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How Do We Think What We Need to Think? by Elektra Porzel

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First a word for traditions renewing us to life renewing itself!  May 1st is May Day, the midpoint between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice.  The earliest evidence of this celebration is in the 2nd century so probably that it was celebrated for both the beauty of nature and for its fertility.  The best-known modern May Day traditions include dancing around the May Pole and crowning the Queen of May.  Take a minute to smile, look around and treasure the bounty of nature showing itself!!

In addition to being something that we treasure, that we repeat often, our traditions are basically thought patterns encoded in our neural networks and glia cells in our brains.  The emotions and physical sensations associated with those traditions are likewise embedded in those networks.   Those neural networks and glia cells hold everything that we think is real and how we should act in the world.  All that information, all those beliefs, all those perspectives come from our family, our culture, our religion, our country.  They frame how we experience our world and the way that we come to the moment, to life.

 …human beings think they are their thinking. They think their thoughts are their thoughts. You do not realize your thoughts are thoughts born of cultural structures that leave you trying to fix ‘you’, not your thought patterns. Tantra Maat

If everything in your brains is historic information/beliefs given to you by your family, your religion, your culture, how do know what is your own truth…about yourself, about your place in the world? What are your own possibilities, what is your calling or what are those niggles to be or do differently?  Do you need to create different ways to come to being with others, to being with nature, the land and the earth? Just doing the same thing or thinking the same thoughts will not give you a different future.

So, how do you know how to think differently, how to be differently?  How do you come to the present moment differently, to create new ways to act in the world?    You start with this recognition that your thoughts are not your thoughts. This gives you the perspective of asking…is this really what I believe?  What information/perspective am I not aware of?

Next, what do you note about about your society?   On a larger scale, what do your historic beliefs say about our institutions, are they sustainable for coming generations?  Or if that doesn’t seem supported with evidence, how can you be part of identifying and creating a new more sustainable future for your self, for your family and for humanity?  Many authors are speaking to this need now.  I am reading Charles Eisenstein and Tyson Yunkaporta.  Both these authors predict that our western society is not capable of having a sustainable future as it presently operates.  Start with reading these authors to stimulate your thinking.

Reading other sources of information is a starter to opening your mind to the more that is actually present. Then add ‘being with others’ to your search,  I suggest that you take the time to be in conversations with others to investigate perspectives different than your own.  These partners in conversations should be equally dedicated to discovery and non-judgment.  If they are stuck in historic and/or judgmental positions, then they are not the partners that you seek.  You don’t have to agree with these conversation partners. You are with them to broaden your own awareness and find how your perspective shifts or expands.

This search through reading and conversation helps your neural networks to expand and connect to these new pieces of data.  That makes them a more flexible network where choosing to respond is now possible. In the past, if your neural network was limited, there was only reaction.  With more branches and connections, your neural pathways are numerous.  You can take a breath and make a choice for what is the most life-sustaining option for you.

I discovered almost 8 years ago that there is one tool that supports me in this process of increasing the diversity of my neural network connections, the Templates of the Language of Creation.  When I use the Templates to write my Creation Exercises, I am deepening my search for my own inner wisdom and my connection with Creation/Source.  This happens for every writer of their Creation Exercises.  The Templates only demand that we write life-generating, life-enhancing phrases.  Just writing one Creation exercise results in over 16 life-enhancing phrases connected to that one Craving.  16 life-enhancing phrases now embedded in our neural networks as part of one Craving.  The Observing Templates help us stop our looping thoughts and emotions and help us see with clarity where we truly are in the moment.

The Language of Creation’s Templates give us access to our real thoughts of our Original Design and access to the personality within which those thoughts exist.  There are new energies coming into earth at this time.  They are here to help us in our search for our Original Design and our deeper connection to Creation. Many of us are shifting out of our historic personalities and becoming more of whom we came here to be.  We each are part of this body of humanity which is on the verge of restoring the wholeness of their Original Design and birthing their future Selves.

Our journey to discover our larger Self, our Being whom we came here to be, doesn’t end with reading a couple of books or having a couple of conversations or from writing a couple of Creation Exercises.  These are ongoing activities over time during which we observe what is shifting in our lives.  How are we coming to life differently?  How are we being differently?  What impact is our shifting behaviors having on others?  What are we willing to be?  What are we willing to commit to on behalf of a better future for ourselves and coming generations?

Over time, we shift out of our historic thinking and our historic habits.  We start walking our talk, the being and thinking of our Original Design.  We welcome being part of creating a new sustainable reality for future generations.  Take the first step today!  Welcome to the miraculous journey of the rest of your life!

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Consciousness and You by Elektra Porzel

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We hear a lot about the word consciousness these days.  It wasn’t a common word 50 years ago or even 10 years ago.  So, what does consciousness mean?

Dictionary definitions

…the awareness or perception of something by a person:” her acute consciousness of Mike’s presence”

…the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world: “consciousness emerges from the operations of the brain.”

…an awareness of yourself and the world. Research on consciousness has focused on understanding the neuroscience behind our conscious experiences.

These definitions don’t fit my experience of the journey into greater consciousness not only of what is ‘me’ but also of what is the ‘Self’ that came here to earth to be, to do and to have.  It is not a straightforward awareness of my mind nor is it a straightforward awareness of the greater dimensions that interact with humanity.

