*Vision & Creativity*





A Guided Meditation


B:  While you are beginning to relax, I will share several more analogies
before the meditation to allow these principles to begin to sink into you
softly.  But before that, take three deep breaths and feel every portion of
you relaxing; feel your cares melting away.  If your conscious mind doesn't
want to let go of them, then just tell it, "All right, you can get them
back in a few minutes; but for now, let them go."  Just relax and play
along.  That is what we are doing, learning how to play again.  Playing is
one of the most creative acts.

As you continue to breathe and continue to relax, listen to the following
analogies.  When we talk about the idea of different dimensional realities
all being here and now, the best way to explain this is perhaps in the
following ways.

*The Radio Analogy:* Each and every one of you understands the device that
you have upon your planet that you call a radio.  You know that you have a
dial on your radio that you can use to tune in to any particular program
you desire.  Now, just because your dial is tuned to one program, you do
not start thinking that all the other programs cease to exist and go away.
You know that all the other programs are still there, but you do not get
them because you are not tuned into those frequencies.

*Film Strip Analogy:* Your reality can be analogized to a roll of film with
its many different frames; each and every frame represents a small portion
of an overall action.  Now, the characters within each frame only exist
within that single frame and do not experience the next frame.  For the
characters in the film to experience any sense of movement, the film must
move.  However, to the film projectionist the entire film exists right now
- the beginning, the middle and the end. You can see all the frames at once
when looking down on the strip of film, even though the characters on the
film must experience their reality one frame at a time.  Physical reality
is analogous to the strip of film.  Your higher, non-physical, visionary
selves are like the projectionist that can see all the frames at once.

*All Situations Are Neutral:* The idea now will be to also remember the
neutrality of all situations.  You could look at any one particular frame
on that film and not necessarily understand what is being said or what is
going on.  Only from the creation of continuity, from the flow of the film
do you pick up the context.  But each and every situation in life is like
one of those frames of film -- it does not have any meaning that is
apparent on the surface.  The meaning you choose to give it completely
determines what kind of a story you create from that picture.

*The Stage Analogy:* The idea is to look at every single situation in your
life in the following way: imagine that you are sitting in an auditorium
looking at the beginning of a play.  The curtain has just gone up. All the
actors are standing still on the stage; all the props are there, ready to
go.  But let's assume you did not read the program.  Let us assume you have
heard nothing about the play, so you do not know who these characters are,
or what they will do or say.  You have no automatic expectations about them
at all.

Now, one of the characters on the stage might be standing off in a corner
with a very strong frown on their face.  Because of what some of you have
been taught you might choose to automatically assume, /"Oh, well that must/
/be the bad fellow."/  However, some of you might assume, /"Well, maybe he is/
/frowning because he is upset at the bad/ /character and he is the good/
/character."/  The surface appearance tells you nothing. The whole situation
is neutral. Everything, including the actors, for now, are simply props and
have no built-in meaning.


Now we apply this principle to your own lives.  But first, three more deep
breaths, and understand, as you take these breaths, you are taking yourself
to a deeper level of relaxation, a deeper level of self-acceptance and self-
love, a deeper level of wisdom and curiosity about exploring who and what
you are; and a deeper level of conviction that all experiences in your life
can be used in a positive way.  As you continue to breathe at an easy pace,
begin to imagine the following thing:


*The Curtain Opens*


Choose an incident, either in your past or in your present, that represents
the following thing: a situation that, perhaps, in the past you felt was
handled negatively, or created negative feelings within you. Do not fear
it. Pick something that really stuck with you; any situation that has
allowed you to remain feeling any amount of guilt, or regret, or fear. Or
pick a situation that you feel is negative, that prevents you from doing
something you would prefer to do. Pick any circumstance you do not prefer
in your life. Just take a moment and observe, as clearly as you can in your
imagination, the situation. Observe all the factors, all the individuals
that are involved; leave no one and nothing out.

Now, as you stand and observe the situation in your imagination, begin to
form a type of detachment while watching it. Allow the meaning of the
situation to blur a little bit, as if you were so overwhelmed by the
situation that your eyes began to glaze over and de-focus, almost as if you
are going into a very light trance. Very soon, you begin to feel that all
the different people and all the different things really do not mean the
same thing they used to; they are just going through motions.  Any words
that were said are beginning to lose their meaning; they are just sounds.
Begin to treat these words as you would react to, what you would call, a
foreign language; you do not understand the meaning of the words. Allow the
entire scenario to become the opening of a stage play: there are the
actors, there are the props, but you do not understand what anything means.
You are simply watching with a type of transfixed curiosity. However alien
the scenario is, you do not relate to it at all. Allow yourself to
recognize that the situation is simply completely blank and empty of
meaning.

Now, within your curious imagination, allow yourself to decide what kind of
meanings you would prefer to attach to the scenario you see. No matter how
negative the old idea seemed to be, allow yourself to re-interpret all the
symbols in the scene. For now, it is not that critical that you consciously
believe that these things are different, but simply to show yourself you
can create different meanings for the same situations. The belief that the
events are different will come with the amount of conviction and trust you
have in yourselves.

But for now, just play the game of re-inventing definitions. And allow
yourself always to understand that from this point forward you choose to
believe you are a positively oriented person.

Therefore, you are willing to listen to other individuals' advice, but only
you make the final decision as to what portions of that advice you choose
to apply to the reality you prefer. Therefore, if, for example, your
scenario is of a past situation where someone said something you felt was
very negative to you, you can look at it in the following way: you can,
first of all, own it in the sense that you attracted it into your life for
some reason. /You must own everything that has occurred; because if you do/
/not own it, you cannot change it./ But now you can decide that everything in
your life happens for a positive reason, and you can even look at it that
way in retrospect. You can now decide what portions of what they said to
you actually apply to the person you prefer to be and what portions do not.
You do not have to accept any situations as judgments.


