Gerald O’Donnell and Thoughts on Reality
I am currently attending a weekly study group focused on Remote Viewing/Remote Influencing. We are practicing the techniques prescribed in Gerald O’Donnell’s courses, although there are many other RV/RI teachers. I particularly enjoy O’Donnell because he incorporates a great deal of metaphysics in his training.
This Wednesday, our group will open by discussing some of the more “controversial” aspects of what O’Donnell espouses about reality. I understand this subject could be very far-reaching for some…especially for anyone who hasn’t yet found the courage to venture outside of what religions have taught about creation. However, I applaud those willing to at least momentarily entertain these ideas to see if some part of what is discovered might resonate with a new understanding of mankind’s role in this experience of being human. If we are to advance, we must be willing to become pioneers of new thoughts…in other words, we are going to have to step out of the box into uncharted territory to see if we’ve missed something. Unfortunately, a vast majority of the population seems perfectly content with “status quo,” and in this complacency, they unwittingly contribute to the demise of our universe.
For a large part of my life, I chose to live in the awareness of man as a spiritual being only. I was raised to believe that recognizing the material element empowered it and only increased my woes. Thus, I did the best I could to only acknowledge happiness, love, peace, gratitude, etc. But in recent times, I became exhausted from running away from the fact that my life was not reflecting all that perfection. Nope. The truth is, sometimes life sucks! In spite of all my metaphysical understanding, I had lived a life that included a great deal of suffering. At that time, I stopped, turned around and called all the negatives to me. I wanted to know how they became a part of my experience, why I had experienced them, and most importantly, how to clear them out. Yes, I’m still working on it!
In my quest for understanding, I learned that most of the beliefs that caused so much misery in my life were hidden in the dark corners of my subconscious mind. The biggest joke of all is…most, if not all, of those beliefs weren’t even mine, per se. They were beliefs I’d downloaded from others, as a child, and placed into the most powerful projector of my human experience…the subconscious mind. As time went on, I gathered more and more evidence to back up these beliefs. Yes…it’s true! I am undeserving. I am unworthy. I am meant to sacrifice myself for others. I proved it to myself. I took all those negative beliefs and magnified them and reflected them right back into my outer world experience.
But now that I was willing to look at my human experience from a place of curiosity, I could step away from denial. It became clear to me that my denial of these negative experiences had not, in fact, removed them from my life’s experiences. Rather, looking back, I sometimes think denial is the worst thing anyone can do when it comes to dealing with problems. If we aren’t willing to admit to a problem, we have no hope of resolving it. And here is the real kicker…the ego/dark matrix absolutely thrives on denial!
I was recently sharing with a friend an example of why denial cannot be placed in the bag of a healer. If I am a dentist, for example, and someone comes to me with a toothache, I could immediately begin explaining to them that the whole thing is just an illusion and that pain isn’t real…the Creator has only created perfection. Meanwhile, the patient is screaming in pain. I would continue lecturing them on my understanding that in Higher Realms there is nothing but Love and we are the essence of that Love. By now, my patient is probably reaching for the pliers to pull out his own tooth…angry at me for not acknowledging his pain. I would continue, nonetheless, declaring matter is unreal and spirit is the only Truth and in my ecstasy, I would claim the patient is healed from all pain and disease because it doesn’t really exist. Unfortunately, the patient is now bleeding profusely and planning to sue me for malpractice as he is carried out of the office on a stretcher! While all of my “truths” might be true in a Higher Realm, did my denial of his problem help or hurt him in this physical experience? And what did it do to me?
