I don’t think the effects just disappear in children older than 5! I suspect this type of research faces political head winds.

And how do we prepare our children for using technology is a whole other conversation to be had.

Let me know you thoughts.

“Thoughts become things, so choose the good ones!” - Mike Dooley (paraphrased)

Belief systems are considered a core component of our existence because our underlying beliefs fundamentally shape what we think is possible and what we believe we deserve - which directly impacts manifestation outcomes.

This reminds me of the first Hermetic principle - the Principle of Mentalism. It’s axiom states: “The All is Mind; The Universe is Mental”. And from Wayne B. Chandler’s Ancient Future:

The Hermetists of ancient Kmt (Egypt) stated that the All, that which we call God, is truly unknowable, for only the All itself can comprehend its own nature and being. The question then is, how does one identify the unidentifiable? The key to this question is humankind’s unconditional acceptance of the unknowability of the All. Though the essential nature of the All is unknowable, there are certain truths arrived at through reason, with which humans must be content:

1. The All must be All that really is. There can be nothing existing outside of the All, else the All would not be the All.

2. The All must be infinite, for there is nothing else to define, confine, bound, limit, or restrict the All. It must be infinite in time, or eternal — it must have always continuously existed, for there is nothing else to have ever created it, and something can never evolve from nothing. It must exist forever, for there is nothing to destroy it, and it can never “ not be,” even for a moment.

3. The All must be immutable, or consistent, in its real nature to never change, for there is nothing to work changes upon it; nothing into which it could change, nor from which it could have changed. This the ancients held as the supreme truth, and that everything else is subject to changes, especially things on Earth.

I will further digress with Ancient Future as it, in a way, explores our God concept or should I say the God concept of our ancient ancestors:

If the three truths stated previously acknowledge the various characteristics of the All, then perhaps reason can provide a guideline by which the All can be identified in its most transcendental form. Is the All purely matter? The answer would have to be no; for nothing rises higher than its own source, and it has just been established that matter is subject to constant change, reflecting rampant inconsistency and instability. Physical science testifies that matter is no more than an illusion — it is merely energy, power, or force combined at various vibrational frequencies.

But defining the All as pure power, force, or energy would not be totally accurate either. Energy or force as it relates to the All reflects only a residual component of its totality because energy and force are perpetually in a position of random flux in that they are always controlled by an outside influence, even when they appear to be moving of their own volition. Thus, there is no intrinsic intelligence in pure force or the power that guides or directs it. This is not the case with the All. What is perceived as energy and force in nature is but an outward manifestation, or projection, of the mind of the All. This is the feature that allows the definition of the All as Infinite Living Mind. Now, the term spirit is used as a means of general identification of the mind.

Most modern images of God are based on the line from the Book of Genesis, which reports that “God created man in his own image.” Ironically, people have looked at themselves and projected their own image onto God, rather than allowing God’s image to be primary. Instead of assuming that Genesis refers to God as a physically anthropomorphic being, we could instead assume that the human, or that which constitutes the essence of human, is a spiritual being: imperishable, infinite, and constant, like God. Thus, if spirit is living mind, then humans, like the All, have the ability to create and endure through the power of mind, only on a more minute plane of existence. This is the world’s best-kept secret. This was the religious reality of antiquity, which today is unknown by most, forgotten by many, and practiced by few.

What exactly is spirit? As previously indicated, spirit, which means “real essence” in the Hermetic context, is simply a title that humans have given to the living mind. Because spirit transcends our understanding, in our present state of consciousness, human beings must accept that it cannot be explained or defined. One theory is that God or the All is the universe, but this is pure conjecture and holds no basis in fact.

The theory probably arises from the fact that the universe is the largest tangible reality that humankind may mentally grasp and physically explore, but it is still matter that is subject to perpetual transformation. The universe seems all-pervasive in its nature or essence; it is connecting, binding, multidimensional with its neutron stars, black holes and quasars, but it is not the All. The mere fact that humans may understand and explore the physical universe disqualifies it as the character of the All, which cannot be perceived nor remotely grasped by humankind. The conclusion is obvious: the universe is a creation of the All.

Spiritualists, metaphysicians, and philosophers theorize that the All created the universe from its own substance, but this is also inaccurate because according to the ancient Hermetists, the All cannot be subtracted from nor divided. Furthermore, if it were so, would not each particle in the universe be aware of its being the All? Would not we, as spiritual entities, be born with an innate awareness of our universal connectedness or oneness with all life and with the All itself?

Some theologians and religious aspirants who acknowledge the fact that spirit or living mind dwells within every human being, setting us apart from other animal life forms, proclaim that “I am [or we are] God.” But this, too, is an erroneous assumption, comparable to a tiny human corpuscle claiming “I am the body.”

The process by which the All creates is very simple, and its comprehension can be facilitated by the second Hermetic axiom, that of Correspondence — “as above, so below” — that is based on the belief that there is a working correspondence existing among the many planes of the universe. According to the Law of Correspondence, an examination of the human process of creation will illuminate that of the All. Humans create in many ways. We create by utilizing materials from outside of our beings, such as metal, wood, clay, or combinations of materials. This type of creation does not apply to the All, for “there is nothing outside of the All.” Human beings also create from inside, biologically, by the transformation of genetic substance into new beings. Once again, this is not possible for the All, which can neither transfer nor subtract, reproduce nor multiply itself.

