In 2012, I’m starting to teach Past Life Regression Therapy together with Medical Intuitive, Rheanni Lightwater in Albuquerque NM.

Upcoming Dates:

• Call (505) 603-0112 for scedule

Below is information and a schedule for the intensive. If you are interested in participating, please contact me at (505) 603-0112 0r bob@pastliferegressions.com

Past Life Regression Intensive

Purpose: To explore karma around present day life events; to bring ‘light’ into unconscious beliefs, and to allow for healing, which is defined for our purpose as choice in the given situation.

Structure: The past life regression intensive will have three parts
1) Defining the intention for the weekend2) Learning how to work through past life experiences for catharsis and transformation of related emotions and beliefs3) Learning to follow guidance and letting go of control of outside results
Note: The theme of the weekend will focus around choosing. Why do we choose what we choose? What are the conditions under which we make the choices we do? What are the results of our choices?

Rationale: The purpose of the structure is to optimize the participant’s ability to realize choice in any given situation, which is always a choice of inner experience. By taking one situation that is currently being experienced, the participant can use this as a lab to observe the mind in it’s current state and see what is causing that particular state. This allows for a different choice and release emotional states and beliefs that are no longer appropriate for what the participant would like to change. Learning to listen to an ‘inner voice’ will assist the participant in creating more positive mental states and life situations and assist in limiting and eventually eliminating reactivity.

The Workshop

Friday Night:
Past Life Regression Circle. The participant decides on a personal intention for the class and will experience a past life regression. This event is open to the public – 7:30 – 9:30 pm.

Saturday:
10:00 – 10:30 am – Intro to the weekend intensive. Explanation and discussion about the different facets of the experience of the past life regression from the previous night.
10:30 – 11:00 am – Cause and effect. (Explanation of different facets of past lives, in this life, etc.)
11:00 -12:00 noon – Working with visions from the previous evening. Discussion with facilitator, journal insights, meditation
12:00 noon -2:00 pm – Lunch, nature hike
2:00 – 4:00 pm- Past Life Regression Circle. (Continuing with current intention with new insights and awareness)
4:00 – 5:00 pm – Working with new visions, insights from regression
5:00 – 7:00 pm – Dinner, Rest, Relax
7:00 – 8:30 pm - Holotropic Breathwork.

Sunday
10:00 – 11:00 am – How to listen to guidance effectively

11:00 – 12:00 noon – Coaching and practice in working with guidance

12 noon – 12:30  – Closing activities

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The cost is $195.00 if you send us a deposit of $50.00 by February 29th. After that, the price is $245.00.

If you prefer, we could bill you through PayPal or simply pay using your credit card.

Contact for more info: (505) 603-0112

Please let me know if you have any special questions or concerns about our Past Life Regression Intensive or any of our other hypnosis trainings.

Moving Through the Chaos

On the 12th and 13th of this week we went through a significant transition in America  through the I Ching Energy of Hexagram #2 NATURAL RESPONSE.

Since Tuesday evening alone, we have already gone through two other hexagrams (#49 CHANGING and #18 REPAIR) and are briefly under the influence of Hexagram #42 BENEFIT. Kuan Yin likens this period to white water rafting and warns that there will continue to be frequent and unexpected shifts of energy. The shifts are furious and it’s a good thing she recommended that we remain calm and centered.

Here is another short message that she would like me to share…

How to Benefit from Mass Changes

We are receiving help from Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion, who is guiding us through the I Ching, an ancient Chinese text that follows and predicts movements and energy flow in the cosmos. Her advice as always, is direct and to the point.

The text for the I Ching energy of Hexagram #42 BENEFIT states:

“Exceptional energy is being directed into the current situation. Many things will become possible, even very difficult undertakings. It is important to make the best use of your time now, as conditions will change… Because of the benevolent forces surrounding you, you are presented with an excellent opportunity for self-improvement.

The changing line states that:

“Success is yours if your goal is worthwhile and can BENEFIT others.”

