0:04

I personally think that the spiritual

0:07

awakening that's happening

0:09

in the world today has everything to do

0:11

with unified consciousness

0:13

and elevating our

0:15

thinking to that level . But what is it ? What's

0:18

it going to be like ? In

0:21

other words , we're just going to sit around going , I

0:23

mean , what do you do ? How do you get there ? You

0:25

just go okay , everything's unified

0:27

now . And then what

0:30

? So we need to put some building blocks

0:32

in place to actually know

0:34

how to do it . It's

0:37

not that unified consciousness is a technique

0:39

, but at our level

0:42

of consciousness we need to

0:44

have some sort of understanding of it . You

0:46

don't just go okay , unified consciousness

0:48

, here we go . I don't

0:50

know , maybe you do , maybe that's just what

0:54

I've been missing all along . I don't know . But

0:57

what we're talking about is

1:00

a consciousness with

1:02

an added dimension . In

1:05

other words and I'm specifically

1:08

comparing what I

1:10

think of as unified

1:12

consciousness with our dualistic

1:17

paradigms I'm sort

1:19

of talking about dualistic thinking , black

1:21

and white thinking , that

1:23

kind of communication versus

1:26

what , versus something

1:28

that avoids the pitfalls

1:30

of dualistic thinking . And

1:34

so to do it , it would have to add

1:36

a dimension . It

1:40

has to , because dualistic thinking is

1:42

either or so either

1:44

you want to go to point A or

1:47

point B . Let's

1:49

say there's point A and point B and

1:52

you're entertaining going to both of them , but you

1:54

can only go to one . And

1:56

it's sort of like I want to live in the city

1:58

. No , I really want

2:01

to live in the country , and it's a part of me does

2:03

want each . But

2:06

it's really black and white . If

2:08

you go to point B , you

2:12

can't go to point A , and vice versa

2:14

, and you want to go to both , or

2:16

part of you wants to go

2:18

to one and part of you wants to go to the other , and

2:21

so how do you escape it ? Because

2:23

it is true , if you live

2:25

in the material world , you can't

2:28

go to point A and point B at the same time

2:30

. And

2:32

you're really kind of screwed because you

2:34

know if you want to go to point B

2:37

, but choose point A instead , because

2:39

you only have one

2:42

option that you can take , and

2:44

so you go to point A , but

2:46

the part of you that want to go to point B is

2:48

all messed up now , and

2:51

so then you could go well , because

2:53

there's a significant downside to

2:55

both point A and point B . I'm not

2:57

going anywhere , no , okay , well

2:59

, now you're not going anywhere . So

3:03

that

3:05

sort of dualistic thinking , it's

3:07

either good or bad , it's right

3:09

or wrong . Okay , we all know what this is

3:11

. But how do you get beyond

3:14

it ? And we think this way

3:16

so much of the time . And so , if

3:18

we are of a mind to progress

3:20

to a more unified

3:23

kind of consciousness , does

3:27

it relieve us of , does

3:29

it make us able to be in two points

3:31

at the same time ? Physically

3:33

, no , well

3:37

, what does it do ? Well , it sort

3:40

of does a combination of one accepting

3:43

the dualistic reality and

3:46

adding a very , very different

3:48

perspective . That

3:51

includes accepting that

3:53

you can't have , you

3:55

can't be in two places at one time . You can't . Sometimes

3:57

in life you can't have everything

4:00

that you want in a dualistic model

4:03

. If you want anything

4:05

beyond one of

4:08

the two options fully , you're

4:11

kind of screwed Right

4:14

Because you can only have one , and if

4:16

you want to be satisfied with the choice , then you

4:19

essentially need to reject everything

4:21

about the other . The warrior

4:23

draws a line in the sand

4:26

and

4:28

says if you step onto this

4:30

side of the line , you're for me

4:32

, and if you're on that

4:34

side of the line you're against me

4:36

. That warrior just imposed

4:39

a made up reality

4:41

onto

4:43

these people . Those

4:48

weren't the only two choices available

4:50

to them , outside of

4:52

his influence

4:54

. Of

4:57

course you can be neither for or

4:59

against this warrior , but

5:02

if you're there , and that's the only choice

5:04

you have , it may be the choice you have to make

5:06

. Duality is

5:08

a model that inevitably leads to war

5:10

because it doesn't accommodate

5:13

enough of our wants , needs and desires

5:15

, doesn't accommodate enough

