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Descend Then Transcend.

Bryan Rice

 

Turning Points and Transformations: Descend then Transcend

“DESCEND THEN TRANSCEND”

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Announcer: You are listening to Turning Points and Transformations with your host, Bryan Rice. Will today be the day that you have your breakthrough in consciousness? It is time to be uplifted.

Bryan: Hello, this is Bryan Rice, you were just listening to “Revolution of Tears”. One of my songs from the album “Fractured and Delivered”. This episode is a rebroadcast from 2012 episode.

Bryan: Hello. I’m welcoming you in to the program and, wishing you a Happy New Year, the most happiest of New Year’s and prosperous New Year’s. We’re hoping that, that you had a blessed Christmas season and things have calmed down. Calmed down and settled down now. And you can root yourself into those New Year’s resolutions. So I’m Bryan Rice from the Order of the Friends of Jeshua. That’s o, f, j. and I’m here today with today’s episode. It is called “Descend, Then Transcend.” That’s “Descend, Then Transcend.”

Bryan: Now, At first, listen. You might wonder why the two are juxtaposed together. Well, there’s a big reason for that, a journey through consciousness (from) out of subconsciousness and unconsciousness to conscious awareness and presence. Peace and total awareness starts with work in the subconscious, starts with work in what we are unaware of. Starts with shadow work. All individuation work in the words of Carl Jung begins with working with and acknowledging things that you have repressed down into the subterranean abyss, the shadow. . . and the shadow actually leads you to gold in Jungian terms.

Bryan: Shadow has much to reveal to you about your true nature and also what you are not. So when we go down, when we mean descend, what we mean is going down into the places that we’re less inclined to go. It means taking a trip, a journey down into the ocean of the unconscious, to the subconscious, and whether you’re speaking in yogic terminology or in spiritual terms, universal, spiritual terms or Jungian terms or even or even mythical terms. We’re all talking about the same thing. We have to acknowledge what is dark. We have to bring light to the darkness. We have to be our own inner guru and bring things that are in the darkness into the light. That is the role of the inner teacher. Whether you call it the Holy Spirit, the Indwelling Life, the Divine Indwelling Presence. It’s all the same thing.

Bryan: We are a source of illumination within and without. We are light bearers and we’re gifted with born with the light presence your light from the light continuum, from the truth-reality continuum, and

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we receive throughout our lives at different points, different turning points – different stages in the evolutionary process we receive illumination and light transmissions, gifts from the divine for us too, in our neurology and our biology to make gains in awareness, gains in consciousness to progress. We live in a world, we live in a humanity based upon progress. I’m a progressive Christian, myself, progressive, Christian, Progressive Catholic, priest, not Roman, but I acknowledge that movement of progressive spirituality is always a movement towards that awareness towards expansiveness, toward superconsciousness and many of the traditions in yoga speak of superconsciousness. Swami Kriyananda speaks a great deal about it. Paramahansa Yogananda spoke a great deal about it. Great living masters, like Paramahansa Yogananda, who lived in the 20th century and his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, they speak of this and you can do that work. Do the work of moving from subconsciousness to superconsciousness or intuitive, intuitive awareness by reading the book, “Awaken to Superconsciousness”, but we’re going to talk about philosophy of Kundalini Yoga and how that is a model for transcendence, but it doesn’t dismiss, the role Chakras or the lower energy centers in the process of coming to one’s awareness or coming to one’s bliss. Bliss is reciprocal. It depends upon a foundation. A strong foundation rooted in the here and now.

Bryan: Any promise of bliss outside of the present moment is mere fancy. Any promise of illumination outside of present moment awareness is not mere illumination but it’s a mere fragment of it. We need to be rooted in the here and now totally in the here and now. Totally present, totally aware, totally conscious, and how do we do that? As we said at the beginning, we have to go down, we have to do depth work, which is soul work. That’s what Father Richard Rohr would talk about, the Catholic Friar, and he’s spoken a great deal of that and as men’s work, men’s spirituality has taught, we have to do spirit work which is the transcending work or the ascension work, but we also have to do the descending work which is the soul work. Depth work. That’s where we get the words depth psychology from. Carl Jung speaks of it because I mentioned before and Carl Jung had a lot to do and a lot to say about mythology and how mythologies come to be in the journey out of the unconscious, out of the unconscious into the conscious world. Coming to know the self, the true self, that sense of I that is not separated from the universal. That sense of I that is vast. It’s big, it’s large, it’s expansive.

Bryan: And so when considering the whole journey that we are to go on, especially when we start a spiritual journey, we might have an initial experience of enlightenment or illumination or light transmission. . . but it always involves going deeper and it always involves following a progression into a period called the dark night of the soul. A test for the ego.

Bryan: In Kundalini Yoga, we call that Shakti Pod. Shaktipat in other

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traditions means a blessing or a diksha or an initiation from a guru to disciple raising up one’s Kundalini into cosmic consciousness. But when we speak of it in that term and in the context of Kundalini Yoga, we call it the test of the ego – the dark night of the soul and we’ve all been there, especially those of us on the spiritual journey. It’s a necessary period of dryness or seeming separation from light. We might not feel the same sense of exaltation that we felt at the beginning of the journey. At the beginning of the illumination process. And what we have to do is we have to endure. We have to hang on and cling to the cloak of God, to the God Consciousness, the unified field of love, the unified field of all of constant and consistent awareness.

Bryan: How do we remain aware during the dark period when we need to really shine light upon some of the dark areas or the unconscious, the subconscious areas of our lives? Well, it takes endurance. It takes fortitude, it takes courage, takes courage to do depth of work, and we say depth work, we go down in the energetic anatomy down into the centers of the root of the sacral of the manipura or the navel into the lower triangle as it’s called Kundalini Yoga. The lower triangle contains seeds of the very seeds of enlightenment, a foundation. Roots under which we can build and grow our tree of consciousness, our tree of life.

Bryan: A tree needs strong roots to grow tall, grow high, to grow outward in expansion, and the same as so with our spiritual nature, with our spiritual journey or spiritual unfolding in having a meditative practice, prayerful practice such as centering prayer or contemplation. Our good efforts to keep us moving in a direction of progress, of transcendence.

Bryan: So what do we mean by going down into the subterranean? Well we hear of in the book of Revelation, an abyss, a watery abyss and a beast rising up from it. And mine, and many other people’s interpretation is beast is not the antichrist that’s going to come somewhere in the future, but it’s a metaphysical, an esoteric symbol of that very nature that we have to come to grips with, to kill, metaphorically kill or to individuate into our being. We have to recognize the beastial part of ourself, the instinctive part of ourself. We can’t ignore that we have instincts. We can’t ignore that we have an animal nature that we have very much in common with animals. Our brains are an evolutionary masterpiece, and our brains, contain the whole history of evolution in it. Now you can believe in evolution and still be a spiritual person. You can believe in evolution and still be religious person if you want to use that word, and I’m not encouraging you to become or to be or to say that you are religious.

Bryan: It connotes many things for many people, sometimes negative. We’re in an era of new thought and we use different words. It’s a

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paradigm shift. We’re now in the Aquarian age. We’re not in the Piscean age anymore. So doing depth work. Going down. That’s kind of essence of the Paschal mystery as spoken of in Christianity, specifically in the Roman Catholic world, we have to go down into the tomb, into the darkness, into the earth. Then we can be resurrected. Then we can transcend or ascend. The pattern was set in place, by the Christ or by the person, Jeshua with the Christed nature. Speaking of Jesus, the only sign he said he would give to his people, was the sign of Jonah. . . and if you know the story of Jonah, it was Jonah was swallowed by a big whale and spit up later. Jeshua was talking about going down into the earth and then raising up as human consciousness to divine consciousness, raising up, rising out of the depths, rising out at the abyss, rising from the tomb. When we hit blocks on our journey, when we run into walls. . . These things are not just obstacles, but hurdles to clear. We have to learn how to move through them to break through these blockages to the awareness of Love’s Presence.

Bryan: Part of the work, in the metaphysical anatomy in the Chakras, in the metaphysical energetic anatomy is to work through blockages, to allow spirit to rise, and there’s a science behind it that involves our life force and our eliminative energy called Apana, our life force, called Prana. Apana becomes heated. A spark is created in our naval point and that spark that is heated. . . that psychic heat descends down to the root Chakra and awakens the Kundalini in one. “He who raises his Kundalini fast approaches Christhood”, said Paramahansa Yogananda. Our goal in life is to live an enlightened life, to live a blissful life, to be happy, to be healthy, to be holy. That’s it. That’s the essence. That’s the formula. How do we get there? We have to clear the subconscious. We have to remove the garbage. Take out the trash as Yogi Bhajan would talk about and spoken about in his teachings. Maybe that’s one reason Kundalini Yoga isn’t as popular as it could be because it involves doing subconscious work in comparison to Hatha Yoga.

Bryan: Now it’s more acceptable for people like myself to be doing Kundalini Yoga or work with Kundalini energy on the progressive paths of spirituality. The more inclusive paths of spirituality. We don’t see one path being exclusive of another. Yoga is not a religion. Kundalini Yoga is not a religion. It’s not a system of a cult of the occult. It’s a system of excellence. A system that brings about the caliber of human being, the identity that makes an impact in this world. It’s a technology. A sacred one.

Bryan: If you’re familiar with the program Rebirthing by Yogi Bhajan, you know that we need to remove the clutter from the mind. Much of that clutter is the overflow of the subconscious. There’s many things in many exercises and sets called kriyas that help us to deal with the subconscious debris and we’re going to continue to have to deal with it our whole entire lives until we’re free of our Karma, but we are

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always, shoving things down into the depths. We’ve repressed many things. It might be in an experience or a situation where it’s not the wisest thing to express rage, so we repress it and it festers and it grows down in the depths, deep down within, and we’re going to have to deal with it sooner or later. Most likely sooner.

Bryan: We can’t ignore the dark. There would be no light without darkness. It’s a necessary opposite, it’s a necessary polarity. Even in worldviews, in our paradigm of non-duality, of oneness, we still have to recognize that we live in maya or that we live in a world opposites. That seems to be founded upon duality, so that means there are things such as opposites, such as light and dark, hot and cold, good and bad, good and evil. And I liked the writings of Swami Kriyananda from the Kriya Yoga lineage. He talks a lot about with “lila”, but Paramahansa Yogananda, his guru, talked about, which is this divine play, cosmic drama. The drama was only interesting when you have a hero and also a villain.

Bryan: The villain helps to elucidate the positive characteristics of the hero. You don’t have drama. You don’t have an interesting concept without a nemesis, without a shadow. Where is in our own lives, our nemesis. It’s not usually an external people, although people can come to us and be seemingly villain like I mean this is the meaning of love your enemies and like in the saying that says, keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. Reason for that is it takes many, many times revealed to you. Your dark side. Because you come to project onto this figure where these figures, or these people or these situations. They enabled us to grow. They enable us to see past ultimately the blocks in awareness to keep us in unconsciousness.

