December 8, 2020 Tuesday Evening, Dharma Path III Class
Our Journey from Eden to the Present Tipping Point; Q&A on Working with the Akashic Field, the Ever-Healed, and Intention in Support of Healing
Aaron: My blessings and love to you. I am Aaron. Tonight I’m not going to present new material so much as try to pull things together.
Some of you have loved the akashic field material. Some of you have said, “I don’t get it.” Well, it’s fine if you don’t get it. We’ve said many times that we will offer a number of supports—use what’s useful and leave the rest.
But I suspect that those who feel they don’t get it are getting caught up in semantics, trying to understand specific terminology. If you have many hungry people and a huge pantry, but you’re not sure what recipes you have the ingredients for, you don’t go in with a specific recipe plan. You say, “I invite a wholesome meal.” You walk into the pantry, with stocked shelves. You invite from the food that which would like to serve itself up for this wholesome and delicious meal—come forth! And some of them radiate on the shelves, they catch your eye. “Me! Me! Me!” Then the recipe idea comes to you, co-created with the food.
Imagine this pantry as the akashic field. Everything you need for your sustenance is there. You hold the intention to prepare a wholesome future and then invite forth what is needed. So, this is a metaphor for the field.
Everything arises out of conditions. Your intention is one of the conditions. The heavy elements—again, going into our metaphor, the food ingredients contain earth, air, fire, water. They are substance. There has to be a container out of which they are arising, and that is the akasha—the pantry.
You begin to trust that everything you need will be in that field. It has to be. This is the All Ground, the base out of which everything is arising. We open to that field and then there is not so much a self, trying to create something from the field, than somebody whose energetic intention holds the doorway open and invites so that what is needed will arise.
I’m thinking about a different example. We have an invited friend into class tonight. He asked for more information about the akashic field, which he was not so familiar with by that terminology. And I said, “You already know about this, just not the terms.”
You’ll see J’s name on there—J, do you want to show your face so people can say hello? Hello, J. Many people know J. J has been part of Deep Spring Center I think since almost the beginning.
So, years ago J and another friend were going to, I don’t remember exactly where, J, to help people who were sick. Where were you going?
J: AIDS Hospice.
Aaron: They both did energy work. They discovered when they went in with an idea, “We will do this,” it wasn’t quite as successful as when they simply held the space and allowed the healing to arise out of the field, perhaps not calling it by that name. But J, I’m sure you remember how you made that shift that year from trying to force to simply holding the door open and allowing.
Thank you, J. Just sharing that as one more way of understanding the field.
Q: It was an invitation.
Aaron: So, for now, tonight I’m going to take a step backwards, share the bigger picture again with you.
Once upon a time you were simply energy and intelligence. You did not see yourself in any way as separate from the Divine, but rather, resided in that Garden of Eden, figuratively speaking. There was no idea of me or that, me or you, no separation. There was total connection. But within that space you were still the infant. You were in no way tapping on the personal power that could emerge through mature knowing of the All-that-is.
How do you move into knowing and using the personal power without creating duality? And so, you shifted from connection into “I AM.” Stepping out of the Garden, “I AM.” And the Divine is back there—where did it go? But it was an essential step, just as with the birth of the infant it is essential that it must separate from the mother, mature, and only when fully mature, come to know its non-duality with the mother.
“I AM.” With “I AM”, “I choose.” But back then you really didn’t know how to choose, because part of that birth into one who may choose with free will, was the birth of the ego. You had to learn through many different experiences how to use the ego as a tool and not as the boss, not the one in charge.
You went through different levels of experience through many, many lifetimes, even as the simple one-celled plant and the more extensive multi-celled plant. The simple one-celled animal and the multi-celled animal.
For the plant and even the simpler animal, there was no sense of good or bad, service to self versus service to other. The plant and simple animal form simply strived to survive. Its highest good was to maintain itself so that it could multiply and maintain the species. So, it was still part of something greater than itself, part of the species.
But eventually, you matured into the human form. Humans who have not yet attained a very high non-dual consciousness are still very much caught up in the ego and its stories. Then they may move on to the next step, seeing things very much in black and white—”This is good, that is bad. What is safe for myself? My family? My country? My species?” This is not bad; it’s just part of the path. It is a path of evolving consciousness.