The manner of human creation that corresponds to that of the All is the human ability to create mentally, to imagine. As we create mentally, we use no outside materials, nor do we reproduce ourselves; yet the spirit of thought, or living mind, pervades our mental creations. Thus, according to the Law of Correspondence, we can assume that the All creates mentally. This is the key to the Hermetic riddle: “The All is Mind; The Universe is Mental.”

Just as the reader may create a mental universe of her own, so the All creates universes in its mentality. The major difference between the two processes is that the human universe is the mental creation of a finite mind, whereas that of the All is the creation of an infinite mind. Therefore, that which is accepted to be the universe is just one mental creation of the All: “The All creates in its Infinite Mind countless Universes, which exist for eons of time — and yet, to the All, the creation, development, decline and death of a million Universes is as the time of the twinkling of an eye.” Creation does not take place within time; rather, time is an effect of creation.

This conception of time would, to Western culture, be considered a spatiotemporal impossibility. But the ancient Hermetists held that time is a mere illusion, subject to spatial manipulation by the wise who understood its inconstancy. But in order to grasp the dynamic mechanism within which the All creates, it is imperative to explore the concept of time and how it manifests itself in Western civilization. The misunderstanding of time as linear is directly related to the inability to understand the divine. Dr. Kamau Johnson, a Howard University psychologist who has done extensive research into human perceptions of time, points out,

“To the surprise of many, the sense of linear time presently experienced in the Euro-Americas has not always been the reigning orientation of time. According to Egyptian mythology, Thoth [Hermes ] . . . was the divider and measurer of time . . . by observing successive patterns in nature, the Egyptians came to perceive time as cyclic. The sun, moon, and seasons returned with unfailing patterns and periodicity. As did their observations of the planets. So the concept of a cyclic worldview reflected the reliance on natural cycles . . . clever devices were designed to measure cyclic time. Sundials and other such devices, reflected that a cyclic time was intrinsic to nature.”

Johnson identifies a pivotal shift in the perception of time analysis when, “[in] the mid-1600’s, a Dutch scientist Christian Huygens, invented the pendulum clock, providing . . . its own recurring cycles independent of nature. This orientation was embraced by the western world . . . [and] became firmly ingrained in Euro-American culture. Reference to time became more rooted in concepts of hours, minutes, and seconds. . . . Today, it is assumed that time flows rigidly from past, present to future. Languages such as English are designed to describe a linear world . . . the tenses of English verbs indicate a rigid linear worldview. It is thus difficult to express non-linear . . . notions in our everyday language.”

Language, specifically descriptive or discursive language, is linear and consecutive. Descriptive or discursive languages cannot begin to capture or expound the simplest experience without depriving it of the essence that gives it life. Therefore, to try and use such a linear device to understand the All is nothing short of impossible.

Considerations of the Western perception of time as linear reinforce the inadequacy of Eurocentric thought and language to comprehend the cyclic nature of the divine. The cyclic nature of all natural elements on Earth corresponds to the nature of the All and constitutes the very hub of a universal dynamic, which connects the various planes of existence, whether seen or unseen. All things within the natural scheme of life move in cycles or continuous spirals. The double helix of DNA, the molecular basis of heredity in organic life, spirals up and out; blood spirals through living veins. Even the follicles of human hair, especially those of Blacks, spiral up and out of the head, creating the individual spiraling strands of helical, spring-like shafts so characteristic of that race. But the growth pattern of the hair in all human beings is cyclic in that it spirals from the lower top of the crania in a whorl pattern, no matter what the race. Seashells such as the nautilus are composed of a spiraling chain of chambers, the planets spin as they spiral in their orbits around the sun, and tornados and hurricanes also spiral as they move across the landscape.

According to the Law of Correspondence, we may surmise that all of these natural phenomena are the mental creation of the All. In fact, the words spiral and spiritual originate from the Latin spirare, to coil.

I don’t know this to be true, but etymology generally seems flimsy to me. The latin “spira” seems to be the root, “spiral” coming from the Medieval Latin “spiralis” and the Latin “spira,” which means:

• A coil or winding

• A twist or curl

This, based on a quick lookup via AI.

However, let’s continue

According to ancient belief, the All — living mind or spirit — creates by projecting an incalculable number of mental images that seem very real to us as humans, but are as illusive as the mental images in our own minds. The birth and demise of stellar systems take place within a fraction of a millisecond in the mind of the All, but are eons in time to mortals.

The All creates these images through a process akin to our understanding of meditation. In the beginning of Poimandres (the Vision of Hermes), prior to his contact with the great Dragon, “Hermes, in search for divine truth, found himself seeking solitude. . . . He came to a place of rest and gave himself over to meditation.” Meditation seems to induce the experience of an altered and higher state of consciousness, and through the study and use of it, human beings can create and achieve on a level much closer to that of the divine.

So what can we gather from all of this?

Primarily, beliefs, imagination and thoughts are much more than we have been taught. They are the tools we use to create our life; that life simply being a collection of experiences.

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I’ve been doing the dragon breathing daily for the past couple weeks (approximately) about a month after learning it. Here’s my rough journal of how it’s been so far:

• Early on I was pacing myself

• Feel more energy at night than when I do it in the morning

• I don’t feel anything in my heart and not much of a head rush either, but definitely a shift in my energy field. Especially noticeable when stepping into my wholeness or my coherence.

