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Millions of years ago when our animal ancestors had to survive in the jungle, it was necessary to have an instantly effective fight or flight mechanism. When a tiger was about to spring, an automatic emotional response was a life saver. A nervous shock was needed to squirt adrenalin into the blood so that muscles became jet powered. Emotional alarms were needed to command full attention. When a tiger was ready to jump, there was no time to admire the beautiful sunset. As a jungle survival mechanism, our animal ancestors were programmed for automatic duality -- automatic feelings of otherness, threat, and paranoia. Survival required instant domination of consciousness to meet the perils of the jungle. We are the pioneers in the evolution of human consciousness. It was only about 10,000 years ago that our ancestors built the first cities. As civilization grew, survival no longer depended on the instant fight or flight of the jungle. Survival and happiness now depend on tuning in to the overall situation involving ourselves, the people around us, and the total environment of the here and now. Perceptiveness, wisdom, and oneness are now the ingredients of effective and happy living. But our biocomputers are still programmed for jungle fight or flight -- for a fast release of adrenalin into the blood stream, and for rapid heartbeat -- for automatic anger and fear. In our social interactions, our consciousness magnifies molehills and makes them into mountains -- and this constant distortion destroys our energy, our insight, and our ability to love. Thus survival in the jungle meant that we had to be programmed for instant paranoia -- instant fear -- instant anger -- instant perception of duality. Survival in our world today means that we must have instant perceptions of oneness -- of love -- of compassion with everyone and understanding of everything around us. When we learn to cut through our paranoid jungle programming, we are on our way to higher consciousness and happiness. Evolution is now working to remedy this primitive jungle alarm wiring in our brain that tends to hold us on lower consciousness levels. Paranoid, dualistic individuals who cannot love themselves and others tend to get heart trouble, ulcers, other psychosomatic diseases, are accident-prone, etc. Perhaps in 100,000 years, through the ruthless survival of the fittest, humans may have
nervous systems that are automatically structured to produce instant insights that facilitate love and oneness. But that doesn't help you and me. We need the Living Love Way to show us how to live in higher consciousness as soon as possible -- to override our jungle programming so that we can enjoy living here and now. We have escaped from the domination of instincts (inflexible unlearned behavior) that guides animals through their daily life situations. Since the young human is not provided with a full repertoire of automatic fixed responses, we are unable to independently cope with life for a number of years after birth. This long period of plasticity and openness to learning complex life guidance patterns helps us avoid fixed preprogrammed behavior. For example, this long nurturing period lets us learn complex language systems -- and our flexibility is such that we can learn to communicate in Swahili as easily as in English or any other language. Instead of a complete pattern of animal-type instincts to provide survival responses to life situations, the young child uses ego mechanisms backed by hair-trigger emotions to develop security, sensation, and power magnification of the moment-to-moment sensory inputs. Our personal development into fulfilling, happy lives (as well as the progression of civilization beyond the dangerous power consciousness) depends on our getting free of our egobacked, subject-object, me-them, security-sensation-power hang-ups.
It may be helpful to see this progression of consciousness in outline form as follows: ORGANISM METHOD OF PROTECTING AND ENHANCING THE ORGANISM Relatively fixed life style based on instinct or unlearned preprogrammed behavior. Ego-directed, subjectobject, emotion-backed security, sensation, and power consciousness (increasingly involving the rational mind) that makes us inflexibly guard and protect habitual folkways and personal patterns. The ego-driven negative emotions have been replaced by wideranging insight and deep intuitive understanding giving full flexibility to flow in mutually supportive and loving ways with no inflexible folkways and personal patterns.
Lower Consciousness Human
Higher Consciousness Human
The biocomputer with which you are equipped is the most remarkable instrument in the universe. Your only problem is to learn to use it properly. It
The continuous experience of love. You will realize that you have been unconscious of what you have been doing to yourself. and wisdom that you have had only in bits and pieces can now be available to you all of the time. The conscious level of your biocomputer is analogous to the print-out of the man-made computers.but which give the illusion of seeing sharply and clearly. Beautiful things will happen so continuously that you can no longer ascribe it to mere "coincidence. loving place that has been designed to give you everything that you need. This handbook will help you become aware that the only real . and other information in ways that continuously alienate and separate you from people. fulfillment. happiness. Yet every current experience can aid you in your growth toward higher consciousness if you know how to use it. happiness. You will learn how to experience the world as a friendly. While this was certainly not your intention. It will show you exactly what to do to break out of the traps in your mind that are the cause of all the unhappiness that you have experienced in your life! When you apply the Methods in the Handbook you will be able to turn your life around. you will become aware of how you have been turning yourself off to the energies of the world around you. you will be able to fully realize your potential for a happy life. effectiveness. Your biocomputer operates continually throughout all of its parts and is capable of making millions of simultaneous computations. A wonderful thing about life is that it is naturally good. and serenity than you need for living a thoroughly fulfilled and enjoyable life. It operates with enormous power primarily on unconscious levels -. Your journey into higher consciousness is a matter of your learning how to properly program your remarkable biocomputer. serenity." You will experience that you can create more love.with only a tiny proportion of its activity rising to the level of consciousness. it is as though you have been born with eyes that see only with great distortion -.is capable of handling two million visual inputs and one hundred thousand auditory inputs at any one time. and happiness continuously. various situations during your first years of life conditioned you in the methods of consciousness which continually generate unhappiness in your life. When you really learn to operate your exquisite mechanism. perceptiveness. You will develop a "miraculous" quality in your life. auditory. However. Your mind has been programmed to process incoming visual. joy.to produce love. This Handbook will explain how you have been creating the experiences that you have. Life is set up to work -.
prejudice. The Living Love Way offers mankind one of the most powerful tools for emerging victorious in the race between higher consciousness and the suffering of atomic annihilation. ecological degradation. perceptive.and it gives you clear instructions for carrying out the inner work necessary to become an energetic.problem in your life involves how consciously you use your mind -. loving being. and the thousand-fold ways we separate ourselves from each other. . Living Love is a positive cure for all of the suffering and unhappiness in your life and that of all humanity.
and prestige." Over 99% of the people in the western world live on lower consciousness levels characterized by trying to find enough security. shyness. paranoia if constantly threatened. money. jealousy that someone may steal our source of fulfillment. the less loving. jealousy. power. The more successful a person is in making money. prestige. You are ready for growth into the happiness of higher consciousness when you realize the utter futility of trying to live a beautiful life by your efforts to rearrange or change the world of people and things outside of you to fit your addictions and desires. cynicism if constantly undersupplied. and contented he may find himself or herself. an addicted person has no chance of living a happy. worry. And the addictive programming is not necessary to find and enjoy that which we prefer in life. peaceful. collecting skills and possessions. And yet it is not these things in and of themselves that create an unhappy life -. Everything people tell themselves they must do to be happy ends up yielding more frustration than joy. worry if we can't see a steady supply. but feeling damned sure this isn't it. Addictions (or emotion-backed demands) bring fear of non-fulfillment. conscious. anxiety if we're worried about being worried. and fear. and unhappiness when the outside world does not supply us with whatever it is we are addicted to. and status. developing exciting sexual relationships. "go through life not knowing what we want. acquiring knowledge and degrees. "groovy" sensations. suspicion. boredom if we're making no progress toward satisfying our addictions. power. You will find you have only to rearrange your own personal. and achieving positions of status. sex. anger when someone thwarts us. loving." said the cosmic humorist. Since the nature of life is such that we win some and lose some. . wise and effective life. automatically programmed responses to life situations -.most of which are childhood hangups. This endless struggle yields lives of constant resentment. anger.it is the internal mental addiction or desire for them that minute-by-minute keeps one from enjoying life. peaceful.Chapter 1 Why This Book Was Written For Us "Most of us. ego rushes.
2. Once you thoroughly understand the system. and continuous happiness for . 4. it is not essential to have a teacher for continuing your growth. and happy. For many people it can be one of the most powerful and rapid ways for growth into higher consciousness that has ever been available to mankind. Since almost everyone around you seems to be having similar trouble in becoming a happy. wisdom. Your journey into higher consciousness can enable you to be loving. happiness is not a distant goal -. 3. personal life. and social roles you are guarding and living out. your inner work on yourself immediately adds to your enjoyment of life. Living Love can be used most effectively if you stay with your present business. serenity. peaceful. The programming that you most need to change has an unerring way of putting you into life situations that can make you aware of the exact inner work you should be doing. effectiveness. It is the patterns in your head that make you unhappy. and other conditions until you have grown to a high enough state of consciousness to be fully perceptive of the arbitrary mores. Living Love offers you four advantages in your adventure into higher consciousness: 1. When you use the Living Love Way to find the love. wisdom.it is an ever-growing part of your here and now. Think of the energy you now put into the up-and-down hour-by-hour coping with your feelings while you continually try to rearrange the people and situations in your life so that you can then be loving. The Living Love Way invites you to set the highest imaginable standards of love.As you work toward higher levels of consciousness. peace. folkways. It does not require you to detach yourself from your present life. inner peace. effective. And yet year by year your quest for happiness is as elusive as finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Your life will be your best teacher. although you usually blame the people and conditions outside you for your unhappiness. and free of a constant barrage of unpleasant emotional feelings. With the Living Love Way. and effectiveness of higher consciousness. loving being. serene. for you will discover that you are always putting yourself into learning situations that are ideal for your growth. you may have lowered your standards and decided that continuous happiness is probably not realistic. you will find that you have always had enough to be happy. wise.
your life. and then you are ready to begin your journey into higher consciousness. .
. Flashes of pleasure. and anxiety? Why are we always pushing ourselves and others? Why do we have only small dribbles of peace. . Most of us assume that our desires (backed up by our emotional feelings) are the true guides to doing the things that will make us happy. We tell ourselves.D. But no one has yet found happiness by using emotion-backed desires as guides. Cadillacs. we discover that it is more important to be the right person than to find the right person. no.Chapter 2 Secrets of Happiness Why do we have lives filled with turmoil. Our wants and desires are so seductive . "if I can just get to be president of this corporation.but is he really happy inside? Has his ulcer gone away yet? We constantly tell ourselves such things as. The ways we were taught to be happy can't possibly work. Here's why. I will be happy. love. But since we don't know how to love." So we search for someone who our addictions tell us is the right person -.and we experience some pleasurable moments. . the relationship gradually deteriorates. love. Then we decide we didn't have the right person after all! As we grow into higher consciousness. Playboy bunnies -." But are people with Master's degrees or Ph.'s any happier than the rest of us? It is beautiful to acquire knowledge but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace. Unless we see this point clearly. we cannot progress to higher consciousness.perhaps get a Master's degree -. "If I could only find the right person to love. happiness. then I would be happy. They lead us from one illusion of happiness to another. desperation. They masquerade as "needs" that must be satisfied so we can be happy at last. and happiness. "If I could just go back to school and acquire more knowledge -. and happiness? Why is it that human beings are characterized by bickering and turmoil that make animals' relationships with their own species seem peaceful in comparison? The answer is so simple -but it is sometimes difficult for us to really understand because almost every way we were taught to work toward happiness only reinforces the feelings and activities that make us unhappy. Some of us tell ourselves. yes.then I will be happy. This is a central point that must be understood." But have you ever seen a really happy president? His outside drama may feature beautiful yachts.
We then respond with adrenalin. Either you can do something about them here and now -.or they don't.even if it's just a first step. and other jungle survival responses that prepare us for fight or flight. Think of the most threatening situation you have felt in the last day or two. You must absolutely convince yourself of the lack of utility of these draining emotions. That's what is -. If you can't do anything about a problem here and now. expectations. And these emotional wounds lead us to perceive differences that make us uptight instead of similarities that enable us to understand and love. faster heartbeat. . these problems either have solutions -.no matter what's happening in the world of people and situations outside you. We are trapped in our ways of perceiving the world around us. increased blood sugar. anxiety. The present programming of our emotions makes us perceive other people (and the conditions of the world around us) as threats -. If you can do something here and now about them. and really appreciate each moment of your life -.or you can't. or models of how the world should treat you) you will have so much energy that you probably will sleep fifty per cent less. If you do not hassle yourself emotionally when the outside world does not conform with your inside programming (your desires.We must deeply understand why all of our negative emotions are misleading guides to effective action in life situations. demands. Our negative emotions are simply the result of an extensive pattern of scars and wounds that we have experienced. It saps your energy to be worried or anxious about a problem. But no one (or no situation) need be felt as an emotional threat or danger when we see things with the clearer perception of higher consciousness. Are you about to lose your job? Is the person for whom you feel the most love paying more attention to someone else than to you? Do you have unpaid bills that you cannot take care of? Do you have a pain that could be cancer? Now. You must see your unnecessary worrying as depriving you of the flowing effectiveness and joyousness that you should have in your life. Do what you can do -. or other unpleasant emotions are absolutely unnecessary -and simply lower your insight and the effectiveness of your actions. then do it -. You will be joyous and loving.but don't be addicted to the results or you will create more worry for yourself.here and now. As long as you think that these negative emotions have any function whatsoever. you will retard your growth into higher consciousness. then why make yourself uncomfortable and drain your energy by worrying about it? It is part of the here and nowness of your life. Worry.potentially dangerous to our well-being.
If we want to love and be loved. And this means developing the habit of emotionally accepting whatever is here and now in our lives.or to anything else. or pecking order. Our power addiction is only one example of the happiness-destroying programming that we put into our biocomputers when we were too young to . For example. and come up with effective ways to interact with people and situations. told what to do. We cried. sensation. when we were very young. here and now. and power programs. For only an emotionally calm biocomputer can see clearly and wisely. We now need to learn to flow with the people and things around us. How basically simple is our problem! But to achieve this clear perception of ourselves and the world around us takes constant inner work. dominated. we developed our emotionally intense security. We eventually become very finely attuned to the actions or vibrations of any person or situation that even remotely threatens our power addictions -.Where and how did we get this emotional programming? Almost all of it was acquired in the first few years of life. But our biocomputer (backed up by the full repertory of our emotions) is still programmed to compensate for the power deficiency we experienced when we were infants and young children.our ability to manipulate and control people and things around us. Many of our emotion-backed programs came from repeated moral directives or statements about how things "should" be. and exactly what are the real conditions. As conscious beings the only thing we need to find happiness in life is to perceive clearly who we are (we are pure consciousness and not the social roles we are acting out). prestige. we had the experience of mother forcefully taking a perfume bottle from our tiny fingers and at the same time sending out bad vibrations based on her desire not to have her perfume bottle broken. we can't be addicted to power -. As we reach physical maturity and our biocomputer (or brain) is able to function more perceptively. we have all the power we need. We developed a "self" consciousness with robot-like emotional responses to protect the "survival" of this separate self. and controlled when we were babies. of our lives. So we become emotionally programmed to feel that we must have power to control and manipulate people in order to be happy. Through being painfully pushed around. But our power addiction keeps us from loving people because we perceive them as objects that may threaten our power.
Although we now have the basic capacity for clear perception. And so we're unconsciously trapped. to free ourselves. Here and now is the reality in our lives -. The Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness shows us how to break through this trap. the operating instructions we gave our biocomputer anchor us to the lower levels. This lowers our perceptiveness and keeps us from finding effective solutions to our problems. . demands.perceive the realities of the world in which we lived. But our present addictions. and expectations (the programming of our biocomputer) dominate our consciousness and force us to spend most of the time we are awake (and most of the time we are dreaming) in protesting and pouting about the here and now situation in our lives.and it is only from the conditions of the present that our future can be generated. and to find our full potential as human beings.
I love you because although our bodies and minds may be on different trips. This law can enable you to find the hidden splendor within yourself and others.my addictions -. too -. on the consciousness level all of us are alike in our humanness. Whatever he or she is going through -.and that others must deserve our love. "I love you because you are there.including yourself.and then we use one of our addictions to finish the sentence." -. Almost all of our loving has been motivated by emotional desires programmed into us at an early age. . What is unconditional love? It is not.whatever he or she is feeling -. we have never been taught how to love unconditionally. we view others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness. Others are not progressing rapidly because they do not yet know how to consciously work on themselves.at some time in our lives.it is like a barter or a business transaction. We are all on the journey to higher consciousness. It is like seeing the world through his or her eyes. . Just." Real love is simply accepting another person. We realize that no matter how intensely we strive for worldly attainments. Completely and unconditionally! We experience things from his or her psychic space. When we love. This is an exchange -. Some of us are hearing the messages life offers us and are working consciously to eliminate our addictions. We are one. "I can love you if you do what my emotional programming -. Most of our love experiences have taught us we must earn or deserve love before we can have it -. This is conditional love -. I love you because you are part of the nowness of my life." It is just love. Unfortunately. we all seek love and oneness on the consciousness level. It is no wonder that our well-meaning but unskilled attempts to love usually end up in separation and alienation.Chapter 3 The Law of Higher Consciousness Your growth into higher consciousness should begin by fully understanding the importance of becoming one with the Law of Higher Consciousness : Love everyone unconditionally -.says I want you to do.we have been there. We have been taught to place conditions on our love : "If you really loved me you would . .it is not unconditional love.
We all know that just having the desire to love is not enough. And so we are all children as long as we are programmed with our lower consciousness addictions. We have at all times been lovable. Learning to love unconditionally means getting free of interference from our programmed addictions -. They key to this is the instant emotional acceptance of the here and now -. but he is always lovable. When this happens. Our biocomputer then sends a flow of information to our consciousness in which separation and alienation are emphasized." And this destroys our ability to love unconditionally. Every part of the system of Living Love is designed to help you learn to love everyone unconditionally -.including yourself.right here and now. This enables us to perceive clearly what is here and now -to evaluate wisely -. So we must accept the melodramas we get involved in as we live out our current crop of addictions. A child may be naughty. We create a horribly warped evaluation of the here and now based on our addictive programming. This. for pollution.the emotional acceptance of the previously unacceptable.for difficulties in getting along with other people. too. the more you will realize that you are doing exactly what you need to do to provide yourself with experiences to grow into higher consciousness. Do not berate yourself because you are not enlightened by the third Tuesday of next month. The more you learn to love and accept yourself. As far back as we can remember we have been aware of the importance of love in our lives. You only need to plant the living Love seeds in your consciousness and they will automatically sprout. each day our life begins anew. How can you love others if you do not love yourself? The love you have for yourself and the love you have for "another" are building blocks joining together within you to create the beautiful edifice of real love. We need to feel that no matter how horrible we have judged our past actions. We know that lack of love is responsible for most of the unhappiness in the world -. is a part of life and growth. we cannot perceive clearly our actual life situation.and to act effectively to do whatever we want to do about it. When our emotions are triggered.We must also learn to love ourselves -.those emotion-backed demanding instructions to our biocomputer. . we magnify differences and suppress similarities between ourselves and "others.
prejudice, wars, and other individual and group crimes against humanity. but what can we do about it? The Law of Higher Consciousness suggests a practical guide for the Aquarian Age : You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense as when you give offense. The Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness can show you step by step why you find it so difficult to love -- and exactly what to do about it. The Twelve Pathways given in the following chapter tell you what you need to do to live in the Oneness Ocean of Love all of the time.
Chapter 4 The Twelve Pathways The Twelve Pathways To the Higher Consciousness Planes of Unconditional Love and Oneness Freeing Myself 1. I am freeing myself from security, sensation, and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life, and thus destroy my serenity and keep me from loving myself and others. 2. I am discovering how my consciousness-dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. 3. I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute-to-minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns. Being Here Now 4. I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now -- unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future. 5. I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me. 6. I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say, and do (including my emotion-backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness. Interacting with Others 7. I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.
8. I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth. 9. I act freely when I am tuned in, centered, and loving, but if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness. Discovering my Conscious-Awareness 10. I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me. 11. I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centers of Consciousness I am using, and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love, and inner peace growing as I open all of the Centers of Consciousness. 12. I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness. ~~~~~
then you are ready to use and apply the Twelve Pathways to make a dramatic change in your life. For example. an addiction is any desire that makes you upset or unhappy if it is not satisfied. Computer specialists use the word "GIGO" to refer to this problem -. They will enable you to live a continuously happy. it means that your . we will discuss each of the Twelve Pathways in detail. that pleasure is usually short-lived. loving.Garbage out. As you become increasingly aware of how your consciousness operates. For you will then begin to perceive threats to that pleasure." If you are not continuously loving everyone around you and continuously enjoying the here-and-now situations in your life. They give you a minute-to-minute guide for operating your consciousness while you interact with the world around you. Even if an addiction brings you pleasure. you will be able to distinguish between your biocomputer and the programming that your biocomputer uses. and are really ready to enjoy and get the most out of your life all of the time. you will get garbage-type results from this splendid machine. conscious. and you will worry about changes in your life that will deprive you of the pleasure. practical condensation of thousands of years of accumulated wisdom. Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way. These Pathways can show you the way to find the beauty and happiness that is hidden within you.and often find today's pleasure is not quite as satisfying. a million-dollar IBM computer may work perfectly. All of this keeps you out of the here and now. The Twelve Pathways to Higher Consciousness can show you how to accelerate your spiritual development and enable you to begin a new life of Living Love. You can enjoy the same actions and experiences completely when you uplevel the addiction to the status of a preference.The Twelve Pathways were formulated in 1972. And you compare today's pleasure with yesterday's pleasure -. But our desires multiply so much faster than our capacity to satisfy them! In the Living Love System. The Twelve Pathways are a modern. but if you put garbage-type programming in it. You make a giant step toward higher consciousness when you become fully aware of the price in happiness you must pay for each addiction. If you've had enough of the up-and-down roller-coastering between pleasure and pain. fulfilled life. You were erroneously taught that happiness lies in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires. joyous. In the following four chapters."Garbage in . and since that time they have changed the lives of countless numbers of people.
When your ego is busy reacting to the people and things around you from the lower three Centers of Consciousness. Your ego is like a master controller that directs which emotional feelings will be triggered (joy.your only problem is to change some of the programming from which you are operating. pleasure. You are aware only of what your ego permits you to be aware of. your ego selects which of the thousands of programs will be used to generate your feelings and experience of what is happening.thereby creating in you the feeling of an urgent priority.) Your ego also chooses exactly what will be projected onto the screen of your consciousness. There are five stages in learning to use these Pathways. 2. your primary awareness will be focused on what you desire and what you fear -. irritation. anger. fear. you upset yourself even though you are aware of the Twelve Pathways. You are unconsciously playing out the drama of your life. 1. In the first stage. In the second stage. you realize that you are perfect -. you are still susceptible to your old programming which makes you automatically angry if someone criticizes you or automatically afraid if someone triggers your security addictions. disappointment. Your ego also plays a crucial part in the operation of your biocomputer. grief. you will continually turn off the energy of the world around you that you need in order to live in a beautiful world of higher consciousness. you are unaware of the Pathways. When you see yourself consciously and clearly. You are going through your daily patterns of desiring and rejecting people and things in a mechanical and unconscious way. You are beginning to see how they can make your life work when you use them at the programming level where they will facilitate your interpretation of the here and now. when something happens or when someone says something that you don't like. However. Most of these lower consciousness programs represent the urgent priorities you had at the age of two years old. The great thing about this second stage is that you are becoming aware of the lower consciousness programming that your tend to automatically run off.magnificent biocomputer has been operating from "garbage-type" programming. etc. and you realize that . Until you reprogram and change these inappropriate childhood programs. Based on past pleasure and pain programming. Each stage enables you to be progressively more aware of how these Pathways produce beautiful and sometimes "miraculous" changes in your life.
etc. You may be aware that you used to get angry or jealous in this type of situation. But you now begin to find that the amount of time that you are upset is being gradually reduced so that you experience negative emotions only for a period of minutes. You can still trigger negative emotional feelings. . anger. In the fourth stage. for you have determined the programming with which you want your mind to operate. such as fear..because it fits the patterns of the programming of your biocomputer -. you find that as soon as you are aware of any uncomfortable feelings. Your ability to love. you find that you progressively cut down on the period of unconsciousness in which you are a slave to your older. By thus engaging your rational mind and interpreting your experience by using a Pathway. you find that if someone does something you do not like.or you experience the beginning of a negative emotion which is giving you a welcomed opportunity to work on reprogramming your biocomputer so that you will not have this problem in the future. or even seconds. This is one of the most fulfilling things that you can do. As soon as you begin to use the Twelve Pathways in your everyday life situations. You are beginning to realize that everything that happens to you is really perfect. but you are getting free from them faster and faster. you will find that your life takes on a beautiful new dimension. you may start to get angry. You realize that you are the master of your mind. lower consciousness programming. 4. At the fifth stage. Things that were previously nagging problems now become vital experiences that you confidently use in the important job of reprogramming your biocomputer. there is a programming that you can use to create continuous enjoyment and happiness in your life. In the third stage of learning to use the Pathways. you can pinpoint which of the Pathways you are violating. You simply respond to whatever is happening here and now by using one of the Pathways (either consciously or unconsciously) in interpreting what is happening. but the feeling of anger or jealousy is no longer triggered. You experience an increasing freedom. grief. but at that same instant one or two Pathways flash into your consciousness. for you experience either happiness -. and interact flowingly with other people increases enormously. 5. jealousy. you have eliminated all of the lower consciousness programming which triggered your negative emotional responses. These give you an insight which does not allow the anger response to develop. accept. In the third stage it may take several hours for you to dispel the negative emotions you are experiencing.3.
Use the Pathways in interpreting your moment-to-moment stream of consciousness. Memorizing helps you use them as programming in shaping your perceptions below conscious levels. They can lead you straight into higher consciousness and enable you to find the love.The Twelve Pathways are presented on the previous two pages. wisdom. . Memorize these Twelve Pathways in order to implant them deeply into your consciousness. happiness. Just reading them for intellectual understanding will not permit you to use them as dynamic tools that can make your life work. and fulfillment that is your birthright in life.
but for each one you pay a price in lost happiness. etc.or any number you want. knowledge. FIRST PATHWAY I am freeing myself from security. or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -. and thus destroy my serenity and keep me from loving myself and others. month by month. moment by moment. No one that ever lived has ever had enough power. Addictions separate you from others.you win some and you lose some. prestige. All things in the world around us are constantly changing. So we're caught in an absolutely endless moment-to-moment struggle to make the outside world fit in with our addictions. fear. Addictions are not needed because you can do the same things and enjoy the same life experiences on a non-addictive basis. These changes. . or consciousness growth? Of course you can have one addiction -. They dominate your consciousness and keep you from perceiving clearly. Why do addictions destroy happiness? Are there some harmless addictions? Can't I have even one addiction? Aren't there good addictions like addictions for love. you respond emotionally in a computer-like way and automatically play out a program of anger. And it is always a futile struggle in the end. The identifying characteristic of an addiction is that if your desire is not fulfilled. That which you emotionally avoid is just as much an addiction as is something you desire. Through higher consciousness. you can have every beautiful experience that life offers you. each addiction from time to time puts you in a state of emotional warfare with yourself and others. affect our ability to make the flow of our life conform to the arbitrary addictive patterns that we desire and expect. and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life. sensation. jealousy. anxiety.Chapter 5 Freeing Myself An addiction is a programming (or operating instruction to your biocomputer) that triggers uncomfortable emotional responses and excites your consciousness if the world does not fit the programmed pattern in your mind. worry. for everyone is instantly valued by the degree to which you suspect threat or support. Since an addiction is backed up by the full rush of your emotions. Our bodies and minds are constantly changing. year by year.
effectiveness. Preferences never do. A practical rule of thumb for one starting on the road to higher consciousness is to grant oneself emotion-backed demands for physical necessities such as air. Addictions always cause unhappiness sooner or later. It is vital that you fully understand that the . Addictions are not evil or bad -.they just cost you too much in lost perceptiveness. although with the higher addictions (love and consciousness growth) you experience less suffering than with the lower level addictions of security. Upleveling all of your addictions to the status of preferences (or eliminating them if they cannot add to your joy of living) is a Living Love key to being joyous and loving all the time. There is just no way to win the battle of our addictions. Your ego and rational mind do not have to guard the source of your satisfaction because you are not depending on it for happiness. you must be able to perceive both the grosser and the more subtle aspects of the world around you. or shelter if about to freeze -.The operation of our lower consciousness feelings is such that even if we satisfy many addictions during a day. the one addiction that was not satisfied will prey on our consciousness and make us unhappy. To be fully here and now. There are no addictions without unhappiness. relief. your exquisite biocomputer -. To live in the beauty of higher consciousness.it was only a preference after all.just as a drummer who plays too loudly can keep you from hearing the violins and flutes of a symphony. and happiness. When an addiction is not satisfied. A mind dominated by addictions is not able to tune in to the finer vibrations of the surrounding people and things -. you are simply indifferent -. churning. you must be able to experience all of the instruments of the symphony. Your living patterns may or may not be changed when you uplevel your addictions to preferences. sensations. you feel momentary pleasure.your mind -will be dominated by the vain attempt to help you find happiness by manipulating the world around you into fitting your addictions. food if starving. we simply mean reprogramming that part of your brain that makes you restless. You must clearly understand that when we discuss giving up an addiction. wisdom. When a preference is not satisfied. you are unhappy. When an addiction is satisfied. and unhappy if a desire is not realized. But when it is satisfied. it adds to the texture and beauty of your life. As long as you have addictions. and power.and all other addictions are sickness! Only your emotional programming determines whether something is an addiction or a preference. or indifference.
it is only your inside emotional programming that must be changed.growth we are describing lies wholly in reprogramming your automatic emotional programming -. taste.it is not necessarily aimed at changing your external actions.whereas up to now you have been hopelessly trying to manipulate the outside world to conform to your addictions. and both keep you from fully tuning in to the beautiful spectrum of the world around you.but as we are. You will live in a peaceful world when you eliminate your addictions and then spend your time making choices on a preference basis. But both keep you in a constant state of threat. And. and olfactory receptors. Thus it is not the external circumstances that constitute your addiction -.D. Some addictions are more costly in lost happiness than others. Every addiction distorts your effective processing (on both conscious and unconscious levels) of the enormous flow of information that is continually flooding in through all of your sensory inputs. Every second your biocomputer is receiving millions of electrochemical impulses from your sight. All of your internal organs are continually sending signals to your biocomputer. It screens the data that it sends to your . And the wonderful thing is that it is fully within your ability to do so -. and the tissues and organs within your body. For when you are free of addictions. SECOND PATHWAY I am discovering how my consciousness-dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. touch. We see things not as they are -. you do not need to be addicted to money or knowledge in order to acquire them. each hair on your body is connected by a nerve to your brain. An addiction for having money in your bank account may yield less satisfaction than an addiction for having a Ph. your actions will be characterized by wisdom and oneness. of course. You can do anything you prefer as long as you are not addicted. sound. The reticular activating system of your biocomputer is a network that selects what goes into your consciousness. both dominate your consciousness. For example. You can prefer to have money and knowledge (or anything else) and you will then (and only then) be able to totally enjoy whatever money and knowledge the river of your life brings to you. most of which are fortunately handled on an unconscious level.
You should always be aware that your head creates your world. you discover the addictions that make you worried. The more you live with your distorted version of the people and things around you. to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.your master analyzer. your mental models -. How do you spot your addictions? It's easy. It can turn up your consciousness and awaken you when you are asleep.dominate your perceptions of the people and things around you. Your addiction patterns -. your demands. Thus your programmed addictions determine your experience of the world for they are the guides that your reticular activating system uses to determine which data will be suppressed and which can go into your consciousness and command full attention. . This network can close down your consciousness and put you to sleep. Thus you build up a warped picture of yourself and the people and situations in your world. your attachments. For your mind is such that whatever it believes is true produces a feedback that continually reinforces and molds your perceptions. In this way. It is only when you become free of your addictive programming that you can perceive how things really interact in your world. anxious. resentful.cerebral center -.your expectations. This neural structure performs the function that is often referred to as the "ego. You just notice the desires and expectations that you use to make yourself feel uptight in various life situations. you gradually develop an illusory version of the people and things in your world because of the enormous domination of your consciousness by the things you are programmed to desire and that which you are programmed to fear. THIRD PATHWAY I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute-to-minute experience offers me." (See Chapter 22 for a fuller discussion of neurological factors that affect your consciousness. By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness. the more certain you will feel that it is the only "true' picture of the world. your desires.) You can consciously pay full attention to only one thing at a time although your consciousness can switch back and forth with lightning rapidity. How does your reticular activating system (or ego) select what to pass on to your consciousness? It selects the information that is to go into your consciousness by following the programming that you have been putting into it since infancy.
uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs -- your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness. And you begin to feel a deep satisfaction as you become more awakened and alive! In the past you continuously tried to find people who would minimally disturb your complex security, sensation, and power addictions. However, a person for whom you feel little attraction is probably your most helpful teacher in getting free of some of your addictions. You will grow faster if you work on your addictions by experiencing someone that you usually would have excluded from your life. When you find that you can remain centered no matter what he or she does, you will know that you have reprogrammed the addictions that created the separateness you felt. And although you have continued the relationship for your own growth, you will have offered the other person valuable experiences that he or she can use for his or her rapid growth (for example, the experience of being loved unconditionally). When you have reprogrammed the addictions that separated you in your feelings, you may have developed a love and oneness that holds you together. Or you may prefer to spend this time in another way -- and it may then be more productive of growth for you to follow your preference -- and be with this individual less (or not at all) in the future. Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. If your washing machine won't work, you are being checked out on your ability to peacefully accept the unacceptable. If you are addicted to your appliances always working, you will suffer. If you prefer them to operate well, you will not compound your problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the here and now realities of repairing them. Your moment-to-moment stream of consciousness becomes interesting and real when you experience everything as a step in your growth toward higher consciousness. You will soon begin to feel peaceful and loving almost all of the time. This is your consciousness telling you that you're using the Twelve Pathways more skillfully. Just keep going -- you're well on your way!
