Chapter 3: Earth TrainingA newborn baby possesses the natural potential for unconditional love and trust. So what happens to us as we grow up to change this potential, causing us to shut down, withhold our love, and hide who we are? It is called life. The way in which we perceive the world around us determines our level of success, our degree of power, and our place in society. The first four brain states determine how connected or isolated we will be from our family, our culture, and the collective consciousness. Unless we have balanced these four brain states, we will never be able to achieve a consistent and ongoing connection with our Higher Self. Most of the four billion people living in third-world countries are locked in desperate day-to-day survival and cannot connect to their Higher Selves. The first four brain states are connected with physical survival. The imprinting of these circuits occurs naturally as we grow up and determines our behavior for the rest of our lives unless consciously changed. The first brain state or circuit sets up our basic attitude of trust or suspicion and colors our awareness of the world. The second circuit defines our ego, determining our dominate/aggressive, or submissive/cooperative behavior. It processes territorial rules, emotional games, and pecking order. The third circuit determines the degree and style of cleverness/clumsiness with which we handle ideas and gauge our self worth. The fourth circuit imprints what will become our characteristic sex role, usually remaining constant for life. This circuit also processes our moral, social, and sexual behavior, as well as our definition of right and wrong. There are also four higher brain states that connect us to our inner wisdom, our Higher Self, and the oneness of Source. Many ancient mystery schools and cultures created specific techniques designed to move their initiates into higher awareness. These teachings originated with the Mythra sect and the civilizations of Ur and Sumner. Only a small minority of the global population, those with sufficient leisure time, have accessed any of these higher states that are concerned with time: body time, brain time, DNA time, and quantum time. Who and how we are usually changes dramatically when we begin to access the four higher brain states. They also deal with energies within the human body, the nervous system, the DNA code, and the structure of the atom. It is by accessing these higher brain states that we are able to activate our psychic abilities, bridge with past lives and other aspects of ourselves, and establish our conscious connection with our Higher Self. Throughout history both the right hand and the left hand mystery schools had been seeking the same thing: Spiritual enlightenment and physical immortality. Each of these ancient schools developed their own methodology to achieve that end. This was true for such diverse teachings as the Isis/Osiris/Horus sect in Egypt, the Knights Templar, secret Hindu and Tibetan tantric sects, the Theosophical Society, the Bavarian Occult Lodges, and the teachings of Aleister Crowley. The traditional right hand path primarily taught their followers that to achieve higher brain states it was necessary to live an aesthetic life: one of purity, silence, and celibacy, and denial of personal pleasures and family. Dion Fortune calls this living the Spiritual Ray. The left hand path actually originated with some of the Indian Tantric sects. The leaders of such groups were primarily men and they had their consort or wife sit to their left. These groups believed the human body was a sacred temple that should be celebrated and exalted. They devised strict rituals, at times involving intimate physical contact between partners, to connect with spiritual wisdom. Such interactions were a natural part of their celebration but became misunderstood by their communities, resulting in many of their initiates being barred from society. Some of the left hand groups adopted increasingly traumatic ceremonies to introduce the initiates into altered and higher state of awareness. The Egyptians, for example, had initiates lie in the sarcophagus of the King's chamber, in alignment with the golden-mean, spiral energy radiating out of the site that would pass through their pineal gland in the middle of the brains. If the initiates were not properly prepared, there was a high risk that the energy generated in the ritual would kill them or drive them insane. Don Juan, the shaman made famous by the writer Carlos Castaneda, would physically strike his initiates as a means of moving their point of reference. If properly done, the veils between the dimensions would drop and the initiate would be able to access other realms. Aleister Crowley used a variety of sexual rituals to help his followers access other realities. Some satanic groups abused children and animals in their rituals to amplify the emotional energy used in their ceremonies. Hitler, initiated by the Bavarian Occult Lodges, used the collective energy of the post World War I German population and hatred of the Jewish race to fuel his bid for world power. Both the right and left hand paths focus on changing the brain states of initiates to achieve an altered awareness. Brain states can be altered by deliberately using specific techniques, such exposing initiates to high levels of terror, stress, or trauma. The isolation of the yogi, hermit, or vision quester also invokes altered states. Each of these schools was also aware that they had to control the brain states in order to manipulate their followers. The first four brain states represent ninety-five percent of the issues my clients present to me in their sessions. These issues show up in their subconscious programs: It is not safe to love; It is not safe to take my power; It is not safe to be who I am. First Four Brain States Personal OverviewHere is a quick overview where you can determine for yourself how balanced you are in the first four brain states:
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