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Quickstep Continued - 15 Daily Catalyst
Each day, we become more adept at processing catalyst, and therefore, each day, we experience more catalyst. We begin to struggle to find sufficient meditation time in which to process our daily catalyst.
Soon we see that much of the catalyst is purely confirmation of earlier work, but improved and more magnificent.
In the next stage, we then learn to extend our new-found knowledge in all directions in order to manifest the total change created by new learnings. By doing this each day, we broaden the scope of our considerations, and along with the increased speed given by the clear out of muck from the mind, we are able to command a much broader view of all-that-there-is.
Bruce Lipton's Jan '22 Newsletter
January 2022
Hello Dear Friends, Cultural Creatives & Seekers Everywhere,
Happy New Year and wishes for a Healthy, Happy, and Harmonious 2022!
For this month:
Take care of your own backyard …
before you go out and save the world.
~An old Hippie proverb from the last century
The landing of astronauts on the moon on July 20, 1969, led to a photo that changed civilization … a picture of Earth on the Moon’s horizon. The photo of the blue-green Earth suspended in space radically changed the public’s consciousness of the Earth as being a planet of unlimited resources. The first time the public saw the distant Earth, as a small gem isolated in the massive blackness of empty space, it changed humanity’s consciousness. No longer was the Earth viewed as a vast planet, for it was now perceived as a small “spaceship” hurtling through space.
A large population of youth, especially those labeled as “hippies,” and a community of elders, recognized that the planet possessed limited resources to support human civilization. At this time, the youth led a movement to take care of the Garden from whence we came. The movement began to monitor the quality of the air, the water, the forests, and it especially supported the children to live in love and harmony, as the country was sending its youth to fight a corporate-sponsored war in Vietnam.
Nine months after the NASA photo was circulated in the public media, activists organized the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, an effort to bring awareness of the planet’s fragile ecosystem into civilization’s consciousness. It was a call to nurture the planet. This is why I refer to the green-activists of today as the founders of a new civilization, a Mammalian Civilization, so-called because the character of mammals is that they are inherently “nurturers.”
But over time, the “we-generation” hippies faded away and were replaced by the “me-generation” yuppies. Activist youths traded their faded jeans in for suits, high paying jobs and BMWs. What happened? It was a consequence of the 400- year-old Jesuit saying: “Give me a child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.” While the hippies were sowing their seeds in their youth, as they got older, their behavior conformed to their childhood developmental programming of pursuing the American Dream.
This is why the above quote about “taking care of your own backyard” is so vitally important before we go out and try to “save the world.” It is difficult to save the world when, inevitably, 95% of our cognitive activity is unconsciously-derived from subconscious mind programs downloaded by observing our parent’s and community’s behaviors when we were under 7 years of age.
The point is while our conscious minds want us to be activists and create a better world, it is our invisible downloaded familial behavioral programs that controls our behavior. The quote emphasizes that we must first address our own dysfunctional programs before we can help others.
I know this truth first-hand. When armed with my science of epigenetics and quantum principles, I attempted to tell people how to create a Heaven-on-Earth life. Audience members would observe me and say, “Lipton, your life doesn’t look that good for a guy who says he knows how to create such a beautiful life.” I was going out save the world with conscious awareness, yet the behavior of my own life was a bit of disaster due to limitations of my own developmental programs.
It was only after I became aware of the conflict between my conscious awareness and the dysfunctional subconscious programs that characterized my life, that I finally heeded the hippie quote. I stopped my effort of going out to change the world by “telling” others how to create Heaven-on-Earth. I recognized that I had to first go home and “take care of my own backyard” by recognizing and managing my own disempowering and self-sabotaging subconscious programs.
Fortunately, as soon as I actually applied the principles in my own life that I was trying to tell others about, my life radically changed. Since then, I have “cleaned-up” my own backyard by transforming my dysfunctional subconscious programs into life-enhancing behaviors. My life immediately began to manifest heaven experiences, so much so, that I wrote The Honeymoon Effect book to help others empower their lives.
Once I began “walking the talk,” rather than just “talking the talk,” audiences began to see the empowerment my message offered and then they seriously began transforming their own lives. As we move into this New Year, a resolution to “take care of our own backyard,” will empower us to easily move through the chaos of a world that is currently evolving into a higher order.
With Wishes of Good Health, Good Cheer, a life of Heaven-on-Earth, … and, of course,
Love, Light, and Happiness,
Bruce
Do We Really Create Our Own Reality?