First let’s look at our brains – the head brain, the Gut Brain and the heart.

Up until the 1980s, the medical profession only recognized the head brain.  They thought that it was unchangeable…that nothing could be done for people who were either born with defects or had injured their head brain.  Two paths of inquiry changed that picture: Neuroplasticity and the Gut Brain.  Research into what we now call neuroplasticity has proved that the head brain is the most malleable organ in the body. Different parts of the head brain can be used for different functions.  Now the medical world is discovering all the myriad ways that the brain can change so that birth defects, accidents, stroke are no longer jail sentences but are instead opportunities to rewire the brain and for the individual to move into being differently and being more.  Other research discovered the second brain/gut brain which has almost the same white and gray matter as the head brain and most of the neurotransmitters.   The microbiome of the gut brain informs us 24/7 what is occurring within us and outside of us.

Then what is the mind?

It’s the functioning of the three brains – the enteric nervous system/gut brain, the heart and the head brain all connected by the Vagus Nerve and our Spirit.  We think of it as our intellect or maybe everything we experienced in the past thru thinking, willing etc. Our brains hold all of the information, ideas, beliefs that we have been fed by our larger society, our family, our religion.  These beliefs/truths are stored in pathways in all our brains.  So, when we ‘think’ our mind is ‘thinking’ we are mostly simply reordering what we learned earlier in life.  We are not actually thinking something new, instead we are repeating the old statements that were given to us as the truth about the world.

How do we change if we are simply repeating what we have been told?

We can’t think newly if we never explore ourselves outside of the box that has been provided us.  Dipping your mind into the wider arena of discovery starts the process of consciousness.

What are ways that we can expand our thinking?

There are tools for the individual to use in this journey of ‘opening up to’ different perspectives, different information.  The Newfield Network suggests that you step outside your normal thinking and investigate new perspectives.  Like the five blindmen who disagree what an elephant is…. when they ‘opened up to’ the idea that the other blindman might have a different experience of the elephant…they could change their position around the elephant and thus gain another perspective.  Eventually the ‘all’ of what an Elephant is would be clear to them.  The same process happens with each of us when we ‘open up to’ others’ perspectives, others’ wonderings, others’ hopes.  Our comprehension of what more there is to the world, to life expands; our neural networks in our three brains gain more pathways; we have more choices in our thinking; and our levels of reactions lessen as these additional choice points makes responding easier instead of reacting to input.

What are the ways that you can search out different perspectives?

I use conversation with others who listen fully with their minds, their bodies, their hearts and their spirit.  They want to open up to others’ perspectives.   They are looking to create a future that takes care of everyone on earth including nature, the land and the waters. Conversations with these people opens me up to others ideas and information, their wonderings, and their hopes.  We use language to explore these ideas.  Our language is expanded thru these conversations and then become anchored as words with larger meanings in our brains. Those meanings carry cognitive and sentient information which makes the new neural pathways part of the our whole system, body, mind and spirit.

In order to language my inner consciousness journey, I use the Templates of the Language of Creation to give myself a connection to Creation and to access the deeper wisdom of my Spirit and Creation.  It is in the regular writing of my Creation Exercises that I deepen my own consciousness of who I have been (my historic self) and of my Self…whom I deeply am, whom I came to earth to be, to do and to have.  I experience these two processes…the observing of what is occurring and the craving of something new in my life.  This interaction of Observing and Craving is integral to my consciousness. They cannot be separated out as just one or the other.  We must reflect on where we are in order to take our next step to creating the life that we crave.

If we are to create a more viable and sustainable future for coming generations, we must come to the world, to ourselves differently.  That means learning to identify our historic patterns and habits and lessen those that are not life-generating.  That means changing how we be with others in our families, in our communities.  We must look to creating a world, a society that works for everyone. Our present economic system does not do that. Our present healthcare system does not do that. Our present educational and judicial systems do not do that.  These needed changes have to mean that we will return to honoring and respecting not just all people but also nature, the land and the waters.  Without this whole system response to the earth home and its inhabitants, we won’t be creating a sustainable future for our grandchildren and coming generations,

To learn more about the Templates of the Language of Creation, I suggest that you visit the website of the Language of Consciousness Institute.  Go to our products and investigate what supports we can give you in this inner and outer journey of deepening your consciousness. (www.loc-institute.com/store/)  If you want to be in conversation with others, join us in several conversations we are presently offering.  (www.loc-institute.com/courses-events/)

What is most critical is that you place yourself in a supportive field with others.  It is in the common journey of discovery and ‘opening up to’ that we find that we are most able for what has been hard for many of us.  The LOC Institute offers free mentoring when you first start writing your Creation Exercises and paid mentoring whenever a need for support is felt.  Go to our website to see what is being offered. (www.loc-institute.com/mentoring/)

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The Value of Conversations In Our Lives Now by Elektra Porzel

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We are in a time of humanity’s consciousness expanding towards a future where unity is dominant while simultaneously the old stories from the reality of separation of what is the ‘truth’ are fighting to stay in power. We each must pay attention to what we are paying attention to…the old stories that keep us in historic patterns of beliefs and actions, or the new stories that offer us the life that we crave.  One way to do that is through conversation.