Bryan: It’s why it’s good to marry, to have someone to be with in your life. They play the role of the revealer. They reveal things to you that come from the shadow, the density of the shadow. Without person to mirror that to you, it’s very easy to live in denial or disassociation of your dark qualities are dark aspects, but having someone there to mirror those things to you or to point out things to you that are less than loving helps us to grow.

Bryan: Everything contains its opposite. A paradox is a vision of opposites. Two seeming contradictory truths. Life is a paradox. Work on the spiritual journey is a paradox. Saying that we have to descend then transcend is a paradox. They seem contradictory. Why go down to only go to rise up? Why can’t we just rise up? With a pattern that the Christ, the person of Jeshua who is the light beer, a light bearer, one among many such such such such others as the Buddha, Krishna, both avatars divine incarnations.

Bryan: All avatars have something individually unique to reveal to the world about the God consciousness, the universal God field, universal God awareness . . . And what Jeshua Jesus revealed through his

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personhood and divine Self. What he said, is we are immortal. We can’t die. That we have to go down into the tomb. The life process is a cycle of continually dying to the false self. That grain of wheat that must die in order for us rise above into the heights of awareness, the heights of consciousness, the bliss nectar of total awareness of superconscious, bliss… intuition, explosive insight. We gain insight from doing depth work. We gain insights from paying attention, not in an unbalanced way, but acknowledging the darkness within us, acknowledging that we have weeds growing in us next to our wheat of consciousness, aware of presence. The parable of the weeds and wheat really means when Jeshua Jesus said that we should let the weeds grow along with the wheat, otherwise we’ll pull out the wheat with the weeds is because many times our darkness, the qualities that we tend to repress or the qualities of that inhibit us or else the very qualities that enable us to evolve. Life is a process of involution and evolution as Tau Malachi of the Sophian Gnostic tradition, would speak about. It’s a back and forth process.

Bryan: Our angels are demons are demons are angels. It’s another way of saying, the same thing, a blessing or curse or curses . . .things that seem to hold us down or hold us back are the very things that can help us rise up. And transcend means to rise above. How do we begin this work? It’s more than we can cover in the show, but if anything, if I can instill for you the idea that this process of clearing the subconscious, it’s like finding gold in a gold rush. . . because when we recognize these patterns, these pain patterns, things that have limited us, we can begin to grow and to blossom, to flourish. Many times in depth psychology the shadow is said to reveal gold to you… that by recognizing the shadow you are enabled to expand ever more. At this point, I want to point out that it’s all God. EVERYTHING. Even the dark encounters or you might say, God is not darkness, but what I am saying is that all things come from God. God has no opposite. You know, all things are used to return to God. Even the image of the lake of fire comes from God. It’s a purifying fire, not something to damn you to hell for all eternity. . . a purifying fire. Though I reject the idea that there is a place exactly in the likeness of purgatory, I do accept the idea that we all have to go through a purging process until we can return to God consciousness. We have to burn our Karma.

Bryan: We have to reap what we sow. Sometimes it involved suffering and a lot of people don’t like to hear that. We don’t have to suffer, but we do because of our choices that we make, what we do and what we choose, what we think, what we act out. Well, we always have a choice. I’m not saying you shouldn’t live down in the depths or live through subconsciousness. Live in subconsciousness or unconsciousness, no, just recognize it. Recognize it for what it is. It’s something that’s there to help you grow, to help you evolve, to help you become more loving. . . . So we have to do the depth work. Without it we’re shallow people or hollow. But we really, in essence, carry around,

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great density around with us and our personhood. When we don’t do our depth work, it’s already a dense experience being in the human body. It’s only exacerbated when we choose to live in unawareness, so what do we do. . . Again, it takes courage. There’s ways that we can deal with that shadow. . . things such as active imagination. We can dialogue with it, give a voice to a certain quality, give it an anthropomorphic quality to it treated it as a personage in dialogue with that, your value, your consciousness to shine through and shed light on what is being revealed. Give a voice to your darkness. It’s called shadow work. Folks. It’s not fun, but it’s necessary,

Bryan: So, if something is rising up within you that you don’t like, that you’re doing a meditative practice and that you realize you feel like you’re in a bad mood. It’s your subconscious clearing. It’s definitely a phenomenon that many people have experienced in the spiritual journey. That’s why it’s good to have a companion on the journey to share these things with because you start by releasing a lot of debris. Then you begin to think, oh my gosh, am I these things? Am I these qualities? But you’re not, you need someone to show you that you’re beyond that. You’re more expansive that you’re more aware. I want to thank you for joining me today. I wish you many blessings. Come back and join us next week on Turning Points and Transformations. Have a prosperous, happy, healthy, holy New Year. Peace. Joy to you.

Bryan: I’m going to send you off with one of my songs. “Free.” On the album “Fractured and Delivered.” All songs and meditations, or affirmations can be found at bryanrice.org to both listen to and to buy. There is a store on my site. Thank you. May the divine bless you, uplift you and keep you. Aum. Shanti. Peace. Amen.

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Free Online E-Book: Turning Points & Transformations Episode: Evolution of Grace – The Transcript

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Evolution of Grace

                              Bryan Rice

Evolution of Grace

Explore with Bryan Rice, the ideas surrounding grace and evolution of consciousness and how important it is to try and maintain grace in seemingly disastrous and unpleasant experiences. It is all a matter of perspective and about changing your perception on how you view what to one person may seem to be unfavorable and challenging, but to another with a transformed perception, one can see such circumstances as opportunities for grace to flow into one’s life and raise one’s awareness to Higher Consciousness.

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You are listening to Christ Realization Radio. Where You will discover the reality and the essence of your presence. With programming brought to you by Project New Humanity Communications.

You are listening to Turning Points and Transformations with your host, Bryan Rice. Will today be the day that you have your breakthrough in consciousness? It is time to be uplifted.

Welcome, and joy to you. This is a rebroadcast of a 2012 episode from The Way of Consciousness Radio Network.

Bryan: Well, hello and welcome to Turning Points and Transformations. This is Bryan Rice from the Order of the Friends of Jeshua, coming to you here, on Wednesday evening. I’m coming from the east coast, upstate New York. Can’t complain. It’s beautiful foliage. Peak season for the leaves changing. Got a chance to go up on the ski lift other day with my family and got to see everything in full effect. Everything in its primordial nature, the not the dying phase necessarily, but the maturing phase, the maturation, the final stages of these wonderful lives from these leaves that covered the trees. God is conscious of every leaf, and it is that God tending to your every need at every given moment. Well, I, again, I have to be grateful and I have to send out gratitude to you for your continued to listenership, especially last week. Well, it’s a new day. And we have new things to talk about and specifically this in this episode, “The Evolution of Grace” here tonight. We will talk about how we can maintain grace in ungraceful situations. And there’s a way to do it. There is. How? You’re probably asking how, I mean, how when the electric is going to get shut off in my house and how when the heat bill is $500 a month and we just can’t afford it? How am I going to maintain grace then? Well, attitude and altitude are two things, two factors in the whole equation, and maintaining a solid sense of self. .

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and having a firm foundation and rootedness, in the awareness of the presence of light, the light continuum, the truth continuum, having yourself connected at the core to the primordial and the first and the right relationship of oneness – and I’ve speaking of oneness quite a bit lately, I realized that, and well, why? Well, because all is One. And separation is an illusion. We all perpetuate and we get

caught up in struggle and we get caught up in desire and we get caught up in striving and we get caught up in trying to claim . . . in trying to ascend in trying to be merit worthy – trying to attain merit, that is. And you know, the whole striving and struggling is an endless pursuit of goals that we can never allow ourselves to be satisfied with and when we’re doing that, that’s the separation state. The state of separation spoken of in many non-dual traditions, oneness traditions. Separation is a state of suffering and perpetuates a state of suffering. And when we were in it, we were in it. Muck up to our neck, we’re in thick, and how do we get out? How do we even pretend to be able to arise from or rise above or transcend situations that have us down that get us down, that beat us down, that take us into places deep within our subconscious, deep within the subterranean, deep, within the darkness of the shadow side of the self, the false self? What do we do when we’re down there? What do we do when we’re down in the basement of our unconscious, of the subconscious world of that place that we hide?

I’m not going to be a self proclaimed expert, not going to be a self proclaimed master. I’m not going to be a self proclaimed anything. I’m not a sage or a seer or a guru or anything like that. The minute we become the master, the minute we become a master teacher, the minute we become labeled as a guru or the minute we we’re labeled as an academic, as a scholar, as a PH.D . . . Not that there’s anything wrong with having a PH.D or being a scholar or being a sage or being any of the things that I have mentioned . . . But what I’ve come to realize in my struggles, in my pursuit of endless needless suffering, perpetuating through nonstop seeking through continuous desire, self- grasping, desire-bound awareness or a lack of awareness, that is. . . through that I’ve realized the hard way that we. . . the only hell that there is the one that we make and that is so true. We would, if we were really honest with ourselves, admit that that we can, in moments where we fail to realize the unitive oneness, the absolute continuity of truth, the absolute revelation of peace of the absolute, an undefiled moment of glory. When we’re not in that, when we have given into Maya or illusion or delusion, where the basic cacamaniac ideas of relativity. . . We get caught in a web of self-confusion. When we’re in that confusion, when we’re in that state and then we can’t get out of that state, it’s. . . it’s a horrid feeling. It’s like what Bible believers like to talk about, about the gnashing of teeth.

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That’s what ungraceful situations are. They are when you in your own hell, when you were in your own self-convoluted self-created macabre, some fictitious idea about who you think you are. Usually the spectrum of suffering, the entire spectrum of suffering has much to do, much to do with not our state of consciousness, so to speak, not just our state of consciousness, but more so, more so. . . our failure to connect with hope. . . hope that endures all things. I’m speaking from a deep place of realization and I’ve had some many, many realizations

as of late in my own life that I’d like to share and I liked to draw on because I think that it’s a necessary thing to be humbled and to realize that grace doesn’t always come about through striving. Grace is a gift. I’m not going to give the textbook definition of grace. Grace simply is you at your best. That doesn’t mean you with a straight a 4.0 average in college, cum laude, magna cum laude, whatever you want to call it, whatever situation. The promotion, the vice president position of a corporation, the CEO, becoming the CEO, the heralded CEO. It’s none of those things. It’s nothing that you can do. There’s nothing you can do to attain grace. It’s a free gift. And I’m not speaking of just Christian grace, I’m speaking of grace, universal grace. That grace that penetrates the deepest aspect of who we are. Grace that is free.

The song at the beginning of the show speaks about being “free”. What does it mean to be free? Well, we are literally caught in what I was singing about in the song in masks of legion, “the many”. . .let’s forget about typical talks about possession and the typical understandings of paranormal. Even for just for a few minutes, and let’s just talk about “life”.

