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Healthy Expression: Is There a Time and a Place for Anger?

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:53:37 GMT

Anger seems to be a natural part of life, but the more we go down the path of spiritual evolution and personal growth, the less anger seems to be in alignment with our state of being. Yet often, the challenges that arise in the human experience may elicit various degrees of anger. Suppressing any emotion is not healthy, yet expressing our anger may not always feel good either. In the essay below, Darren Schilling examines if and when there may be a time and a place for anger.

Examining Our Anger Triggers

We are angry people aren’t we? We get upset at almost everything. Of course we have to watch it seems, when and how we express our anger in society. You don’t want to get too angry at work. You shouldn’t yell at those people, or show them that side of you. Unless of course you’ve gotten to the point where you were able to manifest a place of employment that is a true source of joy for you. If that’s the case then the people at work can probably handle your true self. But if it is just a job… don’t yell in front of those people. That will get you fired.

How about reading the news on The Guardian or watching The Young Turks on Youtube? Does that "angry up" your blood? Does it get you really pissed off once you see and hear about people who look at the world in a way you don’t? And whatever you do, don’t read the comments…or write one. If you write a comment on a YouTube video you are going to get some haters replying to you almost regardless of what you share. Anonymity seems to create bold heartless people. I am open to admitting that they indeed make me angry. I’m usually alone though, and able to just chill and let it go a little in effective ways for me.

Oh I know, a domestic dispute! There’s a safe place to get angry. Yell, scream, and express your fears through verbal volume. Direct them right at your partner. Unless of course you have a partner who is just in the relationship for themselves, just like you. Then the screaming and yelling and anger releasing is just going to escalate into a hatred fueled swordfight between two triggered and wounded Egos. On the other hand if you are in a partnership where each person is open to supporting the other person without taking anything personally, that is to say if you are in a partnership that isn’t based on attachment and judgment, then you can probably feel free to express your anger around your partner knowing that you have their full support and understanding about the whole thing.

Healthy Outlets for Releasing Our Anger

Go do a nice long yoga session and see what emotions come out. Maybe Yin Yoga where you hold the positions for a really long time. For me anger comes right out of my muscles, tears me up and bursts out in swear words and grunts of agony. If I’m alone, or if I’m in a class of truly open and accepting beings that can relate to what I am going through, I normally express what comes forth. If I’m in a regular class, I just do some internal, mental yelling. It still diffuses the anger but I don’t think as much gets to come out when it’s internal.

So where are we then? I guess the safe time and place to express anger is when you are living in alignment with your true self and the environments you find yourself in are there to support you. When you have connected with the Universe around you and opened yourself up to accepting and healing your emotional pain, you also draw people into your life that truly wish to help you.

It is completely safe to express your pain and anger when you are living in accordance to the rules of acceptance and love. These include:

Use every opportunity in this life to think about how you can help others before you think about what you can get for yourself.
Accept that you are here in this lifetime to heal and grow and forgive yourself for the necessary trauma caused by this process.
Remember that every other being that you meet is here doing the same thing that you are. Look at everyone else as though they were an extension of yourself and do for them what you would want done for you in the same situation.
Allow yourself to be open enough to draw people into your life who are accepting of you and who appreciate your suffering in this life, and who are willing to help you heal your pain.

This list of the rules of acceptance and love is not all-inclusive. But interestingly what you will find is that the more you live in accordance with them, the less anger you have to release.

You can do it.
I believe in you.
I love you.

As a follow-up to this article, I invite you to also read my 3 part series on Healing Emotional Triggers.

To discuss, share feedback, questions or comments, connect with Darren on Facebook.

The Final Stage of Healing Emotional Triggers

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:27:19 GMT

The process of searching contains a lot of the healing process. You will find that simply the act of making these feelings known to yourself consciously, allows you to let go of a lot of the pain that you have been carrying for so long. That being said there is often still healing work to be done once your triggers have been discovered, recognized, acknowledged and reduced to their simplest form.

At this time I would like to introduce into evidence exhibit 3.0 of my article series on identifying and healing emotional triggers entitled “Part 3: The Final Stage of Healing Emotional Triggers.” Please take note of my previous two articles on this subject, which you may wish to read before this one, if you have not done so already:

Forgiveness is the third and final stage of the process. Forgiveness is how to finally heal your emotional trigger points. Let's re-visit the example used in the first article of this series:

“My best example of this comes from the idea of getting over a heartbreak. You know that you are truly over heartbreak when you can think of the person and you no longer have emotions “in the moment” that come up. You may think about how you were sad but you no longer get sad right now when you think of the person/events/triggers."

