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Shifting States of Consciousness, October 16, 2004
This review is from: Parallel Lifetimes: Fluctuations in the Quantum Field (Fireside Series, Vol. 3, No. 3) (Paperback)
There are number of Ramtha's books from Fireside series that would be non-sensical and incomprehensible to someone who has not had corresponding experiences, because the person has no reference point. As the other reviewer pointed - it would come across as "psychobabble". It's pretty much like describing how the ice-cream tastes to someone who has never tasted an ice-cream. It would be entirely meaningless.
It was amusing to me over the years as I shared the book "Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East" - and some got inspired, some got nothing out of it, and some used the information and knowledge for purposes that never entered my mind at a time. One person with whom I shared those books, used the knowledge to win the lottery.
Many years before I came across this book "Parallel Lifetimes", I too, used this process of "shifting into another lifetime" to get myself into the right state of mind to win at the games of chance. It worked.
This may make far more sense to people who are familiar with Time-Lines (a technique from Neuro-Linguistic Programming), which I have used on numerous occasions to get extraordinary results - even for the purpose of instant healing of conditions that were considered incurable.
If you are familiar with hypnosis, working with mind-power, you'll know that the essence of hypnosis lies in playing well the game of "pretending". In this process of "pretending" you subjectively shift into another reality - where that which you desire to experience is "real" for you now. For your subconscious mind the difference between "real" and "imaginary" is not based on what is "inside of you" or "outsie of you", but what FEELS SUBJECTIVELY REAL to you. Whatever "feels" real for you becomes actualized in your outer experience - the "outer" being only an "effect" of the inner.
This is practically the opposite view of commonly accepted worldview, but to the one who chooses to simply pay attention to his thoughts and to his experiences in the outer world, this becomes soon very obvious. There are those who are just philosophers and those who choose to engage in personal experiments and learn how they can intentionally use the power of their minds to create what they desire.
There is a practical purpose in experimenting with shifting consciously into what may be called a parallel lifetime (that, again is the essence of working with NLP technique of working with Time-Lines) - it helps to engage in the game of "pretending" easier by dropping all the limitations in one shot, or at least as many limitations as are obstructing the achievement of the outcome that are important to the individual to experience - an example of that may be healing a terminal illness.
Ramtha's books from the Fireside Collection, do not guide you through any specific techniques, so if you're looking for "how to" books, you may be disappointed. If you're looking for "how to" book, you may get much more out of books such as "Adventures with Time-Lines". Ramtha's books are also not pointing out any "new truths" - just the same spiritual truths that have been around for thousands of years, in a new light, using a little bit different language.
Quantum physics is now considered "scientific", while spiritual and metaphysical truths were not considered "scientific" and some people find this different language and explanations more helpful. On the other hand, no matter what language is used, the only way anyone will ever get any practical benefit from any of the teachings and ideas is through personal application and experimentation. There is no way one is ever going to truly know something without experiencing it.
Sometimes people enjoy cultivating an idea that once they apply some ideas they will overnight become something entirely different or that perhaps working with parallel lifetimes, they'll wake up tomorrow and find themselves living on another planet, in another century, being someone else or something to that effect. What will more likely happen is that as you shift into another state of consciousness, as your perception of the world changes (and that can change overnight), your experience of the world will change. And in that respect, you may also pick A Course in Miracles and if you wholeheartedly work with it for one year, your experience of reality will turn upside down.
The essence of this little book is that with each shift in consciousness you make, you are embarking upon and traveling upon a new time-line. Each time you make a decision which way to go, you are choosing a destination, a path, and each path, each choice, constitutes one possible lifetime.
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Mind meld--connecting science and spirituality, August 22, 2005
This review is from: Parallel Lifetimes: Fluctuations in the Quantum Field (Fireside Series, Vol. 3, No. 3) (Paperback)
I have rated this book highly because it treats the rather complex subjects of science and spirit in understandable terms. No easy task. With the exposition of quantum physics over the last 75 or so years, the questions that need an answer have come closer in my mind to those pondered by the great minds of religion and philosophy for centuries. Admitedly, most scientists labor to keep any taint of philosophy or spirituality far away from their research. The uncertainty principle is still causing many physicists to scratch their heads and Eisntein insisted that "God does not play dice", but we cannot rule out that god is the observer. One of the most readable books of experimental particle physics by Leon Lederman is titled "The God Particle". I don't see how it serves us to continue to argue over creation vs evolution when both were in action with the advent of man. Maybe we should all exit the battlefield and leave our prejudices behind there.
In this book spirituality vs science is not an issue. Both are accepted as Ramtha explains how our here and now solid reality flows from the quantum field and ain't that great! It's controversial, but not argumentative. This book will stretch your level of acceptance and and your level of mind.
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