You guys are too funny with the monkey pics! Cipher, that last guy with the glasses is just such a cutie-pie! As well, he looks very wise
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Ciper wrote:manyeagles wrote:RUN, Forrest RUN!!!!!!!! 
Still giggling about that one Manyeagles! 
Yeah, manyeagles has a GREAT sense of humor!
It's an awesome thing we have the capacity for humor...it has a magical property to take the difficult, and make it tolerable.
Here's a link for the book, and at a better price than elsewhere--
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097599 … oding=UTF8
In fact, I bought this and Lynn McTaggart's "The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe" at the same time, and got them shipped for free. My total bill was $28 and some change. I haven't read "The Field" yet, but from what another NR member told me its text is along the same lines of "The Holographic Universe."
Cipher wrote:You innately knew what was right for you. I can't believe, as I'm reading this book - even in the face of so much evidence for the effectiveness of hypnotherapy, - how it was debunked quite viciously, by so many of the medical profession. Maybe they debunked it becausethey could see its efficacy to heal and felt threatened. At the same time, its power has obviously been abused, when we see the hypnotic influence of the general public by the media, and think about how transdimensionals can use the power of influence. That's almost a reason for teaching about it in school - if not giving the method, at least showing how we are all at risk of being mind-controlled.
Excellent points, Cipher! And yeah, that was quite the synch with you finding the book by Edmunds. Sheesh! The past week or so its been nearly RAINING synchs in my personal environment...I'm not kidding you. I'm taking them as a sign I'm making a correct life choice, given its been a pretty big move to make that choice.
Cipher wrote:A bit like Stuie Wilde who, when asked what his plan is, says "I don't have a plan" - I don't have a technique. Well, a specific one that I stick rigidly to each time - as each person is different and requires different methods. The only thing that is consistent is, at the beginning I connect with the Creator of all that is, and my higher self, then I ask for guidance and protection and to be a clear channel for the Godforce (and only the Godforce through my Higher Self) to give this person the advice, information and/or healing they need for their highest good and the highest good of all concerned. Then, I 'feel' my way through with my 'tool box' of techniques that I have learned over the years. Obviously, its very important to remain totally focussed on what I'm doing and have the intention of assisting them to heal themselves and its important to ask many specific empowering questions of the Godforce ("ask and thou shalt receive", so to speak). After the healing, I always detach from them and ask for clearing on myself, to make sure I haven't taken on board any of their stuff/entities/etc. Also, I do refer to other therapists, if I think they can be more effective.
That sounds a bit lame - and hopefully not too new-agey, but that's how I work. 
Doesn't sound lame or new-agey to me, it sounds conscientious. That's the thing about mainstream psychology, there's very little flexibility in its approach...although I have to say that Transcendental Psychology is a school of psychology that performs outside of the confines of mainstream psychology.
In the 90's, after I completed my AS in Human Services, and while I was learning Reiki and my own connection with the "Godforce" (that connection opening up new pathways of understanding beyond just the laying on of hands...like shamanistic types of skills), I really wanted to go to a private Buddhist based college in Colorado to study Transcendental Psych.
The director of the Human Services program advised me not to, him saying that Transcendental Psych wasn't...ahem, well respected in the Psych community. He said I'd have a hard time finding work, and that it'd be a wasted education.
While I wasn't bugded not to pursue that education because of what he said, given what was going on with my son at that time it simply wasn't an option. Not to mention, it was very, very expensive.
Cipher wrote:But yes, Auendove, I wish we lived closer together, I'd like to spend time with you - and discussing your methods too.
We never know for sure in this life where the winds of fate and destiny may take us.
I just recently had the absolute joy of meeting a dearest soul sister, another NR member. She and I have been talking to one another on the phone almost weekly for two years now. Most times it has been more than once weekly. We always wanted to meet up, but we're this whole, big, wide country far apart. Funny, and awesome, how things can work out!
How abouts if you and me keep an open mind, and hold a concerted thought for a meeting and communing to occur...regardless of the fact that we're a whole, big, wide world apart. Heehee, stranger and more difficult events than this have been known to manifest quite unexpectedly, yes?

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.