Each time, as you transitioned out of that present body, you moved back into a space where you were able again to see the big picture. Your guides came and helped you. A guide can help you evolve into high consciousness, but you do the work, to work through the gradual progression of being caught in fear, being caught in ego stories, being caught in preferences, in insistences on “I am right.” Each lifetime was chosen to help you learn to open away from the “I am right” and into “What is for the highest good for all beings?” That’s a hard shift. It takes looking at very primary mammal reflexes of survival and being willing not to be trapped by them.
Many, actually most of you at times, took time off from these human lifetimes and spent some time on other planes in quasi-energetic bodies, bodies that were not fully formed but were more flexible, coming as energy. For one example, some of you have heard me talk about light dancers, shape changers—different forms that some of you may have been. Some of you came as a cat! There is a lovely cat on Q’s screen, a friend evolving!
However many lifetimes it took, because there was the strong intention to learn and to grow you kept coming back and moving through this succession of experiences and asking the important question: Who am I, and why am I here?
You began to understand some of the answers, but then with birth you forgot those answers.
Now as your consciousness evolves, many of you are remembering the answers, retaining them as you come into the human experience. With repeated lifetimes of exploration, you are beginning to understand the basic truths: Everything in this conditioned realm arises out of conditions and passes away when the conditions cease. None of these conditions are self. Then what are you? And why are you here? What is the root of human suffering? And is there no way out of this whole predicament of ongoing suffering?
Between lifetimes, you were increasingly enthused and in wonder about the whole truth of raising consciousness. Between lifetimes, you could truly feel the power of that All That Is, of the core of that Eden that had been your home and to which you so much wanted to return.
But it’s set up so that you forget most of it when you come into the incarnation. If it were not that way, then ego would be in charge, saying, “I’m determined. I can do this.” That’s not love, that’s not wisdom, it’s just gritting the teeth and forging ahead. Some degree of that commitment, of course, is necessary. But the more important ingredient is love.
You began to explore how to observe the arising emotions of fear, of anger, of sorrow, without getting so caught up in the stories. And it became increasingly clear that you were not simply an organism going through one predicament after another, that you had huge amount of power when you connected with your essence. And when I say your essence, I would be better to say THE essence—with Love, God, Goddess, Infinite Creator, All That Is, Love—for indeed, that is what you are.
A hundred years ago your Earth was just emerging from a place of much heavier negative polarity. There were certain expressions of that polarity that had yet to play themselves out, such as through Nazism and other expressions of hatred of others, of self-importance and unwillingness to understand your interconnection with everything. Enough people came forth to say no, to bring the world a step up into a higher vibration.
This is a time that we as spirit have been waiting for, for millennia. It is a stage that Yeshua launched and that the Buddha launched. Now many people have been bringing in these teachings of wisdom and the heart; people courageous enough to come in with a high vibration and to know that awakening and living from the awakened state is possible. You are love—just that.
And people began to wake up, in extraordinary circumstances. People in concentration camps who gave so much to others, people who had little to eat and yet fed others. People who offered love; who helped people survive. It was the coming forth of a much stronger remembrance, “We are love. And we are moving on from this heavy vibration of darkness into the light.”
Many of you not in human form at that point felt the call: “Yes, this is what I have been working toward for so many lifetimes. To begin to know not MY but THE true self, that essence of love. To know that All Ground out of which everything, light and darkness, express, and to know the power of free will choice that each committed to.” Stepping out of Eden because there was an intention to know Love’s power, each of our power coming together to co-create something so beautiful.
And now we are here, and we truly are at a tipping point in this world. I do not deny there is a lot of negative energy; you don’t need me to tell you that. But there is also an enormous amount of love. There is deep connection. And there is increasing awareness of the abilities—what it means to co-create, to draw from the akasha, that heart of All That Is, to feel the love in there and draw it forth and commit to holding that space of love in a world that right now seems to have gone crazy.
Why are you experiencing so much pain in the world at this point? It truly is not more pain than there has been at other times. Within the past thousand years, there were so many times of war, times of plagues, times of drought, times of hunger.