5:17

of the way the world maybe works

5:19

, and when that

5:22

dualistic archetype

5:24

is at the underpinning

5:27

of a society , there's

5:30

going to be war . And

5:36

then , if you want to move

5:38

beyond that , I

5:40

mean , can you imagine

5:42

a society in which nobody's

5:45

thinking dualistically ? Maybe

5:50

you don't need the police , maybe you don't

5:52

need to be governed so much , maybe it can be

5:54

a completely different deal , which

5:57

would represent truly the dawning

6:00

of a new age . You

6:06

can't get there while retaining

6:08

the dualistic model . And

6:12

it's one of the hardest things . Because

6:14

the dualistic model is so useful

6:16

in everyday material life

6:18

. Do I go here or there ? I

6:21

mean the number of choices that

6:23

you can reduce your physical

6:25

life down to , you

6:28

know the better off you are . And

6:30

so this kind of thinking either

6:33

, or thinking is

6:36

so useful in the material

6:39

world , but

6:43

in any kind of larger space from

6:45

that , even in creative problem

6:47

solving . Well , creative problem solving

6:50

is extremely limited within

6:52

a dualistic model where

6:54

it's either black or white , and

6:56

I know you can go yeah , there's lots of shades of

6:58

gray in between and

7:01

I think that makes a lot of finer

7:03

distinctions . But

7:07

there perhaps

7:10

shades of gray in between two

7:12

polar opposites in a dualistic

7:14

model and maybe we just set the whole thing

7:17

aside entirely and

7:21

start from a place that

7:23

includes an

7:26

added dimension of thinking and

7:31

where there is a different perspective and different

7:33

choices and

7:35

different motivation . Dualistic

7:39

thinking leads to a scarcity

7:41

of resources . What

7:45

leads to competition Leads

7:48

to aggression , leads

7:51

to not automatic wonderful

7:53

feelings about each other when we first meet

7:56

. I

7:58

guess logic demands that

8:00

when you take this

8:04

entire broad and deep

8:06

spectrum of choices available

8:08

to our consciousness at any given time

8:10

and you boil that

8:12

down to two

8:15

choices , with

8:20

those choices must

8:22

necessarily be at polar opposites

8:25

of the spectrum from each other

8:27

. So dualistic

8:31

thinking means constantly

8:33

living with

8:35

these polarities , which guess what we

8:37

all do . However , if you stop

8:39

trying to solve the polarity by

8:43

choosing a side or making some

8:45

sort of compromise and

8:47

just start to realize that way

8:50

of thinking is a limited way

8:52

of thinking and that there are

8:54

other perspectives above

8:58

and beyond , in other words , you could fill in all

9:00

the details in

9:03

between the polarities , and

9:05

then you can fill in all the details

9:08

of every neighboring polarity and

9:12

just stop thinking that way and

9:14

allow your consciousness to

9:16

expand . I

9:20

have an idea . Let's just

9:22

imagine that we're faced with a point A , point

9:24

B choice . Now I'm going to go with the city

9:26

and the country choice . Let's

9:28

say I am someone who desperately

9:32

wants to live in both the city

9:34

and the country . However

9:38

, I am not willing

9:40

to compromise on

9:43

either case . I

9:45

want to live both fully in

9:48

the city and the country . And

9:51

so we have that situation . And

9:54

now we just imagine somehow magically

9:56

elevating our consciousness

9:59

to some place

10:01

beyond that

10:04

particular inner

10:06

conflict . And

10:08

as we get to some

10:10

sort of higher consciousness on

10:12

this matter , the first thing that occurs

10:14

to me is it's not that important

10:17

. In

10:19

other words , it's not that my

10:22

desires are unimportant

10:24

, it's that

10:26

fighting with the laws of

10:28

nature over where I'm going to live isn't

10:30

a very good idea and

10:33

there's a better way to go about

10:35

it . In other words , I would probably

10:37

approach the situation

10:40

by looking by judging

10:42

, not by whether it's in the

10:44

city or the country , but judging by the

10:46

individual home itself . And

10:51

one of the features in the home are that

10:53

it will be either in the city or the country

10:55

. But why not go for the

10:58

most amazing home , given all the

11:00

other factors involved ? I mean

11:02

, can you imagine if you picked a place just

11:07

by city or country

11:09

, another where it's located

11:12

, and then you had no other criteria , no

11:14

other standards for your

