advanced self-development / practical spirituality / practical meta-physics
I’ve decided to move this blog (and some of the spiritual data which was formerly here) to my new site :
so that this awareness-based-clearing site will be more focused on specific spiritual limitations and how to process them.
The older posts will remain here, but all new blog posts will be at the new blog location :
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How does a person learn to be a “Feng Shui practitioner”? . . . by reading books about which physical arrangements of objects “should” result in what flows of Chi, and how to add other objects to change the Chi flows etc.
Real Feng Shui would be based on one’s own direct experience of the flows of Chi that actually exist in a specific location.
I’m using Feng Shui as an example of “spiritual practice” using an entirely theory-based approach, but it’s just one example of many . . .
Christians talk about Yeshua (who they call “Jesus”) pulling down the Holy Spirit onto a human head thus changing that person, but if you take them to a crowded place you’ll find they cannot tell you which human bodies have such a Placed-spirit, and which don’t.
Last year I was walking past a stall where Kundalini Yoga was being advertised. One of the “practitioners” started explaining how my life would be better if I learned how to start getting my Kundalini to arise, yet she had zero awareness of the reality that my Kundalini was already 2 stages further developed than what that organization called “fully awakened Kundalini” (for details on that, see the Kundalini page).
The difference between a theory of what “should” be, and the reality of what is, cannot be underestimated.
As Korzybski realized (here’s the Wikipedia page on Map-territory relation), the word is not the thing, and many people confuse the model with the reality. In many forms of “spirituality” in the world today (and even more so in the religions, which are, to varying degrees, even further from real spirituality), there is no attempt at observed reality at all . . . theory of what “should be” is all that exists for the people which do these things.
Yet it is possible to find some examples of genuine spiritual awareness . . .
. . . a Tai-Chi Master I’ve learned with (Adam Mizner or Heaven Man Earth T’ai Chi), when lying on his back on the ground, can touch the ankle of a person with one finger, and that person collapses on the ground, because he has such precise learned-awareness of specific areas, such as the spatial configuration of the skeleton of a human, and flows of Chi etc.
One person re-researched an existing “spiritual development system” (removed about 500 errors) and used the results to change himself, (and 13 others) to states far beyond what most people consider possible (you’ll learn about this system, and how to do it yourself, if you use my suggested route into advanced-self-development / spirituality).
And you can easily experience for yourself the effects of energy-work by some of the real practitioners.
Or better yet, do the necessary work to have direct “spiritual” awareness yourself, so spirituality is a reality for you, not merely a theory which you believe (a belief is data used in an area where it is considered impossible to determine correct data).
Of course, most of the spiritual practices used today are distorted and very much reduced versions of what the beginning stages of what earlier systems would have been, but with all the misinterpretation involved (and other factors such as the current trend for people wanting “instant” results with almost no effort), few people today are using such systems to get far enough to have real awareness of “spiritual” areas.
The basic concept of Deep-clearing is a simple one . . . one of the main things that gets in the way of your direct spiritual awareness is “spiritual charge” (on various non-ideal structures), so all that is necessary is to get some of that erased, and one’s awareness is already there . . . no theory needed, just observe spiritual reality, directly for yourself.
This website contains information on how you can use effective and efficient methods for removing “spiritual charge” and other non-ideals to get real improvements in your states and conditions. See our Index for details.
If you want a big boost to your ability to improve your spiritual condition (including awareness), get my Ultimate-Self Restart process.
This articles includes some discussion points on the current polarization between science and spirituality, and how to transcend it.
Some things I point to here are controversial . . . if you disagree, post your arguments and supporting concepts in the comments at the end of this article, or on my FaceBook Group.
As the philosopher Carl Popper realized . . . just because a scientific experiment produces the exact same results a million times in a row is no reason to say that it will necessarily produce the same result the time after that. One can assume that it might, and that’s all, in terms of genuine science.
The concept of a “belief” is where you assume a datum to be correct, while considering that it is not possible to know for sure that that data will match reality.
Thus the only thing that can exist in real science, is beliefs. Certainly not “scientific facts” or “scientific proof” as most people believe (and I do mean “believe”).