You have a wonderful shift that has come now. In those days, a thousand, two thousand years ago, so few of you understood that you are part of everything and have the power to literally choose light or darkness, and can live from that choice, co-creating light. You had forgotten the skills that many of you had even as far back as Lemuria, how to co-create. But as Lemurians you did not have the human power that you have now because you found yourself—Lemuria was more like the Garden of Eden. You didn’t experience yourself having any individual power of choice.
Three years ago when Barbara and I began to plan the Dharma Path class, I told her that my highest intention in teaching the class was to help strengthen the ability of even just a small group of people, 50 people, to know the power that you have to choose love, to enact that love in the world, and then specific tools to do it.
There are groups like this all over the world—it’s not just up to 50 of you but all of you together having the power to hold space for the hatred and fear, to literally take it into your hearts and transmute it into positive energy. So many of you are ready to do this, and literally to shift that tipping point and bring the whole world into a higher consciousness. It’s not going to be a sudden flip; it’s going to go back and forth quite a bit. But each time it will become a little more stable.
Many of you have asked me, what do we do about the fear and hatred, the prejudice, the lies of Mr. Trump and his friends? And all I can say is, hold them in your heart, love them. They are not yet mature enough to understand. Yeshua’s, “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.” Like the child who does not understand fire and sets the house on fire, the 2-year- old that toddled into the fireplace and pulled out a log—they don’t know what they do. You are asked to be the parent, the elder, and continually asked to open your heart.
There are two important parts to this work. One is simply learning the skills, as we have been doing; coming to understand the direct experience of that that we call akasha, or call it All-Ground, Infinite Creator, or All-That-Is. You learn how to open into that. But it’s terrifying to go into that radiance because it is not just light. If it is the All Ground, there is light and there is darkness, there is spaciousness and there is contraction. There is creation and destruction, and yet with Love, nothing is truly created or destroyed.
As humans, you still think in terms of duality. Very understandably, you don’t want to go into the negative. It frightens; it’s unpleasant. So, very important in these years, we are developing the tools to allow you to go deeper into this heart of darkness and find the non-duality of light and darkness, spaciousness and contraction, fear and love.
With many different kinds of mindfulness practices, you have the opportunity to see how you can rest in this essence of your being that is light without denying the darkness; increasingly able to transmute the darkness.
You have picked up so many helpful tools—some more useful to these people, some more useful to those people. And that’s fine; as I’ve said, every tool is not for everyone. But you are remembering these tools. You are deepening in understanding of what you’re doing and commitment to do it.
We’ve worked a lot with the bridge and played with where it’s useful in this or that circumstance; where to rest on the bridge.
If you are going to successfully help shift the Earth into this high vibration, there must be both a willingness to experience the lowest vibration of fear and hatred and not to get caught in it. You and your own emotional body are your ground for practice. It’s very valuable that you are doing this together as a sangha, and the small groups, the dharma buddies, finding and giving the support for this work.
Next semester I’m going to be asking you to go even deeper into the places of darkness, the places of which you are most afraid, and to uncover the power you have to find the non-duality of light and darkness in those places of darkness and, through your own experience, to transmute the darkness.
Quoting the Buddha, “If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it.” And I would add, if you were not ready, you would not have joined this class. Consciously or unconsciously you knew what you were joining. And each will step forth as you are ready, using the tools that most resonate for you.
I cannot overemphasize the value of your vipassana practice, because through it you can come to a direct experience of the Unconditioned. It is therein, when you recognize, when the whole of the ego structure falls away, the body falls away and you begin to know this awakened heart-mind that you are, not just as you but as everything, here is where you find the strength and courage to turn back and see what you have considered the demonic things that seem to chase you, and to turn around and say, “That’s enough.”
With a very few of you in past classes we’ve talked about lucid dreaming. It’s something we’ll talk briefly about next semester, but probably not go deep into. It’s a whole class unto itself. But in lucid dreaming, the dreamer knows that he or she is asleep. The dreamer sees the creatures that are chasing and knows that these are nothing but ones own mind. You become increasingly willing, while you’re fleeing from the tiger, to turn around and say, “No. You’re just a figment of my mind. Stop.”
In a sense, this is what we’re saying to the whole world of negativity that we see around us, because that negativity from so many people filled with fear and hatred is nothing but one expression from your minds. When you release the duality within yourself so that you come to know the true awakened self, you have enormous—when I say ‘power’ I don’t mean power used in a way that limits another’s free will but power to help the other being see within its own free will the heart of love that exists within it. And it probably terrifies it to begin to know that heart of love. If I acknowledge that heart of love, what will be asked of me? That’s very challenging.
