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Children Perceive Their World in the Theta Frequency

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In his book The Biology of Belief, cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton describes how in the first six years of life, children perceive their world in the theta frequency. After that they move to beta, which is our normal day-to-day operating procedure. Theta is also that period of time when we are just conscious between waking and sleeping. This has been studied by many scientists, psychologists, and medical personnel. The theta state is like a sponge–we absorb tremendous amounts of information in that frequency. The early childhood years require the absorption of billions of details to learn how to function in the physical and emotional worlds. We never again learn as much as we do in those first years. We are effectively storing more information than the largest supercomputer.

It is a period of time, those first six years, in which we also believe everything is true that we are told. We accept what our parents say and do as absolute truth, and also assume the behavior of others is truth. There is no discrimination of facts or ideas in theta. Everything is open and receiving. Such filtering only occurs later, after age six.

For this reason, how we treat little ones impacts their entire lives. If they learn love, then that is what they also learn as truth. If they hear words that do not value them, they assume those opinions are true. They do not realize that what parents and other people do and especially what they say can be limited in its wisdom. Many people struggle with issues all their lives that began in this early time.

What matters most is that we cherish the little ones and acknowledge we are entrusted with their care, and we do not own them–we are given the privilege of knowing them by God’s grace, a soul to meet whose only purpose is to feel joy in existence.

Our responsibility as adults is to give that to all children, everywhere. Doing so would change the world.

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“Do not neglect the gift that is in you.” – 1 Timothy 4:14

Too many of us doubt we are of value in the world. We view those who have achieved so much and wonder what we are doing here, having done far less. Or so we believe. It is always a matter of belief. We tell ourselves negative stories, and most of the stories seem absolutely true, about our life’s experiences and our personal worth. It is a form of self-hypnosis. The thing is, we all have gifts that are essential to life’s evolving purpose, and Timothy’s words are God’s message to each one of us—it matters that you do not neglect the gift that is in you.

The road into peaceful well-being is unique to you. No one else follows the same path. Your road can be one of hardship or one of relative ease, though most often it is somewhere in-between. It may involve a spiritual crisis, or you may never experience self-doubt. Whatever happens, though, it is the soul’s journey. Your human self is living out the blueprint of your soul. The gift to yourself is to let it become and transform, in whatever way is—again—unique to you and no other.

The mysteries and revelations life brings so often surprise us. We have beliefs about our expectations, too, most often when we do not listen to our inner voice. You know this. You feel in a palpable way those things that fulfill you and those that do not.

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Near-Death Experiences

Visions of the Afterlife

NDEs, or Near-Death Experiences, have been recorded since ancient times. I had not known about them, however, until I read Dr. Raymond Moody’s small book Life After Life, published in 1975, in which he first defined the term. I had the honor to study with Dr. Moody in 2000 when he was giving a course sponsored by the Association for Research and Enlightenment, founded in Virginia Beach in 1931 by the American prophet Edgar Cayce. After reading over a hundred books and articles on the subject, I remain fascinated by the similarity of what people experience, which often includes:

A journey through darkness, usually toward an indescribable light
Heightened awareness and the feeling one is in an alternate landscape
Encounters with deceased loved ones, with spirit guides, and with angels, as well as with sacred figures like Jesus
Having a life review in which they learn their impact on others
Receiving knowledge about the universe and the purpose of life

Near-Death Experiences Increasing

Over the last thirty years there has been an increased frequency in the number of reported NDE events in the west. The stories have come from people in all walks of life and all ages, including children. Reasons vary but certainly one reason derives from our highly developed medical technology, which has enabled doctors and nurses to resuscitate people who would otherwise have died on the operating table from heart attacks and critical trauma. For a short period of time these people were clinically dead. Many of them reported seeing a light that was divine and being told they must return to their bodies because it was not yet time for them to leave their life on earth. What lends credence to their narratives is also the way in which they were able to describe what was going on in the operating theater as attempts were made to revive them. They would often mention watching it all happen from some other corner of the room.