• About a week after I became fully comfortable and able to push out deeply

Overall the experience feels very cleansing. I also work with crystals, asking them for their help in holding space and moving the energy out of my lower body (the first 3 chakras) up to my upper chakras.

April 29, 2025:

Night session working well. For the past few days I’ve been doing the breath at night only. I find there is a connection with this practice and the dreams I have. Also, during the day, I watched a podcast with Dr. Joe talking about moving energy up into the brain by compressing the abdominal area. This also reminded me of kidney packing. Pumping the scrotum was something Dr. Joe highlighted and it’s something I’ve learnt from Wayne B. Chandler. At times, I’ve added this to the dragon breath practice - that is, I’ve tried to keep my lower lock on and in this effort find myself pumping the scrotum to aid in moving energy up from the lower chakras.

All this resulted in a very different sensation at the end of the practice. What I felt, I imagine is the sensation when every cell in your body draws in water and begins to radiate energy. My foot blockage or kriya changed and I felt my legs begin to tense up and my entire body began to radiate energy.

May 16, 2025:

I haven’t been consistently apply the lower lock; sometimes I find myself just pumping; other times I just relax. In all cases I let my instincts guide me.

I do feel different though. Lighter in a way??

What stands out most is the feeling of wholeness and coherence. I feel like I give myself more grace and love.

I still have kriya type sensation in my feet, but I also have minor increase in sensation in my hands. I never had this before.

April 6, 2026:

Over a year now, of course I’ve become very comfortable with the practice. I have not done it every day, but rather I go for stints at a time. Sometimes daily for weeks and then pause for a couple of weeks or months.

Most times I feel emotionally lighter after the practice - clearing of the lower chakras - where energy is moved up the body. And what I find most interesting is that similar to my qigong practice, but in a deeper way, my thought patterns reflect what is being cleared. This suggested or points to the benefits of a daily practice!

“Time does not go by, or pass, or get spent, or wasted. Change happens and time is our way of making sense of the realness of change. Change, too many times, results in pain, sadness and grief, as we long for permanence in a fluid world. Time helps to remedy this pain. Its apparent tangibility calms us; it posits stability where there is fluidity. Time is spatial, based as it is on prepositions (before, over, at, between, about, by, during, on). The concept of time allows us to predict, remember, plan, and give order to the world and universe around us.” Ancient Future by Wayne B. Chandler

Paul Selig’s Guides say time is what we use to abdicate your souls authority to a situation! The eternal is now, not in the past or the future. Being present is to experience eternity. It is in eternity that you are able to obtain meaning of things that have happened in a lifetime. And if it feels like time is speeding up, consider the perspective shared by the Hathor:

From The Hathor Material: Messages from An Ascended Civilisation

We would now like to address what we see as one of the most opportune moments for your evolution and the acceleration of growth in human history. It has to do with the speeding up of events in this dimension so that, as we have said previously, you will be experiencing more and more awareness in less and less “clock” time. This is creating, and will continue to create, strong emotional reactions and feeling responses.

The feelings and emotions that you are experiencing in this period of greater intensity are to be treasured, not avoided, for they are your modern-day initiations into higher consciousness. You do not need to enter a Mystery School these days for your various trainings and initiations, as once humans did in Egypt.

There, the ancient temples of Egypt were spread out along the Nile River in a successive order of difficulty and the initiates would go to these temples to receive instruction. Each temple would present them with some new situation to master. The temple initiations were part of their evolutionary process. Now, however, you do not need to go to Egypt or any other place to experience your initiations. The trials and tests that you face in your physical body, in your relationships, in your work, and in your spiritual endeavors are your modern-day initiatory trials for higher consciousness. By viewing them in this way, the difficult experiences of your life can be experienced for what they are—initiations—instead of something to be avoided or something by which to feel victimized. Many humans call out “Why me?” and blame God for their negative circumstances because they do not understand the part their own consciousness plays in the unfolding of their lives.

Claude Ai

I also asked Claude Ai to help me recall another perspective and what many seem to be experiencing: a speeding up of time! I heard this from Wendy Kennedy and gave this prompt to Claude:

“Are you able to find what Wendy Kennedy has said or her thoughts about the feeling of time speeding up? I heard her share thoughts on this in a podcast, but I cannot find the podcast. It was a podcast on YouTube.”

Claude’s response: Good, I found some relevant information. Let me also check the Wisdom from North article more closely, as it seems to be a good summary. I was able to find some solid information about Wendy Kennedy’s teachings on this topic. Here’s a summary of what she and the Pleiadian Collective have shared about the feeling of time speeding up:

Wendy Kennedy’s Perspective on Time Speeding Up

The core of her teaching on this topic comes through her channeling of the 9th Dimensional Pleiadian Collective. The main idea is this:

As we raise our vibrational frequency, our perception of time compresses. In other words, the feeling that time is speeding up isn’t an illusion — it’s a direct result of humanity’s collective frequency rising. The higher the frequency, the more compressed time feels subjectively.

She also connects this to manifestation: this compression allows us to experience a game of duality, where our manifestations are not immediate but have a lag — a delay that ensures we can continue playing the game of earthly experience without being abruptly pulled out of it.

The Awakened Magazine interview with her Pleiadian Collective reinforces this, describing it as the practical result of the accelerated frequencies you’re moving through.

The Pleiadian Collective also teaches that linear time itself is an illusion, and that past, present, and future exist simultaneously — so the “speeding up” is really about humanity shifting its relationship with time as it ascends in frequency.