What is life? Is it a burden? Or is it to you, something to be lived? I ask this because we’ve all been “there”. We’ve all been to the pits. . . into the bowels of matterward hell, so to speak. And it’s not pleasant to be down where the subterranean dwells. We tend to live in our lower Chakras – Chakras are energy centers, vortices, that consciousness flows in and out of, life force flows in and out of. And we tend to live. . . just not that there’s anything wrong with the lower Chakras, there’s absolutely everything right about the Chakras in living in balance and harmony in the lower triangle as it’s called in Kundalini Yoga. . . Now, that would be the Root Chakra, also the Swadisthana Chakra, the Root Chakra being the Muladhara Chakra, the sacral Chakra being Swadisthana Chakra, and the Manipura Chakra being the Navel Chakra. And you can debate all you want about where the placements are – at the navel or where the solar plexus is. That Chakra – where you want to place it, that’s up to you. We’re not here to discuss Chakras tonight.

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I want to talk about how to maintain dignity and integrity, and peace and grace when everything seems to be going wrong. Can you, with five screaming kids clawing and grabbing at you, clawing and ripping for your feet. . . they are tearing at you, spitting at you, biting at you, hitting you, can you, when you are being mauled by a household of animals and want to be fed and they want to and want there needs to be met right then there, on spot and you’re tired and you’ve spent your whole day working or planning or creating or manifesting or living a simply trying to survive the day. . . can you maintain grace? Folks, making the most out of terrible situation is nothing more than simply allowing the energy, the life force that is within us, that manifests

within us, that dwells within us to rise, to go from a downward spiral to an upward pull. And what does this well, there’s meditation that can raise consciousness, raising awareness that can raise the sense of self-worth, that can raise you up out of misery and continued striving and self-grasping.

In gnosticism, we speak at the demiurge. What is that? It’s another concept for another time. It depends on what kind of gnosticism you’re talking about, first of all, it’s not a lesson than a gnosticism tonight either, but the demiurge or the archontic powers that rule us. That seem to grab us. The emotional states of unhappiness, of all the things that we’ve been talking about from self-grasping, that stem from self grasping, from continuous striving, continuous craving. . . I think we know a thing or two about craving and habit and fixation and addiction, but do we know anything about freedom?

Do we know anything about being totally free? Totally honest? Totally pure? Totally ready? Totally available? Totally here? Totally now? Do we know a thing about it?

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Can you make doing the dishes a living meditation? Can you make changing the baby’s diaper that has exploded all over the place, a meditation? Can you clean up the vomit on the floor and make that a meditation, the vomit from an animal that’s very sick? Or can you change an adult’s diaper? Someone who can’t do that for themselves . . . can you make that a living meditation? These are moments where we can actively seek – not seek. That’s a terrible word to use. “Seek”. And “strive”. Anything like that. I’m trying to get away from that. . . If you can allow, if you can allow moments that seem ungraceful to manifest as light transmissions, moments of Eureka, moments of euphoria, moments of bliss. Then you are enlightened. . . or you are on the road to enlightenment. . .

But I think like I was saying earlier, the minute you say that you’re enlightened, the minute you say that you’re there. The minute you say you’re God Realized, the minute you say that you’re set for life, the minute you say that you’ve reached Samadhi or oneness or self- realization as I already said, or the minute you say, I am full of grace, that I am saved. The minute you say, I am there, I’ve reached it. . . You become unteachable. Now I’m speaking from experience here. Folks, from experience. I’ve had awakening moments, the moments of pure joy and utter bliss that comes from the heavens. They don’t happen here on earth when we are in the ego. Now some yogis will say, some Yogis can say that you can be in nirvakalpa Samadhi, which is the state of permanent oneness with God. You can be in that state and still be alive and in the body. It’s not that I disagree with that, but I’ve come to realize that you, when you, like speaking in terms of what I know about what I teach, what I share with the world, Kundalini Yoga, I want to work with the Kundalini energy. Why one day are you able to raise it up and be in a position of seeming glory in the

position of seeming unalterable, not needing to alter this sensation of bliss that has become of you? And I give props, I give such tremendous gratitude to those master teachers, those teachers who, the sages of the ages, who have inspired me and been able to allow me to see that there is a way to live in an elevated state in a super conscious state. When I say superconscious, I mean more aware than aware.

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I’m not working with a script here. I hardly ever do that. Why is that? I think that the spirit flows where it must in does and wishes to. And it just does its thing and the words will be on your lips when it’s necessary . . . But talking about the state of permanent oneness, I think it’s possible, but I think the moment you realize you’re there, there’s no realization of not being there. Meaning, I mean there’s everything is in an unadultered state, pure potential. Everything is in its actuality, undefiled. Full of light.

You don’t need to do anything to anything or anyone. You don’t need to change a thing. You accept. You totally allow reality to be as it is. But most of us, myself included, we fall into Maya, into delusion, into illusion. We fall into the web of relativity. Relativity, where the circuitry that we connect to in our brains and in our hardware and in the supercomputers that we are. . .I say comparison. That’s one of the the agendas of the ego. Ah, there’s that word. “Ego”. What can we do about the ego? Well, first of all, you have to – I have learned that you need to have an ego in order to transcend the ego. And you need to learn what disgrace is. Or you need to know, and you need to have experiences of being in ungraceful situations in order to know what true grace is. When I speak of grace, I speak of all those elevated states of awareness. Moments of peak consciousness, moments of higher consciousness. They mean nothing. They mean nothing. They don’t mean a damn thing, a damn thing unless you can love. That’s as real as it gets. You can be this. You can be that. You can have this, you can have that. You can be the million dollar athlete, star celebrity. . . But, if you don’t ‘allow’, if you don’t allow things to be simply as they are without needing to change things, without needing to manipulate things, without needing to doctor anything or alter anything. . . Until you’re able to experience that love, that peace, that allowance. You are not free!

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My friends, you are not free. And I speak and I include myself in this because we’re all messed up in it. We’re all taken down by this. We all get defeated. It’s what you do the moment after the moment you realize what I’ve been doing all these years, all these days, weeks, months, doesn’t work anymore, it’s when you hit rock bottom, which we’ve talked about in past episodes, it’s when you had gone to your, gotten to your worst, that you realize you are able to realize that you cannot script as was said by a sage, that I have been influenced by my life . . . “You cannot script your own salvation,” so to speak. People say you can manifest. People say, you can visualize, you can

bring about, you can attract things. “The Secret”, all of that. That’s true. We bring about situations in our life. We attract things magnetically. We’re like a magnetic force field. We bring things into our field of awareness, field of perception or we bring things into into our realm and we co- create our experiences. That is true.

The wise know not to speak or don’t need to speak. . . the wise, the wisest don’t need to speak about their peak experiences in a bragging fashion. They don’t need to put out the trophies. their Oscars. They don’t need to show off in front of their peers. They don’t need to be the top dog all the time. . . Unless you have been in moments, where things are falling apart. I don’t think you can truly appreciate some of the greatest things life has to offer. I think it’s just a facade and I think everything is just surface until you have experienced the depths of your own suffering. I’m not saying suffering is a prerequisite for enlightenment or anything like that. You can have magical, mystical experiences I’ve had them – so what! So what!! I’ve had to say to myself, “get over yourself!” What does that mean? To get over yourself means to rise above, but means to transcend the self- concocted ideas about who you think you are. We subject ourselves some of the most experiences life has to offer. We get caught up in emotionality. We get caught up. You hear us say, you hear people say, ‘I was just so caught up in the moment’. There’s a difference between being caught up in the moment, being entangled or being ensnared in your own web of self-confusion and delusion. . . being in the moment, being caught up in the moment suggests that there’s something altered in your awareness. There’s something profane about it, something slanted, something bent, something contorted, something distorted about it.

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You know I don’t have the answer, but if you can accept reality as I’ve tried to say in previous shows, for what it is, right now, no matter what it is, you can accept reality. Accept yourself. You’re on the road. You are on the path of transformation. You’ve had a breakthrough. You haven’t had your breakthrough moment. And that’s what the show was about. The show is about encouraging you to have a breakthrough, to have that breakthrough experience, and then to transform your life thereafter because of inspiration. Hopefully, you receive consolation. . .

So, what is your best defense against experiencing the worst side of our nature? The horrid, the futile? . . . I think it has a little bit to do with getting a grip, having a handle on the human experience, learning to be present. Always present. So what I want to say then, I think in conclusion, is every moment you’ve wanted to give up on yourself, when you wanted to throw in the towel, when you wanted to say, I just can’t take it anymore. How much more of this can I take? Why me? Poor me. Self- pitying. It gets you nowhere. The question we’re supposed to ask in situations of dire need, in situations where things seem to be ungraceful – the question is not why, but what? What

can arise? What am I supposed to learn? What am I supposed to see? Not why, but what? So, I end with this prayer:

Transcendent God. You lead us down ways of the unknown. And into the unknown we go. It’s faith. Sometimes it’s deep, sometimes it’s dark. Sometimes it’s scary. But, when we cling to your dark cloak, in the darkness. . . We will rise to see the light. On the day. And in that moment, of realization, that I am forever one with you. In peace and tranquility, in perfect wholeness. Good night, and thank you for joining me once again. You’ve been very faithful, very, very, very generous.

Just one final thought to leave you with. Please check out my website, bryanrice.org. That’s b, r, y, a, n, r, i, c, e, dot org where you can find information on how to buy and how to get your hands on some music that has encompassed my journey. That has been a reflection of my journey as well as meditations and affirmations set to music that have an uplifting power. May the divine bless you, uplift you, and keep you. Aum. Shanti. Peace. Amen.

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Choose Peace

A Discourse 

 In this season of light remember to choose peace!

Bryan Rice

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This discourse can be found and listened to in the episode “Choose Peace” online at christrealizationradio.com. Christ Realization Radio is an outreach of the grass roots movement Project New Humanity. This station is a Haven for those whose “church” or “living temple and altar of devotion” are WITHIN. This is a threshold, gathering place without walls, committed to the remembrance of our innate Divinity and Oneness with the Supreme Absolute God-Mind and Presence. This network is brought to you by Project New Humanity Communications. We aim to provide programming to help you connect with the Divine Presence within an to help birth “The New Humanity”, promoting the shift and growth of Unitive, Non-dual Awareness in our world. We are amazing creations, divine manifestations, capable of immense greatness. By reconnecting to both the core of who we are (the Presence of Pure Beingness and Radiant Love) and to the universality of the Eternal Awareness of Oneness, the seeds of integrity, wholeness, charity, good will, peace, justice, non-violence, tolerance, a shared and common purpose, transformation, and transcendence are born through each conscious breath we take. We are at a vital stage in our evolution. To allow the “shift” from separative, fearful, and egoic consciousness to the very Oneness from which we came to fully manifest and incarnate, we must adopt a cross-cultural, trans-national, collective responsibility for preserving what is in the highest and best interest of the planet and cosmos. By re-qualifying, re-generating, re-imagining, re-examining, and re-inventing our social roles, as well as shedding the shell of worn out self-definitions that divide, we will see the need to bless and uplift the one human family, by simply changing the way we perceive reality. By adjusting our thoughts, rising above limitations created by mental structures and entanglements, and through a willingness to see our brothers and sisters in Spirit as our saviors and mirrors for our development, we too can make a difference in healing the world.
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Introduction: You are listening to Turning Points and Transformations with your host Bryan Rice. Will today be the day that you have your breakthrough in consciousness? It is time to be uplifted!

