Perceptual Shift

The European Enlightenment was, in so many ways, merely the Endarkenment.  It was the cultural moment in which the linear mind began its dominance.  The moment at which this older mode of cognition was abandoned….  “Secret Teachings of Plants  by Stephen Harrod Buhner”

The older paradigm of living and cognition was that of direct communication with the creations of nature, a holistic consciousness that was nearly destroyed and wiped off of the face of the Earth by those who sought the control of everyone else.  Nevertheless the capacity to perceive through the heart has survived or was rediscovered as is represented by the lives of wise ones like Gnothe, Buhner, Thoreau, Shakespear, Fukuoka, Burbank and Shamans living in remote isolation.  Each demonstrates the ability to communicate with plants and nature in the real world procuring healing herbs in ways that linear science can not phantom.  Each demonstrates the ability to bring astounding amounts of information out of the real world.

What this means is that you me and anyone with the desire and strong intention can reconnect our awareness back with nature. Each of us has the capacity to correspond with the interwoven community of life.

You can reverse your own endarkenment by taking control of where your conciousness and your perception resides.  You can communciate with all living things with a much greater capacity than words alone can grasp.  Reading Buhner’s book quoted above is probably one of the best places to start.  Spending time in the wilderness or your garden attuned to your five senses is the next.

William Shakespeare: “Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.“

The the awareness of the intelligence of all things comes to you when you allow the perception of the sensations produced by these things your full attention and honored contemplation.

As I have learned, the ecosystem is the universe.  Everything is interconnected on an intimate level that most fail to comprehend.

Every living organism and “inanimate” object produces a fluctuating broadband electromagnetic spectrum that responds to changes in its environment.  As time progresses your senses are continually reading, recording and sending information filled fields of information.  Everything is continually doing this at great speed.  The equilibrium of everything is interdependent on these high speed interactive communications.

Since everything is infinitely extended by virtue of its shifting, responsive extended electromagnetic field, everything is infinitely interconnected.

The reason most people are not aware of their connection to their environment is that everyone is stuck in their heads.  We have all learned to be mentally conscious and drop our capacity to be conscious from our heart center.  We have dropped our capacity to hold our consciousness in our senses, in our environment.    Because the conscious mind is a linear ie (one after the other) processor it can not process multidimensional holistic information.

The simple solution to becoming aware of being in the ecosystem is to shift your attention to your senses and pay attention to what you are feeling, pay attention to how your body responds, and pay attentions to the thoughts that arise.

When you allow your consciousness to reside in your heart you can readily see the insanity of creating and releasing genetically modified foods, or creating nuclear power plants, or other devices that have the capacity to irreparably damage the ecosystem that we all are.

Remember, the ecosystem is you, me and the universe.  Go out into the wilderness and reboot.

Thoughts and words are not perceptions, they are not experiences any more than a cartoon movie is real life.  Do not deceive yourself anymore. Thoughts and words are merely ways to think about experiences. In this blog we are seeking ways to get out of the head mode and into direct perception. 

Keep in mind as you read this blog that it is not reality, but a signpost pointing you back to experiencing heart perception and holistic awareness.

Heart coherence occurs when all of the beating cells of the heart fire together.  This occurs when one’s consciousness is centered in the heart.  Heart coherence is strongest when the brain/mind is entrained by the heart rather than vice versa.

Dominant entrainment by the habitual verbal/intellectual/analytical mode of consciousness results in decoherence in the heart and increased disorder in organ function and is the foundation of many diseases.

Just focusing on enjoying visual stimuli is enough to shift your heart into coherent beating and to entrain the brain to the electromagnetic field of the heart.  It becomes even more healthy when specific kinds of emotions are activated: feelings of caring, love, and appreciation enhance internal coherence. 

 The more confused, angry, or frustrated a person becomes, the more incoherent their heart’s electromagnetic field…….  Increased heart coherence and heart/brain entrainment also produces improvements in disorders such as arrhythmia, mitral valve prolapse, congestive heart failure, asthma, diabetes, fatigue, autoimmune conditions, autonomic exhaustion, anxiety, depression, aids, and post traumatic stress disorder. Stephen Buhner,  The Secret Teachings of Plants. (quote highlighted)

What we have been getting at consistently in this blog has scientific proof.  Living from your heart is possible when you shift and hold your percepion to enjoying, loving, caring, and appreciating.  By consistently holding this simple intent you are heart coherent/centered and live a happier, healthier, longer, more fulfilling life.