If you can utilize this Hexagram properly, the flow of energy will move into Hexagram #20 CONTEMPLATING and this will be the energy available to be used for your highest BENEFIT:

“By CONTEMPLATING the cosmic laws and their effects on both your life and the lives of others, you can gain an insight into the unfolding pattern of events. This perspective is extremely powerful, and the gifted individual can use it to master him (her) self and his environment.”

~ The I Ching Workbook by R. L. Wing (Doubleday)

The Importance of Working Together With the Flow

Why is it important to be aware of the I Ching flow?

Because there are certain activities that do better when the energy of the Cosmos is flowing in certain ways.

For example, if the flow of the cosmos is in the Hexagram of RETREAT as it was two weeks ago, it would be a poor time to start a business, launch a campaign or announce an important event. A better choice of activity in that case would be cleaning out the garage or reviewing business plans to weed out ineffective activities.

In the current Hexagram BENEFIT, the energy supports activities that create positive seeds for the future. If after that, you have the advantage of Hexagram CONTEMPLATING, you will have an opportunity to CONTEMPLATE how you can best nourish those seeds and put them into action.

Use this Circle to BENEFIT You

So, in the spirit of working together to move effectively through this time, take just a few minutes to ask yourself:

‘What are some things I could plant the seeds for or send energy to that would really help me or others in the future?

Your answer(s) to that question cold mark the beginning of a progressive new era. Whether you decide to follow through, of course, is another question.

However, whatever you consciously create or nourish at this time will receive the extra boost of positive energy that comes from BENEFIT.”

2010 © Rheanni Lightwater  All Rights Reserved

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Rheanni Lightwater is a Feng Shui & Energy Healing Practitioner, Certified Kinesiologist, Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master/Teacher, Karuna® and Grail Reiki Master/Teacher in Albuquerque, NM. Remote work is available: contact@intuitivelearningcircle.com

Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion

is helping us through these difficult times with advice and energy readings based on the I Ching, an ancient Chinese text that follows and predicts movements and energy flow in the cosmos.

The I Ching energy for the United States through March 20th is Hexagram #27 NOURISHING. However, the advice that is given can be useful at any time, for anyone seeking to make positive improvements in their lives:
“Exercise unrelenting discipline over your thought patterns. Cultivate only productive productive opinions and attitudes in order to properly nourish your character. If you are engaged in activity at this time, keep your mind as calm and relaxed as possible.” ~ The I Ching Workbook by R. L. Wing (Doubleday)

Nourishing Your Journey Into the New Paradigm

“Unfortunately, it can be difficult to keep a calm and relaxed mind when ingrained behavior patterns from the past are still being held in the collective mindset of your culture. Most people will say that they want to move forward towards peaceful prosperity, yet there are so few models in your media and social systems, everyone wonders, “how is that going to happen”?

It was only a little over a year ago when the U.S. was unified by the desire for change. Now many are frustrated and disappointed. Others are turning back in droves, looking for the false security that was fostered by the Old Paradigm. This split is being NOURISHED by the status quo with a negative tendency that still pulls at you – impatience.

As consummate consumers, America has been taught to jump from one method to another. If results are not immediate, it’s time to drop it and go out shopping for another method. They are looking for a easy and fast fix for some very old problems and they want it now.

Let us help you clarify what is required to pull you out of the quagmire and get you back on the road to living in the New Paradigm.

Making Choices that Support Happiness

Choice # One: Be Willing to be Open to New Methods and Ways of Operating

This is the first step and an important one. What ever you are willing to NOURISH within yourself is going to determine where you are heading at this time. If you are searching for and finding new methods to develop your own good qualities and are sharing them with others, you are feeding a willingness to align with the New Paradigm. What you must remember about this is that it is far better to make small steps in the right direction than it is to make dramatic, ego gratifying steps in the wrong direction.

Use this symbol for integrating positive, healthy energy to help you determine where you are in regards to WILLINGNESS.

Ask yourself these questions while looking at the symbol:

“Am I willing to try something new in order to live a happier life? If not, why not?”

