Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within

When synapses fire, they argue, it’s analogous to software “executing.” But the real question is: who writes the software?

You will know you are getting somewhere if you start noticing any of these things: A sensation of stillness or space. A feeling as if you are moving toward objects or as if they are moving toward you. A heightened visual sense.

I found myself drawn to books by Barbara Brennan, a medical intuitive who described her hands-on healing work and ability to see auras—the energy fields that she claims surround living things.

the kahunas believe that by gaining mastery over our thoughts, and in particular by working in cooperation with a more knowing, interior part of ourselves, we can gain control over the world and the future we create.

Homeopathic remedies are made from such extreme dilutions of plant, animal, and mineral matter that they do not contain even a single molecule of the original substances from which they are derived. Instead, homeopaths believe that they carry an energetic signature of these substances—a claim that only today is beginning to be scientifically verifi

Here are some other ideas to play with while relaxing in outer sensation: Can you become “one” with an object? Can you sense the feeling of “being” a lamp or a tree? As you see and hear, do you feel any inner sensations in your body? Do this exercise (and all exercises in this book) in a spirit of playfulness.

Gurdjieff taught that there is yet another way—what he called the “Fourth Way.” This involves developing a deep awareness of all three elements of the outer self—the body, the emotions, and the mind. By distinguishing, clarifying, and intensifying each of these distinct aspects of our being, and then by finally integrating them together in a consci

As it turns out, the existence of an entity outside the “brain computer” is also implied by a mathematical law called Gödel’s Theorem.

Attaining this kind of creative mastery requires many things. One is acknowledging and then truly believing that you, not someone or something outside you, determine what your emotions are, what your thoughts are, and what actions you take.