Perceptual Shift

You can shift to a creative reality or a parallel universe for adventure, help, knowledge, wisdom or healing.

So we need fluidity to move the assemblage point elsewhere, and then we need the stability, the concentration, the energy to fix it on another position….. the movement and the fixation, fixing again the assemblage point at the different positions, thereby lighting up different realities that are just as concrete and real as what we take as reality of the everyday world. The Sorcerer’s Crossing” – Dimensions Magazine – 1994 Taisha Abelar in conversation with Alexander Blair-Ewart

Children do it all the time. We call it fantasy and imagination, but what is happening really? Playing is exploring alternate realities. Look at a meek child suddenly transform herself into a ferocious beast. She has shifted. Young children are masters at shifting realities.

Creative people speak of that aha moment. They open themselves up to the possibility of access to other shifts of awareness. That moment when their mind is receptive and quiet and stops and aha, they pop into a different awareness. That creative moment is a shift when it continues it is flow.

Great artists are able to shift to another level. A blues singer for example singer can reach down into his soul perception and move you to his level of perception. That is the feeling, the perceptual shift you feel when he touches your soul. He Moves Your shift.

Many famous scientists say that multiple realities of parallel universes do exist. If they exist then they must be accessible as through a hologram. http://physics.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_parallel_universe
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/09/n–one-of-the-m.html

You learn from science that all pieces of a hologram contain the whole hologram. In the oneness of all, which is the hologram of life, you only need to shift your perception. Shift the light of your spirit to align a different reality a different outcome a different universe a different perspective a different awareness.

The fastest way to shift to Grace is to hold “Thank you God” in your awareness.

The perceptual shift of loving, appreciating or admiring someone or something is Grace.

I keep coming back to Grace because it is the easiest and perhaps most beneficial shift you can make. When you can hold onto Grace you can begin the big adventure of your (shifting) life. You have aligned with the Creative Power, the Source.

When you shift to other perceptions you take your alignment in Grace with you.

Grace is absolutely independent of any religious or cultural group and can be attained by anyone.

When you can hold the shift “Thank you God”, You hold yourself in the evolutionary stream of life and you uplift all of creation.

Listen to Amazing Grace Leann Grimes on U Tube
or sung with an Eastern Turn by Sharon Janis at the Sun Valley Opera House.

Why would we want to bother to shift our perception?

From a perceptual shift outside of your usual residence you can promote healing, peace, harmony for others and enter perceptions of creativity, adventure and understanding for yourself.

From the perceptual shift of Grace you support those you love and admire. You become a fountain of good energy to those around you. You actually become a tool of creation as the Source of Grace is outside of yourself. Grace will flow through you as an unseen energy as you admire, appreciate, and love. As a bonus you will be continually energized by grace as it flows through you first. The feeling is joyful and fun.

When you move your perceptual shift to an alignment another is occupying you develop empathy and understanding for why they are the way they are. When you consider the vortex of their inner dialogue you can understand why they react the way they do.

When you align with an Eagle you get the Eagle’s perspective of the world soaring high on the winds free of your monkey mind.

When you align with a great avatar you are a great avatar.

When you align with creation you cooperate with the flow and evolution of creation.

Why would you bother to practice to learn to perceptual shift? Because it is a great endless adventure. It is fun and challenging. It is healing, creative and empowering.

He loves you every single time you meet without fail. At any moment of danger he is immediately ready to lay down his life for you.

Who is this warrior?

You dog always loves you unconditionally. He is always ready to defend you from any attack. He is always giving you energy. This is his perceptual shift. Part of it is his genetic heritage. Part is learned. Man is the wolf’s natural enemy, yet your dog will always put you above the wild pack.

There is something to be learned here. When your dog is at rest at your feet try to align with his perception. Perceive as he perceives. Feel what unconditional love is. Stay with this shift for a while. After you are comfortable try to move the shift to include nature around you. Feel what it is like to unconditionally love your environment. Move the shift slightly to include all that is. Stay with this shift as long as possible.

As you practice shifting you are becoming more and more fluid.

You can practice aligning other animals and birds to experience their perceptual views. Practice shifting your perception beyond the human realm. Move your alignment into the realm of the eagle, the butterfly, the flower, the jaguar, and the planet.