“Do I still believe that fighting and struggle is the only way to create what I want?”

“If so, am I WILLING to change my mind?”

Choice #2: Have the Courage to Stick with the New Methods You Choose Long Enough To See if They Are Working for You

Results don’t happen overnight and if you are constantly changing course – going from one method to the next – you are actually hampering your own progress.

Many people think that impatience is a good way to get things accomplished and unfortunately for them, the exact opposite is true. Patience is a great virtue to NOURISH in yourself. A change of this magnitude (our Paradigm Shift) has to be taken step by step to effectively monitor how things are coming together. Courage is the motivator for the greatest changes in your history, and now is no different.

Use this symbol for COURAGE to see what kind of energy you are using to motivate you.

“Am I utilizing courage or fear when I face my daily challenges?”

“Am I being patient or impatient?”

“Am I willing to NOURISH patience and courage?”

If you are utilizing fear and impatience, realize that you will most likely give up on the possibilities for the future and turn back to the past looking for a safe and seemingly easier way to cope. This is an illusion. You can use this affirmation to help you:

“I release my dependence on fear and recommit to following the guidance of my spirit.”

Imagine that your fear is like a heavy old piece of luggage that you are still carrying around. See yourself dropping it and let it dissolve into nothingness.

Choice #3: Keep Choosing the Light, Rather Than the Dark.

The New Paradigm is based on the pure light of love and connectedness. If you are NOURISHING feelings of isolation or thinking only about yourself, gently redirect your attention towards people, attitudes and behaviors that support your better qualities.

How can you do that?

Use this symbol to fill yourself with light. Imagine that with every breath you are filling up your body with pure, white light. Doing this exercise will do more than most anything to help you get back on track. Remember, like attracts like, so if you are being the light, you will attract more of it.

“I am filled with the pure light of creation.”

“I release and dissolve the karmic pattern of using anger to get what I want.”

“I release karmic patterns from my mental continuum that would create terror in my mind or in the mind of anyone else.”

“I recommit to nourishing compassion and kindness for all beings, including myself.”

If you like, you can contemplate more specific behavior patterns that are causing you problems and dissolve them from your mental continuum now.

Even though you may not consciously be aware of what karmic pattern you are operating out of, this process will help you to release its grip on how you are responding to things in your life.

2010 © Rheanni Lightwater  All Rights Reserved
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Past Life Regressions are one effective way to transmute, transform and transcend negative karma and emotional imbalance that is affecting you today.

We always recommend that our clients and group participants have a strong intention for their past life regression so that they get the most out of the experience. It’s all fun and good to contemplate the possibilities of who we were in a past life or if someone that we know today has been with us in our past lives, however, it’s much more beneficial to consider “What is really bothering me today? Am I in a position to transform negativity that is causing me difficulty now?”

For example, you might be having difficulty with a new year’s resolution or spending too much time wishing things were different. The best time to let go of the past is when you really feel that you want to change and move forward in a different direction. As a rule, human beings have to be ready and willing before any kind of lasting healing can take place.

So, if you are joining us for one of our upcoming Past Life Regression Healing Circles, or if you are working with someone else on your own, it really pays to come up with an intention that genuinely motivates you.

Here is a quick little exercise using my Intuitive Learning Circles and Graphs to help you zero in on an intention that will most likely produce substantial results for you on your healing path.

Step One:

Look at the graph below and ask yourself:

“What is something that is happening in my life right now that I am ready to heal?”

Step Two:

“What will help me the most as I approach this issue?

Step Three:

“Am I genuinely ready and willing to let go of this issue? If not, why not?

Can I transcend my resistance?

If the answer is no, go through the process again with a different issue, until you find one that you are willing and ready to heal.

Your therapist really wants you to benefit as much as possible. Going through this simple exercise can help everyone achieve their goals.

Call us at (505) 271-4612 to reserve your space in our next healing circle or make a private appointment.