Chapter 6 Being Here Now On interesting aspect of the Twelve Pathways is that if you can follow any one of them completely on the deeper levels, you will be using almost all of them. They are systematically interlocking -- and this makes it easier for you to implement them in action. Pathways Four through Six are particularly helpful in learning to live in the eternal now moment, although all of the Pathways reprogram you to tune in to the nowness of your life. FOURTH PATHWAY I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now -- unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future. If you are not enjoying every here and now moment in your life, it is because your addictions (otherwise known as desires, attachments, demands, expectations, emotional programming, models of how life should treat you) are making you dwell in the dead past or the imagined future. They are keeping you from being here now. All there is in your life is the eternal now moment -- and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head. Most people keep themselves on lower consciousness levels by endless chatting about what they did in the past or what they plan in the future. It is best not to hang out discussing the past or to let your consciousness dwell on the past, for the constant churning of your mind (and the torrent of words that issues from it) keeps you from fully experiencing the now moment in your life. Nor will you generate the best future for yourself by being constantly preoccupied with thoughts of the future. If there is something you need to do right here now -- then get busy and do it. If you've done whatever you feel you need to do at this time, then there is no need to have your consciousness filled with thoughts of the future. The real solutions to the problems in your life will come to you when you stop hassling yourself with your addictions and become fully tuned in to the people and things that are around you. When your Conscious-awareness watches your own body and mind and all the people and things in the world
around you from a deep, calm place inside, you will find that there intuitively wells up within you everything you need to understand. You will have insights that yield exactly what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you. You can only be here now when you instantly accept emotionally whatever happens in your life. If you wish to change something -- fine. Do it. And you can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil. You will now be more perceptive and powerful because you are able to use the full resources of your great biocomputer to flow in any direction you prefer. For example, if a tire on your car blows out, you can get mad at the tire, angry at the people who sold it to you, resentful at the extra expenditure now necessary -- or you can keep your addictions from destroying your peace and serenity. After all, the blown tire is part of the here and nowness of your life. You can only make the situation unpleasant by getting uptight. Don't be addicted to your tires not blowing -- uplevel to a very natural preference that your tires stay inflated and serve you longer. When a tire blows, you simply accept the unacceptable. You realize that this is a here and now reality in your life. Although you have lost the tire, you do not have to lose your peace and serenity -- or send out vibrations that jostle the addiction patterns of people around you and cause them tension and anxiety. Serenity is the end -- and serenity is also the means -- by which you live effectively. By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have -- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life. Here and now (not pasting and futuring) is the key to the optimal interaction pattern between you and the people and things in the world around you. The meaning of here and now is beautifully illustrated by a Zen story of a monk who was being chased by two tigers. He came to the edge of a cliff. He looked back -- the tigers were almost upon him. Noticing a vine leading over the cliff, he quickly crawled over the edge and began to let himself down by the vine. Then as he checked below, he saw two tigers waiting for him at the bottom of the cliff. He looked up and observed that two mice were gnawing away at the vine. Just then, he saw a beautiful strawberry within
and your addictions are making you unhappy. the monk could enjoy the here and now. He picked it and enjoyed the best tasting strawberry in his whole life! Although only minutes from death." or.and not worrying about what we don't have.and he even scrambled down the cliff while hanging onto a vine. After doing everything he could do. Although death was only minutes away. Whenever you are unhappy. Instead. you blame your unhappiness on somebody or something outside of you. he did not let thoughts of the future terrify him. FIFTH PATHWAY I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience. But we do not have to become what the existentialists refer to as the "living dead. You say things like. he used his precious consciousness to fully enjoy every moment of his life." We can always find things we can magnify to threaten our security.arm's reach. you never again blame the people and situations in the world outside of you for any unhappy ." But what is really happening is that someone is doing things that do not conform with the patterns of your addictions -. "A coward dies a thousand deaths. Or we can consciously perform whatever action is needed and then turn our attention to enjoying everything we have to enjoy. death is a part of our future. your emotions are telling you that people and things are not fulfilling the addiction patterns you have programmed into your biocomputer. for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me. he remained fully in the here and now to enjoy whatever life offered him. "Mary makes me jealous. He ran from the tigers -." But do we let ourselves enjoy the strawberries? Or do we use our valuable consciousness worrying about the tigers? Notice that the monk fully responded to the physical danger in the most intelligent way. And we always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have -." For all of us. There is a saying. Our life continually sends us "tigers" -. "Bill makes me mad. And having done this.and it continually sends us "strawberries. sensation. When you take full responsibility here and now for all of your feelings and for everything that happens to you. and power addictions. a brave man only one. But you usually do not talk to yourself in this realistic way.
addictions. computer-like person who views himself as "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. motivations. A happy person finds the world filled with happy people -for even unhappy people experience temporary happiness and joy when they are with a genuinely happy and joyous person! . their gentle. and antagonism when things don't go your way. the structure and functioning of your nervous system and the feedback from your entire body all interact in a complex way to produce your perceptions -. your actions create the reactions of people around you -. "A soft answer turneth away wrath. You receive a feedback from the people and things around you that continually modifies your processing of incoming sensory data. past experience.except when you are with people living in the Fourth (or higher) Center of Consciousness. Conscious beings remain loving and centered no matter how tense the drama around them. In other words.which means reprogramming yourself. For example. if you have a thin surface politeness with instant anger. hopes. accepting consciousness is mirrored by the people around them. As loving individuals flow through their moment-to-moment lives. A helpful person generates helpful. theories.the "picture" you create from the energies you receive through your various senses from people and things around you. your emotions. and intellectual stuff. If you go about with rockness inside you. you will create people around you that have exactly those characteristics." You've been doing it to yourself! You can stop being a mechanical." Similarly. Your expectations. An unfriendly person should not be surprised when he or she meets only people who sooner or later respond in an unfriendly way. You begin to see the connection between your emotional programming and your suffering. a loving person lives in a loving world. You realize that it is an evasion to blame "others. if you view others as competitive to you. fears. The world thus tends to be your mirror. demands. loving energy in others. your language system. a hostile person lives in a hostile world. your individual accumulation of ideas. ridicule. Your mind creates your universe. An angry person creates an angry world. As the Proverbs remind us. A peaceful person lives in a peaceful world.feelings that you have. Your perceptions are thus a joint phenomenon of the observer and the observed. You start doing something about it -.
If someone does . and do (including my emotion-backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness. As you learn to use the Twelve Pathways to become a more loving.Sometimes people mirror you but with a reverse image. you begin to realize the hundreds of ways in which you create the consciousness of everyone around you. joyous world. you begin to tune in to everyone in their deeper levels of being -. SIXTH PATHWAY I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel. The Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness is based on the instant emotional acceptance here and now of that which you previously regarded as unacceptable in your life. all you have to do to change your world is to change your consciousness! It's the only way to live in a beautiful. For example. You are free to do anything you prefer to do -. on the other hand. say. think. . Acceptance simply means that you won't cause yourself emotional conflict because of your current perceptions. If. When you are addicted to one side of a polarity. you will find yourself living in an Ocean of loving. conscious beings. Without trying to change others. you help to free others of their addictions. Since your consciousness creates your universe. When you free yourself of your addictions. Emotional acceptance doesn't mean that you have to continue living the rest of your life with any particular person or situation. they reciprocally play a part in determining the contents of your moment-tomoment consciousness. you can create neatness responses around you. you can create the opposite polarity around you. As you grow in consciousness. conscious being. As you understand your polarities and free yourself. . you will be acting in a way that is maximally effective in helping others become more loving and conscious. The polarity of your programming may evoke an opposite ego response in the people with whom you interact.but don't be addicted to the results of your actions. others around you will tend to be more sloppy than usual. if you are compulsively and addictively neat and orderly. And. you are addictively sloppy. of course. This feedback of consciousness offers exquisite cosmic humor when you clearly see what is really happening .where we are alike and experience oneness together. Your predictions and expectations are thus self-fulfilling.
To grow in the Living Love Way. They have their exits and their entrances. You see yourself and others as actors in the daily drama of life.just experience the river consciously from the vantage point of the Twelve Pathways." you will grow fastest if you consciously regard him or her as your teacher who is enabling you to discover which addictions you will have to reprogram. You will find a turned-on joy in consciously experiencing everything as a necessary part of your growth into higher consciousness. And all the men and women. you do not have to drill yourself and criticize yourself with military precision. merely players. You will find it easier to completely accept the addictive dramas that you have to play out on the stage of your life.and realize that every one of your experiences is perfect for your here and now growth into higher consciousness. Your addictions will gradually fade away when you use the Living Love Pathways to consciously interpret your moment-to-moment stream of consciousness. The real you is your Consciousawareness. All the world's a stage. But the real you is not your body or mind. relaxed. When you watch the entire drama of your life and that of other people from the safe vantage point of the audience.something that "hurts your ego. You're not the actor. you begin to provide a distance that enables you to see your addictions more clearly. . Don't push the river -. And one man in his time plays many parts. Shakespeare wrote. and conscious way -. And your Conscious-awareness is just digging the whole show from the audience. You really savor living when you consciously experience everything that you feel and do as taking place in the theater that we call our world. Just experience everything in an accepting.
Chapter 7 Interacting With Others Flowing -- not manipulation -- is the way of higher consciousness. Flowing means moving with the forces around us -- being in tune with the vibrations of the people and things in our environment. Flowing enables us to find the love, beauty, and peace that we are missing in our lives. But flowing is impossible based on the models of how to be happy that we learned in our childhood, for we cannot flow or harmonize when we are the slaves of our addictions. Our addictions force us to manipulate ourselves -- and others. As adults whose minds and bodies have completed their structural growth, we have the potential of flowing in the river of our lives in a beautiful, loving way. SEVENTH PATHWAY I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people. As you begin to uplevel all of your addictions to the status of preferences (or eliminate them entirely), you will discover that you no longer have anything to hide from other people. It then feels good to be able to communicate with each person exactly what your are experiencing. As you grow into higher consciousness through eliminating your addictions, you will be able to drop all deceptive, subject-object manipulation in the games you have been playing -- the money game, the security game, the male-female game, the prestige game, the power game, the knowledge game, the expert game, etc. These can be beautiful games to play when you play them consciously and lovingly, but they generate suffering and unhappiness when you play them addictively. When you are not completely open and truthful to all people -- when you are trying to hide a part of your inner feelings -- you continue the illusion of separateness from others. Hasn't everyone been caught up in the addictions for security, sensation, and power? Are you under the illusion that you have desires and feelings that are so horrible that others will be shocked? Or are we really all one? Deep inside, all of us have experienced this self-imposed suffering and isolation that keeps us from being peaceful and loving -- even though we may not have perceived it as self-imposed. We have all been in similar predicaments at one time or another in our lives.
One of the ways out of this wall of isolation is to communicate, "Well, here I am. This is what my addictions are making me feel here and now. I accept myself (including my addictions) as being on an unfolding journey toward a peaceful, loving state of higher consciousness." When you're around someone who is experiencing fairly continuous states of higher consciousness, you can be sure that he or she will conditionally accept you exactly where you are now -- for he or she has traveled over the same road and prefers to help you. You can grow fastest and enjoy the trip most (even though your remaining addictions make it a bit rocky sometimes) if you can relax and just communicate fully. It feels so good to be able to just open up and let people see all of you. You'll be amazed at how quickly they can then cut through their drama and accept you without the phony masks and roles with which you previously identified. You have every right to feel exactly as you feel. If "others" are bothered, that's their problem. You're their teacher giving them experiences they need to reprogram their addictions -- just as they are your teacher enabling you to find your addictions. When you consistently use the Pathways, you do not have to scream, viciously attack, or otherwise unduly threaten another person in order to communicate your deepest feelings. You don't need to lay judgments on people or prove them wrong. You just talk about your own consciousness. Instead of, "You are horrible and I don't want to ever see you again," you can say, "You've put me in touch with one of my addictions, and right now I feel so angry at you I don't want to be with you." When you just talk about your own consciousness, you give both yourself and the other person a better chance to work through the addictive programming that produces the illusion of separateness. The Ninth Pathway suggests that you give yourself a short period of time to work through the emotion caused by your addiction. But if you are at the beginning of your consciousness growth, you may find it more important to communicate quickly so that your relationships are always "up front." Remember, hiding separates; openness unites. As you grow into higher consciousness, you will become aware of the many ways in which you have been involved in complex role playing, with hidden "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts" that create complicated patterns of demanding and expectation. You can work effectively toward the "us" space when you
genuinely and openly communicate your feelings and reveal the security, sensation, and power dance that you have been doing. You will find that you can usually cut through these ensnaring dramas by expressing your preferences clearly to yourself and others. You will realize that open communication of your innermost feelings helps your ego (and the egos of other people) to get free of addictive programming which in the long run only produces unhappiness and alienation. EIGHTH PATHWAY I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth. All your emotional problems are created by your addictions. Your growth into higher consciousness consists of becoming free of these traps. When you interact with people who are still involved in this automatic computer-like emotional programming, it is important that you learn to feel their problems with loving compassion, but without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments. Compassionate understanding -- yes; pity and commiseration -- no. Compassion means that when you empathize with the predicaments of other people, you silently send out the vibration, "Yes, I know. I've been there too. It's OK to feel the way you do -- however, try to see that it's all drama. Life always has its 'tigers' -- and we do what we can about them. But above all, let's be sure to continuously enjoy the 'strawberries.' There are always enough strawberries to enjoy our here and now if we don't put all of our attention on the tigers!" Compassion means that you understand the duality and separation they are creating in themselves by rejecting what is here and now in their lives -- but you do not get caught up in their poignant drama. Compassion means that you realize that you can do the most for other people when you stay centered and high and loving whenever you are around them for they are playing out their addictions, suffering because of them, and hopefully picking up the messages life is offering them. Compassion means that you love and serve them from a clear love space, and not from a compulsiveness or guilt motivated by your remaining security, sensation, or power addictions. You learn not to give gifts that you cannot emotionally afford to give. When you resent helping someone, this creates obligations, duality, and separation.
When you are with someone who is trapped in the suffering caused by addictions.you just do it because it feels good to you. When you feel oneness with another." or "I will save you." As you become more conscious. you use this as an opportunity to work on your consciousness. The greatest thing you can do for "others" is to remain happy and loving when you are with them. And also.there's just us here. These negative feelings can prevent you from being sensitive to his or her real here-and-now needs. You realize that you cannot. have enough time and energy to love everyone you meet if you have a "bleeding heart" response to the heap of problems people are creating in their lives. When you help someone because of a feeling of obligation or duty rather than free-flowing love. They are not that "stuff" with which they are identifying.Including Yourself. They probably chose this role (either consciously or unconsciously) and are clinging to it. Behind all that. you may find yourself resenting the person for needing your help.not from a lower consciousness motivation of "I am helping you. Very often just being in a loving space with a person as you listen to him or her is more helpful than any advice you could give. you will be aware of the many security. The best way to give them a chance to free themselves from their addictive trap is for you to avoid getting caught up emotionally in the "stuff" that they are taking so seriously. When you can "help" someone with a feeling of love and oneness -." but simply from the awareness that "the universe gave this energy to me and it feels good to pass it along.You cannot psychologically afford to give such help. and doing or saying what would really be helpful. It's like one hand washing another. the game is to "Love Everyone Unconditionally -. and flow your loving energy -." As you begin to increase the number of people for whom you feel unconditional love. in practice. sensation. You are just letting energy flow through you. your energy will increase. It's their thing to play this role. here we are. and the recipient cannot afford to receive it. As the Law of Higher Consciousness suggests. as you become more conscious. The price in personal distance and separation is too high if you give to avoid a feeling of "guilt" or from a "should" or "ought" motivation. Your life works best when you love. You do not get caught up as a supporting actor no matter how tragic the role they are playing in the drama of their life. there is no giver or receiver -. and power dramas that each of them is busily playing out. less of it will . serve.
and loving. it now has a better chance of success because the consciousness level of everyone concerned is elevated. and oneness. here and now. who then kicked the cat. you add a little reinforcement to the addictions from which we wish to be liberated. and able to fully understand what you are trying to tell them. They will mirror your uptightness. you are. You know the story of the man who bawled out his friend. Every time you interact with anger. Bad vibrations. love. wait until you are tuned in. or fear. Instead of acting out a drama of addictions. but if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness. You will then liberate a continuous stream of energy which will flow into loving and serving people around you. like the measles.and this will interfere with effective communication. resentment. Now let's turn it around -. The things you do or say when you have stirred up your emotions and the emotions of other people will be handled in a way that is destructive of peace. When you are emotionally upset.be drained by your own security.for good vibrations are also catching. you energize the addictive patterns of other people who are also caught in the lower levels of consciousness.but it will not feel right to all concerned. Let's be the man who complimented his friend. and loving before you act. and will not be tuned in. for you will trigger their addictions -. are contagious. sensation. centered. Then your perception and wisdom may lead you to choose a more effective course of action. communicating as a tuned-in human being telling what you feel and what you prefer. who spanked her child. perceptive. centered. and the friend went home and fought with his wife. . unless you are in physical danger. NINTH PATHWAY I act freely when I am tuned in. But even if you do the same thing that you originally intended to do. And the future consequences of your actions will cause greater future conflicts. You may be able to pull a power trip to make something happen -. and power addictions. who was so extra loving to her child that he gave the cat some milk without even being asked! To avoid adding to the total sum of the bad vibrations in the world. They will reflect your inner conflicts. and the friend went home and kissed his wife.
warping your perceptions and bringing you alienation and suffering. You thus learn to use the Seventh and Ninth Pathways to create more and more aliveness and beauty in all of your relationships with other people.rather than acting out the fight-or-flight feeling you have triggered. you give yourself a little time to work on your addiction -. Unexpressed feelings act like a cancer in your brain that malignantly spreads -. You can use the Ninth Pathway to hide -. The Seventh Pathway tells you to communicate your deepest feelings. but if you are caught in the grip of a disturbing emotion. and loving. A part of your growth into higher consciousness will be associated with how perceptively you handle these two Pathways. and loving. until you are perceptive.or you can use it to delay your responses to people long enough to give the other Pathways an opportunity to rescue you from the negative emotions you have triggered. if possible. . Always remember that you cannot put off for long your making an up-front communication of your deepest feelings if you wish to be conscious. perceptive. and the Ninth Pathway says for you to withhold your communication. What this means is that you are always ready to be completely open and to communicate with people.The Seventh Pathway and the Ninth Pathway put you in an interesting predicament. centered.
and power demands and expectations. .Chapter 8 Discovering My Conscious Awareness The Twelve Pathways give you a complete solution to every emotional problem in your life. You discover how your rational mind has become a pawn commanded by your ego to "rationalize" your security. and you begin to increase your insight and perceptiveness. you will find that the Pathways are always ready to steer you around the rocks into the peaceful waters. You begin to tune in to the finer energies around you when the precious space on the screen of your consciousness is not occupied by the emergency alarms triggered by your addictive security. you will begin to realize that the activity of your rational mind is generally sparked by your security. sensation. but unfortunately most of us are so accustomed to the poor performance of our minds that we often accept such inefficiency as "normal. We would not tolerate this type of performance from a television set. When our wonderful biocomputers are dominated by our addictions. As you lessen the heavy load of addictions you have been carrying. your rational mind becomes quieter and quieter. You are trying to hold onto something you do have. sensation." What is meant when the Tenth Pathway tells you to calm the restless scanning of your rational mind? As you grow in awareness. and power motivations. Whenever you experience uncomfortable emotional waves. TENTH PATHWAY I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me. get something you don't have. You begin to have a choice that was not available before regarding the things that you say and do. Our consciousness is then like a television set that drifts from the channel. and that will tune in only the lower channels. that turns off when we want to use it. or avoid something you don't want. You begin to see that many of the "clever" things your rational mind devises to say to other people just turn out to be separating and alienating responses that keep you out of the "us" space. that sometimes won't stay turned off when we wish to sleep. our consciousness is scattered and harried. sensation. that is subject to fading. and power models of how the world should be.
and conflict into a flowing acceptance of all of life. and words in a persistent and dominating way. you simply flow along in the nowness of your daily life. As you learn to uplevel your consciousness. and inner peace growing as I open all of the Centers of Consciousness. insight. The Seven Centers of Consciousness (explained later in this book) consist of a seven-step scale that can tell you each moment of your life exactly where you are in your journey toward higher consciousness. lovingly. striving activity. calm place inside of you from which you peacefully. By letting yourself grow toward . By using the sevenstep consciousness scale. and expectations that you have unknowingly programmed as essential to your happiness. Thus the Living Love System enables you to transcend tensions. Your escape from lower consciousness levels helps to free you from the restless scanning of your rational mind so that you are constantly in touch with that deep.until it functions as a powerful. goals. you unlock enormous energy.The Living Love Way enables you to live in this powerful realm of higher consciousness by setting you free from your addictions. ELEVENTH PATHWAY I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centers of Consciousness I am using. anxiety. peaceful.for preferences are not sought after goals that keep you restless. quiet. Preferences let you stay in touch with the here and now in your life. effective servant to your consciousness. you clarify your minute-to-minute drama and add realism and depth to your life. But either way -everything feels all right. and inner peace will fluctuate up and down when your consciousness is involved in the lower three Centers. one-pointed. and blissfully watch the drama of your life. With preferences. You enjoy being able to unconditionally love and accept everyone. love. For the structure and function of your biocomputer are such that this addictive programming triggers your thoughts. Whenever the here and now offers you a choice. You discover that your energy. you pick the one that most fits in with your preferences. and I feel my energy. perceptiveness. ideas. The cultivation of preferences (in place of addictions) does not keep your rational mind churning and scanning -. love. They enable your mind to become calmer and calmer -. Your rational mind is not excited into restless.
Sensation. including ourselves. as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness. including myself. and Power -. you find the beautiful inner peace that you have always sought in your life. Our egos and our rational minds keep us continually judging other people so as to put them in the wrong and thus give us a supposed advantage. We begin to realize that everything we do is either a skillful or unskillful attempt to find love and oneness. When your ego permits you to see the here-and-now actions of people with perspective.that peaceful place where one has eliminated personal boundaries and has unitively merged with the surrounding world. We are equal beings.and uplevel your consciousness to include the unconditional Love Center and Cornucopia Center. TWELFTH PATHWAY I am perceiving everyone. effectiveness. wisdom. But unless one has consciously worked toward higher consciousness. he is trying to manipulate you so that you can fit the pattern of his addictions -and thus permit him to love you in his conditional way. A conscious being simply sees. peace. Then you begin to watch your drama from the Conscious-awareness Center. that everyone is on the road to . It will help us in our journey to higher consciousness (as well as being most helpful to others) if we regard everyone. as fellow travellers on the road to awakening. By seeing your drama from this meta-center you impartially witness all your thoughts and actions on the five lower Centers. this hidden splendor within may be smothered by the addictive games that keep one separated and isolated. Everything in your life has aspects on all of the Centers. one goes behind this Conscious-awareness Center into the Seventh Center -. and love. In the next phase of consciousness growth. You begin your growth toward higher consciousness when you first escape from being preoccupied with the lower three Centers of Security. We're just not that different from each other. with a compassion that is born of insight and perspective.the higher Centers of Consciousness. including yourself. Even if someone yells at you or hits you.Cosmic Consciousness -. Everyone you meet. In Living Love we work to integrate all of the Centers. has the capacity for clear perception. you realize that there is practically nothing that anyone can do that you have not either done or wanted to do at some time in your life.
and vice versa. Instead of labeling things "good" or "bad. Higher consciousness means that you experience a flowing harmony with all of the interacting people and things in the world around you. Whenever you are in doubt about whether to do something or not.when you see everything that happens in your life as a moment-to-moment acting out of the great drama of your addictions -. just ask yourself whether it makes you feel more separate from people or more loving toward people.awakening. far-out state. It is a practical. beautiful state of mind which is your birthright as a human being. and that which enables YOU to experience love and unity permits you to harmonize your energy with the energies of the world around you. This permits you to emotionally accept whatever is here and now in your life. . You view the thoughts and actions that separate you on the lower part of the ethical scale. When you see how it all is -. That which makes you feel separate tends to keep your life from working effectively." you simply use your insight to determine to what extent your thoughts or actions separate or unite you in your feelings toward others. Higher consciousness is not a mystical.you will realize how you constantly smother the potential that you have within you. metaphysical. You realize that in place of the judgmental terms (such as good and bad) that we use to separate ourselves in our consciousness from each other. the simplest and most helpful ethical standard is to see things as degrees of separateness and oneness. The thoughts and actions which unite you are on the upper part of the scale. We learn to love others by accepting and loving ourselves -.
This in turn feeds back and intensifies your particular flow of energy and thought patterns. hate. The lower three Centers of Consciousness were developed for survival in the jungle phase of the evolution of our species. These Centers act as filters that generate your particular private experience of the here and now in your life. we use a seven-step scale that will enable you to measure your pattern of growth toward higher consciousness. pride. we automatically trigger the experience of fear. For example.like automatons -. plus the memory banks of the brain and the thoughts generated by the rational mind -. when we use our security programming. This scale consists of three lower Centers of Consciousness -.Chapter 9 The Seven Centers of Consciousness In the Living Love System.Love. ears. . and Cosmic Consciousness. These programmings determine your own unique experience of the here and now. Information coming into your biocomputer -from your eyes. irritation.are processed through these programmings. Sensation.we instantly trigger the experience of anger. Cornucopia. and power consciousness. then its sensation (food or sex) possibilities. a cat may be operating on the sensation level enjoying a meal when an unexpected noise may instantly activate a security consciousness that prepares the animal for fight or flight. And if our power. the automated priority of awareness in an animal is to first check incoming information for its security aspects. We often combine two or more of these filters simultaneously to create our individual picture of the now moment.and four higher Centers of Consciousness -. and other sensory receptors. In general. sensation. For example. we automatically trigger a frustrating disappointed feeling. and Power -. we often remain trapped in these automated responses of security.Security. etc. In spite of the fact that the potential for higher consciousness is available to us as we leave childhood. All this is done on an automated basis without conscious thought. Conscious-awareness. then its threats to the power boundaries with which the animal identifies. or prestige boundaries are violated -. If we don't get the sensations we desire. The emotional areas of the brain trigger various feelings as called for by your addictive programming. hostility.
The reason why the lower Centers cannot bring you enough is that they cause constant distortions in perceiving people and life situations. More energy. More enjoyment. sensation. These emotions are used by your biocomputer to slow you down and keep you from tearing yourself apart with conflicting demands. 3. the experience of the here and now is grayed over with repression. But out of the billions of people who have lived on earth. and enough power to be continuously happy and fulfilled. sensation. These lower Centers subject you to simultaneous. They make you waste energy compulsively running toward or away from situations. It should be remembered that life in a jungle frequently poses the threat of instant death to its animal inhabitants. so that you do not have to compulsively act out the subjectobject scripts of your jungle ancestors. More contact with people. We have a beautiful white cat that . An important characteristic of the three lower Centers is that you can never get enough to enjoy your life continuously when you are using the security. You can use these filters to make limited improvements in your life. and power filters to interpret the here and now in your life. The experience of enoughness only starts as you begin to generate your consciousness more and more from the Fourth Center -. desires. This conscious choice of programs is not available to a young child or an animal. depression. and expectations generated by your security. and power consciousness.One of the benefits of the seven-step consciousness scale is to enable you to see your drama from a perspective so that you can choose the filters you wish to use in generating your experience. 2. no one has experienced enough security. your life gives you: 1. Young children and animals are trapped in their automatic programming. multiple addictions that conflict with each other and require the biocomputer to do something about the heavy emotional overload. A beautiful aspect of the consciousness scale is that each time you go up a step in the scale. To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it. These Centers keep you from loving unconditionally and make you relate to people as objects instead of as beings just like you.the Love Center. and dullness. When overloaded with conflicting addictive demands that are not being satisfied. enough delightful sensations. anxiety.
For example if someone criticizes you. complain about yourself -. And remember. you will find that you are becoming more peaceful and loving in a situation that previously would have resulted in your emotionally thrashing around and upsetting yourself and others. They may be helpful if you were in a boat that overturned and you had to swim one mile to a nearby island. when processed by your lower three Centers of Consciousness. your angry response will tend to bring you additional criticism -. it will crouch down. or use it if it fits.and not as another way to criticize yourself or to generate an experience of inadequacy or inferiority.you shouldn't be anywhere else -. berate yourself. And each time you use one of the Living Love Methods. if inappropriate. meditative way where you are from moment to moment. however. You simply notice what is happening in your moment-to-moment stream of consciousness as seen from the vantage point of the Living Love Way. would bring about autonomic nervous system responses that would enable you to swim in a way that you've never been able to swim before. But in over 99% of your normal daily interactions with people and life situations around you.purrs and is most loving to the people in our house. The Living Love Way works best if you simply stay with it and notice in a quiet. No part of the Living Love System should be used addictively to create expectations that make you drive yourself. It has probably been quite a long time since you or I were actually threatened with immediate death. But these mechanisms of fight or flight that were so protective in the jungle are still operating in our biocomputers. This threat to your life. accepting. The automated response patterns of any nearby birds must be able to handle the life or death aggressiveness of the cat when it plays out its jungle programming.here and now. disappointment. stalk. and kill birds if it can. You do not need to fiercely attack yourself because you caught yourself on level three when you decided to spend the day on level four."stuff" you might avoid if you could just consciously hear the criticism and perhaps ignore it. The Seven Centers of Consciousness should be used as growth tools -. . these fear. and anger emotions are not helpful in enabling you to get the most enjoyment and effectiveness from your life. where you are is perfect for your consciousness growth -. We have nervous systems that were evolved over millions of years to cope with this immediate threat to life. When this cat goes out into the yard.or anyone else.
In the next three chapters you will find detailed descriptions of each Center of Consciousness.On the next page you will find a summary of the Seven Centers of Consciousness. . It will help you if you will learn the seven-point scale so thoroughly that you will feel (without necessarily analyzing it) which Center of Consciousness your biocomputer is operating on at each moment.
Other addictive sensations may include the sound of music. As you become more loving and accepting. To the degree that you still have addictions. THE POWER CENTER When your consciousness is focused on this Center. As you reprogram your addictions. You see yourself in everyone -.even yourself. For many people. THE LOVE CENTER At this Center you are transcending subject-object relationships and are learning to see the world with the feelings and harmonies of flowing acceptance. the perfection lies in giving you the experience you need to get free of your emotion-backed demands. THE SENSATION CENTER This Center is concerned with finding happiness in life by providing yourself with more and better pleasurable sensations and activities. You feel compassion for the suffering of those caught in the dramas of security.in addition to thousands of more subtle forms of hierarchy. manipulation. etc. THE CORNUCOPIA CENTER When your consciousness is illuminated by this Center. 3. 5. and power. wealth. sex is the most appealing of all sensations. the world becomes a "horn of plenty" that gives you more than you need to be happy. the perfection will be experienced as a continuous enjoyment of the here and now in your life. THE CONSCIOUS-AWARENESS CENTER . sensation. You begin to realize that you've always lived in a perfect world. the taste of food. You are beginning to love and accept everyone unconditionally -.and everyone in yourself. 2. 4. and pride -.THE SEVEN CENTERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1. 6. you are concerned with dominating people and situations and increasing your prestige. This programming forces your consciousness to be dominated by your continuous battle to get "enough" from the world in order to feel secure. shelter. or whatever you equate with your personal security. you experience the friendliness of the world you are creating. THE SECURITY CENTER This Center makes you preoccupied with food. and control.
you learn to impartially observe your social roles and life games from a place that is free from fear and vulnerability. 7. wisdom. This is a meta-center from which you non-judgmentally witness the drama of your body and mind. you are ready to transcend self-awareness and become pure awareness. beauty. From this Center of Centers. peace.It is liberating to have a Center from which your Conscious-awareness watches your body and mind perform on the lower five centers. . effectiveness. you are one with everything -.you are love. and oneness. energy. THE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS CENTER When you live fully in the Sixth Center of Consciousness. At this ultimate level. clarity.
your growth will be happening in the fastest possible way. By joyously using your here and now as a stepping stone.Chapter 10 The Three Centers of Unhappiness There is nothing about any level of consciousness that is right or wrong. They only trigger your inside programming. Just accept where you are now by realizing that you are experiencing addictions that give you the feelings you need for your next step in growth. The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all. good or bad. Another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Observe how much of your time is involved in an unpleasant striving to achieve the conditions that you tell yourself you must have to feel secure. The Security Center of Consciousness is very demanding and strongly pulls your consciousness away from the higher Centers. Here is the Living Love scale you can use to develop a moment-by-moment feeling of where you are in your great adventure into higher consciousness : THE FIRST CENTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS -THE SECURITY CENTER What is it that makes you feel secure? What is it that makes you feel insecure? Your answer to these questions is probably misleading to you. pure or evil. You are where you are -. for your feelings of security are created by your emotional programming -. The Security Center automatically triggers feelings of fear and anxiety when the outside world does not conform to your security programming. You should feel free to let your consciousness touch on any of the seven levels. Your growth in Living Love will depend on completely accepting yourself and others -right here now -.what you are telling yourself inside.here and now. You will also notice the . You will escape being trapped in this first level of consciousness when you begin to understand that your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming which you picked up from addicted people before you were mentally and physically mature.and not in some future time when you have conquered your addictions.
your higher consciousness will enable you to flow into situations that offer you far more real security than your lower-consciousness struggle for "security" will ever provide. You may be like the rat who is running as fast as he can in a revolving cartwheel cage. For example. and circumstances around you. things. You will begin to realize that your life right now is what it is. fear would be helpful to make you more aware of the overall situation. it uses up your energy by making you tense. But once you are old enough to be conscious of the various factors involved in a life situation. For real security lies only in the love and flowing that you will discover through higher consciousness. There is no way to get there by running faster -. You will be far safer when consciousness replaces the emotional response of fear. Your feelings of insecurity are not a necessary consequence of people. paranoia.or by achieving more efficiently. When your consciousness begins to operate more and more in the Love Center and Cornucopia Center. THE SECOND CENTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- . you calmly and peacefully walk across the street. If you prefer to make changes in your life. It can never be found in manipulating the world of people and things around you.unless you were actually trapped in a jungle situation faced with the need for immediate fight or flight on a physical level. and it keeps you from enjoying your here and now. a fear response makes you more jumpy and less perceptive. Paradoxically. If you were totally unconscious of what happens when an automobile hits you (as a small child is). You transcend the security level by developing a deeper and deeper understanding of how your hunger for "security" is all a matter of your emotional programming. You will be safest if you are simply conscious of the automobiles running back and forth and calmly wait on the curb until there is a break in the traffic. you can make them far more effectively when you transcend the addictive programming that makes you feel insecure. without the slightest experience of fear. you would probably be safer if you never again experienced fear in your life -. you increase the probability of being hurt if you are afraid of being hit by speeding automobiles. When you perceive this break. you always have enough to feel good right here and right now. if you wish to cross a busy street. It is a trip that you are doing on your own head. or danger. And if you eliminate your addictive models of how things should be.impossibility of getting enough of whatever it is that you equate with security.