To get to this point you need to forgive in three distinctive areas:

Forgive the other participant(s)
Forgive yourself for your original role in your pain
Forgive yourself for perpetuating your pain

Forgive the other participants

Take a look in your heart for all of the pain that you have caused yourself in the name of the other people who participated in your trauma. The people who were there at the past moment that is still hurting you in the present. Allow yourself to let go of the idea that they are responsible for your hurt. Look back into your memory and let them know that you are no longer going to allow them to have this power over you. They may have hurt you long ago, but you are no longer going to allow them to hurt you in the present.

Every moment that you do not forgive them for what they did is a moment where you allow them to hold power over you. You do not have to begin to like them, you do not have to invite them back into your life. But for you, and for you only, it is important to let them know that you understand that the only reason they did the thing they did was because they were in great pain of their own. Let them know that you understand that they have work to do on forgiving themselves so that they can one day be free of the pain that caused them to harm you.

While you speak to them in your memory let them know that you are releasing them of the burden of responsibility for your pain. You are taking all of the responsibility for your pain back from them so that you have full control of your healing. Wish them well and pray for them to one day be free of their pain. Tell them that you know that ultimately, they are a human being just like everyone else, and they too wish to be free from suffering.

Forgive yourself for your original role in your pain

We often unknowingly blame ourselves for the role we played in our own trauma. It is important to seek out this blame and forgive ourselves for what happened. We may be carrying with us thoughts like “I was so stupid for letting that happen”, or “It’s my fault for not telling someone”, or “I deserved what I got”, or “Why did I make them do that to me”?

Do you recognize any of the above thoughts in your own trigger points? Do you have this type of thinking when you are triggered in the moment or when you are recalling times that you were triggered?

Forgive yourself. Let yourself know that what happened back then was not in any way your fault. You did nothing wrong and you did not deserve what happened to you. You reacted and acted the best way you knew how at that time and that is OK. You did your best and have nothing to be ashamed of about that.

Although you may have been victimized back then you are no longer a victim. Its important for you to take all of the responsibility for your pain back from the past version of you who was present during the events. You now know that what happened was not your fault. The only thing in your current power that you need to do is forgive yourself for thinking at one point that you had any part in causing it. Remind yourself of how much love you have for you in the present and for the version of you that was present at that time. That love is why you have come here to heal. That love is why you are pursuing the process of relieving yourself of your pain.

Forgive yourself for perpetuating your pain

We often unknowingly carry around guilt or embarrassment for letting our past traumas affect us for so long. Sometimes we call ourselves ridiculous for caring so much about something so small or silly. Sometimes we think less of ourselves for not “getting over it”.

It is exceptionally important that you know that no trauma is too big or too small. We cannot judge the events in our lives on these terms. If something affected us and/or still affects us then it is just as important as anything that fits that criteria no matter what it is. We are not any less or any more based on what events in our lives have traumatized us.

Allow your current self to know the same things that you have already told the other participants and your past self. Know that it’s not your fault that you have been causing yourself all of this pain for all of these years. You didn’t know of any other way to deal with the trauma.

Your subconscious had been calling out for you to heal this past pain. You reacted the way you did because you hadn’t yet learned the skills to heal and forgive. Now that you are on your way to learning these skills you will continue to do your best to heal yourself and help yourself. You are doing well and what you have been working on is exactly what you have needed. Allow yourself to know that you are on the right track and you always have been. Forgive yourself for not knowing this earlier.

Conclusion

I want to add that this type of forgiveness can be done at any point during the process outlined in these three articles. The deeper the wound (the closer to the common denominator the wound) that you are healing, the more effect it will have on overall healing. That is to say, if you heal the source of the trigger point it will have a domino effect and you will no longer be triggered by incidents that are similar. Healing the common denominator is often a longer and more difficult process. A lot of childhood trauma is exceptionally painful and it’s often not easy to even uncover the childhood trauma as the common denominator. So trying to heal it right at its depth is often too large of an undertaking to tackle at once.

Imagine it like trying to remove a 100 foot Redwood Tree by the roots without first cutting down the tree and then cutting it into sections to be carted off before hauling out the stump. In these situations all you need to do is start further from the roots and forgive the biggest thing that you can handle at this time. Even pruning a few branches moves you towards your ultimate goal of healing these deep wounds.

Forgiveness is one of those things that seems easy but it gets more complicated the more you examine it. Make sure to take a look at as many sources as you can for ideas about forgiveness. Sometimes the same thing explained a few different ways can open your eyes to other methods that work better for you. I’ve already mentioned Don Miguel Ruiz as a great source on this material. Have a read of this essay too by Evita Ochel entitled Forgiveness is the Key that Opens your Heart. Even just a simple Google search on “how to forgive” can yield a lot of great resources and alternate ways of looking at forgiveness that could help you expand your thoughts on the process and give you new methods for forgiving.