For more information about our classes, go to:

www.IntuitiveLearningCircle.com/classes

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Why does belief in past lives and reincarnation make sense? This is a question that I’ve personally considered all throughout my practice. It is difficult to to prove any theory of the afterlife of course, but reincarnation is indicated as a very plausible theory even without the experience that many people have with past life regression. The purpose of this post is not to come up with the definitive answer, but rather to spark some thought and consideration about this possibility.

One Birth Theory vs. Multiple Birth Theory

Reincarnation and karma explains the inequities found among individuals and groups.

In the religions that propose that people have one life, there is really no logical explanation as to why there is so much disparity between the lives of separate individuals. The question that perplexes many of us is simply this, why would the creator god decide that someone would have all the advantages of a fully endowed life (enough of the necessities of life and to be born being surrounded by the circumstances that would allow for the correct spiritual view) while others are not so fortunate. And, why would the creator god then decide that those who “do not comply” with the dogmas of that religion be damned to eternal punishment? One would have to decide that the creator god is quite capricious rather than the all knowing all loving being.

When you allow for the laws of cause and effect  believing that people experience what they caused others to experience sometime in the future, the inequities of life begin to make more sense. It is not an uncommon view that when someone performs an action, its effects are definite, so it doesn’t take a great leap of faith that when you think and/or do something, that a potentiality is planted in your mind. Under the right circumstances, that potentiality can ripen into an effect. Thus positive causes result in positive effects, and negative causes result in negative effects. If you were unkind in a past life, unkindness (under the right circumstances) can ripen and be present in a life. If you deprived people of necessities or their life, then those effects, under the right circumstances, can also ripen in the future.

No afterlife point of view vs. multiple birth theory

To believe that there is no afterlife what-so-ever, you would have to believe that our consciousness is centered in the body and that all minds are gross minds. Simply put, when the body dies, the mind dies and that’s it. It is a materialistic point of view meaning that your consciousness is based on your body.

We do know that all minds are not gross minds (dream minds tell us this), and we even know that the gross mind is not a solid entity. If the mind existed from its own side, it would never change. Our mind is dependent on many causes and is ever changing. We also know that all of our existence, including the existence of our mind, has always been a potential effect since the beginning of time, or it would not exist today. This is the same for our body and this current make-up of who we are is an effect from potentials begun many eons ago.

So, if this mind that we call “me” has been a potential, when we die, why wouldn’t it be a potential again? And, since it has already be a realized potential, what stops it from continuing on? Why then would our mind stop at death? There is no proof that anyone can point to that clearly demonstrates that the mind, our sense of self or our “I” is dependent on the body, but with the above reasoning, we can say that our body is rather dependent on the potentials and minds the preceded it.

Personal Proof

There is a myth that people who experience past life regression will see themselves as famous people. So we could have a bunch of Cleopatras, Churchills, Ty Cobbs, etc.  I am not to saying that I’ve never worked with anyone who hasn’t experienced being a famous person, but I will say that the vast majority of my clients usually experience difficult and hard circumstances which roughly equal what has been seen in human history. I have also seen studies that show the same tendency. I do not have that information handy as of this writing, but if anyone would like information about this, please do email me and I will happy to give you the citation for this and you can judge its validity on your own.

So this is why I believe in Past Lives and Reincarnation. It is my hope that this post will cause questions, strengthen your belief, or inspire you to look into the subject yourself.

A woman in a recent Past Life Regression Circle was experiencing persistent negative thoughts about poverty and hopelessness which was keeping her stuck and unable move forward with her plans. After going through a past life ceremony, she discovered that she had been a penniless, abandoned orphan in a past life where she was struggling to keep her starving little brother alive.

During the ceremony, she was able to access help from her Higher Self and Healing Guides, who informed her that her little brother in that past life was now her husband in her current life and she was still playing out the old karmic pattern of poverty and destitution. Being able to remember her experience in the safety of a past life regression allowed her unconscious mind to unravel the pattern so that both she and her husband could move forward toward economic prosperity again.

Is a Karmic Pattern of Poverty or Destitution Arising in Your Consciousness?