11:16

home other than you know it's located in

11:18

either the city or the country , and

11:21

then you know so

11:23

? If it doesn't have a bathroom , it's fine , right

11:26

. With that

11:28

kind of pure let's call that

11:30

pure dualistic thinking , it's

11:34

gripping , we can get caught

11:36

up in it . But the choices don't expand

11:39

along

11:42

that line of thinking

11:44

, like you're on rails and

11:47

you're headed to one place or another , but

11:49

pick because you

11:51

know the trains are extra splitting ahead

11:53

and you've got to go one way or another . The

11:57

second thing that comes to mind is

12:01

that there is a different set of criteria

12:04

for making this decision as

12:07

I start to think about my life and my

12:09

purpose and

12:12

being

12:15

of service . Where is the

12:17

greater opportunity according

12:19

to this let's just say

12:21

, higher order criteria , whereas

12:24

before I may have wanted to live in the city because you know

12:27

it's close to the bars and the cigar shops

12:29

and

12:31

I wanted the lifestyle and so on and so forth

12:33

, and it's all valid . And

12:37

yet , from a higher

12:39

consciousness , I don't see the conflict

12:42

between the city and

12:45

the country . I

12:47

don't allow those choices to enter into

12:50

my thinking , because why

12:53

set myself up for the impossible

12:55

? You

12:58

know , just rising

13:01

above the conflict feels

13:03

great , it absolutely

13:05

feels great , and it's sort of like

13:07

I get the sense that you know I'm going to be

13:09

happy wherever I go . Why don't

13:12

I go where I'm most needed

13:14

? Why don't I go where , well , there's

13:16

the greatest likelihood I'll fulfill my

13:18

larger purpose in life ? So

13:20

we're just thinking according to a different set of

13:22

criteria , but there's no conflict

13:24

. There's a choice to make

13:26

. There are choices to make but

13:31

there isn't an internal struggle about it . So that's

13:33

sort of the thoughts that come to

13:36

me when I think about

13:38

using my imagination

13:40

, kind of project myself up into

13:43

what I imagine

13:45

to be a more unified way

13:48

of thinking that

13:50

goes beyond the sort

13:53

of dualistic model . Basically

13:55

says duality is

13:57

at that level of thinking . Duality

14:00

just seems like a waste of time because

14:03

you get stopped so much . But

14:06

I don't know how we have to think about it further to

14:09

come to any conclusions on that one . These

14:11

are huge concepts that

14:14

we're talking about here , and

14:17

so it seems we sort of look at

14:19

okay , where

14:22

did I end up ? I sort of ended up going

14:24

being in this debate with

14:26

myself as a waste of time . There's

14:29

just no way for it to end well . However

14:33

, seeing the futility , I didn't

14:35

just give up . I

14:37

was okay , I'm okay , not pursuing

14:40

any house at all . How about that ? It's

14:42

okay , I'm okay , I'm okay , I'm

14:44

okay . However

14:46

, after seeing the futility

14:48

, I didn't give up . I went well . Maybe I just need

14:51

a different point of focus , not

14:53

on these two mutually exclusive

14:56

options . And yeah , I'm

14:58

still concerned about the overall satisfaction

15:00

with the place , and

15:03

whether it's in the city or the country

15:05

apparently really matters

15:07

. And

15:11

yet I can imagine plenty of

15:13

houses in the country that

15:15

I wouldn't want to live in , that

15:17

I'd rather live in a nicer place in the

15:19

city , and

15:22

vice versa . So there's this whole

15:24

larger

15:27

field of comparison . We're

15:29

bringing so much more information

15:32

into the mix that the

15:34

path forward gets a whole lot easier

15:36

when we expand

15:38

our thinking . Now you know what ? Let's do

15:40

this imagination thing

15:42

right , because that

15:44

was actually very powerful for me as I sat

15:47

here and did it on the fly , but

15:50

let's think about how to do it right . How

15:53

about this ? That you

15:55

not , on the fly , sit

15:57

down somewhere at the appropriate time

15:59

and space and

16:02

be curious

16:04

about this , close

16:06

your eyes and ask for

16:08

help in

16:10

elevating your thinking to

16:13

a more unified consciousness for

16:16

the sake of doing this exercise , and

16:19

then just wait . Who's going to

16:22

show up ? I don't know , but

16:24

remember , every question you ask

16:26

is answered . Whoever's in there

16:28

in your

16:30

mind , somewhere at