Where to Find the Podcast

I wasn’t able to pinpoint the exact YouTube podcast episode you’re remembering, but here are a few strong candidates to check:

• “Wisdom from North” podcast/YouTube — they did an interview with Wendy specifically covering the acceleration of time and Pleiadian ascension teachings.

• “Just Tap In with Emilio Ortiz” — she has appeared multiple times (Episodes #67 and #229), and these are also on YouTube.

• “Interview with E.D. (Extra Dimensionals)” — her episodes there touched on time, dimensions, and 3D reality.

• Gaia TV’s “Open Minds with Regina Meredith” — some of these interviews have made their way to YouTube.

If you can remember any detail — the host, the channel name, or roughly when you watched it — I’d be happy to help narrow it down further!

Maharaj: We know the outer world of sensations and actions, but of our inner world of thoughts and feelings we know very little. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

Incidentally practice of meditation affects deeply our character. We are slaves to what we do not know; of what we know we are masters. Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover and understand its causes and its workings, we over-come it by the very knowing; the unconscious dissolves when brought into the conscious. The dissolution of the unconscious releases energy; the mind feels adequate and become quiet.

Q: What is the use of a quiet mind?

M: When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.

Q: As I can make out, I live on many levels and life on each level requires energy. The self by its very nature delights in everything and its energies flow outwards. Is it not the purpose of meditation to dam up the energies on the higher levels, or to push them back and up, so as to enable the higher levels to prosper also?

M: It is not so much the matter of levels as of gunas (qualities). Meditation is a sattvic activity and aims at complete elimination of tamas (inertia) and rajas (motivity). Pure sattva (harmony) is perfect freedom from sloth and restlessness.

Q: How to strengthen and purify the sattva?

M: The sattva is pure and strong always. It is like the sun. It may seem obscured by clouds and dust, but only from the point of view of the perceiver. Deal with the causes of obscuration, not with the sun.

Q: What is the use of sattva?

M: What is the use of truth, goodness, harmony, beauty? They are their own goal. They manifest spontaneously and effortlessly, when things are left to themselves, are not interfered with, not shunned, or wanted, or conceptualised, but just experienced in full awareness, such awareness itself is sattva. It does not make use of things and people -- it fulfils them.

Q: Since I cannot improve sattva, am I to deal with tamas and rajas only? How can I deal with them?

M: By watching their influence in you and on you. Be aware of them in operation, watch their expressions in your thoughts, words and deeds, and gradually their grip on you will lessen and the clear light of sattva will emerge. It is neither difficult, nor a protracted process; earnestness is the only condition of success.

Chapter 15: The Jnani

Questioner: Without God's power nothing can be done. Even you would not be sitting here and talking to us without Him.

Maharaj: All is His doing, no doubt. What is it to me, since I want nothing? What can God give me, or take away from me? What is mine is mine and was mine even when God was not. Of course, it is a very tiny little thing, a speck -- the sense 'I am', the fact of being. This is my own place, nobody gave it to me. The earth is mine; what grows on it is God's.

Q: Did God take the earth on rent from you?

M: God is my devotee and did all this for me.

Q: Is there no God apart from you?

M: How can there be? 'I am' is the root, God is the tree. Whom am I to worship, and what for?

Q: Are you the devotee or the object of devotion?

M: I am neither, I am devotion itself.

Q: There is not enough devotion in the world.

M: You are always after the improvement of the world. Do you really believe that the world is waiting for you to be saved?

Q: I just do not know how much I can do for the world. All I can do, is to try. Is there anything else you would like me to do?

M: Without you is there a world? You know all about the world, but about yourself you know nothing. You yourself are the tools of your work, you have no other tools. Why don't you take care of the tools before you think of the work?

Q: I can wait, while the world cannot.

M: By not enquiring you keep the world waiting.

Q: Waiting for what?

M: For somebody who can save it.

Q: God runs the world, God will save it.

M: That's what you say! Did God come and tell you that the world is His creation and concern and not yours?

Q: Why should it be my sole concern?

M: Consider. The world in which you live, who else knows about it?

Q: You know. Everybody knows.

M: Did anybody come from outside of your world to tell you? Myself and everybody else appear and disappear in your world. We are all at your mercy.

Q: It cannot be so bad! I exist in your world as you exist in mine.

M: You have no evidence of my world. You are completely wrapped up in the world of your own making.

Q: I see. Completely, but -- hopelessly?

M: Within the prison of your world appears a man who tells you that the world of painful contradictions, which you have created, is neither continuous nor permanent and is based on a misapprehension. He pleads with you to get out of it, by the same way by which you got into it. You got into it by forgetting what you are and you will get out of it by knowing yourself as you are.

Q: In what way does it affect the world?

M: When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation.

Q: Righteousness will set me free.

M: Righteousness will undoubtedly make you and your world a comfortable, even happy place. But what is the use? There is no reality in it. It cannot last.

Q: God will help.

M: To help you God must know your existence. But you and your world are dream states. In dream you may suffer agonies. None knows them, and none can help you.

Q: So all my questions, my search and study are of no use?

M: These are but the stirrings of a man who is tired of sleeping. They are not the causes of awakening, but its early signs. But, you must not ask idle questions, to which you already know the answers.

Q: How am I to get a true answer?

M: By asking a true question -- non-verbally, but by daring to live according to your lights. A man willing to die for truth will get it.