It is in knowing, coming back to this awakened self, awakening to the truth of your being, living in this awakened self, and then with love, with loving kindness, with patience, with courage, but also with fierce determination: “No, you may NOT destroy. You may NOT kill. You may NOT lie and steal. You may NOT damage.” But how do we say that to those who are still caught in fear?
So, the shift starts in you; there’s a beautiful shift that happens as people awaken. You begin to hold the energy of love. And it’s very hard for somebody who is caught up in anger and fear to resist at least some of those waves of love, let me put it that way.
Can you feel my energy here now? (Aaron offering very high energy) I’m holding some very high energy. I’m loving you, it’s as simple as that—can you feel it? I hope at least a little bit. Those who have had darshan with the Mother, you feel it with her.
The Mother, I as Aaron, we are no different from you; we are just showing you, you are this also; you are this awakened heart. And if Earth is going to transition into a higher consciousness it will be because you claim this truth for yourself: “I am love. You are love.”
And as I said, in order to claim that truth you must be willing to look at the demons within. To move into the dark and find how it is totally non-dual with light. We will do it together.
So these practices, for those of you who have said, “I don’t get the akashic field,” —fine, no problem. “I don’t get this, I don’t get that”—let it go. The only thing that is asked of you is to remember you are love, and you came into this incarnation with a purpose, to find and express the love that is your essence and help shift the whole world into a higher consciousness, the non-dual consciousness of love.
You have free will. You can opt out and say, “Aaron, I can’t do that.” That’s fine, I won’t hold it against you. But I deeply trust that if you’re in the class it’s because you are ready to do this. Two steps forward, one step back. Walk, walk, back up, breathe. Two steps forward—fear! Back up, breathe. Two steps forward… and on it goes.
One of Barbara’s sons sent a beautiful video of him with his 2-year-old son walking across a log that’s lying on the forest floor. If they had fallen off it would have just been a 2-foot drop—nobody would have been hurt. So, he is holding his son’s hand and, Barbara can’t hear it but she’s been told the 2 year old is saying, with each alternating step, “Balance… focus… balance… focus… balance… focus…” for about the minute that it took him to walk across the log. I think this is a wonderful lesson. Balance… focus… Balance, remember love; focus, on my intention. Take another step. If necessary, pause until I feel balanced again.
I am so happy to have you with me, so grateful for your love and your courage.
We’ll pause here, take a 10-minute break, and then open the floor to questions. Any kinds of questions are welcomed. I know some of you have questions about the akashic field meditation we did last class. Or about your practice. About anything. So, let’s take a 10 minute break and then come back for questions. My love to you.
(break)
(The following discussion is not reviewed by Barbara and Aaron)
Barbara: It might be useful, we did something yesterday, some of you I know did. Going into the akashic field with Q’s mother and finding oxygen there and just (blows out), making it accessible to her. And I had a little feedback from some of you about how you experienced it. This is one example of the ways that we may literally use the akashic field. That intention finds what is needed in the field and brings it out. Like going into the pantry, as Aaron says, and bringing out the food. Finding the place in the akashic field where all beings—not just Q’s mother but all beings can breathe, and especially those who are lying there intubated.
We really can support that. There’s not a ‘self’ doing it. I experience it more as holding open a doorway so that that which is needed can come out. And I also know that I can’t say, “I want this to go there.” It has to be a statement, “If oxygen is useful to beings, I hold the doorway open and invite it out to become accessible to all who need it.” So, I don’t know what people need, I just offer the possibility of it.
I’d love to hear from others your experiences of these practices of the akashic field, of the guided meditations that Aaron did last class, if you’ve practiced with those at all, and also questions. But I know that sharing your experiences with each other really does help people get it better, understand it.
Q: I have a tree that I love that is outside our picture window. Last week, a woodpecker that damaged it, really severely girdled some of the limbs. I thought I could help it heal from this damage, and so I sat holding the tree and myself as one. I believe the tree may have benefitted from it, but I certainly felt healed by sending the tree these thoughts from… really just holding this sense of wholeness. It was a very deep meditation for me, and I’m trusting that the tree benefitted. That’s one thing I’d like to share.
