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Beliefs,
Baggage, and
Cellular Memory
  
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Inspired by Ben's
forum post on
Baggage and some stuff I've been wanting to say for
quite some time now, I've found some time to put down a few words.
I have touched on the
subject of what I call Cellular Memory, which is related to what
Eckhart Tolle' calls 'The Pain Body', in quite a few other articles, but
I need to say more.
As we journey through
life beginning as an infant we have experiences and find ways of
acting that bring us the attention we need and want. These
experiences and learned behaviours build up and reinforce themselves
as we make associations based on our perceptions and prior beliefs
and experiences.
As we mature, these
cellular memories and beliefs about life can influence our actions
in negative and harmful ways. If we can become aware of these, we
see them as our baggage, and only then can we do anything about
changing them. Without the conscious awareness of them, there is
nothing we can do accept become a victim of them. Even when we do
become aware of them it takes a great deal of constant and diligent
awareness and monitoring of our reactions to change them.
This is like a
scratched record, where our needle of consciousness keeps wanting to
follow the scratch and not play the true music. If we are not aware
of how the music should sound we get used to and accept the clicks
and repetitions as music. If we are aware of how the true music
sounds or if someone else holds the needle in the correct grooves so
we get to hear or see the music of the spheres,
we now have the awareness. The next step is to consciously hold
the needle in the correct groove every time our thinking and
reactions come to the scratch. It can take a long time and a lot of
conscious effort to eventually have the needle play the true music
without too much added effort, however it is most likely that there
will still
be the odd click as the needle skips over the old scratch.
Sometimes experiences
are unconsciously stored in our cellular memory. For example if one
is travelling in a car where our parents are arguing (an unpleasant
experience) the eye cells may store the image of a hot air balloon
outside and one's unconscious association may store a relationship
between hot air balloons and unpleasant experiences. From that time
onwards we will have a bad feeling about hot air balloons without
any factual reasons, and we won't know why.
With
all these beliefs,
baggage, and
cellular memories
affecting the way we
think, behave and
react to certain stimuli
in our environment,
life can sometimes
feel like we are in
Hell and at other
times like we are in
Heaven. Neither of
these are actually
good or bad, they
are just our
perceptions of
reality; as I stated
it the article 'Duality
and the Order of
Life and Energy',
all things are
actually both.
One
of the mainstream
modalities that can
make a shift in the
consciousness and
thus remedy the
destructive effects
of such cellular
memories, is
hypnosis. In
hypnosis the
cellular memories
can have the light
of reality shone
onto them so that
there is awareness.
Also it can actually
change the cellular
memories, thus
totally changing our
beliefs, behaviours,
and actual memories
of any given
experiences.
However there is a
problem also with hypnosis, and that is that the cellular memories
are so susceptible to change in this altered state of consciousness
that if any other associations are made with any sound, smell, or
words spoken etc. that the hypnotist is unaware of, then a change in
cellular memory may be made worse.
Perhaps here you
might like to play
the following
discussion that
Eckhart Tolle' had
with Oprah Winfrey
regarding the pain
body. Well I can't
get two players
working on the one
page, and all the
the different
browsers do
different tings with
them; and that got
me a laugh at least.
I tried everything I
know; even the old
QuickTime player
won't work now. So
much for advancing
technology!
To
give an example of
what I mean, I will
use an example of
someone with a
cellular memory fear
of the forest. This
may have come about
as a result of being
bitten by a bull ant
while in the forest
as a child. Under
hypnosis this person
would be guided to
see the forest as
the natural beauty
that most of us know
it to be; they would
be guided through
suggestions of
things that the
hypnotist knows the
person would
associate with good,
positive, and
beautiful
experiences. However
if the hypnotist was
unaware that the
person had also had
an unpleasant
experience with a
dog and mentioned
seeing some happy
people in the forest
playing with their
dog; the person
could then make an
association between
the forest and the
unpleasant
experience with a
dog; it only takes
one word for a
person in this state
of consciousness to
have a devastating
effect on their
psyche.
I
have my own
experience of this
when I was
hypnotised once.
Just as I was
entering what is
called the alpha
state of
consciousness; the
state sought for
shifts of
consciousness and to
access the
unconscious, the
hypnotist mentioned
my fingers
interlaced in my
lap. With that I
made an associating
with my father's
hands and fingers,
which I always
thought seemed very
fat. In fact my
father, and myself
to a lesser extent,
are very stocky, and
since my father's
hands have always
been bigger than
mine, the
association from
that second onward
made my fingers feel
really fat. This
uncomfortable
feeling lasted for
at least 20 minutes
after I left the
hypnotist's office.
However if I didn't
have my actual hands
to keep looking at
and recognising that
they were in fact my
normal hands, thus
reprogramming my
cellular memory to
actual reality, I
would to this day
feel that my hands
and fingers were
fat.
So
you can see what devastation
can be
accidentally
made when there is
nothing in the
physical world of
actual experiences
to reprogram
consciousness to be
in harmony with
reality. The alpha
state of
consciousness, by
the way, is also
pretty much the same
as a meditative
state and the state
of consciousness
that guided
meditation uses, so
these techniques are
equivalent to
hypnosis and the
practitioner had
better be aware of
all possible
associations of all
their audience.
I
won't go into a
discussion of the
possible outcomes of
a little girl's
unpleasant
experience of being
smacked by her
father becoming
distorted under
hypnosis; especially
where sexual connotations
and suggestions are
made by the
hypnotist.
Lock On and Lock Off
There is one
important fact that needs to be considered when discussing
consciousness, and that is the ‘Lock On, Lock Off’ principle.
This principle affects every aspect of consciousness, not only what
we
see as reality, but also what we
believe
or
perceive to be real.
Here is an example of
what I mean. For every image of reality there are many possible ways
of ‘seeing’, perceiving, or experiencing reality. The pictures
below, at first glance usually looks like a cube with a small cube
cut out of the corner. But if we close our eyes or blink so as to
take it out of consciousness temporally, or turn it up side down, it
can be seen to look like a cut-away room with a cube in the corner.
Test it out for yourself.
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Cube,
box, or room? |
Which
side
of
this
cube
is
facing
you
or
does
it
swap? |
Which
boy is bigger?
There are many other
versions of these illusions; some of you may have seen the spinning
girl. The point I wish to make is that only one of the possible
realities can be seen at any given moment, and that a shift of
consciousness is required to let it go and to open up to other
possibilities. In other words, when you lock on to one possible
belief or reality, you lock off all other possible realities.
In most people’s
lives the shift in consciousness only comes when the old belief or
view, that is locked onto, becomes such a weak reality that there is
little or no harmony between the belief and the actual reality, and
the tension or stress becomes so painful and confusing that one is
forced to let go and open up; or as Christians call it be reborn.
This is also what Joseph Campbell calls the Knock Knock principle or
the Twinkle Twinkle principle; you must see his videos 'Mythos I',
'Mythos
II'
and
'Mythos
III'.
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