Bryan: Welcome. I’m your host Bryan Rice. Coming to you on a very mild winter day, second day of winter here in the year 2015, just a couple of weeks before the New Year begins. Today’s episode is called Choose Peace. If we’re going to talk about peace, we need to know what it means in order to understand it. We need to define it as well. The dictionary describes peace as inner contentment, undisturbed, calm, serenity, and free from strife.

Bryan: So basically if a person is peaceful, they’re calm, contented, happy, and relaxed. Well, that sounds easy. No, not so easy. It’s a state to be hallowed, a state that we all seek. It’s what we really want in life. It’s what we want in eternity. It’s what we want out of eternity, which is what we want in having connection with eternity here and now. We want forever to be restful and calm and still and serene. And with peace comes joy – and joy is another topic, but peace is of a very high calibration, a high frequency. If you ever studied the map of the scale of consciousness by Dr. David Hawkins, it was calibrated by him through kinesiology. You would see that peace ranks very high above 500 on a scale from a log rhythmic scale from zero to 1,000, and then that’s exponentially multiplied by a numeric number, which I can’t remember at this time. It’s two days before the celebration of Christmas and I chose this topic because in the past, I’ve talked about embracing contentment during this time of the year and I think contentment is related to peace, very much related to peace.

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Bryan: They’re intertwined. I have a quote for you. “Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet, that is what time is for, to learn just that and nothing more.” That’s from A Course in Miracles in chapter 15, section one of the text. Now, what do we want when we say we want something for Christmas? We want contentment and we want peace. We want to be undisturbed. We want the serenity, and we want the joy that comes with peace. We put up Christmas trees. We decorate houses with lights. It’s a time for light, a celebration of the presence of light being born into the world. The original Christmas story was about light coming into the world at a very dark time in history. And it is amazing, that we can say that we have many, many enlightened souls who have come to this earth and have helped birth light, peace, and love. When the Christ child was born, there was peace on earth and so we sing about it in spiritual hymns of many different persuasions. Why was there peace? Because there was hope. Hope for a better way, a better way to live, a better way to see a better way to act, a better way to believe, a better way to understand, a better way to relate.

Bryan: God knew change would come. Did people know that this simple child came from the heavenly realm where we all came from as well? Our souls are there before we were ever born into this world. There are different aspects of the heavenly realms. There’s an astral, and there’s a causal heaven too. These topics are explored in yogic philosophy, yoga cosmology and things like that. However, what we’re really after today is the topic of peace. Not so much a Christmas story, but the idea of sharing peace now and here, in this moment in this show is because it’s so desperately needed in our world today as it was over 2000 years ago, and we have other avatars who have brought peace into the world such as Krishna, Lord Buddha, Lao Tzu, one of my favorite masters, Paramahansa Yogananda who lived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Yogananda was a Hindu, but he was very much in tune with the Christ and when we say Christ, we’re not talking about the last name of the person called Jesus or Jeshua. We’re talking about “presence.” So being able to be at peace really is being able to unite with light…

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Bryan: …Or unite the dark with the light, and that’s something that the whole life of Jeshua was about uniting what was once divided during creation and whatever creation myth you subscribe to, many of them talk about light coming in to existence, light emanating from an eternal source – and that light, that light, at least in the Judeo- Christian tradition was said to have been separated from the dark, but we need to put the two together and be able to hold them in tension, in a paradox. Two apparent opposites colliding. How do we hold them in tension? How do we hold them in balance? We have a higher self and we have a shadow self. We have a true self and we have an ego. The goal is to not destroy the ego, but to transcend it. You have to have an ego. You need to build an ego in childhood in order to transcend it later in life. So texts such as a Course in Miracles help you undo the ego and unravel that process – that maniacal energy. . .

Bryan: That separative nature, that rebellious nature within us, we need to undo it and we can’t really undo something until we’ve done it, and that means done it wrong. So getting back to peace and light and dark and uniting them. We have daytime, we have the sun, we have the moon here on earth anyways, and we have solar energy and we have lunar energy and we have those energies within us.

Bryan: Yin and Yang, feminine, masculine, negative, positive – and don’t get caught up on that word. Negative, that is. Negative just means a charge of energy like in electricity or magnetism. For more about the topic of magnetism and how it relates to divinity, you might want to listen to the archived episode, “Divinity and Magnetism” that I did a few years back.

Bryan: What do we have to do to attain peace? Is it an effortful process or is something that comes without effort? When I was talking about the ego and the true self and the shadow and the Higher Self, I

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was talking about again, the apparent opposites and again, I wasn’t trying to infer that undoing the ego is necessarily an effort. It’s more of a letting go. A releasement. A process of saying goodbye to what is no longer needed. What no longer serves you. What no longer has a purpose, so what I’m saying is it’s not about trying harder or doing more. We have to do things in this life. We have to act. We’re called to serve. We’re called to bring peace to other people. That involves doing so. There is some effort, but attaining peace within oneself is, like I said before, a releasement process, letting go of sense cravings of things that were attached to. Naming and then letting go of compulsive thinking, repetitive thinking, thinking that might seem to overtake you at times or steal your peace. Nothing can steal your peace, not anxiety, not worries, not any of it.

Bryan: Divine Presence, the “Real Presence” of Divinity, it’s right there to be merged with, to be one with. You don’t have to do anything to get that presence. You don’t have to do anything to be given the gift of peace because by your nature, your inherent inborn, divine, inborn nature, you are peace. We tend to suffer because we become preoccupied with thought. Eckhart Tolle is a master at talking about this and unraveling the ego in the way A Course in Miracles speaks of past thoughts as being a hangup of the ego.

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Bryan: The ego doesn’t want us to be at peace. The ego loves to attack. It loves conflict and strife. Division. Dividing. Doesn’t that sound like what it means to be diabolical, to divide, to separate? Why do we have an ego? Well, I’m not a psychologist or a psychiatrist or therapist, but as a spiritual teacher, I can tell you that the ego is your biggest enemy and I think you already know that because when you’re not at peace, it’s the ego raising its red flag or waving a flag. It’s “confederate” flag, a cessation that it is trying to withdraw from you or from your true self. It wants to be separate. It wants to be by itself. It wants to run the show. It’s so important to be peace because the world needs it and we’re all called to be messiahs and we’re all called to be saviors and we’re all called to break barriers. No one person is more special than another. We are all in this together We’ve been made unique, dreamed unique, emanated unique, whatever you want to say, how we exist, how we became what we are, but we are here to be peace makers. We have one shared identity.

Bryan: So again, let’s choose peace.

The experience of God’s peace begins with the recognition that everything we see in this world. Separate forms or identities are hallucinations coming from the split mind, a mind that thinks that is separate from God or Universal Love. So if we choose to identify with the ego mind, we both think that the images of separation, the unique and different forms we see in this world are real. We think that this whole world of separate identities is all there is.

Bryan: Part of that was from a quote from a course called “Remembering to Choose Peace” by Pathways of Light Ministries. Why do we resist peace? Because you know, basically we want excitement. We want flair, we want entertainment, we want to be satisfied. We want cravings not just of the body, but of the mind. To be satisfied. We have urges, we have needs that we want them to have met, things that we think are needs, not just our basic essentials, but things we think we need to be happy. Attachment is at the root of the problem. Attachment itself is a root cause of dissatisfaction or lack of contentment.

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Bryan: So again, yes, I’m revisiting a past show, ‘Embracing Contentment’, which I mentioned earlier. If we could all see that we’re one, if we could all see that we were made to be one and to support one another, and that is part of this dream, that we are the emanations of Divinity. Playing out roles on this stage of life. We’re here to know that Presence and knowing that Presence will bring you peace. POWER. Yogananda, in his translation of the Bhagavad Gita, God Talks with Arjuna he talks about God having created and dreamed the world and had an aspect of God’s Self place us under delusion, that is cosmic hypnosis called “maya” and having done so for the purpose of having opposites. So that in itself takes things such as good and evil and makes them not the fault of man. What if that were true? I’m not saying that it is. I don’t know if I believe it totally (The following is what I said in 2015). Would it make sense If we were supposed to unite the opposites in order to attain peace? There had to have been opposites in the first place in for there to be creation at all. For there to have been day and night. For there to have been light and dark. They had to be separated.

Bryan: Creation in this context really, I should say rather, manifestation of the dream state, that dream that we are in, the dream of separation where we rejected God primarily manifested a world that appears to be real but isn’t and are here hiding from God. So when I say creation, what I really mean is manifestation of the dream because true creation was when we were begotten in the heavenly state, as His children of God hot and cold isn’t just a phenomenon of nature. It’s a byproduct of creation, of the dream that we are in, in playing out – and when I say hot and cold, I mean climates, and if we are under the spell of “delusion” or “maya”, this dance that we need to awaken from, to become liberated from, to become awakened from, for the purpose of being in Divine Romance, a Divine Romance of a loving, quite erotic relationship with Divinity. In a spiritual way, of course. If we’re in the business of waking up, becoming more in light, then we had to be asleep in some way.

Bryan: Let’s not point the fingers at two people and say it was their fault that we’re asleep and carrying this so called thing. Such as original sin. No, we’re not. We were born in original blessing because we truly are at the core of our being innocent. We couldn’t have

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sinned because this dream that we’re in is not real. According to the teachings of A Course in Miracles and what I now believe as I’m looking back, two years later after having first recorded this. Now the Bible speaks of Adam as having been put to sleep by God before the creation of Eve. While A Course in Miracles has something to say about Adam being asleep – that the Bible never says that Adam woke up. So if a deep sleep did fall upon Adam or primal man, the first – not the first created, but manifested. Being in this dream that appears to be real, that isn’t – Well, what I want to say too is that we projected onto God, whoever wrote that Bible projected unto God the act of having fallen asleep, blamed God for that . . . and we were never male and female, not having gender in our true state, not now, not ever.

Bryan: There is no gender because we are one with God and God is beyond gender. So again, there are no opposites and differences because really in reality we’re all the same. We’re all one. We come from the same source – God, that brings you peace. Let that bring you solace and contentment. God is the true Source from which we never left. We are still in His, in Her embrace, even though there is no His and Her, even though when we speak of a Father, a Father God or a Mother God – those are just symbols. We need to transcend symbols. Going back to the idea of having been put to sleep here in this dream world that we are making right now that we made long ago, the collective ego made long ago, we did this creation again for God by God was the formless state that we exist in now and never left. We are in peace right now. We never lost peace, but we only appeared to be in this nightmare, dream… or a dream having nightmares. The goal is to wake up. How do we wake up?