Q: Another question. There is the person. There is the knower of the person. There is the witness. Are the knower and the witness the same, or are they separate states?

M: The knower and the witness are two or one? When the knower is seen as separate from the known, the witness stands alone. When the known and the knower are seen as one, the witness becomes one with them.

Q: Who is the jnani? The witness or the supreme?

M: The jnani is the supreme and also the witness. He is both being and awareness. In relation to consciousness he is awareness. In relation to the universe he is pure being.

Q: And what about the person? What comes first, the person or the knower.

M: The person is a very small thing. Actually it is a composite, it cannot be said to exist by itself. Unperceived, it is just not there. It is but the shadow of the mind, the sum total of memories. Pure being is reflected in the mirror of the mind, as knowing. What is known takes the shape of a person, based on memory and habit. It is but a shadow, or a projection of the knower onto the screen of the mind.

Q: The mirror is there, the reflection is there. But where is the sun?

M: The supreme is the sun.

Q: It must be conscious.

M: It is neither conscious nor unconscious. Don't think of it in terms of consciousness or unconsciousness. It is the life, which contains both and is beyond both.

Q: Life is so intelligent. How can it be unconscious?

M: You talk of the unconscious when there is a lapse in memory. In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness -- alive.

Q: Even stones?

M: Even stones are conscious and alive.

Q: The worry with me is that I am prone to denying existence to what I cannot imagine.

M: You would be wiser to deny the existence of what you imagine. It is the imagined that is unreal.

Q: Is all imaginable unreal?

M: Imagination based on memories is unreal. The future is not entirely unreal.

Q: Which part of the future is real and which is not?

M: The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

“According to the Hathors, consciousness is one continuum with many expressions. While humans generally put a dividing line between the personal, transpersonal, and transcendent aspects of being, such delineations are arbitrary—at least in the Hathors’ view of reality.

Furthermore, due to the influences of religion, many humans put a dividing line between the Divine (i.e., the transpersonal/transcendent) and the day-to-day reality of human life. According to the Hathors, there are no barriers or dividing lines between our human existence and our transcendent natures—except for those hurdles imposed through conditioning. One unfortunate effect of a belief in barriers between our human nature and our Divine (i.e., spiritual or transcendent) nature is that we are cut off from the wellspring of insight and healing that is an innate part of our nature. Put another way, consciousness is a unified field and there are no boundaries between levels except those that are imposed by belief. Thus there are, in reality, no impediments or obstacles to the attainment of the higher levels of transcendent insight and their attendant abilities (i.e., the powers of consciousness or siddhis)—except for those that are self-imposed or imposed by society.”

How does this point to higher mind connection and integration?

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Deep within you is a knowing of what your soul’s calling is. But the outside noise, the distractions can drown out the call. Don’t listen with a logical mind and logical ears - use the higher mind. The physical logical mind has been built to take direction from the higher mind - but fear gets in the way.

But when you listen to your heart is says, “you are who you are right now, and that’s enough.”

Frequency will be converted to heard thoughts

“I am now choosing to hear myself, to know myself, to communicate with myself in the higher frequencies. I know what I know and the fear based voice is being replaced, once and for all, by the higher self, the Christed Self that knows who he/she is. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”

I am hearing my higher self. Word I am Word.

During your meditation tune into your higher self.

I think hearing goes with knowing. I am in my knowing. Knowing happens in the present, not the past or the future.

Sit back with eyes close and feel yourself as energy. What do I feel like now? What is moving in me and around me? Feel energy extend around you in your aura so that you are actually feeling your energy frequency surrounding you. A large field of light. Actually feel your aura and what it extends to.

Do this every day!

You become familiar with your energy field and the influence or interaction of other sources of energy in your field. You may know things about people from this exchange. Feel things about people and for people.

For more of the practice - https://www.youtube.com/@TheRakhetyMendo

and continued to simplify it.

The goal is to be able to explain ego to a child!

After consulting with Google’s Gemini AI, I have come up with this analogy:

The ego is like a space suit, only let’s call it an “earth suit”

Just like an astronaut needs a heavy, pressurized space suit to walk on the moon - without it they couldn’t survive the environment.

• The Ego is like that suit. It’s the part of you that remembers to put on a coat when it’s freezing or remembers your name so you can answer the teacher when you are at school. It helps you “function” and stay safe on Earth.

When the Suit Gets Too Heavy (Density)

Sometimes, we start to think we ARE the suit. If the suit gets covered in mud or starts to feel really heavy, we might feel grumpy or scared.

• “Psychological density” just means the suit feels heavy and stiff. This happens when we are upset or hurt. Instead of being a light, flexible suit that helps us move, it becomes a clunky, heavy ARMOUR that makes us want to hide or fight.

The “Pedestal” Game

When the suit is too heavy, we start comparing our suit to everyone else’s.

• When our suit feels heavy and clunky, we start looking at other people’s suits.

  • The High Pedestal: We might think, “My suit is cooler than yours, so I’m the boss!”

  • The Low Pedestal: Or we think, “Your suit is way better than mine, I’m a loser.”

  • The Takedown: If we think someone else is “better” than us, it makes us feel small. Eventually, we might try to trip them up or say something mean just to make their suit look as messy as ours. This is just the “ARMOUR” or the EGO talking - not the real you! It forgets that underneath every suit, there is a “Presence” - a bright light that is the same in everyone.