Good luck in your search for peace and happiness through healing your emotional trigger points. I thank you for reading and I hope I was able to help further you along your personal journey of healing. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have about this process.

You can do it.
I believe in you.
I love you.

To discuss, share feedback, questions or comments, connect with Darren on Facebook.

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:21:26 GMT

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Introduction to Evolving Beings

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:22:40 GMT

Thank you for taking the time to learn about Evolving Beings, and sharing your energy in this space.

Evolving Beings

Was created from an inner calling to awaken, seek truth and evolve spiritually.
Began as a blog in January 2008, evolved through the years as a monthly online magazine, and in January 2013 became a living reference site.
Hopes to inspire and awaken you to achieve and live a life based on unconditional love, joy, passion, creativity, accountability, harmony, fulfillment and peace with all of creation.
Was named so, because we are always evolving. Our soul’s natural state is evolution. It is through growth that we become the highest versions of ourselves. It is through spiritual evolution that we come to know ourselves as the infinite, as love and as the creators that we are. It is through this evolution that we come to know ourselves as the Divine energy we came from.
Puts a big emphasis on being our highest selves, because from such a state all decisions, thoughts and actions are made very differently. In our highest state of being we are not inclined to hurt ourselves, others or our planet in any physical, mental or emotional way.
Is based on the idea that we are spiritual beings, having a physical experience. We are all powerful creators, and with the right focus and intention can create and live out the lives we both want and need for our spiritual evolution. It is our understanding that life here need not be stressful, painful or difficult in any way. It just all depends on the perceptions we choose in each moment.
Embraces a bigger picture of all that is, and does not view anything as inherently “bad” and “good”, or “right” and “wrong”. As we evolve, we come to know that there is always a greater and divine purpose for all things. None of us are in a place to judge the actions of another, or their Karma. Having said that, we know that there are actions and choices that do not serve the growth and evolution of the spirit. It is only when we act from our highest state of being—love, that we make choices that serve our personal evolution and that of the collective whole.
Is non-denominational and has no ties to any religion. It does not endorse or support any rituals or tightly held beliefs that limit one's infinite potential. It is based on universal spirituality, rooted in oneness, love, peace and compassion. It is a site that welcomes all and excludes none. It respects the teachings of all the past and present teachers, but knows that the most profound truths are those that we hold deep within, not those which others tell us to believe.

Its Mission

Is to help raise the global consciousness on the planet, help others awaken, and rise up to live life from their highest version – love and peace. It is also to help transition others through the changes that are taking place on our planet today.

Its Vision

Is to help create a world where peace, love and light prevail. A world where conscious living is the norm, and we each see our reflections in all life. A world where we acknowledge we are all one, where we respect nature and take care of it and each other, with no discrimination, nor destruction of any species.

EBTV: Evolving Beings TV

In 2010, EBTV was launched and joined EvolvingBeings.com providing a video platform to share consciousness expansion and heart-centered living material. It features site creator Evita Ochel hosting video episodes with various guests from the science and spirituality fields, as well as hosting her own video episodes on pertinent topics.

By January 2013, EBTV grew to include a collection of over 150 videos and was moved over to its own site Evolving Channels - a video library for the awakening mind. EBTV continues to attract viewers from around the world and to date has had over a quarter million video views.

Evolving Beings Essays

There are over 350 articles and essays from myself (Evita Ochel) and talented guest authors on this site. The topics cover numerous areas of personal expansion on a mind, body and spirit level, like self-growth, spirituality, metaphysics, heart-centered and conscious living. Aside from topic focused essays, guides and how to's, there are also book, film and event reviews, as well as personal stories submitted from evolving beings like you and I.

Enjoy the site's content freely, and remember that the greatest change comes from putting what we learn into action. So let's grow and evolve in wisdom and enlightenment, expanding our consciousness and opening our hearts to continue to manifest the highest versions of ourselves. We hope you join us and start your own inquisitive journey through life, and continue evolving the highest version of who you are!

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Creator of Evolving Beings

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:18:22 GMT

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about me—Evita Ochel, and my journey with Evolving Beings.

We come into this world as pure light. We have no stories, no attachments or judgements. We just are—unlimited potential. We live out the oneness we are, fully in the present moment and love unconditionally.

And then something starts to happen…we begin to form a sense of “I”, “me” and “my”. We begin to weave a story, form opinions and judgements, entering the world of separation. We learn what it is like to feel joy and feel pain. We learn the limits of the physical state and start to think we are our thoughts, our bodies, our families, our jobs, our religions, our nationality, etc…limiting ourselves beyond our infinite potential.