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Bryan: Well, God gives us a voice and advocate the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, that Presence that was placed within us. The moment we did try to separate but really didn’t, and if you study A Course in Miracles, you know much about that or you’ve heard much about that and I now being a serious student of the course for now 15 years here in 2017. Even though I first recorded this in 2015. I originally, as you’ll hear me, in a couple minutes or a couple of seconds after this, blame God for the whole thing that God dreamed it because this was teachings that I followed then. Paramahansa Yogananda, somebody of which – the man which, the Avatar to which I took discipleship vows…

Bryan: We are essence. The Holy Spirit was given to us. The atonement as it’s understood in A Course in Miracles is the correction for that primal error, that first original error where we tried to usurp the power of God and create a world where we could hide from God, where we could be separate from God, where we could be individuals, where we could be bodies, where we could have sensual desires met. We took what was given to us in our creation by God in the heavenly state, which is desire, fiery desire energy. And we took it in. Exploited it. So here we are seeming to suffer, seeming to be separate, seeming to be either

depressed, anxious in despair, in lack, loneliness, cut off. But we never were. But again, we have that Holy Spirit Presence or God’s Presence within us, the Universal Inspiration, the voice for God telling us that we are innocent, that we never did a darn thing to really separate ourselves off from God. We just are experiencing what seems to be duality even though what in reality is or what reality is, is nonduality, ONE. We are one with our source that should bring us peace, but accepting that, knowing that Being. We are told that those are all different things and we’re at various aspects (stages) of the journey towards awakening, so we may or may not embrace such an idea or ideas that we are one with God and never could have been separate. So again, I’ll show you here in a minute or two, maybe even seconds after this. I blamed God for the creation of delusion, saying that we have this problem of being under a spell of hypnosis, but that’s what we do. We blame God for our suffering, for our guilt that we carry around with us. We carry a tremendous amount of unconscious guilt over rejecting God even though in reality it never occurred, again.

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Bryan: Those are teachings of A Course in Miracles which I find great peace in, great solace and serenity in because it seems to explain the entire situation better than anything I’ve come across in spirituality. So now I’ll get you into some of the words that came out of my mouth two years ago around Christmas. It’s Christmas in a few days here in 2017. I’m just correcting perception using what’s called a miracle. A change in my perception about how we came to be, how this world came to be, what we are, who we are, who we think we are, why we’re here or seemed to be here versus where we really are, which is being in the place we never left. So I’ll momentarily return to the previous recording from Choose Peace. So take a listen for a second here. It’s kind of cruel what I put out there, even though I try to make sense of it and make it sound sensible.

Bryan: (2015) God’s the one that set up the traps and the snares to snare us, but to entertain the possibility that creation, in itself as it unfolded as good and evil God, that transcendent being dreamed it would once again come back and evolve back to its source.

Bryan: Think of a very strong presence of light. Emanating out from that light are rays, and as the rays go on and outward, they become more and more dense. Our physical bodies are dense, but we are not in our entirety physical bodies and that in itself when we think that is true, when we think that we are only physical bodies, that in itself brings lack of contentment. So we had to be asleep in order to awake.

Bryan: (2017) Or did we? I’m now asking this two years later. In Christian Gnosticism, that of which I was just speaking about back in December 2015, about emanations of light being experienced in gradations becoming more and more dense, or less and less transparent as it gets further out from the source or the center of God or from the Fullness known as in Gnosticism, the Pleroma, the Fullness of God.

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So there is some basis of understanding in the sense of cosmology or the nature of being, ontology, that there are these gradations and while we’re in bodies or appear to be in bodies, we’re experiencing density, inertia, or what’s known as in the Bhagavad Gita, teaching – tamas, the quality of tamas. A guna, which we’re not going to go into one of three. What are we? We are light. We are the same light that was birthed in Jeshua as a baby. It manifested all throughout his life on earth. . . is witnessed by many through actions. Your decisions through miracles, through wonder working through healing. Peace came into the world and for a time resided in a body. Yes, Jeshua, wasn’t sent here to be put asleep only to awaken as I was trying to argue a few years ago, nor were any of us. We actually chose to be here. So did Jeshua. Jeshua chose to be here. Whether or not God, the Father, God the Mother said to Jeshua, Hey, got a mission for you. Are you going to do this? Go down to this place that appears to be called Earth. Enter the cosmos. . . space and time. Show the path to awakening. Awaken others. That’s why he was here, was to awaken others that should bring you peace too. He was one of the first to awaken, but not the only one ever to awaken and that should bring you peace too. I’m giving you permission to believe that

He wasn’t sent here to save us from sin (rather that we are sinless and only makes mistakes to be corrected through miracles or changes in perception). He was sent or he chose to be here, one of the two

Maybe both, but I don’t know. To show us an alternative. To show us a path. To give us hope

To give us wisdom. To show us the way back to the Father, back to the Mother

And he had to go through his life integrating the light presence, that of which we are from which we came. That of which we always will be is light. Light, essence, light presence. We came from what Tau Malachi in the Sophian Gnostic tradition, calls the ‘light continuum.’

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Bryan: So we have a body of light of which we really are, which comes from formlessness, which is in reality one and not unique, not separate, not different from anyone else. Well, there is no one, no one. There’s only one. So there isn’t anyone. There’s just one. So we have an awakener. That is worth so much. That is something to be grateful for. We have a teacher. We have somebody who woke up from the world, from the dream, and dares through works such as A Course in Miracles speaking to us, showing us how to do the same thing. I want you to take a listen again because again, I blamed God for the whole mishap, the apparent mishap of creation, suffering, opposites, duality, individuality, multiplicity, relativity, subjectivity, and then I go on to talking in other terms about union and about some of my experiences that I had of unitive experience. So as you listen to the rest of the program, just bear in mind that I do not believe that God created this world. A split in the Sonship, that primal Christ Mind – just for a split second where we forgot to laugh. It was in a split second that the separation seemed to happen and here we are. . . but listen as I blamed God again, but know that I don’t believe that now. And then listen to the way the rest of the program unfolds and I

hope you enjoy it, and again, that’s despite blaming duality on God.

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Bryan: (2015) I’m telling you, I believe that God did it. All so, God could know One’s Self. Her Self. His Self. Itself. The Bible, which I don’t like to quote from very often talks about when, Adam and Eve or other people, other men and women rather, knew each other. They’re referring to union… so union is the goal of our life in love. Anything that is outside of union is not peace. It’s a searching. It’s a clinging and grasping. We’re trying to reach something that we feel we don’t have yet. If there’s all this striving in, there’s these desires to acquire and to attain and something that we feel is outside of ourself, we’re never going to find it. I had to realize through some earlier mystical experiences that the Presence was not without me or outside of me. It was within me. It took a while to realize, that. I had to recognize Real Presence or Divinity, Divine Presence outside myself, and actually what was happening in the process was I was recognizing Presence out there because it was already in me. It was awakened in me and it was during a very powerful awakening experience for me. It had nothing to do with religion even though I used religion to get through it and to try to find peace and try to find meaning and try to explain all of what happened, but really what I came to know was love.

Bryan: And I don’t think you can have love, unconditional love without peace, peace within yourself, peace within the deepest recesses of your being. How could you? Otherwise there are conditions placed upon it. There’s rules associated with it and it comes with strings attached. If Union is what we want and peace is what we really, truly want inherently, why do we resist it so much? Is it out of fear? Is it guilt? Yeah, it’s a little of both. Those things get in the way. They’re huge obstacles that we need to overcome. Guilt can serve a purpose at some times, but it can become very neurotic. I remember hearing Thomas Keating, a Cistercian monk, one say that any guilt that lasts more than 15 seconds is neurotic. I’m going to quote from that course, “Remembering to Choose Peace” (from Pathways of Light) again:

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When we realize the incredible benefits that remembering to choose peace brings us, including dissolving of our false values and things such as scarcity, sickness and limitation. It seems surprising that we would want to drag our feet or resist accepting the experience of inner peace, the experience of allowing in the wisdom, abundance, awareness and healing power of our one true self. In order to let go of this resistance, it is important to understand the underlying unconscious desire to keep the thought system of the ego that is the real source of this resistance.

Bryan: We cherish the ego. We make the ego our God. We think it’s all there is. It’s only one voice of the two voices that we can hear and yes, there are many voices our own imagined ones as well, but most of

them come from the ego and the ego will probably speak first, but the voice, if you want to say, of the God Presence or of Universal Inspiration, or if you want to use the words Holy Spirit or of Inner Reality, True Self that comes as the still small voice…it comes in the form of a still small voice. Again, Presence is not a forceful thing. Presence is power, and when I say power, I don’t mean power over… even though Divinity exists or we exist because of Divinity…Power. Think of it as more of a source. The source is like the sun… it gives us light, it gives us health. It allows us to live our lives. It gives us nutrients, gives the earth nutrients, so therefore it is a source of sustenance, something we can sustain – that allows us to be sustained. I want to quote again: “Resistance to peace is just wanting to keep what we have made for ourselves alone.” And it goes on further to say that: “The ego is just the false idea of being separate from the ‘All’” – that all that I’m talking about is Divine Presence. We breathe it, we breathe this life force. It’s Prana, it’s chi. That sustains us up above. I quoted things such as scarcity, sickness and limitation. Scarcity really means that we think we don’t have enough and if we think only out of the mindset that we don’t have enough, then we go seeking for more

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And I just want to jump back for a second because I had mentioned there are two thought systems and again there’s the ego and then there’s the Divine Presence

Divine Presence is a much more inclusive way of looking at it.

Bryan: If you say Holy Spirit, you’re alienating other people that may not associate with that word, but it’s that and it’s more. It’s the conscience that was born within us. It’s the moral virtues of right versus wrong. We’re born with the ability to learn that, but our soul, not our minds, our soul knows what is right. Our soul knows what will bring us peace. Our soul knows that peace cannot be found outside of us. That peace cannot be found through attacking other people verbally, physically, emotionally. Sickness is – was mentioned earlier just a couple minutes ago. Sickness is actually defined in A Course in Miracles as being anger… Sickness is anger taken out on the body so that it will feel pain. So if we are holding a lot of anger, we’re going to experience sickness. Is it possible to be sick? Have a sickness or an illness or to be suffering and to be at peace? I think it is. It’s not impossible because you can come to terms with an illness. One of my mentors in the past, she lost her battle to cancer. She was middle aged, a grandmother, a mother, but he had so much more to live for and I’m thankful for the time that I had with her and I’m sure that so many of the people’s whose whose lives she did touch are thankful as well.

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Bryan: I got to see some of her journey, not physically, not in the capacity of being with her, but in things that she would write and post on social media, and I think though she wrestled with her sickness. She did come to terms with it. I think she made her peace. I don’t know exactly how, but when the time came for her to make her

transition, she left the body behind. I’m sure there was great liberation felt in leaving the body. Now, I don’t want to mistake, make a mistaken point… of saying that we can’t feel peace…true peace until we leave the body. That’s not – not necessarily true because we were made to know that Presence of God, that Divine Presence and it comes through that release meant through that letting go and we can have what we already had from the beginning. When we see that all these toys, all these acquisitions, all the things we surround ourselves with, and the distractions – they really don’t matter, and during this season of giving, of being a beacon of light, the celebration of a guide coming into the world, we can be peace for others and we can be peacemakers, but in order to be any of those things, we need to be at peace ourselves

So what we really need to come to grips with as far as wrestling with what’s known as desire. Desire is a gift. Desire to know the infinite is a gift. Desire to love is a gift. Desire to be a in a relationship with another person is a gift, but desire and striving, and self grasping, and clinging. They can stand in the way through – they’re like brick walls we build around ourselves and try to separate ourselves from that presence that is always there. That is always radiating outwards and yes, the Kingdom of Heaven so to speak, is within. But if we’re going to bring that reality, that truth to Earth and be peacemakers, we can’t be building walls. We need to be building bridges.

