Barnet Bain and Freeman Michaels invite their wives on Cutting Edge Consciousness to talk about their relationships. Marriage can be an invitation to go deeper – having a partner to journey into possibility with. This is a show about the very real challenges that the hosts and their wives face in their marriages and the opportunities they are exploring Listen to the Full Episode...
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Neuroscience, Neuroplasticity and the Brave New World. Mark Robert Waldman, best selling co-author of “How God Changes the Brain”, joins filmmaker Barnet Bain and author/life coach Freeman Michaels on Cutting Edge Consciousness to discuss creativity and the brain. There is a HUGE piece in this video — the funnel is how we order and organize information to fit our programmed perceptions — we are all equipped to be fully actualized — brain scans show that we have a “consciousness” at our disposal at all times. Our consciousness (our potential) shows up in a “resting state” — when we are NOT caught up in the incessant thinking that dominates the bulk of our waking experience. Barnet and Freeman talk about this consciousness as “Ultra Creativity”, where all manner of possibility is available to us. Holding paradox — holding many different (possibly opposing) perceptions at the same time taps us into a potential — an alternative creative perception. In the past, people who were tapped into this level of perception were deemed “crazy” (or they were considered geniuses). We predict the dawning of a creative age — where more people are tapped into this level of consciousness (and they are not considered crazy). Listen to the Full Episode...
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In Conversation with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Barnet Bain. Excerpts from Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Regenopause: Evolving Masculine and Feminine Webinar. This extensive interview is spread out over six pages – it was so good, I had to publish the whole thing. Enjoy! Use the page links at the bottom to navigate to the next page. Barbara: And before we get going, I just want to introduce Barnet – so he can say a few words about how you feel about being in the chrysalis with me and all these people, probably mostly women? [Laughs] Barnet: Well, you know, right now we couldn’t be in more of a chrysalis. We’re so confined, and it’s so beautiful in here and cozy in here. [Barbara laughs] We have talked so long and so deeply and so blissfully about what it is to be in the chrysalis, from this man’s perspective it is a highly, highly dynamic experience. There’s nothing passive about it. And very often we hear people referring to this shift of paradigms, and we hear it referred to in so many different ways. But very often we hear about it as a passive experience, as something that happens to us. And that has not been my experience as a man in the chrysalis, which I refer to it in our conversations as the liminal state. It is the state of ‘between’. It’s not what was, and it is not what will be. But I experience myself as ‘not what was’. I am aware of what was. And I also am aware that I am not yet what will be. But I am in a very dynamic, dynamic practice, which at this point rises to the level of artisanship. I am discovering technique. And I invite you all to come with me a little bit as we explore the tools of technique that are used to fire up the creative, the space-filling component, the art-making component of what we will be, what we are birthing – the world waiting to be born through us. And these have to do with, from my perspective, certain energies that are primarily feminine. Now, when I speak of feminine energies or masculine energies, I’m not talking about gender here. I’m talking about the idealized feminine energy and the idealized masculine energy. These are the energies that need to be refined and remembered in men and women alike. The masculine energy: this is the energy that fills spaces. This is the creator energy. The idealized feminine energy: these are the energies that conceive even the possibility of something. It creates the potential for something, the spaciousness, the bubble that is blown “whwhwh” to create the womb for that which is yet to be born. And what is born, what it is that fills that space, is filled as a creation of masculine idealized energy. It works...
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You might have noticed a lot more stress in the world, and maybe also a few more challenges for each of us to handle personally. By now you know there is a shift happening. We are at a crossroads moving from one ‘operating system’ of reality to another more expansive one. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily…life is but a dream. Imagine that you’re experiencing a night dream. You are walking on the sidewalk of a busy street after a heavy rain. Suddenly a bus comes along. The bus slams into a pothole sending a cold sheet of mud and water flying your way. How are you feeling? You are drenched to the bone, filthy and cold. Maybe you were rushing to an appointment. You might even believe the blankety-blank bus driver soaked you on purpose. That’s when the alarm goes off and you wake up in your bed. From this awakened perspective you say with relief that it was just a dream. But let’s look a little further. What do we know now? YOU were the dreamer who dreamed the story. YOU were the unfortunate character who got soaked. YOU dreamed the bus driver. The streets are YOU. The bus is YOU. The pot hole and puddle, all YOU, as well. You were the director of the dream. You wrote the script and played all the parts. You chose to stage the story one way, and not another. From the limited perspective of the walker who got soaked, life is one thing. From the more expanded perspective of the awakened dreamer it is something else. We create it all. The most important key to reducing the stress begins with accepting that we each write the script of our lives completely. We always have. To explore this idea a little deeper, WRITE OUT two or three areas of success, or joy in your life worthy of celebration. For example, maybe you have created a beautiful and intimate relationship with a soul-mate, or achieved a promotion at work or won a Golden Globe! Next ask yourself “What would someone have to believe or feel about herself in order to dream this success?” Then write down two or three areas of failure or disappointment, and ask yourself the same...
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