At our essence however, we always are pure, whole and complete beings of light energy. We come in this way, forget, and then work through each lifetime trying to remember and get back to that place of unlimited potential.

So although I know that I am not my story, my thoughts, my body, my credentials or anything else, I do love and respect life here and now in the physical. Each incarnation is unique and special, and here is how this one goes so far….

The Beginning

I was born in Poland under the sign of Aquarius, and as a young girl travelled to Ontario, Canada, where I currently reside. I believe and live with the notion that this Earth is all one home and find borders very artificial. Thus, I have no feelings of attachment or identification to either country, and choose not to be limited by any culture. As I like to say, currently I am Earthian.

I had a pretty calm, happy and uneventful childhood. From my earliest memories I was quiet, independent, positive and extremely resilient no matter what came. I was born into and brought up in the formal Christian Catholic religion, which I took seriously for the first quarter of my life, until the moment of my spiritual awakening.

A “proper” education and secure job were my governing ideals from an early age. Throughout high school I focused on the sciences and continued on to complete a 4 year Bachelor of Science degree. Early on I thought I would become a pharmacist, but thanks to listening to the Universe and how I felt—even without fully understanding it then—my course sharply changed and I became, what I said from an early age I would never become—a teacher. The inner calling was strong and clear.

I continued on with my formal education and got a high school teaching degree. My 7 year career as a science teacher was one of the most joyous and fulfilling times of my life. Teaching the kids, learning from them and with them, were some of the most amazing moments in my life. I was in the most right place for me, and I knew it without a shadow of a doubt. I did not know or understand what it meant to be “stressed” as a teacher or have a hard time with youth. It was so humbling to have such an impact on so many minds, hearts and souls. I was sure to never take that for granted, acting with the highest state of consciousness in every interaction.

Life in general up to that point was based on the typical ups and downs. Even though I already thought differently back then from most people, I didn’t know how to move fully beyond the cyclical dramas of humanity or transcend the typical suffering. I still lived for the most part thinking life happens to us, rather than the fact that we create our life. In my early 20′s after another roller coaster ride of a particular low, I had my first taste of freedom and small awakening. It was then that I said “enough” and told the Universe I was ready for living in a different way, and then it happened full blown.

The Awakening

At the start of 2005, shortly after meeting the man who would become my husband, everything started to change. The two of us coming together was a catalyst for great change and awakening. All of a sudden materials and resources were coming into our life that I would have never considered before, or was aware existed, like Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations With God. All of a sudden ideas, thoughts and beliefs that I always held were bursting and a new sense of reality was coming into clear focus. This was not always easy and held its own challenges, but the exciting part of uncovering the true self propelled us further.

Over the next 3 years, we voraciously read or listened to the material that was drawing us to it together, and paradigm after paradigm began to shift. Veil after veil was removed, and we saw through so many of the illusions we lived in to that point, and in which most of the world operates. Most importantly we felt with our hearts and implemented what resonated with us on the spot, making the changes real and opening up to all potential and all possibilities.

During this awakening, how I taught and what I saw in the school system shifted. All of a sudden it was becoming very clear that I could no longer participate in a system that did not have the children’s best interest at heart. I could not continue enslaving them. I wanted to teach people how to think, not what to think. At this point too, my personal call to freedom beyond all institutions was becoming clear. And so in June of 2009 I officially resigned from my job and career as a high school teacher.

During this awakening also, the religion I thought made sense my whole life all of a sudden had no substance. I saw through the foundation of fear, control, limits and stories that it was based on, and walked away from that, knowing that never again would I be limited by any belief system, cultural label or artificial institution.

With the increasingly expanding consciousness, everything in my personal life was changing as well. Many friendships which now seemed worlds apart naturally faded. Similarly thanks to my background in science and a call for compassionate, heart-centered living in every area, my nutrition and food choices got a complete overhaul. It started with the removal of meat, alcohol and all processed food, and ended with a 100% natural, plant diet as of January 2009. Currently I also practice sun gazing, with the intention to continue moving towards living at the lowest level of entropy—love.

At the start of 2008 we felt a strong calling to share what we could with others, and so Evolving Beings was born. Markus designed and built the site, while I began to share what I could with others through writing. It started as a blog, evolved as a monthly online magazine and has today become a living reference site, which serves as a resource community to help others awaken, expand their consciousness, create consciously and transcend suffering.

