CHAPTER 4: SPIRIT WITHIN                                                               Print Version                                      “Day by day, as you learn to meditate, a new awakening will come; a new, living                                       relationship with Spirit will be established. The mist of silence and mystery which                                       hangs over everything will slowly vanish before the dawning light of your mental                                       and devotional search for your Creator.”                                                                    Kriya Yoga, Vol. 4, Lesson 89. Self-Realization Foundation. (35) The fourth step toward Creating From the Future with Inter-Dimensional Technologies is to connect with Higher Self __ your Spirit Within__  to receive guidance. When you can obtain daily guidance from Spirit Within, as Drunvalo Melchizidek says, "You have won the game of life."                                                                                           Summary * The Mayan Calendar & 2012. * "Higher Energies." * The Chakras. * Consciousness precedes all manifestations of both energy and matter. * We are spiritual energy beings. * Meditation and Dreamwork. * The Observor Stage * Superconscious-Higher Self can override the Subconscious. * Meditation. * Yogic Breathing. * Dreamwork. * Higher Intelligences. * Discerning True from False Teachings. * Peak Experiences. The Mayan Calendar covers a 5.000 yeear-long period of human evolution beginning about 3113 B.C. and culminating in humanity's achievement of a higher awareness__ Unity Consciousness__ by October 28, 2011, and Earth’s  and Humanity's Mass Dimensional Shift by December 21, 2012. The Harmonic Convergence, August 15th -17th, 1987, began opening the  planet and her lifeforms to higher dimensions of existence. This tremendous, energetic event brought hundreds of thousands of people together at sacred sites around the world, and ushered in new creative potentials.                                                             The Union of Energies I’m in Idaho preparing for the second week of the 1987 Vogel,Crystal Healing Classes at Grand Teton Park, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I  receive an inner message upon waking the second day of Harmonic Convergence: “Kriya is where you can learn all you need to know about energies.” I have no idea what "kriya” is__ some unknown sacred site on Earth, a book, a person, a planet?  I note it in my journal, but dismiss it to prepare for the trip to the class session.  Dr. Marcel Vogel, our instructor, flies to Jackson Hole from California. At Salt Lake City, an unusual-looking man boards the plane  to sit beside him. Although at  least seven feet tall, sun-tanned, with sky-blue eyes and young looking in face and physique, he has snow white hair and a small white goatee. He says he’s “Heber” and has just returned from several years in the Tibetan Himalayan Mountains. He’d heard of Dr. Vogel’s classes and would like to sit in on some of them. Marcel welcomes him warmly. Sunday morning, Dr.Vogel and some of the students drive into Jackson to attend Mass. Heber agrees to lead the remaining students in meditation and prayer at the lodge. The meditation is superb, and one fellow asks Heber where he learned this style, as it’s quite different from the Transcendental Meditation he was taught. Heber replies that his methods come from Kriya Yoga, which he’s studied for years. "Yoga” means “union”, and “Kriya” means “energies”, so Kriya Yoga means “Union of Energies.” I immediately recognize the word as the one I’d received a week earlier. Upon Marcel’s return after lunch, we head uphill to the huge, circular Mongolian yurt in which classes are held. I arrange to walk beside our tall visitor, telling him about my message concerning “kriya”. He links me with Self-Realization Fellowship, established by Paramahansa Yogananda, who brought Kriya Yoga to the United States from India and Tibet in the early 20th Century. (35) A day later, Heber vanishes. Grand Institute is about 20 miles from the Jackson Hole airport and Heber had arrived with Marcel in the airport van. He spoke to no one that last morning. No one saw him leave, and no car or van had been used. Evidently he fulfilled his mission here and somehow transported to where he needed to be next. Dr Vogel says, “We’ve been checked out by higher powers.” By the following January, I am deeply into Kriya Yoga studies and continue them for years. They do indeed, teach, “all you need to know about energies.” Dr. Valerie Hunt, neuro-psychologist, discovered that the energy field inside and outside our bodies is quicker than our brains. It picks  up someone entering the room even before our brains or physical senses do. Dr. Hunt has also documented the chakras and their frequencies. Chakras are the energy vortices in a human energy field which interface with the energy fields of other humans, Earth and All Life Everywhere. (36) (Figure 2). Consciousness precedes all manifestations of both energy and matter. It has the power to both create and destroy. Consciousness has long appeared to be cloaked in anomalies. Our old science does not accept anomalies because they challenge mainstream theories, can't be explained by the logical brain, duplicated on command, or measured by mechanical devices.The new science attempts to include anomalies, considering them clues to revolutionary concepts of how the universe operates. What to believe and who to trust, have become issues of primary concern in this topsy-turvy world of rapid change. How many years have we sought and followed advice from “experts” or “authorities”? How many books were read, how many audios listened to, and videos or DVDs watched, only to find in the end that it didn’t work for us individually? We need a completely personal guidance system__ one tailored only to our individual needs, to our unique goals and special abilities. The wisest teacher of all dwells within us. Look not for a "savior" to come down from the mountains, from across the sea or from outer space. The "savior" dwells within us; simply awaiting our contact. A higher spiritual awareness was established in all mankind in the very beginning. We are spiritual energy beings, playing games in physical matter bodies. It is time we reconnect directly with higher intelligence sources. Nothing else could be more critical. As we engaged in creative activities, we learned how the Inner life__ the Subconscious, alpha state__ forms the matrix for our exterior life experiences. These Basic Inter-Dimensional Technologies teach us how to  raise our consciousness and cooperate with the Creative Force to harmonize both energy and matter. The First Multi-D Technology linked us with the energies of Earth and Nature. This Second Multi-D Technology introduces  Meditation and Dreamwork which link us with our Superconscious-Higher Selves __ our primary inspirational and guidance source.                                                              