Presence refers to the quiet 'Inner You' that stays calm and stays the same, whether you are wearing a heavy suit of grumpiness or a light suit of happiness.

The Ebbing and Flowing (Leads to transformation, or changing your Suit)

Like a river or ocean, sometimes the water is deep and rough (high tide), at other times it’s shallow and calm (low tide), so too is our psychological density. Don’t be mad at yourself if your suit feels heavy sometimes. In these situations, think of the suit as a caterpillar’s cocoon.

• The caterpillar builds a Cocoon (which is a bit like a dense, heavy suit) because it needs a safe place to change. The caterpillar doesn’t hate the cocoon; it just uses it until it’s ready to fly as a butterfly. The butterfly doesn't say, "Ugh, I'm so a bad at being a butterfly because I'm stuck in this brown shell!" It knows the shell is exactly what it needs to grow its wings.

• Your “heavy” feelings are just a sign that you are growing. Eventually you get tire of feeling “heavy” and let go of trying to control the situation and the moment. In other words you stop judging your experiences.

The Big Question

Instead of comparing your suit to your friend’s suit, just ask yourself one thing:

“Can I be kind to myself while I’m learning? Can I love the ‘me’ inside the suit, even when the suit feels heavy and grumpy?”

The “learning” here is simply practicing how to be the boss of your Suit, instead of letting your Suit be the boss of You. It refers to the lifelong practice of noticing your own reactions and choosing a better way to respond, and is a process of emotional maturity.

In Closing

The idea or goal here is to use simple language and common analogies to define the nature of the ego. A diving suit or a space suit analogy aptly convey the nature of the ego - especially to an adolescent. The ego is our earth suit.

This often happens when you do not cooperate with the mind.

The mind is not cunning to the Self or the Beingness, only to the person.

Listen to Mooji talk about one earth but billions of worlds. This is similar to Bashar’s sentiment. We are all on our on version of earth. It may look and seem like we are on the same earth, experiencing the same earth reality, but we are not.

Our identification or association to and with the ego’s high density is what ties us to those low emotional states (fear, angry, guilt, shame, etc.). Mooji uses the analogy of having a subscription to the high density ego. The ego is living on subscription!

Freedom/Detachment: The Monkey mind grows with conflict. Do not fight the mind. Be detached from it. Detachment means staying in a place or state of awareness. Not resisting or fighting the ego or the mind. Mooji says “Stay empty and neutral and know that a universal consciousness supports you… It is the way, the truth, and the life.”

As we move forward with our discovery of ego, it should be clear that we are NOT the ego, NOR are we the mind.

Here’s a link to the original video on YouTube.

From the Great Awakening, a question from Mike Dooley to Matt Kahn:

I want to quote your book All for Love: “ …even if the ego constantly got its way, it would be no happier than before.”

So, not only does the ego not know what it really wants, but when it gets what it thought it wanted, it’s still not going to be happy! I think we can all relate to this.

Can you tell us, what is ego?

Matt’s reply:

Ego is a spectrum of psychological density. It helps us be rooted and grounded on Earth. For example, if you had no ego, you would walk out into a snowstorm naked, forgetting to put on a jacket or clothes. Without ego, there’s no sense of distinction, and you lose the ability to function in the world.

The ego helps us have the experience of being individuals in a world of other people. However, when ego is where you find your sense of identity, you wind up making decisions from the pain and patterning of unprocessed trauma instead of responding from the empowerment of your highest wisdom. When we identify with ego, it’s common to believe, “I’m better than this person,” or “That person’s better than me.” The ego likes to put itself, or other people, on a pedestal.

Then, of course, when we put people on pedestals, there soon follows a compulsion to tear them down, because we resent them for being bigger than we perceive ourselves to be. The ego inevitably unravels all it creates. It’s quite a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And yet, from a higher perspective, all of this can be seen as the ebbing and flowing of a psychological density that helps loosen our grip of attachment and soften our edges for deeper healing to occur. Seeing this is not a judgment. It’s just where one is in their journey, just as a butterfly would never judge itself for having the cocoon it needs in order to break free and be reborn. The question still remains, no matter where anyone is in their journey, “Can I love myself enough to face my patterns, instead of hiding my pain by comparing myself to others?”

The very first sentence of Matt’s response stopped me dead in my tracks.

What is psychological density?

Here enter’s AI, and in this case Google’s Gemini:

In Matt Kahn’s teaching, describing the ego as a “spectrum of psychological density” is a way of reframing the ego from being a “bad” thing that needs to be destroyed into a natural energy state that can be “thinned out” or lightened through love and awareness.

To understand this concept, it helps to break down what he means by “density” and how the “spectrum” works:

1. Density as “Survival Mode”

Kahn often defines the ego as the “imaginary identity of an overstimulated nervous system.” When your nervous system is in a state of high stress, trauma, or fear, your psychological state becomes “dense.”

• High Density: This is characterized by heavy emotions like guilt, shame, resentment, and a constant need to defend yourself. In this state, your perspective is narrow, rigid, and “thick” with personal stories of victimhood or unworthiness.

• The Feeling of Weight: When you feel “dense,” life feels hard, reactive, and burdensome. You are more likely to take things personally and feel separate from others.

2. The Spectrum of Reactivity

The “spectrum” refers to the range of how we respond to life’s information:

• One end (High Density/Unconscious): We react based on old patterns. This is the ego acting as a protective shield that has become too heavy. It tries to control, manipulate, or fix situations to feel safe.