Narratives of Near-Death Experiences

Dr. George Ritchie

One of the most powerful narratives was experienced during WW2 by Dr. George Ritchie, described in his 1978 book Return from Tomorrow. It was meeting Ritchie that first brought NDEs to Dr. Moody’s attention. As a twenty-year-old soldier, ostensibly dead from fever, he had an astonishing vision of the afterlife that changed his life forever.

Dr. Eben Alexander

Another physician, Dr. Eben Alexander, is a neurosurgeon who went to medical school at Duke University and spent fifteen years at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. He developed an anomaly in his own brain that sent him into a coma. The condition was so destructive it was assumed he would never recover. As he relates in his powerful 2012 book Proof of Heaven, during the seven-day coma he had a near-death experience that transformed his attitude toward medicine and healing and life.

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Thoreau, Walden, and Our Life Purpose

Walden Pond

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ~Walden

Thoreau was doing more than simplifying his life when he went to live alone near Walden Pond. His desire was to experience life without distraction, to feel it with a mindfulness that allowed him to know each moment for its own sake. His attention was taken up with watching the landscape and its inhabitants, the creatures of the woods and water, and by the mundane tasks of each day. There was no past or future, but instead only a living in the present.

There is a life purpose for our sojourn on this earth…

What he discovered and wrote down still holds us in its power, We are meant to use the energy of our unique self to express our gifts out into the world now, not later. Like Thoreau, we are meant to serve in this way–and with each effort we make that is in alignment with the “essential facts of life,” we discover that we have lived.

There are clear signs–and familiar ones–when we are not in such alignment, usually appearing as dissatisfaction and escape into distraction and procrastination. If we stay too far from our life purpose and for too long, we can feel dis-ease and depression. Often we wait for someone to show us what it is, to tell us what it is, even to give it to us by some magical process.

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Consider the Lilies of the Field

Living in the Present Moment

In both the book of Matthew, Chapter 6 and the book of Luke, Chapter 12, Jesus asks why the people feel so anxious. In truth, he says to them, they have everything they could ever want already present within their own hearts, where dwells the kingdom of God. Consider the lilies of the field, he tells them. Watch how the flowers accept the light of the sun, the falling rain, the wind that blows across the land, receiving all of it as a gift of life.

The passage speaks to us still. We often live as if time is escaping us, and our sense of worry and fretfulness overtakes us, sometimes along with or because of fear and anxiety. These are the things that consume far too many hours in our day, when what we need to do is stop, if even for only a moment, and enter the quiet place within.

Allowing Ourselves Time to Just Be

The least helpful advice anyone can give us is to tell us to be practical, to think ahead, to shape up and get it together. We know all that. What we need to hear instead are words reminding us that we are sent here by God to have this human experience, to feel the precious and exquisite pattern of the days. It is in this camouflage three-dimensional reality that we apprehend the essence of our spiritual selves through how we feel while we live within the barriers of time, and discover they open our consciousness after all into far deeper recognitions. T.S. Eliot wrote these lines about just that in The Four Quartets, in “Burnt Norton”:

“Time past and time future
Allow but a little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,
The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,
The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.”

Nothing is ever solved by the feeling of anxiety. Let it go. In its place allow trust, like the lilies of the field, the kind of trust that senses all is well, no matter how it seems otherwise. Because it is.

And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
Yet seek ye his kingdom, and these things shall be added unto you.

Trace Element

The Appalachians are among the oldest of mountains–they were part of Pangaea 300 million years ago. In fact, they lay at its center. Pangaea means the whole land, the Mother Earth. And I learned just recently that a small park I went to as a child in Malden, MA has the cone of a volcano that was active in that time–part of the Appalachians back then, now a trace element, kept intact across time by a mile-high glacier that covered the area during the many Ice Ages. So as I played on the grounds and climbed the rocks, I moved over primeval land and whether I knew it or not, felt the tremors of ancient fire and the cold of ancient ice.