What are conversations?  According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, they are informal talking together, an oral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas.  Is there a name for conversations where all participants are listening fully with no stances for judgments; where there is a mutual opening up to the others’ perceptions, ideas, wonderings, hopes?  Let’s call it ‘Full-On Opening Up Into’ Conversations (FOOUI)!  That’s my definition of conversation and the kind of conversations that I promote in my conversations on Zoom!

To open up to another’s perspective, another’s wonderings, another’s hopes for the future is to expand your own capacity to experience more, to see the world through another’s eyes.  As you open up through this listening, you gain new perspectives.  These new perspectives inform your choices and your actions.  Those different choices and actions lead to different results in your life.  Different results that help you create the life that you crave for yourself and for others.

In the present western society, there is a ‘talking at’ others from judgments or beliefs.  We could call it a ‘not-listening’ to the thoughts of the others. There also exists a ‘belief’ mindset in which the individual hasn’t questioned their own thinking…are their thoughts what someone else told them or did they create these thoughts themselves?  In this ‘belief’ mindset there is no examination of evidence pro and con or weighing of what others are saying relative to the ‘belief’.  In ‘Full-On Opening Up Into’ FOOUI Conversations, we examine both our own thinking and seek evidence for our own thoughts as well as the thoughts/ideas of others.  This form of internal/external dialogue is important to us now. Without those basic parameters of internal/external listening, how will we realize that there are other ways to view the world? How do we change how we behave or choose? How do we create new ways to be with each other?  How do we create new ways of working together to create a more sustainable future for humanity?

The only way to get different results in our life is to open up to others’ perspectives. It’s like the five blind men around the elephant. If each blind man stays in just one position such as the leg or the trunk, they will never know the entirety of what an elephant is. If they listen and open up to what others are present to, they have the opportunity to move to the other’s position around the elephant and thus have a fuller comprehension of what an elephant is.

We each are a blind man about something in the world.

What better way to get a larger picture of the realities and the possibilities that are present in every situation, concept, experience than to participate in FOOUI conversations?  Being in conversation does not force you to change your perception or opinion, it only serves to open you up to the more of what others are experiencing, thinking about, perceiving, wondering about, hoping for, dreaming about.

I hold conversations every week about the ideas of two different authors, Charles Eisenstein and Tyson Yunkaporta. They each have written books about the need for our present western society to shift our practices and policies, so that we can create a viable sustainable future for humankind. Eisenstein offered us his ideas in his books Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible as well as in his blog on Substack.  In his book Sand Talk, Yunkaporta proposed that indigenous practices may offer us some practices, some concepts and some being states that we could use as templates for each of us to adapt in order to create a sustainable future for generations rising.

Each week I have two conversations on an Eisenstein Old Story-New Story proposition. Each conversation has different participants and therefore each conversation ends up focusing on different issues and evidence.  It’s fascinating!  Lucky me to be with these women who share from their history, from their wisdom, from their wonderings and from their hopes for creating a better future for our grandchildren and coming generations. Join me in April to be part of the conversation around Eisenstein’s Next Stories and Yunkaporta’s Sandtalk.  The Eisenstein Next Stories conversations are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The conversations on Sand Talk are every other Wednesday and focus on one chapter of the book while looking for adaptability to our lives and possibilities for humanity’s future.  Join me in FOOUI conversations and/or join others in FOOUI conversations where everyone listens without judgment, where everyone opens up to the possibilities of different perspectives, of different dreams and of different possibilities.  Let’s open up to each other’s perspectives and discover the more of what there is to perceive in the world!

Exploring Charles Eisenstein’s Next Stories April

https://www.loc-institute.com/product/exploring-charles-eisensteins-next-stories-april/

Becoming the Modern Indigen using the ideas in Sand Talk 

https://www.loc-institute.com/product/becoming-a-modern-indigen-using-sandtalk-by-t-yunkaporta-and-the-creation-templates/

 

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SandTalk – An Extraordinary Reading Experience

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You have heard how impressed that I am by SandTalk.  Here is a review by Elke Power of Readings Monthly.

“Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk is an extraordinary reading experience. It’s both philosophical and practical, and underpinned by a compassionate yet realistic humanity. At the core of Sand Talk is a deep respect for Indigenous Knowledge, to which long-term thinking is fundamental. As Yunkaporta demonstrates, a central principle of Indigenous Knowledge and learning paradigms is looking back and recognizing patterns from the past, then learning from them. That’s an extreme simplification due to the length of this review, but as Yunkaporta convincingly argues, it is this kind and caliber of thinking that is profoundly lacking in many societies today, including in Australia, and the damage wrought upon our world in its absence is abundantly evident.

Yunkaporta writes with a clear-eyed sense of his own perspective, flaws and past failures. An academic, an artist, and much more besides, language is important to him. Like many of Australia’s First Peoples, he has a complex identity and history, and he writes, ‘I often don’t get to decide what I call myself.’ Throughout Sand Talk, he carefully shares stories of life-changing ‘yarns’ – a term he defines precisely early on – with people he has met on his extensive research travels.