Although sex is the sensation that many people are most heavily addicted to. When your consciousness is primarily tuned to the Love Center or the Cornucopia Center. even though you don't know exactly what it is. He then feels that if he can arrange the people and things in his life to provide a constantly varied pattern of beautiful sensations. For this second level of consciousness can only produce flashes of pleasure and long periods of indifference and boredom. the home you live in. You are tuning in to only a small part of yourself -. however "groovy." However. Even if you could reach sexual climaxes a dozen times a day. The people you choose to be with. There is nothing wrong with doing this except that you are operating on a level of consciousness that cannot provide happiness. the . sometimes satiated." can never make you happy if you are depending on them for happiness. "I can be happy if I can just feel secure. Sensations. Behind the exquisite sexual dance. You become driven. they are never enough. sensations can add to your happiness as a part of the here-and-now flow of your life. both of you really feel the shallowness of the subject-object relationship. Your life style may be designed to provide you with sexual sensations. Because no matter how many terrific sexual orgasms you may have. and action that you have developed will tend to be determined by whatever you calculate will make you appeal to the sexual partners you most desire. For sex is never enough. the sounds of music. the clothes you buy.and even a smaller part of others. and not tuned in to the flow of the here and now when you are chasing sensation after sensation. We tell ourselves that we can find happiness through the taste of food. If you are like many people. life would still seem hollow. sex may be your most sought-after sensation. They are not responding to you as a whole person and you are not responding to them as a whole person. he finds that this is not quite true. it is by no means our only addiction on the Second Level. thinking. You know something is wrong. once he begins to feel more secure. But the same sensations can be totally enjoyed when your consciousness is no longer stuck on the second level. This is known as subject-object sex in which you are the subject and treat "others" in your life as sexual objects. and the style of speech.THE SENSATION CENTER A person who is hung up on the Security Center of Consciousness tells himself. he will be happy. thwarted.
THE THIRD CENTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS -THE POWER CENTER The last of the lower Centers of Consciousness (that can never provide you with "enough") is the Power Center. Until then. the Sensation Center. When you uplevel addictions into preferences. But these will still be subject-object interactions in which people either cooperate with your power games or threaten them. the more you can manipulate people? Do your power addictions keep you preoccupied with external symbols such as a mod car.until you are enough. and the enjoyment you seek will tend to elude you as long as you addictively demand it. an attractive home. you will have more energy and you will interact with more people. But wisdom. nothing ever quite does it for you. When your consciousness is primarily directed toward providing you with the sensation patterns to which you are addicted. In this Center. Most of the people in the world are addicted to these three lower Centers -.because the more prestige you have. you enjoy it all.but nothing is ever enough -. An individual who is hunting for sex is definitely generating more energy than a person who is worried about his security. When you are operating from the Power Center. In fact.the Security Center. When you are enough through higher consciousness. The attempt to find happiness through the Power Center is definitely a forward step in growth toward higher consciousness. you will have more energy than when it was hung up on the Security Center of Consciousness. everything can be enjoyed as part of the great drama of your life.experience of a special environment that we regard as our impressive home. Thus the search for happiness through sensations is definitely an improvement over the search for happiness on the Security Center of Consciousness. etc. one who is heavily addicted to the security level will probably have dropped off to sleep during the early part of the evening. the sensations of movies and plays.such as knowledge and lots of hobbies so that others perceive you as an interesting. The search for happiness through sensations keeps us ingeniously busy -. and the Power Center. and serenity are not yet in sight. achieving . life is a series of competitive moves and countermoves. You will usually be with more people and you will need to sleep less. What do you strive for on the Third Level of Consciousness? Is it money as a method of wielding power rather than money as a form of security? Is it prestige -. peace. etc? Or have you upleveled the game to internal status symbols -. fashionable clothes.
for it's all here for you to enjoy.person? Or perhaps sex has now become a power game whereby you enjoy sex not only for the sensations but also as a challenge to your Power Center. Someone who is constantly ordering people around and who forcefully insists that people accept his or her opinion can be coming from the Power Center. status symbols. For example. you are trapped in the lower consciousness folkways of our culture -. someone who is always quiet can be subtly manipulating by his or her "sweet acceptance" and "you-always-know-best" attitude. But it is helpful to be aware of the more subtle power games we play. and suffering if the happenings outside you do not exactly correspond to your inside programs. This type of subtle manipulation makes one put energy into extracting what someone else really wants. Thus you do not renounce your worldly activities -. You renounce your emotion-backed demands which keep you from enjoying the bountiful life that has always been available around you. This does not necessarily mean that you must drastically change your external activities. Do you seek the sexual partner who is hardest to attract because of the ego challenge? Have you ever noticed that the people who are the most successful in the power game are simply living a hollow life with external evidences of worldly success -. ulcers. but a power game may also be present when someone talks in an unusually soft voice that makes people be quiet and listen hard if they are to hear. It is the clanging of the emotion-backed circuits in your biocomputer that keeps you disappointed.it is your addictive demands for money or sex.and you are not finding enough in life to be happy. and oneness with others? It often happens that the more successful a person becomes on the outside. people bossing each other around. and power." To the degree that your moment-to-moment consciousness is biased by security. However. This game creates a subject-object type of separateness.but without really winning inside in terms of peace. the less successful he is on the inside. You are ready for your next step toward higher consciousness when you deeply realize the utter futility of trying to make it in life using these lower consciousness levels. It is easy to see the more obvious power games involving money. We . and heart disease tend to increase with external "success. frustrated. For what you renounce is your addictive demands and not necessarily the things you are doing. etc. For instance. serenity. Anxiety. sensations. political power. it is not money or sex that causes unhappiness -. it is clear that someone talking in a loud voice may be trying to control people.
In trying to help. Similarly. As you grow into the Fourth Center of Consciousness. they close themselves and are automatically antagonistic to your power thrusts which threaten them. What you give up are your inner addictive demands -what you get back is more of everything than you need in order to be happy. you will find that you have all the power you need in your life -. you will be instantly resisted by the power addictions of other people.but they can be like ignorant friends who hurt us as often as they help us. Helpfulness requires both skill and understanding. Your energy will enormously increase and your sleep needs decrease as you give up guarding the various manifestations of your security. You will grow in happiness as you gradually realize that all of this stuff is not who you really are. One of the bonuses of higher consciousness is that when you give it all up. trying to bulldoze life into giving you what you thought you needed for happiness. you get it all back. Instead of opening themselves to help you get what you want.in fact you will have more than you need. When you approach life with power addictions. we regard the ego and the rational mind as friends that are really there to help us -. "What do I do to get what I want?" "What masks do I wear?" "What part in the drama do I play?" You have hundreds of things in your head that you are now protecting as a part of your personal boundaries and social position. For your unconditional acceptance of everyone around you will open doors that you could never have opened when you operated from the Third Center of Consciousness. When he picks him up to take him to the hospital.might ask ourselves. and power addictions. the broken spine crushes the spinal nerves so that his friend will never walk again. Our egos and rational minds are often like the wellmeaning neighbor who sees his friend lying in the street with a broken spine after being hit by a car. In the Living Love Way. As you grow into the higher Centers of Consciousness. It's just ego-backed programming that you picked up on your way to where you are now. Some methods of consciousness growth treat the ego and rational mind as enemies to be destroyed. the neighbor ignorantly damages his friend. Some of the most dramatic performances of your ego and your rational mind will be triggered at the Power Center of Consciousness. when our egos and rational minds use lower consciousness . you will begin to experience an effectiveness that you could never attain when you were shoving from the Third Center. sensation.
you might retreat into a schizoid-type shell that would keep you from enjoying the beautiful things life offers you. your ego will automatically stop triggering negative emotions that interfere with your happiness. watch its operation. Your ego has a vital part to play in revealing to you the addictions you have yet to work on. The goal is not to kill your ego -. we engage them to help us root out our addictions and uplevel them to preferences.but to retire it due to lack of work. If you killed your ego. So welcome your ego. When you reprogram your addictions. Since they are our friends that would like to help us.programming. we need our egos to give us the emotional experiences that enable us to become aware of our addictive demands -. They also give us a flush of pleasure when the outside world does fit our addictions. and use it as a necessary part of you that will give you the experiences you need in order to grow into higher consciousness. The Living Love Way does not try to kill your ego or your rational mind. they continually keep our lives from working in ways that produce optimal enjoyment. In either case. . We realize that our egos trigger a feeling of uneasiness when the outside world does not fit our addictive models of how it all should be.and to understand the heavy price that we pay for all of them sooner or later if they are not reprogrammed into preferences.
hostility. When we repetitively experience an enjoyable sensation. etc. 2. we become satiated and bore ourselves. etc. 3. 3. 1. frustration. worry.SENSATION 3 . . Constant fear of loss. 1.POWER Anger. Constant driving compulsiveness 2. Constant driving compulsiveness. Our power threat stimulates a counterattack from others and we are continually caught up in defending and trying to control. Constant fear of loss.SECURITY Fear. hate. Constant fear of loss. The rational mind can always trigger an unlimited chain of future possibilities to worry about. Disappointment. Constant driving compulsiveness 2. anxiety. 3. 1. irritation. etc. 2 . boredom.THE THREE LOWER CENTERS PRODUCE UNHAPPINESS IN LIFE CENTERS ASSOCIATED EMOTIONS WHY THE THREE LOWER CENTERS OFFER A YO-YO TYPE OF ENJOYMENT OF LIFE 1 . resentment.
Chapter 11 The Two Joyous Centers In the previous chapter. You're still entitled to your preferences. . In the last chapter we learned that when our consciousness operates on the lower three Centers of Security. And how do we do this? When your consciousness lives in the Love Center. we saw that the Security. A mother will love her child even . . Sensation. And there is no end . What you expected to be a simple solution to a situation actually sets up the next round of problems in your life. You seek to solve the boredom trap by finding more and more variety. and Power.The Sensation Center of Consciousness cannot work to produce happiness for you either. dominating. When you see the unconscious dance in which you have been ensnarling yourself. with a little imagination. The Power Center of Consciousness will not work to produce happiness for you because your pushing. THE FOURTH CENTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS -THE LOVE CENTER The Fourth Center of Consciousness in the Living Love Way is called the Love Center. We are beginning to get somewhere in our journey toward awakening when our consciousness deals more and more with the drama of our lives from the point of view of the two joyous Centers -.but be a failure inside in terms of happiness. we can achieve greater external success -. you instantly accept anything that anyone does or anything that happens -. Their defensive and offensive tactics then require you to be more dominating and forceful. because you will very likely become bored with anything you do repetitively. you begin to realize that a higher Center of Consciousness is required to enable you to enjoy your life. and manipulating will stimulate similar actions from other people. but this in its turn just brings another set of problems into your life. but this only works for a short while until the people outside of you respond with even more force. you can always find one more loophole in your security setup that must be plugged. Love comes with the unconditional acceptance of everyone and everything around us.but the acceptance is only on an emotional basis.the Love Center and the Cornucopia Center. Sensation. and Power Centers of Consciousness cannot be depended upon to continuously enable you to feel that you are getting "enough" to be happy in life. One problem with the Security Center is that.
"Well. You are in the Love Center when you accept everything people do as part of their journeys toward awakening. and power addictions -. that's what is -. And if they are not consciously on the path and become angry. And by not getting irritated. one hour. And you're losing them fast.for it is only your emotional programming that disturbs you when the events outside do not conform with the programming that you have conditioned inside of you. Thus people begin to experience you as becoming purer as you give . As your addictions begin to melt away.for you are losing those "needs" -. you will be more effective in realizing your preferences.no matter what he does or says? You can do this only by transcending your security.here and now. they will similarly accept your moment-to-moment "stuff" -. You view them not in terms of how they meet your addictive needs -.here and now.right here and now. You know that if they are consciously on the path. you will begin to find that you are creating a new world in which your consciousness resides. She prefers that the quart remain intact. Why get emotionally upset and bother herself and the baby too? How do you love everyone unconditionally so that you do not upset yourself -.for this is what helps them grow. you will find that your "ego" has less and less to do.though he upsets the quart of milk and it smashes on the kitchen floor.IS!!! That's where it's at -. When you consciously notice the hollowness and suffering that these addictions cause. Soon your mind will create no "others. one minute. "Others" can only threaten your addictions. People and conditions are not longer a threat to you -for no one can threaten your preferences. But if it spills. that's their problem.you just view them in terms of. sensation. you begin to experience everything and everyone around you in a different way. that's here and now. you achieve insights that help you get free from them. and your ego will activate the egos of other people less and less." As your addictions are reprogrammed. As you learn to live more and more in the Love Center of Consciousness. You might be able to change the situation one second." You realize that each individual has the need to be doing exactly what he or she is doing -. or one day from now. too. Whatever is -. you begin to find that you can instantly accept what was previously unacceptable emotionally. You realize that everyone (including yourself) is creating a world in which one's addictions are lived out. you really have no choice. As your addictions become upleveled to preferences. After all.
sight. but you will have planted a seed of awakening. This greater openness of your circulatory system also affects your brain and other organs to make them function more effectively. they find that they seldom get in touch with tense feelings when they are with you. sensations." Love doesn't require you to get involved in their "stuff. Your skin will experience cold but you will not feel cold inside. As you spend more and more time in the Fourth Center of Consciousness.your ego less to do. As you break through the illusion of duality and separation. Your blood vessels will no longer be tight and restricted so that you feel cold excessively and deeply. and power. You know that the best way to help them is to work on yourself so that they can perceive (perhaps for the first time in their lives) the experience of unconditional love. you will find that you enjoy touching people more and more. you will find that your blood circulation will improve -. This helps them become purer. Even though they may still be stuck in the lower three Centers.because they have a right to be there -. They may come down when they are not with you. When you live more and more in the Love Center of Consciousness.and because where they are is perfect for their growth -.and your hands and feet may be warmer. They can begin to get a taste of what it is like to live in the more joyous Centers of Consciousness. "Wow. Colds and illness become rare. You just accept them because they are there -. Every experience you have of other people either leaves you peaceful and loving or it makes you aware of the remaining addictions to be .and also yours. and you feel compassion toward those who still are involved in the illusion of separateness. you begin to realize that it was only your head that previously kept you from loving people unconditionally. but also through your touch receptors. here is someone who accepts me all the time -. Your face and the back of your neck and head will stay especially warm and glowing. It was not their actions as you had been conditioned to believe. and sound." as they struggle through life seeking security. They begin to say to themselves. You begin to see with insight the worldly dramas of addictions that people are still playing out on the first three levels of consciousness. This is one of the beautiful physiological things that happens as you grow into higher consciousness.no matter what I do or say. Now that you are seldom paranoid you can enjoy the beautiful feelings of warmth and oneness that you can experience when you make contact not only through words.
." Selfless service is a beautiful way to get free of the three lower Centers of Consciousness. you let your ego keep you trapped. because he is showing me an addiction that I should get rid of. or that enhance your security. And just as a mother loves her infant no matter what he does. He is trying to get you to act differently so that his addictions will not trouble him when he interacts with you. An ego grasping for security. Selfless service without thought of reward is a characteristic of the Fourth Center of Consciousness. "Great! I'm getting on with it. When you do only those tasks that are pleasant. To paraphrase an ancient saying. Even if someone attacks you fiercely through words or even hits you. "When I don't know who I am. and paranoia are always artificially created by your emotional programming.reprogrammed. You will increase your growth into higher consciousness by learning to flow energy into meeting the needs of "others" as though they were your own needs. separation. you experience "work" as an expression of love and caring. in the realm of Consciousawareness all of us are the same. and power will always trade or barter energy for something that will best enhance its miragelike lower consciousness situation. sensation. "Joe is my teacher. You realize that although our bodies and minds are different." There is nothing wrong with letting your ego give you a little pat on the back because you are living more and more in the Love Center. You are beginning to experience that living in a world of love is always enough. he is simply playing out his addictions. when I do know who I am. unavoidable. You know that your feelings of isolation. you can say to yourself. you realize that as you grow into higher consciousness you can love everyone around you -regardless of what he or she says or does. "Work" is no longer performed unconsciously or mechanically with the feeling that one can fully enjoy life again when the job is done." In the Fourth Center of Consciousness. You use your ego to constantly raise your Center of Consciousness. When someone does things that you previously found unacceptable but which you can now emotionally accept. I AM ONE with everyone around me. I SERVE everyone around me. sensation. Joe just checked me out and I passed the test of being free of that addiction. and power trip. If Joe does something and you make yourself feel a bit uptight and alienated from him you can say to yourself.
You are able to experience a deep inner .not your love. No matter how horrendous your acts may be. totally here-and-now involvement. you experience everything as love.So no matter what happens. You have only twentyfour hours in a day. For it is your involvement that is conditional -. Everything is either an effective or ineffective way of creating love. So does everyone else. they enjoy just being together. And as you consciously relate to your obligations. Relationships that are held together by "shoulds" or "shouldn'ts" lose their spontaneous here-and-now vividness. you work them out by working on yourself. Love cannot be a programmed addiction held together by fear or pressure. you start from where you are right now. You finally arrive at the place where nothing that happens in the world around you knocks you out of the Love Center of Consciousness. When you live in the Love Center of Consciousness and are relatively free of addictions. and your time will usually be spent with people who have similar preferences and with whom you enjoy doing things. you create a "me-them" attitude. This does not create a space for the harmonizing of energies into an "us" consciousness. And the optimal future is always generated from the freeflowing. If you remain loving even when they try to hurt you. In the future you make only those obligations which you can flowingly fulfill within an "us" space. Real love blossoms and remains where there is no addiction -. When the deepest harmonizing of energies takes place between people. you acknowledge these and follow through with them.you can just silently be with each other and totally enjoy being in each other's space. And then you will understand. For when you begin your journey to higher consciousness.but which they don't yet know how to find. You can always return love no matter what a person does or says. they may begin to find that love place in themselves which they so want to experience -. You can emotionally accept everything. you will find that you can love everyone unconditionally. When you ignore or avoid your obligations. and oneness. peace. non-expectant present moment. And then you can unconditionally love everyone as an unfolding being. If you have current obligations. It is not necessary to continually keep up a heavy drama of activities -.but the doing is never compulsive or contrived. So just remember how we are trapped by our addictions. you will be doing the most you can to help others transcend their addictions. You may do many things together -.but instead a vibrant. you always want to be understood and loved. And by doing this.
Events are seen in terms of results and happenings instead of people's supposed attitudes toward you. They are not held together by a jealous. You now experience them in an open. you now realize you have nothing to be afraid of. You know that every feeling that you have. romantic model of love that constitutes an addiction that makes them vulnerable to suffering. They love and serve each other in a relatively egoless way. and love that you are creating in your life. harmony. You will begin to find friendships that you could never have found before. and power addictions. Instead of shying away from people and situations as you have done in the past. judgmental way. When two people love from the Fourth Center of Consciousness. you begin to realize that all of the problems in the world will solve themselves when we four billion people on earth live in ways characterized by love and service. As you experience the peace. relaxed way -. This openness is beginning to let you flow and experience life in an almost miraculous way. THE FIFTH CENTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS -THE CORNUCOPIA CENTER As you live more and more in the Love Center of Consciousness. People who have things to teach you (but from whom you closed yourself off) can now come into your life. And you are able to love everyone around you. Since you are open. You will be 1000% more open to various experiences that are available to you than when you were making choices based on the lower three Centers of Consciousness. They keep their consciousness in a state where they are totally involved -and yet totally non-addicted. and every thought and communication you make. sensation. You will discover yourself exploring areas of life that you would never have experienced previously because of your security. they do not experience the love they have for other people as detracting or threatening the love they share. most life situations which were a problem to you now find beautiful solutions. but you do not necessarily become involved in the dramas of everyone. can add to the world total of loving energy that can in chain-fashion propagate itself forever. Since your ego has less and less work to do as .peace by simply being in each other's presence.rather than in a preconceived. you will open yourself to more people and life situations. loving and serving yields the maximum of all the beautiful things that life can offer. They give each other total freedom and unconditional acceptance. Equally for both of them.
You will also begin to deeply feel that you live in a perfect world. You will begin to experience your life as one "miraculous" happening after another. but it took place in its own court -. A paranoid person feels that everybody is trying to keep him from getting what he needs to be happy. Because you have created a beautiful. But this transformation could have happened at any time in your life -. Since addictions separate you from others.because you were too busy hassling yourself with your addictions and trying to manipulate people and things around you. Life is now offering you a Cornucopia or a "Horn of Plenty. As you gain insight into the Cornucopia Center of Consciousness. you will now have a huge supply of energy to use as you prefer. peaceful place inside. You begin to see that the miracle was always there. you are helping everyone around you find the beautiful. Since addictions blind you. But your world is perfect from the point of view of continually providing you with precisely the life experiences that you need for your overall development as a conscious being. 3. you are beginning to experience the whole spectrum of your here and now.the slave of your addictions. You will not feel it as perfect from the limited point of view of your instant happiness when you have addictive programming. Your perception has increased enormously.because you have created it simply by your constantly increasing openness to people and things around you. Since addictions waste your energy. 2." And the "miracle" of Cornucopia consciousness occurs because of three powerful factors that automatically aid you when you substantially reduce the number of addictions you are guarding : 1. . peaceful world in which you now live. And you can accept help without feeling that an obligation is created. You now have higher predictability in your thinking. The world is a giant conspiracy to hurt him. you will now have clear insight into what you should do or not do in various life situations. In this Center you experience people and situations around you aas part of a generous world that constantly offers you everything you need to be happy. The Fifth Center of Consciousness represents the opposite of paranoia. you will now live in a loving energy field in which people love you and help you. you will begin to feel that you live in a friendly world that will always give you "enough" when you live in the higher Centers of Consciousness.
Who could ask for more? And yet there is more as you grow toward the last two Centers of Consciousness.You will begin to live more and more in the Cornucopia Center when you experience deeper and deeper aspects of your world as a friendly. . nurturing place. You feel at home everywhere.
You may be saying inwardly. In greater or lesser degree. As you grow.and you find something that you could not . you are comparing your thoughts and actions with a Center of Consciousness to determine whether you are meeting the standards of the Center. for food can serve as an emotional crutch to make you feel secure. eating has aspects that involve the Security Center. In each of the five preceding Centers. Or your food can be experienced from the Power Center by pontificating to others as to what foods they really should be eating to become holy. when you are eating. Your food can be enjoyed from the Love Center as a way of accepting and loving new tastes. For example.or all of them. However. You may become impatient because you thought you were loving unconditionally -. (4) attaining the ability to love and accept everyone and everything unconditionally no matter what happens. and (5) experiencing the friendliness and perfection of everything around you. "Is Bob growing faster than I?" "What's holding me back? I thought my consciousness was at the Love Center and I just became aware of power aspects of our relationship. (3) developing power. the basic nutritional value in the food is connected with your security. Even though you are not supposed to be driving yourself. you will begin to experience your food from any combination of the five Centers -. you are experiencing the food predominantly from the Sensation Center as you enjoy the taste. Or your food can be appreciated from the point of view of the Cornucopia Center as a further confirmation that you live in a beautiful world that gives you everything you need in order to live in higher consciousness.Chapter 12 The Fulfilling Centers You increase your insight into your life when you realize that everything you do or feel has a greater or lesser bearing on each of the first five Centers. you will find that you are continually judging yourself. (2) experiencing sensations." "Did I just blow it?" "Does it help to keep a record of how many minutes a day I am on each of the Centers?" "Should I allow myself one month to get rid of most of the thoughts of the lower three Centers?" You will go through phases in which you are addicted to the Love Center and the Cornucopia Center. Each Center presents you with something to do : (1) achieving security. of course. you may constantly be wondering whether you are really progressing rapidly. And.
This is a peaceful place that is experienced from deep inside where you just witness your drama in all of the other five Centers. You use the Conscious-awareness Center as a meta-center from which you get free from your preoccupation with the preceding five Centers of Consciousness -. You don't pat yourself on the back or criticize yourself in any way. You blissfully enjoy the show. Then you may get the feeling. You impartially witness yourself. I can really begin flowing for the rest of my life when I work through this problem. "I've just got to rush this through and then I can relax again and stop manipulating the people and things around me. you just watch yourself performing in all of the other five Centers. worry. The Conscious-awareness Center gives you a space between you and the surrounding world. He just had a thought that he cannot really be loving when Mary gets mad at him. you will find that you experience each of the first five levels of consciousness as a standard by which you measure yourself. You just witness yourself. And isn't this an addiction? Each of these five Centers of Consciousness may be regarded as chains that keep you vulnerable to fear.emotionally accept.for all the five Centers bind you in one way or another by creating a special version of what's happening." Although your growth toward higher consciousness is associated with unconditionally accepting yourself and others. He's putting himself down because he cannot yet experience everything as a form of love. You break through all chains when you experience every moment of your life from that deep. etc.and everything. anxiety. it is still chained -although it may be regarded as a light chain of fine gold. resentment. calm place inside you where you observe everything -." From the detached Conscious-awareness Center. anger. THE SIXTH CENTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS -THE CONSCIOUS-AWARENESS CENTER The way to become free of these chains is to let your consciousness reside in your Conscious-awareness Center. From this Center you are no longer vulnerable to ups and . You let your drama be anything -. Even when your consciousness resides most of the time in the Cornucopia Center.and accept everything. In this Center you do not judge or evaluate in any way. "There he is in the unconditional Love Center.
What are the "fronts" or social images that you are now in the process of living out? What things trigger anger. Each of us creates a world that is generated by the Centers of Consciousness that we are using in today's script of the cosmic play. Each day you act out the lines that are dictated by the programming of your biocomputer. At last you are free -. But YOU will not be doing it. or grief? What "somebody" does your rational mind defend? Whatever dance you are now doing and backing up with your ego represents who you now think you are. . You still have to "chop wood and carry water" regardless of the Center of Consciousness you are on. Central casting has furnished various people who are dressed up as actors for the purpose of helping you in your consciousness growth. feeling. The way to tell "what you think you are" or "who you think you are" is to notice carefully what your ego is guarding. fear. And you view everything you do and say as part of your growth toward freedom from your addictive traps. All of this programming keeps you vulnerable and insecure. When you live in the Sixth Center of Consciousness you will experience yourself as an actor on the great stage of life. Even if your body and mind go through the manifestations of anger or jealousy. and you know that the cues others pick up and their responses to them are a function of the Centers of Consciousness that they are experiencing at the now moment in their journey toward awakening. playing. etc. and doing your part in building a more beautiful world by living a conscious life. It will only be your body and mind that are involved in these daily dramas of working.nothing can disturb you or bring you down even though your body and mind may be going through various types of drama. For you are just silently witnessing your body and mind picking up the cues and saying your lines as others recite their lines in the daily drama of life. doing. You will still be learning various things. you are aware that you are only playing out one of your addictive roles in your dramatic repertory. jealousy. But your higher consciousness is out in the "audience" watching your body and mind interact with other bodies and minds on stage. interacting with people. Your addictive programs that activate your ego and your rational mind constantly keep you from realizing who you really are.downs. You will still want to play an active part in the world around you. Your Conscious-awareness will be watching it all as a magic show from a beautiful place deep inside you where everything is peaceful -all the time.
painter. you will find that many of them were not on the list ten years ago. If you had been born in a different social group. a good father. most of them will not be on the list ten years from now. attributes. . the only way to continuously enjoy a game of chess or checkers is to avoid taking it so seriously that you get emotionally caught up in either winning or losing. Perhaps you have some hobbies and you guard your image as a guitar player. a "drop-out. If you were to write a list of all the activities.What images do you have of yourself? What kind of impression do you want to make on others? Do you project yourself as an achieving person. and personal boundaries as a drama that your ego is now trying to guard and enhance. but we can totally enjoy it only when we are free from identifying with the roles we play in the drama of life. . But we . or whatever. As you increase in consciousness. a good mother. personality characteristics. Perhaps your ego is now guarding a "pure" you as a climber of the mystical spiritual mountain. a competent person." All of this stuff is simply a dance that you are going through to discover the conscious being that you really are. Every box suffocates and is your ever-present source of vulnerability on the roller-coaster of pleasure and pain. a good businessman or businesswoman. singer. All of these things that your ego is busy defending act as a series of boxes that keep you trapped. Human beings (with their big rational minds) enjoy solving problems." one who is versed in various knowledge games. poet. Most of the addictive models you are now guarding represent patterns of personality that are a function of the time and place where you were born and grew up. But you are not any of this "stuff. an artistic person. or a real expert in the sex games? Or perhaps your ego is guarding your image of being very perceptive of the foibles of our civilization and definitely above it all. you see with perspective the way you are busily engaged in a mechanical playing-out of the roles in which you have programmed yourself. Do you get upset when someone points out that your way is not the only way or not the best way for him or her? What are the various games into which your ego is directing your energy and consciousness at this time in your life? When you clearly see your various activities. your ego would be busily engaged in guarding a different set of roles. And if you grow toward higher consciousness. someone that the world takes advantage of. motorcyclist. Or it may be that you are through with these mundane projections of your self image. The world is here for us to enjoy. and personal boundaries that your ego is now defending. games. you will understand who you now think you are . surfer. a "help-poor-me" person.
They are equally comfortable in trying to change the dance -. it helps us liberate ourselves from our cultural traps. insight. and other organs enclosed by our skin.tend to take these problems with such seriousness (perhaps due to our prestige addictions) that we kill the aliveness and fun of our here-and-now life situation. It can be helpful to experience a book such as Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. Except where individuals are being harmed. "Here is a beach or a hot springs where nude bathing takes place. our egos tend to focus attention on the pain so that we identify completely with the pain. They are magnificently flexible. love.this changing structure of bones. we . As we grow into higher consciousness.for they usually find ways to work toward change from an "us" space. Their consciousness. and they are comfortable with whatever dance the social orchestra may be playing. When our bodies are not well or are transmitting a sensation of pain to our biocomputer. just what -. muscles. When we really see the economic and social folkways of our in-group with insight. We need a way to discriminate between what we essentially are and the motivational models that generate our behavior. this collection of motivations that we have picked up from our society. When we see the mores of our tribe from the perspective of comparative anthropology. how can our egos continue to get away with demanding so much that we really don't need in order to be happy? How can we take so seriously the many prestige games in which we are now engaged? How can our pride keep us imprisoned in the meaningless "loss or gain" and "fame or shame" games that we previously thought were necessary to make our lives work? A conscious being does not reject either his individual games or society's games -.he just plays them as games.or who -are we? Many of us identify our selves with our bodies -. If we are not our personalities." it is accepted as a part of the here-and-now games of life. and flexibility give us messages that help us spring free from the social rigidities that we thought were "natural. we must clearly see the games for what they are." So we gradually learn that we are not these personalities that our egos are defending so valiantly. "Let's play the game of keeping the sexual parts of our body covered when we walk down Main Street." an individual without addictions in this area can also flow with what is here and now. If our group says. To get free of our identification with the social games in which we are now trapped. If a conscious being is in a place where the group says. conscious people flow with the activities and feelings of the group.
look straight ahead of you and notice for a minute the images that are being transmitted through your eyes. and your rational mind combine to give you the illusion that you are a specific entity that should make a splash as you pass through the world of people and things? At this point you may have the feeling. we define your essence as your Conscious-awareness. . you will probably say. Once you stop identifying with your various social roles and your body. taste. And so we continue the search for "you. and demands on which your ego focuses most of your attention and energy? Or are you your ego -. Your intellect or rational mind is a magnificent "sixth sense" that can help you in your journey to higher consciousness if you know how to use it properly. just what is left? Are you your senses -. Do it now before reading on. Didn't Aristotle define man as a rational animal? But here again. In the Living Love Way. your rational mind is not your essence. to produce thoughts and images. to store them away in memory and to retrieve them. logical defenses that maintain whatever programming you are now stuck with. . You are now getting it narrowed down. Or it can keep you helplessly trapped in the lower three Centers of Consciousness by slavishly cooperating with your ego to form rigid. tactile." For isn't this the essence of being human? This is the part of your biocomputer that has the ability to use language. Then close your eyes. expectations. . your body. to sort out sensations. to analyze.that "master controller" that is such an absolute dictator when you are trapped in the lower three Centers of Consciousness? Fortunately. to use symbols. either. . to calculate. "Aha! My essence is my rational mind.the various gates through which visual. your memory.the collections of desires. If you are not your social roles. auditory. and olfactory data are received? Or are you your emotions -. etc. or your rational mind. Our bodies are just temples that are the homes of our consciousness. To understand what we mean by Consciousawareness.increasingly realize that we are not the bodies we live in." But your essence is something which you may experience to help you grow into higher consciousness.those feeling tones that you expend so much energy in either getting or avoiding? Are you your programming -. So you let this one go too . the essential you is none of these. to compare beliefs and assumptions. ." Could it be that the search for your essence is clouded by your ego-backed programming that wants you to be "somebody"? Does your name. "There's nothing left of me. motivations.
images. Suppose you go to a completely dark. You are that which is conscious of being aware of all of the stuff which is running on the screen.YOU ARE! . Behind all of your thoughts. Most of the time we keep it smothered under a ceaseless Niagara of words. What were you aware of? When you shut off the visual input to your biocomputer. words.'" You are the consciousness that just "sees" what is happening on the screen. or an enjoyable meal. and pasting. and sensations which keep our minds analyzing. and thought. you may now begin to tune in to your body on deeper and deeper levels. futuring. your Consciousawareness is always there. talking.but your Conscious-awareness remained. thoughts. Do it now for one minute before reading on. As Ram Dass puts it. In other words. It's all there in color -including sights. Behind what you think you are -. You can experience bodily sensations that have previously been up-staged by the more dominating happenings of your five senses and the stimulation of your ideas. It's all going by on this imaginary television screen in the middle of your head. and words. With the visual and sound inputs quiet. quiet place. You are not the images or stuff on the screen.on the screen. calculating. The screen may be projecting a horrendous movie that is showing all kinds of pain and suffering -. Let's go further. "Observe your scene from a quiet corner of your mind in which there is nothing to do but 'see. sounds. thoughts. symbolizing. You are simply the watcher of the stuff on the screen. But the essential you is the pure awareness that just watches the stuff go by on the screen of your life. Or the screen may reflect a happy movie that shows a beautiful sunset. you are perfect. a delightful sexual experience. you are the awareness of your consciousness! You might wish to visualize a television screen in the middle of your head where all of your thoughts. The experiment above demonstrates that your visual field and your Conscious-awareness are not the same. remembering. and images. Close your eyes. . But sounds are not your Conscious-awareness. . Your essence is pure Conscious-awareness. sensations. You only experience your essence fully when you have quieted your emotion-backed drama and the torrent of addictive stuff churned out by your rational mind. activities. But you are not the television screen. you probably became aware of sounds. As the watcher of the screen.The visual sensations disappeared -. and emotions are projected.
