Creative Thinking Book

This is a comment I heard at a restaurant the other night. It was a decision the woman had made as a result of seeing organized religion through the dark lens of control, power, and agendas which were probably not motivated by the intent of its own teachers.  I have been writing about creativity and decision making and open mindedness as we do it on the larger meta level. One of the cross currents we are all facing is the issue of how much we depend upon others and how much we depend upon ourselves. In another arena this is being played out in the role of religion versus spirituality.

I try to stay away from commenting too much about current events, politics, or finance. There are plenty of gurus offering all kinds of analysis. Yet you may have observed that regardless of your persuasions a few things are obvious. Our established institutions are up against their limits. Whether it is in economics, health, climate change, preventing nuclear accidents, or the presence of aliens there is a sense that events are moving beyond our ability to simply control them as we have been able to do in the past.

The role of religion has been very helpful in that it has brought order and a brightness of the future for many. It has provided a moral code, mandated ways to treat one another and promised a wonderful afterlife. It is a salvation for many who simply have had no other way to cope.

On the other hand religion has also been hijacked in many cases by militants, those who believe that their dogged way is the best or only way.  It has become institutionalized, militarized, and politicized. Yet no matter how it has been used to promote power, ideology, or other forms of control there has been one casualty: it  has discouraged  the idea that you have a direct connection and are more empowered than you can imagine. There is always an intermediary in the form of a priest, minister, or other who stands between you and your creator and interprets exactly what that relationship is.

These particular times now suggest that religion alone is not enough. If not what is? read more »

using biofeedback and light therapy

Years ago I asked an M.D where the future of medicine was taking us. He said, “No doubt about it-energetics-the use of light, sound, and electricity.” We cannot endlessly stack the human body with one drug after another and know and predict what will happen. Some of the biggest decisions in our life will be made around healing treatments. I am not advocating by passing a doctor at all. What I am suggesting is the idea that there are emerging forms of both diagnosis and help which can be extremely beneficial, supplementing or even replacing suggested therapies.

With biofeedback the idea is that our bodies can tell the practitioner where the problem resides in the body. Royal Rife years ago with a very powerful microscope was able to see pathogens under the microscope. He found that all pathogens have a mortal oscillating rate. that is the rate which they would die. This rate was reflected in a light frequency which when subjected to the pathogen would kill it. read more »

Electron heaven

This blog as you know by now is about finding new thinking patterns,  questioning what is considered to be the norm, and thinking about creativity and decision making from another perspective.  in the last month and a half I have been on a medical and healing journey. In the process I have been following what I write about which is to pay attention to my intuition, keep my antenna up, and look for the environment to talk back to me with synchroniciities.

Because I found that by using light, electricity and other alternative resources; my larger cancerous tumors upon MRI guided biopsy turned out to be benign. Relief was hardly the word for it. Could I say exactly what did it? No, but it doesn’t matter. The path has simply guided me into this new area. One in which we can learn to benefit from electricity, light, and magnetism to assist our healing process.  I ran a across a book at my brother’s house by Jerry Tennant, M.D. called “Healing is Voltage.” He is among a band of new doctors who are emerging to tell us that it is time to re assess the western medical paradigm at least with regard to chronic conditions. He says that the current paradigm assumes that when an organ is failing it can only be affected by finding a chemical (drug) to make it work or to remove it surgically. Is there another way to look at all of this? read more »

I have to admit I am a curious soul and bad news makes me click to see what happened. Unfortunately it usually does me little or no good. It is mostly on the tragedy of the economy, politics or health.

Good news however can be found in Ode Magazine.

I just watched a webcast sponsored by Ode Magazine, billing itself as the online community for intelligent optimists and decided to subscribe to their magazine afterwards.

The webcast was on Johan Boswinkel, the inventor of a light machine that promises to revolutionize the way we cope with disease. The machine helps you talk to your own body with regard to geting to the bottom of what ails you. It is fascinating. Check it out.

Mother Meera

What To Do If You Need Money!

Most of the time when we are in this state we are pretty needy. I have been there. Part of the purpose of my blogs is to help everyone including me get clear about this process. What dose the decision making and creative thinking approach model for this look like? How will our intuition help? read more »

Gee, what happened?

I have been writing about conscious decision making focused  around synchronicity and intuition. I suggest that this is creative thinking in the meta sense because we may not consciously be  used to acting on these urges and signs.

Here is what I mean. read more »

Ayahusca cooking

I know this sounds strange in a world where we quest  to improve, but some times that striving just  gets in the way of  being present and allowing an appreciation of what is around us. We move from moment to moment, marshalling the myriad of  information coming at us, and then we decide. Sometimes the priorities are already set and we just move through the day trying to check everything off. Our decision making is set, and we simply hope to get it all done.

I scanned the few news services I read regularly today  and realized that it is truly a mad mad world and perhaps always has been.  But we,  courtesy of technology, are experiencing it in ever increasing does with bewildering effects.

Today I was thinking, “What shall I write about?” Since nothing was appearing, I  realized that that was quite ok.  We can all get caught in our “doing” state and lose site of  the “being” state. In just such a blank moment I recalled the profound experience I had had on Ayahuasca years ago and knew that was my writing assignment for the day. Here is what I found out. read more »

The Happiness Rug

Most parents at some level want their children to experience a life of happiness. It was so important that it was part of the American Declaration of Independence. However the decision making process around pursuing happiness has been changing. Perhaps we need to apply more open-mindedness and  creativity to the way we think about it.

When I was growing up, my father would take me for those father and son drives and when we passed somebody digging a ditch, he would say, “ If you don’t continue with your education that’s what you will end up doing.” It did scare me and was more of the stick than the carrot. Yet, I didn’t have the presence of mind to ask my father whether he thought the ditch digger was happy or not. My dad’s assumption was that that man’s life was miserable, limited, and with no real choice. At that particular time the idea was that becoming all that you could be would give you the material wonders of the emerging world and a correspondingly better life. Is that true today? read more »

Increasing our perspective

If we truly want to make different kinds of decisions sometimes we need to be placed into an environment in which our rationale minds are jolted: we  cannot believe what we are seeing,  but nevertheless it is happening. We need a catalyst. That kind of change seems to create a new portal in our brain. It allows us to be open in a way we never have before, an extremely useful state. I’ll admit this catalyst was a bit extreme but here is an example: read more »

Good Reasons To Have Therapy When You Don't Need It.

I know this sounds strange, but a good psychiatrist friend of mine once said that the great short coming of the psychological counseling profession was that the only people who came to her were those in real mental pain. Hardly anyone showed up doing just fine, but seeking  to do better.   In our culture,  we see doctors when we are sick. Furthermore, seeing a mental illness specialist is admitting to the world that we need help, but only from a negative sense. Terence Mckenna, the noteworthy ethnobotanist, once said that “Culture is your enemy,” meaning that there are social morays and dictates that might serve you in one sense, but restrict you in another.

So what is the point I am making….? read more »