Listening to Spirit Within The Greater Self mentioned in this text maybe viewed as God. In childhood, "God" was thought to be an old man in a long white robe and beard, who either rewarded favored followers or punished those who defied dogmatic religious or biblical teachings. We gave our Creator human-like aspects. rather than perceiving a Divine Eergy Entity. We'll be using the terms, "Spirit", "Great Spirit", "Greater Self", "Creator" or  "Universe". A Loving, Intelligent, Self-Organizing Creative Force radiates from our Creator, who manifested All That Is, Was and Ever Will Be. This Force exists within and around every human, animal, plant, and mineral, and even in so-called "empty" space. We each have a Higher Self to our individual personality. Our collective spirits within__ all humanity's and all life-forms' Higher Selves together__ are our Greater Self, our Creator, our Great Spirit We look within for guidance because Greater Self's connection with All That Is is in keeping with universal purposes and for the highest good of all concerned. The creative skills used for engaging in Basic Inter-D Technologies included Emotion, Intention, Thought, Sound, and Breath. Connecting with Earth and linking with Higher Self through Intuition, Meditation or Dreamwork accesses guidance for creating with these skills. These days, it's best we do not accept information from only outside sources. We need inner guidance to help us make appropriate decisions, and to gain trust in the inherent goodness of life. If, after regular practice of meditation, you still desire input from outside sources, try to discern what is best for self. Feel the “rightness” of it in your heart. Only one thing remains unchanged in this universe: our connection with Creator, whether we are aware of it or not. We might say that if prayer is speaking to Spirit, meditation or dreamwork are listening to Spirit. Just as we scheduled time, energy and space for creative arts, so do we set aside quiet times and places for meditation. After meditating successfully for some time, many people become caught up in the wonder and glamor of the process__ the peak experiences and deep sense of joy__ to the point where they think these sensations are the spiritual path, rather than using the input to make positive changes in self. The sensations are only signals that we are in that moment, in alignment with the higher forces. Although the methods below do teach us how to meditate and receive its benefits, they do not necessarily guarantee overcoming negative attitudes, healing ourselves and others, establishing loving relationships, or being of greater service to others__ unless we apply the knowledge gained. When we cleanse our minds through meditation and our bodies through healthy habits, we invite the Creative Force to enter in. Physically in harmony, bonded with Earth, mentally alert and emotionally balanced, we remain blissfully alive and open to life's inspirational flows and bliss. Spirit exists in everything, everywhere, at all times. Whenever a question is born, the answer births with it. Through Higher Self, we  connect with the Creative Force before creating on expanded levels. Higher Self assists us to adjust beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, feelings, habits and behaviors which no longer are appropriate for us. Meditation and Dreamwork are safe and pleasant ways to recover the deep issues underlying current motivations and difficulties. One of the best habits we can develop is Journaling__ not only our artistic experiments, but mainly our efforts to link with Spirit Within, Earth and Nature, and to cope with life events. For Meditation or Dreamwork, Journaling is a must. Record experiences immediately after a profound insight or dream, for they tend to fade within the hour. After a year or two has passed, it’s particularly enlightening to read the Journal and perceive the patterns we’re inwardly building. Linking with Higher Self allows us to better manage mind and emotions and live in the present moment instead of in a troubled past or future. Consciously transforming our daily issues greatly accelerates our evolutionary process. I recently discovered, reading over some of my old Journals, that my dreams and meditations often represented forcasts of my life for as much as twenty years in the future. A new relationship with our Creator is established. Years of meditation trigger the autonomic nervous system to change the body.  Long-term meditators gradually raise the creative drive (kundalini) up the etheric spine, opening all chakras from root to crown and beyond. Creating From the Future activates when our personal creative energy rises to the heart and higher energy centers. The energy flow through each center balances and dissolves blockages, and related lessons are released into the meditator's consciousness, suggesting needed life alterations and how to process them.  