Sand Talk is an engaging and singular introduction to the elements of Indigenous Knowledge, thinking, and methods of communication that Yunkaporta is in a position to share. It’s an opportunity to recognize these concepts and their history, and a generous invitation to incorporate these methods into non-Indigenous thinking for the benefit of all. It’s an unforgettable book, rich with ideas and inspiring in its conviction in the human capacity for personal change and growth. Open it to any page, read and enjoy!”

The LOC Institute is offering a series of discussions led by Elektra Porzel about Sandtalk starting on March 15th at 9amPT and every two weeks thereafter. Calls will  last 60-90 minutes.  We will discuss it chapter by chapter.

Questions we may explore:

  • How are these concepts/practices of the Aborigines with each other in community, with the land, with nature different than our relationships with each other, with the land and nature?
  • Are the concepts/practices presented something that we might adapt?
  • What impact might that have in our lives?
  • What if a large percentage of the human population adopted that practice…what might the impact be in how our society functions?
  • What are you called to write a Creation Exercise on?  What did you experience when and after you wrote your Creation Exercise?  (If you are unfamiliar with the Templates of the Language of Creation, I can work with you offline to teach you how to write your Creation Exercises)

I look forward to ‘yarning’ with you!

Register here:  https://www.loc-institute.com/product/becoming-a-modern-indigen-using-sandtalk-by-t-yunkaporta-and-the-creation-templates/

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Traditions…Hindrance or Support?

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Traditions!  Do they support us or hinder us?

By Elektra Porzel.

We all have celebrated shows where the children defy the traditions and prosper.  Fiddler on the Roof comes to mind with one daughter refusing an arranged marriage and another marrying out of her religion and culture.  We witnessed the joys and the difficulties of these choices.  We also have been part of or heard of families broken by the children’s decision to live their lives differently.  In my generation, it was intermarrying between culture/religion groups and then racial groups.  Now it’s children defying being what their gender has traditionally been in their family lineage and/or in their culture’s definitions of gender.  All this change, while welcome in some parts, is never easy.  Our families’ traditions are often based in a larger cultural context and that is based in an earlier time when adherence to tradition assured the individual’s and the family’s survival.  Our family’s reaction to our changing of traditions can be separation, hurt, judgment, shaming as well as welcoming, integration, owning.

In the beginning of these tradition challenges, we are not always aware of the ultimate value that this shift to the family/societal structure and functioning will be.  When it occurs on a societal level, it is harder to monitor and control the positioning of old=good, new=bad scenarios.  As we negotiate how to celebrate holidays, how to speak to others of these choices, of altered expectations, there is an up and down of the roller coaster of creating new ways of being, new norms for the family or the society.  We are watching an extreme response to change in our legislatures in the USA trying to limit choice, to limit voting, to make silence about the real history a mandatory action, to push back the clock of change.  Ultimately they won’t succeed AND they make the process of integration so much harder for the society as a whole and for the individuals within it.  While they voice their actions as trying to protect society for the future, they are actually lessening the viability of the society for the future.

We must create a new reality for humanity to live within, to prosper within.  That future must meet the criteria of sustainability.  Our traditions, our institutions are all up for needing change.  We are seeing them falling apart right now.  My questions is this: How do we create a sustainable future for our children, our grandchildren and future generations coming?  How do we navigate these times without falling into judgment, shame, blame?  How do we open up to the greater benefits and be compassionate to ourselves and others in the bumpy road of navigation to a new norm, a new pattern of living as a family, as an individual, as a society?

These questions are all up in two discussion series that we are offering through the Language of Consciousness Institute this month.   ‘Becoming a Modern Indigen’ explores what we could gain from reviewing the practices and thinking of indigenous peoples, of our long-ago ancestors.  In ‘SandTalk” by Tyson Yunkaporta, he suggests that our present western society’s traditions and institutions are not viable as a sustainable culture for the future.  He offers for our investigation the practices and thinking of the aboriginal peoples of Australia.  In Becoming a Modern Indigen, we will explore his thesis chapter by chapter…trying out some of the practices, writing our Creation Exercises around those ideas.  Lots of wonderful deep conversations will surely occur.

To learn more: https://www.loc-institute.com/product/becoming-a-modern-indigen-using-sandtalk-by-t-yunkaporta-and-the-creation-templates/

In Exploring Charles Eisenstein’s Next Stories, we explore his ideas about new stories that are rising about humanity’s future.  He too believes that our  present society is not the basis for a sustainable future for humanity.  This is discussion is aimed at looking at all the perspectives that dance around each ‘Next Story’.  It is free for March.

To learn more: https://www.loc-institute.com/product/exploring-charles-eisensteins-next-stories-march/

 

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Becoming a Modern Indigen

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What is a Modern Indigen?

by Elektra Porzel

In Western societies, we have lost much of what our indigenous ancestors thought about the world and how they interacted with it. In studying present-day indigenous peoples, we can extrapolate that our indigenous ancestors were part of a connected relationship with each other, with the land and with nature.  Those relationships included their access thru their bodies, their emotions, and their minds. Many of us have lost those regular connections.  Our western focus is on activities that pull us into the mind which defines how things are different and not how they are the same, not how the other is connected to the ‘me’ and to the ‘us’, not how our bodies inform us and how our emotions inform us.  Thus, the reality that we live within is one of separation.  This is not a sustainable mind/body/spirit reality for humanity to build on for the future. 