• The middle (Integration): We begin to recognize our triggers. We start to “parent” our own inner child (a core Matt Kahn practice).

• The other end (Low Density/Conscious): We respond with “heart-centered consciousness.” Here, the ego is still present (as a functional tool to navigate the world), but it is “light” or “transparent.” It no longer blocks the light of your true nature (the Soul).

3. Lightening the Density (”Whatever Arises, Love That”)

Kahn’s primary teaching is that you don’t get rid of the ego; you evaporate its density by offering it unconditional love.

• If you feel angry, instead of judging the anger (which adds density), you say to yourself, “I love the one who feels angry.”

• By meeting “dense” emotions with the “light” of love, the psychological weight begins to dissolve. The ego shifts from being a solid wall of defense to a flexible, fluid interface for experiencing life.

Summary

When Matt Kahn says ego is a spectrum of psychological density, he is saying that your ego is simply the degree to which you are currently “contracted” or “expanded.” * Dense ego = Contraction, fear, and survival.

• Light ego = Expansion, love, and presence.

He views the spiritual journey not as an “ego death,” but as a process of moving along this spectrum—thinning out the density of your past pain until your human personality becomes a clear vessel for your divine essence.

Here are the references that Gemini used:

• https://hidinsight.com/whatever-arises/

• https://intuitivesoul.com/embracing-reverence-a-new-perspective-on-ego

• https://myconsciouslifejournal.com/articles/interview-matt-kahn/

”In everyday language, “ego” often refers to a person’s sense of self-importance or self-esteem. When someone says “he has a big ego,” they usually mean the person is arrogant or overly concerned with their own importance.

In spiritual and philosophical traditions (particularly Eastern philosophy), the ego refers to the false sense of a separate, permanent self. Many meditation practices aim to see through or transcend the ego to realize a more fundamental nature of consciousness or interconnectedness.

In contemporary psychology, the term is used more broadly to describe one’s sense of personal identity - the “I” that experiences life, makes choices, and maintains continuity over time.”

Follow up prompt to Claude AI - “How was the ego defined or understood in Ancient Egypt?”:

This is a fascinating question because ancient Egyptians had a remarkably sophisticated and complex understanding of the self - though they didn’t have a single concept that maps directly onto our modern word “ego.”

The ancient Egyptians believed a person consisted of multiple spiritual and psychological components:

The Ba was perhaps closest to what we might call personality or soul - the unique individual essence that made you distinctly you. It was often depicted as a human-headed bird and was thought to be mobile, able to travel between the world of the living and the dead.

The Ka was something like a life force or vital essence - a spiritual double created at birth that needed sustenance (which is why food offerings were left at tombs). It represented the difference between a living and dead person.

The Ib (heart) was considered the seat of emotion, thought, wisdom, and conscience - essentially the center of consciousness and moral character. In the afterlife judgment, the heart was weighed against the feather of Ma’at (truth/justice) to determine one’s fate.

The Ren was one’s true name, which held power and was essential to one’s identity and existence.

The Sheut (shadow) and Akh (transfigured spirit) were additional components.

So rather than a single “ego,” the Egyptians saw selfhood as multifaceted. If anything came closest to an organizing center of identity, it might be the Ib (heart), which encompassed thought, emotion, and moral agency together - quite different from our modern separation of mind and heart.

“Doubt is simply a trust in something you don’t prefer.” - Bashar, channelled by Darryl Anka

The Christ consciousness in you is the truth of who you are in essence. The word “Christ” from the Greek word “Christos” - deriving from the verb "chrio," meaning "to anoint," and was used in the Greek Septuagint to translate the Hebrew "Mashiach" (Messiah), meaning "anointed one". Both Christ and Messiah fundamentally mean "the anointed one."

From Gerald Massey work (a 19th-century self-taught Egyptologist), "Christ" derives from ancient Egyptian "KRST" comes primarily from Gerald Massey, a 19th-century self-taught Egyptologist. According to this interpretation, KRST can be broken into "K" (ka, meaning "spirit") and "RST" (meaning "rise"), thus meaning "rising spirit," and was associated with the mummification process and spiritual transformation.

Not all people agree with Gerald Massey. Some may argue Krst refers to burial. I find this odd when I consider Kemetic (Egyptian) spirituality, but that’s just me! However, the safe take away is that Anointed or Anointing refers to spiritual transformation and expansion or awakening. Christ consciousness does not refer to religion or Christianity - it refers to unconditional love - creating the Word through your intentions; the Word is love in action. We are the reality we create!

Taken from Paul Selig’s Guides (the Ascended Masters):

“When you understand that you are in fact aligned to the Christ consciousness, that it is not just an ideal to work towards, you vibrate at the frequency. When you are vibrating at that frequency we can work through you very directly.”

To which Darryl replied:

“To be all the ways that All That Is has of experiencing itself as you. And to understand that we are all different aspects of the same thing, to grow, to discover, to play, to enrich, to serve, to enlarge.”

Here is a brief share of the teaching from the Upanishads that I mentioned:

The story of "Tat Tvam Asi" (Thou Art That) comes from the Chandogya Upanishad (one of the oldest Upanishads, dating to around 800-600 BCE), and is a beautiful teaching in Hindu philosophy.

After a son returns home from 12 years of studying the Vedas with a renown teacher, his father teaches him - How do we hear what cannot be heard, perceive what cannot be perceived, know what cannot be known?

