During a visit to the museum find a large painting and as you stand there gazing, choose a color. For instance red and think this color; all while looking at the painting. Hold that for a moment and then change the color. What you will find is that as you think red, all of the red in the painting will jump out at you. And yes, when you change the color you are thinking of, then this color will become the predominate color you see. A simple game that illustrates that what you see is not always what is in front of you, but rather what you are holding inside your head. Now add the other four senses to this notion. And you can begin to see that how you go through a day, and how you experience a day is in many ways determined not by what is outside of you, but rather what you are holding within. If you are walking around holding a thought ‘against’ yourself, then daily events that validate this consideration will jump out at you. This ‘negative’ is what you will see. The question then becomes, what is determining what you are thinking. Is it you or not? What is determining what you are holding within? Consider meditation and clairvoyance as tools; tools that when layered together are very simply your ability to see yourself, and maybe ask, “Where did this thought come from?” Have you ever gotten inside your own head and taken a look around? Be amused if all you find there, is not yours. - John Fulton
Our Federal Government is a “regional” government and just as a city’s governing body does not have the capacity to address statewide issues; neither does any one national government have the capacity to address global challenges.
This of course was not an issue when populations or cultures were relatively isolated: we did not see our neighbor’s problems as having anything to do with us. But today this has changed. It is now clear that one culture and their practices, their way of living, have if not an immediate, then a longer term impact on their neighbors. Problems of water and air quality; food and health issues can no longer be filed under the heading of “that’s their problem".
Our question then has become one of how do we acknowledge that cultures do weave together and go about addressing the larger issues? Or, more directly, is government and the leaders of these institutions the answer?
No, this is not a call for a change in our system of governing. Besides when did in any time in history, did a government actually solve an issue? Or more accurately when any governing body does act, from where does it get, not just the vision but also, the inspiration to act?
All histories give us the same answer. It is always and only when the individual balancing “conventional wisdom” with their personal dreams, does any culture or the greater human experiment take a step. It is then easy to imagine that any balanced collective, one that grows, is the reflection of the balanced individual. And in very simple terms, the balanced individual, always dreams.
- John Fulton
Footnote Clairvoyance is not something just for the ‘trained’. It sits at the center of your capacity to dream. And, this capacity can be brought into sharpness.
Would you put up two roses? Let’s have the one on the left represent how much you ground to money and the one on the right represent how much you ground to the center of the planet. Let me say this another way. When your money supply or source is riddled with questions, do you get anxious? Or does having lots of money relax you? Then you are grounded to your bank account.
No, there is nothing wrong with this other than when your money is threatened you will feel threatened. You will tend to go into what a clairvoyant calls, ‘survival’. If this is how you were taught then you will have this concept or the energy that your survival depends on money in the first layer. For some this is why they have trouble-managing money and for others why they become obsessed with money. money
Money is not a survival concept. If your bank account goes to ‘0’ you will not die. Money is an issue of mobility. Or what a clairvoyant calls the third chakra.
In a meditation imagine taking all of the information you have about money out of your first layer and moving it into your third layer. See if this has any effect on your body. Are you more comfortable?
Now once you have redefined what money is to you, ask this question: “Do I need money to do things / to be active?” OR “Do I just do things and the money takes care of itself?” Ask it another way, “Does my money serve me or govern me?
P.S. Given the current rise of fuel prices, many are wandering around is a semi-state of shock. One of our staff did some figuring and it turns out that in a round trip of 60 miles total, as in coming to Aesclepion, the cost is 2 dollars more than your cost of one year ago. And that if you car-pool you have it down to $1.
Grounding, as both a concept and technique, is central to each of the curriculums taught in the Aesclepion Intuitive Training Programs. We all ground, or “attach” ourselves to someone or something that reassures us during times of survival or trauma. In daily events it is that “friend” who sits there patiently as we review our troubles.
The technique: (read this section and then try it for yourself)
Get comfortable where you sit and with your eyes closed notice your breathing. Imagine an image of a rose. See the stem, the leaves, the flower. Underneath the chair imagine a long, very long rope with an anchor attached to one end. Attach the open end of the rope to the base of your spine. And drop the anchor. Let it fall toward the center of the Earth.Watch it fall. See the rope unravel, being pulled by the anchor. See it falling and now hitting the center of the planet. Take up any slack in the rope making it nice and snug. Notice if your body responds to this.
The concept:
Grounding is to your body like a lightening rod is to a building. Any excess energy that is thrown or that hits the building is ‘grounded’ into the earth with no harm to the structure. If a building does not have a lightening rod attached, and it’s hit, there is damage.
You live in an environment of charges, both negatively and positively charged energy. Imagine each person as a ball of energy. Sometimes there will be an arch of energy from one person thrown into the next. Grounding for you, is like the rod is for the building. Any excess energy that is thrown or picked up by you, but does not belong in your space, is immediately discharged down your grounding cord with no harm done.If you are not grounded, you go home and ‘kick the dog’, so to speak. Or call that friend and discharge the energy into their space.
Concerning Pain:
If we are the ‘friend’ who is called, it is not uncommon to experience after we hang up the phone, a headache or some discomfort. This is the energy that was discharged during the conversation from our friend’s space into ours. Remember we are all ‘grounding’ into something or someone.
Ground yourself and then imagine breathing into the pain. IF the pain is not yours it will leave down the grounding. If the pain remains then it is “your” pain. Remember grounding only removes what does not belong in your space. If the pain is yours it will remain and this calls for the next technique. (next month we’ll take a look at this.)
By way of Hollywood, the impression has been given that the fortune- telling gypsies were relegated to living next to the swamp outside of town because the townspeople didn’t want them any closer - but perhaps there was another reason.
‘Sensitive’ individuals throughout the ages, regardless of culture, have themselves, chosen to isolate from the group. Sages in India have long lived with the image of sitting in a cave or on the mountaintop, while monks isolated themselves behind the high walls of a monastery.
Yes, I know we have been taught that we are not telepathic, but there is no way around this one - you are. You may not acknowledge the event of picking up on the thoughts or the psychic noise around you, but you can acknowledge the affect of doing such.
From what clothes to wear in the morning to life’s larger questions, there are times in which it is a struggle to find an answer, to make up your mind. And this is contrasted against moments in which you experience making a decision with little or no deliberation at all. You simply act. In one experience you are ‘clear’ and in the next you are paralyzed. Psychic noise - this is what drives the gypsy to the swamp, the guru to the mountaintop and the monk behind the high walls of a monastery. There they find ‘emptiness’ – no psychic noise.
How do you calm things down inside? How do you clear that ongoing inner dialog that, more times than not, is something to overcome as opposed to an encouragement?
At Aesclepion it is called “finding your space” and you can learn to find your space without living next to the swamp.