Many present-day humans are seeking to reestablish these connections with their body, their emotions and their minds.  They are seeking to be differently in their relationships to each other, to the land and to nature. We are seeking to recreate a reality of unity with all life, so that our children, our grandchildren, and the coming generations will have access to a world where there is a place for everyone and everything.  A world where everyone can be supported in bringing their unique gifts to the community.  A world where the people hold the  common good in their actions and thinking.   That’s my version of a Modern Indigen. 

How do we relearn some of the ways our indigenous ancestors thought and how they interrelated with the world?  

Each of us are the descendants of some indigenous people.  Some are still active in that lineage while many of us are dozens to hundreds of generations away from our indigenous lineage.  Though we can’t go back in time, we can look at how the indigenous peoples of the present-day think and act together. That viewing can give us a more vivid comprehension of what it means to be in connection with the land and nature.  To be in the wholeness of thinking of and with, of acting within the whole.

In ‘SandTalk’ by Tyson Yunkaporta, the author describes and explores different ways that his aboriginal ancestors (and his present day indigenous community) connected as individuals and as a group; how they thought and how they acted together while in relationship with the whole.

This is a living example of whole system thinking where we examine the whole as one actively in connection with others.  There is no examining one piece at a time as we have done in our western thinking.  This is a wider, deeper, higher way of holding the other while in a dynamic connection.  It feels to me that if we take the time to dive deeper, we can ‘get it in our bones’ and thus come to comprehend how we might think and act differently.

Yunkaporta offers to the reader the opportunity to listen to the activity in its placement within a whole culture.  What would it mean to live in the wholeness of such an activity in the western culture, in our larger friend/families or kin groupings?  How can we teach ourselves and our children to move into practices of whole system thinking and acting?  Will such a move give our children and grandchildren a future that is sustainable for generations upon generations?

I hope that this intrigues you, interests you.  I am offering all of us an opportunity to delve deeply into these ideas in ‘Sandtalk’ with a program called Becoming a Modern Indigen.

Starting on March 15th, I will be leading a book discussion/immersion group where, for each call, we will discuss not only the ideas put forth in a chapter, but also we will explore how to live that concept/practice in our lives.  For those of us who write the Creation Exercises, we will write a Creation Exercise on a term or idea from that chapter.  

I sense that this book needed a deeper look than just a one time reading.  I want to create a better future for my descendants and yours.  Only in the deeper wider thinking can we try on these practices in ways that might work in the present. This is a deeper dive.  Hopefully we will be integrating these new ways of thinking about and being with others into our daily lives. 

My plan is for the group to meet every two weeks starting on March 15th at 9amPT. 

Want to take this deeper dive with me? 

First, register for the program ( https://www.loc-institute.com/product/becoming-a-modern-indigen-using-sandtalk-by-t-yunkaporta-and-the-creation-templates/ );

Second, buy the book and read Chapter 1 before our first class. 

From March thru early June, we will meet every two weeks.  Then we will take the time to let all that whole system thinking and acting settle into our systems.  Starting in September we will return to the book discussion/immersion looking at Chapters 8-14.

When I first read this book, I listened to it because Yunkaporta’s voice provided the sound frequencies of his truth.  Then I used a Kindle version and a paperback version to let my mind track his connections more deeply.  I recommend all these versions for you to use in your deepening into the more of what we humans can be and do.

Be with me in this deeper dive of exploration and application to our lives!

Starts: Wednesday March 15th.  Runs for 7 calls for Chap 1-7

Time: 9amPT -10:30amPT

Cost: $89

 

 

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Stepping Out of Your NOW and into Your Future by Elektra Porzel

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What happens in your body when you read the title of this article?

Stomach clenching?

Bile rising in your throat?

Excitement rising?

Eyes brightening with anticipation?

For many of us, the thought that we could design our life is a bit scary.

How could we possibly know what the right choices are?

After all, our entire lives others have told us what we should do, must do to survive and thrive in this lifetime.  We have listened to them.  We also have followed patterns of behavior that at one time felt ‘right’ for us,

Sometimes we followed the advice of the others.  Sometimes we did walk our own path but then found that that path no longer fit what we wanted out of life.  Seem familiar?  

With those thoughts in mind, the team at the Institute started to be interested in how people learn and how their needs in learning now might be different than the traditional ways that we were taught in school as youngsters.

So we started a search for new ways of learning.  New ways to support people in learning how to use the Templates.  We wanted to figure out not a teaching method, but a learning method, that would support people in using the the Templates of the Language of Creation as a tool for becoming all that they craved to be.

We looked at the idea of flipped curriculum where the reading and viewing of information is done by the student in their own paced learning.  We thought about how movement of the body helps us to be present to our sentience more easily,

Then we settled on a title for a new program that combined both of the above, flipped curriculum and a focus on sentience.  It’s name…Designing Your Life.  I discovered that I couldn’t talk about shifting how others learn to design their lives differently without the same questioning going on in my system.  I began to be aware that something was shifting in how I experienced my own life.  In my life, I couldn’t help become more aware that something was missing for me.  