I mentioned 3 teachings but that was incorrect. In my research I only discovered 2. The salt in water, and the Banyan seed.

The Banyan Seed: The father asks the son to bring a fruit from the banyan tree, then break it open. "What do you see?" he asks. "Tiny seeds, father." "Break one open. What do you see now?" "Nothing, father." "My son, from that subtle essence which you cannot see, this entire mighty banyan tree exists. That subtle essence is the reality of all that exists. That is the Self. That is truth. Tat tvam asi - That thou art, my son."

The teachings reveals that what you experience as your individual consciousness is not separate from the universal consciousness. You are not a drop in the ocean - you are the ocean experiencing itself as a drop. The divine essence animating the universe is the same essence animating you. There is no separation; separation is the illusion.

This perfectly captures your original idea: we are how All That Is experiences itself through infinite unique perspectives, each one discovering, growing, playing, enriching - each one the whole, expressing itself as the part.

Here’s Eckhart’s perspective on life as well:

I find one of the biggest obstacles of personal growth is not giving yourself permission to explore your curiosity and find your passion. But if you understand the importances and role that “giving yourself permission” plays in your life, you’ll likely be writing yourself plenty of permission slips.

The idea of a permission slip in this context comes from the channeled entity known as Bashar:

“Now a permission slip is simply any technique, any tool, any ritual, any object, any discipline, anything in physical reality that you believe will help you become more of who you are, because you’re attracted to use it because you believe it aligns with your belief system, and will actually allow you to circumvent that belief system to have a broader sense of what is possible for you.

So if you’re attracted to ideas like astrology, or crystal balls, or tea leaves or anything like that, or a particular religion or what have you, or an object of any kind, it’s because you believe it will help you do what you need to do to make the changes that you need to make. Now of course you’re making the changes, the belief system and the permission slip in that sense are working hand in hand to make it seem easier to accept the change within yourself, but they’re not actually doing it for you (the permission slip). It’s just a way of saying, with this assisting me I believe I can change; ultimately you realize you are the actual permission slip, and you can change in any way shape or form that you prefer to at any time, without necessarily needing a ritual or an object to make it easier for you to do so.” - (Bashar channeled by Darryl Anka)

Until we become the permission slip, we all have our permission slips.

A couple of mine are practicing meditation and working with crystals. What are some of the permission slips you’re using to circumvent and move beyond your current belief system?

I hope this motivates and inspires you to connect with your heart - listen to it and trust it. Here are more details on the experiment mentioned by Rollin:

The source is an excerpt from the book, “I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj” by Nisargadatta Maharaj. Please discuss how the source material can be used in achieve personal transformation and manifestation of desires.

The Response

The core of the teaching focuses on realizing the true nature of existence, transcending the temporary nature of the body-mind, and thereby achieving personal transformation.

1. Undoing Fundamental Confusion: The primary goal of transformation, referred to as the “purpose of Yoga,” is to undo the confusion where the reflection of the one reality in a separate body confuses the unlimited and the limited, taking them to be the same. Personal transformation is achieved by correcting this error.

2. Finding the Unborn and Deathless Reality: Transformation requires the seeker to find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of ‘I’. This “unborn” reality is described as being deathless, unlike what was born, which must die. The knower (witness-consciousness) is not permanent; it “rises and sets with the known”. Transformation involves seeking that which is beyond time, in which both the knower and the known arise and set.

3. The Practical Path: Earnestness and Integrity: Maharaj outlines specific steps for going about this finding out, emphasizing commitment and moral integrity:

• Steady Remembrance: Success requires keeping one’s mind and heart focused on the goal, cultivating interest, and maintaining “steady remembrance”. The secret of success is “To remember what needs to be remembered”.

• Earnestness: The pursuit must be driven by earnestness. Qualifications and opportunities necessary for the goal will “come with earnestness”.

• Freedom from Contradictions (Wholeness): It is supremely important to be free from internal contradictions. This is described as honesty, integrity, and wholeness.

◦ The goal and the way must not be on different levels.

◦ Life and light must not quarrel.

◦ Behaviour must not betray belief.

• Tenacity: The seeker must show tenacity of purpose and honesty in pursuit, refusing to “go back, undo, uproot, abandon the conquered ground”.

4. The Simple First Step (Turning Within): The simplest and easiest way to begin is to “Turn within”. The instruction is to know “I am” and to be with that awareness all the time one can spare, until the awareness reverts to the self spontaneously. “All blessings come from within”.

Intentional Manifestation of Desires

The source material focuses primarily on self-knowledge and liberation from the cycle of birth and death (the body-knower appears at birth and disappears at death). It does not contain explicit instructions or techniques for the intentional, external manifestation of desires (i.e., using consciousness to shape material outcomes).

However, the text does acknowledge the existence of records related to desire:

• The Causal Body: The source discusses a “memory body, or causal body,” which is described as a record of all that was thought, wanted and done. This “cloud of images” links successive body-knowers. This indicates that thoughts and wants have an effect and are recorded, perpetuating a state of confusion.

• Focus on Internal Realization: The framework presented directs the individual’s effort toward realizing the “unborn” and ending the confusion of the limited self. By prioritizing the “I am” consciousness and freeing oneself from internal contradictions (honesty, integrity), the individual is positioned to achieve transformation. The implicit transformation is one of realization rather than external creation.