Each new shift opens a universe of experience and opportunity for you.

One time I moved my perception to experiencing as a seagull that was circling high above with many other birds. To my amazement this very bird flew down and landed right in front of me to look me over like only a seagull can.

A martial arts master will use the strengths of his adversary to his advantage.

The obstacle is the path ~ Zen Proverb

Look at the numbers. We are surrounded by the perception of the mind. We are all Maya living, living in our mind dreams.

What if one person, say you, were able to break free from the perceptual illusion of mind dreaming. You begin to live here and now outside of mental illusion. Would this new perception this new dream of yours include the liberation of the rest of us bound by illusion?

You know that humans tend to align one another’s perceptions.

What if 100,000 of us or say 200,000 of us became liberated could we then shift the mass perception out of illusion to living from the heart, living more now? Will we reach a critical mass when 500,000 of us make a permanent perceptual shift and are able to live free from the grasp of ego? (Have you ever heard of the 100th monkey theory?)

The mind thrives on cycling and recycling mental dialogue. It creates a vortex of captivating energy. This vortex will pull down your perception and hold it, but we can use knowledge of the mind to track our way out.

You can not solve a problem at the level at which it was created. You can not solve mental problems by thinking. Thinking is of the mind. You can not solve problems of the heart from your heart as they are at the same level. In each case you have to go up one on the perceptual level to cure the malise.

The martial art is not to fight existing perception. The art is to turn the energy around and use it to move to a higher perceptual shift. If you can shift and hold your perception at the big picture level you can perceive right action and the outcome before it occurs.

If you are in anger and hate or fear and anxiety then step into and embrace the perception of being in the grace of the heart and hold on tight. If you are in heart temptation step into omnipresent perception and don’t let go. Stay with the big picture and learn what this situation was meant to teach you. There is a reason for everything. Their are no coincidences.

Like a martial artsman be prepared to shift your perception as temptation and fear will come hunting you every time you take a step toward the infinite until you step free. Guaranteed. This is the evolutionary process.

The mind is a valuable part of us and serves a purpose.
Respect, love and appreciate your mind and rule it from your heart.

Real freedom from the tyranny of the mind is possible.

Shift your perception and stay with that perceptual shift as long as you want.
It is great to perceive beauty, but you should be able to align within yourself “the world is beautiful” and stay in that perceptual shift for as long as you wish.

Take out the trash….. I mean take the garbage out of your head. Dan Millman the Peaceful Warrior movie.

All acts in life take energy. All creation is energy. In order to hold a perception it takes energy. If you want to stay in heart perception, loving life then you need to have the energy available to stay there. If your mind keeps pulling your perception to what your mom or dad or sister or your own brain said or did, or pulling your perception to what your first or second or third spouse or friend or boss or girlfriend did or might or could do to you then that is where your energy will go. Without energy your perception will be captured again by the mind. Unless you stay connected to the infinite source of renewable energy, eventually your energy is depleted and you fall back to lower perceptual shifts. As suggested earlier the way to stay connected to an infinite supply of energy is to stay in the state of Grace, appreciating, and loving where you are and who you are with.

It is pretty simple. Your energy follows your perception. Your energy flows to where you hold your perception. If your perception continuosly falls back to desires of your mind/ego then your perception will be scattered and your energy wasted and your mind/ego will be pleased as it still has power over your spirit.

How do we break the grasp of the mind/ego on our energy. How do we break its grasp on our perception?

How do you stay in the I am peace I am grace state of perception when raging desires of the mind would pull your perception away?
Practice, practice, practice.

Stop chasing mind scripts. Move and hold your perception beyond the reach of the desires of your mind.
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using words against yourself or others. Use the Power of the word in the direction of truth and love. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. The Four Agreements ..Miguel Ruiz.

Keep asking yourself …Where am I NOW ? Frustration perception? or Grace perception?

The age old prescription for stopping the mind are 1. give away all worldly belongings then go live in a cave and 2. meditate past your primal scream into the great unknown.

If we wish to evolve we have to become like the Toltec Nagual masters, capable of shifting at will between worlds of perception.

To learn to hold your perception beyond the grasp of the mind…. Build your energy with…. right foods, right exercise, and practice holding Grace perception and Omnipresent perception.. Pay paticular attention to unusual perceptions especially to repeated unusual perceptions and seeming coincidences. There are no coincidences. There is a purpose for everything.

stay tuned….