Next Scheduled Circle

Exploring your past life experiences in a ceremonial healing circle can result in improved mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health. Sometimes these events are traumatic and are unconsciously carried over and relived in our present day experiences.

A Past Life Regression Circle can optimize your healing by:
A) Clearing the physical and emotional stress out of the body.
B) Restoring the neurological system to a pattern of health.
C) Integrating the full meaning of the experience on a mental and emotional level.
D) Reconnecting with your Higher Self and finding peace with the spiritual purpose of your past life experiences.

FACILITATORS:
Dr. Bob Morrison specializes in the integration of mind and soul through Transpersonal Hypno-therapy, Spiritual Counseling, Reiki and Peruvian Shamanism.

Rheanni Lightwater CHT and medical intuitive, specializes in energetic, physical and emotional clearing using Kinesiology, Reiki, Movement and Energy Medicine.

COST:
$40.00

RSVP:
To reserve your space in the Circle – (505) 271-4612

Kuan Yin’s I Ching Reading for August, 2009

We are receiving help from Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion, who is guiding us through the I Ching, an ancient Chinese text that follows and predicts movements and energy flow in the cosmos. Her advice as always, is direct and to the point.

Currently we are moving through Hexagram #51 SHOCKING.  This is what she recommends…

“It is important that you accept the changing times and change with them. This means that certain habits and negative behaviors are bound to come to the surface over the next month and if you choose to put your head in the sand, you will miss one of the largest opportunities to heal your heart in this time of SHOCKING change.

Now is an opportune time to clear out confusing ideas and societal prejudices by going within and examining what is most important to you and make a firm determination to stay centered, even as chaotic forces are at their strongest.

Know that those who choose to use force or aggression to further their agendas will experience serious backlashes and setbacks during SHOCKING times. This is not the time to push ahead rashly, rather it is a time to step back and clarify your principles. Be certain that you are coming from a place of love and that you are clear about where your actions will lead you.

Preparing For A New Way of Manifesting

The Heavens have created an awesome moment to facilitate transformation and if you are wise, you will utilize it to it’s fullest. Rarely has there been the opportunity to shift your perception so easily as in this time. Take stock of the persons, places and things that bring you joy and consciously connect them like a diligent spider weaving a web of love. This will assist you in staying centered in the storm.

If you willingly follow and adapt your life according to those things that are naturally good, you will find that you can rid yourself of ancient abuses that have long sucked the spirit of humanity dry. In the wake of SHOCKING times, there is much progress that can be made.”

Go through Kuan Yin’s “Realignment for a New Paradigm” to facilitate her advice.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2009

As you recall, Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion is helping us through these difficult times with advice, divinations and energy readings based on the I Ching, an ancient Chinese text that follows and predicts movements and energy flow in the cosmos. Her advice as always, is direct and to the point. Let’s see what she has to say this month…

“American society has interesting and conflicting views about the Truth. You say, “the Truth shall set you free” and yet your actions often belie the statement.

The fear of the Truth is the subject of our reading and the Hexagram from the I Ching that conveys the energy of the cosmos at this time is #35 Progress. We are moving out of Hexagram #23 Deterioration where major aspects of your society have come face to face with defeat, yet that is not necessarily a bad thing.

If you have been paying attention to the media and believing that you have no options, you will disregard the underlying changes that have appeared for the better. If you, instead, will listen to the messages from your heart you will understand that indeed, Progress is being made.

Remember that the forward movement of humanity is not dependent upon false ideas about money and returning to the “good old days.” You know intuitively that the time for new answers is upon you.

Communication is the key and here I will quote from the I Ching Workbook by R. L. Wing:

“Communication is now of vast importance during a time of rapid PROGRESS. It is wise for you to stay in close touch with all levels of your social world. Monitor the needs of others and be supportive of progressive improvements. Take an active part in the affairs of society now in order to refine and enhance your inner worth.”

What Will Help During this Time?

Learn to stop identifying with the small mind for it would like you to believe that the Truth is something to be afraid of.