What I was doing, in the aforementioned case, was trying to impose my self-righteous (and egotistical) beliefs on someone who didn’t agree with me. The instant that happened, it should have been a clear indicator to me that this must be my belief as well! In other words, my own beliefs on this are not congruent. I think I’m calling out someone else to inform the idiot of something they don’t know…me being far superior, intellectually, of course. LOL But that really isn’t what is going on. I’m lecturing myself! A part of me must believe in toothaches, or else I would not have shared in that experience. Thus, denying the problem didn’t just cause my patient to suffer, but it also caused me to miss out on an opportunity to clear out a false belief I’ve been harboring. One day, we will all understand that negative circumstances that manifest in our lives are not coming from the outer world. They are coming from within ourselves. The people and situations we are surrounded by are the manifestations of our beliefs. Some of the beliefs are good. Some are not so great. But like it or not…they all belong to the one accepting or denying them. Denial of them, however, will not remove them from our experience. The only way to remove them is to confront them. Using this as a guide, let’s redo the dentist story.
The patient comes to me with a toothache. I ask, “How does it feel?” He tells me the pain is a throbbing pain on the lower left side of his mouth. I acknowledge this. “When you feel that throbbing pain, what emotion comes up for you?” I ask. He states it makes him feel helpless and out of control. I validate that and continue, “When did this pain begin?” He says it started two days ago. He first noticed it when he was arguing with his wife about his inability to find a job. Okay. We are close. So I continue asking, “Have you always struggled with employment?” At first he says no, but then decides that maybe he has. “When did you first have an issue with not getting a job you wanted? Can you remember anything that might have happened when you were a small child?” He hesitates and then haphazardly answers, “Well, I don’t know why I thought of this (it comes up because I am calling out subconscious beliefs), but there was that time when I wanted to deliver newspapers…uh, I was about 8 years old…but my mother said I was too young. I really wanted to do it, though, but without her approval, I couldn’t. I was upset with her for a long time.” Ah ha! We are much closer now. “How was your relationship with your mother?” He is now tearfully explaining that she was always very dominant, always pushing down his dreams and telling him his ideas were far-fetched and unrealistic. He finally gave up his own voice and began doing what he could to please her. His pain is worsening, as he speaks. I ask him where he is feeling pain now. He says his toothache is worse, but his heart is throbbing with deep emotional regret. Exactly! Now that we have located his “real” problem, we can do something with it! Oh…and as I do this…I never, ever forget that he is me. This is obviously one of my own beliefs that has shown up so I can clear it out. I find the pain in myself, and as we remove the energy of “his” problem, we are both free of a long-standing belief that has kept us from moving forward in our own passions, empowered and in control.
As you can see, in denying his problem, I helped neither of us. In embracing his problem, I cleared out long-standing, limiting beliefs not only in the outer world around me, but in my own inner subconscious mind. At that point, I have created space to implant a wonderful new belief. I am now joyfully proclaiming, “I am magnificent! I can do and be anything I choose. I am in control of my own destiny. I am empowered to live my own life with passion and gratitude!” In feeling that state of bliss, I’ve connected to my Creator and I’m asking for more joy, passion and power. Ask, and it is given…especially coming from a high vibration of gratitude for having already received.
So…to sum it all up….
Denial of the negatives we experience in the physical realm does nothing to empower us. We must seek out the things that are not in alignment with good and take action to remove those non-serving beliefs. Although Divine intervention can and has immediately manifested in place of a negative experience, it is a rare thing. But we don’t have to wait around to catch the ear of a distant God who may or may not grant us our wishes. We have the innate ability to draw unto us all the things we want to experience. Why? Because we are The One who offers All That Is. Move over and let it operate through you, as you.
In a physical realm of “reality,” we have attracted vast quantities of dark and negative experiences. They are just as real as positive ones in this world. We know that 70% of each day, we align ourselves with this dark matrix…we allow our minds to wander and replay old tapes of limiting, self-defeating beliefs. Since only 3-5% of the day is controlled by the conscious mind, we will never overpower the matrix mind by using this smaller aspect of the human mind. It must come from within the subconscious mind. However…we are mostly blinded to our subconscious beliefs–we think they are “others,” so if we are going to change the outer world around us, we must delve into new techniques that connect us to this hidden aspect of ourselves. And it’s true…the ego does not want us to figure this out. Doing so means freedom from its control. You will no longer fuel its insatiable appetite for control.
Do it anyway!
I AM…Jodi
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