Magic Continued 6

This conversation thread continues from Magic 5:

Rod MacKinnon
One of the scenarios is that our localized awareness operates similarly to the way a torchlight works in a dark room...as we move it around, we see objects one after the other, though, in reality, they all exist simultaneously... meanwhile... there is an entire building which, due to the limitations of our torchlight, remains entirely unknown to us...except, unlike a building which is an artifact, it is "alive and conscious" in ways we can't even begin to comprehend.... just a thought...

Gary R Smith
If the torchlight is our localized awareness, operating through the intellect, perhaps we need to look at using another tool... 

R. -
Picking up on the 'torchlight' illustration.... My instincts are that, as I relax into(?) trust(?) the process that is 'All that is' I experience a kind of reciprocal, intuitive response(?) ... I feel that expanding/extending our "conscious" communication can't be achieved intellectually...

It's a natural, organic relationship...similar to that which I experience with my localized body...I frequently don't know what's happening within my body on an intellectual level but I know intuitively when certain foods/actions/activities are needed.... 

Western education has, unfortunately developed a heavy intellectual bias which, while being spectacularly successful in some areas, has left us with a sense of 'separateness' from, what is, in effect, our external body... 

This may sound a little ridiculous but, when I finish working, particularly on some challenging aspect of a project, I feel a sense of gratitude toward the individual tools which have enabled me... I'm not above quietly thanking them in my heart... 

Reading your thoughts on unconditional love...I'm aware that both I, and the tool I hold in my hand were fabricated through will and idea, formed from infinite particles of stardust... not by some "creator" standing off to one side but by the primordial essence of consciousness in all that is.... How can I not be connected?..... OK....Your turn.....

G. -
Rod, you have expressed eloquently the same that is my experience. 

We are always connected, but don't always feel that way.

Earlier, I often used 'illusion of separation' to describe an aspect of the human condition, but that term no longer serves. It is more useful to see it rather as 'disconnection.'

From connection with ourselves, such as feeling our emotions, to connecting with others, to a longing for connection with 'something greater,' something whole, I'd say we all feel disconnected in some way — or are so disconnected, so numb, we don't even feel that. This is the thread I've followed so far:

What prevents connection is contraction.
What causes contraction is resistance.
What underlies resistance is often anxiety.
What generates anxiety, some say, is the primitive brain.

Raphael Cushnir, a respected author and facilitator, says,

'I think of anxiety as fear of feeling, stemming from the primitive brain, a way to distract from an underlying emotion that seems more dangerous. Being with anxiety takes us through it to that deeper emotion which then can let go of us.'

The deeper emotion may be the fear of annihilation, vulnerability or disconnection, for example. It may be judgment, fear of being judged, guilt, or any contracting emotion.

However, another 'contracting' influence  in my experience is thought. When I let my thoughts drift, when my attention leaves the present moment and goes to the past or future, to speculation or projection, my body/mind contracts and my felt connection with the whole diminishes until it is gone. Intellectualizing, philosophizing, analyzing, all kill the felt connection. 

The actual connection is always there, but my experience of it disappears. And that is enough to set me on a down-spin where at the least I am numb to myself and my surroundings. Earlier, the numbness was so prevalent it just seemed a normal condition. But now, when I wear the hat I designed with your help, it turns around. I recover faster from the down-spin and feel more often alive and connected. What you wrote is key:

Relax into
Trust the process
Reciprocal, intuitive response
Expanding/extending
Natural, organic relationship

Some of the tools hidden under the hat are awareness, the breath, affirmative thought with specific words, feeling the heart space, emotional connection and toning. I have written the design of this hat into a 'How to' of what I call Heart Breathing. 

If you have interest, Rod, I would message the Heart Breathing PDF file to you. While it would be sent without expectation (as that also contracts) you can know I would value any  comments, suggestions, insights.... which come up organically. I continue to re-write the 'How to' as it and I evolve together.

As you wrote, 'expanding/extending our "conscious" communication can't be achieved intellectually...' and my sense is that intuitive feeling, a vastly under-developed and under-appreciated human capacity, is the primary higher powered torchlight.

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