The idea is to allow yourself to radiate unconditional love to that
situation because you know the situation is in your life for a positive
reason. You can now re-define the circumstance in the following way: using
the example of someone being verbally abusive to you, you can realize that
anyone who acts that way is usually only yelling at themselves. If you know
that what someone says does not apply to you, why accept it as a part of
your reality about who you are? An individual who strikes out that way at
other individuals is usually feeling powerless. Love them back into their
own self-empowerment so they will not have to feel they must attack anyone
to feel equal or better.

Redefine any situation you now feel prevents you from doing something you
prefer to do.  Understand that there are no interruptions in your life. The
sooner you use every circumstance you have created to learn from, the
sooner it can change into another situation. The only reason that something
you prefer would not come into your life is because you are not using the
situation in the present to learn from in a positive way, but assuming it
is an interruption. Remember that a path is not something you're actually
"on," a path is what you are. You cannot, by definition, be "off" yourself.

Everything that occurs in your reality fits in your reality. This does not
mean you have to prefer the way the situations manifest; but unless you own
them for having manifested that way, you cannot learn what you need to
learn in order to change it in the way you want to. The creation of vision
comes from not denying the reality you have created already.

Allow yourselves the opportunity to do the following thing: extend the
exercise you have just done to all circumstances and all situations in your
life. See an expanding wave of energy going out from you and passing
through all situations in your life -- past, present and future.  As that
wave passes through all events it renders them neutral. This wave extends
to the farthest reaches of your reality, to infinity itself, forever.

And now, fill yourself up with the excitement and joy of knowing that you
are making a decision to be a positive individual. Feel the joy of knowing
that your vision can be fulfilled. Feel as you would feel if your vision
were fulfilled. Feel the excitement building within you, the anticipation.
Imagine your body glowing with a brilliant blue-white light. Now, allow
that energy in your body to flash as another expanding wave, radiating
outward and outward forever. That expanding wave now renders every single
neutral situation -- past, present and future -- into a positive situation.

Remember, the situations do not necessarily have to look different on the
surface. You, however, now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that every
situation you encounter will only be filled with positive meaning. You are
now at the center of an infinite sea of positive energy. There is nowhere
you can go where that positive energy is not. It is the infinite reflection
from Creation to you.


*The Crucible of Change*


Light fills the universe and you are made of that light. Breathe it in now,
three times. Allow yourself to feel the heat of the fire within your heart.
Your heart is the furnace that melts down all old definitions, melts them
down into the golden liquid light of primal energy. That liquid golden
light can be crystallized into any new reality you desire. As you breathe
out, breathe out the blue electromagnetic light. See it as a cooling wind
that strikes the gold and bubbling liquid which crystallizes out of that
liquid the reality you prefer.

From this moment forward, the following idea is yours. From this moment
forward, the following idea is your vibration. From this moment forward,
this is your reality of choice. Every time you take a breath in you are
melting down old definitions in the furnace of your heart. With every
breath out you are crystallizing clear, bright new realities of positive
light. Therefore, your reality is changing with every breath you take,
every moment of time. You are walking from one reality to another, and
another, and another, and another, forever and ever, without end.  Complete
fulfillment of vision; complete inspiration and support; complete positive
meaning in every event of your life. No other reality is real for you
except those realities that fit the vibration you have decided to be.

Your breath is the breath of life. It is the heartbeat and the pulse of
existence itself. You are all one energy -- bright, multi-dimensional
facets of one infinite crystal. The more conviction you have in the vision
that excites you the most, the less shadow there is in your life. And the
brighter you shine, leaves no room for even one shadow of a doubt.

Remember, you are always trusting in something. There has never been a time
when you have not expressed infinite trust in your life. Your reality in
the past has defined doubt as a lack of trust.  We chose to define doubt as
a trust in a negative reality. It is your choice, and it is all right to
use the same level of trust and project into a positive reality.   The
Universe will deny you nothing. But it can only support the strongest
vibration you have chosen to be.


*Not The Same You*


With three more deep breaths, you now have locked in the reality of your
preference, forever and ever. Be beings of vision; be beings of
inspiration. These are things you already are; all you need to do is act
like that is true. Allow yourself to come back to the reality you prefer
now. You may open your eyes but remember one thing, very important: /the/
/reality you are seeing now, no matter how it looks on the surface, is/
*/not/* /the same reality as it was before/. No matter how you think you look in
the mirror, you are not the a same people.  You can be anything and anyone
you prefer to be, at any moment you wish. It is that simple, effortless and
exciting.

We thank you for your participation.  And we thank you for your vision.
Now, if any of you are feeling more energy than you are used to, we would
recommend the following idea: if you feel that the level of energy is
something you cannot handle comfortably, allow yourself to ground yourself
by using the energy in some physical way. Pay attention to your body
consciousness and allow your body to absorb the energy at whatever rate is
comfortable for you. During your break, you can stretch yourself out, move
your joints, flex yourself--and feel your connection to the Earth. This
will allow you to remember that physical reality is also to be included in
your quest for spirituality. No level is to be denied, because All is One.

***

Note: On the following page the last line of the poem "IF" was altered to
remove male gender bias. For half of humanity - our mothers, sisters and
daughters--we hope that Kipling and those sensitive to these issues will
understand.  No level to be denied, because All is One.