In the fall of 2009, with Markus leaving the world of formal corporations to working from home for himself, we reflected as to the next steps in our life. With both of us free, we realized that there was no reason for us to live in the city or suburban environment any longer, and felt a strong call to be in nature. We reflected on our priorities and at the start of 2010 sold our house in the suburbs, 1 of our 2 cars, our TV, some furniture pieces and left the city for a simpler way of life. A way of life that was more connected to who we were called to be at our deepest essence.

The Present

Today I live in the midst of nature, far away from any major or minor metropolitan areas. I share my life with my husband, with whom I do not have a typical marriage or contract of any kind, but rather a unity partnership, based on oneness, unconditional love, gratitude and respect. Our life together is based on peace, joy and celebration, honoring each moment, being conscious and present.

We live with great inner peace and knowing. We chose to transcend the cycles of drama and suffering that so many humans on this Earth are immersed in. This doesn’t mean that we will never get sad or frustrated again, it simply means that suffering does not become us, own us, paralyze us or control us. We know today that no matter what happens, we will be just fine. We are also fully aware that we create our life, and take full responsibility for it, while respecting the Universal flow of all that is. I don’t exactly know how this all happened, and while I would love to give you the “10 Steps” to make that happen, I can’t. The only thing I can say is that it was a natural progression of listening to our inner being, seeing beyond the illusions, growing in conscious awareness and making a heart-centered way of life a priority.

I highly value all aspects of nature, peace, compassion, tranquility, clarity, accountability, wisdom and environmental awareness. I know I do not need to pursue more of anything, or be "someone", to leave a mark on this world, except for being myself. I have no intention of having a formal job ever again. This site, and all that I do today are simply creative outlets—and ones that not only benefit me, but the greater good of all. I have learned that we are always divinely supported when we live in alignment with our soul's purpose. My days therefore are spent doing what I love—whether that be writing or watching wildlife—knowing that when I follow my bliss and live from the heart, everything I need will always be provided for in the present moment.

I am called to be of service to the world, but I also respect that there is a certain reason and purpose to everything—a flow of Divine perfection. Thus I am not here to fix anything, instead simply be an inspiration for those who may resonate with what I share and help them remember who they are, and what the purpose of the physical experience is.

Ultimately, the journey of growth and evolution is not over. And that perhaps, is the best part….
Here is to more being, remembering and evolving!

For more information about me and my work, please visit: EvitaOchel.com

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Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:23:40 GMT

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Evolving Beings Recommends

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Here are some of the top teachers, books, films and events that Evolving Beings recommends for your journey of awakening and evolution into a consciousness expanding, heart-centered way of life. By making any purchases through the Amazon.com links below, you directly support the continued work of Evolving Beings to exist as a free resource for everyone — thank you.

Meditations, Courses & Retreats

Inner Engineering Course for Empowerment, Growth and Wellbeing with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Vipassana Silent Meditation Retreat (global locations)
I CAN DO IT! Conferences for the Mind, Body & Soul from Hay House (various teachers and locations)
Meditation: Straightforward & Unecumbered Course by Jerry Whiting
14 Day Yoga, Detox & Empowerment Course by Sadie Nardini
Transform Self Doubt into Confidence Course by Max Highstein

Teachers, Authors & Books

1. Neale Donald Walsch

2. Eckhart Tolle

3. Louise Hay

4. Gregg Braden

5. Abraham (Esther & Jerry Hicks)

6. Wayne Dyer

7. Thomas Campbell & Robert Monroe

8. Paul Selig

For Children

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You Are Timeless

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:13:29 GMT

One thing appears to be prized more than all else by our human civilization today. It is not precious metals, nor is it money. It is the elusive, yet esteemed time. No matter how much or how little material wealth we have, most of us on this planet are constantly striving to amass more time. And while this tool can be of great value, there is one question we should each ask ourselves as we expand our conscious awareness of reality. Are we using the tool of time, or is it using us?

Our time obsessed world treats time like some real structure, forgetting its illusory and culturally generated nature. Yes, there are natural, planetary and universal cycles that appear to have guided civilizations for millennia as we know it. However, the 12 month calendar, the 7 day week, the hour, minute and second are all made up constructs that we have agreed to abide by.

As we progress in our human evolution, it appears that the “time” has come to transcend the limits of time. It is “time” to free ourselves, and no longer be slaves to this construct that was most probably put into place to help us, but which today has deeply enslaved us. This does not mean that we should no longer use the tool of time. It simply means that we need to see it for what it is, and have it work with us, rather than against us.

Stepping Into ‘Age-Less-Ness’

There was a time when I cared about how old I was. It is all too common to want to be old when we are young, and young when we are old. Somehow we always seem to be caught up in those numbers that seem to dictate the state of our affairs. That is until we free ourselves. Today, at the odd time that someone asks me how old I am, I actually have to think about it as I stopped keeping track a few years back. It is not about avoiding or not wanting to deal with “the number”, rather it is about freedom.