16:32

some level , I'm guessing

16:34

there's an entity

16:37

who understands unified consciousness

16:39

. Maybe you go , hey , if you're there , help me out

16:41

and wait

16:43

for someone to show up . Now

16:46

I'm not telling you that

16:48

an actual being is going to show

16:51

up . What

16:53

I am telling you is that

16:55

if you stay open-minded

16:58

and use your imagination

17:01

, that an actual imaginary

17:03

being will very likely

17:05

show up . And

17:09

imagination to me is something very

17:11

, very different . If

17:13

you haven't had powerful experiences

17:16

with your imagination , then , hey

17:18

, you may be very surprised at

17:20

how things go from here , because

17:23

if you open to your imagination

17:25

and let it happen , wonder what's in

17:28

your mind . We're not talking about anything

17:30

scientific here

17:32

. We're

17:35

not talking about objective truth . We're

17:39

talking about personal truth . In

17:42

other words , if

17:44

you ask your mind , hey , can I get some

17:46

help elevating my thinking

17:49

for the purpose of doing this exercise . I'd

17:51

like to think in unity

17:53

, consciousness . Anyone

17:55

around to help me out with that ? You're

17:58

asking your mind a question . Your mind's going to

18:00

answer . When you got to sort

18:02

of go with it from there . If your mind says

18:04

, well , I'm not sure you're ready for that , then

18:07

you can go oh , can you help me get ready ? Or

18:11

you may just get a flat out no , now's not

18:13

the time , I don't know . The

18:15

point is we're knocking on the door

18:18

of our minds . Let's see what happens

18:20

and ask the question . Somebody

18:23

may show up , in which case you could

18:25

say what do I do ? How are we going to do this thing and

18:29

exercise in using our imagination

18:32

to elevate our

18:34

thinking in a highly

18:37

constructive way ? That's

18:39

what this is . Now I got to tell you the first

18:42

time I sat down to do

18:44

this exercise , sort

18:46

of thinking about it in the way I've

18:49

described over this series of

18:51

podcasts so far , I

18:54

got all prepared to do it and everything

18:56

and very

18:58

reverent , and

19:00

I go in and ask for

19:02

help and then immediately I hear this

19:04

voice on and right

19:06

in my right ear says you're an idiot . And

19:09

I laugh about it . Now , actually , he gave

19:11

me pause and

19:15

I was reminded

19:17

of the respectful tourist

19:20

. We don't really know what's

19:22

going on within this vast

19:24

realm of the mind , and

19:27

so I went OK

19:29

, stay the course . And I turned toward

19:31

this part , and it turns out it

19:34

was a part that I'm very well

19:36

, that's a very beloved part

19:38

of me . It was playing a trick on

19:40

me and wanted

19:42

to see if I would keep my own rules

19:45

. So there you go . You never know

19:47

quite what's going to

19:49

happen . All right , I think

19:51

that we should start wrapping up here

19:53

. Let's just recap for a moment

19:55

. What

19:57

we've talked about here is a more

20:00

integrated way of thinking that

20:02

I'm calling unity consciousness

20:04

or unified consciousness . That

20:08

helps us to rise above dualistic

20:10

thinking that often leads us into either

20:13

or choices that are

20:15

inadequate and we feel

20:17

conflicted , we can feel trapped , and

20:19

so we want to elevate our thinking

20:21

to include a lot more

20:23

information so

20:26

that we can make a more informed

20:28

choice . We're

20:30

going to do this by

20:32

assuming that there's a part

20:35

of us that understands already

20:37

unified consciousness , that may even be

20:39

connected to unified consciousness

20:42

and can enable to connect with us

20:44

as well , and so we're

20:46

just going to , at the right time and space , we're

20:48

just going to say , hey

20:50

, is there a part of me that understands

20:53

unified consciousness ? And if so

20:55

, will you help me ? And

20:58

then we're going to wait , pay attention

21:00

to anything we see , hear

21:03

or feel . Next

21:05

, and

21:08

from there you have to treat this

21:10

like a normal conversation . You're gathering

21:12

information , trying to learn what's going

21:14

on . You got to treat it like you're

21:17

having an adult conversation with

21:19

another entity

21:21

that thinks for itself . Now

21:23

, if you do all

21:26

of that and you

21:29

don't get anywhere in other words , we

21:32

talked about what happens if you go blank in another episode . Sorry