Barbara: About the tree. We also start to understand—I’ve had living things be damaged and sat with them, offering healing, inviting what is for their highest good, and felt from them that they were choosing that as a way of moving on. And that they were not in pain, they were not suffering, just time for them to go. We have to look at the human ego that says, “But I want that to stay here!” Maybe it’s time for it to move on…
When I’m working with somebody with any kind of guided meditation or healing energy, I offer the energy with the statement, “If this suits your highest good, please use it. I support you in whatever is for your highest good.” And then it’s up to that individual and his or her free will to make the choices.
Q: When any of us are focused to support you, Barbara, or anyone else in a channeling session, are we doing basically the same thing, working in the akashic field? And so then are we offering support if it is required?
Barbara: Exactly. You’re just offering the support. You’re reaching into the akashic field, finding all that light and energy and holding it out and offering. “Here it is. Use whatever portion of it you need,” and everything else is released to where it’s most needed.
Q: About working with the elements, when one is seeking to balance, and one might not know exactly which element is missing or out of balance, is it sufficient to just invite balance, rather than the specific element?
Barbara: But if you do know what’s lacking, if you feel the lack then you can specifically open to and invite that element, but again, never using force. Always saying, I feel a lot of heaviness and contraction here. If more space is useful, if more air or wind or light is useful, I’m basically holding open a doorway and inviting it in.
For me, in situations when I’m with other people I often can feel what element is missing, and then I specifically invite that element, but never force it. Only if it serves the highest good bringing this element in.
But I can feel if the balance shifts and everything becomes more open and stable, versus more fiery and contracted or heavier. We must always observe free will of everything and never push what we think to be our assumptions on anything or anyone else. Always, “I support what is for the highest good. I’m feeling that this might be useful.” But if I say, “For the highest good” and it’s not useful, it will just fall away. It won’t come in. So the “For the highest good” is a higher form of statement than “This or that come in.”
(sharing)
Barbara: You are all always experiencing the akashic field to a greater or less degree. It’s just that… balance, focus; learning to play in the field, to experience the subtleties of it, and always with the intention for the highest good. Not “My ego wants this” but “For the highest good.” And then we back off and let the highest good come forth.
(comment on Aaron’s mention of a paradigm shift)
Barbara: This is a big one for me. For me, I have this idea that if we’re moving to a higher consciousness, transitioning, all the lies and hatred and greed should disappear. Mr. Trump should politely say, “Okay, I can see it,” and walk out. These things “should” happen.
But of course, I really have no idea how this shift is going to take place, or how many days, weeks, months, years, centuries it may take. Only, to hold the intention for more loving, love-based energy in the world and non-harm to any being. And just trust and let it move forward as it needs to.
The important thing here for me, I think, is my meditation practice. And that I’m increasingly aware of when I’m grasping at something for ego’s purposes, or when I’m in a very centered space of awareness and more of an awakened consciousness that’s just able to hold space.
It’s a hard one. If we see people destroying themselves, at what point do we say no? And who says no? And how do we say no, because if we say no with force or violence or anger, we’re just adding to the negativity. How do we do this?
(talking about ordering a drawing table, drawing)
(sharing on relative’s illness, wanting what’s best, trust, gratitude for support)
Q: What we’ve been doing with learning how to work with the akashic field and create an intention, do I understand that this is what we do with anything we want to create, including healing with the refugees on an island in a distant place, or creating a new kind of enterprise, or creating a new kind of healing technique—anything?
Barbara: With anything, yes. But the important ingredients are, from our vipassana practice we learn to recognize the shift into the small self.
When we choose to co-create from a place free of ego, that does not mean that we’ll be in a place from of ego, it just means we’re holding that intention. We get better at discerning where there is ego coming in so that we’re more able to co-create from that place of emptiness. And it’s only there that we can recognize that “I want, I need” versus what is for the highest good.
It can be very hard when it’s about somebody you love—for example, a mother. How do we say, for a mother, and I had to do this 4 or 5 years ago when my mother died. She was 97. She had been healthy; then she fell and broke her hip. They said she was too old and fragile to do hip replacement surgery. How do we let go and say, “It’s okay for you to move on, if that’s what’s for your highest good, or okay to choose to heal and I’ll support that healing in every way I can.” But a part of me said, “Mom! My mother! I want to hold on!” It’s very hard.