What if you stopped trying to control the Truth and made it a friend? Could you allow it to be more of a guide and objective force of Nature than something to be avoided or denied?

If you are unhappy, what is the harm in accepting the Truth and then taking steps to rectify it? Perhaps some may feel that there would be some form of punishment involved in finding a solution.

I would suggest that there is more suffering involved in denying or avoiding the Truth than there is in coming clean. The opportunities for reform are great and far reaching at this time, yet the opportunity is lost when the Truth cannot or will not be discerned.

Make a Pact With Your Spirit

Choose to follow Truth and forgive yourself unconditionally for any error or misunderstanding you may be holding in your small mind. Allow your heart and spirit to soften the harsh words you have for yourself and others. All are caught in the illusion of the small mind and you can help by removing your voice from the cacophony of accusations.

Your smile and gentle words will accomplish more in this time than forceful or punitive measures. Give yourself permission to reform your strength of character. Allow the the energy of the cosmos to influence your understanding of the human condition. Then, when you can see the seeds of discontent within yourself as well as others, you will know the true meaning of compassion.

Holding grudges against yourself and others is not productive and distracts from the true possibilities.

If you fear certain decisions that will set you free, allow your hope for the future to relax you and show you the way forward.

Release any agreement to be hard on yourself or others.”

Tips For Making Friends With The Truth

“Truth Knows No Master”

If your life has become too complex, play the Simplicity Game I have provided for you. The Truth is much easier to perceive when extraneous elements are removed.

Perhaps you have allowed some simple benefit to be ignored. Now is the time to become aware of it and embrace it for your higher good. Meditate on this symbol and place it in your home, someplace where you can see it often. As you look at it, ask yourself, “What benefits am I turning away from?” For most of you, there are many. Resolve to change your attitude towards them and accept them as gifts.

The small mind would prefer that you forget the gentler movements of the cosmos because it is addicted to dramatic and apocalyptic visions. Release your agreement with those visions and allow your heart and soul to guide you. Let yourself be supported by the emerging energy of Progress.”

Rheanni Lightwater © 2008

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Spiritual Visions from a Grofian Perspective

Spiritual visions arise from the biographical, social, unconscious and other consciousness of the experiencer. Below is a description of the map of these experiences described in the work of Stanislav Grof which includes the personal and transpersonal levels of experience.

Sensory Barrier

The sensory barrier is where deep self exploration begins.  This barrier needs to be crossed before moving into the deeper levels, matrices, and dimensions.  In accessing the unconscious mind, various sensory organs are activated.  This can cause a variety of experiences including visions of colors or geometric shapes, ringing or buzzing sounds, tingling sensations on the skin, tastes and smells.  The content of these experiences are of little consequence.  Crossing the sensory barrier is necessary to access the deeper parts of the unconscious mind.

Recollective-Biographical Level of Deep Exploration

Once the sensory barrier is crossed, the recollective-biographical area of the unconscious mind is now accessible.  This area is limited to the biographical events of this life time.  Grof states that this level of the unconscious mind is where traditional psychotherapeutic techniques are usually applied.  Memories that are repressed, or any unresolved conflict, can be the subject of the session by acting as a radar or beacon to enter the deeper levels of the psyche.  The information in and of it self does not need to be prioritized, the only requirement of the importance of this information is that it be of “sufficient emotional relevance”.

Grof also discusses the COEX systems or systems of condensed experiences which are “a constellation of experiences” which have physical, emotional or other elements with a shared quality.  (ie.  Different experiences that may cause nausea or anger etc. are related and can be used as the context of a deeper experiential session.)

It is also important to note that the direct experience of individuals regarding traumatic events is a concern of experiential approaches as well.  Grof notes that traditional methods do not concern themselves with the threat to the body, but with the emotional aspects of the trauma.  Grof notes that on the biographical level, these residual effects of threat to the body are important and lasting.