Seth, Life Purpose, and Taking Action

I have received great practical and spiritual gain from personal development leaders like Tony Robbins, Phil Laut, Louise Hay, and many others I may list someday in a chronological order to honor the inner journey. But in the 1960s and 1970s and until 1984 Jane Roberts channeled Seth, and the books that were created offered wisdom about our life purpose that was prescient and powerful and which presented many of the very same core ideas as those other leaders have offered us today. Most of all, Seth told us to why we needed to “Take action.”

I first read Seth in 1982, and will never forget the immersion that began then into other ways of seeing, thinking, feeling, believing–and living. Here are some quotes from various books, as posted on the Seth Network International organization, sourced below.

SETH ON CHANGING OUR WORLD FOR THE BETTER:

* …Many people want to change the world for the better, but that ideal seems so awe-inspiring that they think they can make no headway unless they perform some great acts of daring or heroism, or envision themselves in some political or religious place of power, or promote an uprising or rebellion.

* You will often condone quite reprehensible acts if you think they were committed for the sake of a greater good.

* The ideal seems so remote and unreachable that sometimes any means, however reprehensible, eventually can seem justified.

* To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.

* Every time you affirm the rightness of your own existence, you help others. Your mental states are part of the planet’s psychic atmosphere.

* For a start you will acknowledge your existence in the framework of nature, and to do that you must recognize the vast cooperative processes that connect each species with each other one.

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Christmas with Seth–an ESP Class Session

(December 19, 1972)

Look at the Christmas tree; your cells and molecules shine a million times more brightly.

Your eyes glitter with far greater light. You are love in corporeal form. You do not have

to look for it or wonder where to find it or give it in packages with bright ribbon.

You are packages with bright ribbon.

Excerpt:

Christmas is now and was yesterday and will be tomorrow. It is in you, in Buddha, in Pan, in Christ, in Mohammed, in an ant and in a frog, and in your eyes and with you, each of you. You are each, then, Christmas. You shine and glitter whether or not you know it. You shout “Merry Christmas” even when you cry. You cannot deny your own vitality or being.

Message:

Do not think that Christmas is too camp. In your civilization, when you allow it to, it speaks to the child in you. Accept the child and enjoy the myth, for behind the myth there is truth, and the truth is that you are reborn. And the truth is that the inner self does have the wonder of a child. (more…)

Spirit Messengers in Everyday Life

Messengers of spirit come our way every day, sometimes passing through our lives for only a brief moment, sometimes appearing in the guise of a close friend, and sometimes showing up when we are lost, when we need help the most. They respond to the inner call we send out into this three-dimensional human experience, the one that feels bewildered and asks for revelation. That call never goes unanswered, for these spirit messengers work on holy ground. What we keep missing is sensing that we are the messengers for one another, and that this holy ground is one we all share. We are meant to listen to each other with compassion, for we are all children of light and love, and there is no separation.

Sacred Memory and the Present Moment

When he wrote Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust was trying to capture the essence of events that no longer existed except in his memories of them. He wanted to articulate the day-to-day feeling and evoke the sensations that had once been so real to him, the link between Sacred Memory and the Present Moment. He would tap into moments in time through his recollection of sights and scents and sounds. The resonance of memory for him lay not just in the moment that was being retrieved, but in the process and reason used to initiate the act of remembering. By the very immersion in scenes from his life, Proust was revising and coloring them from where he was as he wrote down the words describing the elusive past. Like the details of the Vermeer paintings he recalled, he wanted to apprehend again the detailed experience of all he had once known, but he could not be sure he had grasped what it was.

Our creativity with memory is inevitable, for we are all drawn over and over again to new versions of the visual and tangible effects of the memories we hold. Each memory cannot be accessed by us without our changing its content and form at once. This is an ongoing, familiar process that we each experience, with the result that both traumatic and joyful events, in time, are most often perceived very differently from the original event.
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