In our society some of the greatest stress for people comes from their strong association with time, most notably their time on this planet. There is still a common stereotype driving many of us that by our 30’s as a woman we should be married with a child or two, and as a man we should be holding a good position in our career. And while women tend to obsess about their age in their late 20’s/early 30’s and what should be checked off on their life list by then, men appear to go through a similar phase in their late 30’s/early40’s. But as with all things, numerous exceptions lay outside of the general norm, and some people never stop obsessing about their age. Allow me however to attempt to explain how futile this is.

For starters, on a practical and physical level your age really is just a number. Anyone who has ever heard of biological age and calendar age knows that many of us in no way correctly depict what the common 25, or 35, or 55, or 85 is like. Our “true” or most accurate age is not dependent on a calendar, but mainly on how we take care of our physical vessel, and our state of mind. And besides, who decided what is a “normal” way to be at any age anyway? Okay, I know, I know when we look at our society overall there is a general consensus of what the body and life of someone in each of the decades of age looks like. But let’s push those boundaries out, if only a bit. Let’s expand our consciousness further. The whole idea of how we even celebrate birthdays in most of our cultures today is the very cause of so much of our stress to begin with. For starters, we celebrate by ingesting some of the most toxic food and drink substances that degrade our health and potential, and call that a treat. This is far from taking care of our physical vessel, which if we really cared about staying “young” would be better reflected in our actions. Added to that, we have a strong focus on the number we are now supposed to be represented by. And heaven forbid if we are crossing over into a new “decade” of life. Then, depending on how happy you may be with your life, things are either tolerable or traumatic.

I know you may be thinking…..but you don’t understand, I should be “x” by now….or I should have a “y” or “z” by now….or I need to do this by the time I am “#” years of age. But should you really, or do you even really want to? We get so caught up in this game of life that we came here to play, that we have forgotten the very essence of the fun we are supposed to have along the way. This is not your first, nor your last experience in the physical incarnation. It is therefore a shame how much stress so many of us cause ourselves due to the illusory aspect of time that is tied to our age. Nothing is a must. Nothing has a real deadline. Yes, your body may change, and your mind may change as you progress through what feels like a linear reality, but this should never limit us from expressing our fullest potential. I know there are some things that at this time at least we cannot do, like have a baby at say 60 as a woman, or have the experience of being a grandfather at 20. But the question in each case should be, why would we even want to? The system has been set up in such a perfect state to offer us the most valuable set of experiences at any particular time. So often all of the should’s, have to’s or fleeting desires are nothing more than a wild mind at work trying to fit into society’s status quo template. When we step into the light of living from a state of purposeful and conscious awareness, we see that each moment presents us with just the right opportunity to do what is best for us in that very moment. The real problem is our lack of acceptance of what is, or what is best for us, not our age, or what we have or don’t have at any given time. Relieve yourself therefore of the stress associated with age, and step into a state of agelessness.

Agelessness In Action

Agelessness, means moving through your physical incarnation with grace. You are the creator of your life, yes, there is no doubt about that. But until you learn to create consciously and from the heart, you will feel like you don’t have what you should and time is passing you by. Each moment gives us the opportunity of infinite potential in that moment, but often we waste it stuck in some future or past moment. Moving through each moment with grace, means being in awareness and acceptance of the perfection of each moment for you.

Agelessness means knowing that you are always the right age for your soul’s purpose in that moment. It is never too late to find “the” great love, or a “best” friend, or the “right” job, or your life’s purpose. Each comes at the most perfect time for you and not a second too soon, or too late.

Agelessness means tapping into the infinite potential of all that is, and all that can be. Physical and material boundaries are nothing more than mere illusions that we allow to stand in our way. Each day amazing beings beat the odds of time as they embark on what calls them in that very moment, no matter what age they are. For example, at the age of 58, the inspirational Louise Hay started the internationally renowned Hay House publishing company. Today, she is in her late 80’s and continues thriving in her creative projects, living consciously and with purpose. In fact, the number of people doing extraordinary things no matter what age is more than you can imagine. Whether it is skydiving on your 100th birthday or getting a college degree in your 90’s, you can do it, but only if you choose to do it.

Agelessness means that no number or limit can ever define who you are. In a society that is as equally obsessed with limitations, as it is with time, you can free yourself by releasing all that which is hindering you from expressing your fullest potential. Most of us live in a state of amnesia thinking that the costume (body) we have on now is the “only” one we ever had, or ever will, and this body, this lifetime is all there is to us. Free yourself from such limiting constructs and know that you are so much grander than that.