The First Basic Perinatal Matrix (BPMI): “The Amniotic Universe”

This is a time of life that is ideally undisturbed by the outside world where all of your needs are met.  Ideally, a fetus, sitting in an amniotic sack inside the mother’s womb is a time of pure being for each individual.  Grof does note however that other factors can come in to disturb this time that include unwanted chemicals and toxins as well as an unpreferred emotional state of the mother.

Experiences in this realm include both direct recollections of being in the womb “or in combination with symbolic experiences and other phenomena in which they are connected”.  Because of the fetus’s intimate connection with her mother, most of the experiences from BPM I deal with a “lack of boundaries and obstructions”.

Grof states that many of the visualizations have to deal with oceanic life including animals such as jellyfish, algae, kelp, fish, dolphins or whales.  These images are rich with symbolic parallels to a fetus floating in an amniotic sack inside what must be the vast ocean of her mother. He references life undisturbed in the cosmos or the picture of an astronaut (tied to the spaceship) floating in space.  The images here can find deeper meaning into the collective unconscious in dealing with themes of heaven and paradise.  In this context, it would seem then that our image of heaven, Eden or our ideal of life is a direct result of our womb experience.

This view of life then can also be interfered with by many events that may take place as a result of an unpreferred womb experience.  Polluted streams or toxic air may represent a toxic situation that may develop as a result of the latter parts of pregnancy.  Apocalyptic visions may represent eminent threat to a fetus that an imminent miscarriage or attempted abortion might precipitate.

Entrance into BPM I then is an opportunity to heal the basic outlook of what life is or can be by allowing the client the opportunity to remember what ideal life was, or to rectify an unpreffered womb experience.

The Second Basic Perinatal Matrix (BPMII):  “Cosmic Englufment and No Exit”.

The undisturbed and serene existence of the fetus in the womb is now disturbed by the physical processes of the mother when birth is about to begin, first by chemical changes in the environment, and later by contractions of the uterus”.  Grof is descriptive about the situation the fetus is now faced with:

With this stage fully developed, the fetus is periodically constricted by uterine spasms.  At this point, they system is entirely closed; the cervix is not yet dilated and the way out is not yet available…each contraction restricts the supply of blood and thus oxygen, nourishment and warmth to the fetus” (Holotroptic Approaches to Self Discovery p15)

This scenario describes the “amniotic universe” has now closed in on the fetus.  It appears much like the description of the “big-bang theory” where the cosmos (just before their creation) were compressed into a small miniscule point just before it’s eruption.

This constriction has been described in sessions as danger that is unidentifiable or seeing the world in paranoid terms.  Grof states that this results in a person who believes himself to be taken over by aliens or somehow possessed by a demonic force.  Some of the more interesting of the experiences include being swallowed up by a giant dragon, python or whale, or being attacked by a tarantula.  All of these are interesting symbolic images of being “swallowed up” or constricted by the uterus.  Physical and emotional feelings can also be an interesting part of this experience including claustrophobia, entrapment, or a feeling of being trapped in hell.  Experiences in BPM II can be important in healing the feelings of victimization or helplessness that many people feel in their life circumstances.

The Third Basic Perinatal Matrix (BPMIII):  The Death-Rebirth Struggle

Even though the contractions are continuing, the cervix is now dilated and the there is now a way out of the entrapment that is characteristic in BPM II.  One is reminded of the near death experiences where the individual who has just “died” is now going toward the light.  Often in horror fiction where an incarnate entity is lost between the two worlds, they are instructed to go toward the light, allowing then to move on from one universe to the other.

Even though there is a way out, it is still a dangerous time for the fetus.  It must move up the birth canal, (which is quite a bit smaller than she is).  There is risk of suffocation and anoxia at this stage.  While moving up the birth canal, the umbilical cord is further constricted.  Also, the umbilical cord can become entangled around parts of the body, detaching it from the uterine wall, further causing separation from the fetus’s source of life.  It is also noted in the text, that the fetus comes into contact, for the first time, with blood, urine and often times feces.  The head of the uterus is forced into it’s new world for the first time because of the contractions of her mother.