You might be asking, why would I share this? Aren’t I supposed to touting how wonderful my life is because I use the Templates?

I suppose that you are correct.  If I was writing a standard marketing piece, I would only talk about how fabulous my life is…all due to writing the Templates.

Yeah, I could have done that.  Instead I chose to be honest with you.

Just like me, you may have been unconscious to the fact that how you live your life is not how you would like to live your life.  There is not the levels of joy, or excitement or peace that you would love to have.

I have started on my own journey to shift my patterns of living by paying attention to my sentient awareness.  I hope that you do too!   So that we all can live our lives as the unique and essential gifts that we are to this planet and to humanity,

Let your body and mind talk to you.

Let your body and mind niggle at you as you contemplate the idea of having more of the life that you crave.

Let the yearning in,

Let the wondering in,

Then take the next step…and

register to join me in Designing Your Life.

I am joined by three others who are deep in creating this program and designing their own lives.  Liz Geyer, Lori Candon, and Victoria McMahon brings years of movement practices, creativity practices and of writing their Creation Exercises from the Templates.  We are all ready to walk by your side as you discover your next recursion into your unique and essential nature.

To learn more, click here, https://www.loc-institute.com/product/designing-your-life-artfully-engaging-with-your-sentience-through-the-templates/

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Your Body as the Language of Creation by Elektra Porzel

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Your body is the vehicle through which your Spirit experiences the world. It provides you with the sentient experience of matter while your Spirit enlivens your experience with memories of your original design and of the reality that you crave.

You are the actor upon the stage experiencing the world from your own perspective through the sensory capacities of your body, through the lens of your culture’s indoctrination while your Spirit reminds you that once there was a paradise that existed here and urges you forward to call it in.

From William Shakespeare’s view, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”.  What is the play that we are acting in?  …life as matter enlivened by Spirit in search of paradise.

How do I experience my body as the language of Creation?

Through your sentient awareness which springs from your body as sensations, as energies moving through you, as words popping into your head, as a drawing of your attention to something to pay attention to.  It is experienced as

Your joy at hearing the sound of a baby’s laughter

Your delight in the sparkle of sunlight on the water’s surface

Your sudden inward breath at being present with the colors of sunset or dawn

Your tenderness when holding the hand of a beloved

The familiar smell bringing back memories of long ago

The feeling of being part of the group that you are with

Your sense of settling into the solitude of quiet

How do I listen to the language of creation?

With your five senses and your internal listening to

your heart’s longing for a world that you have not experienced in this lifetime

your inner questioning of what is resonant for you

your sensing of energies moving thru you

words and phrases that pop into our heads and feel life-enhancing to you

your inner voices telling you what is ok or not ok                                                                  

What part of my body is talking when I listen internally?

Every cell and organ in your body as they stand 24/7 for your thrival in this world.

Your Enteric Nervous system also known as your Gut Brain, your solar plexus

Your glial cells which store your memories, your hopes, your dreams and connect them all together via neural networks in your head-brain and your gut brain.

Your embryonic cells which remember your original design of whom you came here to be, to do and to have.

How have humans languaged this language of creation within us and in the world?

Through the noticing of consistent patterns in the structure of life forms here that are called geometric forms, the Fibonacci spiral, the golden mean

Through the study of systems within the human body that act in                                                                                                                                       harmony and balance with other organs and cells

Through the application of these organ and system’s relationship knowings in creating spiritual and healing modalities such as the Taoist practices, the Ayurvedic healing practices.

Through the investigation and application of the healing powers of herbs, gemstones, different sound vibrations.

How are these all different or same as the Language of Creation presented in the book, Language of Creation, by Tantra Maat?

Same as in the structure of the Templates being the same as the golden mean, the Fibonacci spiral

Same as in direct correlation with the Solfeggio tones

Same as the body’s sentient awareness informing us

Different in that we use language and sentience to create phrases that are life-enhancing and life-generating

Why the emphasis of sentient awareness in writing the Observing and Craving Templates?

Because sentient intelligence is your Flesh and your Spirit’s communication system with the conscious you.  Your sense of Self is a combination of your historic experience and your determination to create the life that you crave.  Your Spirit and your Flesh remind you of your original design and of the life that you came here to live in the reality that you crave to be here.

For millennia, humans have searched for a return of paradise through how they BE in the world.  We are in that same search.  Many thousands of years ago, a king names Hermes developed the Hermetic Law of Resonance.

“If you change your resonance, if your predominant thoughts change in vibration, if you have more and more confident, positive and optimistic thoughts, if you are able to abandon yourself to the Divine Plan, because everything makes sense, then opening yourself to what is beautiful, elevated, harmonious will become your new reality, attracting it more and more in your daily life, Think without conditioning, Think the best and the best will come true.”   The  Book of Medit-action Vol1; sources Giodano Bruno, the Seal of Seals and Paola Scarpi, The secret revelation of the Hermes Trismegistus.

How do I change my resonance and attract more of what is positive and optimistic into my life?

By writing your Creation Exercises regularly.

By paying attention to the wisdom that arises in your phrasings in your Craving and Observing Creation Exercises.