Bryan: Let’s be uplifted by the thought that God is the only power that has the ability to take away, always have those things we surround ourselves with or consume ourselves with, to deplete ourselves so that we are in a state of lack of contentment. When we are all about being separate from oneness, oneness or divinity or Divine Presence, we’re in the ego.

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Bryan: We resist peace. When we take things, try to take a little bit away from that whole, that wholeness, that “Allness”, that “Isness”, and try to keep it for ourself alone. “Oh, I had a religious experience, so I’m going to therefore go in a corner. I’m going to go in a cave and I’m going to stay there.” Well, it doesn’t mean that going into a cave and meditating and becoming a recluse is a bad thing. But because these people, often these Yogis, these saints, these mystics who go and have these experiences, of conversion, so to speak, and I don’t mean conversion to a religion or to a faith or something like that. I mean of a metamorphosis of the entire self. When they have this, they then usually you do usually have to retreat from the world, but what I’m getting at is, going off by yourself, doesn’t mean that you will not give back in some way. . .but going off by yourself into a cave. Keeping an experience of Divinity for yourself is a temptation. If you go and you pray for the world and send out healing energy to the world, you’re doing the Divine Will. You’re doing what is in your nature, in your inborn nature, your divine inborn nature. You’re doing what you were meant to, which you were created to do, which is to love. And when we raise our energy or

our frequencies or are magnetism, so to speak, through these experiences, we may have of deep peace and love, enjoy and ineffable bliss. We radiate that out from our being. So by choosing peace, we are giving peace just by being peace and just bad being identified with peace in the first place. Have you ever been around a holy person? I don’t mean a religious person. It could be a religious person. I just mean a holy person, a person. Why did we say that They’re holy in the first place? They’re whole. They’re complete, they feel complete. Maybe they feel more complete than they do fragmented, but we we sense their “presence”. We sense there is something about them that we are entranced by, that we are drawn to. We want to surround ourselves with these people that make us feel calm, undisturbed, contented, still and present… because they radiate with Divine Presence.

Divinity is the idea of “All” sharing, All of Itself with all or having all. I’m quoting again, from the course is “Remembering to Choose Peace” by Pathways of Light:

All giving or extending All of itself, which is the thought of love to all. This is what love or God is the idea of oneness. The total sharing of all love with all this is also what A Course in Miracles defines as holiness.

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So I brought up holiness before I even looked to quote and it kind of fits with what we’re talking about. We’re living in a dream. We need to awaken. We’re called to awaken and Divinity rejoices when we do because Divinity is knowing itself as the “All”. Does that make sense? I hope it does.

Bryan: So choose peace to be peace, to give peace, to see peace in the world. There’s so much ugliness, especially, even during this time of the year. The commercial aspect of it, and I guess, human beings had to invent a mythical creation, a mythical person such as Santa Clause to be a exemplary of, you know, great enlightened person, a great enlightened person. However, this myth that we made you came to be based on a children having to be good or bad in order to get what they wanted. We can get what we want, what we truly want from Divinity by surrendering. And that simply means letting go, again, like I said earlier, giving oneself over, dis-identifying with all the things, “things” that we think matter that really don’t. Everything is energy. Matter is energy. Matter in creation is thought and energy. So our bodies are constantly being created moment by moment, by moment, through thought, intention will, and through energy. So being in union or being one with or being consciously one with the source that emanated us all can create a pattern in you that may be able to be more prone to being free from things such as sickness, such as anxiety, such as disturbances that might – anything that might rob you of or cause you to think that you’re being robbed of peace. And again, getting back to a person having a certain aura about them is because

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they have an energy. There’s an energy there, there is a soul there. The soul is not just energy. It’s essence, its beingness, true beings, true “Isness”. True “Allness” is peace. It always has been. Everything else is just a mirage in the desert that we construct. When we write our own scripts and we think we’re running the show. . .we are not, we are not in peace.

Bryan: Do not be afraid of what you are. Do not be afraid of who you are. You are a god like being. You are created to be god likeness. You’re not the God, but you are created in God’s likeness. Judeo- Christian scripture says, let’s make man and woman in our image and when God is saying are, it’s a Father presence with a Mother presence saying let’s make them male and female, but also in our likeness is the God likeness, the God self aspect that is meant to be realized through our lives, through actions, through love, through perseverance, and through the process of waking up.{I might add that A Course in Miracles teaches that our shared identity in the collective Sonship as the one Son of God, we are beyond gender} Every time we let go of some sort of baggage, every time we let go of some sort of hurt, every time we let go of some some source of unforgiveness, we are getting closer and closer to true peace. Grievances will destroy you. . . Forgive, give somebody else the chance to have peace who you may be harboring attack thoughts towards. They might not accept your apology if you choose to apologize to them in, in person, to person, in a person to person situation, but know that you’re releasing them from the burden of your unforgiveness, the chains of unforgiveness. So there’s lots of ways to become what we already are or to be, or to have that presence of peace revealed to us

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And we’ve talked about it in many ways, many facets

We’ve talked around this subject for a good amount, a good amount of time. Today

What I want you to take with you is the knowingness . . . again, that you don’t have to do anything

The victory of peace is already within you.

Bryan: It’s gonna feel like an effort, but it’s not an effortful trying. It’s not a forceful action based thing to let go, yet it’s going to hurt and the only reason we hurt is because the ego likes to feel pain and wants us in – wants the body and the mind to feel pain because the ego thinks it’s in charge. So don’t let anything get in the way and don’t let anything stand in the way. Don’t create obstacles to peace. That’s the essence of what we’re talking about. You don’t have to, but we do it. We all do it. I do it. Again. . . Just admit that it’s okay not to have to run the show all the time. Sometimes we have to take action and we have to do things, but to attain peace, to remember peace, to remember to choose peace. . . We don’t have to try so hard that we’re fighting for our lives. We just need to let go – and don’t be afraid. A Course in Miracles says, love or fear, rather – fear is love’s opposite and from fear come other negative emotions that there are two emotions, love and fear. Be Love. Choose the higher path. Choose what’s going to liberate you and other people, not save you from a place called hell or something like that,

but liberate you, uplift you, prepare you to go in return to where we came from, our Source.

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Bryan: On that note, I hope you have a blessed, blessed, blessed holiday. Whatever form it takes for you. Try to find ways whether it’s meditation, prayer, contemplation, breathing, counting your breath as you breathe, mindfulness, being totally mindful of what you’re doing when you’re doing it, if you’re washing the dishes, you’re washing the dishes. If you’re changing a diaper, you’re changing a diaper. If you’re driving a car, you’re driving a car. That’s a meditation in itself. When you’re totally present, just be totally present and stop creating situations that inhibit the perception. That’s a word we haven’t used yet today. Perception I’ve been using, knowing or being one with, but the perception of peace. We can change our perceptions and that’s what a miracle is. We just need to allow it to happen and I can’t tell you the exact way to make it happen, but I, I’ve given you some suggestions. Just know that you can make a difference in someone else’s life. You can be the presence of Divinity for somebody else. You can be the presence of peace for somebody else just by merely learning to become what you already are inside. Master the art of peace. On that note may the divine bless you. Uplift you and keep you. Om. Shanti. Peace.

This has been brought to you by Project New Humanity, Communications, Temple Christ Realization, and Christ Realization Radio. Thank you very much. You can find products by me @bryanrice.org, including information on books, music, and audio books. Also, check out my blog and grass roots movement at projectnewhumanity.org. Thank you very much. Amen.

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The Reality of Who, What, and Where
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In this adapted and updated transcript of a discourse first broadcasted on Christ Realization Radio by Project New Humanity in 2018, reflect on the nature of your Real Presence, Essence, and Being while considering teachings of A Course In Miracles about what reality is and where you think you are. According to A Course in Miracles, your Real Identity is Christ and you are One with God. That is who you are. Other traditions might call your True Nature, The Atman, The Self, The God-Self, The Higher Self, The Buddha Nature, or the Inner Guru. Explore ideas surrounding what is reality versus what is considered to be illusion and mere appearances seeming to exist as form. You are here for a short time, are as some say, subject ourselves to being stuck in cycles of death and rebirth, but have never truly left your True Home in the Paradise State of Awareness known as Heaven.

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Bryan: Joy to you friends. This is Bryan Rice. Coming to you on the resurrected radio network as you heard at the beginning of the show here on Christ Realization Radio. It’s taken shape in many forms. It’s been in existence since 2010 under different names with many different hosts and programming. All inspiring, all seeking to do the same thing, to speak from. What is the universal curriculum, rather the eternal, Reality of God. Sanataan Dharma. Transcending any one tradition. Many of the programs I’ve hosted in the past on Turning Points and Transformations, have had to do with topics such as yoga, yoga philosophy, kundalini yoga, A Course in Miracles, The Second Coming of Christ by Paramahansa Yogananda. While, those have been in programs such as the “Christ Within” or “Samadhi of the Christ”. This program, Turning Points and Transformations is unique unto itself for it seeks to draw from wisdom for many traditions and speak about things that are relevant to you and to your plan and path of awakening to truth. So we’re not limited to one text, one scripture, but I to use A Course in Miracles quite a bit because I think it is a path to God-Realization, Self-Realization, or would I call Christ-Realization.

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Bryan: It’s a philosophical treatise (a form of spiritual psychotherapy), not a dogma, nor a fixed set of beliefs that you’re supposed to adhere to. Rather it gives practical, mystical insights that you can apply to your life, centering around the idea of forgiveness and transcending fear through love. The reality of love is all there is, really. It’s the only thing that is true as is stated in the introduction of A Course in Miracles. God is love and can have no opposite. Fear is called the opposite, but fear is not real. Today’s

program will go into the idea that there is nothing else at all in essence or creation or truth that can be opposed to Love. Nothing. And the title of today’s show is “The Reality of Who, What and Where You Are.” Well, what are you Who are you You are Christ. Some people would call it the self, the true self, the higher self, the Atman in eastern traditions and Hindu traditions. Where are you in the real world beyond the physical. What warrants such a discussion about reality? Well, we manufacture something that we call reality through perception, through that primal act of having attempted to separate from the love, the wholeness and oneness and completed aspect of God. We sought to reject our oneness because we thought there could be something else. The something else that we seek for is our own private individual experience, which we often try to call it creation or manifestation. I was going to say self-manifestation or self- actualization.