Physics has plenty of simple theories that are easy to demonstrate. Most other areas of reality (such as biology) are very far from simple. For example, from my own experience working in medical statistics (as part of the team doing the administration for miner’s lung disease claims in the UK), the leading respiratory specialist in the UK at the time stated that a 30% correlation between theory and results is the best that one can hope for (and that the usual correlation is far lower than that).
Another example is current economic theory which is based on an assumption of 100% rational decisions by all humans, all of the time. Then there is psychology, which doesn’t even accept the possibility of a rational human and has no theory that includes a description of one (only descriptions of various reasons for irrationality). So either one or the other (or more likely both), is clearly based on fundamentally incorrect concepts, yet both are widely believed to be “scientific facts” and widely used in practice (often by people who incorrectly say that spirituality is “unproven” or “pseudo-science”).
Most people in the world today believe some areas of “scientific facts”, while believing things which totally disagree with currently accepted scientific theory in other areas. For example, school teachers were given a simple quiz with questions such as “a small weight on the end of a string, is spun around on a horizontal plane, then released. Draw its path after being released”. What was found in practice was that almost none of them used Newtonian Physics in their reality at all, they believed the earlier theories (now shown never
Most people in the world today believe some areas of “scientific facts”, while believing things which totally disagree with currently accepted scientific theory in other areas. For example, school teachers were given a simple quiz with questions such as “a small weight on the end of a string, is spun around on a horizontal plane, then released. Draw its path after being released”. What was found in practice was that almost none of them used Newtonian Physics in their reality at all, they believed the earlier theories (now shown never to correspond to reality). And that’s school teachers, presumably “better educated” than the majority of the population. (The Newtonian answer is, of course, a straight line, but most people will draw a curve when asked that question).
Also, correlation between theory and practical results does not “prove” the theory . . . a well-known example being those old dark gray Naugahyde chairs (one of the early types of plastic chairs, as used in schools when I was young), who’s material was made using theory based on billiard-ball model of atoms (now shown to be very far from the reality of clouds of electrons, often in non-spherical orbits etc.).
Scientific theories are often shown not to match observable reality . . .the fact that people believe them to be “facts” until they are proven incorrect, clearly shows that they were really beliefs all the time.
Another example being that Quarks cannot be observed directly in any way, yet their theory fits other observations, and so is accepted as correct (often by the same people who say they cannot accept spiritual theory because it cannot be seen directly in this reality).
A system of beliefs is called a religion. Science is currently the biggest religion on earth. This concept is also described in: Exposing Scientific Dogmas – Banned TED Talk – Rupert Sheldrake.
Current scientific theory, accepted by many, says that consciousness affects reality.
One of the challenges with this concept is that it means that you can “”disprove” anything that this theory is relevant to, by choosing (consciously or subconsciously) to do so. And it’s not only the person who appears to be doing the experiment who’s consciousness matters . . . a lab technician at the other end of the room (or even someone elsewhere on earth who knows about the experiment) might disbelieve that consciousness can affect reality, and thus that belief can have a significant effect on the outcome of the experiment.
If the concept of “consciousness” affecting reality exists, then it would be rational to assume that experiments in relevant areas (such as spirituality) should NOT produce consistent results, because it is easy to intend to disprove any relevant experience (whether consciously or sub-consciously . . . the sub-conscious being a lot more causative than the consciousness, according to typical experimental results).
To get consistent results in such a reality, one would need to effectively process the intentions of oneself, AND of all relevant others (and relevant morphic fields), both conscious and sub-conscious (and intentions from other beings, and Morphic-fields etc.), and from an understanding of how “spiritual reality” works, we can say that doing so is far beyond the ability of most people (although certainly possible, given use of currently available methods for long enough (which, for most people, means more than one lifetime), if one is willing to do the necessary work).
One can clearly see the same phenomenon in the miracles of Yeshua (I use that word to try to distinguish the reality from the myths about “Jesus”). He consistently performed two different types of miracles depending on the type of observers present. When in presence of non-believers he would do miracles that are only observed after they have happened, such as the loaves and fishes or water into wine. When in the presence of only his disciples (who accepted his ability to control matter) he could to miracles observable at the time such as walking on water.