When you feel and see the world from the point of view of others or from a point external to yourself you are perceptual shifting.
There is something inside of us that whispers we are not free, but we do not understand what it is, and why we are not free. Don Miguel Ruiz “The Four Agreements”

Today we are going to play with moving your perception. That is what this blog is all about….. learning how to shift perception. Small steps at first, but really important steps.

Think about it. As your day rolls around you are using several different perceptions to observe your world. As your emotions and habits shift throughout the day your perception shifts in synchrony.

If you are like most when you get up in the morning you …..have to get this done and this done and this done before you get in trouble for being late or negligent. It really is perceiving life through a Nervous lens, aka fear perception. Then you hit the highway and bamo you are in a perceptual commuting trance, driving as is your style, slow, aggressive, abusive, whatever. Then you are at work and shlip on goes the work perception …. maybe depression, maybe robotisim, fear, or zippidy do da I am going to have fund today no matter what the boss does.

Throughout the day we go through shifts in our perception. If our lives have regular patterns, then our shifts of perception tend to become regular habits. What is more regular habitual perception shifts keep us locked into seeing our world in only the way we have been perceiving the world. It is like our habits only let us look at the ground and we never look up to see the blue sky and brilliant stars. What a shame to go through life and never see the stars because we are wearing blinders.

If you have never seen the stars you will never miss them unless something happens to broaden your band of perception. My God, we just have to change this. Human beings are just too beautiful a part of creation to never look about and know the glory of creation! We have no concept of what we are missing. We are like worms that have no idea of the possibility of one day being beautiful flying butterflies that can cross half of the globe.

Dwell upon this again. The world we perceive depends on the perception we using at the moment. If you stay with the same perception then you will get the same pictures over and over. HOW BORING…. how small.

Suppose today you are a little more aware and you decide you are tired of this. You just can not take it any more. You leave home for work, but you call in sick and go to the beach. After sitting there mopeing for a while you begin to notice that most people are enjoying themselves, especially the little kids. What is going on here. They must live in a different world? They are all rich, right? Well the kids can’t be.

It hits you like a meteorite in the cranium. These kids have shifted their perception to a different place than the one I am using. They are living in the moment here and now and they are having fun.

Duh, Why don’t I just learn to perceive the world in better ways. The here and now, no past bullshit on the mind, perception the kids are using looks like more fun.

Go somewhere busy where you can be the observer and not bother anyone. Go somewhere like the mall, a sporting event, or even the beach or pool. Observe with kind intention. Silence your babbling mind for a moment and observe individuals. Observe how you feel from your heart or gut about where you think each individual’s perception is currently floating.

You will see that you quickly get a feeling for each individual, a feeling where their perception is centered. You perceive/feel all kinds of things. I am busy, I am stressed, I hate my life, I am fearful, I am having fun, I am happy, I am a flirt, I am sad, I am sexy, I am overweight, mostly I am living in my head reviewing fantasy and bad memories, and then there is I am blessed.

Whoa. What was that last one!!! Yes that is a rare one. I am blessed. I am in grace. I am in gratitude. I love life. Now pay attention to this one. He/she is the rare one.

Let us see now. We are observing perceptions like we are shopping for cars. Which one do you want? How about I am stressed. Or I am sexy, or I hate my life, or I love my life?

I don’t know about you, but I think that I will try out the I love my life model, even though I am sexy sounds like fun.

Back to the mall or sporting event; kindly observe the one person who you feel is in this state of grace in love with being in their own skin.

Try to get a lock on the alignment of their perception because YOU REALLY WANT TO USE THE SAME PERCEPTION THEY ARE IN. Believe me they really won’t mind and will probably smile as long as you are appreciating them. People enjoy being appreciated and loved even when no words or emotions are expressed.

Try it. Try to shift your perception to align with someone you see who appears to be in Grace. You often see it with new mothers. See how it feels. Grace feels pretty nice.
Feel the sense of peace, of satisfaction, of love and gratitude. Hold on to this feeling this perceptual shift and then try to extend it to others and to nature in the area.

Practice. Practice. Practice. In a short time you will be able to shift your perception at will.