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Bryan: What I want to spend a great deal of time talking about on this network here and now in 2018 and beyond is reestablishing the connection with that Christ nature, and when I say Christ, I’m not speaking simply of a person, not the person known as Jeshua or Jesus. I’m talking about a “Presence”, an Intelligence, an Essence, a reflected light nature and anointing, the Real Presence and life force of who you are is the Christ. You are that. You are a son or daughter of God. You were created in perfect oneness in Heaven. You reside in Heaven. You always have. But seem to be experiencing cycles of birth and rebirth or birth and death, reincarnation, coming back to this place we call a world, which we try to name as reality when in fact it is, but an illusion. That’s according to A Course in Miracles. You don’t have to believe that to listen to the programming on this network. I’m only here to try and get you to ask questions. To search, to continue to find nuggets of wisdom that you can take on your journey. It’s not in any way meant to confine anybody.

Bryan: This network is not meant to confine anybody to one tradition. As I was saying earlier, you could also say, much of what we are about on this network is divine realization or theosis, divinization, knowing that you are divine. That is your true nature. So, there’s two voices you can listen to. If we stick with the philosophy of A Course in Miracles, and again, let’s not get attached to terms. There is the Holy Spirit and there is the ego. Again. Holy Spirit can be called Higher Self, True Self, Inner Wisdom, Universal Inspiration, Higher Mind, again, True Self. While the ego can be called the false self or our beastial nature, where we seek to be independent of God, the Divine, the Divine Presence that is. So, if there’s still a question in your mind of who you are, it is not the self you have made. It is the Self which was created by the Divine, residing in… now always and forever in that edenic state of Paradise. Oneness, a state of awareness where all is one, all is in union. Where we are in communion with God. Your personality, the self you think you are the false self, the small mind. The ego thought system is something that you have

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made. In A Course in Miracles, it speaks about creation versus making and we’re really meant to be co-creators with God, with the Divine, with the Allness. Bryan: But, in order to try to assert our independence and to try to become more than God and try to usurp the power of God, we make things. We make self-concepts, ideas about ourselves, self definitions, and then we call that who we are. Those images that we make. Our self definitions come from lack, fear, scarcity, and guilt. I’m not here to make you feel guilty on Turning Points and Transformations on this network and in other programs. I’m hopefully here to give you permission to be liberated from guilt. And this is coming from somebody who was extremely, extremely scrupulous in my twenties. I kept my priests in business. I was in the confessional confessing “sin” or sins. Or things that I thought I did that would leave some sort of mark on my soul trying to obtain and attain, and receive, absolution or freedom from self imposed torment from affliction all created by my ego. And we all do that.

Bryan: Christianity in it’s mainstream focuses a great deal upon these sins or infractions. Sin means missing the mark. A Course in Miracles calls it absence of love – but sin is NOT real. We just make mistakes. We make errors. We choose illusions, things that are not true. We choose against our Christ nature, our Atman nature, our Higher Self nature, our True Self nature, we choose against it. Where we feel insecure again, lacking. It’s that scarcity principle where we think we need something to be complete. When in reality we are already whole. At the top of every show, the question is asked of you, will today be the day you have your breakthrough in consciousness? Well, we’re not going to go into the mechanics of consciousness or perception or of the ego mind, how it was made, what it is, because the ego loves that. The ego loves to talk about itself. What we need to do in order to have a breakthrough in consciousness or in awareness is the better word… in awareness is to challenge what we have made, which are known as appearances. That’s a word used in the Course. Forms. The changeable or the changing.

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Bryan: You are, changeless. You’re the changeless Son and Daughter of God, the Almighty, the Son and Daughter of the Divine Allness and that Divine Allness is beyond all gender and beyond all form. So, if we are one with our Source and are beyond all form, we too are formless… and that makes the form unreal. Well, the formless the formlessness of spirit, of potential, the actuality of who we are, the Christ, which A Course in Miracles says, is the one Son of God who we all are. . .

Bryan: Why do we manufacture our reality? Well, you can’t call it reality… Why do we manufacture a substitute for reality, rather? Because we were afraid. And this is happening now as it did a long time ago or appeared to happen a long time ago. That’s the good news. The good news is that really didn’t happen. The separation from God

really didn’t happen. The creation of the world, this universe, this earth, this place, this dwelling place that we appear to be in did not really happen. It’s an illusion. Time and space are an illusion. The real world, {the world of happiness and joy made by the Holy Spirit which is the goal of the spiritual journey, the state of mind which immediately precedes the awakening to Heaven, according to Course teacher Robert Perry’s Glossary of Terms} is where you are. Where you still inhabit is Heaven. And that isn’t necessarily a place. Heaven is a state of awareness, of perfect oneness, a state of awareness of perfect oneness, and we won’t go into the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles or other non-dualistic teachings necessarily, but we need to learn to distinguish between who we really are versus who we really aren’t. What we really are versus what we really aren’t. Are not rather. And where we are really, in reality, versus where we think we are.

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Bryan: We weren’t content with being Christ. So in a certain sense you can say we like the biblical or the understanding of the fallen angel of Lucifer in Christianity who chose not to serve God and became what now is given so much attention as a demon or a devil, something diabolical, something evil. We’re all in a sense like fallen angels. We turned our back on God and Helen Shuchman, the scribe. Well, the one who took down A Course in Miracles from the voice which she said was Jeshua, Jesus. . . in her original handwritten notes talked about that, that what we’ve come to experience has been like a fall from – that fall from grace. The separation has been like us being a fallen angel, but we’re not a fallen angel. We’re still the pure, radiant, eternal loved, unchanging, undefiled, perfect Son and Daughter of God. In every moment we can give birth like mother Mary in Heaven did too. Jeshua, the awakened brother who calls us to a journey of awakening in A Course in Miracles (and other works such as The Way of Mastery). A journey that he completed, a journey that he says we can take as well and should take and will take because that is the will of God. That is what we want to do. Really in reality, that is our will too. So, we’re not in the substitute reality known as the universe, earth, time and space. We’re in that Edenic state of oneness, singing a beautiful hymn with the chorus of angels and light beings. He has One Whole

One Continuous Whole, One Ever-Expansive, Never Ending, Whole, Infinite Beyond Measure.

Bryan: What are you? The Christ, the True Self. You are pure inner wisdom and so we should let inner wisdom guide us. Each person has the teacher within them. When we appeared to separate from God, and I say “we” because it was the collective ego and then we did it each time and do it each time we choose to come back to earth through birth where there’s a script written {by the Holy Spirit after we choose to come back}. The ego writes its own version through dreaming, projecting, and image making, of what we think should occur in life, in the illusion of life, rather here on earth, or if there are other beings from other terrains, let’s just leave it at that. Other planets

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maybe. Who, who are we to rule that out? And who are we to rule out other aspects of what we call reality, other realms, dimensions, the Christian Kabbalah, the Kabbalah of Judaism speaks of various universes being manifested through the act of creation. Now, I don’t have the complete and whole understanding of it, of that teaching. Those teachings, and I’m not an expert in that by any means, but why couldn’t we have created other universes, other galaxies. We created other planets {or some mind did} Some spiritual teachers and astrophysicists have spoken of island universes out there. Again, from A Course perspective, these would be alternative realities where form, may be manifest or a life – it’s called in scientific – in a scientific paradigm, from that point of view, in a biological sense, something that can be studied that’s dense, that’s matterward, matter bound, bound by was not created by God, but by the ego.

Bryan: Now, just a personal note, it’s taken me over 15 years to actually get through the text of A Course in Miracles. Why do I say that? Why do I share that? Why do I think that’s important? Well, I was only ready for certain aspects of The Course to be transmitted to me by Holy Spirit, by Higher Self, by Higher Mind, by Inner wisdom, by the Inner Teacher. . . by the Christ mind. Awakening can’t be forced upon us. It comes from above. And it comes from within. . .

Bryan: But getting back to reality in substitute realities in why we did it in the first place. When we forgot or disassociated from who we are, who we are, the Christ, the Son of God, the Son and Daughter of God, the Course uses masculine terminology. And I’m not too fond of that, but it’s purpose in my opinion – and my opinion doesn’t really matter at all really. . . But its purpose is to say that we are all the same. We’re not male and female. We’re not these individual bodies appearing as men in women with different skin colors coming from different heritages and races. All these differences that we see in the world, all this multiplicity, all this – all these forms, all these appearances, as I said before, are not real.

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Bryan: It goes back to, we are the Christ. We’re the Self. We are the Atman. And when we forgot that and we thought that there was something beyond God that we could have and something beyond Christ that we could be. We gave into what was called the “tiny mad idea.” So from madness came this alternative experience. Let’s call it experience. Let’s not use the word reality. Let’s not give the ego it’s gratification or the satisfaction. (Pause) I take a moment. I pause and I asked Jeshua, Jesus to come to be present here with all of us as an older brother, as an enlightened being, as an equal, an equal, but as the awakener. . . to take control of this show. Jeshua, what do you want to be said and shared and talked about from this point forward?

Bryan: I believe what he wants us to do is focus on what the simple

fact that nothing that appeared to happen, that we thought we did or anything that we thought we did to God or to other people and to ourselves, never really occurred.

Bryan: Now you might say, if you’re somebody listening to this and never having been exposed to A Course in Miracles or to anything nondual in nature, you might say, well, how can you say that this experience here in this world seems to be so real? You know, what about the bills that have to be paid? What about the insurance bill that has to be paid? The taxes that have to be paid? What about the need to buy clothes? That’s all very real, isn’t it? Well, we’re told not to worry about those things. Though we have to to survive in this world, to live in this world. It’s a necessary part, but it’s not the entire picture. It’s not the entirety. It’s not the be all end all. It’s not all that is. It’s not what we should give our full attention to. We should be in alignment, alignment with reality, first and foremost, know where we are, know who we are, know what we are, and then everything else will fall into place if we know that, that we are Christ and we are seeing through the eyes of Christ which The Course calls Christ Vision. . . and if we see our brother the way God sees us and our brother or sister, if you want to use that term, which I like to, just to keep it from sounding one sided or biased, so God sees you a certain way, always has always will. And we’re to see our brother and sister, the person who really is our savior

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The person who we think is our enemy is our savior, the person to which we project guilt onto is really one who’s meant to do deliver us and to give us salvation or liberation. Salvation is a word that’s overused even though it’s used in the Course

In this, this podcast, this show is coming from Course teachings, but again, I don’t want to limit the scope of what is known as the “universal curriculum,” which is not limited to the over a thousand page revelation known as A Course in Miracles, in all the various books that it exists. And those words themselves, are mere symbols, and they just tried to help us undo false thinking, erroneous perception, the substitute reality. Take the veil off from in front of roll it up, take it out of the way from the substitute reality so that reality itself can be shown to us the reality of oneness, of changelessness, of purity, of undifferentiated oneness, the eternal existence.

