (non-localized) consciousness. I know this intellectually and conceptually, but experientially have only touched on oneness living. My focused (localized) world is created by my perception of stimuli, and my response or reaction to it. In oneness, I imagine, there is no reaction or response, because there is no thought, and I am that. In 'Beyond Biocentrism', Bob Berman wrote of his oneness experience, 'Objects were no longer separate items existing in space; instead, everything was the same continuum.' In a continuum there is no loss. I only experience loss in localized mode. What I gained I don't yet fully realize, but it is the sum of what I am in this moment, in this body. Before closing, let me add that I realize my response to your hindsight question was not the same type of hindsight you were writing about. I just went with it where it wanted to go, in me. This story and song gives an example of the continuum, from one of my 'losses': STAR-GAZING WANDERER by Mark Jonathan Smith In a recorded cassette letter, my younger brother Mark told of sitting on a high ridge in the Rockies at sunset, writing songs and playing guitar. A few weeks later, Mark was hit by a drunk driver and died at age seventeen. The words of the song were found in his room. He called it 'Stargazing Wanderer.' Stargazing Wanderer The mountain is conquered, my sky is red. Peaceful giant, and nothin’s said. Star-gazing wanderer is what I am. Eternal heaven grasps my mind and carries it to a starburst field of flowers. Can’t count the hours. And the ebony god grants a vision, my soul is arisen. Flightless clouds in timeless night suspend me with them. Such unearthly delight is mine. Perhaps a sign. Silver threads of a golden dream surround me. My being will be free. - Mark Jonathan Smith 1957-1974 Larry Gary ~ Yes, you may reprint what I wrote about the oneness/individuality piece. Thanks for asking. Nice story/song your brother wrote. It is almost like he knew of his impending death. Yes, life is a continuum of taking one focus to another. In oneness it is just an emotion of love which has no time or space. Gary How is the emotion of love in oneness distinguished from, say, the eight types of love according to the ancient Greeks, from Eros to Agape? Would you say that 'Love for Love Itself' is accurate? Larry Vorwerk: Author of the Book: "The Bartholomew Effect: Awakening to Oneness" Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/Awakening2Oneness/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Awakening-to-Oneness/19405454394596
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