3. and always will be perfect! There is nothing you can do to alter the perfection of the essential you. . there is no longer a feeling of lower or higher consciousness -. effectiveness. As you begin to experience yourself as the watcher of the drama from the Sixth Center of Consciousness. You go behind the Conscious-awareness Center to the selfless. THE SEVENTH CENTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS -THE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS CENTER You will observe that your growth towards the highest Centers of Consciousness may fall naturally into three phases: 1. has always been perfect. And as you learn to identify the essential you with your Conscious-awareness (instead of with the social and individual stuff that your ego has backed up in the past) you deeply and continuously enjoy both the drama of your life and the perfect being that you naturally are. You can truly enjoy being the essential you -. Instead you experience the power.and only then can you totally and continuously enjoy the unfolding drama that your life brings you.it is all the same from the Conscious-awareness Center. When you realize who or what you really are. your ego can relax and you can really enjoy your life.The essential you is perfect. the deep peace. will. unitive space of the Cosmic Consciousness Center. enjoyable sensations. You realize that by tuning in to the Ocean of loving energy around you. And then. you will begin to develop a multi-centered perception that will enable you to see all of your thoughts and actions from each of the first five Centers. and love than you ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life. and frantic paranoid watchfulness are necessary to keep the world operating properly. you no longer labor under the illusion that your intellectual effort. and the exquisite beauty of letting your energy harmonize with the energies around you. 2. As your consciousness begins to dwell more and more in the Love Center and Cornucopia Center. Continuing this multi-centered awareness. At this level. And this perfection does not need to be guarded with ego. For nothing poses either a threat or an "absolute necessity" to you any longer. you can have far more security. you learn to witness yourself on the detached Conscious-awareness Center (the Sixth Center).
one is catapulted from self-awareness into pure awareness.The Sixth Center of Consciousness is characterized by being aware of yourself. mind." One's thought activity is calmed. Because one has transcended all personal boundaries. You may no longer be conscious of yourself enjoying sexual happenings. Cornucopia. The body. As a fully conscious being.and there is the daily drama of your body. you have been experiencing the sexual sensations such as increasing warmth. love. In this Center of Consciousness. and the fullness of life. through a phase of loving acceptance. You are experiencing sex. love.one is security. your senses. One is open to the broad spectrum of all of the finer cues that the world has been sending all the time -. and witnessing on the intermediate levels. Up until the time of orgasm. But at the moment of sexual climax you are no longer the experiencer. and love. There is still a fine line of separation between you and the world. beautiful Center of Consciousness.for there is no longer the experience of you as a separate consciousness. and Conscious-awareness are not separated. consider what happens when you have an intense sexual climax. sensation. One is now tuned to the finer nuances of the surrounding world. There is your essence -. one does not experience security. and . one can function with enormous effectiveness because the screens that limit one's receptiveness have been eliminated. you are the experience. one is optimally perceptive. sensations. During the moments of an intense orgasm. In other words. Although this is a peaceful. and your rational mind. optimally wise. power. One has truly achieved one's birthright.your Conscious-awareness -. one is no longer witnessing oneself. pressure. and optimally effective. On the seventh level of consciousness. The direction of perception has shifted from subject-object manipulation. and power on the lower levels. To understand this distinction between experiencing something and being something. sensations. The highest state of consciousness is attained by reprogramming what is called the "self. At the Cosmic Consciousness level.but which were previously not picked up by a consciousness occupied by security. and stimulation of your sexual organs. power. senses. there is still duality. to a unity with everything in the environment. You see all of your drama with insight and perspective. and Cornucopia -. At that moment you may feel a total oneness with your sexual partner -. And now at the end of one's journey to higher consciousness. one has become a god-like being.
If you work hard to use the Fourth. When you have eliminated about ninety-nine percent of your addictive programming. The author of this book generates his experience of life using the Fourth. serving "others" is the only thing to do in life. and enjoyable life. Even preferences must be eliminated to reach this Center.experiences no separation from anyone or anything in the world. or Sixth Centers of Consciousness in processing and interpreting your own energies and the energies of the world around you. Achieving it usually requires a detached life style and a long period of intense consciousness growth practice. you know exactly which Pathway or Method to use whenever you experience the beginning of an addictive sequence. These Centers are totally adequate to enable you to live a happy. wise. and Sixth Centers and enjoys life continuously. When you have done the inner work required to get to this level of effectiveness. For there are no "others." Everything is experienced from an "us" space. effective. Fifth. Within seconds or minutes you work through whatever security. Fifth. sensation. . This does not mean he is a hundred per cent free of addictions. there may only be about a hundred people who are consistently in that Center. Out of the four billion people in this world. you will experience a deep peace and enjoyment within your heart that is wholly enough. or power addiction you are triggering and then you are right back at the Love or Cornucopia Center again. fulfilled. It is worthwhile knowing about the Cosmic Consciousness Center. but do not let it become another addiction. the remaining amount will probably be very subtle and will not interfere with happiness. The Seventh Center is extremely difficult to attain. but he often goes many weeks without any separating emotional feelings. Perhaps a word of advice may be helpful here.
Here are the Five Methods: METHOD NO. you must intuitively use them on the deepest levels of awareness. It is always telling you that you are not following the Twelve Pathways. You will experience a liberation that you have always wanted. you will find that the Twelve Pathways furnish you with the complete solution to every emotional problem in your life. When you learn to use them. anxious. These Methods take you into your life situations and require you to view the people and things around you as your teachers. Whenever you feel worried. cleaning the house. You will find true freedom from the computer-like programming that separates and alienates you from the loving being you naturally are. But you are really your master teacher all the time. Once you have them memorized. The Living Love Methods can be used while you are engaged in running a business. fearful. say them before getting up in the morning and before going to sleep at night. They do not detach you from your daily routines. or watching a movie. or any other uncomfortable emotional feeling.Chapter 13 Five Methods For Working On Yourself The Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness offers you Five Methods that you can use in working on yourself. . you will find a turned-on satisfaction in your daily stream of consciousness. But to benefit maximally from them. jealous. This may increase your probability of realizing the Fourth Center of Consciousness in a year or two instead of many years or even decades. making love. life is giving you a message. These Methods have been chosen for busy people who are deeply involved in various dramas of life. angry. Your next step is to find the ones that you are not using and let them show you what to do to feel beautiful again. When you use these Five Methods continuously in your moment-to-moment daily life. but have not been able to find in life before. 1 Memorize the Twelve Pathways and use them to guide you through your daily life situations.
just keep going over the Twelve Pathways. We can enjoy life on all levels -. concentrate on the inner addictions or expectations with which you hassle yourself. Everything you do has aspects on all levels of consciousness. if you are making love.and not just be hung up on the lower three Centers. For example. you can be aware of security aspects (the Security Center). conscious." Instead. you would be happy.and then you can live peacefully. or even caught in an addictive argument with someone. or you can just enjoy the groovy feelings (the Sensation Center). If these usual ways of talking to yourself were effective. reading a book. Remember that their purpose is to keep you centered. peaceful. The act of love-making is another manifestation of the way the world offers you everything you need (the Cornucopia Center). Everything you need will come to you in a seemingly miraculous fashion as you live with these Pathways.here and now. or you can be conscious of the submission or control aspects (the Power Center). METHOD NO. The Twelve Pathways will help you reprogram your mind so that ALL of your addictions become preferences -. You will discover that working on your consciousness is the most fulfilling thing you can do in your life. and loving -. The peace. You can be aware of love-making as an act of pure acceptance of another and an experience of unconditional love (the Love Center). serene.Stop churning over the usual questions that you ask yourself (which have not helped you find solutions). you can always add to the beauty of your outside drama if you are constantly aware of what Center of Consciousness you are using. The more you are uptight. tuned in. and loving. 2 Be aware at all times of which Center of Consciousness you are experiencing. . Instead of using your past way of talking to yourself. Whether you are driving a car. love. the more important it is for you to stop worrying about the outside condition that you feel "makes you upset. Or you can watch the entire drama from your Center of Centers (the Consciousawareness Center). and effectiveness that you have always wanted will be yours. The Twelve Pathways will show you what it means to be truly alive. You will look back to your present state of consciousness and realize that you have been far more dead than alive. They are not designed to help you manipulate the people and things around you to make them fit your inside addictions.
Some of the deeper addictions that were programmed into your biocomputer with pain during the first two or three years of your life require more inner work and more "living through" to fully experience the extensive ramifications of the pattern of suffering they are . In the Living Love Way. the Power Center. meditation is not a holy ritual to be performed once or twice a day. Changes leading to happiness come most rapidly when you can fully engage both your ego and rational mind (two of your most powerful faculties) in the game of helping you eliminate each addiction.which. For example. it is essential that you become increasingly conscious of each of your addictions and the way it generates a series of events that make you suffer. begins to churn out a "rational" solution which triggers another round of problems in your life. It is important that you notice how each addiction involves your ego and your rational mind -. Each Center Opens the door to an increased enrichment of your life. you interact with more and more people.As you constantly uplevel the Center of Consciousness that you are experiencing. you will not have much energy for seeking sensations and power. 3 Become more consciously conscious of the cause-effect relationship between your addictions and the resulting unhappiness. It is a method for consistently seeing things clearly and consciously -. Each Center generates more energy and lets you relate to more people than the previous Center. METHOD NO. To tune in to the enormous effectiveness of the Living Love Way. You find increasing involvement with people and increasing energy as you uplevel to the Sensation Center. You will also liberate more and more energy.here and now. Many addictions will rapidly melt away as soon as you consciously experience that the suffering they cause is actually due to the addiction. you will find that each time you go up one Center of Consciousness. On this level people are objects to be manipulated. and then to the Love Center and the Cornucopia Center. Your awareness of which Center of Consciousness you are experiencing and your use of the Twelve Pathways to continually guide you are the Living Love Way to meditate. instead of letting go of the addiction. if you are totally preoccupied with security. And you do this all the time in your busy life so that your entire life becomes meditation. And you cannot feel close to people when your consciousness is concerned solely with your security.
or any other Method. sensation. you must always take full responsibility for what you are experiencing and get to work as quickly as possible on the addiction that causes you to reject emotionally what people are doing or saying. It reads: TO BE FRE E . we have a printed card that we use in our Pathway Circle exercises. you perpetuate your entrapment in your security. This card outlines the shortcut procedure for liberating yourself from your addictions. They begin to work on helping you to reprogram instead of egging you on to manipulate and fight the people in your life. Your energy. perceptiveness. By taking full responsibility. This Method is so basic and fundamental that it is difficult to overstate its importance. and love will soar to create a new "you. and power programming. Whenever you lay the responsibility for your emotional feelings on the people and things around you. or jealousy. the Seven Centers of Consciousness. emotion-backed models and expectations that you keep telling yourself you must have to be happy. this Third Method (that calls for pinpointing the addiction and connecting it with the unhappiness and suffering in your life) should be able to help you become conscious again! Resolve now that you will never again let your ego and rational mind try to convince you that the outside world is doing it to you -that others are the cause of your suffering. To break loose from these lower consciousness traps.bringing into your life. The key to the Third Method is to consciously connect all of the suffering in your life with the addictive." At the Living Love Center. you give your ego and rational mind an entirely different direction in which to operate. This changed direction of regard from the outside world to your own inner programming is the key to benefiting from this unusually rapid Method of consciousness growth. grief. within several months you may be able to enjoy the Fourth Center of Consciousness much of the time. If you are extremely upset and you don't remember the Pathways. If you become an expert at pinpointing the addiction that you are using to trigger your fear. anger. resentment.
lonely shy. when. The suffe ring stops . You may wish to ask yourself such questions as: "What is happening right now?" (In answering this do not use your rational mind or your ego to justify. disappointed.not what you think.) "What specific emotion am I experiencing?" (In answering this tell what you feel -. resentful. Pinp oint the addi ction . angry. where. To become competent in applying the Third Method. annoyed. irritable. frustrated. you should develop your own technique for becoming aware of which addiction is causing you to feel alienated from the here and now in your life. hostile. grief-filled. bored. afraid. sad. what. nervous. etc. jealous.1.) "What . harried. or interpret. tense. 4. worried. Repr ogra m the addi ction . 2. intellectualize. such as who. depressed. 3. Just give the facts of what is happening. guilty. Words that describe emotional feelings are: anxious. and how. Expl ore the suffe ring. embarrassed. confused.
many. and you will be on the escalator that can take you directly to the Fourth Center of Consciousness. many times. gives you additional information on how to give a "knock-out punch" to your heavier addictions. firm operating instructions to your biocomputer. Reprogramming works most effectively if you repeat the reprogramming instruction many. The next chapter. loving. your next step is to reprogram it into a preference. and this genie had the power to alter the situation exactly as I instruct. Just become more consciously conscious of the cause-effect relationship between your addictions and the resulting unhappiness. you use your will and determination to give clear. When you reprogram. which deals with Consciousness focusing.am I telling myself right now?" "What pains or tensions are being evoked in my body at this moment?" "What do my posture and face look like?" "What is the dance that my rational mind is doing to prove me right and everybody else wrong?" "What do I want to change in the outside world instead of doing the inner work of changing my own response to it?" "What sort of phony front is my ego trying to maintain?" "What past events were particularly painful so as to give my biocomputer this programming that makes me upset when a similar event happens?" "Have I suffered enough?" "Do I really want to be free from this automatic response whenever the here and now of my life checks me out?" "Exactly what am I rejecting in the here and now?" "What am I rejecting about myself?" "What threat does this person or situation represent to me?" "What is the worst that could happen?" "Could I accept this and still be happy?" "What am I defending?" "What am I hiding?" "What is it about me that I think people can't love?" "What do I imagine the other person is thinking?" "What mask am I wearing?" "What dances are my pride and my prestige making me perform?" "What am I demanding in order to feel happy and enough? Of myself? Of others? Of the outside world?" "What is the model I have of the way I should be. . Always remember that the key to using the Third Method is to look deeply within yourself to find the emotion-backed demand that you are using to upset yourself. It's this simple. or have to be?" "What is the model of the way I should be treated?" "What are the specific details of the model that I have of the way the world should be in order for me to be accepting. You tell it that you want it to function in a different way in processing incoming data in the future. This means that with intensity and conviction. you put a new operating instruction into your mind. must be. what request would I make of this genie?" Once you have pinpointed the addiction. and flowing?" "What Center of Consciousness am I operating out of?" "If a magic genie were to appear at this moment.
Since only one thing can receive your full attention at a time.METHOD NO.when you see things through the eyes of others and feel things within their psychic space as though it were your own. this centering technique can crowd out negative thoughts and feelings and replace them with the vibrations of Living Love. If you say it silently. The Catalyst ALL WAYS US LIVING LOVE may be used to change your mood in a positive way. to permit your intuitive wisdom to emerge." "All WAYS Us Living Love. feel this openness. you can repeat this phrase over and over until you feel calm and centered." etc. When you are disturbed or have an upsetting experience. If you say it aloud. feelings. it will develop increasingly greater effectiveness. to free you from your addictions. Oneness is yours when you feel everyone as only us -. This tool for cognitive centering can be most effective if you: 1. to broaden your perceptions. A repeated phrase constantly recaptures your attention." "All Ways US Living Love. her. This enables you to control your racing mind-stuff whenever you wish." Feel it resonate in your heart. and thoughts are the background. open up your mouth and throat when you say the word "ALL. Through consistent practice. After you have accumulated several hours of experience with the Catalyst. Your growth into higher consciousness can be more rapid if you keep a Catalyst going in your mind as a foreground figure against which all of your sensations.but always us. 2. 4 Use the Catalyst ALL WAYS US LIVING LOVE as a tool for cognitive centering. . to increase your powers of concentration. Let the whole world flow into your openness. This constant repetition helps you to calm your mind. or them -. and to keep you feeling great. Consecutively emphasize each of the words as follows: "ALL Ways Us Living Love. The catalyst ALL WAYS US LIVING LOVE can be slowly and silently repeated to enable you to continuously tune in to that part of you that does not see others as him. you will probably feel its vibrations and implications on deeper and deeper levels.
5. Almost from the first time you use it. 4. METHOD NO. Say or sing each word lovingly and caressingly. you may wish to use the Catalyst as you look into their faces. It then becomes an effective consciousness tool that is available when needed. . the Catalyst may be so effective at bringing peace and quietness to your mind that it may be best not to drive your car or operate dangerous machinery until you have gained experience in using it. for it leaves little or no space on the screen of your consciousness for random thoughts. With your eyes fixed on this spot. This helps you get behind your games and their games to the place where we are just loving beings. With experience you will be able to "adjust" your use of it so that you will have the energy and perceptiveness for here-and-now activities without becoming inattentive. At times of great stress. You may wish to avoid eye-to-eye contact as this can involve ego ("I can look at you more penetratingly than you can look at me"). Singing is usually more effective in calming the mind than just speaking. To increase your perceptiveness of people. Instead find a small patch of light at the bridge of the nose between the eyes that is created by most lighting conditions. 5 Consciousness Focusing. one may find it useful to use it over and over continuously throughout the day. This Method is explained in detail in the next two chapters. experience the many changes in the face that are perceived as you run the Catalyst. One who is seriously working on consciousness growth may wish to use the Catalyst for thirty minutes a day for at least one month in order to become proficient in its use.3. One of the most powerful of the Living Love Methods is the technique of Consciousness Focusing.
For example. Consciousness Focusing helps us reprogram these strong addictions that make us expend so much futile energy in guarding them and living them out in our daily dance. "I will not put my finger in light bulb sockets because it hurts. and told yourself that the light bulb socket was the cause of the pain. Thus every time you feel . pleasurable sensations. you have the best opportunity to reprogram your rational mind -. Consciousness focusing helps us to use our present life situations to grow maximally. you can use this effective technique to grow much more rapidly than if you did not have such heavy life problems. The greater the opportunity that something offers us for security." From then on in your life. you can study a book or listen to a lecture most effectively when you are calm. whenever your finger even got near the inside of a light bulb socket. Perhaps when you were a young child you stuck your finger into a light bulb socket and received an electric shock. That may have been the last time you ever did that because your biocomputer strongly programmed an instruction.but not your emotion-backed addictions. But when you are emotionally upset. the more we will have developed addictive programming that exposes us to disappointment and suffering. you then have a superlative opportunity to reprogram your addictions by using the Consciousness Focusing Method. or power. Your biocomputer will not handle the lecture or book very well when you are upset because your addictions have the ability to dominate and override other processes in your biocomputer. For example. you've been using Consciousness Focusing all of your life. Consciousness focusing is based on the fact that your emotional programming is established by whatever you tell yourself with strong feelings when you are in pain and suffering. if your marriage relationship is uncomfortable to you or if you are upsetting yourself in your business affairs. You instantly withdrew your finger in pain. Actually. a lifetime addiction can sometimes be wiped out of one's emotional programming in a surprisingly short time. a "red flag" went up in you to make sure you didn't get shocked again.Chapter 14 Consciousness Focusing Consciousness Focusing is one of the most powerful Methods for reprogramming strong addictions. When used effectively. we go forward in life rather than retreat from it. When you are peaceful and calm. To use this new Method.
your legs. Usually. etc. in about 90 minutes of Consciousness Focusing. and your insides. PINPOINT THE ADDICTION Now pinpoint the addiction (or addictions) that are responsible for your suffering in the situation you outlined in Step 1 above. in the past few weeks. your back. you (1) have applied the Pathways. Notice how your body feels -your head. Step 2. At that point.fearful. your shoulders. depressed. Then let yourself experience the suffering that you are creating inside of you. However. your life is giving you a golden opportunity to use this method to liberate yourself from an addiction. angry. jealous. repeated programming sessions are necessary. and (3) have used the Third Method to connect the addiction with the suffering that you are feeling. Don't think about it or give reasons -. Describe to yourself in simple words what you are feeling. For example. you must first know the immediate cause. Consciousness Focusing can be used at any time to work on an addiction. You may wish to review the Third Method explained in the previous chapter which tells how to formulate the addiction. or other disturbing feelings.just observe what you are feeling and give one word descriptions that refer to feeling states. it is most effective in getting rid of a deeper level security. The cause of the suffering will always be an emotion-backed program . You may use Consciousness Focusing to reprogram a heavy addiction when you want freedom from the addiction more intensely than you want a change in the external world. anxious. anger. irritated. To get rid of suffering. resentful. Use words such as afraid. EXPLORE THE SUFFERING First. anxious. Clearly formulate the exact addictive demands that you are making. however. review the bare facts of the incident that triggered your fear. after a five-month period of repeatedly experiencing jealousy. Here's the way to use the Method of Consciousness Focusing: Step 1. your arms. (2) are aware of what Center of Consciousness you were using to make yourself upset. jealousy. or power addiction when. or angry. your stomach. sensation. I wanted freedom from the addiction that triggered the separating emotion of jealousy more than I wanted to control the woman I was with. your heart. I apparently reprogrammed the addictions which trigger jealousy for the rest of my life. jealous.
Look at the long chain of similar events in your past. Take full responsibility for the fact that you were doing it to yourself. there is no way the outside event can make you generate an unhappy experience. "I don't have to be jealous when my lover is with someone else" or a positive form such as "I am enough. Experience has shown that this command can either be in a negative form such as. SELECT YOUR REPROGRAMMING PHRASES First look back at all the past suffering you have brought to yourself in similar situations." Your marvelous biocomputer is excellent at handling instructions both to do something or not to do something. Step 3. Usually your ego and rational mind blamed others for your unhappiness. pithy.in your head. Exactly what do you want in that situation? What would you like to change in that situation? Tune in to your feelings and check to make sure you feel that you've pinpointed the demand which is causing your suffering. Start out with a . How many years do you probably have to live? How long do you want to continue to make yourself unhappy over this sort of thing? Have you really had enough unhappiness and feelings of alienation. and separateness from this addictive demand? Proceed when you are sure. Choose a reprogramming phrase that is short. the outside events would be powerless to trigger what you are now experiencing. This kept you from seeing that it is your own addictions that have created the problems in your life. Now select a reprogramming instruction that you want to forcefully put into your biocomputer. Your ego and rational mind have been blaming the left hand box (the outside event) for your suffering. If you did not have this addictive demand. This addictive programming must always be present as an intervening variable between the chain of events in the outside world and your uptightness and unhappiness. You'll have to deeply convince your rational mind that your addictive demands are the immediate cause of your suffering. Now look beyond the present into the future. and that feels good when you say it rapidly with intensity behind it. You are now training your nervous system to take responsibility for your experience. pain. It works this way : Outside Event Unhappiness § Your Addictive Programming § Your If you remove the middle factor. This will be a direct command to your biocomputer. Be very specific in pinpointing the demand.
The wastebasket both amplifies the sound in your ears and helps you keep your neighbors happier by greatly cutting down on the outside sound. If you are yelling during Consciousness Focusing.not the outside world. and when you see how unnecessary it is to make the demands you have been making. Keep focusing your reprogramming phrases into your biocomputer by forcefully repeating them over and over again with intense determination to be free. Thus. Step 4. "It is really harmless to be rejected!" "I don't have to get upset when I'm rejected!" "You win some and you lose some!" Don't start reprogramming until you are completely fed up with the addictive demand. But it's your determination and will to be free of the addiction that really accomplishes the reprogramming -. however. separating emotions never help you to get what you really want. then you are ready to start reprogramming.reprogramming phrase that directly refers to the situation covered in Step 1 above. Then you can go on to more general programmings like. you can use a pillow or a small plastic waste basket (head size!) with a sponge in it to reduce the noise. or do anything else that feels good to you while you repeatedly hammer your reprogramming phrase into the deepest parts of your biocomputer. forcefully repeat one or more reprogramming phrases you have selected. Clench your fists or beat on the floor as you say the reprogramming phrase.not the noise. you are not ready to reprogram. continually looking at the suffering which that addiction creates in your life and seeing how it is just your addictive programming which creates the suffering -. use the other methods to gain insights. they only work against you. Link the suffering with the addiction. Tighten your arm or leg muscles. In that case. When you see clearly that it is your addiction that is immediately causing your suffering and not the situation in itself. Do it over and over and over again. If your biocomputer is ready to let go of the old programming that is .) With maximum determination to get rid of the addiction that is causing your suffering. (It does not need to be done in that position. Remind yourself that negative. You will find that a position kneeling on the floor with your head down near your knees will facilitate this method. It may help to yell or cry when you repeat these phrases. If you still feel you would rather satisfy your addictions than get rid of them. FOCUS YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS ON REPROGRAMMING Now tense your body all over to build up tension in your autonomic nervous system and thus add to your readiness to modify your emotional programming. "I don't need to feel worthless when Sue rejects me" is a specific level to start with.
Constantly keep in mind that this procedure for Consciousness Focusing is effective to the degree that you have thoroughly linked your suffering with a specific addictive programming that your ego and rational mind have been guarding and defending. however. the emotional charge that you experience as you repeat these phrases will become less and less. or seated in the middle of a big auditorium. jealous. . angry. it will be more difficult to generate the emotional energy. if possible use Consciousness Focusing immediately. a number of background techniques that will help you improve your skill in Consciousness Focusing. If you are not ready to do Consciousness Focusing. it obviously will not be practical for you to immediately crouch down on the floor and engage in vigorous verbal reprogramming. It always helps in some degree in chipping away part of our heavier rock-like addictions. If part of you still really wants the outside world to change in order for you to be happy. Consciousness Focusing feels great when done correctly. your attempts at Consciousness Focusing will be only partially effective. If you get in touch with an addiction when you are in an elevator. If your emotions cool out. You will begin to develop a feeling of buoyancy and freedom.causing your suffering. In public situations. use one of the other methods so that you can gain the insights which will enable you to drop the addiction. and just silently use the reprogramming phrases you have selected. There are. But using Consciousness Focusing at a later time can still be very effective. You can't fool your biocomputer into reprogramming unless you really mean it and want it. Consciousness Focusing works to the degree that you really desire freedom from the addiction. you can develop the ability to step up your determination. It always works best when you use the initial emotional surge that makes you feel afraid. or resentful. The next chapter will discuss the basic attitudes that enable Consciousness Focusing to work most rapidly. The above four steps are basic procedures for Consciousness Focusing. When you experience an addiction.
Describe the physical sensations. let yourself really experience them. At the time of the incident. exactly what am I addictively demanding?" "What do I think I have to have in order to be happy?" . Mentally re-create a factual objective picture of the scene you were involved in just before you experienced the most intense emotions. etc. how did you want things to be? What programmed attitudes or models did you have of how you should be. Now put yourself back in that scene and consciously experience the emotions you are generating: a. Tune into your body. tune in to your feelings. To find the deeper underlying addictive demands. ask yourself: "What is it that is bothering me the most?" "What is the worst thing that could happen?" STEP 2 : PINPOINT THE ADDICTION. Who is involved? Where is it happening? What is happening? What is being said? 3. close your eyes. Now pinpoint your principal addictive demand or demands by asking yourself: "In this situation. disappointment. Take several deep breaths. what do I get?" "If I don't get what I want and my model of how things should be is not fulfilled. "What words are going through my mind? What am I telling myself that is producing these emotions?" c. 1. ask yourself: "If things go the way I want and my programmed model is fulfilled. anger. Separating Emotions STEP 1 : EXPLORE THE SUFFERING. of how others should be. b.A Life Saver When You Are Drowning In Negative. 2. Ask yourself. Get in touch with your interpretation of the incident. 1. Exactly what emotions are you experiencing? Name them: fear. of how the drama "should" have been played? 2. what does it mean about me?" "How do I feel about myself?" 3. To get in touch with the basic insecurities that underlie addictive demands. Describe the feelings.
Put yourself back in the same scene -. 6. choose one or two short. 3. Let your energy build for a drive toward freedom! STEP 4 : FOCUS ON REPROGRAMMING. . To get helpful insights.free to be how you really want to be in order to enjoy all of your life. make sure that the demand which you chose is what is really bothering you in that situation and repeat Step III. Close your eyes. 2. Then reprogram with intensity and power. Take ten deep. 5.this time with the new programming in operation.STEP 3 : SELECT YOUR REPROGRAMMING PHRASES. 1. Build up all the emotional energy you can. Thus to counteract the demand for approval. "I don't have to reject myself if I make mistakes" would help. Prepare to reprogram by replaying the scene and re-experiencing your emotions. Reaffirm the new programming by visualizing yourself responding to the situation with new positive responses and feelings based on your new programming. Can you see the repeated pattern of suffering that this addiction has created in your life? 4. Really get in touch with the suffering your addictions have caused you and with your determination to get free. They should feel right when said rapidly with intensity. Repeat your reprogramming phrases with gut-level determination until you feel that they have clicked into your biocomputer. Do you see how this addiction makes you act like a robot that responds automatically? 2. pithy reprogramming phrases that counteract specific demands. Tense your muscles. the phrase "I don't need approval" would be appropriate. read the Twelve Pathways aloud and look at the Centers of Consciousness you are using. 4. Have you had enough suffering? Are you willing to let go of the demand? If not. 1. To counteract a demand not to make mistakes. Do you see how you are making yourself suffer because of this addiction? 3. To change the old programming. Reaffirm that you can be free of old programming -. rapid breaths.
Focus your consciousness on reprogramming. "I make . But first let's review the four steps of Consciousness Focusing: 1. "Joe makes me mad. Bearing in mind these steps." say. Welcome the people and situations that can help you become clearly and strongly aware of your addictions. So be sure to blame all of your uptightness on your addictive programming. You welcome and honor that situation. When you begin to work on yourself through the Method of Consciousness Focusing. serene. Pinpoint the addiction.Chapter 15 Techniques of Consciousness Focusing There are background attitudes and skills that increase the effectiveness of Consciousness Focusing. the Method of Consciousness Focusing cannot be used when you are peaceful. Select your reprogramming phrases. Instead of saying. here are ways you can improve your effectiveness as you use this Fifth Method: 5. you try never again to retreat from any person or any life situation as long as it makes you aware of your addictions. 3." You run the other way when life gives you a relationship that worries you. Explore the suffering. for it provides you with a continuous input from the outside world that makes you aware of emotional programming you must change in order to uplevel your consciousness. Whatever you tell yourself at this time is absolutely crucial. This chapter will discuss practical things that will help you to use this Method to reprogram addictions. 4. 2. Usually you carefully protect yourself from people you "just can't stand. It can only be used effectively at those moments when your existing emotional programming is creating in you feelings of duality and separateness and destroying your capacity to love. and loving. You must change the way you talk to yourself about your life situations so that you no longer imply that anything outside of you is the immediate cause of your unhappiness.
"I'm tired of being outside of it all.myself mad when I'm around Joe." Instead of saying." This enables you to use the Method of Consciousness Focusing to gradually get rid of that part of your programming that makes you uptight when something does not conform to your expectations. If you want to love people. "I must release myself from that part of my emotional programming that makes me upset when I experience certain things in cities. "By not showing up on time. you will simply strengthen your addictions." you will be programming yourself in a way that will alienate you rather than unite you with the world. then you can choose to put your energy into changing things in the most effective way -. Mary continually reminds me that I'm addicted to punctuality. If you make the conventional mistake of blaming the outside world. "The cities are horrible. I've got to learn how to love unconditionally -." You can program this in your mind so tightly that it will alter your perception of everyone you see.without demands. "Mary irritates me when she is late. You could program yourself to hate everyone by repeatedly telling yourself when you are upset." "Women are awful. they program themselves directly into neurosis or psychosis. When you have reprogrammed the addiction." In other words. you may develop a cancerous cynicism -. Whatever you tell yourself when you are emotionally upset will play a part in the programming that you will have to live with in the future. It is important to be very specific and accurate when you use Consciousness Focusing to reprogram your unconscious levels." Just tell yourself. "Everyone is out to get me. If you say things that separate you from the outside world such as "Men are terrible.when the truth of the matter is that it is simply your inside programming that continually keeps you uptight." tell yourself. The world is what it is -." When people are emotionally upset and they continually tell themselves alienating things.no more duality and separateness for me. If you keep talking to yourself like that.and that certainly is not working toward love and oneness. you must stop telling yourself that the reason for your uptightness and unhappiness is "out there" -. you can use this opportunity to put in "love programming. I want to learn to love everyone -. What you feelingly tell yourself at this crucial time when you are emotionally upset is vital in programming." say.and stop putting energy into things which you cannot change.why make yourself upset about it? Instead of saying. When you are emotionally upset and use this opportunity to program yourself .
Your problems are not in the outside world. it is vital that you be extremely precise in putting the blame for your unhappiness exactly where it belongs. Seize every moment of anger. or do anything else that gives notice to your ego and your rational mind that you are firmly determined to change your programming. "I'm sick and tired of getting angry all the time. Find other phrases and wear them out. anxiety. for example. It's hell to be an automatic robot that stupidly triggers these silly emotional binges. For example. thirty or more years. if jealousy is your problem.with the positive ways of Living Love. Force yourself to experience your emotions in the strongest way. twenty. It's silly for me to be smothered by all this. When you reprogram. to clench your fists and teeth. Since the outside realities are only minimally changeable by you. and it is going to . your happiness depends on your concentrating on changing what you can change -. Tell yourself. "I don't want to be trapped in jealous feelings ever again." Get into the trapped feeling and keep hunting for phrases that trigger strong feelings." Be specific. I want to be free of all this idiocy. Find the phrases and thoughts that generate the strongest emotions when you are upset. to beat a pillow. They are an interaction between your inside programming and the here and now realities of your body. don't hesitate to yell to yourself. jealousy. tell yourself. so that you will no longer get uptight no matter what happens in the world around you. mind. To summarize: when you are upset. Remember. When you find a phrase that intensifies your feelings and makes you cry. Remember that many of these addictions have been operating in your biocomputer for ten.your emotional programming that automatically makes you uptight when the world does not live up to your expectations. frustration. worry. resentment. to pound on a bed or table. If you wish to use the Method of Consciousness Focusing to get free for your lifetime from an addictive program. you wipe out vulnerabilities you programmed in the past. you must really want to do it. keep repeating it over and over until it no longer brings a response. it is important to search for all of the phrases and thoughts that intensify your turbulent feelings. or fear as a precious opportunity to start talking straight to yourself. and the people and situations outside you. Then go back to test again their ability to trigger strong emotions.
It is important to use reprogramming phrases which "feel right" to you. When you have clearly seen the absurdity of your old programming. not harmful" or "I can welcome criticism" or "I don't need to get defensive when someone criticizes me. thus if "I don't have to have a lover" doesn't feel right. Wait until you really feel ready to drop a demand or an unconstructive way of reacting to a situation. you may come to realize. To reinforce this new attitude toward criticism and make it a permanent part of your programming. for instance." "I am lovable.take a lot of determination and work on your part to get them reprogrammed so that you are no longer automatically irritated by certain situations. effective reprogramming phrases will spontaneously come to you. that being criticized is not really a threat to you or harmful in any way. By using the Pathways or the Centers of Consciousness. Reprogramming phrases should represent new insights you have gained while examining yourself and the situation which you found upsetting. Instead of feeling relieved. When you realize you don't really need something you thought you needed." If you use reprogramming phrases that don't "feel right" or that you do not consciously believe." "I am not my addictive programming. Here are some sample reprogramming instructions to your biocomputer that you might find helpful: "Life is my teacher. free. If so. you might try "I don't need so-and-so to be happy" or "I don't need to feel hurt when I'm not with so-and-so. and more confident as you reprogram yourself. it is valuable to reprogram yourself with such phrases as "Criticism is really useful. it is best to listen to the arguments your mind is coming up with in opposition to the reprogramming phrase and use the other methods or repeat the procedure on pages 98 and 99 (A LIFE SAVER) to get additional insights. you may feel increasingly tense and upset. You may begin to perceive criticism as valuable feed back which may help you improve your performance. you may find yourself experiencing increased resistance as you use the phrase. It may be you are not ready to drop a certain demand." "I am the master of my life." Don't get ahead of yourself into a phony space." . you will find it easier to drop the addictive demand for it. You might change the reprogramming phrase slightly into one that feels more appropriate to you.