By noting what are you present to…opened up to.

By paying attention to what you crave, create, sustain and maintain, and embody.

Those phrases come from within your own Flesh and Spirt, the matter and energies which are YOU.  No one else.  You are Creation’s hand upon the earth seeking a return of the original design of this planet and its Beings.  Be that and you will change your resonance and experience life as you craved it to be.

You build an awareness of Self beyond your historic personality and habits and beliefs.  You become the unity of Spirit and Flesh, Matter and Energy, Biochemical and Alchemical.

You move in the spiral of the Fibonacci spiral experiencing larger and larger fields of knowing.  You hold those fields in their higher vibrations of a life-sustaining reality that calls in the etheric forms that once existed in paradise on earth.

Love yourself as YOU.  BE that YOU everyday day as much as you can as you are in this reality and not ‘of’ this reality.

To learn more about how you can build your relationship with your sentience, register for our program, Design Your Life: Artfully Engaging in Your Sentience Through the Language of Consciousness.  Registration opens Sept 23, 2022.  Program starts on Oct 25th, 2022.  To register:

https://www.loc-institute.com/product/designing-your-life-artfully-engaging-with-your-sentience-through-the-templates/

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Design Your Life Through the Templates of the Language of Consciousness

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We all have dreams of how we want to be in our life; of what we want to do, and of what we want to have in our lives.  For all of our lives, we have been given a lot of advice from family, friends, our community and social media about how we ‘should’ be in the world, what we should do and what we should have.  This ‘advice’ often doesn’t really align with our inner sense of whom we came here to be or to do.

We end up frustrated that we aren’t doing or being as we think we should.  Or we feel we aren’t being the person that we feel inside.  This happens when we first leave high school or college and must choose a career.  It happens later in our 30s or 40s when we ask ‘is this all there is?’

What intelligence are you listening to that tells you that your life is not working as it ‘should”?  Admittedly it could be your historic mind repeating all the ‘shoulds’ that you heard as you grew up.  That intelligence could also be your own inner voice that tells you that the work that you are doing just isn’t what you really want to be doing.  Or you find that you are searching for an inner spiritual journey that isn’t present in your life.  That intelligence is what we call our sentient intelligence.  It is your body and spirit speaking through some kind of physical or emotional sensation or experience.  Such as butterflies in your stomach, energies running through you, a gut sense that something is wrong or a gut sense that this ‘thing’ is mine to do, and much more.

When I was in my 30’s I got that gut sense that there was more to life and for me.  It directed my attention to spiritual paths…meditation, chi kung, Native American spirituality and more.  Each of these searches ended up giving me a piece of the puzzle of what I was searching for, but nothing was fully ‘it’.

In my 60’s I discovered Tantra Maat and the Templates of the Language of Creation.  I realized that she had access to something that I didn’t have access to.  When I learned to write the Templates, I discovered a clear path to accessing my deepest wisdom and manifesting the life that I craved.

The Templates of the Language of Creation consist of 9 Templates that lead us through 7 levels of consciousness.  Each Template is constructed to help us access our deepest wisdom and thus clearly access our connection to our Spirit and to our Source, Creation, God, Goddess. Their structure requires that we write what is life-enhancing, life-generating for us and thus we end up describing our craved future in a specificity that we wouldn’t have otherwise. They expand our glial-neural networks in our brains which gives us more opportunities to choose our responses to life. We give ourselves choice about how we be with ourselves and others, what we do in our life and ultimately what we have.

A critical piece of life is to be able to become the Observer.  It is in the role of the Observer that we shift our perspective about a situation, we discover new possibilities and thus can act differently creating new outcomes in our life.  The Observing and Observing Templates give us this new perspective.  Used with a Craving exercise, they act as a GPS for us as we claim both our craved future and our present circumstances. Our Creation Exercise support us in creating lives that are life-enhancing and life-generating.

The Advocates of the Language of Consciousness Institute have been looking at how to best support others in learning to write and use the Templates in their lives.  We realized that this Sentient Intelligence was the key to each person recognizing their own unique communication with their Spirt and their body.  It is thru paying attention to your Sentient Intelligence that you come to a deep understanding of how your Body and Spirit are on your side, helping you claim what is your unique and essential gifts to the world.

The Advocates have created a new learning program called Designing Your Life: Artfully Engaging your Sentience through the Templates of the Language of Consciousness.  This 7 session program runs from Oct 25th thru Jan 17th.  There is self-guided learning between session offering participants access to traditional learning materials such as articles and videos.  This program starts with exploring the Observing and Observing Templates and our sentient awareness.  In sessions 3-7. it goes on to explore the first 4 Craving Templates: Craving, Craving being, Craving What and Craving What being.  In each session, participants will explore movement, sentient awareness, discovery, discussion, and the power of working together in a field.  It promises to be a powerful personal Journey for everyone.

Registration opens on Sept 23rd.  Go to the Events page on the Language of Consciousness Website https://www.loc-institute.com/courses-events/  to read more about this program and to take advantage of the special discount rate of only $377.

 

 

 

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Who are We in the Matter?