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
There’s a school of thought in spiritual circles that ascribes to the idea that everything that happens in our lives — the blissful things, the growth edge things, the horrid things — all happens with purpose. This spiritual teaching suggests that everything reflected in our lives is the result of our conscious or unconscious desires, and that when things aren’t going our way, it’s because the blueprint of the subconscious actually desires the very thing we think we don’t want. In other words, we may believe that we want to meet the love of our life, or we may hope to have the cancer cured, but if someone were to muscle test us or read the subconscious mind intuitively, we would discover that at the level of the subconscious, we’re actually terrified of falling in love because of a past heartbreak, or the cancer is meeting some core need for rest, connection, or freedom from a toxic job, for example.
“Wait!” you say. “But I really DO want to find The One!” Or “Hang on a minute! I swear I want to be cured of my cancer.” Or “Watch it now. Are you suggesting that my business is failing because I want it to fail?”
Yes, and no. Those who promote this viewpoint are not suggesting that you CONSCIOUSLY want a crappy love life or cancer or failure in your business. They’re saying you subconsciously want it, and because your subconscious is in charge 95% of the time, this subconscious blueprint will sabotage the very thing your conscious mind wants to create. They say that everything in your life, you create. The good, the bad, the ugly — it’s all up to you.
Yeah! We Are Not Victims!
I find myself simultaneously attracted to and challenged with this viewpoint. The good news is that if this is true, and everything in our reality is the direct out-picturing of our subconscious blueprint, then we are not victims! We are empowered! If we are sick, or broke, or heartbroken, or grieving, or pained with unmet longing for something we don’t yet have, then we should be able to simply change the blueprint by reprogramming the conscious and subconscious mind, something we are increasingly able to do through energy psychology techniques.
I’ve witnessed and personally experienced seemingly miraculous outcomes from those who employ these techniques towards cancer or money issues or the desire for a dream to come true. So that seems kind of awesome. Heal the subconscious blueprint, and voila! Your 3D reality shifts almost instantaneously. You meet the love of your life. The cancer disappears. Your business takes off like a rocket ship to superstardom.
But Hang on a Second …
If this is the case, we should always be able to control outcomes in our lives and get what we want. The message is “You can have the perfect life! Whatever you desire, you can have—as long as you do more. Try harder. If you’re not getting everything you want, it’s all your fault—and you can change it.”
But then this sounds like yet another grasping strategy for how to get what the ego wants, a spiritual spin on how to control the Universe. This viewpoint also strikes me as cruel. If a mother loses her child, does this mean she subconsciously wants to lose her baby? Or that her baby subconsciously has a death wish? If a woman has stage 4 cancer but is fighting for her life with every possible treatment, does that mean that, at least subconsciously, she has lost the will to live? Does that mean that Syrian refugees subconsciously wish to be tortured and forced to flee their homes, running for their lives into a world that doesn’t want to welcome them and keep them safe? Does that mean that the poverty-stricken are subconsciously stuck in scarcity thinking? Such a viewpoint doesn’t feel benevolent or loving to me, not one bit. And how can we claim to be spiritual if we’re not deeply rooted in compassion, able to be with someone’s suffering as a source of comfort?
What If WE JUST DON’T KNOW?
I certainly can’t claim to know how to explain the cause and effect of 3D reality. What if we’re humble enough to acknowledge that the way the Universe operates is one big phat mystery? What if we’re all here for some unspecified purpose, and our souls are here to learn God knows what, and the Universe is conspiring to shower us with blessings—but those blessings may not be wrapped up in nice neat little packages? What if our wishes and desires are duly noted, but in some unseen realm, our souls are in cahoots with a wise, loving Universal Intelligence that participates in orchestrating our reality so that we can learn exactly what we’re here to learn so we can grow closer to whatever you might call God, so we can become more benevolent, more compassionate, more gentle, more humble, more unconditionally loving?
What if the Rolling Stones are right? Maybe we can’t always get what we want, but somehow, we get what we need?
I don’t know how these things work. I played around with these ideas in my upcoming book The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor’s Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life’s Purpose, which you can preorder here. But I ask more questions these days than I dare to answer.
All I can conclude is that when it comes to spiritual teachings like this, we need to hold our viewpoints lightly. Be curious. Wonder. Be willing to participate in the co-creation of reality. Stay humble. Remain open for awe. If things go the way you wish, stumble into gratitude wholeheartedly. And if not, be exquisitely tender with your heart. Find the gifts in the challenges without blaming yourself or wallowing in a victim story, but also be kind and acknowledge that it is hard to be human, and we’re all doing the best we can.
If nothing else, practice compassion for all beings. Including yourself. BE love. Close your eyes right now and feel it. You are loved. Everything in the universe is conspiring to support you. Everything is going to be okay. . .