Suppose you relied on someone to help you and he forgot to do what he had agreed to do."I don't need to control people.stop sending me that stuff. make a mistake." "I love myself." "I can accept what is." "I don't have to reject myself when I (whichever applies) am angry. You have made yourself angry. to control." "I can let go and just be. am not loving. you may be surprised by its effectiveness. So talk specifically to yourself only about the problem that is making you feel bad right now." "I don't need other people's approval." "I am getting free." "It's okay to be me." "I don't have to be uptight when this happens." "I accept my here and now." "I don't have to get caught up in his/her programming. special attention. to be addicted." "It's OK to be right where I am." "I can enjoy what I do have. In one Consciousness Focusing session you cannot wipe out all your undesired programming from the past years because you are usually upset about only one thing at a time." "It's okay to make a mistake." "Rational mind -. love. feel jealous." . to manipulate. to be afraid. approval." "I have nothing to fear." "I don't need to hide." "It's all US." "I can love him/her just the way he/she is. romantic love. close relationships. With persistence and determination." "I don't have to be a robot." "I am enough." "It's okay to make a fool of myself in public. you can reprogram all of your addictions -.no matter how long-standing or how strong they are. You can only reprogram that which is making you upset here and now." "People don't have to live up to my models." Make up your own phrases to fit your situation." "I don't need (whichever applies) outside acceptance." "I don't need to put myself through all of this turmoil. respect. As you become expert in reprogramming. Now talk to yourself specifically about that situation: "I don't have to feel angry when I feel people aren't meeting agreements.
"He has no right to treat me that way. "It would be terrible if I failed this exam. you may wish to consciously play out your old programming.Talk very precisely to yourself. It's just my programming that is making me uptight. You might have created fear by telling yourself. for the feelings you experience when you are upset are the feelings that will be programmed in some degree into your future. Whenever your ego and rational mind automatically justify a negative emotion. Who does he think I am?" You can fully re-live the situation by expressing all these emotion generating statements with full intensity while at the same time clearly realizing that you are merely discharging old programming (like dumping out the garbage). constructive programming more readily when the old programming has been consciously run through and seen as unnecessary. "I can't bear to live without Jane. But when you re-live a disturbing situation and consciously discharge the emotions for the purpose of getting rid of them. "I can reprogram this addiction. I don't need to get uptight over this situation. I don't need it for anything. Love is more important. I can change that programming. When you consciously relive a disturbing situation and scream." Sorrow might have been created by telling yourself. Build up the voltage of your emotional responses. you are freeing yourself from it. I don't need to hold on to that emotional reaction. you are not reinforcing negative programming. you tend to perpetuate it. ." Anger is generated by thoughts like. It may be helpful to re-experience what you were telling yourself that caused you to generate these separating emotions. Your biocomputer may receive new. "I hate you. It is helpful to distinguish between discharging old programming and creating new programming. I feel all alone. I hate you!" with the full intention of getting rid of such garbage from your mind. It's all in my mind. you help free yourself from the addictive programming. Say things like. That programming doesn't serve me in any way. I am creating this suffering in my mind." As a way of exploring your suffering (Step 1). The game is to see through it and develop new and better ways of responding to such situations. The conscious discharge of addictive programming can generate energy that may be useful in getting ready for Consciousness Focusing.
it may take months or years to reprogram the addiction. She or he should simply experience your vibrations and silently encourage you to cry. remember that it helps to consciously build up your present pain. It could be helpful to have someone with you who quietly hears you. Anyone who is with you should understand what you are doing.for crying helps you to reprogram faster. Since much of your emotional programming was put into you through shock.if. For when you build up the emotional intensity. Most of your addictions were programmed into you through suffering and pain. Let's dry your tears. but it speeds up the process. Stop only when you just can't keep the emotion churning any longer. Most people when they are with someone who is crying will say. If you start doing things. I don't have to hold on. "Everything will be all right. Although crying is not essential. I don't need separating emotions. If you cannot get into your emotions strongly and continuously." The longer you cry and focus your consciousness on eliminating the addiction. and suffering so that you can rapidly wipe out this programming. keep telling yourself. crying. It will temporarily make you feel good but it will leave you in the grip of your automatic programming when similar situations come up in the future. the more you will be able to effectively eliminate the programming that makes you upset with that particular situation in your life." or they suggest some type of diversion. As you cry. pain. you have a great opportunity to reprogram an addiction so that you no longer get yourself emotionally upset when certain things happen in the outside world. . You may be able to get rid of a strong lifetime addiction in a short time -. It is not necessary to cry in order to reprogram. and suffering. "I don't have to hassle myself with this. it may be the easiest way to build up the intensity needed for reprogramming rapidly. Do everything you can to increase the electrochemical voltage of your emotional response. Do everything possible to build up your emotional intensity.The effective use of the Method of Consciousness Focusing requires you to generate the strongest emotions that you can. crying. and only if. Cry as much as possible -. you can build up your emotional intensity. you will be using your senses and rational mind to smother the problem. But this stops you from using the Consciousness Focusing Method to burn out the unconscious-level programming that is making you suffer. but says nothing. Don't let any person or any of your thoughts cool you down. I can be free of this demand. One way to reprogram them is to use the tension that is associated with your stronger feelings.
Keep telling yourself that you programmed yourself many years ago and that you can reprogram that which you programmed. You are a perfect being -. demands. You have programmed yourself with all these addictions. Through the Method of Consciousness Focusing. Remember that you did it all to yourself. you can use the Method of Consciousness Focusing. It doesn't matter what particular hell you are in at this moment. Your only problem is that you are caught in the grip of too many things that you are telling yourself you must have to be happy. but surely. The Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness thus offers you Five Methods that are designed to enable all types of people to reprogram all kinds and intensities of addictions. It is not helpful to say or think at a disturbed moment. You are culture-bound. You have everything you need to work on yourself and you can positively reprogram yourself to eliminate all the hellish emotions that keep you from enjoying your life continuously. When you have reprogrammed your addictions. I am getting free of these emotional triggers. and expectations -. All the happiness and the beauty of the world will then be yours. you are free for a lifetime. It doesn't matter if you feel that everything you have tried in life has failed. work hard to develop the maximum skill at using all of the . Your emotion-backed addictions will not disappear the first time you use the Consciousness Focusing Method. "Slowly.pure Conscious-awareness. You are laying too many conditions on the outside world that it (and the people in it) cannot possibly meet. Be patient and give yourself time to get results." You could program your reprogramming not to work! Instead." You put these neural connections in your head and with determination you can get them out. but with each successive application of the Method you will gradually change an addiction to a preference.and you can reprogram yourself. You are not in the grip of forces beyond your control! It's all in your mind. If you are together enough to be reading a book on the Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness. say or think. If you wish to accelerate your journey into higher consciousness. A complex addiction (such as an addiction to sex) has many different addictive triggers that will require separate sessions of Consciousness Focusing. you can be the master of your mind.Develop the confidence that you can absolutely be the master of yourself. "This reprogramming is not working.
Five Methods.right now. You may then get into consciously using these tools in a minute-to-minute fashion. At first you may be fascinated by understanding the workings of your consciousness from the vantage point of the Twelve Pathways. As they begin to work for you. you use them for troubleshooting -. Learn to enjoy your life! Just use the Methods when you are aware of some expectations in your life that are not in harmony with what is here and now. your life will begin to smooth out. You will then find that your biocomputer will automatically select the Method that is just perfect for each reprogramming problem. The main purpose of these tools is to help you to stop doing these things that divide you from other people and the world around you -. the Seven Centers. and the Five Methods. In other words. The purpose of these tools is to enable you to tune in to the nowness of life -.to accept and love one another and flow in that space where there is just "us" -.and the rest of the time you are just right here enjoying doing your thing.right here -.free from the distortions caused by addictions. .
Chapter 16 The Instant Consciousness Doubler The Instant Consciousness Doubler can help you sidestep many of your addictions. you will bring into play a certain programming in your biocomputer that you may not consciously use now in responding to the actions and words of other people." "I am frank. you usually interpret it with different programming that you use for experiencing your own thoughts and actions. This leads us into such psychological conjugations as. You are usually aware of some of the inside reasons and feelings that account for what you do. but there is one shortcut through the woods that may be called an Instant Consciousness Doubler. he is pigheaded. The purpose of the Instant Consciousness Doubler is to remind you to use the same programming in perceiving and interpreting the actions and words of other people that you use in understanding your own actions and words. If you simply delay your response to each situation long enough to run it . he is a glutton. But when you perceive similar behavior in another person. you are quite argumentative. you are blunt. When you use this Instant Consciousness Doubler." "I enjoy my food. you overeat. your consciousness. Most of the time a major expansion of your consciousness requires a lot of continuous inner work. you are obstinate. you might also consider this an Instant Love Doubler. Since consciousness and love are synonymous." "I occasionally correct people for their own good." In all of the above situations the external actions could have been the same. he has a terrible temper. "I am firm. and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it. he is rude. but the programming that you use to interpret the situation is entirely different. Here are the directions for making a significant instant expansion of your consciousness: Expand your love.
"Why don't you do it yourself?" When these words come in through your auditory nerves and are fed into the interpretive sections of your biocomputer. and the same needs for love and oneness. This helps to free you from the dualistic programming that is used for perceiving the actions of "other" people." When you use the Instant Consciousness Doubler. sensation and power addictions. Perhaps my addictions were at that moment keeping me from loving them enough to want to be helpful. you consciously feed the situation in through the programming that you use when crystallizing your perception of your own feelings and actions. And so instead of becoming angry when someone refuses to help. and they should not be asking me in the first place. You begin to realize that you would probably feel and say the same things that other people are doing and saying if you could just stand in their shoes and see things from their point of view. the same problems of being dominated by our security.and which you may have accepted fully in yourself. you ask someone to do something for you and he replies in an irritated way. for example. The Instant Consciousness Doubler helps us realize that there are no "others" in this world. Perhaps I was busy. All of us have shared the same feelings. To use the Instant Consciousness Doubler. When we experience this with here-and- . you use the Instant Consciousness Doubler to perceive it in a broader perspective that lets you accept it and love the person. you may find that your ability to understand and love other people will instantly double. Or perhaps I was tired. In many situations this can instantly double your perceptiveness and wisdom in responding acceptingly and lovingly to everyone around you. Perhaps I felt that they could do it easier and better than I. Suppose. I can furnish myself with dozens of reasons for not wanting to help people when I'm asked to. Almost every time you feel irritated or angry. This is the point at which you use the Instant Consciousness Doubler. "There have been many times when I've been annoyed when someone asked me to do something. you are very likely to experience a threat to your Power Center. you are simply alienating yourself from another person who is probably doing exactly the same thing that you've done thousands of times -. you give other people the benefit of all the inside understanding that you use to forgive yourself when you respond in an alienating way. You can say to yourself.through the programming you reserve for yourself. You may be able to simply bypass the old programming and let it gradually wither away from disuse.
now awareness. could we feel anything but love and acceptance for all of our brothers and sisters? .
sensation longings. and power angers." It manipulates and schemes to help you live out your model of "success" in the various roles and dramas with which you are identifying yourself. To continually appreciate your life from the Fourth. your rational mind churns away trying to do its part in support of the ego. Most of these addictions are concerned with the social dance of living out the various roles we emotionally attach ourselves to. The world is telling you that Life is just a game we play -and there is no special way! . distrust. and power-dominated egos. stridency. life is a battleground between the outside world and their security. gusty wind that whips and bends the branches back and forth. and anger that you experience is simply a teaching that the world is offering you to help you free yourself from this hollow dance you are doing. you had very few emotion-backed demands. you have programmed yourself with hundreds and hundreds of emotion-backed demands that have nothing to do with physiologically maintaining your life. grief. sensation.Chapter 17 Your Rational Mind For most people. or Sixth Centers of Consciousness. Some milk when hungry was the main one. and insistency of your stream of thoughts must be slowed down to the pace of a very light breeze that gently moves the leaves of a tree -. the urgency. resentment. Since that time. To experience the beauty of life. An emotion-backed addictive model or expectation is like an inflated balloon that you always keep with you and that you have to constantly guard to keep someone from popping it. Every feeling of alienation. you do not have to train yourself to the point where thoughts do not spontaneously occur and there is no random stream of consciousness. It furnishes reasons why you are "right" and the other person is "wrong. you begin to realize that all of the fear. it is necessary for one's mind to return to the gentle calmness that most infants enjoy much of the time.instead of a forceful. or irritation with anything anyone does or says should be viewed as a reminder that you are not consciously playing the game of your life. However. Fifth. While your ego is busy mistakenly trying to protect you by automatically triggering your security fears. As you grow toward higher consciousness. The world is giving you the experience that will help you develop and insight into the mechanical way you are acting out various addictive roles. When you were born.
And to flow harmoniously in an "us" consciousness (instead of a "me vs. You may wish to ask them to help you in some way -. When your Power Center of Consciousness no longer operates to generate your response. your ego. Unless you are confronted with a situation involving immediate physical injury or a threat to your life. rather than hyper-reactive and irritated. when you are receptive and conscious. automatic alarm system (in which your programming. them" .and they may be willing to put energy into what they are suggesting. This instant. and your rational mind. the optimal solution to any "problem" is usually found best by harmonizing your energies with the energies of the world around you. and adrenalin and other hormones are introduced into your bloodstream.just receive what is offered and use what you can use and let the rest pass by. and you just simply made the decision to do it the way you have done it and "that is where it is at" right here and now. ego. you automatically get angry if someone criticizes you. you accept this turmoil as something "important" that must be attended to in order to make your life work. For example. you begin to have a choice of what to do and say when someone criticizes you. You may wish to just quietly hear what they say and express appreciation for their caring enough to give you the benefit of their thoughts. and rational mind create an emotional feeling of urgency) was designed to bring our ancestors through the perils of jungle life. Unless you understand how your consciousness works. You may wish to discuss or clarify people's criticisms and suggestions. your ego sparks the rational mind into an insistent.and it is up to your rational mind to put it all aright. In other words. you develop the ability to let your rational mind do its thing without automatically taking you into a burst of emotional turmoil that makes you try to manipulate and coerce the outside world to fit your expectations. Your heart begins to beat faster. when you have no perspective on the activities of that trio consisting of your addictive programming. It is not always necessary for you to agree or disagree -. you have a choice of responses.Your ego and your rational mind labor under the harsh programming that there is a certain special way the world should be and the people around you should act -. Simultaneously the ego triggers negative emotions such as anxiety or resentment. You may wish to tell them that you have already considered accomplishing what they are mentioning. As you become more conscious. grabbing chain of thoughts. This psychosomatic turmoil feeds back into your rational mind and sparks even further activity. When your life presents you with something that does not fit your addictive models.
By upleveling your addictions into preferences. you do not express what you are feeling because you are afraid of the consequences.consciousness).even if it means interrupting another person. Repression is one of the most unconscious and harmful things you can do to yourself. As you become more conscious. When you are operating on lower consciousness levels. When you repress. that someone urges you to change your mind about something. And you learn to label these thoughts that you generate when you are upset as pure nonsense. You view it as a sixth sense -.and you don't reject them. It is interesting to note that this is not repression. watch them. you will then have a choice as to which response produces division. but you actually use it constructively and beneficially so that your rational chains of thought do not trigger feelings of anger or resentment. You just let them happen. for example. When you are able to watch your mind do its thing. in a discriminating . and which produces love and oneness. automated "printout" that is taking place in your rational mind. but who. it is necessary to be quiet enough to get in touch with the insight and perceptiveness that will always come to you when you uplevel your addictions to preferences. As you become more and more proficient in using the Pathways. and experience how peaceful it is not to be emotionally caught up in them any longer. You become literally like a connoisseur who does not just grab any food. prestige. You thus do not repress the energy. you begin to see clearly the game that your rational mind has been playing on you. you have no choice. As you grow into higher consciousness. You may experience that your power. Your rational mind will be activated by your ego to produce a forceful retort to completely devastate the person who is so stupid as to disagree with you. You tend to immediately utter every "urgent thought" that comes into your mind -. there will be no negative emotions to repress -.as just another sensory input. You will see the way that it gets pulled into the act by both your addictive programming and your ego to produce long chains of critical.or even to express. You don't accept them -. your thoughts no longer cause your emotions to automatically flare up. alienating thoughts. You begin for the first time in your life to be liberated from the dance of your rational mind. you are able to simply observe the computer-like. This enables the intuitive wisdom that is always within you to emerge. Suppose. and pride boundaries are being violated. What we are suggesting is that you take the energy generated by an emotion and turn this into reprogramming the addiction into a preference. without triggering negative emotional feelings.
and other data in ways that do not keep you irritated and upset. reject these thoughts -. if you do not use a particular method of meditation at this time. When random thoughts come. auditory. For example. However. you may concentrate on experiencing your breathing in and breathing out. When your biocomputer begins processing all incoming visual. and you gently and constantly return to the object of your meditation. uses insight and perceptiveness to consciously choose. you find that the screen of your consciousness is no longer dominated by a constant conflict between you and the outside world. it may be preferable for you to continue this practice -. Your insight and perceptiveness increase a hundredfold.way. you may wish to use the Five Methods described in this book to calm your mind during your . A conscious being knows that life always works best when we operate from a loving space that lets us receive and experience other people (no matter what they do or say) as no different from ourselves. You gradually develop the ability to just let them go by. By continually keeping one object or thought in your consciousness. You know that only one thing can dominate the central stage of your consciousness at any one time with full attention -. Any system of meditation is in harmony with the Living Love Way. "I wonder how long this is going to take to really get results. however.for the harder you reject them. You are then able to tune in to the more subtle aspects of the people and situations around you. the more they will hold on tenaciously. you can gradually train your mind to calm down its random dance so that it can be a more enjoyable and pleasant servant for you. such as." you do not stay with the thoughts and permit them to free-associate.although your mind can switch back and forth to different matters in a fraction of a second. Or you could just put a lighted candle in front of you and train your consciousness to be dominated completely and continuously during the meditation period by only the candle flame. You do not. If you are now using a traditional method of meditation and are getting results from it. A traditional way of calming the rational mind is through meditation." or. Most types of meditation involve sitting with spine erect in a quiet room and continuously focusing your attention on a physical object or a mental concept in order to crowd out random thoughts.especially if you have a good meditation teacher with whom you work personally. You find that your inherent wisdom (which can be drawn upon only to the degree that your rational mind is calm) guides you so that you are able to produce the optimal response to every situation in your life. "My right knee doesn't feel right.
Contentment is not only a benefit of higher consciousness but it is also one of the ways of working toward higher consciousness. The love and peace of higher consciousness flow from just being -. For many people we feel that the most direct way to do this is through working with the Twelve Pathways. and power-motivated thoughts that make you feel alienated and you begin to throw someone out of your heart. We must learn to appreciate just being alive in the nowness of whatever situation we are in. addictive models. Usually we are not happy when we finish doing whatever it is that we think we have to do. but you have learned to let your mind produce its stream of thoughts without getting your ego caught up in them. You just let the sensory stuff come in -.and enjoying it all. You are determined not to lose your tuned-in insight into the here and now and your ability to love unconditionally. One of the main objects of meditation is to experience yourself and the world around you clearly and consciously -free from emotion-backed demands. Anything you do will not be enough unless you feel fulfilled in just being. They enable you to develop a capacity for achieving many of the benefits of meditation while you are busily engaged in the activities of your life. These Five Methods of the Living Love Way do not require you to turn off the world even for an hour. you become more receptive and accepting. When your mind generates security. the Seven Centers. childhood conditioning. Since we have an animal background of millions of years in the jungle where life or death depended upon split-second timing. Just insist that your . The things we do disappear in time. and rational minds are far too reactive to what is going on around us." Calming your rational mind by reducing the load of addictions that keep it activated is an important phase of your growth into higher consciousness. Then any action you engage in will be effective and produce the optimal results both now and in the future.and you let it sort itself out and drift on by. We like to consider these techniques as a form of "meditation in action. sensation. you know that you are operating on the lower levels of consciousness. As you grow toward higher consciousness. egos. or to detach yourself from your everyday activities. Doing creates expectations that your world and the people around you may or may not fit. and the Five methods. You see the "warnings" being generated by your rational mind.period of growth into the Fourth Center. our emotions. etc. You become increasingly aware of times when your rational mind is churning and speeding. attachments.
and they have a mutually loving. the rest of their . depends upon how well you learn to simply change what is changeable without throwing people out of your heart -. It will carefully rehash both the past and the present in the light of your other security. Unless you can quickly get on top of this addiction and become more conscious. and power addictions and will tend to blow up little things into big separating "problems. Tom wants to have an affair with someone else.rational mind slow down its rejection of the here and now. he prefers not to take Mary with him. As we pointed out in the story of the Zen monk. Unless she can become conscious of what she is doing to herself with this emotion-backed addictive model. or constantly harass yourself. Your rational mind will check back in the memory files and begin to reinterpret past events to "cast a new light on them" -purporting to show that the relationship really wasn't as beautiful as it seemed at the time. Suppose Tom needs to go to a nightand-day business conference in a city a thousand miles away. comparisons. tigers. Whether you enjoy your life continuously. Suppose Mary has an addiction for going on this trip with Tom. flowing relationship. with its endless churnings. and judgments that usually create the experience of otherness. sensation. and strawberries. And there are always the "strawberries" to be enjoyed right here and now. you will find that the alienating attitude triggered by your addiction will spread like a cancer and cause you to become critical of this person in other ways that have nothing to do with the original addiction. you will need to watch for the "chain-reaction effect. Tom is on a heavy power trip and does not really love her. Her Power Center of Consciousness is demanding that Tom not leave her at home alone overnight.and then quietly accept that which you cannot change except by heavy subject-object manipulation and force. Since he will be busy all the time. In becoming aware of how your rational mind operates to alienate you from people. her rational mind may suggest to her that Tom is getting tired of her." Let's suppose you enjoy being with a person and you have many things in common that draw you together. You will begin to feel separate and alien toward this person in one way after another. There are times when you may have to forcefully tell your rational mind to "shut up" so that you can enjoy your here and now. let's suppose Tom and Mary are married." For example. Your rational mind is simply prostituting itself to the unconscious workings of the ego and your addictive programming. Then suppose you have one strong addiction that leads you to be angry and throw this person out of your heart. there are always things you can think about to keep your rational mind and emotions stirred up.
her family indignantly brought the child to the Zen master and accused him of taking advantage of his beautiful young pupil. Just like any complex machine. it is not enough to be "right. A person growing into higher consciousness learns to spot this sewer-like churning and spewing and refuses to let the rational mind's activity trigger any negative emotions. She became pregnant." . We all know people who are "correct" and "right" almost all of the time -and the lives of these people do not work to produce happiness. It's much more fulfilling to be loved than to be "right.and the other person is "wrong.so. After about a year the young lady was very ill.and not against you. etc. she told her family that the real father was a young man who lived in a nearby town. alienated. But arguing at every opportunity in order to convince people that you are right and others are wrong simply means that you are trapped by your rational mind and are unconsciously and mechanically acting out your security. When the child was born. our rational mind can make a beautiful contribution to our well-being if we are keenly sensitive to its limitations and problem areas. If a person asks you if you think he is right." But in order to be a conscious. "Ah -. It's often better to give other people space to find their own errors or to let the natural chain of events in their life show them where they have to change." You can be "right" in your individual contracts and in your performance of society's games -. perhaps Tom is ashamed of her and doesn't want his business associates to meet her. etc. His only reply was.lives together will probably be clouded by Tom's leaving her at home more and more often. The techniques of the Living Love Way will enable you to become an expert "trouble-shooter" so that your rational mind can work for you -. sensation." They left the child with the Zen master. who enjoyed caring for it and had many beautiful hours playing with the child.so. The Zen master gave them the baby and said.and live a thoroughly miserable. loving. you should then open yourself completely and give him the benefit of your thoughts and feelings. and she falsely named her teacher as the father of her child." Love brings more happiness than efficiency. and power addictions. "Ah -. unhappy life. and not wanting to die with this false accusation on her conscience. There is no end to the nonsense that the rational mind can spin out as the pawn of the ego. Your rational mind is a master at proving that you are "right" -. A Zen master had a beautiful young lady as his pupil. happy. Her mother and father immediately went to the teacher and profoundly bowed and apologized and asked for the baby back. and fulfilled being.. You may expect to have many real battles with your rational mind in order to stay conscious.
to open yourself in a centered. You will then be enjoying your birthright as a ." was the best reply to produce the closest harmony that could be obtained in that situation. but you wouldn't have listened. He simply saw that they were not open and did not want to hear his side of it. his rational mind did not say. This story does not tell us that we must never give our side of things in any situation. It simply says that when you are conscious. threatening to tell people about the lie that was being perpetrated upon him. Later he willingly and lovingly gave the child up without recriminations. the Zen Master's reply. protesting that he was unjustly accused." He simply peacefully saw that they now understood and there was nothing to be said. it is the sense that produces hypotheses. theories. He could continue to enjoy the new act in the drama. As you learn to increasingly identify yourself with your Conscious-awareness. But also use the Ninth Pathway. And so the Zen master simply flowed with the drama being enacted and did not agree or disagree. You know that just as your eyes or ears can mislead you. They did not ask him whether he had done it -. For all concerned this also represented a flowingly harmonious thing to do. Usually you will be able to use the Seventh Pathway. you have a choice as to whether to get in a discussion because you know in advance whether the argument will bring you and the other person into a closer state of love and oneness or whether it will separate you. Most people with whom you interact will be more open than the parents of the pregnant girl.and he was able to have the fun of living with the baby for a while. etc. As your addictions are upleveled to preferences.When they first accused him. He realized that a mother and father are not likely to believe the word of a man against the word of their pregnant daughter. When they came back and apologized for their false accusations. which tells you to open yourself completely to other people.so. "Ah -. your rational mind can equally mislead you. calm. conjectures. Under the circumstances. the rational mind of the Zen master did not get caught up in a big chain of ego-backed arguments indignantly denying that he was the father. you will find that your rational mind becomes a useful tool that is somewhat on a par with your other senses. you will find that your senses and your rational mind will have less distortion and will cooperate more to help your life work. He stayed in a peaceful state of higher consciousness and simply enjoyed what was going on -. and loving way. "I could have told you. and possibilities.they accusingly told him he had done it. In conjunction with your stored memories.
And from this place.human being. This is one of the greatest things any human being can do. It may be beautiful to paint great pictures. You will be the master of your emotions. your external achievement will be even more tuned in to the energy flow of the world. . your ego.and to yourself as well. or write great novels. and your rational mind. erect tall buildings. But to become the master of yourself is an even higher contribution to all mankind -.
Chapter 18 The Illusion of Self There are many paths leading to the top of the mountain of consciousness. . you can constructively use your suffering to reprogram rapidly. The Five Methods enable you to eliminate addictions that create an "adrenalized" consciousness which makes you throw people out of your heart. One of ego's tricks is to make you doubt whether your path will work. Your addictive demands soak up your energy by making you compulsively run toward things or away from things. this is much faster that working directly on quieting the mind or dropping away the self. 3. For many people. eliminating your addictions may also be your most rapid technique for calming your mind or knowing what you really are. It is important for you to find your path -. remove your consciousness from the here and now by keeping you preoccupied with the past and future. When you see the cause-effect relationship between your addictions and your suffering. And since an increase of any one factor accelerates the realization of the other two factors. destroy your insight and perceptiveness. Disidentifying with the "self" which your ego guards so constantly. and turn off the energy of people around you who might otherwise be able to love and help you. It may be helpful to take a look at three factors that represent aspects of consciousness growth. It will work -. The Living Love Way concentrates its techniques on the first factor above. Eliminating your addictive demands. You thus tend to work with a higher level of dynamic energy that you can channel into boosting your rate of consciousness growth. Quieting your rational mind.and then stay with that path even when you find the going rough.if you will work. 2. These factors are systematically intertwined so that an advance with any one of them will automatically provide a forward step with the other two factors: 1. The Methods of Living Love concentrate on showing you how to make rapid progress in eliminating emotion-backed demands that keep you constantly on the pleasure-pain roller-coaster.
One's programming reinforced by memory thus forces the ego to continually protect its territory -. Since the ego is constantly busy protecting the territory it has defined as "mine. but instead he experiences as essentially like himself all beings who happen to be encased in female bodies. we begin to see that we are responsible for our suffering. Depending on one's security. and power profile." it can never relax into the here and now." We work hard to make ourselves suffer. Thus the area that we regard as part of our "self" . and to whom painful experiences are always threatening to happen. although we experience extensions of the "self" with concepts such as my toys. my room. control. the self boundary is drawn at different places with different people.which it identifies as "self. and masculine superiority. We feel that everything is mine or not mine. my dog. When we stop defending. This continuous activity reinforces the sensation of an "I" or "me" or "self" to whom the territory belongs.rather than a robot-like activity. my friend. Another man may not identify his self boundary with these subject-object relationships. For example. the "I" loses its purpose and begins to merge with what is here and now.One of the great approaches to the mountain of consciousness involves the letting go of the "self" with which we are identifying and which we protect so laboriously. It's a full-time job with no time off even on vacations! As this activity and basic attitude of addictively securing one's future happiness begins to be reprogrammed.a "somebody" -. there is no more "I" or "self. sensation. my reputation. When this activity of "I" or "self" is recognized as an activity rather than an entity. etc. And we generate the experience of alienation and anger towards people when they appear to encroach on territory we consider our own. As children." The frequency with which one's biocomputer is running off addictive programs creates the illusion that this "I" or "self" is an entity -. And progress in disidentifying with the myriad of things we contain within our self boundary also helps us quiet the mind and drop away addictive demands. The "I" is this activity of defense. we learn to experience a territory that we call "myself" or "mine. a man may defend as a part of himself various patriarchal feelings towards women that involve domination. my clothes. It must always be securing its future happiness." This "self" is considered to be bounded by our skin.
In this state. Like a boil. the hardness melts and instead there is a conscious fluidity. depending upon the attitudes and concepts one has acquired and the stage of consciousness development one is in. You just see that they are doing something that you have done hundreds or thousands of times -. If we would understand the nature of this experience that we regard as "myself.and yet it is not a part of us. It is not a structural part of our body like our liver or bones or eyes. But we keep drawing a self boundary in the addictive sand of our personality so that it is continually defined and redefined in our experience. like water. the "self" will dissolve in its own way as we get healthier. you increasingly feel them as "us" or "like me. When one is operating primarily on preferences. your experience of "self" is solid like a block of ice. You then begin to identify with other people even when they do something that previously would have triggered an angry response in you. with the upleveling of almost all of your addictions into preferences. your sense of "self" is infinitely flexible to accommodate itself to your here-and-now surroundings. With each addiction that you are successful in upleveling to a preference. But there is still a ." it may be helpful to realize that the self boundaries we defend are like boils on our skin. "How could this experience of 'self' be such an impermanent part of us when it is felt so strongly?" Our experience of "self" is created by the frequency with which our ego is defending our security. It is just a functional thing that arises and that can pass away. your "self" loses its rockness and begins to have the adaptability and clarity of water." Gradually. the self concepts that we pick up in our cultural milieu cause a lot of pain and messiness.will fluctuate. this sharply defined experience of "self" leaves you. When you are heavily addicted.and you do not throw them out of your heart. When you have succeeded in reprogramming almost all of your addictions into preferences. sensation. A boil is a part of us -. our minds are moment-by-moment reinforcing the boundaries of this impermanent experience of "self." The waves of the here and now are constantly trying to wash away this boundary of "self" that we are maintaining by our addictions and our stored memories. And also like a boil on our skin. One might ask. Instead of experiencing people as objects. Since these lower three Centers of Consciousness determine most of our experience before we begin to grow toward higher consciousness. you will find that a hunk of this "self" disappears. and power addictions.