Enjoying Timeless Freedom

So yes, whether you believe it yet or not, you are timeless. It may not always seem like that when we get caught up in the details of the physical world, but the truth is that no calendar age or amount of candles comes close to depicting the true essence of your being. Go ahead celebrate your birthday if you choose to, but make it a celebration of your eternal being, not a celebration of some limited state of mind.

And the next time you catch yourself saying that you are too old to wear “this”, or be “that”, or say “this”, or do “that”, or whatever the case may be, snap yourself back to present moment consciousness. Reflect on your choices of thoughts or words and only continue with them if you feel they are serving your infinite potential. Anytime you catch yourself thinking any limiting thoughts surrounding your age, or the time you think you have in this lifetime, try to step back and see things from a larger perspective—the perspective of your inner being, or soul, or spirit, or the source of all creation.

So have fun! Enjoy your present life experience, and do what calls you consciously and from the heart in any given moment. But always remember that you are timeless, and neither your birth, nor death, nor the illusion of time in between is a correct depiction of the eternal being that you are.

The Physics of Consciousness: The Zero-Point Field, Pineal Gland and Out-of-Body Experience

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:45:53 GMT

For centuries it has been recorded that under certain circumstances human consciousness can leave the body and travel both within the external world and to other locations of existence. This process has been known by many names but in recent years all variations of these “journeys” have been grouped under the generic, and “catch-all” term of “Out of Body Experiences” or the OBE.

Of course such a concept is totally impossible within the modern paradigm of science. Consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the brain and as such cannot exist in any location outside of the brain. Indeed even if consciousness could travel to locations outside of the confines of the skull a further question has to be asked; without sensory organs such as the eyes and the ears how can a disincarnate consciousness receive information from the external world?

I have proposed a radical new hypothesis that allows modern science to accommodate the OBE within its present model and that the experience is neither subjective nor objective but a mixture of the two. What needs to change is our understanding of the actual nature of what we term “eternal, consensual, reality”.

This new model contains three crucial elements; The Zero Point Field / Zero Point Energy, Bose-Einstein Condensates and the Pineal Gland. What links them is a central Theosophical concept; the “Book of Life” otherwise known as the “Akashic Record”.

The Potential of the Zero-Point Field

The term “akasha” is a Sanskrit expression that means “sky” or “aether”. This mystical substance is everywhere and within it is recorded every action, emotion, thought, feeling and experience of every living being. It is like a huge database that contains a record of everything. Mystics have long suggested that this information can be accessed in certain states of raised consciousness and the data can be downloaded for future use.

According to philosopher-scientist Ervin Laszlo the Akashic Record is a known scientific phenomenon, but is known by quantum physicists by another term. This term is the Zero Point Field or ZPF.

ZPF is a consequence of something long known to particle physicists, called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. It states that if we know the position of a sub-atomic particle we cannot know its speed, and if we know its speed we cannot know its momentum. If a particle were at rest we would know both. As such particles can never be at rest, not even at absolute zero, the coldest state known to science. This is minus 273.15 degrees Celsius. This is three degrees above the temperature of the vacuum of space. Why this is of significance is that there should be no energy at absolute zero but there is. Lots of it. All space is filled with this quantum vacuum energy. It fills everything and in doing so changes what we think is a vacuum into a space absolutely full to the brim with energy, technically known as a “Plenum”.

This has interesting parallels with ancient Chinese philosophy that suggested that there is no such thing as empty space. For philosophers such as Chang Tsai the bedrock of reality is the ch’i. Ch’i translates as ‘gas’ or ‘ether’ and is a tenuous and non-perceptible form of matter which is present throughout space and can condense into solid material objects.

The idea that matter somehow condenses out of the ch’i is amazingly prescient because there is a process that echoes perfectly this most ancient of ideas. This fascinating new form of matter is called Bose-Einstein Condensation and just like Chang Tsai suggests this is where the ch’i is seen to form a condensation out of the vacuum.

It should come as no surprise to theosophists that this new form of matter was first predicted by Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, a scientist brought up within the Eastern rather than the Western philosophical tradition. In a paper that he sent to Albert Einstein in 1924 he described how it may be the case that if particles were cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero they may change from being a single particle to a collection of particles that act as if they were one. Such a bizarre idea was proved when the first Bose-Einstein condensate was created in 1995 at the University of Colorado. Many years before, in 1938, a similar phenomenon was observed when a substance called helium 4 was found to have absolutely no viscosity. This meant that it could flow with absolutely no loss of energy.