Etheric energy centers below the heart level relate to skills for functioning in a 3-D physical world. The root center, near the base of the spine, involves connection with Earth and actual physical survival. The sacral-reproductive center’s issues are sexuality, material needs, self-esteem and personal values. The solar plexus center just above the waistline, relates to our relationships with other beings, with the natural environment and our personal power.. It is through here that psychic senses can first develop. Like creative talents, psychic skills are useful tools inherent within every individual. Though supernatural phenomena may occasionally occur to the regular meditator, the goal is not the psychic phenomena, but rather a direct link with Higher Self, enabling us to receive guidance, clear subconscious patterns, clarify spiritual truths, and design our personal belief systemd . Past lives and childhood memories often arise in dreams or meditations, asking us to deal with unresolved past issues. For a long time, we thought if we acted, spoke, and thought “just right”, then our spiritual evolution would protect us; life would be easier and more miraculous. Life, however, is more a process of search and discovery, than one of achievements and rewards. “The very nature of development is problematic".... "Life does not just get more and more wonderful; it’s like a developmental crisis that moves to resolution, to integration and to further crises.” Abraham Maslow says that on supernal levels, we are seeking transformation rather than stability, which does not allow for growth. “When we get things together, we have to reach out for something new.” (37)  Conflict provides the tension necessary to develop a strong will through intentionally chosen activities, words, and thoughts. If one idea does not work, we try another, then another, and yet another, until we “get it”. But it's much faster to "go upstairs" to Higher Self for answers. Meditation is the key to successfully performing Inter-Dimensional  Technologies. As the meditating mind focuses on non-material issues, mind becomes “aware of being aware”. From the Seeker Stage, we move to the First Enlightenment Stage of Consciousness Evolution, becoming aware of how our very thoughts and feelings have an effect upon our outer lives and our health.. Consciousness Evolution, or “enlightenment”, through daily meditation, can bring physical changes. Yogis use meditation to control their autonomic nervous system, skin temperature, breathing, heart rate and blood circulation. The brain actually pulsates against the cranium, creating a sound wave that oscillates within the lateral and third ventricles of the brain. These vibrations, broadcast to surrounding brain tissues, reach the nerves of the middle ear and may be the source of the “inner voices” sensed by some meditators. Through a feedback system between the heart and the aorta artery, the meditational spiraling waves electrically stimulate specific pathways within the brain. After long-time meditating, a circulating current is established, releasing stresses stored within the brain itself. Later, through multiple sessions of meditation, new neural pathways form, preventing storage of new stresses and promoting activation of pleasure centers within the brain. (25) Through meditation we can access the alpha, theta or delta  zones at will, as well as accessing other dimensional realms. The peace of mind lasts for hours, and they're the only states providing for a true understanding of the highest good for all involved. IN THE GOLDEN AGE TO COME after 2012,  WE WILL BE ACCESSING 9 DIMENSIONAL REALMS. Higher perception faculties operate in geniuses. Mozart, Einstein and Nietzsche told of receiving inspiration from higher intelligences. Information came suddenly, without request. They seemed to be human conduits through which universal forces expressed. And their ideas arrived not in a linear, piecemeal fashion, but all-at-once__ as if with the flick of a universal light switch. Mozart, for example, would return from one of his meditative walks in the woods with an entire symphony in his head. He’d then sit down and write it out in complete and perfect order, from beginning to end, with no further refinements. Inspiration arrives when the mind expands to receive new ideas. Concentration requires a focusing of thoughts into a funnel of energy allowing for a single concept to be observed. Intention, however, is a Creative Skill arising through inspiration and concentration, setting both origin and target for the projection of energies from one point to another. As we enter the Observor Stage of Consciousness Evolution, we become spiritual warriors. However, we do battle with our own thoughts, feelings, words and actions, using Higher Self to inspect our personalities in operation, then change them at will, if necessary. Its all-pervading power is an aspect of self that has long been repressed. At the Observor Stage,we’re amazed at the power of the mind, wanting to know more about its workings. We overcome the duality of mind by perceiving conflicts as simply two sides of the same coin which, when unified, express a broader truth.                                                         Meditation and Brain Waves For 50,000 years, the Aboriginal peoples of Australia entered their “Dreamtime”__ slower brain wave states__  roaming the quiet outback where the only sounds were wind, rain or insects. During a walk-about, the elders had “dreamings” in which nature spirits guided them to desert food, water or remedies. It was a way of being in control of their world. On our urban and overdeveloped lands, nature spirits usually leave, relocating to more undisturbed areas. (41) Our awareness, like the iceberg, exists with only 10% of our total mind visible above the waterline. Most people’s lives are run by the subconscious__ the 90% below the surface of awareness. Meditation and Dreamwork open the subconscious to our awareness (38), and then the Superconscious-Higher Self can override the negative subconscious programs. All memories from the past programming our belief systems reside in the subconscious, alpha brain wave state. They underlie who we believe we are and attract situations that reflect that belief back to us, because Earth's Schumann Resonance vibrates at the same level as our human alpha waves. While focused in alpha, as in daydreaming, meditative or hypnotic states, we can change impulses, desires and goals at will. (See Archives for more info.) Meditations are consciously activated waking dreams: brainstorms getting online with humanity’s collective mind, with Earth's inner forces or with Spirit's universal network. Dreams and meditations can bridge us with the Creative Force to influence time, space, energy and matter. Meditation electrifies us to move to other brain wave states, to tap into higher intelligence and to find information stored in matter and energy fields normally not available in the "waking" state. Through a  meditational state we can enter multiple dimensions__ one at a time, or several simultaneously. Recent researches show a definite shift toward theta and delta brain wave frequencies and an increased integration of left and right sides of the brain during meditative or psychic episodes.                                                               How to Meditate In ancient Hebrew, the word, "sabbath" originally meant "to sit within oneself", rather than designating a particular holy day of the week. The best places to meditate are in Nature__  preferably wilderness areas or a secluded spot in the back yard or garden. The next best is a space indoors reserved for that purpose only. Disconnect the phones, and avoid electronic appliances, sitting either on a cushion on the floor or a comfortable, straight-backed chair. Keep the spine erect and upright. Do not cross arms or legs__ it “short-circuits” the body's currents. Keep this space and time for meditation sacred, for we create a living energy field around our bodies as we consciously connect with Higher Self or Creative Force. Meditate at the same place and time each day, preferably near sunrise or sunset. At first spend ten minutes quieting body and mind before actually going into meditation. Later, when you can relax quickly, gradually extend the total meditating time to twenty or thirty minutes. As technique improves, it easily extends to an hour or more, but will seem as if only a few minutes have passed. We know the technique is correctly performed when the joyful peace it brings lasts long after we stop. It’s probably best to avoid meditating too long, for it tends to pull the mental focus away from necessary physical duties. Some people even forget to eat, bathe or feed the cat due to zealousness in meditation. Every fifteen minutes spent in deep meditation replaces an hour of sleep. This holds true for up to five hours less sleep per night, but the body needs at least three hours to process anything absorbed during the day. Dreams are also a vital part of the sleep pattern, and most people’s eyes need more rest. If there is trouble stilling the body, try alternately tensing a set of muscles with each breath in, then relaxing them with each breath out. Begin at the feet and work upwards to the ankles, the calves, knees and so on. At the torso, flex front and back areas separately until you reach the heart area. Then move to fingers, hands, arms and back, and on to the chest and shoulder areas. Next tense and relax the neck muscles, front and back, working up the back of the skull and over the scalp, ending with the facial muscles. Don't forget the eyes and lower jaw. At this point you may wish to consciously contact the cells of your body with each long, slow breath. Again, beginning with the feet and moving upwards, express Love and a Sense of Oneness with each and every group of cells. Invite them and the vital organs of the body to join you in connecting with Spirit. These two exercises not only relax the body, but also give the mind something to do, freeing it from the concerns of the outer life. As you become more proficiant in meditating, you won't need to do these exercises; you'll just sit in your usual position, close your eyes and relax into the process. Concentrating on the breath also helps. Yogic Breathing is a critical part of meditation. Most people are shallow breathers, seldom using the full capacity of their lungs to charge body and mind. First, breathe in through the nostrils, expanding the belly with air as far as possible. Second, still holding the stomach breath, fill the lung-chest area. Third, still holding breath, inflate the shoulder area, feeling the collarbone rise up and out. Do not force breath into these areas; simply allow the body to fill. Ideally, there should be no hesitation between inflating the three sections__ it should be one long, smooth continuous wave. The exhale flows out through either the mouth or nostrils, releasing air from all three body cavities at once. Practice inhaling and exhaling until it feels comfortable. Inhaling through the nostrils is imperative because air then moves upward in a double spiraling motion (oscillation), putting an electromagnetic charge on the air components which then transfers to all circulatory systems. Whether the charge is positive or negative depends on what we think and feel while inhaling.  Whenever you have a sudden, shocking experience__ whether fearful or delightful__ don't you naturally take a sharp, deep breath inward? This imprints the emotion into our body cells. NOTE: If you are doing an Energetic Intention during meditation, A Sense of Oneness is necessary, and this is achieved by FEELING (not "thinking") that you and the person you are healing, the object you are manifesting, or the situation you are changing, are One Being, One Object, or One Situation. At this point, a Prayer of Protection is usually said, or we may pray when first sitting to meditate. The greatest protection possible, is to feel Unconditional Love for All Life Everywhere (including self) and to maintain a perfect sense of Harmlessness as did Christ. The Lord's Prayer or the Twenty-third Psalm are excellent, or you may create a prayer for your personal use. The author's favorite, used by permission, is adapted from Edgar Cayce’s "Search For God, Vol. I": "Dear Spirit, as I open myself to the unseen forces surrounding the throne of grace, beauty and might within myself, I draw about myself the protection found in the thought of the Christ and His perfect sense of Harmlessness. Let me ever be a channel of blessing, today, now, to all whom I contact in every way. Let my going in and my coming out be in accord with that Thou would have me do and for the highest good of all concerned. And as the call comes__ here am I, dear Spirit; Send me, Use me. " (44 ) We can note a great difference here: Many people use Prayer to request Divine Intervention__ i.e., "God, please do such and such for me." The alternative is the belief that we are both fractals and agents of that Creator Source, and are eager to serve the Creator's purposes, Earth and each other. Since we are all particles of Spirit-Creator, doesn't it follow that we, too, are creators? Creating From the Future is Co-Creating with Spirit/Creator. Drunvalo Melchizedek and his trained facilitators teach the Merkaba meditation in the Flower of Life workshops (45), which is where this author received it. Creating a living energy field__ a star tetrahedron__ around the physical body enables ascension to higher dimensions, protection from outer harmful forces, and an influence over electromagnetics. The Merkaba meditation is so powerful that it is usually taught person to person in a private or classroom setting, but is now available on the floweroflife.com website.. Other fine meditational sources are Self Realization Fellowship, teaching Kriya Yoga techniques for consciousness evolution (35), or the Edgar Cayce Foundation (A.R.E.)  Now and then outside influences intrude upon the meditating mind: the ticking of a clock, a dog barking, cars moving nearby. Accept them, acknowledge them for what they are, and reassure the logical mind that “this does not concern us now”. Then return to deeper attunement. Soon these noises will not even be noticed. As meditation continues, breathing slows. It may even cease completely for long periods of time, as may the heartbeat; but generally we don’t realize that breath or heart has stopped until meditation ends. Suspending the breathing process is extremely healthy__ science has  shown that it actually slows down the aging process and extends life expectancy. However, do not force it, let it activate naturally in its own time. At some point during meditation we become totally unaware of our body, thoughts, breath, or surroundings; we’ve moved to a deeper level__ Theta Brain Waves. This text does not intend to impose new beliefs, but to provide options; each person's spiritual truths exist within themselves, and meditation can unlock those truths__ we need only to respect the mystery, Love  and powers of the Creator and be willing to open to them. When body and mind are relaxed, breathing slowed and rhythmic, love in the heart and the Prayer of Protection pronounced, we’ve nothing more to do but request that guidance come forth and sit in the silence. (Or, if doing an Intention, first state it aloud.) I sometimes like to simply ask, "What do I need to know now?" And answers do come if we maintain the meditational mode steadily. Like most worthwhile things, it takes practice.  Men tend to "see" symbols, beings or scenes in meditation, and women tend to "hear" answers given in words, or to simply feel some sort of response to their query. Of course there are exceptions, and some people will receive numerous phenomena. Often, nothing particular comes to our awareness, but the bliss and love experienced extend far into daily life. Any answer or suggestion received in meditation comes with a feeling of Divine Love and Peace. If those feelings aren’t there, then it’s probably our ego speaking or an old thoughtform dredged up from the past. In meditation or dreamwork, we use both left and right brains to confront a problem. We can even direct the brain to work on the problem while we sleep, take a walk, wash the dishes or surf the net. Imaging numerous solutions without feeling a need to judge or refine them, we can have fun just “playing with the puzzle” until the perfect answer pops up. During the New Reality, in order to shift with Earth, we will not only access the right, intuitive holistic brain, but to learn to live in it. When we’ve meditated long enough for a particular session, we’ve only to think the thought and we become aware of sounds, light or odors around us, feel the chair or floor beneath us, and open our eyes to find we’re back in everyday consciousness. Do not fear being lost in the meditative realms; the inner guidance system always restores us to beta state. Through meditation, we shift smoothly into various brain wave states; but strangely, the exact moment of shifting always eludes us. We suddenly realize we are back in beta, aware of having been in other states, but not knowing how we got there or back. Following meditation, our higher senses are much sharper, but our physical senses will be dulled for awhile. Avoid driving a car or operating dangerous equipment soon after coming out of meditation. Expanded wisdom can be activated within experienced meditators even when they are not engaged in formal meditation. Often, insights come when least expected__ flashes of inner "light" delineating ordinary situations__ as while driving, walking, showering, making music,  painting, or doing some routine task. We may not even have requested the guidance, but these happy downloads show us why we are experiencing difficulties, what we may be creating in our lives, or how we can strive onward with patience in spite of unfair odds. The day comes when we no longer need to prepare body and mind or use rituals to move into altered states. We’ll do so at will, even while engaged in some other task  Eventually, we’ll exist in The Zone day and night__ probably first in alpha, the Dreamtime. There we’ll access information far beyond what reason usually allows. Later, we’ll activate mind and heart within a few minutes and immediately attune to the collective mind of humanity in theta or even delta. We’re then ready to find or gather a group and begin co-creating with Expanded Inter-iDimensional  Technologies. (Part IV.) In the distant past, people spent many lifetimes learning to reach that point. Even in the 20th Century, it often took many years to achieve. Most people studied with a holy person or traveled to a sacred site where temples, monuments and earth energies accelerated the process. With Earth's current intensified energetics, an individual can master meditation in a very short time. Twelve-year-old grandchildren learned it in five minutes on their very first try__ then performed an Expanded Inter-Dimensional Technology together ten minutes later.                                                                 Dreamwork A few people don’t do well at meditation. For them, dreamwork is useful until they surmount inner fears about letting something unfamiliar intol their minds. "Dreams, Your Magic Mirror", by Elsie Sechrist, is very helpful in learning to interpret personalized dream symbols. (44)  No one can analyze our dreams except ourselves. Dreamwork can show us what future realities we are creating. It is a method of using dreams to access the deepest brainwave levels for information, then Journaling and analyzing them. Use your Journal by writing down a dream on the left-hand page. Later in the day, examine what you've written and analyze it on the right-hand page. Soon you will see how certain symbols and events in the dreams connect with your personal outer life. Everything in a dream__ be it an object, situation, person, animal, color, number or other symbol__  is a reflection of some aspect of yourself. For instance, a black pyramid might mean "unknown information" __ Red color may imply anger, wounds or sex.  "Even nightmares contain incredible amounts of creative energy. All dreams serve both individual and planetary health and wholeness. They are an important creative aspect of consciousness evolution. Most people who consciously create use dreams as inspiration. Robert Louis Stevenson received his idea for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from a dream. Steve Allen, of TV fame, wrote more than 4,000 songs and 30 books, which he claims were regularly influenced by his dreams. Ingmar Bergman’s films were inspired by dreams. Many musicians __Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky and Richard Wagner, used dreams for original works as well as for revision of pieces begun in the waking state. Contemporary rock stars, Prince and Bruce Springsteen are said to have composed in their sleep, and Albert Einstein received the Theory of Relativity in a dream. (43) Psychiatrist Carl Jung analyzed common images and themes running through the dreams of large groups of people totally unknown to each other. Incredible similarities in these dreams evolved into his idea of humanity’s Collective Unconscious. It is especially valuable to be part of a group regularly sharing dreams. We stimulate each others’ subconscious minds to open more fully in a safe, supportive environment. Each of us has certain images or words holding personal meaning for us and few others. I often saw birds in my dreams__ either odd-looking birds or birds doing something unusual. This signaled me to pay attention__ important information was coming. I no longer have bird dreams; after havng accessed the higher states, real live hummingbirds, magpies, turtle doves, crows,  woodpeckers or ravens tap on my windows to herald messages. The classic approach to dreamworking is to first write down in exact words, what it is we wish to learn from the dream, and just before falling asleep, say aloud three times: “I will remember my dreams in the morning”. Then forget it and go to sleep. It may take several nights, perhaps a week or more, but you’ll eventually recall your dreams every morning if you truly wish to do so. Keep paper and pencil near your bed and write them down as soon as possible, for they fade from memory rapidly. You may find that important words or phrases such as "catch the next train", "blatant"or "pink pamphlets"  are either emphasized or repeated during a dream. You can train your mind to remember these words or phrases in the morning. As you recall them, they will trigger your memory of the entire dream. Dreams hold healing powers. In the early 1980's, I had digestive problems. My dream request was, “How can I prevent these stomach upsets?” I dreamed of a circle of wagons much like the old western films, but these wagons had glass doors on their sides. Each compartment held a type of food. Taking a plate and helping myself, I sampled food from each wagon until I reached the milk wagon. The door wouldn’t open. The next wagon held cheese, yogurt, and clam chowder and opened immediatly. Next morning, I wondered why I could have cheese and chowder, but not milk__ all dairy products. A little experimentation proved I could eat or drink cooked, but not uncooked milk. Following the dream advice, I had no more digestive troubles. Although then unknown to me, in the early 1980's dairy cows were first given antibiotics and growth hormones to increase size and milk production. I was severely allergic to antibiotics.  Although the dream never put a name to the imbalance, it did show me how to cope with it. With continued practice, we one day achieve Lucid Dreaming: dreams in which we know __ while experiencing the dream__ that we are indeed dreaming. When this occurs, it signals we are ready to use dreams even more creatively. Lucid Dreaming is excellent for making decisions. As before, we first write down the question before going to sleep. During a lucid dream, one part of us acts as the Observer Self, who directs the Dreamer Self to do certain things, and the Dreamer Self will comply. During the dream, we try out various possible endings to it. All probable answers are contained within that same dream. While in the dream, we return to the beginning again and again, each time acting out a new resolution and watching what follows it. We are, in effect, viewing probable futures in our private Dreamtime. When we awaken, we review the various solutions, choose what appeals to us and act on it in waking life. Dreamwork’s only drawbacks are that it’s often difficult to understand them, and of course, we must wait for answers until we’ve slept through a night or two. Meditation is faster, always available, more direct and easier to interpret. Some of our dreams, however, are so vivid, so “real”, we cannot tell whether we are dreaming or are awake and having paranormal encounters. The test for this is to try to switch on a light during the dream-vision. I’ve never been able to produce more light within a lucid dream. If it doesn’t light up__ we are still dreaming.       Another "test" is that in a dream, we may be looking at a certain scene, person or object, and if we look away for a moment or two, then look back at the scene, person or object, it will be different. If it is not different, it is either an awake experience, or a "waking vision", not a dream. These vivid dreams are important to our consciousness evolution__ we don’t forget them within a few hours as with ordinary dreams. In fact, we may remember them the rest of our lives. We can have days or weeks of especially vivid dreams complete with intense emotions alternating with periods of absolute blackouts__ no dreams at all. Some researchers believe that dreams indicate Creation's flow of time from the future, rather then something from our past. Both dreams and meditations indicate what’s percolating inside us that hasn’t yet manifested; i.e., what we are Creating From the Future.                                                              Higher Intelligences Higher Self, Creative Force, spiritual guides, angels, nature spirits and other dimensional evolutions of life can be reached through both dreams and meditation. When first we link with Higher Self, It may appear to us in a familiar form that is completely acceptable at that particular time. Some people perceive H.S. as an angel, a saint, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad or other holy person. Others might sense an opera singer, a master artist, a biblical character, a major sports personaltiy or a beloved deceased relative__ even an “alien”. As time goes on, H.S. takes the guise of other familiar figures so as to keep us comfortable. Eventually, when we’re ready to fully accept having a Higher Self, we discover that instead of the glamorous characters, it was really H.S. in disguise. Anyone apprehensive about "who" or "what" is speaking or appearing in meditation, can state aloud before beginning that "only beings of the highest good and divine purpose may respond", or replace meditation with dreamwork for awhile. These five Basic Inter-D Technologies are tools for transforming our personalities. Creativity begins in the Higher Self relationship. Through meditation and dreamwork, H.S. takes each of us by the hand and leads us step-by-step to reconnect with our basic goodness, to enter the Dreamtime and access all the knowledge and skills needed to live well on the planet and come Home again as Who We Really Are. This prepares us to raise our vibrations, perform Intentional transformations and Co-Create the New Earth Reality. Yes, there will be hardships  and catastrophies in various places around the world during the years leading up to 12/21/12, but those who expess Unconditional Love in Service to Creator, Earth and their fellowman, will ascend into the higher dimensions before the final catastrophies. And it won't be the End of Earth. If you doubt you are linking with Higher Self, try this: before meditating, write down this question, “What is it I can do for the highest good of self and those I contact that will prove to me I have truly connected with Higher Self? Then enter the meditative mode. When you feel lovingly connected, repeat the question aloud, and listen for the answer. As soon as it arrives, don’t stop to analyze. Just immediately say “Thank you”, and, without thinking, write down what was received as fast as possible. Don’t try to make sense of it while writing. This is necessary so the ego does not step in and attempt to change something ego might not want to hear. Then read what was written, and act on it as soon as possible. At first, we may receive a word or two, a short phrase, a vivid image, or be guided to a page number in a book, often the Bible or an inspirational text we’ve been reading. A trip to the library, a phone call to a friend or relative, or Google may give further information about whatever H.S. gave forth. Go for it__ no matter how silly it seems. When H. S. responds to a question, it’s best that the information be acted upon as soon as reasonably possible. If, after repeated meditations, many informative clues have been given out, but the receiver fails to lift a finger to follow through on them, the connection to H.S. will most likely withdraw until that person is ready to follow inner guidance. But when advice is used or acted upon, more and more information ensues. Eventually the connection between H.S. and conscious mind becomes clear, complete and continual; we will seldom need to go into a formal meditation__ guidance arrives at the moment it's needed. Sometimes H.S. plans to encounter one thing, and body or mind wishes another. But how can body or mind overrule H.S.? Doesn’t Higher Self always remain in control? Like Creator, H.S.__ a fractal of Creator__ will never force its plans upon us, never demand obedience, for we’re here taking part in a free will experiment. Anyone or anything claiming otherwise seeks to control through fear and negativity. Once we’ve Bonded with Earth and Connected with Higher Self , we have completed the first two steps in Creatiing From the Future with Inter-Dimensional Technologies. The original plan for the human race is that each of us will one day consciously become our H.S., and once we’ve done so, there’s always another H. S. to that one, and another one, and so on all the way back to the supreme Greater Self__ Spirit. There will come a day when we will have conscious knowledge of and complete consensus with Creator's plans, forever in blissful Oneness with that Greater Love. Like Higher Self, advanced evolutionary orders do not interfere with the lives of individual humans unless invited, as is true of orders connected with minerals, plants, animals and energetics of the planet. There are three orders within the Great White Brotherhood__ the Order of Michael, the Order of Enoch and the Order of Melchizedek. This last is in charge of assisting humans to transform Earth with human consciousness. They prepare those of us sincere in the pursuit of enlightenment to work closely with the High Command, which is directed by Archangels Michael, Uriel, Raphael, Remiel, Yophiel, and Gabriel. “Light”, or cosmic information, is brought into our world by Gabriel and other evolved intelligences. St. Germain, of the Seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order and Magic (the “Purple Ray”) has been closely connected with the Idaho Stargate Vortex. He has revealed himself to a number of people in southeastern Idaho, as well as people around the world. The Seventh Ray is associated with feminine powers and is increasing its influence over all humanity and all Earth at this time.                                               