But one should realize that just as the ability to skillfully play the Brahms violin concerto is extremely rare and attainable only by a few people. the ability to reside in the Seventh Center of Consciousness is unusual today. As water evaporates. Since it is now so flexible. For the few intrepid explorers of the mountain of consciousness who wish to go to the top (which in the Living Love Way we call the Seventh Center of Consciousness).but a shadow of the former "self" still remains. and fulfillment await us. the experience of "self" becomes a transparent vapor that does not affect perception or dam up the intuitive wisdom that is within each of us. Enjoying life in the Fourth through Sixth Centers of Consciousness is something that almost every one of us can do when we are sufficiently fed up with yo-yoing between pleasure and pain and are determined to use the Five Methods to get free of the addictions which keep us from continuously enjoying life. And so. this gentler experience of "self" does not keep you from enjoying a happy life. . At the Seventh Center of Consciousness even the fluid self boundaries disappear. All of the intense separateness and alienation of the previous rock-like "self" is gone -.gentle experience of "self" even at the Fourth through Sixth Centers of Consciousness.including yourself. at the highest level of consciousness. We find the path that most beckons to us and then we let the cosmic energy within each of us impel us toward the loftier regions where serenity. The self boundary created by your preferential programming enables you to love everyone unconditionally -. we climb the mountain of consciousness. The same tools of mindfulness that enable one to get rid of addictions can be used to eliminate preferences. As our perception of "self" or "somebody" disappears. step by step. we become "nobody" -. even preferences must be reprogrammed. Similarly.which then lets us be in an unitive space with everybody. unconditional love. it becomes a transparent vapor. and since you have trained your ego not to fire your energy into guarding and defending it.
or days. One of the obstacles we must overcome to grow into higher consciousness is the "Spiritual Lawyer" phase. but we're actually churning away most inefficiently and ineffectively -. you will find that "thinking" (juggling words. A year contains 31.each of which offers you an opportunity to grow in consciousness. As you work toward the higher levels of consciousness. How fully you benefit from these thirty-one million opportunities is up to you. hypotheses. Once you are well on your way to reprogramming your more gross addictions. Your problem is to get at the wisdom that you already have -but which is now inaccessible due to your security.Chapter 19 How to Recognize Your Addictions Since the Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness is based on gradually eliminating your addictions. As you grow into higher consciousness. sensation. you may then become aware of your subtle addictions. When we first begin our journey and really see the job of reprogramming that awaits us. defeated. But then once the ego gets familiar with the rules of the .but with a subtle addiction your consciousness is preoccupied with the addiction for a period of minutes. bored. You can recognize an addiction by your awareness that your biocomputer is using emotional programming to make you irritated.536. angry.and diverting energy and consciousness that could be more optimally used. hours. or upset in one way or another. resentful. A free. undominated awareness that is highly attuned here and now to the people and situations around you will best enable you to benefit by the wisdom that is waiting to be tapped in your biocomputer. our ego will experience a threat because of a necessity to change certain lifetime habits that keep us on lower consciousness levels. your here-and-now broad-channel perception and your relative freedom from having your consciousness dominated by addictions will intuitively give you the wise and effective answer to any problem. tired. confused. A subtle addiction does not get you upset emotionally -. jealous. it is most important that you learn to automatically spot them in your moment-to-moment flow of consciousness. fearful. We may kid ourselves that we are thinking profoundly and continually about a subject. and powerdominated consciousness. and ideas centering around a problem) is usually not the way to find the optimal solution to your problems.000 seconds -.
of course. Your ego may find that it can continue to operate as usual and protect the Power Center of Consciousness by twisting some of the Pathways. "I am perceiving everyone. Your ego then tells you that it is important that the other person learn to respect you enough to pay attention when you speak. You are showing your irritation in order to help him develop better habits of attention." Your ego might even summon up the Twelfth Pathway to justify the duality that you are producing by telling you that you are an awakening being who is here to teach your friend to listen more consciously to your words of wisdom. it learns how to distort these rules so that we can rationalize our avoiding the Twelve Pathways and other tools for consciousness growth. this should be seen as a distortion of the Twelfth Pathway. he would have been able to hear you clearly the first time. we would feel no irritation -. Let us suppose that you annoy yourself when someone asks you to repeat something you just told him. In other words. including myself.and simply repeat the information asked for. Your ego at that time does not permit you to remember that your uptightness is a sure sign of an addiction (in this case a power addiction) and that you are creating duality and alienation between yourself and the other person. This Pathway does not place on you the burden of playing God for the benefit of other people! Rather. But.game. as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness. it tells you. All of us from time to time ask people to repeat what they have said. During the very moments when your curt tones are creating alienation and separation because you are treating another person as different from yourself. you treat him as a being who is here to help you become aware of your addictions . Your ego puts your consciousness on the power level by introducing the thought that if the other person had given you enough of his attention and realized the importance of your worlds. you repeat it." You love and serve an awakening being by doing what he or she asks you to do. And so the other person is just doing something that all of us have often done. If someone asks you to repeat something. If we were responding from the Love Center of Consciousness. your ego can be telling you that you're really doing the other person a favor by giving him a chance to use the Third Pathway: "I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute-to-minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
you probably experienced a lot of dominating behavior from your well-meaning parents. you are showing that you do not love him because there are conditions he must fulfill before you can love him. that which is given is received so naturally that the person almost feels as if he thought of it himself. Of course. you work from the certain knowledge that love and expanded consciousness are absolutely enough to lead you to the optimal enjoyment of your life. pushing. You avoid letting your ego pump you up into a pseudoguru who is authorized to dominate or teach others. you will know that you are not operating from a higher consciousness level that gives only what the other person is prepared to hear. and dominating can only make surface changes in the way people feel and act. When you were growing up. You need to deeply recognize that these superficial changes are usually obtained at a heavy price in alienation and unhappiness. it is the natural flow of your personality that will best teach other people. Since real love requires the unconditional acceptance of another person. you will intuitively feel when a person is open to instruction in consciousness growth. And even then you tell people only the things they are ready to hear and can understand with oneness. As you grow into higher consciousness levels. You will either wait until you are clearly aware of this openness or until you are asked to act as teacher. If they begin to get restless or show continual irritation. his readiness creates the experience of learning as much as the information of the "giver. Your forcing usually brings only temporary changes on the surface of behavior." Always remember that the Twelve Pathways will gradually and continually lead you into completely peaceful and loving spaces no matter what people do or say around you! If you prefer that something be different from the way it is. When the requirement of "readiness to hear" is met. When you can love a person only if he or she is able to act in a fashion that fits your addictive programming. . Your striving. as you grow into higher consciousness. In fact. It is most important that you realize that any attempt to play God and consciously teach others by deliberately and intentionally giving them dualistic experiences may retard your consciousness growth. It will create alienation between you and other people. you are treating the other person as an object to be manipulated. When your consciousness is dominated by the lower three levels.and get free of them. You now have ego-backed programming that addictively resists dominating "intrusions" into your life.
you no longer mirror another person's addictive "stuff. Suppose also that you cannot enjoy chowder when it has that much pepper. You need to tell yourself that if you love that person and gently and lovingly communicate what you prefer. if you like your coffee cooled before it is given to you to drink. so that dominating behavior on the part of another person is understandingly seen for what it is -his entrapment in the Third Center of Consciousness. Keep telling yourself that your usual habits of control and domination have never been enough to enable you to find the love. you can use a dominating impatience to "help" your friend remember to put a little water into your coffee so that you can drink it as soon as you get it.regardless of what they say or do. And you will produce a duality and alienation that slightly dilutes the feelings of love that make the relationship delightful. If he or she forgets. You just learn to love them unconditionally -. you may show irritation to help him or her remember -. If you work from the Power Level of Consciousness.you reprogram even these power-resisting addictions. It is far better for you here and now to lovingly get up and put a little water in your coffee than to engage in alienating emotional behavior. Thus you select the communications you find useful." It is important that you deeply perceive that love and expanded consciousness are completely enough to give you everything you need in your life. You're still entitled to your own choices. peace. Suppose Mary replies that it is better to put the pepper in when it is cooking so that is can become blended. There is nothing about higher consciousness that says you have to become involved in other people's predicaments. Just don't keep crashing into the boats of other people. and you can steer your boat down the river of your life in any way that you want.but in so doing you will disturb your peace and serenity. she or he will sooner or later remember to make your coffee exactly the way you want it.and most importantly. Suppose your friend Mary enjoys making fish chowder and puts in a lot of pepper to make it hot and spicy. You will also disturb his or her peace and serenity. you tell her that you cannot enjoy the chowder when it has so much pepper.but they must be deep and genuine and flow from your inner being. and let the rest quietly go by -. you will get into an argument and point out that it tastes just about as good if the pepper is added later by each . Using the Seventh Pathway that advises you to communicate your feelings. Remind yourself at every opportunity that love and expanded consciousness can be enough -. For example. and serenity that you would like in your human relationships.
individual. and everything else around you. and go ahead and enjoy whatever there is to enjoy. it is very likely that your love and expanded consciousness will enable you to enjoy unpeppered chowder the next time. You're not supposed to be eating chowder when she fixes it. and serenity have temporarily departed.for this would just be another method of expressing irritation. She may begin to feel that although she prefers putting in the pepper when it is cooking. peace. she has a greater preference for your enjoying the chowder next time. your love and expanded consciousness may tell you that it is more flowing to test it with a single sip and then concentrate on enjoying the people. And the simple matter of peppering the chowder will not become complex because of the ego stuff that you mirror back and forth. You have previously communicated your feelings about how the pepper keeps you from enjoying the chowder. and she will notice that you are not eating the chowder." Mary will appreciate your not complaining repeatedly about putting in too much pepper. If Mary serves the hot chowder again. Then Mary will mirror your annoyance -. She will just accept it as "that which is. So you may find that Mary may quietly omit the pepper the next time she makes the chowder. you will help Mary stay away from her Power Center. . but you may also have less love with your meal. If you can love Mary just as much when she does not follow your request to leave out the pepper. Just steer your ship around the rock gently and lovingly. Just flow as though the chowder had never been served. If Mary accepts your attempt to dominate the situation to fit your inside pattern. Don't put out any feeling tones that could make Mary uncomfortable because you are sacrificing yourself and not eating the chowder. If you can keep your consciousness completely free of the Power Center. Don't put out the vibration that you can't enjoy the chowder because of the pepper -.and soon love. For Mary is a conscious being. the salad. Completely accept the fact that you're not supposed to be eating chowder that night. You will have less pepper. And what if Mary does not choose to make the chowder the next time with less pepper? You simply accept that as being a part of the here and nowness of your life. and she will not be likely to get upset about it. she may leave out the pepper but feel resentful towards you. She will also notice your complete acceptance of this. Now suppose you handle the problem of the pepper in the chowder with the complete knowledge that love and expanded consciousness are always enough.
who avoids fixed patterns -. and hostile. You will find that your love and increased consciousness will always give you the optimal ways to veer around problems or lovingly eliminate them. Or perhaps we are busy and someone is not aware of our inner flow when we are trying to finish a task. Once we see the possibility of living in a peaceful and loving world all of the time (regardless of anything people may do or say). For example. and serenity and this is the greatest gift that you could give her. but the other person stubbornly refuses to follow our instructions. your love and your conscious perceptiveness will enable you to flow in every situation. you could always go out and buy a cup for lunch tomorrow. Always remember that the individual with the higher consciousness is the one who is most flexible -. Oftentimes we get annoyed when we are inconvenienced in some way by another person. It takes two people to have an ego battle. we find that there are certain life situations that often flip us back into the power level of consciousness. You may not be enjoying chowder. power-oriented. If you are addicted to chowder and have to eat it. love. We often create resentment in ourselves when we're trying to explain about how we think and what we're trying to do -. ego-dominated. We irritate ourselves when we perceive that another person is deceptive or he or she lets us down in one way or another. Or we have . We may get irritated when someone tells us something we already know. our power addictions may manifest themselves when we know we are right. This can be done regardless of whether or not you are with people who are consciously working on their growth. He can be inflexible. We need to remind ourselves that getting irritated will only make the situation more complicated. but you are enjoying love and serenity -.which are far more nourishing than any chowder could ever be.who flows in every life situation so as not to get involved in addictive irritations. If you can operate from the Love Level of Consciousness or any higher level.This is not a great sacrifice. Or perhaps we are meditating and we annoy ourselves when someone is not sensitive to our desire for silence. You are also helping Mary enjoy peace.and other people do not seem to be interested. We irritate ourselves when people do not follow agreed-upon rules or when someone is thoughtless. But it only takes one person to create the peace and love of higher consciousness! The other person does not have to know the Living Love Way and does not have to be trying to reprogram his alienating addictions. The individual with the higher consciousness creates a peaceful world in which to live.
gifts. you just consciously see the drama for what it is -. You are trying to liberate yourself from your addictive traps. and lost effectiveness. you would soon begin to live in the warmth and beauty of higher consciousness. jealous. or anxious. irritable. Some of the people in our lives will attack us with anger and hostility. lost peace.a toll in lost happiness. The game is to emotionally accept the unacceptable. These power methods have not yet enabled you to create a fulfilled and beautiful life. fearful. If you do get trapped into unloving dualistic Power Level behavior. And unless we are thoroughly able to operate our consciousness on the fourth level of unconditional love. The energy you put into your growth toward higher consciousness can be increased if you deeply realize the enormous price you are now paying for your lower consciousness addictions -. lost wisdom.and you resolve not to get trapped again. Now it is time to switch over and use only love and expanded consciousness as your guides whenever the actions of people do not fit the programs that you have conditioned into your biocomputer. It is necessary for you to tell yourself that you have been trying to handle these situations all of your life by using dominance. and other manipulative techniques. barter. resentful. . lost serenity. If you put half the energy into your consciousness growth that you put into living out your programmed addictions. Sometimes we feel paranoid when someone does not return our friendliness. just get up and go on. Don't become addicted to not stumbling. we will immediately throw ourselves back into the power level and our response will mirror their uptightness. lost love. Or perhaps someone repeatedly interrupts us.responsibilities and another person does not recognize that this is our province where we're entitled to make decisions. Use each fall back to the Power Level as a gift from your life to help you become more conscious and accepting. If you stumble. You need to continually remind yourself that in none of the above situations can you justify yourself at any time in becoming angry. pecking-order forcefulness. You need to realize that such situations are part of the nowness of your life. So you use all of these experiences to grow in consciousness. Sometimes we irritate ourselves when we find that other people are impatient and want us to move faster than we are moving. emotional uptightness.
whether it grabs your consciousness or is simply seen clearly for what it is. Your programming influences whether you see it all clearly or see it through distorting ego filters -. Always realize that it is only the programming in your head that is separating you from the beautiful feelings of higher consciousness every second of your life.they are also the methods you use to get to the goals.The level of consciousness at which you operate determines what you notice and what you don't notice. . Happiness is there waiting inside of you -.and it becomes more available every time you reprogram one of your addictions. Love and peace are not only your goals -.
flowing state most of the time. it may respond with an ego trip by crying. you will create exactly this type of child. loving people. Children are very sensitive mirrors of your consciousness level. When they are surrounded by peaceful. The people who interact continually with a young child determine the nature and strength of the future addictions that he or she must uplevel to preferences to grow into higher consciousness. a large portion of his energy will remain preoccupied with the Power Center of Consciousness. If you view your child as an interference to your important daily activities. When a child is around highly dominating people.Chapter 20 Living Love With Children A child can be a great teacher in your journey toward higher consciousness. you will pull the lower consciousness people around you into your psychic space. they rapidly reflect this tension and uptightness in their behavior. If you live in a world of fears and anxiety. you will create an awkward child. The images and classifications through which you perceive a child will be sensitively picked up by the child and will play a large part in how he reacts to you. this will be reflected in the child's consciousness. If your consciousness largely operates on the Power Center. they reflect a warm. If you view your child as awkward. Upon reaching maturity. The child will have been . A young child can give you a continuous demonstration of what it is like to live in the here and now before the rational mind affects the stream of consciousness. If your responses to your child continually show loving thoughtfulness and acceptance of your child as an individual. any child with whom you continually interact will be pulled into your subject-object type of non-caring manipulations. But one minute later. the adult will regard power as the key to happiness in the world. When they are surrounded by driven. manipulating people. You head creates your child. Your level of consciousness determines your world. other-directed. When denied something that it wants. Thus the consciousness of an infant does not grasp situations and churn them with the rational mind. A child can turn its consciousness fully and spontaneously to each new life situation. it can turn its attention to the here-and-now situation that life offers and be joyous and laughing again.
A child who is around flowing. We should replace our alienating. No one can progress to these higher centers as long as he or she feels that happiness is just a matter of having enough security. and power addictions in children when we try to dominate them with such emotional demands as "I've told you a thousand times to. preaching and moralizing. evaluating and labeling. You skip the disparaging pseudoanalysis of the child's character based on your addictive ego demands. Since children mirror our consciousness. The child will feel that happiness correlates with the amount of personal power and prestige one can use to dominate and control the people and situations in one's life. this leads the child to develop strong addictive programming on the first three levels.bruised by uncaring.. threatening and bribing.. "You are a liar and no one can trust you. be quiet. If you observe the interaction between most adults and children from the point of view of the Security Center. sex." Watch how you feel when people talk to you in such heavily dualistic ways. money. he or she will have a life style that is characterized by harmoniously flowing with the here-and-now situations of life. ridiculing and belittling. Don't you ever listen?. ." As Dr.. With coming adulthood. You don't chew over the past or threaten future punishments. you will feel compassion for the robot-like behavior that has ensnared both the child and the adult.. "Shut up. The consciousness of the adult will tend to magnify most of the actions of the child as threats to the adult's security." You talk only about your exact feelings here and now. For the last time. The developing being will have heavy psychological obstacles that must be reprogrammed to permit growth into the Love Center and Cornucopia Center. What is the matter with you?.. "Our 'normal' talk drives children crazy: the blaming and shaming. I've never seen a dumber. accusing and guilt-giving. or power." say.. Sensation Center.. Just do that once more and. "I don't like it when I can't rely on your words -. I want you to get this straight. Instead of. sensation. prestige. The child will know deep in his or her being that love and expanded consciousness will always bring whatever is needed for happiness. and do exactly as I say" subjectobject manipulation.. Haim Ginott says.it is difficult for us to do things together. criticizing words with "I" language.. and Power Center of Consciousness.. and power! We create security. higher consciousness people (who regard the child's needs as they would their own) will easily grow into the Love Center of Consciousness.. sensation..
You can observe in a very young infant some (but definitely not all) of the characteristics of higher consciousness. We can save them from the suffering that would await them if they were to develop heavily programmed power addictions and demands. Every glass of milk that the child spills enables you to show him the world in which your Conscious-awareness lives. schools. All of these institutions are us. The next time you spill a glass of milk you are going to stand in the corner for one . The creation of a heaven on earth in which everyone lives in a world free of wars. This helps the child to make a rapid transition from crying and other emotional behavior to a programming that permits meeting needs through love and expanded consciousness. And one of the best ways to repair the strong addictive programming that has been conditioned into our biocomputer is to interact with children. we should see our adult roles as loving and serving every child. we will benefit by being reminded of what it is like to live in the here and now. It is easy to blame the problems of the world on governments. and duality on every level requires that we no longer train our children to develop intense security. The nervous system of a young child is heavily programmed for crying and other emotional behaviors that can dominate the consciousness of adults within earshot so that they will be aware of his or her needs. A child is usually very perceptive in picking up the true feelings and vibrations of those around him.How do you use the experience of being with a child to aid you in your growth toward higher consciousness? The child can help you develop an awareness of what an "unfurnished" mind is like. sensation. misunderstanding. When a child is first born. and uncaring economic institutions. "I've told you a thousand times to be more careful.right now. subject-object actions of all of these institutions have been created and are maintained by addictions that we have acquired. He is just totally right here -. As fellow travelers on the road to higher consciousness. he does not chew over situations with his rational mind. In return. Even the polarity of our addictive opposition may strengthen what we may wish to change! The only effective and permanent way to change the world in which we live is to change our level of consciousness. Your life will give you continual opportunities to show the child (and yourself) whether you are on a power level of consciousness or a love level of consciousness. and power addictions. and to benefit by the mirror which the child provides to enable us to see our own addictions. but this is only an evasion. The non-loving. Do you say (or even silently feel). to enjoy a consciousness that is not continually churned up by the rational mind.
sensation. It's about time you listened to me. the child will be very sensitive to your feelings and will pick up any paranoia or antagonism in your consciousness -. You convey those thoughts by your loving. The Twelve Pathways presented in Chapter 4 should be memorized so that you can get them below your rational level into the deeper circuitry of your biocomputer that controls how you see your world. you can create a living hell in your daily interaction with a child.even though you may be very sweet and tactful in your words. or jealous. These Twelve Pathways show you the road to higher consciousness." unless the feelings of the child call for further words. and power addictions. you could welcome it as an opportunity to help both of you grow into higher consciousness. The immature muscle control of a child increases the probability of spilled milk. sensation. there will be very little "spilled milk" in your life. This is just a normal part of living. you will find that it is because you have ignored one or more of the .right here. or power programming. fearful. "The milk is spilled -.hour. It should be cleaned up as a usual thing to do. I'm sick and tired of your clumsy carelessness. everybody spills milk. you will be training the child to dominate his consciousness by security. I've knocked over glasses hundreds of times. And a low-consciousness life is full of spilled milk -. But if your consciousness gets caught up in one incident after another that involves your security. but that's absolutely no reason to lose our love and serenity. you will live in a subject-object world in which your inner serenity is constantly threatened by the acts of the child. You don't need to head-trip the child by saying such things as. After spilling the milk. Why don't you get that rag and clean it up? Are you helpless?" If so. If you can really accept the spilled milk (as well as other non-preferred happenings in your life) and permit your consciousness to flow in a here-and-now loving way." And you keep on talking about whatever you were saying before the milk was spilled. You are simply using the spilled milk to create heavier and heavier low-consciousness programming for both of you. An upset child may unconsciously knock over another glass. And since your consciousness creates your universe through these filters. So we're losing a few ounces of milk. When a child spills the milk. right now.in one form or another. Whenever you are angry. Fussing about it won't unspill the milk. flowing acceptance of the spilled milk and your simple. natural cleaning-up actions. "That's all right. You can say to yourself. It will simply irritate both myself and the child. But even now as an adult I sometimes spill things.
Even though their rational minds may not yet permit them to be as adept at word games as you are. try to manipulate him? Or do you just love him and serve him? If he asks you to do something. If . they will threaten and bribe you. conscious way. and loving. you will be training them in dishonesty. bribe him. When you respond to every here-and-now situation in a loving. their relative freedom from rationality makes them more perceptive of feelings even though you cleverly manipulate them with words. If you cannot do it. for their ability to tune in to you on the feeling level is very accurate. including myself. but if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness. since hiding in any degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people. "I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings. they will mirror this by labeling and criticizing you. belittle him. However. When your addictive programming makes you upset. You are giving them models of programming that they will duplicate to "make it" in life. you will respond to a child in a way that helps to program addictions into his biocomputer. If you feel one thing and say something else. When you label and criticize them." Although you will find all of the Pathways useful when living with children. you know that he will understand. When you threaten and bribe them." This is especially important with children. get angry with him. evaluate him.not his. as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness. The Ninth Pathway is very helpful. Children intuitively sense your dishonesty and will not trust you. they will mirror your conduct by learning to manipulate you with words.Pathways. it is especially important that you use them when interacting with children. The Seventh Pathway says. "I act freely when I am tuned in. While they apply to every situation in your life. And they can often beat you at mirroring your games! Always remember that everything that makes you upset in your interactions with a child represents your addictions -. Children will rapidly integrate the challenges of life when they are around adults who openly communicate from the Fourth or higher Centers of Consciousness. the Twelfth Pathway should be particularly uppermost in your consciousness: "I am perceiving everyone. you will be able to do exactly what needs to be done." How do you treat an awakening being? Do you criticize him. centered. Children have a deep understanding on intuitive levels. you do it if you are able to.
One mother might punish a child from a subject-object. Parents operating from the Fourth Center of Consciousness will do what needs to be . loving space that will bring them closer together. or resentment. When this happens. Unless you are free of the lower three levels of consciousness. visual impulses. he or she can use firmness or force from a loving space. It is likely that you can grow into higher consciousness more rapidly because you do have the benefit of interacting with children. you use these emotional feelings as a golden opportunity to reprogram yourself through the Method of Consciousness Focusing. This is the Fifth Method of growth in the Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness. your interaction with children can rapidly accelerate your growth into higher consciousness.and they are such a distraction. Firmness is sometimes necessary in order to teach a child how to live with others and to cope with the physical dangers of the world. You should regard it as an evasion if you tell yourself that you cannot grow into higher consciousness because you have young children to take care of -. When you keep ALL WAYS US LIVING LOVE constantly turning in your mind. your vibrations will become more peaceful and loving. alienated space that will create separation. A person at the Fourth Center of Consciousness prefers to be receptive and accepting. Another mother may "punish" a child in the same way but from a Fourth Center. anger. If you constantly use the here-and-now experience that your life is giving you. You let words and other sounds. Since children are such excellent mirrors. but when life requires it. and touch sensations pour into the background of your consciousness. You may wish to start this Catalyst in your consciousness and keep it going for many hours. children are very realistic in accepting the here and now conditions in their lives. sensation. The Living Love Catalyst. The things that you actually do in interacting with a child are not as important as the Center of Consciousness that you are working from. and power addictions when interacting with children. ALL WAYS US LIVING LOVE. (See the Fourth Method in Chapter 13) can be helpful in freeing your consciousness from security.their consciousness has not been muddied with power games. from time to time your addictive emotional programming will fill your consciousness with fear. anything you do to uplevel your consciousness will rapidly be reflected in an upleveling of the consciousness of the children around you. The perceptions which are then placed into your Conscious-awareness by your vast and complex biocomputer will be those which tune you in to a deep calm place within yourself and the children around you.
done in each situation -. and power stuff. . and you will enjoy as drama all of the "ugly" things and the "beautiful" things that are being acted out on the stage that passes before your eyes each day. you live in a deep. The joy and ecstasy of life is yours as you become one with the Law of Higher Consciousness -. love.and accept and love both the child and themselves -seeing it all as part of the warp and woof of the universe. When a panoramic perception of the here and now is introduced into your consciousness within a framework of openness and love.Love everyone unconditionally -. You will perceive the drama going on outside of you. and serenity are created by the way in which you operate your biocomputer. As you grow into higher consciousness. Always remember that the experience of peace. your perceptions of what is here and now in your life will be introduced into your consciousness without triggering emotions that lead your rational mind to churn away with security. sensation. The world you perceive is based on the automatic programming below conscious levels that selects everything that is introduced into your consciousness.including yourself. You will effectively do what you need to do. calm place within your heart.
as well as the rest of the drama in your life. . Instead. .Chapter 21 How To Increase Your Enjoyment of Sex Sex. Unless you are well on your way on the journey to higher consciousness. . It may be done on the security level (as in the case of a turned-off wife who lets it happen to keep her marriage together). Although there is cooperation and agreement between you regarding what is happening. or the sensation level (as with a playboy). You may compare tonight's experience with the high feelings of a previous night. It is not perceived as something that is happening to oneself.you are the happening. On the seventh level of consciousness. your consciousness will begin to wonder how soon you can repeat it -or whether you can repeat it at all.and especially during the moments of orgasm. may be experienced at any level of consciousness. If the experience is particularly great. . Your consciousness during sex is concerned with the sensations that you have during the time you are making love -. each of you is using the other as an object with which to gratify a desire for sexual feelings." You are vulnerable to disappointment if your partner is tired or for some reason is not interested. you would not experience sex as a happening -. or on the Cornucopia level (when one finds in the experience of sex a deeper awareness of the way in which life offers us everything we need). or on the power level (such as a man who challenges himself to make it with a difficult-to-get partner). The consciousness of your partner similarly will be focused on the delightful sensations. you are probably now experiencing sex largely on the second level of consciousness. Sex at the second level of consciousness leaves you vulnerable in many ways. On this level. On the sixth level of consciousness one watches the drama of the physical union from a deep calm place within one's heart. You engage in sex with your partner for your mutual enjoyment. one becomes the sexual experience. one feels an identity with everything and everyone. There is thus a subject-object separateness that deprives you of the more beautiful feelings that await you when sex is experienced from higher levels of consciousness. Sex is experienced on the love level of consciousness (when you use the experience to flow more lovingly and acceptingly). and this comparison may lead you to feel that what happened tonight was not quite "enough.
and they are now in bed kissing each other. it is not grasping. His consciousness will then leap forward to anticipate how nice it will be when his penis is inside of her. It is not striving. It is only when he finally reaches orgasm that he will be completely here now. And even after that happens. And then when he is next touching and feeling her labial and vaginal areas. If the person he is with is perceptive (and not caught in the same game). It is not comparing.This grasping. a man may spend an evening dining and talking with a woman with a large proportion of his consciousness involved in his anticipation of going to bed with her later that night. you will be depriving yourself of a large part of the beauty and loveliness that will be yours when you can enjoy sex at the Fourth Center of Consciousness. He will be anticipating how nice it will be when his hands begin to explore yet more intimate regions that await him below her hips. manipulative focus of consciousness keeps you from being completely satisfied here and now. It is not trying to make anything happen. It is one of the few times in his life when he can experience being completely in the here and now! When your consciousness is dominated by your desire for the intense sensations of sex. Once he is caressing her breasts. she will be aware that there is something lacking in the vividness and oneness of their here-and-now interactions. It is not manipulating. Let us suppose his plan works out. Whatever happens as the flow of love unfolds is enough. Hence. he may still not be in the here and now! He will be anticipating the moments of climax. The man's consciousness (if he has not learned how to be in the here and now) will not be totally enjoying the experience of kissing. He will be anticipating the next step when perhaps his hands will be caressing here breasts. It is just flowing . He will still be unable to savor and completely appreciate the nowness of the experience. he is very likely to miss the "enoughness" and delightfulness of that experience. When your consciousness is operating at the Fourth Level. Your mind is not concerned with what will be happening a few seconds or a few minutes from now. he will still not be here now. For the moments of orgasm are so consciousness-dominating that he will probably not be able to place his consciousness anywhere else. Our habit of anticipating the future rather than letting ourselves completely experience the here-and-now enjoyment of life can enormously detract from the experience of sex. For example. you will begin to enjoy every second as a fulfilling whole in itself. He is bodily with her. It keeps you on a roller-coaster of pleasure and disappointment. but a large part of his consciousness is drained away by his preoccupation with the future.
She is depriving herself of the broad spectrum that life is offering her. and most of the things in his or her life on . Instead of flowingly enjoying the here and now when uninterrupted sex is possible. You can probably do this in your head. and his friend in the situation described above. Then suppose your best friend knocks on the door.without any grasping at the previous experience -. you are peacefully and beautifully flowing in the river of your life. his consciousness will be preoccupied with the immediate past. Once he has talked with his friend and done whatever is necessary. his preoccupation with the past may keep him from doing that which he most wants to do! An individual who is hung up on the second level of consciousness can never live completely in the here and now. clothes. or disappointment of any sort? Can you rechannel that energy that was created by lovemaking into helping your friend? If your consciousness can flow from one here-and-now experience to the next hereand-now experience.completely with your feelings and the feelings of your partner -. homes. She is disregarding the Second Pathway by creating an illusory version of the people around her. she is only tuning in to a very small slice of what is available. It is the opposite of the openness which brings the miracle of "enoughness" into one's life. a woman who is addicted at the second level will scan everyone she sees as a sexual partner. He has a serious problem and it is urgent that he see you immediately. his sexual partner. boats. For example. his consciousness will still be clouded by resentment toward what he perceives as an intrusion. Supposed you have been in bed with your partner for a half-hour and are getting near the point where intercourse may begin.let your consciousness flow to this new here-and-now situation in your life? Can you turn to this new situation without irritability. Can you without disappointment -. you might apply the following test. A person whose consciousness is dominated by sex may be led to purchase automobiles. An individual who is hung up on the second level of consciousness will irritate himself.and the nowness of the environment around you. If you would like to know whether your consciousness is dominated by sex. Instead of reacting to the whole person in front of her. When he then returns to be with his lover. anger. Her response to all of the beautiful individuals who flow into her life will be limited by her analysis of whether this person would fit the pattern in her head that she has for an exciting bed partner.
It is thus with all addictive patterns which keep us on the self-defeating pursuit of illusory concepts of fulfillment and happiness. For example. This can liberate your consciousness to tune in to him or her without any overtones of "Let's go to bed tonight. not wear well. you can both be completely free to thoroughly experience the here and nowness of the massage. It gives a hollowness to hours and hours of your . and anger that a sexual addiction can trigger. the drain on our pocketbooks. This has the repercussion of taking time and energy away from sexual activities that one tells oneself will bring pleasure. It can increase your openness to more fully experiencing the person as a human being. The things purchased may be too costly. You begin to realize that this tensecond orgasm that sex offers can dominate too large a part of your Conscious-awareness. they will put a person in debt or cause him to focus more of his consciousness on earning money. Sexual addictions can gradually wear away when we become consciously aware of the resultant disadvantages and suffering that an addiction causes. explained in Chapter 13. You will begin to free yourself from the diminished awareness that occurs when your consciousness is focused on sexual interactions. What do we do when we discover that a large part of our consciousness is trapped on the second level? The Third Method for consciousness growth. You may wish to enjoy just massaging each other. can be helpful in enabling us to reprogram this addiction.a basis of their supposed contribution to future sexual experiences. etc." This may broaden your activities together. irritation. you may help your consciousness to get free of domination by sex thoughts and addictions. Our growing insight reveals the penalties we are unnecessarily paying: the way we alienate people we would like to love because of the intrusiveness of our subject-object manipulation. During this temporary moratorium on sex. You are consciously reprogramming yourself to become nonaddicted to the experience of orgasm. If they are too expensive. Since your consciousness will not be preoccupied with making anything happen beyond the massage. you can focus your consciousness on fully enjoying every here-and-now experience. The addiction to sex can be so powerful that it may help if you stop your usual sexual dance for a period of time in order to give you a chance to permit other patterns to emerge. the anxiety that we experience if we have a model for always reaching orgasm. or may have many other disadvantages. the disappointment. if you definitely resolve not to have sex for the next three months.
perhaps just caressing and exploring one another's bodies without going as far as a climax. . you get it all back. You experience him or her on a deeper level of being. You will discover that when you are completely tuned in and loving.and making you unable to fully tune in to the full reality that is available to you every moment of your life. And these experiences will be without the disadvantages of having your consciousness dominated with striving to achieve them. Whatever you do can be experienced as "enough" if you are not trying to make something happen -.keeping you out of the here and now -. For you are not training yourself to reject orgasm -.that would be substituting one addiction for another. You may then choose to begin sexual activities but limit them for a few nights to playful interactions that create a sensitive intimacy -. The reason for doing this is to experience the enoughness of whatever you are doing. your life will probably bring you more satisfying sexual experiences than you ever had before. You will find yourself enjoying simple things together that before would have been boring -. it is absolutely enough just to be with a person. Learn to let each moment flow from the previous one without planning. When you can let sex flow into your life as part of the spontaneous unfoldment of the situations that life offers you. Suppose you have successfully placed a moratorium on sex for whatever period you need to reprogram your consciousness so that you can become free of the second level. pushing.or at best tolerated as a stepping stone to getting into bed. Your consciousness is freed from responding as though he or she is an object for your sexual enjoyment. You begin to experience more deeply the inner beauty of the human being that you are with. Focus your consciousness on the full enjoyment of the nowness between you and your partner. You begin to see that the experience of orgasm is not worth the many hours per day during which it may deprive you of tuning in to everything around you through multichannel perception. non-sexual basis. You're simply training yourself to let the experience of orgasm be part of the enjoyable nowness of your life.precious consciousness -. But a beautiful thing about consciousness growth is that when you give it up. or trying to control the flow of one moment into another. You can then enjoy sex (or anything else) without paying a heavy price in lowered perceptions and disappointments. Let us suppose that you have begun to interact with a sexual partner on a broader.or trying to keep something from happening. That which you emotionally reject is also an addiction that will bring unhappiness.
Where your body is and what it is doing are not vital -. You may wish to start the phrase ALL WAYS US LIVING LOVE to add to the beauty you are creating. You will see him or her in ways that you have never experienced before -both ugly and beautiful. You will still see the eyes. Do not focus on his or her eyes for this can produce ego personality games. acceptance. You may find that you get into a position where the man is lying on his back with the woman sitting astride on top facing him. and oneness grow as you just sit there looking into the face of your beloved. other things may just happen by themselves. Each moment is prized for itself and is not experienced as a stepping stone to what will happen next. Let your love.just to look into the eyes of your beloved without any need to touch or do anything else. Let them pass as part of the dance of life. Instead let your gaze rest gently on the bridge of the nose directly between the eyes. your hands can touch each other and caress a large part of each other's body. As long as there is a oneness flowing between you and your partner. You will usually notice a light spot where the nose joins the forehead. the lips -the entire face. any sexual activities may be enjoyed as part of the drama. Continue this until you find it completely enough -. This is know as the Maithuna position in the ancient Eastern science of Tantric yoga. This delicate beauty of the here and now can only be found when you and your partner flow as one consciousness. But do not hold onto any of these perceptions. In this position you can gaze into each other's eyes. The cues you need are there -you only need to let them into your consciousness. you may wish to begin the sexual dance by sitting facing each other and looking into each other's eyes. Perhaps .Become completely sensitive to every nuance of your partner. This should be enough -. You do not have to strive for or reject any particular sexual positions -.until you experience that your mind is emptied of restless designs and nothing more is desired. the nose. When the woman is sitting on top she is able to sensitively modulate the degree of stimulation during intercourse so that arousal proceeds in a mutually heightening way.where your consciousness operates is completely vital. The face of your partner will assume many forms and shapes. Your verbal and non-verbal communication should be so effective that you know whether your partner is enjoying the flow of events. This is oneness.it is all beautiful. Then as love and oneness grow. It should never be necessary for him or her to reject an insensitive action. Search for this circle of light and hold onto it. To experience your sexual partner on the fourth level of consciousness.