21:34

, I'm not going to recap that here , but what I'm talking

21:37

about is what ? If what you get back is stress

21:39

, self-criticism

21:42

, you

21:44

hear your third grade teacher's

21:46

voice saying we don't do things like that

21:48

, we don't talk to ourselves . I

21:50

mean , if it doesn't go well , I'm going

21:52

to suggest to you that

21:55

that's a really

21:57

good thing , because there's

22:00

no right or wrong answer . Our

22:02

objective here is

22:05

to establish communication

22:08

with parts of ourselves that

22:10

are not in our normal waking consciousness

22:12

, and

22:14

so if you have some part out of

22:16

control criticizing you that

22:19

you can't control , then

22:22

guess what you have achieved the

22:24

objective . This is a part the

22:26

things for itself , that

22:28

is , in a realm of consciousness that you don't

22:31

have access to , you

22:33

can't control it , and

22:35

so it's stressful . That's why you're sitting in a meeting

22:38

and this voice in your ears going don't say anything

22:40

, you're going to mess up , and so on and so forth . It

22:42

has a real impact on our behavior , but it

22:46

doesn't feel like we're doing it to ourselves

22:48

. It feels like it's being

22:50

done to us , and

22:52

so it's kind of interesting

22:55

that what's actually true are both

22:57

, in other words , we are

23:00

both doing it to ourselves

23:02

and it is also being

23:04

done to us . That's a strange

23:06

thought , but if you encounter

23:09

a difficult situation like this , remember

23:12

you don't really

23:14

understand what's going on . How

23:16

could you you haven't asked , you

23:19

haven't investigated and

23:22

remain calm , be respectful

23:24

, realize you

23:27

have your own choices to make . So someone's

23:29

criticizing you on the inside and

23:34

you can pause for a moment and say

23:36

, well , okay , this is happening . What do I

23:38

want to do about it ? Well

23:40

, this is a part of me . That

23:44

nut job on the podcast said

23:46

that our parts love us and want

23:48

to serve us . If they would recognize

23:50

us . And

23:54

so believe in that for a moment and

23:57

see if you can use any sort of maturity

23:59

and skill to turn

24:02

the conversation around . You're a respectful tourist

24:04

. You've gone into a different culture . Someone

24:07

in that culture is angry that you showed up

24:09

because they didn't

24:11

recognize you

24:14

. Your part didn't recognize

24:16

you and

24:19

so , with respect and calm , you're

24:23

going to begin to negotiate

24:25

with whatever you encounter

24:28

. I tell you what even

24:31

if you just observe it without

24:34

getting upset and

24:36

then say thank you so much for showing

24:39

me what's going on in here , I'll

24:42

be back when I know what to do . That's

24:46

all okay . The

24:49

path starts

24:51

where you are

24:53

. It's your path . So

24:57

take

25:01

your time , go very

25:04

, very slowly and

25:08

don't think you have to tackle everything in

25:10

one sitting

25:13

. And

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again , this

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is kind of a I haven't laid out

25:19

a here's what's

25:21

going to happen next kind

25:23

of scenario or here

25:25

are the steps . I

25:27

haven't laid that out . We're not

25:29

putting the pedal to the metal here . We're

25:33

taking the incredibly scenic

25:35

route . So don't go into

25:37

this thinking , oh my gosh , you

25:39

know I must feel better

25:41

immediately and if this thing doesn't work out

25:43

right here , then I'm going to

25:45

that . If you're thinking along those lines

25:48

, then turn in the direction

25:50

of those thoughts and say hello , you

25:53

sound like you're a skeptical

25:55

, cynical or critical part , because

25:58

you're not going to get beyond

26:01

that to the help

26:03

you need . Until you deal with the initial interference

26:06

, you're not being welcomed

26:08

into your

26:10

inner space , so that's what you have to

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deal with . You got

26:16

some work to do with those initial greeters

26:18

on the inside of your mind . However

26:23

, when those parts of you are

26:25

on your side , boy

26:28

, and then you show up and you're welcome , wonderful

26:31

, wonderful thing . So

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start where you are . Start

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where you are .