Through, really, the integrity of our practice we start to recognize these small movements of ego and just say, “Shhh.” But compassionately. Not, “Shut up!” but “Shhh. It’s okay. It’s okay to be afraid.”
And this is what we’re heading toward next semester, where we can really go into the fear. The fear of losing somebody we love. Fear of losing our own strength or mind or energy or whatever. To really go into these fears and find the light there. Aaron keeps talking about transmuting the darkness. Finding the non-duality of light and darkness.
I think I’ve gone beyond the original question.
(on art, creativity as intense, powerful, direct connection with the akashic field/Unconditioned)
Barbara: Every kind of creation—drawing, painting, music, dance, cooking, any kind of creation—we’re going into the akashic field with an intention to draw forth that which is for the highest good. For me with a sculpture, that which is beautiful, and through its beauty can touch people’s hearts. And then just to let it evolve.
This room behind me, can you see the beams in the ceiling? This was my sculpture studio for many decades. I had heavier beams that would support thousand-pound pieces of sculptures on pulleys that I could move around.
I would start with, … I would buy a 100-foot rolls of copper plumbing tubing. I would pin it by the center, up there on those rafters. Then, if you can imagine tubing unrolling itself; making different spirals. I would just pull it out until the whole room was filled with it. Then I would capture a piece of it that said, “Here I am!” It often gave me a name; my first direct experiences with spirit though I didn’t know it then; spirit sculpture portraits.
But the important thing was, I was not doing it. I was just there with the tubing saying, “What form do you want to take?” Letting it go and not trying to push it any special way. Then, finally, when this whole 50 or 100 feet was unfurled, awareness looked and captured a piece of it and saying, “Ah, yes! This one.” And then the work of finishing it. But it was telling me what it was going to be, I wasn’t telling it what it was going to be.
(sharing a meditation experience)
Barbara: (re one with a broken leg) One cannot say, “I want to fix your leg.” But we go into the akashic field and find the already whole leg, the bones all knitted. Not even the healed leg—the leg that never was broken, the ever-perfect leg. And in a sense, going into the akashic field, we hold it out. But we have to do it from a very centered place, not trying to push it and say, “Come on, you should take this.” Just, “Here it is available, if it’s for your highest good and you want it.” Free will. “I help to support for you the innate perfection of that leg and hold the possibility of it. But if for your own reasons—for any reasons right now it’s better to stay temporarily with the distortion, okay, you can stay with the distortion. The distortion is also perfect! ” No pressure either way, just helping to make it available. So, this is one of the ways I practice with the akashic field.
(sharing)
Barbara: Thank you. But there may be many reasons for you, for her child, her husband, herself, others, why she’s not ready (to move ahead with healing). And you can hold out to her the possibility of readiness without rushing her. You can find that support—the perfectly healed leg, the love, all of it, but she has to be the one who is ready to take it.
(reminding group of Nathaniel’s story of breaking his leg, expecting Yeshua to heal his leg but Yeshua helped him heal his heart over the loss of his wife)
What is the highest need, here? Often we don’t know and we just have to trust.
Q: Is it helpful to have the person’s conscious participation in the healing? And is it required? Can we offer healing without their conscious consent?
Barbara: Let me rephrase that. First, is it helpful to have the person’s conscious participation? Yes, if they’re able to understand what’s needed and to consciously participate. The reason we work the way we do and phrase it the way we do is, “Whatever you choose for your highest good.” I can never impose my free will on yours. I simply offer support for whatever you are going through and whatever you choose for the highest good.
You can’t offer healing without another’s conscious consent. You can offer loving wishes and support that they are free to use for whatever they find within them that needs to be healed. And it may not be what seems obvious to us.
Anybody who works with various healing modes who wants to respond to that?
J: The thing at hospice, one thing in working with Aaron, it was always an offering, free will to choose or not to choose what was offered. And we increasingly became a very general offering, not a lot of specifics, because we really didn’t know. It was interesting to observe over time with people, who for the most part died, but it was their dying process and being cogent as they worked through their final pieces on the planet.