In principle what is happening is that all the particles within the condensate have become one, a single particle spread out in space and time. These condensates pull their energy directly out of the ZPF in the form of Zero Point Energy. Indeed many of us use a Bose Einstein condensate when we listen to music using a CD player. The information from the disc is read using a laser beam and a laser beam is technically coherent light – a beam in which all the light particles (photons) are all sharing a single “coherent” state. But there is another application of laser technology that has direct reference to the workings of the human brain, the hologram.

Holograms are three dimensional images created by using lasers to “photograph” an object and then reproducing the subsequent image by illuminating it with another set of lasers. This is again an application of coherent light in which a seemingly solid image can be reproduced from stored information. In 1986 two Japanese researchers, Isuki Hirano and Atsushi Hirai, suggested that coherent light is generated in vast quantities by tiny structures found deep within the neurons of the brain. These structures, known as microtubules, are so small that it is possible that the energy they use to generate the coherent light is Zero Point Energy drawn directly from the ZPF. In other words they draw energy from what Blavatsky called the “Akashic Record” and what Chang Tsai knew as the Ch’i.

The Akasha-Pineal Connection

If this is correct then the human brain has direct access to the Akashic Field and the virtually limitless information that it contains. It will be recalled that the Akasha can be described as a huge digital database that stores the records of everything that has happened, and will happen, in the universe. In fact, if modern quantum physics is correct, then there are trillions of universes containing billions of copies of every human being that has ever lived and ever will live. Each one of these consciousnesses will download their life experiences into the Akasha via their microtubules and similarly they can upload limitless data from the Akasha using the same process.

If Hirano and Hirai are correct then the Akashic data can be reassembled using the laser-like coherent light to create seemingly three dimensional holographic images of the stored information. This would create in the mind of the experiencer a three dimensional version of the recording that would be totally life-like in every way. It would be like the illusionary world of the Matrix movies. It would be indistinguishable from the “real” thing. I use the speech marks because such a model suggests that the “reality” we take for granted that is external to our bodies and supplied to us by our senses may not be as “real” as we believe. Indeed modern neurology tells us that what we take to be external reality is a construct of the brain modelled out of the electro-chemical information supplied to it from our senses.

I call this internally generated model of reality the Bohmian IMAX or BIMAX. I call it Bohmian in honour of the late, and great, Professor David Bohm who first suggested the holographic nature of perception. The IMAX reference is to convey the “virtual-reality” feel of the BIMAX.

The question is, is there a portal within the brain whereby the riches of the Akasha can be accessed? I believe there is, and I suggest that this portal may be the most mysterious and enigmatic structure in the brain; the pineal gland.

If my hypothesis is correct then the OOB can be explained as simply consciousness experiencing the external world from internally generated information. The person feels that they are outside of their body when in fact they are experiencing the hidden realities contained within the ZPF. These experiences may be generated spontaneously, during sleep or borderline sleep states, during times of great stress or during a Near-Death Experience. The place that is reconstructed from the ZPF could be a version of the location the person’s body is – by this I mean that it is an exact copy – or it could be another place altogether. This location can be perceived as somewhere else on Earth or a totally alien environment.

This can be used to explain why any attempts to prove that people are actually out of their body during such experiences have seemingly failed. It is simply because they think that they are perceiving this reality whereas they are in a facsimile that is almost, but not quite the same. That is why they accurately report some things but then miss other, much more obvious things or, indeed, report seeing things that are not there. However it must be stressed that although I use the term facsimile I do not mean that it is an hallucination. The facsimile is just as real as the world of the external experimenter/observer – it is just that the experiencer is directly accessing the Akasha.

The Next Steps of Exploration

Is the Akasha the universe we encounter in dreams, in past-life regressions, out-of-the body experiences and Near-Death Experiences? If so, it suggests that bodily death may not be the end of consciousness or the personality because consciousness exists within a field of information that is found within the quantum world itself.

Of course this model is totally hypothetical at the moment. However over the next few months I plan to test out this hypothesis with some of the world’s leading authorities on consciousness, the zero-point field and the out-of-body experience.

We have but taken the first few steps along a very intriguing journey into the centre of what it is to be a sentient being in a seemingly indifferent universe. Where the journey will take us I have no idea …. But I am really looking forward to the adventure.

About the Author

Anthony Peake is the author of four internationally acclaimed books, Is There Life After Death – The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When You Die and The Daemon, A Guide To Your Extraordinary Self, The Out of Body Experience – The History & Science of Astral Travel and The Labyrinth of Time. These books have been translated into various foreign languages including Spanish, French Russian, Polish and Dutch.

In 2013 he will have two more books published, The Gateway to Infinity which will extend the ideas discussed in this article and a new biography of the American writer Philip K. Dick. His website is www.anthonypeake.com