You can also practice shifting to other peoples alignments to empathize and understand their reality.
You can find kids playing and you can align with them to live here and now in the flow of creation.
You can go to the wilderness and shift to the peace that nature offers.
You can practice shifting into the Global view, the Eagles view for a perspective of all the factors of life coalesced in your life situation.
You can practice shifting up and down the time line to perceive possible outcomes in current situations.
You can practice shifting to align with omnipresent creation.

Now you have done something important.

1. You have found that you already shift your perceptions minutely.
2. You have identified perceptual shifts that you want to experience.
3. You are practicing shifting your perception in alignment with those you observe as having a better or broader view of life.
4. You can consider shifting your perception to ever expanding horizons, to places you can not even imagine beyond human perception.
5. You can become a proficient perceptual shifter with practice.

When you completely give up on yourself, completely surrender, something inside of you releases and allows transcendental perception to occur. You transcend normal perception.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance. Stillness Speaks … Eckhart Tolle

Each transcendental perception that I have had has followed complete and total surrender, completely giving up on myself. Each experience greatly affected the rest of my life. Each experience I found was not easily duplicatable. Each experience left me awestruck at the awesome magnitude of creation and of humanity. If you study near death experiences you see that transcendental perception is not that uncommon. For me there was nothing religious about my experiences, but they were deeply spiritual. Other near death survivors have different reactions when their cause and affect mind develops different interpretations as they return to normal levels of perception. Then mind irrationally or rationally seeks to explain away what it can not perceive directly. The nature of the mind seeks to hold us down in its level of perception.

My first experience occurred when I was around 12 years old and this experience colored and affects the rest of my life. I nearly drowned. At the point where I gave up, my entire life flashed before my eyes. In the same instant that my life flashed by someone swam right over my head like a synchronized orchestrated swimming performance and my hand reached out to his foot exactly clasping his ankle and I pulled myself to the surface. I have no doubt that this occurrence was orchestrated. It is just too impossible of an occurrence to be a chance occurrence.

This fortunate near death experience affected my life ever since. Once you have had a taste of the transcendental perception you can not accept loosing that perception. I was a young seeker of wisdom before this incident, but afterwords, I was hooked.

I put an extreme amount of effort and intent into returning to that transcendental perception. I meditated, prayed, studied esoteric mysticism, took yoga, scared myself half to death studying Castaneda, read everything about everything. Basically I tried to understand and re enter Transcendental Perception with my Cause and Affect mind perception. Just like everyone else who seeks enlightenment, I failed miserably. If anything I only imbalanced myself as my mind tried to cope with what it could not perceive.

You can not find with the mind that which is outside the mind. Only when you give up the mind can you shift your perception.

My next transcendental perception occured when I was about 21 years of age. I was bottoming out emotionally, living in nowhere land, with no job and no friends, completely frustrated that I was unable to expand my perception of reality.

One evening in this situation I was meditating, frustrated, giving up, ie I reached the point of complete surrender once again. I fell into a trance or deep sleep and I perceived the entire physical cosmos in creation. I saw that everything was energy, I saw that energy coalesced became centrally bound to form matter, that that matter then coalesced and evolved into everything that we see in the physical world. Atoms, molecules, planets, stars, elephants and us. I knew that the purpose the meaning of life was to evolve, and that I and everyone and everything is continually evolving, that we are all interconnected, that we are all one at some level of perception.

These experiences were many years ago so their intensity and exact memory has faded with time. From my extensive reading since that time I have realized that my experiences are not unique and therefore have reality and are not fantasy.

The point being made is ……. When you completely capitulate, completely surrender, when you let go of desires, wants, and hopes….. your mind really stops and really gives up and allows other perception …… then transcendental perception is a possibility.

The question that remains is ……. How do you surrender at will. How do you open the door of transcendental perception when you desire?

I am interested in any comments I can receive here.

Obviously transcendental perception is protected because you can not have individuals operating in survival level, the kill, eat and conquer mentality slipping into a creative zone that could greatly magnify the damage that they could do. So there is a prequalification to get to this point, and there are limits to what one is allowed to perceive according to their personal evolutionary status. Making a long story short. You have to qualify for for what you are able to perceive, for the level of perception you can access.

Now we are getting somewhere. To achieve transcendental perception you have to surrender.