When a person projects a heart coherent field filled with caring, love and attention, living organisims respond to the information in the field by becoming more responsive, open, affectionate, animated, and closely connected.

“Heart coherence begins when the location of consciousness is shifted from the brain to the heart, either through focus on the heart itself or on external sensory cues and how they feel.” 

“The heart is a tightly interconnected part of an oscillating, nonlinear neuronal network that is always processing electromagnetic waves within which information is encoded. . these interconnected networks couple with one another and begin working as one synchronized system.”  

When the brain entrains to the heart, connectivity increases between brain and body. Conversely, location of consciousness in the brain leads to an increased disconnection between brain and body.  Quotes from…. “The Secret Teachings of Plants, In the Direct Perception of Nature”…… by Stephen Buhner.

I recommend reading this book.  It is somewhat of a challange yet it offers tremendous insight into the reality of the perceptual world most of us are phase locked into.

This author believes that one can shift to heart perception by shifting attention away from thoughts and placing attention on sensory stimuli, or on the heart.  If you stop to think about it, (get back in your mind for a moment!) moving your attention to feeling stimuli in your environment does stop or slow internal mental dialogue. Try going outside and placing your attention on fully experiencing your environment.  No matter if you are gardening, resting in the hammock, or going for a walk you are shifting into heart perception.  When you shift to heart perception you should feel the shift, as you heart slows down, your mental dialogue slows and your body relaxes as it moves into coherence and balance.

This little window of perception will help many to see how they can step out of the disharmony of mental conciousness into the harmony of heart conciousness at will.  Just shift your focus into feeling, sensing and experiencing now.

It is time for the world to stand up and just say no to genetically modified foods.  Some call them frankenfoods, for that is just what they have become.  Scientists have started morphing plants and animals combining their dna in various ways without understanding that holistic changes occur when you change a part of the whole.  Disaster is really lurking behind this one.

If you are concerned, please speak out against GMO’s to your congressmen and newspaper editorials.  You will be standing up against immoral corporate giants.

Do you realize that the GMO tools that are used to insert say, rat genes into corn genes, stay with the frankenfood.  If you consume the corn the inserting tool will transfer the gene into the cells of your gut and who knows where it will go from there.  To further compound the problem, once the pollen of these frankenfoods is out in the atmosphere it may well irreversible contaminate all living ecosystems of the world.  Truly GMO is a nightmare scenario.  Allowing scientists who have no concept of holographic interconnections play god with the genetic codes of our world is akin to allowing preschoolers to play with nuclear launchers.

This impending disaster could make the oil leak in the gulf of Mexico look like spilled milk. This is not just tinkering with mechanical systems, they are tinkering with the ecological balance of the planet.  Please let us put a stop to this reckless corporate greed before it puts a stop to all of us.

Breathing your energy into and out of other objects and things is a way to enhance your perception of your environment.  It can be used in many different ways.  You can spend years developing this awareness.  However, immediately you will get a feel for how you can move your energy and awareness.  Immediately you will get a feeling of being in the ecosystem, an indivisible part of the ecosystem.

• You can sit under the trees and breathe-feel your energy breath go out and up the tree.  You breathe back your energy and some of the energy of the tree.  You realize you and the tree are an ecosystem and you are symbiotic and sharing on a level not normally perceivable.
• You can breathe your energy into another person and get a sense of feel for that person as you breathe your energy back into yourself.
• You can breathe your energy into animals and birds and bees, anything in your environment.
• You can breathe your energy in and out of imaginary and interstellar environments.
• You can breathe your energy out in an embrace of the whole earth or cosmos.
• You can breathe your energy in and out of microcosmic and macro-cosmic realities.
• You can breathe your energy in and out of any person or pursuit — present, past and future.

I suggest that the energy you breathe in and out is that of blessings, love, grace and appreciation.  This energy is universally acceptable while other energies are rejected and blocked and may cause you problems. 

Try to allow your awareness to expand and ride along with your energy as it moves in and out.

The perception is that the world has become very polluted and that we are trapped and have no way of preparing ourselves healthy food because of time, money and space limitations.

Kefir can change that perception for you.  You can make your own healthy pro-biotic kefir drinks at home with only a few minutes attention per day.  This could be your first step in taking back your power to feed yourself wholesome healthy food.

Kefir is a fermented milk product that has been around for over 2000 years.  It was first used in the Caucasus region of Russia.  There is a plethora of information on the Internet about making kefir.  You can purchase kefir culture on ebay or amazon.com.