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A question that I have been asking my whole life has been ‘Why am I here?’  ‘What is my purpose on this planet?’  Liz Geyer reminded me of this question in her latest FB post on our LOC Institute Facebook page.  One of her answers is to come to life as a beginner.  We never truly know how our unique and essential Self will show up and how it fits into the unfolding of the reality of unity now coming into this planet.

In my teens, I asked the question in angst…what is the purpose of this life?  In my 30’s, I asked it as a seeking to find out my placement in the more of what seemed to be in the etheric fabric of this world…not yet visible but tangible none the less.  I studied with Brook Medicine Eagle to learn her knowings of native American cosmology and our western world.  She always said she was a bridge between the two.  And she was for me.  I worked under Tom Crum in his work with the art of Aikido and conflict management.  This work based on ‘render the attack harmless while doing no harm to the attacker’ grounded me in that philosophy and how the dynamic of aikido worked in life’s and business’s conflicts.  I studied Healing Tao Chi Kung and used their basic meditations to connect to the energies of the heavens and the earth.  Thirty years later I still use a variety of what I learned there to bring my body and its organs back in balance.  I was part of the Unitarian Universalist Church for over 20 years and the ministers in my home church in Burke VA gave me an appreciation of the breadth and depth of the spiritual search of humanity over the centuries.  The familial context of that congregation held me and my children as they and I grew over time into more of whom we came here to be.

I worked in those years as the Director of a day care center; as a training manager in an early childhood association and then in the training offices of several associations and then in a hospital system.  I learned about service to others, about supporting others in their search to be of service and about good intentions not always resulting in good actions.  By my 60s I was deep into being a healer supporting others in their healing whether that be through massage, cranial sacral therapy, sounding, or the use of Chi Nei Tsang.  Still I was searching for something that I did not have access to.  I couldn’t put my finger on it, AND I knew that ‘something’ was missing.

I became aware of Tantra Maat in my mid-60s first through her book, An Irish Tale of  a Modern Mystic, and then thru her monthly calls.  My inner guidance said that this woman had access to something that I wanted access to.  For the last ten years, I have been a student, a practitioner, and a team member in her field,  In 2016 I took on the expansion of my field by holding the Language of Consciousness Institute in my field.  With the assistance of Tantra and our first team of 4 teachers, we created a new teaching program for helping others learn how to write four of the 9 Templates of the Language of Creation.  That program taught participants not just how to write those Templates but more so the larger fields within which those Templates resided.

Now in 2022 I still hold the LOC Institute in my field and am working with a new team to design a Learning Program that will guide new participants through not just a learning how to write all 9 Templates but more so to learn to listen within to their body’s and their Spirit’s communication with them  So, like Liz, I have come back to the question of my teen years, of my 30s and with a whole new comprehension of all that those questions can lead me to.

I now have a deep knowing of my connections to Creation, to my larger Spirit, and to those powers and forces in the Universe who have my back.  I no longer have to have a definitive plan to follow…instead I listen, I perceive, I give guidance to my etheric support team through the writing of my Creation Exercises and I take the  next step.  The next step feels solid and grounded.  The ultimate end of this path is still an unknown to me.  And that ‘unknown’ state feels so right.  So much is happening on this planet at this time.  Those forces which want us to be separated from each other and from nature are in their desperation to keep humanity under their control.  They are losing control as people like me, like Liz, like Tantra and the men and women in the Field of Tantra Maat open up to all that is occurring that is life-enhancing and life-generating on this earth.  There are others who are paying attention to these etheric patterns that coming back into this earth and it is this internal listening that is guiding us all into the next step, the next recursion of our return to humanity’s original design.

Do I now know why I am here?  Yes in part…to enjoy this planet…to love my family and my friends…to care for this planet and other beings that inhabit it…to engage in life…and to listen internally and take the next step.  What my next steps are is an unknown to me and that seems right.  All the doing of my life occurs in next steps and not in a task orientated checklist which I was taught as how to approach life.

In my joyful excitement about all that is about to come into this planet that is our original birthright, I invite you to join me and my friends in the writing of the Templates of the Language of Creation.  Listen to our discussions on our Facebook page and on our YouTube channel.  The newer version of our website is under construction as is our new Learning Program which will be offered for the first time in October 2022.  Nonetheless, visit our website, dip your toes into our field, purchase the Guidebooks that teach the writing of each Template, come and talk with me for 30 minutes and join us on the 3rd Sunday of each month to be in a group discussion with others who write their Creation Exercises.  BE with us.  Open up to all that is shifting on this planet and within you.  Choose what is life-enhancing and life-generating.  Open up to listening within to your sentient awareness, your sentient intelligence and begin a relationship with your Body and Spirit that will have your back for the rest of your life.  Enjoy being a human being on planet earth.  Enjoy being in nature and one with nature.  Enjoy and be in gratitude.

The LOC Facebook page –

https://www.facebook.com/TheLOCInst/

Our LOC YouTube channel –

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkxpk2oSjt6LP4o3n_aYnAQ

My email: Elektra@loc-institute.com

The LOC website:  www.loc-institute.com/

To purchase our Guidebooks  go to  –   www.loc-institute/product/special-package-for-all-9-templates/

To register for our monthly group call – www.loc-institute.com/courses-events/

 

 

 

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