When your consciousness is no longer focused on an addictive demand for sex. the exquisite sensations are still there and they are more fully and consistently enjoyed. Your mind puts you in different places and leads you to experience different things to help you grow in consciousness.you may sometimes wish to enjoy this position for an hour or more with your partner without reaching a climax. You now realize that the irritations you felt when someone did not go to bed with you (or when things did not happen as you had planned when you did go to bed) were given to you by your life to help you grow into higher consciousness. You realize that your mind creates the world in which you live. . It will enable you to completely enjoy every part of the here-and-now experience that life is offering you. You now see that every sexual experience has helped to set the stage for your present growth into higher consciousness. On the fourth level of consciousness. sex is sought as a way of growing in love and oneness. This will free your consciousness of the expectation of something that is to happen in the future. you will experience the optimal happiness that awaits you. On the fifth level. You see the sexual dance as part of the drama of your life and you know that when you are open. You are now completely free from all vulnerability to grasping or disappointment. So you learn to use sex (as well as everything else you do in your daily life) to accelerate you on your journey into higher consciousness. You can flow with whatever happens. accepting. You can completely enjoy each moment for itself. This growth will open the doors to your enjoying sex on a higher level of consciousness. you become more aware that life is boundlessly generous in sending you everything you need for happiness -even more than you can possibly need. You realize that it gave you second level happenings which enabled you to experience disappointment and suffering in your sexual activities so that you could grow to higher levels. and loving.
Chapter 22 The Optimal Use of Your Biocomputer The human biocomputer (or brain) is a fantastically sensitive instrument with enormous capabilities. But like any complex tool, it cannot be used optimally unless cautions and training are given to the user. We can easily be misled into the illusion that our consciousness is aware of what is really happening both inside our biocomputer and in the outside world of our body and the people and things around us. Our consciousness is somewhat like the president of a large business who has information on a small part of the space-time events that are going on in the many offices and factories of the corporation. The president receives preprocessed abstracted information. Normally, he works from abstractions of abstractions. It is therefore most important that he be conscious of this abstracting process. Similarly, you and I, as users of our magnificent biocomputers, should realize that our consciousness can only be aware of perhaps one-millionth of the incoming information each second of the day. Every hair on our body is connected with our biocomputer. All of our internal organs are constantly sending information to and receiving information from our great biocomputer -- usually on levels below our consciousness. Our receptor organs of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, plus the kinesthetic senses which give information regarding our body are continually sending in millions of impulses per second toward our biocomputer. The eye alone is connected to the biocomputer with over two million nerve fibers. The ears are connected to the biocomputer by over a hundred thousand nerves. This tremendous mass of data going into our biocomputer second by second would be absolutely overwhelming if it were not for the underlying systems of organization that automatically abstract, classify, suppress, or distribute this huge flood of incoming sensory information. Our consciousness operates on preprocessed, filtered abstractions of abstractions received from various parts of our biocomputer. THE ABSTRACTING PROCESS Our universe is made up of matter and energy. Every material object is composed of atoms, which in turn are made up of even finer subatomic particles such as electrons. These are in an incessant state of zizzy-fast motion. Atoms group together to form molecules, which are still too fine to be registered by our five senses unless special instruments, such as an
electron microscope, are used. The smooth table that I experience with my fingers is an abstraction from the table on the atomic level that is composed of flying atoms. A characteristic of the abstracting process is that some aspects are left out each time there is an abstraction. When our senses report the smoothness of a table, obviously a fantastic number of characteristics are left out. Our senses "manufacture" a smooth sensation by abstracting from the colloidal, molecular, atomic, and subatomic activity that lies behind the object reported by our sensory equipment. Our senses do not permit us to tune in to reality -- they only pick up that small aspect of reality that is transmittable through electromagnetic waves. Further abstractions take place when these are projected by the lenses of our eyes onto our retinas and transformed again into electrochemical impulses that proliferate throughout our brains. As the circuits of our biocomputer are activated by the huge stream of incoming electrical impulses, even more abstracting takes place. The tiny portion selected for projection onto the screen of our consciousness represents a highly processed abstraction of an abstraction of an abstraction, etc. Our senses and our rational mind do not tune in to the world as it is. the picture of the world that comes into our consciousness is mostly a creation of the human biocomputer with its vast memory bank and distorting addictive programming. These processed products that reach our consciousness reflect the limitations and idiosyncrasies of our biocomputer and the programming from which it operates -- just as much as they reflect the outside energies that spark the process. The part that a hen plays in the production of an omelette is analogous to the part the outside world plays in producing the stuff that is projected onto the screen of our consciousness. When we realize how our minds manipulate, suppress, change, and distort, we begin to perceive the awesome way in which our heads create our world. Although the human biocomputer works as an integrated system, it is possible to point out certain neural structures that are especially important to the student of human consciousness. These are: 1. The Cerebral Cortex The cerebral cortex is a thin outer covering of the side and upper parts of the convoluted surfaces of the brain which has from ten billion to thirteen billion cortical cells. These brain cells and their connections are the structures that enable our remarkable rational mind to be aware of being aware, to use words
and symbols, and to comprehend complex systems of thought, such as mathematics, science, and art. Generally, other animals have only a fraction of the cortical cells that are our birthright as human beings. Although we possess this remarkable equipment, we are not automatically experts in how to use it. Special training (such as the instructions contained in this book) are required to operate in the higher states of consciousness which represent the optimal functioning of our human biocomputer. Unless you have freed your biocomputer from consciousness-dominating addictions and demands, your cerebral cortex will continually chew over a situation in which you do not have what you want. Your rational mind will churn away with such questions as, "What did I do that resulted in my not getting this? What can I do to get it in the future? Are people trying to block me? Do people really like me?" Every word that is channeled into your consciousness by your rational mind separates you by a milli-second from the deepest levels of here-and-now awareness. To be sensitive to the deepest levels, your Conscious-awareness must be attuned to the finer energies in the world outside of you and to the finer energies that arise from the complex operation of your biocomputer below conscious levels. We can live predominantly at the fourth level without completely calming our minds. But to find the unitive state of mind that is characteristic of Cosmic Consciousness, it is vital that we control the generation of thoughts that continue the illusion of separateness. As long as our cerebral cortex is continually active in introducing and following one thought after another, our consciousness will not be sensitive to the finer energies. A degree of quieting of the rational mind will automatically occur as you reprogram your addictions. But to reach the highest levels of consciousness, the Living Love Catalyst (explained in Chapter 13) will help in further quieting the activity of your rational mind. This quieting process may be measured by an electroencephalograph that detects alpha waves and beta waves. The subject-object activities of the first three Centers of Consciousness generally produce beta waves. As we go into the Fourth and Fifth Centers of Consciousness, our cerebral cortex begins to produce more alpha waves. 2. The Limbic System
increase the adrenalin in your blood. etc. It will send out impulses which travel through the thalamic area and trigger the release of hormones that cause you to feel upset. you reinforce the functioning of the septal region. sharp-pointed prods to make us do that which we have associated in the past (whether correctly or incorrectly) with our happiness. and to use the facilities of the cortex for analyzing such data. The activation of this system helps to release us from emotional tension. One of its major functions is to compare the incoming stimuli from the body and the sensory receptors with the programmed instructions that have been put into it by our experiences to date. safety. etc. fear. anger. When you consciously place your attention on finding the most appropriate method to use in each situation. This results in rapidly quieting uptight feelings. speed up your heart rate. and do other things to prepare you for a fight or flight reaction. This system that controls emotional feelings does everything it can (by enticing us with pleasure or forcing us through fear or anger) to make us follow the programming we have put into it. increase your blood sugar. The hippocampus (which is part of the limbic system) plays a part in evaluating the incoming stimuli in terms of one's past experiences. and reducing the flow of adrenalin pouring into the bloodstream. All of the Five Consciousness Growth Methods are designed to enable you to activate the septal area. Because of these lowconsciousness instructions still resident in our biocomputers. In other words. teachers. The amygdala (another component of the limbic system) functions to intensify an emotional response whenever the incoming stimuli do not fit the expected patterns. The limbic system interacts with the cerebral cortex to pick up perceptions and memories. whenever anything new and unexpected happens. most of the programming that directs the activity of our emotions consists of antiquated patterns that we programmed during infancy and early childhood when we were not sufficiently conscious to clearly evaluate the addictions of our parents.One of the underlying processing systems of the brain is the limbic system that plays a paramount part in the generation of emotional feelings. The biological function of the limbic system was to help our ancestors survive the perils of the jungle. in most social . Unfortunately. the amygdala may immediately begin to generate an emotional reaction such as anxiety. Another part of the limbic system is the septal region which plays a part in toning down our emotional reactions. calming the pounding heart. and emotional well-being. These emotional feelings act as dominating.
The Reticular Activating System Another part of our biocomputer of paramount interest to the student of consciousness is the reticular activating system (RAS). sensation.you over-emphasize the small . our Conscious-awareness remains a captive audience of our low-level security. Anatomically. The activities of the RAS have traditionally been referred to by the term "ego. and power addictions (and even subtler ones) and continually direct your energy toward enhancing them. your RAS is probably blocking out auditory sensations so that you are not aware of sounds around you. Our understanding of the vital functions of the RAS is based on new research within the past decade. Even as you read these words. and has probably been suppressing information on whether your body is comfortable so as to permit you to keep your attention on this book. However. shall be reported to your consciousness. our real safety. You do not see the world as it is -. We respond to words and personality interactions as though they were tigers about to devour us. Your RAS interacting with your programming determines the world you perceive. 3. The RAS decides from one moment to the next what incoming sensory information. Thus the limbic system operates below the level of consciousness as directed by our programmed addictions. The RAS is one of the brain's most important action systems for it literally functions as the "doorkeeper" to our consciousness. sensation. etc.situations we end up doing that which violates our best psychosomatic interests. and power programming. Our consciousness usually becomes aware of fear. jealousy. if any. The RAS can put you to sleep or it can wake you up." This is the mechanism that uses your emotions as pleasure-pain whips that force you to guard your security. Until we train ourselves in the optimal use of our biocomputer. and our genuine happiness. your RAS is programmed to override your concentration on the book so that it will immediately pass on to you the fact that someone just entered the room and mentioned your name. the RAS can shut off incoming stimuli so that you can concentrate. anger. the RAS is a cone-shaped complex of nerves radiating from the brain stem. after these emotional backups of our addictions have been initiated. If your consciousness is deeply occupied.. The nerve fibers of the RAS filter incoming sensory information and determine whether it is to be a part of the very tiny trickle of information that is permitted into our precious consciousness.
your RAS has been so conditioned that it does not regard a thundering.to say nothing of repercussions in the limbic area! The RAS maintains a two-way exchange of information with the cortex. The information that is most likely to dominate his consciousness involves military matters. these sounds would cause the RAS to immediately awaken the individual and dominate his consciousness with the thundering clatter -. You will see everything (both the dualistic and the non-dualistic) as a manifestation of the energy of love. the RAS is affected by what is going on in our consciousness as well as playing a paramount part in determining what is introduced into our consciousness. To use our great biocomputer optimally. the RAS acts somewhat like the President of a country during a war. In these clear-seeing levels. you are no longer unbalanced by egocentric perspectives. and power. As you progress to the sixth and seventh levels. His consciousness is no longer dominated by the urgent "survival-threatening" war communiqués. the RAS is most likely to pass on to our consciousness such "military matters" as security. if you live next to a railroad track. When we operate on lowerconsciousness levels. sensations. It works on the basis of the strength of the electrochemical impulse and whether the nerve impulses fit programmed patterns. As this new Living Love programming begins to feed into the operation of our biocomputer. and then your love will create your world.slice of the world that resonates with your fears. As you grow into higher consciousness. it will permit you to experience the world as an intricately beautiful complex of here and now energies that give you everything you need for evolving into a fully conscious being. it relieves the RAS of the dominantly urgent instructions inherent in the lower Centers of Consciousness. As the doorkeeper to our consciousness. The RAS does not analyze or interpret incoming information. hopes. For example. For someone whose RAS has not been trained in this manner. demands. desires. and expectations. it is necessary for us to repeatedly and definitely give instructions to ourselves to eliminate the old programming and to replace it with non-addictive preferential programming. you escape from seeing the world through the lower-level filters that bias your perception. the President can give his attention to all aspects of the country. your RAS will interact with love and acceptance programming. When we operate on lowconsciousness levels. house-shaking series of sounds as unusual while you are asleep. The functioning of the RAS . When peace comes. When your RAS is programmed to emphasize the Fifth Center of Consciousness.
" You watch your body and mind perform an ever-changing scenario of thoughts. You realize that you have no fixed self or fixed individuality that remains intact. and actions. acceptance. you no longer identify the essence of you with your body." It begins to function as a vehicle for permitting actions which maintain a continual harmonious flow between your being and your environment at all times. Such a being encourages the growth of everyone around him by the power of openness. but a being voluntarily engaged in the evolvement of consciousness. your programming. You are no longer an "individual" in the ordinary sense. It ceases to be an instrument for the gratification or pacification of one's personal conditioning including the mores and folkways of one's "tribe. At this level there is a total surrender so that the entire world around you participates in the unfoldment of your life." As you grow in consciousness toward the higher levels. or your rational mind-stuff. your worldly status. As the RAS responds to your efforts to uplevel your programming. feelings.thereby permits a changed flow of energy. and oneness. Your name and your ego-based memory no longer give you the illusion of being an "individual. you gradually diminish the intricate webs of emotion-backed demands that you mistakenly identified as your "self. sensations. . You deeply experience your essence as being pure Conscious-awareness that just watches the drama of your life as it is acted out on the myriad stages of the world.
THREE TYPES OF PROGRAMMING In the Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness. 2. our biocomputer does not connect the fulfillment or lack of . 2. our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction! And we are thereby even more deeply enmeshed in an endless network of emotion-backed demands that yield continuous threat. ADDICTIVE PROGRAMMING. our consciousness will be dominated by feelings such as fear. Happiness is a psychological state arising from more or less continuous pleasure. anger. This type of programming is tied in with emotional responses produced in the limbic areas of our biocomputer. and unhappiness. jealousy. Even when we get what we addictively want. Happiness varies inversely with addictions. Pleasure comes from that which we tell ourselves we want to accept.Chapter 23 The Programming of Happiness and Unhappiness In this chapter we will set forth three types of basic programming for your biocomputer and show the way they operate to produce unhappiness. resentment. we think in terms of three types of programs for our biocomputer: 1. DEFINITIONS First we need three definitions: 1. frustration. or bliss. or anxiety. and emotional tension we experience when life repeatedly gives us what we do not want to accept. The use of this type of circuitry makes us experience varying degrees of emotional tension regarding our fears and desires. When we have Preferential Programming. happiness. When our biocomputer processes the incoming sensory information and finds that it threatens the fulfillment of any one of our addictive programs. tension. Unhappiness is a psychological state arising from the more or less continuous disappointment. PREFERENTIAL PROGRAMMING. Bliss is a state of continuous happiness. 3.
BLISS PROGRAMMING. When Condition N occurs and we do not receive criticism. the effect on our consciousness is short-term disappointment. Let us suppose that you dislike criticism and that your biocomputer is programmed to give you feelings of resentment and anger when someone criticizes you. 3." If he has Preferential Programming for sunny skies during a picnic. etc. The nature of all life is that we "win" some and we "lose" some.fulfillment with the limbic areas in such a way that emotional responses of fear. "I dislike criticism. the variable life reality is that sometimes we will receive criticism (Condition P -stimulus present) and sometimes we will not receive criticism (Condition N -stimulus not present). are produced.Security. and the rain comes. and Power. resentment. winning and losing are one. anger. Sensation. it is possible to work toward what we call Bliss Programming. When life gives us Condition P. He gathers the things together and continues to enjoy the picnic in the shelter of a gazebo or the car. The flow of the here-and-now appreciation of life is not upset when you have Preferential Programming. jealousy. This diagram illustrates the problem of finding happiness when our biocomputer is programmed with fears and desires that are backed up by emotional circuitry. we experience neither . if one has Addictive Programming regarding clear weather during a picnic. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world today operate their biocomputers with this type of programming that produces unhappiness in varying degrees. This may be called "Addictive Dislike Programming" in which you tell yourself. in which we are criticized. When we unitively merge with everything. frustration. For example. Bliss Programming enables us to totally break our dependence on the actions of people or any external conditions (including our bodies). Let's see why." Regardless of our likes or dislikes. he will upset himself if it rains and his "whole day is ruined. Bliss Programming permits us to achieve a state of continuous happiness that is not related to any variable life realities. or suffering. When a person has escaped from all of his Addictive Programs and has enjoyed the happiness-yielding Preferential Programs for a sufficient period of time. he just notices that his preference is not being realized. THE MECHANISM OF UNHAPPINESS Diagram 1 on the next page shows the mechanism of unhappiness that is associated with the first three Centers of Consciousness -.
However. Condition P Addictive Dislike Programming. If all of the above four conditions are equally probably. 37. We can call this factor "The Mosquito Effect.5% of the time. you are not being criticized. not being starved -. our life will have the following pelasure-suffering ratios: Sufferi ng 25% Pleasur e 12. Condition N Addictive Desire Programming.5% Addictive Dislike Programming. Right now. Unfortunately. is a theoretical model of a single addiction to help us understand the mechanism of happiness and unhappiness. it may have no effect on our consciousness.disappointment nor pleasure. we experience short-term disappointment and suffering.5% 25% 25% ____ 50% ____ 37. and suffering. Condition P Addictive Desire Programming.5% will be without either suffering of pleasure. consider the pleasure a man feels who is pardoned from the electric chair! Now let's see what happens in those instances in which our biocomputer operates with Addictive Desire Programming. Condition N." . not being beaten up physically. and 12." If the variable life reality offers us Condition P in which sex occurs. In other words. Condition N The above assumptions imply that half of our life will be spent in experiencing disappointment. Addictive Dislike Programming. when we have programmed ourselves to desire sex. there is a factor that operates to keep us from experiencing pleasure even 37.5% No Effect 12. However.5% ____ 12. Suppose you have the programming "I desire sex. and life gives us Condition N in which sex does not occur. For example. the effect on our consciousness is to experience a shortterm pleasure. will bring pleasure.and the fact that these things are not happening results in no feeling of either disappointment or pleasure since your consciousness is not preoccupied with the matter. if one's consciousness is preoccupied with a situation.5% of the time we will experience pleasure. frustration. of course. This.
disappointment. and power addictions! Neurosis and psychosis (as well as the garden variety of anxiety. For the state of happiness is experienced only when we have an almost continual experience of accepting whatever is here and now in our lives. the remaining 10 percent will nag our consciousness. Since infancy. Many individuals can use Addictive Desire Programming coupled with Condition N to feel frustration and suffering if they cannot afford the latest model automobile that Detroit is offering as a solution to one's security. we have expanded the half dozen simple demands we place upon our world into literally hundreds of emotion-backed demands or addictions.If you are trying to sleep and there are ten mosquitoes whining around your head at night. It is remarkable that human biocomputers function even as well as they do when you consider that every second we are processing millions of incoming nerve impulses to ascertain which patterns have furthering or depriving effects on the myriad of likes and dislikes with which we have blithely programmed ourselves. it only takes one mosquito whining around your head and biting you to keep you awake. And you have hundreds of such "mosquitoes" buzzing around your head! When we were born into this world. But even though you are 90 percent effective in eliminating the mosquitoes. to which we would respond by crying. Even if life gives us 90 percent of what we want and protects us from 90 percent of what we dislike or fear. frustration. it only takes one dislike or fear or one unfulfilled desire with strong emotional programming to intermittently or even continuously dominate your consciousness. We had Addictive Desire Programming regarding eating from time to time. and suffering) are all directly attributable to the very complex addictive emotional circuitry with which we have burdened ourselves. it may take only one addiction to keep us from experiencing happiness. we were programmed with several simple desires and fears. perpetuate the churning of our rational mind to "solve the problem. For example. Similarly. THE MECHANISM OF HAPPINESS . Just as one mosquito buzzing around our head can keep us awake at night. dominate our perceptions." and otherwise keep us from experiencing the state of happiness. sex. we had Addictive Dislike Programming about loud noises that startled us. you may get up and with considerable effort manage to get rid of most of them.
just like birds flying across the sky. if my consciousness is not at all concerned with the tires. When we have Preferential Programming. Hence. When sex does not happen. I will experience shortterm pleasure if the tire takes me to the service station. there is a feeling of pleasure. . we will be free to enjoy whatever there is to enjoy while we're changing the tire. sex is a preference rather than an emotion-backed addiction. frustration. we can accept whatever life variables might present themselves without triggering the emotional feelings of disappointment. We simply observe the reality of the flat tire. all happenings just pass by as part of our here and now -. Preferto Programming with Condition P brings us pleasure. the fact that the tire does not go flat has no effect on my feelings of pleasure or suffering. For when we have upleveled our addictions to preferences. When Condition N occurs coupled with Prefer-not-to Programming. Diagram 2 shows that no frustration or suffering is possible in a life situation that has Preferential Programming. But when it does happen. Prefer-not-to Programming offers either short-term pleasure or no effect on one's feelings. and we immediately start doing whatever we need to do to get it changed. there is no effect on happiness. Suppose. Prefer-not-to Programming (Condition P) and Prefer-to Programming (Condition N) do not produce either suffering or pleasure. Since our consciousness will be free of the negative feelings triggered by Addictive Programming. if one has Prefer-not-to Programming such as "I prefer not to have a flat tire on my car. When we enjoy Preferential Programming.A study of Diagram 2 shows that happiness becomes an effective reality in one's life to the degree that we convert our Addictive Programming into Preferential Programming -. Perhaps our consciousness will permit us to appreciate the physical motions we engage in when we efficiently change a tire.the kind that does not activate negative emotions. If I know air is leaking slowly from a tire and the service station is one block away." one will not suffer frustration when life throws a flat tire at us (Condition P). we will experience one of two possible effects depending on whether our consciousness is preoccupied with the matter. for example. We may notice things in the world around us that would have been otherwise unobserved and thus not enjoyed. Similarly. the flat tire will give us neither pleasure nor suffering. However. and suffering.
5% No Effect 25. of course. Happiness. I am trapped in the illusion that I can .If all four conditions are equally probable.0% 12. here are the improved odds you get with each addiction you can uplevel to a preference: Sufferi ng Prefer-not-to Programming.5% ____ 62.0% 25. Condition N Prefer-to Programming.5% 25. Since a mature adult in these higher consciousness levels will have many preferential circuits. two of the four will have no effect on our feelings.5% Since Preferential Programming can insulate us from the "downs" in life. When our biocomputers instantly scan the actions and words of all of the people around us in terms of the degree of threat or assistance to realizing our Addictive Programming. the opportunities for pleasure are continuous or almost continuous. Based on our simplified theoretical model. With Preferential Programming. real love is impossible. The addictive Programming shown in Diagram 1 indicates that the likelihood of suffering exceeds that of pleasure if all four conditions are equally probable. which is more or less continuous pleasure. we are then free to enjoy only the "ups. The love that is most common in our culture is the illusion of love in which I can love you only to the extent that you do not threaten my addictions and to the extent that you help me realize my addictive desires. flows from the unconditional acceptance of another person. Condition P Prefer-to Programming. For happiness is the continuous or almost continuous experience of getting what you are willing to accept. we have vastly improved the pleasure-suffering ratios. Condition N ____ 0% Pleasur e 12. is not a real possibility. one of the four will bring us pleasure.0% ____ 37. Real love. and one will bring either no effect or will bring pleasure." This type of programming is characteristic of the Love Center of Consciousness and the Cornucopia Center of Consciousness. Condition P Prefer-not-to Programming.
You live in a warm Ocean of loving and caring. For when I have Prefer-to or Prefer-not-to Programming. The days are past when your Conscious-awareness was dominated by emotionbacked fears or desires. this conditional type of love immediately goes out the window! Real love is possible when I reprogram my biocomputer with Preferential Programming. you open up the possibility for an even further step in consciousness growth. When your consciousness is in the Conscious-awareness Center. happenings! As soon as you begin to hinder rather than help me with my addictions. When you have Preferential Programming in almost all areas of your life. there is nothing you can do that enables me to make myself feel frustration or suffering." And the "winning" will occur more and more as my consciousness dwells in the Love Center and in the Cornucopia Center. I can then unconditionally accept everything you do or say -regardless of whether I am willing to do or say the same things myself. I can regard you as helping me find pleasure in life. there is no way I can "lose" and there is definitely a way that I can "win.love you only to the degree that you help me obtain Addictive Desire. contentment. you still have Preferential Programming. or Condition N (in which a desired or preferred thing does not occur) are irrelevant to one's continuous happiness or bliss. etc. loving world for you to live in. BLISS PROGRAMMING The ultimate state in the Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness is generated by "Bliss Programming. Condition N. By continually living with the programming that yields happiness. On the drama level where your body and mind are agreeing with others. You have gradually converted your perception of people and things around you from a subject-object basis to a cognitive framework of love and acceptance." The primary characteristic of Bliss Programming is that the feelings of continuous happiness or bliss are not related to any outside happenings. earning money. calm place within. you witness the drama of your life from a deep. In other words. making love. and Addictive Desire. . with Preferential Programming. But whenever you happen to play a part in increasing the probability of Condition P when I have Prefer-to Programming.. Condition P (in which the desired or preferred thing does occur). and joy. You live in the here and now. Condition P. your programming will create a peaceful. In other words. disagreeing with others.
where all people and things are perceived in a unitive manner. So you witness whatever is going on in the drama without fear or desire -. you just witness the drama of your life and that of everyone else. Just as the Preferential Programming described in Diagram 2 frees you from the tyranny of the subject-object way of relating to the outside world. In a similar fashion.but your Conscious-awareness is enjoying the entire show in a manner that is independent of the variable life realities. You are filled to brimming with awe and gratitude in the ecstatic knowledge of the inherent goodness of life. The biocomputer expands its perceptual framework so that every person and every object in the world is felt as if from within. But the real you is your Consciousawareness.the Cosmic Consciousness Center -. In this state your consciousness is continually free from subject-object separateness and alienation. When you go to a movie. you would be on an up-and-down rollercoaster experience of pleasure and suffering. . you can watch the beautiful happenings or the horrendous happenings -. The experience of this greatly expanded consciousness may be preparatory to a transition into the highest Center of Consciousness -. But when you see them on a movie screen. You become deeply attuned to the energies of the people and things around you.without any circuitry that could make you vulnerable to emotional ups and downs. Everything is increasingly perceived in an "us" place instead of with "me" vs.and just enjoy the entire show. If those things were happening to you. You play your part as an actor in the great cosmic play in which your body and mind and my body and mind (as well as everybody else's) interact on this stage we call the world. "them" perceptions. when your consciousness is in the Sixth Center. your ego and rational mind become calmer and quieter. the sixth level of consciousness frees you from relating your happiness to any variable life realities. they're just so much interesting stuff going by for your perception and enjoyment.But this is all seen as "drama." It is like watching your life on a movie screen. When your consciousness has lived for a period of time in a state of continuous happiness. Thus the Sixth Center of Consciousness can be regarded as an intermediate stepping stone in which your body and mind may operate as shown in Diagram 1 or 2 -. When you are in this Center on a fairly continuous basis. there arises within you a tremendous feeling of well-being and joy. The sixth level permits your Conscious-awareness to experience continuous happiness that is not related to anything people do or say or to any of the conditions in the environment around you.
and Power Centers of Consciousness. In a Unitive Perceptual Manner in which one feels no difference between one's self and all of the people and things outside. us automobiles. The capacity for rational discrimination is completely intact. The direction of energy flow toward the world is associated with the manner in which we work toward happiness." But on the feeling level. Both the outside and inside are one when personal boundaries have disappeared. In an Unconditionally Accepting Manner in which we experience the beauty of unconditional love associated with the Love Center. 2." . On the lower three levels of consciousness. In a Subject-Object Manner that is characteristic of the Security. It is the ultimate in love. There is just "us" happening -. We concentrate on preventing that which we addictively dislike. 3. us children. All is subject. and we try to manipulate and control the people and things in the world to bring about the conditions we addictively desire. THE DIRECTION OF ENERGY FLOW In the Living Love System we have three cognitive frameworks for perceiving and responding to people and things outside of us: 1. there is a complete unitive merging into a oneness. and the Consciousawareness Center. On the rational level one can still perceive people and objects in their aspect of "separateness. It is not the act of loving someone or something outside of you. us women.everything is experienced as a unitive oneness.us men. Do you unconditionally accept your arm? It just is." We put a torrent of energy into subject-object manipulation. us trees. we feel uncritically sure that the way to happiness lies in improving our odds in the middle column entitled "The Variable Life Reality. the Cornucopia Center. There is no outside -.there is no inside. But the results are never "enough. There is no longer anybody or anything to accept.Distinctions between inside and outside (although intellectually clear) are merged in one's experience. It should be clear that this oneness transcends love or unconditional acceptance. Sensation. us rocks. us birds -. This cognitive framework is associated with the Cosmic Consciousness Center.
Just enjoy the . Your energy flow then helps you become more loving and accepting. by following these two Pathways. Some of the conventional methods of consciousness growth may require years or decades for substantial results. you will experience a happiness and beauty in your life that is "enough. You will even have two of the Twelve Pathways to guide you on the "outside trip. The Seventh Pathway tells you to openly communicate with everyone so that you no longer feel and think of yourself as separate. Your actions will always be optimal if your head is in the right place. and loving. It all depends on how much energy you are ready to devote to eliminating frustration and suffering in your life. you will be enormously more effective in changing the people and situations around you than when you put all your addictive energy into modifying the external conditions of your life. However.When you realize that no amount of powerful striving is sufficient to bring about happiness through subject-object control of the people and things in the world. Once a major part of your consciousness resides in the Love Center. You realize that this method of producing happiness is within your conscious ability to achieve. So ACT FREELY -.and the remaining ten Pathways tell you exactly how to work on the inside world which is yourself." Even if you do not progress beyond this Center.but one should not get hung up on the spiritual score board. centered. you will have a wisdom and effectiveness in your life that will exceed that of most of the people in the world. it is not necessary to completely withdraw from the drama of manipulating the variable realities in your life. But this increased power to optimize your environment comes to you only to the degree that you effectively change yourself using the remaining ten Pathways." Two of the Twelve Pathways tell you exactly how to interact with the outside world around you -. you are ready to redirect your energy to the reprogramming of your biocomputer. The Living Love Methods offer the possibility of rapidly reprogramming your biocomputer so that some of the pleasure and joy of Centers Four and Five may sometimes be experienced in a period of months. The Ninth Pathway says to do anything you want to do provided you are tuned in.but don't be addicted to the results. The consciousness game is the greatest and most genuine of all life games -. How intensely do you want to reprogram your biocomputer to produce pleasure and happiness? How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have? You should keep your aims realistic and enjoy taking one step at a time.
At the end of your journey toward awakening.eternally beautiful here-and-now moment that your life continually offers you. the only thing you will find is your real self! .
frustration. suffering Either no effect or shortterm pleasure Short-term pleasure Short-term disappointment.Diagram 1 . Sensation.The Mechanism of Bliss . frustration.The Mechanism of Happiness Type of Programming: PREFERENTIAL (Non-Emotion-backed) PROGRAMMING Direction of Energy Flow: Unconditional Acceptance or Love Associated Centers of Consciousness: Love. suffering Condition N: "X" does not occur Prefer-To Programming Condition P: "X" "I prefer X" occurs Condition N: "X" does not occur Diagram 3 . and Power Centers The Programming of Your Biocomputer Addictive Dislike Programming "I dislike X" Addictive Desire Programming "I desire X" The Variable Life Reality Condition P: "X" occurs Condition N: "X" does not occur Condition P: "X" occurs Condition N: "X" does not occur Diagram 2 .The Mechanism of Unhappiness Type of Programming: ADDICTIVE (Emotion-backed) PROGRAMMING Direction of Energy Flow: Manipulating Subject-Object Relationships Associated Centers of Consciousness: Security. Cornucopia. and Consciousawareness Centers The Programming of Your Biocomputer Prefer-Not-To Programming "I do not prefer X" The Variable Life Reality Condition P: "X" occurs The Effect on Your Consciousness No suffering or pleasure Either no effect or shortterm pleasure Short-term pleasure No suffering or pleasure The Effect on Your Consciousness Short-term disappointment.
You are one with a continuous ecstatic bliss that is more powerful than the happiness that is dependent on spacetime events. .Type of Programming: BLISS PROGRAMMING Direction of Energy Flow: Unitive Oneness Associated Centers of Consciousness: Cosmic Consciousness Center The Programming of Your Biocomputer Bliss Programming On the 7th Center there is a unitive Cosmic Consciousness in which the conception of likes or dislikes is completely irrelevant. This programming is characterized by a unitive perceptual merging into the surrounding world. The Variable Life Reality Condition P: "X" occurs or Condition N: "X" does not occur The Effect on Your Consciousness Continuous Happiness or Bliss that is not related to any outside happenings.
there may be a certain amount of random behavior. The next time you put the rat near the tunnels. and then in a random fashion explore the tunnels until it finds the one with the cheese. But after a few repeated trials. and try tunnel three again. But the cheese isn't there any longer. Now we put the rat near the tunnels and he again runs down tunnel three to get the cheese.because it used to be there. sensation. It cannot formulate arguments or make . Werner Erhard has pointed out that even a rat does not usually get hung up in a fruitless repetition of lifetime patterns that are doomed to failure. It will sniff around. maybe look them over. Then you turn a rat loose at the entrances to these tunnels. look the scene over. and power demands that you programmed into your biocomputer during the first few years of your life. it will immediately run down tunnel three to get the cheese.and you put some cheese at the end of tunnel three. with no more cheese.whereas a human being may continue to run down the same tunnel for his entire lifetime trying to find the cheese that isn't there! Sooner or later the rat will give up on tunnel three. By continually trying to work the unworkable. The rat will come out. compute. Let's suppose there are seven tunnels arranged side by side -. since it doesn't have a rational mind to continually analyze. and start exploring the other ones. This would be equivalent to about five years in a human life. You are stuck in these ineffective ruts that make you like a yo-yo bouncing between pain and pleasure. you blindly repeat your mistakes in a manner that is perhaps more insistent than that of most lower animals. He may repeat this several times. the rat will stop going down tunnel three. One day in a rat's life corresponds to about one month in a human life. A rat cannot go to a library to read books about cheese and how one is supposed to be able to get it. but there is a much greater probability that it will go after the cheese in tunnel three. After the rat has done this a few times. A big difference between a rat and a human being is that a rat won't continue to run down the tunnel that does not provide cheese -. Suppose that for a period of 60 days the rat finds the cheese at the end of the third tunnel.Chapter 24 How To Make Your Life Work The main problem in making your life work is that your ego and rational mind keep you trapped in playing out the security. Then suppose the cheese is moved from tunnel three to tunnel four. and try to prove that the cheese is down tunnel three -.
