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Here's how I see judgment working in the inner child, the basic self, the immune system, the Little Artist--all the same being inside us.

One job of basic self has is recording and storing all our life experiences. This including recording and storing disturbing experiences, resolved and unresolved.

It records and stores unresolved disturbances until they are accessed by the soul, and the life lessons extracted. The soul knows all 3D experience is valuable and useful. The basic self records and holds onto all disturbing experiences not yet resolved into the soul's educaiton.

For example, say you have an issue with feeling betrayed; you are super-sensitive to any sense of possible betrayal.

Do you think this formed from a single prior incident of betrayal? Or do you think this formed from feeling betrayed over and over?

For us to have a betrayal issue we are consciously aware of now, requires repetition, many instances of experiencing, imagining, feeling, thinking we were betrayed in the past.

Negative emotions and faulty beliefs cannot become conscious here in 3D, without much "rehearsal time," until they are strong enuf, reinforced enuf to go "on stage" here in an outer 3D physical world (the same is true for any physical illness as well).

Sometimes we have so many instances of; say betrayal, the inner child needs a very simple way to keep track of all of the instances. So it simply numbers them: the first time I allowed myself to feel betrayed and let down, the second time I allowed myself to feel betrayed and let down, etc.

So that's the "bad" news: the basic self keeps track of our unresolved negativity. The good news is, since incidents are recorded by the number—they can be forgiven and released by simply counting them off by the number!

Who exactly does this releasing? Your own soul. