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Consciousness Is First in a series discussing Foundational Principles of consciousness… John and Myrna talk about what ‘Consciousness Is’. This is our first principal… but not our first video… (maybe our third? we each did an intro piece…) Okay so the lighting is all wrong… I am much too brightly lit compared to Myrna who looks good. Also the top of my head is cut off… never a good thing when you’re trying to sell any kind of wider comprehension and cogency… Anyways… enjoy! We did! Introduction to the new video series: Twelve Foundational Ideas Myrna and I talk about our intentions in making this series of videos on the topic of Foundational Ideas. I have just purchased a Flip UltraHD camera and what you see is pretty raw footage… maybe a tiny vocal boost here and a little added saturation there… Overall I am delighted with this chirpy little camera… it is idiot-proof (signed affidavits upon request) and at $200 is a very accessible techno-perk for totally not-video people who can only comprehend the big colored buttons on any kind of appliance.
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There are a few ideas that form the foundation of much New Age and Shift in Consciousness thinking. This series features John Hawkins and Myrna Ain discussing these twelve Basic Principles in very focused, 7-10 minute videos, not scripted or rehearsed.
It is a relief to understand that we do not have to believe these things to get their full benefit, we only need to be willing and able to imagine or pretend that they might be true.
For instance being familiar with the concept ‘We Are Multi-dimensional Beings’ makes it easier to find a way to explain sudden or unexpected changes or apparitions, and understanding that ‘The World is About You’ makes it easier to accept personal meaning from otherwise random surprises and coincidences.
In the simplest of terms, being comfortable with these ideas allows us to reconfigure our belief systems ‘on the fly’ to more easily accommodate the very pressing changes that are happening within us and all around us.
These videos will be posted weekly, or from time to time, and are meant to be a resource for anyone wishing to become acquainted with these few important foundational ideas. -
Think of it! In three months time we will have a practical and in-depth discussion of twelve Foundational Ideas of this New Age. What a spectacular resource this series might become!
Your input is more than welcome! Leave a comment or send any of us a message… We are eternally happy to engage… (within reason of course -
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What exactly are these Foundational Principals? Check out this full-screen slide-show…
Things we do every single day take on an added significance – they echo and reflect essential daily energy flows, for our whole selves as essence as well as for our local selves playing out this particular lifetime and circumstance. So on at least three levels what we do every day is really significant. On another level, what we do physically – the actions we take in the material world – are an important aspect of how we create our own realities. So actions we undertake every single day must, in some essential way, be related to our reality creation of those very days. [You had to know that this was a two-way street.] We can learn a whole lot about our whole selves by observing what we spontaneously do every day, and we can influence and communicate with our whole selves by deliberately choosing to do the same thing every day. This opens up whole worlds of possibilities. Imagine a way to affirm every day that you are worthy – not only worthy, but creatively interested in actively engaging the world – sometimes aggressively and playfully - but seriously engaging the world in an expectant fashion. Imagine the heartfelt fulfillment that could come from deliberately choosing to create the inner, middling and outer conditions and circumstances required to consciously manifest in alignment with our most passionate and sacred values.
[what rituals do YOU use to mark everyday moments of significance?] I have loved the idea of everyday ritual forever… I even bought a book of that title only to find that it was full of dense nonsense about philosophical meanderings… I wanted a sort of ‘Book of Days’ that describes suitable ritual and ceremony for everyday occurrences… For example… and don’t get me wrong… the following topic does not represent a focus for me but just happened to be the first and most graphic example… [methinks he doth...] When I have my daily evacuation… what my cheeky friend Carl C once called the ‘poop de jour’… I am learning to attach suitable inner, psychological energy to this physical event. I raise my hands above my head at that moment of feeling the inevitability of evacuation… and thanking and releasing all the energies that don’t serve me anymore… releasing them back into the vast repository ‘out there’ for others to use… [Paradoxically massively freeing up our own energies who don’t have to ‘babysit’ anymore] This is the imagery going through my mind as I grasp the ethers above in my hands and bring them down through my physical body and out into the grateful ethers of the nether regions below… Never forgetting that poop is entitled to be considered sacred if we apply even the most limited understanding of the ‘circle of life’ we all are part of… I would like to discover, invent, re-invent a whole series of little imaginative and physical actions and rituals and tiny ceremonies to meaningfully accompany daily, weekly, yearly, etc., activities of a basic and primal nature to our deeper lives. I want a meaningful, physically expressed ritual before eating, before sleeping, before making love, before instructing children, before serving elders…. I want a ritual of greeting and saying goodbye… likely several for each… Hang on… don’t we have all this already? Yeah, but there’s a little tiny difference between doing something on autopilot and doing it in full consciousness of the meaning, and with lively expectations as to the likely consequences and depth of meaning of the outcome, without specifying any of the details, of course… I want a small ceremony to accompany a meal, a bath, a birthday and a departure… a nightmare and the hickups… A small ceremony to celebrate a first or final meeting, an anniversary, a new beginning, any auspicious event… I want a ritual before and after meditation, before and after sleep, and in the presence of the guru, and any other self-realized exemplars of transcendental living. I have looked around… the rituals out there are a bit weird sometimes and too often luridly influenced by the lowest-common denominator beliefs and imagery of the religion involved… I don’t want to have to imagine some forest god from the nordic region as I prepare my dinner… These have to be easy, resonant images and follow-through actions that transparently model and analogize and symbolize the movements of energy involved in the action. Of course, the premise here is that everything we do in the physical is at some level metaphorical and symbolically expressive of the inner movements of energy involved in whatever we are doing at the time. - – - – - Illustration: A gorgeously evocative image of ritual… original here. We wanted to share our enthusiasm and experience for and with these multi-various techniques… So watch this space… [sign up and get email notifications...]
Myrna Ain is a New-born Crone gleefully sharing heartfelt discoveries… Leslie Hayman is an Urban Mage with deep shamanistic affiliations… - – - – - We regularly meet and discuss these topics in Ritually Meaningful Conversations… see videos Resource guide
A Gathering
Appreciation Journal 7-Circles Yoga Increasing Presence
Daily Rituals Waking Up
Eating
Meeting Someone
Pooping/Peeing Making Love / Sex Leaving your dwelling
Meditation / Chanting Bathing Starting Devotions
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