Discerning True from False Teachings One of the first concerns we have about meditation or dreamwork is: “Am I being inspired by gods or by demons?” Deep within our being lie great riches, but there are also dumpsters heaped with old garbage waiting to be cleared. Inspirations and revelations can be distorted by ego and by dependence on mass media or social opinion. Listening to authorities outside ourselves is sometimes comforting because it gives us someone to blame when things go awry. But before we can trust our inner guidance system, we must learn to discern true from false teachings and messages. How do we know what to accept or to discard? Our Inner Self knows the difference__ Consider the choice we are about to make, and if it feels "lighter"__ "loving", then it is right for us. If it feels "Heavier"__ fearful, then it is not the best for us.  ( See Archives for more details.) Karma occurs when what we project outwardly to others recycles back to us through a different outside source with ourselves as the new “target”. When we understand about Karma, we've usually entered the Observor Stage of consciousness evolution. Time will tell whether a message was true or not__ another good reason for Journaling__ we can go back and read the original message. What was true for us yesterday may not be true tomorrow. Truth evolves, too.                                                                  Peak Experiences When connected with Higher Self, glimpses of the future may appear, later to be confirmed by outer events. “Peak experiences”__ unusual visions, dreams, mind-opening encounters, "pops", wake-up calls__ can arrive, requiring explanation. We wonder how and why these paranormal phenomena happen? Are there laws or higher forces behind their occurrences? Just what skills can H.S. help us attain? Is there a limit to these powers? Can we call on them at will? How do we access them and use them? (40) Peak experiences occurring while engaged in creative activities, dreamwork or meditation open us to the spiritual themes woven into our lives. We are hard-wired for these downloads, for our brains, nervous systems and bodies were set up for them eons ago. As we continue our sacred journey of self-discovery, synchronicities increase__ repeated incredible coincidences. Each synchronicity is a signal that we are, in that moment, connected with the planetary energy network and the collective mind of humanity; i.e., we are "linked in" temporarily, but they aren’t necessarily pointing out a direction in which we “must” move. The next step is up to us, under H. S.’s guidance. New talents appear. "We may be clairvoyant, clairaudient, have healing abilities, read people's energy fields, communicate with other life forms or have a gift for astrology, geomancy or communication with the non-living. For many of us, the greatest difficulties we had in childhood or our teens turn out to be simple misunderstandings, misapplications of unrecognized hidden talents.” (47) Whether positive or negative, peak experiences provide glimpses of a future potential birthing within us. Pay close attention to ideas received, no matter how outrageous, and keep records of them__ for we have the power to manifest them, providing we follow inner guidance and keep striving. People who profess to be “Born Again Christians”, have usually had a recent peak experience. If we have an unusually intense mystical encounter and feel it has enlightened us, we need to consider whether it was a truly transforming event or not. By listing peak experiences, both positive and negative, and facing them without emotion, we can better understand our personal origins and probable destiny. First, we examine how we behaved, thought, felt, or believed before the peak encounter occurred. Then we consider what, if anything, has changed about those aspects. Unless we are behaving differently, feeling, thinking or believing differently, and anchoring the inner changes with carefully chosen actions, we have not had a true shift in consciousness. We’ve had a wonderful, amazing__ perhaps informative__ encounter, but unless we’ve become a more enlightened, loving person soon afterwards, it is not a true spiritual transformation; we have not yet been “born again.” It takes courage to follow inner guidance just as it did to take risks with creative works. A temporary enlightenment does not automatically insure a quick fix or an immediate smoothing out of life’s path. Often, the inner voice gives only partial guidance; the information was designed  to encourage us to search futher or to take new actions. It’s best not to ask for too much information or guidance in too short a time. Every bit of insight brings responsibility for the creative possibilities it presents. These responsibilities can accumulate, perhaps beyond our present ability to ground each of them into reality. Ask for guidance when truly needed, then act upon it and learn from the results before attempting more. In the fullness of time, we come to fully trust our inner vision and guidance as we journey along our pathways. We come to perceive how all beliefs, religions, philosophies and spiritual paths stem from the same Creative Source. All have value. All need to be respected. We learn that our ultimate purpose on the planet is not to become "perfect".The glory of our journey is to harmonize our personalities, to connect with each other and Creative Spirit in Unconditional Love for All__ to know, accept, honor and love ourselves, to view all others and situations with a loving heart, to serve the fulfillment of goodness, peace, health, abundance and joy for Earth and mankind; to just "Be". Honesty, honor, humility, trust, humor, moderation and balance are the qualities to develop in order to contribute to a united global consciousness: a Unity Consciousness__ a Christ Consciousness. (49) If the spiritual being that is you is to create, and by creating know Who You Really Are, you will learn to operate successfully and at will__ with or without a body. Whether we’re aware of it or not, an unconscious telepathy is at play within us. Our spiritual bodies are energetic lighthouses signaling various forms of both physical and non-physical lives. When a human is filled with love and joy, positive entities sail into his energy fields. On the other hand, if he becomes immersed in negative emotions, thoughts or behaviors, his aura becomes a murky  beacon attracting dark entities and situations to feed on his fears and intensify that darkness until he learns to harmonize his feelings. 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