The symbolic references that one may have during an experience with BPMIII include dangerous adventures, feelings of pulsating and explosive energy including identifications with volcanoes, tidal waves, earthquakes, wars, revolutions, atomic bombs, scenes of gladiator struggles, or sadomasochistic experiences (having to do with both the painful and orgasmic experience of BPM III).

Experience with BPM III can be an important healing in accepting the inevitable and one’s ability to use her own resources in regards to solving problems.  Also, this experiential level has many experiences that can heal the view of good and bad, light and dark, preferred and unpreferred etc.  A healing in this area may help an individual become more empathetic to the attitudes and situations of those around her.

The Fourth Basic Perinatal Matrix (BPM IV):  The Death-Rebirth Experience

This is the actual birth experience of the child.  The struggle is at an end.  The suffering and pain of the struggle is followed by relaxation and release as the child escapes from her captivity.  The umbilical cord is cut and now the former fetus must adapt and change to be able to survive without her former intimate attachment to her mother.  She must now find sources of food and oxygen and integrate them independently from her mother.

Many of the experiences at BPM IV can relive the actual circumstances around their birth which may include instruments that were used in the birth or an incubation period that may have been required.

Symbolically, experiences include surrendering the struggle that was so dramatically described in BPM III.  The loss in the struggle is inevitable for all living organisms.  No one can stay in the womb.  As a result, feelings of failure and despair can result.  Since everything that was known is know at an end, there may also be feelings of impending disaster, physical destruction, intellectual and philosophical defeat, moral failure or damnation of transcendental proportions.  This is the stuff of ego or personality death and rebirth that is so common in experiences of this nature.  This process of ego death begins with the experiences of our actual physical births blurring the lines between birth and death perhaps showing it to be one continuous cycle that we travel around the cosmic egg.

With this ego death, we stop identifying ourselves with our physicality and begin to see the world in more spiritual terms.  The journey through the BPM’s then is an important step in moving into the transpersonal realms.  It is both in actuality and symbolically a change in our philosophical view of the world.  Once we can overcome our fear of death (and rebirth) we can allow ourselves a new perspective on who it is that we are and the nature of our universe.  This parallels the end of the death-rebirth drama.  We change our view of the universe a place of safe knowing and being in the amniotic universe, to the struggle of dying (rebirthing) to a new universe (the outside physical world).

Experiential Extension Within Consensus Reality and Space-Time

Transpersonal experiences that transcend spatial boundaries “suggest that physical boundaries between the individual and the rest of the physical universe are not fixed and absolute. A person may be able to experience what it is like to be other people, animals, plants, minerals, groups, the earth or the universe.

Transpersonal experiences that transcend the boundaries of linear time can allow the subject to move back into his genetic past and experience fetal, ancestral, racial, evolutionary, planetary or cosmic history.

Experiential Extension Beyond Consensus Reality and Space-Time.

These experiences take us beyond the physical reality of the third dimension and move us into the realm of spirit guides, animal guides, seeing and feeling the energy of the chakras (and includes the subtle body and kundalini experiences), universal archetypes and contact with the collective unconscious and contact with the void and the great mystery.

Transpersonal Experiences of Psychoid Nature.

Transpersonal experiences of a psychoid Nature include synchronistic links between consciousness and matter,  spontaneous psychoid events and intentional psychokinesis.  Many of these transpersonal experiences deal with paranormal activity including UFO phenomena, poltergeists and psychokenesis (as examples). According to Carl Jung, synchronicity is an acausal connecting principal that refers to meaningful coincidences of events separated in time and/or space.

Spontaneous Psychoid events include supernormal physical feats (luminosity of the body or occasional reports of human combustion), spiritualistic phenomena and mediumship, poltergeists and UFO phenomena.  I do not have any experience in this area.  I do know of people however that have seen UFO’s and I suppose that the “crop-circle” phenomena might also be listed here.

Intentional psychokinesis can be defined as the ability to influence the material environment without physical intervention of the body by simply wishing events to happen or by performing acts that have no ordinary cause and effect relationship to the outcome.