Bryan: We make laws with the ego mind, the limited mind, the small mind, the fractured mind, the false self, the self grasping nature, the ego illusion. . . So, we make illusions to make us feel better about ourselves. To hide and try to compensate for the guilt we feel – this immense unconscious guilt we feel about having so we thought, rejected God, and created a different existence. Again, an alternative reality. People today are now really into virtual reality, creating these alternative realities that you seem to be able to live in. A dream within a dream. It’s a word I haven’t used very much in the show, but this is a dream. You are dreaming even you’ll hearing me now you are dreaming this, but in the dream can come a light that can be

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turned on. You can have an “a-ha” moment. Illumination can occur. Gnosis or Divine Realization can occur and you can realize who and what you really are and where you really are, which is were you never left, the heavenly dwelling place. The Edenic state of bliss. We want to awaken from the dream. We want to undo illusions. Recognize through true perception or even beyond that through knowledge where gnosis, what is real and what isn’t. And you hear the word idolatry used in religious circles going back to ancient times. The word idols is used in the Course. There are things we really, really, really thought we wanted, but we never really did. Where are we have sought completion because we have felt incomplete, fractured, broken. We’ve wanted to heal from our brokenness, from our suffering, from our pain, from our afflictions. We’ve wanted to wake up so bad . . . at the same time, we’ve tried so hard to erase that guilt that we feel for having chosen this place where we are, or we seem to be rather. Not where we are, but where are we seem to be known as this world, that we tried to substitute for eternity.

Bryan: Now, miracles allow us to change the way we view how we live in this world and they help us to wake up. Miracles, if you remember from the fifty miracles principles, are spoken of as interpersonal. They’re not just something to do to make yourself super human. There’s something that involves communication with or interaction with other human beings, other souls out there, spirits, other minds which The Course calls our brother. Again, our brother is our savior. So you are not different from your brother. You are your brother. Your brother is the bringer of salvation because your brother mirrors to you who you are, the perfect son and daughter of God, the Christ. If you see your brother as guiltless. If you see your brother or sister as innocent, you will be able to see the innocence in you. You will be able to start healing the unconscious guilt that you feel. You’ll start being able to unpackage the subconscious, deep repressed feelings, emotions and thoughts that we carry with us which take the form of guilt and then we would live out things such as lack as I mentioned earlier in the show, scarcity thinking we’re not worthy of abundance or love or grace. Where all the good things that come from the Father, beyond any gender. God is not anthropomorphic. God does not have a form. God is not a person. Neither are you. You’re not an individual

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That’s something that’s hard to digest, hard to get used to an idea that’s somewhat foreign to us because we’ve grown up in a culture, in a world that prides itself upon being unique and one of a kind. That’s an illusion.

Bryan: We came here to be special. The Course speaks of specialness. Because we weren’t content with changeless love. Changeless love didn’t satisfy us, so we tried to find completion outside of ourselves. Hence we projected a world outside that we appear to be in, having experiences in, making choices. It’s really all a big hallucination. What you see out there as a reflection of your thoughts and keep in mind that you are a thought in the Mind of God. If that’s

the case and ideas leave not their source, like the Course says, then there’s no way we can be the product of our hallucinations, of our projections, of the image making that we take part in. So, really, discernment is an ongoing process. We have to ask, is this from the ego or the Holy Spirit to discern what is real versus what is unreal. Am I seeing through the eyes of Christ through Christ Vision or am I speaking or acting in accordance with the voice for God, the Holy Spirit or Universal Inspiration? Or am I speaking from a very small and cutoff, separated self. . .

Bryan: Sacred Heart of Jeshua. Jesus. Bless us all in this moment as we ponder these things, ponder these thoughts. It’s really encouraging and damn great news. . . excuse my choice of words, but I’m just trying to get your attention. It is great news. Now what we seem to manufacture never really happened. Never really occurred. It’s a figment of our imagination. It is a grand hallucination. It’s a script being played out that we wrote {This is a misnomer as I have come to understand. We try to write scripts of how we want our day to go, but the Holy Spirit really wrote the script that will enable us to wake up. It’s more appropriate to say that our ego invests in a personal story, rather, a dream.} Where we tried to be special. . . we’re trying to be separate, where we tried to be different where we tried to be individuals. Where we try to be unique. Where we tried to be more than God. Where we tried to create on our own, which the Course really would call “making,” which is not the same as co-creating with God {we create in Heaven}. Co-creation takes place in eternity. We’re called to extend love because we are love. We’re called to be love because we are love. And everything that we see and encounter with other people and in our own lives, in our own decision making and our own thought process is either love or a call for love, but oftentimes we tend to be experiencing life or what we think is life, through the lens of fear as we mentioned earlier in the show

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Fear again in the opening of the Course is said to be the opposite of love, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite, so God really doesn’t have an opposite

So anything that comes from fear or from terror or from panic or from anxiety or worry or stress or anger or indifference or depression or sadness is from the ego. Because the eternal blesses our nature. Peace is our nature. Joy is our nature. Joy is our essence. Joy is who we are. We’ve always been joy and it’s joy to which we seek to return. . . and we seek that by becoming one with the Christ. . . one in being one in truth, walking with and walking, holding the hand and being guided by the Christ, the Christ Mind, which is the Holy Spirit

Which was God’s answer for the separation, for that primal error in judgment that happened immediately after we separated or tried to separate ourselves from God that’s called the Atonement, and many of you already know that in Jeshua, Jesus is in charge of the Atonement, at least according to the curriculum of A Course in Miracles, and the Atonement, was established by not his crucifixion but by his resurrection. So, when we appeared to transition in this life. .

from this life rather here on earth or wherever we may dwell

or seemed to dwell, again, it’s all a matter of how you use your words. And words again are but symbols they cannot describe love. We can only seek to try to remove the blockage to the awareness of God’s presence. God cannot be explained. Love cannot be taught.

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Bryan: It can be shown to us, again, through revelation, experiences of God contact, union and communion with God, spiritual experiences of that oneness of which we already are a part of. And we have those experiences from time to time to help renew and encourage us along the journey to keep on moving ahead, keep on the path of awakening to returning. To returning to the Heart of God. {“Return to the Heart of God”} Just completed that book by Robert Perry from the Circle of Atonement, an outreach. Wonderful Book. I give it five stars. I will go back and read that multiple times and use that as a study resource because he outlines the whole fall {separation in Course terms} – seeming fall from grace, the state from which we came and our fall from it {though it never happened}, and then that trip back towards Heaven that we seem to have to walk because we live in a realm of perception, and perception is not reality. If I haven’t said that already, perception is not reality. It’s an interpretation. We all have our own interpretation of what life is. The ego tells us these things. Life is love. Love is all there is. Love is all there is! So be not afraid.

Bryan: I just owned up to this in a course I’m taking. I thought it would be great to keep a catalog of all the times that the word fear was used in the pages of the Text and Workbook, Manual for Teachers and in the supplements of of the Course and I tried to keep up with them all, quote them all and I was going to, I guess somehow make a flash card for all the quotes to see just how many times the word fear is used, but what I was doing was looking through the lens of fear. I was trying to master my fears instead of seek mastery through love. Because most of the time when the word fear is used in the Course, it’s used to describe that separated condition. The state of alienation we seem to experience. So to add to the title of this show, I had said who, what and where you are. “The Reality of Who, What and Where You Are”. I could add and “where you’re going”, but you’re not going anywhere because you haven’t went anywhere. That again is good news. You haven’t went anywhere. You’re still in the bosom, still in the embrace, still in the Father’s house. And in the Father’s house, there are many mansions as the Bible speaks of. Jeshua was said to have said that. Many dwelling places. . . don’t get attached to the word mansions and what it connotes such as forms because again, in the reality of who we are, we are form less. We have no shape. We’re part of an endless light continuum. A truth continuum that just keeps going and expanding outwards. It’s a “Fullness”

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In gnostic teachings, it’s called the Pleroma and it’s a really cool thing to try and imagine as we’re called to extend and join with other people on our journey, people that we encounter in this world. And we’re called to have holy encounters. Yes, remember that. Don’t forget that. But we are

emanations of God. Creations and emanations can be used interchangeably. We radiate out from the Heart of God, the Mind of God, and we want to be at the end of the spectrum that’s so far away from God in what’s closest to the experience known as density or being matter-bound. Why are we so content with that and why do we call those appearances in that matter-bound world, in this matter-bound world, reality. When it’s not.

Bryan: Well, we needed someone to tell us that that’s not reality. We needed a radical shake up of our paradigm and worldview – and of our point of view, from which we view ourselves, God and our purpose. Our purpose is union. Our purpose is love. Our purpose is to forgive. This undoes the whole illusion. Forgiveness undoes illusions. Practice it as a means towards God-Realization, towards realizing God in your life, towards realizing the Christ in your life, the Self, the True Self of who you are, the essence of your presence.

Bryan: We talked a lot about guilt and how we feel guilty at the root of our being. And the root of our guilt is causing us to project. We project guilt on to others. We project the guilt that we feel – and the punishment that we feel we’re deserving of, for having made the choice to reject God and try to create a world where we could be hiding and separate from God. I lost my train of thought, but what I really want to do in wrapping up here is say, forgive. Forgive yourself and forgive your brother for what never happened. There is no past as the Workbook says. There is only the eternal moment of now which is called the the holy instant, and when we you live in that moment outside of time and space, we are living in reality. So the holy instant is a gateway to reality. And teachings on the holy instant is a show worthy of itself, worthy of its own focus, rather.

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Bryan: So friends, I thank you for having been present and just going with the flow here. Wherever it has seemed to take us. You are love. You are Christ. You are home. You never left. You have nothing to feel guilty about. You don’t need to punish yourselves or other people because you think you are unworthy of of that love. You are worthy. You are worthy. You’ve never done anything to change how God feels about you. I should add that God does not condemn, never has never will, so God has no need to forgive us. Forget about that whole image of a wrathful God who seeks vengeance. Won’t happen, will never happen. God doesn’t enter our dream, an experience, our madness, the only justice there is, that we experience and can experience and should experience is the justice of expressed through miracles.

Bryan: Friends, thank you for joining me and Turning Points and Transformations. Please come back for our next episode. Wishing you peace, joy, and bliss.

Bryan: Just one final thought to leave you with. Please check out my

website, bryanrice.org. That’s b-r-y-a-n-r-i-c-e dot “org”, where you can find information on how to buy and how to get your hands on some of my music that has encompassed my journey. That has been a reflection of my journey, as well as meditations and affirmations set to music that are uplifting and meant to empower you. Also, check out the grass roots movement I have founded at projectnewhumanity.org. Follow my blog and take advantage of many enlightening services and healing ceremonies. Thank you. May the divine bless you, uplift you and keep you. Om, shanti, peace. Amen.

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TURNING POINTS & TRANSFORMATIONS: DESCEND THEN TRANSCEND

by Red Medicine Bear/Fire From the Stars

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We must do shadow work, to go down into the depths of our psyche in order to the work of Transcendence. We must clear our subconscious debris, go down into the tomb, die to the false self, so we can rise up in glory and radiance and truth. Without doing depth work, we are shallow people. We must acknowledge our “weeds” of darkness, let them grow along side the “wheat” (light) in us, and be transformed through a process of coming into greater awareness. Bryan talks about Jungian Psychology, the shadow, and talks about the path to the True Christed Self. He talks about how suffering is a choice that we make, not a necessity. Recognizing darkness in us helps us to evolve and grow by shining light on our shadow nature that we repress from conscious awareness.

 

The songs you here in this program are written, composed, and sung by Bryan. Check out all Bryan Rice’s published books and music at bryanrice.org.