Simple empirical experiments can easily demonstrate spiritual effects :
One example is the changes to Kirlian fields (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography) from energy-healing action . . . the Kirlian field of the healer is strong before the healing action, and weaker after, and that of the person healed was weak before, and stronger after. This can be demonstrated consistently (for some humans) using well-understood electrical and photographic techniques, although one of the famous results from this research, which is the field of the half of a leaf that has been thrown away still being visible for some minutes, has been shown to be mainly due to residual moisture. As most energy-healing methods, require acceptance by the receiver, this is obviously subject to the concept of intentions influencing the results, thus one would expect it NOT to work on everyone.
Another experiment (also described in the Lyall Watson books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall_Watson)) was growing seedlings. Three sets of identical seedlings were grown, one set had no intentions done to them, the second set had the intention to grow better done to it, and the third had the intention of whatever is best for all, done to it. The second set grew better than the first, but the third set far better. Of course, it is also possible to “disprove” this by having the intentions “done” by someone who has beliefs (whether conscious or sub-conscious) that intentions have no effect, and the experiment might show no difference in the growth, exactly as would be expected from a clear understanding of the reality of “consciousness” affecting reality (actually it’s not about consciousness, as can be shown from the fact that “sub-conscious” intentions also affect reality, but that’s another discussion).
In areas such as spirituality and medicine, reality is very complex, and many of the factors are currently unknown by even the “experts” (in medicine at least. There are a small number of humans on earth at this time who do know well enough how lot of spiritual effects work). Thus the results from experiments would be expected not to be consistent, as is found in practice.
Most people have relatively poor spiritual condition for most on this planet at this time. Few people on earth are able to use spirituality to produce consistent effects on matter, although it’s use on ones own body is much easier to demonstrate for example by using EFT (http://emofree.com/), which is used by leading US hospitals, because according to the same scientific method they apply to other treatments: “it works a lot of the time”, which is the same as Western medicine does.
There is a lot of false and fake “spirituality” and most of the information available on the subject is very incomplete, and often at least partially incorrect (sometimes due to misinterpretation. It would have been very easy to say that science is wrong most of the time (and cannot produce any consistent results in the material universe), a few hundred years ago, and even easier to say, correctly, that what is considered to be “spirituality” on earth at this time, is incorrect most of the time.
That would be like doing a sight experiment on 9 blind people and one sighted person, and saying that because the blind people didn’t get the same result, that “proves sight is illusion” 🙂
The origins of most of the concepts of Western science were at a time when the Christian Church had most of the power in society. Science was allowed to investigate, only if they agreed to avoid anything related to spirituality or the “absolute truth” that the Church claimed as exclusively theirs (even though some of their “absolute truths” had changed over the years, which didn’t seem to bother them!). This was an obvious contradiction to the early scientists at the time, who, as is well-known, were equally interested in subjects such as alchemy, magick, and any available spiritual data as well as science (since to them it was obviously the same subject), but avoiding spirituality and the concept of “truth” was the only option at the time (if one wanted to stay alive), and thus became what science did.
The fact that this polarization (between science and spirituality) has now become “sub-conscious” (or more accurately, fully accepted and thus not easily seen, in the relevant Morphic-fields) only makes it all the stronger. This can be seen in the labeling
Morphic fields are another interesting subject. One of Lyall Watson’s examples was a substance that chemists had been trying to crystallize in two different labs (on opposite sides of the world) for more than a decade. When the substance first crystallized in one lab, the other lab reported that they had also achieved crystallization, within a fraction of a second. No time for seed crystals to travel the circumference of the earth, or any such physical explanation.
Thinking intellectually about subjects such as “love” is nothing like experiencing them, yet they are an obviously consistent reality for almost all humans (although definitions used can vary widely!). Just because something needs to be experienced to be grasped, does not mean it is not a consistently experienced part of human reality (even the reality of some scientists :).
If you ask someone who has never touched a piano “can you play the piano?”, the only rational answer is “I don’t know”. But they don’t say that, they say “no”. This is an example of the fact that people already have a lot of beliefs in action, whether they are aware of them or not. A human, even at birth, is very far from a neutral state.
Same for spirituality . . . it is not correct or rational to say that it would be necessary for you to believe that it works before you try using a significant amount of spiritual processing. What that really means is that you currently dis-believe it. A neutral lack of belief would have zero resistance to trying something, but humans are far from neutral, they tend to be polarized on most subjects (and a lot of emotions and pseudo-rationalizations invested in making their polarized views feel “right”).