Barbara: We had a very powerful class, here. I have extensive notes from it that I’ve always thought at some point I would put together to make accessible, but I’ve never had time to do it. But we were bringing in people to lie on a massage table while we worked under Aaron’s direction with them, a number of them with cancer or other serious maladies. Aaron coaching us on how best to support what was for their highest good, and how best to invite it from the akashic field. We did it for—J, am I right, 3 or 4 years?
J: I recall it was at least two. It could have been 4… (transcripts show 3 years)
Barbara: It was in the early days with Aaron and we learned so much.
J: It was amazing. One of the sources was people who were being treated at U of M hospital for cancer, who the doctors said, “We have no other suggestions,” and how they were referred to Barbara and Aaron, and a half dozen, 8 of us, was pretty amazing. People just sort of showed up and Aaron would offer guidance on how we would work on the individual. Much heart, much heart. Project Light was the name of the program.
(The Project Light sessions on cancer and some of the bodywork sessions have been compiled and are available on request.)
(sharing)
Barbara: We all do some of this intuitively, we’ve just never tried to put it together as a method or with any terminology. So, what we’re trying to do here is more precisely to understand what the akashic field is. How this field, all the elements, the heavy elements of earth, air, fire, water, ether, coming out of this field, everything comes out of conditions. Earth element, fire element can’t just be there, there has to be this container for it. The container is the akasha. We start to learn how to play in the akasha. And the terms don’t matter, but we’re all always already doing it, we just trying to refine it a bit, here.
Q: Is this not just another word for prayer?
Barbara: There are two parts to this. Prayer, intention, whatever, moves into the akasha. We have to understand the ground that prayer is going into. So prayer in itself is not what it is; prayer is the mover, but it’s the mover that releases and invites from the akasha, from the akashic field. Prayer, intention, yes.
Q: Is there a difference between offering conscious support and offering healing?
Barbara: Let me think about that… I would say, this is just me, Barbara, my understanding of it, that when we offer conscious support, we help to make the ever-healed more available. And that availability of the ever-healed and the person’s ability to choose that ever-healed, come together as healing.
(sharing her experience that what comes is non-conceptual)
Barbara: I think so. For me, the Brahma Viharas are a way of accessing the heart center. And it’s from this heart center that we can open to the ever-healed. Does that make sense?
John, you’ve worked a lot more—well, maybe not more, but you’ve worked a lot with the Brahma Viharas. In what ways has working with the Brahma Viharas helped open healing for you, and for you to help support others?
John: The Brahma Viharas allow me to open to love in its various manifestations, as compassion or forgiveness or equanimity. Those manifestations of love, different forms of love, support not only healing but support my whole dharma practice, in a sense.
In my own experience, I’m working with my kidneys and my urology, which is connected to my kidneys. That envisioning the ever-healed, the kidneys and prostate and different parts of my plumbing system here, is part of the way that I work with the ever-healed.
As part of that, being aware of any fear or contraction which I need to work with as a way of remaining open to love and the ever-healed. So this is where the vipassana practice comes in, which is whenever there is a self or an “I” or someone wanting to fix my medical situation, that I need to be aware of that self and those different mind states that are arising that temporarily seem to separate me from love and the ever-healed.
However, what I hear Aaron speaking about today in his talk is the importance of being accessible both to the sacred light and the sacred darkness and seeing that they’re non-dual.
So that to me is an important shift in my way of working with all of this. Which is, when Aaron sent out the message today for us to read, he said to move to the Dharmakaya side of the bridge but to maintain access to the mundane. And in this situation, it’s the mundane, what I’m speaking of is the mundane—the fear, or the wanting to fix, wanting things to be the way that I want them to be. The importance of being aware of all of those things while remaining on the Dharmakaya side of the bridge.
So, it was important for me to read that, and to understand how it’s possible to experience both the light and the darkness as non-dual, rather than just being aware of the light or being aware of the darkness and in some way relating to them as separate. This is a different way, a different perspective on holding both of them simultaneously. And the Brahma Viharas support that in a helpful way.
Barbara: Thank you. What you said is very clear and moving. Thank you for saying that.
It’s 9 o’clock so we’ll end here… That’s all. Good night to everybody.
Mention of the Jan 23-30 workshop, “Healing and The Ever-Healed” with Tavis, John, and Barbara, channeling Aaron, Yeshua, the Mother, Father John and Love.