Love,
Lissa Rankin, MD:
The Twelve Stages of the Human Life Cycle
Which stage of life is the most important? Some might claim that infancy is the key stage, when a baby’s brain is wide open to new experiences that will influence all the rest of its later life. Others might argue that it’s adolescence or young adulthood, when physical health is at its peak. Many cultures around the world value late adulthood more than any other, arguing that it is at this stage that the human being has finally acquired the wisdom necessary to guide others. Who is right? The truth of the matter is that every stage of life is equally significant and necessary for the welfare of humanity. In my book The Human Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life I’ve written that each stage of life has its own unique “gift” to contribute to the world. We need to value each one of these gifts if we are to truly support the deepest needs of human life. Here are what I call the twelve gifts of the human life cycle:
Prebirth: Potential – The child who has not yet been born could become anything – a Michelangelo, a Shakespeare, a Martin Luther King – and thus holds for all of humanity the principle of what we all may yet become in our lives.
Birth: Hope – When a child is born, it instills in its parents and other caregivers a sense of optimism; a sense that this new life may bring something new and special into the world. Hence, the newborn represents the sense of hope that we all nourish inside of ourselves to make the world a better place.
Infancy (Ages 0-3): Vitality – The infant is a vibrant and seemingly unlimited source of energy. Babies thus represent the inner dynamo of humanity, ever fueling the fires of the human life cycle with new channels of psychic power.
Early Childhood (Ages 3-6): Playfulness – When young children play, they recreate the world anew. They take what is and combine it with the what is possible to fashion events that have never been seen before in the history of the world. As such, they embody the principle of innovation and transformation that underlies every single creative act that has occurred in the course of civilization.
Middle Childhood (Ages 6-8): Imagination – In middle childhoood, the sense of an inner subjective self develops for the first time, and this self is alive with images taken in from the outer world, and brought up from the depths of the unconscious. This imagination serves as a source of creative inspiration in later life for artists, writers, scientists, and anyone else who finds their days and nights enriched for having nurtured a deep inner life.
Late Childhood (Ages 9-11): Ingenuity – Older children have acquired a wide range of social and technical skills that enable them to come up with marvelous strategies and inventive solutions for dealing with the increasing pressures that society places on them. This principle of ingenuity lives on in that part of ourselves that ever seeks new ways to solve practical problems and cope with everyday responsibilities.
Adolescence (Ages 12-20): Passion – The biological event of puberty unleashes a powerful set of changes in the adolescent body that reflect themselves in a teenager’s sexual, emotional, cultural, and/or spiritual passion. Adolescence passion thus represents a significant touchstone for anyone who is seeking to reconnect with their deepest inner zeal for life.
Early Adulthood (Ages 20-35): Enterprise – It takes enterprise for young adults to accomplish their many responsibilities, including finding a home and mate, establishing a family or circle of friends, and/or getting a good job. This principle of enterprise thus serves us at any stage of life when we need to go out into the world and make our mark.
Midlife (Ages 35-50): Contemplation – After many years in young adulthood of following society’s scripts for creating a life, people in midlife often take a break from worldly responsibilities to reflect upon the deeper meaning of their lives, the better to forge ahead with new understanding. This element of contemplation represents an important resource that we can all draw upon to deepen and enrich our lives at any age.
Mature Adulthood (Ages 50-80): Benevolence – Those in mature adulthood have raised families, established themselves in their work life, and become contributors to the betterment of society through volunteerism, mentorships, and other forms of philanthropy. All of humanity benefits from their benevolence. Moreover, we all can learn from their example to give more of ourselves to others.
Late Adulthood (Age 80+): Wisdom – Those with long lives have acquired a rich repository of experiences that they can use to help guide others. Elders thus represent the source of wisdom that exists in each of us, helping us to avoid the mistakes of the past while reaping the benefits of life’s lessons.
Death & Dying: Life – Those in our lives who are dying, or who have died, teach us about the value of living. They remind us not to take our lives for granted, but to live each moment of life to its fullest, and to remember that our own small lives form of a part of a greater whole.
Since each stage of life has its own unique gift to give to humanity, we need to do whatever we can to support each stage, and to protect each stage from attempts to suppress its individual contribution to the human life cycle. Thus, we need to be wary, for example, of attempts to thwart a young child’s need to play through the establishment high-pressure formal academic preschools. We should protect the wisdom of aged from elder abuse. We need to do what we can to help our adolescents at risk. We need to advocate for prenatal education and services for poor mothers, and support safe and healthy birthing methods in third world countries. We ought to take the same attitude toward nurturing the human life cycle as we do toward saving the environment from global warming and industrial pollutants. For by supporting each stage of the human life cycle, we will help to ensure that all of its members are given care and helped to blossom to their fullest degree.