Sensation Tunnel. They seemed to control all the cheese. and it cannot try to convince fellow rats that there really is cheese down tunnel three even though it is in fact not there. and Power Tunnel hunting for the cheese. and . When you looked at life. or whatever it was that you wanted. Sensation Tunnel. you had deeply programmed yourself by using crying to force changes in the people and things around you. you probably learned that the way to get the cheese (or whatever you wanted) was to scream loudly and try to power-trip your parents. Your immature biocomputer permitted your fears and desires to project on the screen of your consciousness only a tiny slice of the life realities around you. and that the really big stash of cheese is located at the end of the Love Tunnel and the Cornucopia Tunnel. How do you tell a young child that there is only a little dab of low-grade cheese which will never be enough at the end of the Security Tunnel. The overall picture of life was blocked out by the sides of the tunnel. and are beginning to explore the Love Tunnel and the Cornucopia Tunnel. Diagram 1 shows you why your life hasn't been working. You had no real choice in your life. because you had no wide-range perception of the people and events around you.speeches proving that the cheese should really be down tunnel three. You were largely unconscious of the overall picture. The fact that you are reading these words right now indicates that you are getting suspicious about the first three tunnels. and your ego kept your awareness focused on your fears and desires. you would get them to give you candy or let you stay up late at night. The nervous system of a rat will quickly adapt to the fact that the cheese just isn't where it used to be and it will start looking somewhere else. by using your Third Center of Consciousness. By age two. this was one of the few ways you had to get what you wanted from the world. When you were two years old. You know there must be more cheese in life than you have been getting. It is difficult to explain to a two-year-old that the lower three levels of consciousness generate unhappiness. If you cried and fussed enough. it was as though you were looking through the end of a long tunnel and saw only a tiny spot of the world at the end of the tunnel. At that time in your life. and Power Tunnel? How do you show a young child that he can have all the cheese that he could ever want by harmonizing his energies with the flow of the people and situations around him? How do you explain to a crying child that loving acceptance of the here and now is the only way that brings continuous happiness in life? And so you get used to running down the Security Tunnel.
fear.anger. It's just that your biocomputer kept making the same perceptual mistakes over and over and over again. You put most of your attention and energy into trying to manipulate the people and situations . things.Joy.Diagram 2 shows you how to clearly start getting the cheese that has always been waiting for you in life but which you couldn't get because you persisted in trying to find it down the wrong tunnel.people. reverence. alienating feedback ² [Back to Life Energies] DIAGRAM 2 HOW YOU CREATE HAPPINESS IN YOUR LIFE How you effectively improve your life ² Loving. DIAGRAM 1 HOW YOU CREATE UNHAPPINESS IN YOUR LIFE How you ineffectively try to improve your life ² Controlling life energies ² Life Energies . pleasure. situations in your life ² transmitted by your senses ² Your Addictive Programming ² emotional feelings are triggered ² The Experience You Create .you unconditionally accept and love yourself and others ² positive.Reprogramming Your Addictions to Preferences ² emotional feelings are triggered ² The Experience You Create . etc. unhappiness ² your resulting actions ² Your Feedback to Life Energies . unifying feedback ² [Back to Life Energies] Why isn't your life working as it should? What is pouring sand in the gears? The problem is simple: your programming continually directs you to find happiness by trying to change the life energies around you.you criticize and reject yourself and others ² negative. situations in your life ² transmitted by your senses ² Your Preferential Programming . It has always been workable. resentment. etc. accepting communication ² Life Energies . things. anxiety. Your life is naturally good. love. jealousy. happiness ² your resulting actions ² Your Feedback to Life Energies .people.
" "evil beings. your negative feedback begins to make a dramatic change in the response of the people and conditions around you. resentment. early years of your life. A human being trapped in the Wheel of Unhappiness does not realize that the world is not "doing it" to him. fear.. inept. Then this feeds back into your emotional programming and triggers more anger. And things become even worse in your life as the cycle turns and turns and turns in a downward spiral. It gives you reasons why they are "fools. This alienating subject-object feedback then begins to change the behavior of people and the characteristics of the life conditions around you (we're back to the top box in Diagram 1). jealousy. you respond with negative emotional feelings such as anger.when heaven is there all the time! The words and actions of people are sent by your various senses into the analytical and interpretive sections of your biocomputer. This feeds back into the people and situations around you and turns them against you even more. inferior. jealousy. Your rational mind criticizes other people and finds fault with them." "idiots. And you react by criticizing yourself more and criticizing others more.. and create your experience of unhappiness (see right-hand box and bottom box in Diagram 1). fear. You thus create an environment of antagonistic people and situations. crazy. You then begin to criticize and reject yourself and others. You communicate with words. (See Diagram 1). facial expressions. Now let's follow the cycle around to discover how you create a "hell" from the world in which you live -. etc." or whatever. that people are horrible. The defenses of ego (aided and abetted by the . or up-tight emotions. and that there is no way of "making it" in life. hopeless." "uncaring monsters.in your life. Your rational mind may accept this downward spiral as proof that your life is impossible. This leads you to the fourth phase of the Wheel of Unhappiness. When outside patterns do not fit your inner programmed patterns. and body gestures that either you are rotten or the world is rotten. dumb. your ego and your rational mind continue to direct most of your energy into changing the life energies around you to fit your addictive inner programming (see the top box in Diagram 1). vocal tones. In other words. Now the Wheel of Unhappiness begins to turn and the people around you begin to respond with words and actions that reflect their negative feelings to your criticism and rejection.. or perhaps both. . Or you may use programming that turns your rational mind against yourself and creates the experience that you are inadequate. Since you found some cheese at the end of tunnel three during the immature. or whatever.
A higher consciousness being realizes that the people and things in his or her life are only minimally changeable by a consciousness that creates the experiences of life through the three lower Centers. And. The only changes that you can make. When you are trapped in the Wheel of Unhappiness.rational mind) make it extremely difficult for him to realize that he is doing it to himself. Although this was one of the few responses available at age two. A higher consciousness being realizes that there is only one way to genuinely change the words and actions of people to fit his inner programmed preferences without turning the Wheel of Unhappiness -. of course. The problems you had at age two are gone -. are those changes that gently and easily happen when you make a loving . The same people could have responded in an entirely different way. you would realize that you cannot afford the price in lost happiness that you pay for the precious few changes you may force on the surface. whenever you perceive attempts to dominate you or control you. you develop a great resistance. you keep yourself trapped by trying to manipulate and change the people and things in your life. And so. you don't want people trying to force you to change.and that is through loving communication from a consciousness that is not emotionally upset. you may make certain changes in the life energies around you. A person trapped in the Wheel of Unhappiness will spend almost all of his or her energy trying hopelessly to manipulate the people and situations to fit his or her programming. These obsolete solutions deprive you of the opportunity to fully experience and enjoy your life. you have no conception that you are futilely directing your energies in the useless attempt to use conniving and emotional pressure to change the words and actions of people around you. What he doesn't see is that his continuous criticism and rejection of the outside life energies have conditioned people to respond to him in that way. And they are. the more you try to go the other way. The more they try to change you. unlike the rat who adapts to the fact that the cheese is no longer located in the third tunnel. they could have been loving and supporting.yet you are unconsciously playing out the methods you used back then. After all. When you apply a heavy enough power trip. and the Wheel of Happiness could have been set in motion. it is by no means the most effective response available to a human adult that has the potential for higher consciousness. But if you were conscious of the enormous separation and alienation that your criticism and manipulation creates with the people around you. He can prove that people are really treating him that way. At any time. without paying a large penalty.
There are no methods available that will enable you to successfully change all of the outer life energies around you to fit your inner emotional programming. here and now. There is a huge supply of cheese waiting for you. Their egos and rational minds do not have to stay in a paranoid or defensive place. without conditions. When you work on your inner adaptation. How do you stop the downward spiraling of the Wheel of Unhappiness and start converting it into an upward Spiral of Happiness? You need to redirect your energy from trying to change the outer life energies. The more you lovingly accept people in your life.communication. sensation.D. and begin to groove in a loving. And so the third phase of Diagram 2 shows that you begin to feed back a loving acceptance of the people and situations around you. perceptiveness. and ability to love unconditionally will make you invulnerable to suffering. and power addictions that you formerly reflected or set off in them. you will find that the life situations and energies that used to create unhappiness will be neutral or positive in their effect on your happiness. Your energy. . to changing your inner programming (see Diagram 2). By using the Five Methods of Living Love. but the condition of your life would still remain the same -. and when they are with you they can begin to experience themselves free of security.you win some and you lose some. you should work on releasing yourself from your inner addictions and emotion-backed demands that are controlling or dominating your consciousness. or the knowledge of a Ph. so as to put people even more out of phase with your programming (as in Diagram 1). centered.. you can emotionally accept the people and situations in your life. your positive feedback can begin to powerfully affect the life energies around you. the more you free them to enjoy being around you. you have the capacity to change your own inner programming. but you can only get to it by working on your own inner programming so that. mutually supportive space with you. by reprogramming the emotionbacked demands you place on people and situations in your life. Instead of negatively affecting the life energies around you. They can just relax and enjoy. You could have the power of a king. When that won't do it. They begin to feel free and liberated around you. and loving no matter what they do. Just as your criticism strongly affects the life energies around you. This frees their energy to experience themselves and you without a "tunnel vision" effect. They develop a deep trust that you will remain tuned-in. the prestige of a movie star.
they don't have to walk around like they're tiptoeing on eggs all the time. you have now. since your loving feedback to the life energies around you is further intensified.for the most effective way to help them is to become a happy. loving.you are no longer an "effect" of the world around you -. their egos may begin directing their energy to do the things that you prefer. rejecting energy or accepting. and how your programming has been the only roadblock to your experiencing continuous happiness in life. Lectures or exhortations are only a sham that can be spotted as . And this can stimulate joyous feelings that create the experience of increasing happiness in your life. and turns in an upward spiral -. And by doing this. They can just relax and flow with their own inner vibrations and energies for they know that you won't make yourself upset. For your love modifies the life energies of people and frees them to love you and serve you. You have created a "miracle" -. how your life really wants to work. Just as you created the experience of unhappiness in your life by your continual negative feedback into the life energies around you. created the experience of happiness in your life. regardless of what they may do or say. the Wheel of Happiness turns and turns. And if they don't change. it doesn't matter -because it was only a "preference" anyway. Your upleveling of addictions to preferences enables you to love more and more (see Third Phase of Diagram 2). As they begin to love you in a deeper and deeper way.you have become a "cause" -. you are doing the most you can for other people -. It all depends on the quality and quantity of critical. in a god-like manner. peaceful feelings that spring from a deep harmony with the here and now of your life. which feeds back into your Preferential Programming so that even more enjoyment and happiness are created. Since you are largely free from Addictive Programming. You can now begin to demonstrate the miracle of creating happiness in your life. Your higher consciousness has created the beautiful world you live in. Now you know why your life is naturally good.a creative source. You know that you have the capacity to create the experience of happiness or the experience of unhappiness in your life. You see clearly how you have kept your life from working. and the Wheel of Happiness begins to turn.thus creating loving. loving energy that you feed back into the people and situations around you. conscious being.people may now begin to change their feelings in ways that begin to fit your Preferential Programming. Then your feelings of love multiply.
unless you are actually off the Wheel of Unhappiness. And once you realize that "happiness runs in a circular motion." you won't need to lecture or exhort other people to convince them. . They will be picking up on how you have jumped from the Wheel of Unhappiness to the Wheel of Happiness. And then you can share with them the Methods of the Living Love Way so that they can begin to create the experience of continuous happiness in their lives. and they will be asking you how you did it.another subtle method of manipulation and control -. and have the Wheel of Happiness turning joyously in your life.
You will not keep a fresh supply in the house. Or when you reprogram an addiction and uplevel it to a preference. you may find that there will be no change in your external actions.Chapter 25 The Purpose of Your Life A first step in your growth toward higher consciousness is to see clearly the enormous expenditure of fruitless energy that you are now putting into living out your addictive programming. Your addictive programming will no longer operate to make you unhappy when you are doing this necessary job. You may from time to time eat chocolate cream puffs. if you uplevel an addiction for not washing dishes to a preference. Your feelings of disappointment. the problem lies not in the action of putting chocolate cream puffs into your mouth -. If you are addicted to over-eating chocolate cream puffs. you may find that you are now able to consciously wash dishes.but you can also enjoy life if you do not eat cream puffs. For example. When you uplevel this addiction to a preference. but you are freed from an inner addiction that dominates your consciousness. To go into . irritability. The Living Love Way to Higher Consciousness does not teach you to repress the emotional programming that separates you from other people (for this causes psychosomatic diseases) or to express this duality and alienation (which is the traditional method of psychology and psychiatry). You will no longer let a large part of your calories be wasted on such relatively "empty" food with unfortunate consequences to your health. you may still enjoy a cream puff from time to time -. And so the energy that was previously drained into an addiction can now flow into channels that add to your happiness and joy.the problem lies wholly in the circuitry of your biocomputer that makes you a slave to this inner desire. anger. the outer behavior will take care of itself. When you reprogram an addiction." The remarkable thing about growing into higher consciousness is that it is only the release from the emotion-backed inner addiction that is required -you do not necessarily need to change your actions. When you use the Five Living Love Methods for reprogramming your addictions. jealousy. or fear are giving you urgent messages: "Here is an addiction that you must reprogram into a preference in order to live an effective and joyous life. Every addiction you have programmed into your head will separate you and make you suffer to a greater or lesser degree. you may find that you have no further interest in the external actions that you have been engaging in.
and the Five Methods enable you to eliminate the cause of your unhappiness. You will continually marvel at the way that the people and situations in your life are harmoniously functioning to meet your real needs. real love (unconditional acceptance of another person) was impossible. new people. effective. the Seven Centers of Consciousness. you must eliminate the cause of all feelings of duality. anger. In the past. We're all on the journey together! . you will find that you can love everyone unconditionally -including yourself. Now this energy can be channeled into the Five Methods to get free of the addictions that keep one trapped in greed. For it now makes you open to new experiences. And your consciousness may go back to the day when you first discovered the Living Love book that helped to show you the way to bring about this miracle in your life. As long as people were objects to be manipulated to help you achieve your addictions. You find that you now have everything you need to be happy. and wiser being. But did you discover it? Wasn't it the people and conditions of your life that offered it to you -. isolation. The Twelve Pathways. you have used the majority of your energy trying to control. dominate. and change the people and situations in your life. When you begin to live in the fourth level of consciousness. you no longer experience any person or any situation as a threat. When you reprogram your addictions. and separation that keep you from loving yourself and everyone and everything around you. And then a most remarkable thing happens. and delusion.because of your openness? Trace the major things that have happened to you since the day you first began your conscious growth toward becoming a more receptive. You begin to realize that a direct and rapid way to find happiness is available through using your negative emotional feelings to show you which parts of your biocomputer need reprogramming in order to enjoy every moment of your life. You will find that you have interacted with the people and conditions of your life to help you make wiser and wiser choices that have accelerated your continuing growth into higher consciousness. This new dimension of love produces a miracle in your life. You now find that you can love in a profoundly beautiful way that you never knew existed before. and new activities.higher consciousness.
When you begin to live on the Fourth or higher Levels. You find that you have discovered that all of the people in the grocery store are awakening beings who are there to help you in your journey toward higher consciousness.addictions of every kind. Your new non-addictive being changes the path of your daily doings from a tiresome drudgery into an energy-producing delightful panorama that passes before your eyes. No matter how many items you can't find. everything they do or say helps you grow into higher consciousness. This way of being. inflexible patterns. but you do it with a biocomputer that now permits you to enjoy every minute of the experience.you tune in to them at the beautiful place that is behind their lower-consciousness games. And you have the deep satisfaction of knowing that by living a higher consciousness life. Regardless of whether they know of the inner work that you are doing. and your vibrations of love affect those around you. your helpfulness. Anyone watching you might see you doing more or less the same things you used to do. becomes the source of that feeling of conscious satisfaction about the "rightness" and the meaningfulness of your life. disappointed. By relating to that place in them where they are love. or create suffering of any sort.It feels so unbelievably great to be liberated from the consciousnessdominating barrage of desires. You flow harmoniously with them at the place on the fourth level where they are pure love. you are also doing the most (without any striving) to help other beings in their growth toward higher consciousness. models of how the world should treat you -. your radiant inner being creatively changes the feelings and actions of the people and the vibrations of the situations that you come in contact with. They are helping you by creating situations in which your emotions reveal the hiding places of your addictions. expectations. Your trip to a grocery store becomes a beautiful experience. You give them the greatest gift of all -. demands. you temporarily put their consciousness into a higher place. you can no longer make yourself feel frustrated. And this can even be done with nothing more than a loving eye-to-eye contact or smile. And your smiles. or no matter how long you have to wait in line. more than anything you could ever achieve externally in life. but there is a new you doing them. A wonderful thing about the Living Love Way is that you can do it "alone" if need be. A beautiful thing about higher consciousness is that what is best for you is best for everyone else. Even . You still go to the grocery store to buy food. You can regard others as actors on the cosmic stage who are here to make you aware of your addictions.
you can then joyously share the keys that you discovered for unlocking happiness. And your love kindles the love of other people. you can use all of their actions. You will have been given the opportunity to explain it. and words to help you become free of your addictions. freedom. cleverly scheme. It simply means upleveling all their addictions into preferences. And as you reprogram your biocomputer and liberate yourself. cajole. or dominate your consciousness with comparisons of what is. they have now helped you grow even more rapidly toward the higher levels of consciousness. It will take them a while to really understand the awesome vastness of their addictions. and situations. and love that radiates from you irrespective of what they do or say. But the results in increased happiness and ability to love will arrive so rapidly that they will know they have at last found the answer to making life work. This transformation will be so unexpected and amazing to them that they will want to know what is happening inside of you.including yourself. you are permitting the world to give you the optimal that is obtainable for you. objects. And by helping themselves. You do not have to fight. they will be amazed at the simplicity of the method for growing into higher consciousness. Your constantly increasing flow of energy enables you to deeply feel that the world will automatically provide you with more than you need to be happy. or what should be in . emotional expressions. And if they are ready to hear. As you learn to process all of your incoming sensory data and your thoughts from the higher Centers of Consciousness. force. what was. They help you liberate even more energy for your own journey.independent of the changing world of people. And when they ask. You can show them how it is all found inside -. The energy of mutual helpfulness flows in loving relationships in a way that you previously obstructed by the subject-object way you treated the people around you. As a result of living in the Love Center and learning to harmonize your energies with the energies of the people in the world around you. they will begin to notice the extraordinary joy. the "problems" in your life disappear.though they may be driven by addictive programming that makes them irritated or hostile. Their vibrations of growing love and expanded consciousness are helping you live in a more beautiful world. Your growing freedom from addictions permits you to increasingly love everyone unconditionally -. and you will have discovered additional insights you need for your growth. This tunes you in to experience deeply the marvelous way in which your life is naturally rich and abundant.
When you have achieved a high degree of proficiency at using the Living Love Way -. you can get on top of an addiction. and joyous. anger. to be an effective typist one does not have to be perfect. anger. the adverse feedback of the surrounding world. If. you can actually enjoy being angry for a short while. if you continuously make yourself angry. You will then quickly rid yourself of any current nonsense whenever you catch yourself triggering fear. The state of unhappiness develops when an addictive experience goes on and on. unhappiness inevitably develops because of the continued hyperactivity of your autonomic nervous system. Here's some good news. lowered insight. If you are now using the Living Love Methods to free yourself from addictive programming. a page that has been consciously corrected on the spot is just as good as a page that was typed perfectly to begin with. However.with resulting lowered energy.you will find that you will get to the point where small bits of your old addictive . or irritation.the future. etc. that would be all right -. "What's the worst that could happen?" And then you may say. If you trigger anger. Thus perfection in eliminating all of your addictive patterns is not necessary in order for you to be happy all of the time. You may say. and the overwhelming cumulative effect of subject-object relationships -. It is not necessary to be one hundred percent free of emotion-backed addictions in order to experience continuous happiness. However. it will not usually affect your happiness level. irritation. resentment." And you find that life usually has a miraculous way of giving you an optimal amount of whatever it is that you need to be happy. but one must be a conscious typist and be able to recognize and correct errors quickly and almost automatically. For most practical purposes. within several minutes or even an hour or so. you must be almost free of addictions in order to keep them from exerting a downward drag that produces the experience of unhappiness. Happiness is a general level of good feeling that you generate when life gives you what you are prepared to accept. For example.when you see your life as a drama in which you use everyone and everything as a teaching that helps you to become more conscious -. for example. fulfilled. This general level is not affected if you can quickly recover from any experience of fear. This state becomes intense when you let one addiction after another pile up on top of you so that you are loading your biocomputer with several addictive models and expectations to which the world is not conforming. you deeply know that your emotional feelings of separateness are simply vestiges of your previous lower consciousness programming. and lowered love. "Well.I can still live and be happy even if that happens.
he will do it from a love consciousness that may often be more effective in reaching the people that he wishes to change. frustration. When you live in the Fourth and Fifth Centers of Consciousness most of the time. would he want to change anything? When one's experience of the here and now is no longer generated from an urgent security or power consciousness. he perpetuates the cause of all social injustice -. and do other things designed to encourage people to find the "us" space. and at the same time he experiences the beauty and perfection of expending his energy to uplevel the security. an infrequent quick dip into the first three Centers is of little significance to you. He understands that we create events in order to give us the experience we need to get free from the lower Centers. environmental pollution.? If one emotionally accepts everything. A Living Lover is free to exert energy in either fighting the symptoms of disharmony in the world or to expend energy in correcting the cause of man's inhumanity to man -. one is correcting the cause of social injustice -instead of just treating the symptoms. write letters. and hatred needed to build a better world? Will love consciousness release the energy needed to create a paradise on earth? As long as a person operates from the lower three Centers of Consciousness. etc. does he lose his effectiveness in doing his part to combat social injustices such as war. attend meetings. By one's being and actions. and the inability to love people unconditionally. Even though a person at the Fourth Center may carry a placard. A Living Lover constantly experiences a harmony and love above and beyond the daily drama of addictive strife. Therefore you don't have to be addicted to perfection -. and . The person who lives in the Fourth Center may make an even deeper contribution to correcting the disharmony of the world than the individual who works from the lower three Centers. economic exploitation.programming are just an occasional nuisance to you. When a person becomes an expert at emotionally accepting the here and now in life (and uplevels all addictions to preferences). does the Love or Cornucopia consciousness enable a person to be a socially responsible member of society? Are anger.which cause is always the addictions connected with the perception of life from the lower three centers. It will all happen at the rate that is just right for you. the determination to get what one wants without finding the "us" place. prejudice.just get on with your inner work.the treating of people as though they were "others. A Living Lover continually experiences the beauty and perfection of the world." the subject-object attitude toward people. sensation.
and that it is only the automated dance of our security. you develop a deep gut-level confidence that the Cornucopia will happen automatically to the degree that you are free from processing your thoughts through an addictive security. . sensation. you gradually develop the feeling that when you use the Twelve Pathways as your guide in everyday life situations. more powerful effectiveness. loving universe that we have created by our higher consciousness. peaceful. and more love than we could ever need to be happy.both individually and collectively. more delightful sensations. It's all perfect now. enough sex. the beauty and perfection are reflected by the continuous enjoyment of the Cornucopia that life is giving to us. sensation. As you get on with your inner work on yourself. keeping people from pushing you around. You realize that you can just live your life in a gentle non-striving. By getting rid of our emotion-backed addictions. and power consciousness. and expectations that make us reject what is. You realize you don't have to worry any more about enough loving friends. friendly. fulfilling lives -. the beauty and perfection of the world will consist of its ability to teach us what we need to know to uplevel our consciousness to the Fourth Center -. flowing way. etc. we discover that we can at all times enjoy the many "strawberries" that life is offering us instead of dominating our consciousness with the "tigers. demands." As we learn to totally surrender to what is. Based on your experience. and power consciousness. you can totally rely on the flowing harmony of the interactions of your energy and the energies outside of you to continuously give you more than you need to be happy. avoiding catastrophes that would ruin your life. Then the Cornucopia of life unfolds in the most marvelous way -.and we live continuously in a warm. enough food and shelter. sensation. enough enjoyable things to do. To the extent that the world is populated by individuals who generate their experience from the Fourth or higher Centers of Consciousness. we at last find more security. and power addictions that keeps us from experiencing that we have more than we need to be happy.power consciousness of one's fellow beings into the Love Center of Consciousness. and it's also perfect to expend energy to effect changes! To the degree that the world reflects the actions of individuals experiencing life through security. You realize that life is really set up to enable us to live happy.
hand in hand. we journey down the river of our lives toward the vast Ocean of Oneness that is our source and our destiny. and thus become One with the Ocean of Living Love. At last we have the profound joy of knowing: The purpose of our lives is to be free of all addictive traps. .And so.
These lines of endeavor never make enough change in the "win-some. we then unwittingly create another addictive demand that must be lived out in a robotlike fashion. The addictions we satisfy give us . Even when we win. fears. 3. Instead of realizing the "cornucopia" that life offers us. Even physical pain does not produce unhappiness unless one has an addiction for being free from pain. Addictions are programmed expectations. Most people are trapped in patterns of consciousness that result in widespread unhappiness. Unsatisfied addictions dominate our consciousness. lose-some" pattern to produce a high level enjoyment of life.Appendix 1 The Living Love Theory of Happiness 1. keep our rational minds churning. 4. alienation. perceive. or power. When one understands how the experience of happiness and unhappiness is generated. demands. interpret. In other words. or models of how the world should be that automatically trigger negative emotions such as anger. sensation and power programming causes us to make ourselves unhappy. we win some and we lose some. resentment. prestige. Our expectations and demands continue to dominate our consciousness and create an unsatisfactory experience of life as long as we have any addictive programming. etc. The Problem. lead our consciousness into "futuring and pasting" instead of enjoying the here and now. We usually attempt to change our win-lose odds by more money. jealousy. continuous conflict. Every addiction makes one vulnerable to suffering. fear. our programming creates lives characterized by tension and a low level of enjoying life. and act upon incoming stimuli is responsible for our inability to be happy one hundred percent of the time. not the pain. We are all beautiful beings but our lower consciousness security. The way we currently process. etc. that generates suffering." desires. and make us trigger negative emotions in an attempt to manipulate the people in the world around us. Basic Principle. The Predicament of Life. The changing energy stream of life in which we live satisfies some addictions and leaves others unsatisfied. it becomes evident that all unhappiness is due to addictive models that determine our perception and motivation. make us unable to love unconditionally. the unfulfilled addictive demands produce the experience of suffering and unhappiness. A Dilemma. grief. Happiness varies inversely with one's addictions. irritation. anxiety. It is the addiction. knowledge. "absolute necessities. 2.
to remain centered at all times. and to feel at home in the world. power. Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their responses to the incoming stimuli. Over 99% of the people in the world today are stuck with nervous systems that usually operate by blaming the outside world for any problems they experience. We organize our perceptions and energies into trying to make our lives work by programming that is ultra efficient at comparing the outside world with our inner addictive models -. When we operate on lower consciousness levels. to avoid subject-object manipulation. or anger that can generate the experience of unhappiness. to feel secure and invulnerable. grief. Unconditionally loving communication (which is not addicted to results) will usually permit the adjustments to occur that we need for harmonizing our energies. it is a dynamic system . frustration. and power addictions. Every addiction leaves us vulnerable. and love. to increase our insight and perceptiveness. The practical solution to the problem of continuously enjoying our lives is to re-train our biocomputers so that the first response to a life situation is to harmonize our energies with the outside world instead of trying to force the outside world to fit our inner patterns. when our biocomputers operate from preferential programming. The Living Love Way does far more than enable a person to passively adjust to the here and now of his or her life. Our ancestors. Regardless of whether or not we get what we want. That which satisfied an addiction soon tends to form a new addiction that our nervous system indiscrimately protects and enhances. This permits us to enjoy the here and now of our lives. and a shallow degree of warmth and love. diplomacy. fear. throughout eons of jungle life. or jealousy when they do not correspond. our happiness is not affected -. sensations. we are still vulnearable to fear. developed nervous systems that effectively guarded our species against external dangers. The Unworkable Solution. grief. we trigger emotions that generate forceful actions in an attempt to change the outside world so that it corresponds with our security. 5.thus triggering emergency alarms of anger. The result is a roller-coasting between pleasure and pain (which we try to ameliorate by increasing our skill at manipulation) meanwhile maintaining a social veneer of politeness. to love unconditionally.regardless of whether the outside world fits our preferences or not. 6. sensation. When our biocomputers are retrained to interact with our world in these ways. The Way To Happiness. we find that life gives us the optimum in security.only brief pleasure. preferences enable us to continually enjoy life.
for retraining one's consciousness to live an effective life that is continuously enjoyable. .
The Five Parts of Living Love THE LAW OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS: Love Everyone Unconditionally -. I am freeing myself from security. 2. .Including Yourself. your consciousness. plus the INSTANT CONSCIOUSNESS DOUBLER: Expand your love. sensation. Memorize the Twelve Pathways and apply them to your problems. 3. Use the Consciousness Focusing Method to accelerate the reprogramming of heavy addictions.Appendix 2 Summary . 2. Become more consciously conscious of the cause-effect relationship between your addictions and the resulting unhappiness. Be aware at all times of which Center of Consciousness you are using to perceive your world. I am discovering how my consciousness-dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it. Use the Catalyst ALL WAYS US LIVING LOVE as a tool for cognitive centering. 5. 4. THE TWELVE PATHWAYS: Freeing Myself 1. THE FIVE METHODS PLUS THE INSTANT CONSCIOUSNESS DOUBLER: 1. and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life. and thus destroy my serenity and keep me from loving myself and others.
but if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness. I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings. I act freely when I am tuned in.3. 9. think. I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience. I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me. I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel.unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future. Being Here Now 4. and loving. 8. say. Discovering my Conscious-Awareness 10. since hiding in any degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people. I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now -. 5. centered. and do (including my emotionbacked addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness. 6. I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth. for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me. . Interacting with Others 7. I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute-tominute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
and inner peace growing as I open all of the Centers of Consciousness. 3. The Security Center The Sensation Center The Power Center The Love Center The Cornucopia Center The Conscious-awareness Center The Cosmic Consciousness Center THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES: The purpose of our lives is to be free of all addictive traps. 5. 12. 7. perceptiveness. 6. THE SCALE FOR KNOWING YOUR CENTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS AT EACH MOMENT: The Seven Centers of Consciousness: 1. .11. and I feel my energy. 2. including myself. I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centers of Consciousness I am using. love. 4. and thus become One with the Ocean of Living Love. I am perceiving everyone. as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
This prepares you for your next step in opening toward a deeper acceptance and application of the Living Love Way in your daily life. If you constantly shop around. concentrate on that Method during the next month. And just what are you really surrendering? You are only surrendering the low-level programming that now keeps you disappointed. 3. Your spiritual growth will be directly correlated with the degree to which you surrender to the methods of your chosen path. put your full energy into perfecting your practice of the methods associated with your chosen path. Underline every sentence in the book that is especially significant to you. Underline Freely. and experiment with different combinations from various spiritual paths. Let all of the Five Methods help you in your growth. Reread This Book. . read at least five pages of this book every night just before going to sleep. you may fail to get the benefit in depth that would be found by intensely devoting yourself to a single path. Give Yourself the Benefit of All Five Methods. compare. To bring the words and ideas of the book into your moment-to-moment consciousness. 2. When you find your spiritual path. 4. On your first reading you will begin to develop an intellectual understanding. you should use all of the Five Methods. Avoid a Spiritual Soup. To avoid imbalance and lopsidedness. and unhappy in varying degrees. If you wish to grow at the fastest rate. This is only a first step toward illuminating your life with the Living Love Way. And gradually more and more of the book will be underlined as a sign of your growing integration. you will be giving yourself a maximum opportunity to liberate the hidden splendor within you.Appendix 3 How To Accelerate Your Growth in the Living Love Way Here are eight ways in which you can enormously accelerate your growth toward higher consciousness: 1. If you do this constantly. These will be the parts that you are now ready to receive in your here-and-now stream of consciousness. If you find that you are not using one of the Methods. upset. repeated readings are absolutely necessary. Surrender. 5.
you are just a dilettante playing spiritual games. You must be very perceptive in offering the Living Love Way to other people so that you do not create a duality when you are striving for oneness. Mary. without any words of recommendation. 8. Instead. These weekend trainings can enormously increase your progress in upleveling addictions to preferences and clearing away the roadblocks in your life. When spiritual growth is the most important thing in your life. Your complete inner dedication to your growth into higher consciousness is the single most important determinant of your spiritual development. offer it by sharing your experience in applying the Five Methods. Intensity of Desire For Growth. the full miracle of love and oneness will unfold in your life.but don't insist that they should work on themselves in a similar way. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Y . You will grow when you offer the system to others -. These programs are offered in the larger cities throughout the nation. They help you increase your effectiveness in applying the Living Love techniques to your daily life situations. Kentucky 40063. happy beings. A schedule of trainings may be obtained by writing to the Cornucopia Institute. learn to love everyone unconditionally regardless of whether he or she is interested in what you are doing. fulfilled.but always wait until they clearly indicate an openness to receive your gift of explaining how consciousness growth works. Attend a Consciousness Growth Training. By participating in a Consciousness Growth Training. Remember that your life works better when you are surrounded by loving. you will have the opportunity to work with other people using the Living Love Method. you might simply leave a copy of the Handbook on the desk of a close friend. Without an intense inner commitment. Set aside all pride and let them see your inner struggle to work on yourself -. As a part of your consciousness growth. Do not try to "sell" it to them or make them feel that this is the only answer to happiness in their life. This would probably trigger their resistance programming. 7. St. Offer the Living Love Way to Others.6. Perhaps.