There are huge vested interests in current “science”, such as almost all medical research being paid for by drug companies, a huge and lucrative specialist journal industry, and patents on alternative energy being bought by oil companies to make sure they don’t get used etc.
Vested interest in spirituality include existing powers on earth wanting to be very sure to preventing the likelihood of real spiritual abilities being commonly available (since someone who could blow up a nuclear power-station or kill any man instantly anywhere in the world by decision would be a weapon that they would want to prevent the existence of, at any cost).
And of course there are plenty of existing profits and power derived from what might be termed “non-ideal” versions of “spirituality”, one reason being that people who are told they can become free, but not given a way to actually get fully to that goal through their own actions, continue pay a lot more money to people who say they are “helping”, than those who have actually got free from the need for so-called “help” from anyone else.
The observation of one person producing consistent results and others not doing so, from spirituality, is what would be expected from current scientific theory in this area (since intentions affect the results), and is similar to medicine where the effects from a drug depend on large numbers of other factors, many of them not known at this time.
Taking this into consideration, the consistency of results from certain spiritual experiments would be far higher than those from current western medicine. For example, one TED talk I watched made the point that remote-viewing produces results that are a lot more consistent than what is required for a new drug to be legally given to the public. Yet a lot of people believe that Western Medicine is “scientific fact” and label anything which might relate to spirituality, like remote-viewing or EFT (which is used in leading hospitals, because it gets results), as “pseudo-science”.
So any lack of acceptance of spirituality by someone who considers medicine to be a science, is not really about consistency of evidence.
Personally, I started from a scientific perspective, but wanted more than that. Using an incident-running technique that removed “spiritual charge” from incidents, I was able to open up my willingness to look at the past, back to my birth, then all the way back to conception. At that point I had a choice . . . I could use the “scientific” belief that oneself does not exist before conception, or I could let go of that and look for myself. I chose neutral observation (despite the fears of the unknown that it brought up) instead of belief in current accepted scientific theory, and I looked for myself.
People in ancient Greece who wanted to know whether oil congealed in cold weather would read through the works of Aristotle to try to find what he said in the subject, and would never consider leaving some oil in a cold place and observing the result. Many people, when questioning spirituality today, fall back on their current beliefs, or read other people’s opinions about the subject hoping that will “prove” it (or dis-prove it), rather than simply taking some action and observing some results for themselves.
Beginners at spiritual technology often make the mistake of believing the non-ideals that they find when using it (instead of processing them). For example “EFT doesn’t work on me”, is something to apply EFT to, not to believe. Same for dis-beliefs in spirituality . . . one could choose to apply spiritual processing to erase them, and thus become more of a neutral observer. One will tend to assume certain things in an area when one starts learning about it, but Deep-Clearing (which I recommend as effective for advanced self-development and spiritual improvement) is about erasing any and all beliefs (and other non-ideals) and thus increasingly being able look directly for oneself.
To put it another way, a false guru will tell you what to believe, thus keeping you in need of him, but a true guru will give you a process whereby you can see for yourself, thus freeing you from the need to follow, believe (or disbelieve) anyone. Many people are being false guru’s to themselves, reading and thinking about what others say, rather than experiencing for themselves.
Ones ability (or lack of it) to look (“spiritually”) is not difficult to demonstrate . . . one can toss a coin, catch it in a closed hand, then use “spiritual ability” to determine whether it is a head or tail. On the other hand, it is, of course, even easier to “disprove” by using intentions that block such ability. Exactly as would be expected by the currently accepted scientific theory that “consciousness” affects reality, and from the typical spiritual condition of most humans on earth (which has plenty of room for improvement, to say the least).
But for one to be willing to admit that one might be able to see reality “spiritually” requires more responsibility than declaring that one “cannot see”. It is much easier to just read about what other people say or even worse, to believe other people’s opinions about what you should believe about what you read! This is common in both science and religion . . . for example anyone who actually reads the bible will know that the bible specifically states that there are many gods (since Yeshua said they his followers were forbidden from worshiping the “god” Baal, or any of the other ones, and only later started saying “I am the only one”), and that Yeshua’s definition of “faith” from the Bible is the ability to spiritually command matter and have it instantly obey. But most people don’t read it and think for themselves, they believe what other people say they should believe about it.
While it’s easy for anyone to learn EFT, apply it to any limiting beliefs relevant to the effectiveness of EFT, and thus get obvious experienced results, it would be a mistake to assume that EFT can fix everything . . . (as the name suggests, it mainly changes emotions about stuff, not the stuff itself. Other more advanced processes can change the stuff itself).
So EFT is a good starting-point but there are far more advanced processes and realities after that, if one chooses to use effective spiritual-technology. Luckily, we have very effective methods available currently, and although considerable work is still needed to get to advanced levels this can now often be done, for some people, in decades rather than tens of lifetimes as would be needed for less efficient methods.
One final point . . . fixed-data (such as beliefs in science) are of use in that they enable one to avoid facing the fears related to chaos, confusion and lack of awareness that one might otherwise experience. So if one finds such a fixed-datum, one can choose to let go of it, experience the fear of its absence, and instead of replacing it with a different fixed-datum just accept the fears for a while (without resisting or disliking them), and have a look at what reality seems like in the absence of that fixed-datum.
There are processes for more fully erasing such fixed-data, thus opening up ones ability to see reality “spiritually”, as one progresses, but for now, try the above suggestion, or use EFT to remove some reactions on that subject, and experience the difference for yourself. And you will find that by doing so you’ve already had a “spiritual” experience (however small this start is), and might want to continue in that direction . . .
Note that there are many pages of relevant data on this site, including suggestions for advanced self-development / spiritual-progress, on this website, see the index for more details.
Chris
P.S. For a big boost to your ability to improve your spiritual condition, get my Ultimate-Self Restart process.
The conditions and states of energy-bodies have a significant effect on ones life, health, and happiness etc. But which energy-bodies are we talking about?
Most people have heard of chakras, kundalini, meridiens, Astral-body, Etheric-double and auras, and maybe some less well-known systems such as the Kalachakra. Due to the recent research by the Peak-States team, some people might now be familiar with the Triune-brain-system as an energy-body (and indeed it is a very significant one).
But there are a LOT of other energy-bodies that are almost unknown in the world today, and these can have a huge impact on your life . . .
For example, I was working with a client recently, helping him apply Deep-Clearing and other effective spiritual and self-development approaches to things he wanted to improve in life.
One of his conditions was fear and likelihood of panic attacks. Having a quick glance (with direct “spiritual” awareness) I was able to identify two of the energy-bodies that were significant causes of these problems.
One of them was a problem which is all too common, and is responsible for a lot of “mental problems”. This is Main-Eshu (Eshu is the Chaos on the lower end of things, out of which life, manifestation and power arise) rising too high in the body. The usual cause of this is lack of presence in the Brains (Triune-brain system, an energy-body with six main components) as a whole system.
When there is enough presence in that system, Main-Eshu is kept from rising above its correct position which is connecting no higher than an inch or so above the base of the spine (the center of the connection is lower than that).
But if the Brains are weak or damaged in some way, Main-Eshu can rise up into the body. If it rises into the heart-brain area, this typically causes panic attacks. If it rises as high as head-Brain, this is known as “insanity” (because there is Chaos where fixed rational data is expected), and is the real cause of the condition of around 80% of people in insane asylums in the world today.
Another energy-body causing this client to be in a state of fear, was damage to the Warriors. This energy-body should have a powerful energy-shield behind the back. If this is damaged or weak then energies which should not be are getting into other areas of the body-systems, and can cause all kinds of problems as well as fears.
A different part of the same body-system, which should be reaching into a representation of the future, he also had damaged and he said that he felt that “he had no future”.
This client also had damage to the outer three of the largest set of auras, which was also causing fears and other problems. In his case, the majority of the damage to these, and other energy-bodies, was his use of drugs. The resultant problems with energy-bodies were having a very significant impact on his life, but with effective processing all this can be fixed, and one can be freed from the unwanted conditions.
The ongoing research into energy-bodies, is producing lots of fascinating and valuable data, and ongoing updates are posted there :
There is also a lot of data being discovered in other areas of spiritual and advanced self-development research and some of this is available on one of my other websites :
If you want my recommendations on the most efficient and effective methods of improving your spiritual condition, see my page here.
If you want a big boost in your ability to improve your spiritual condition, I recommend my Ultimate-Self Restart process, here.
Chris
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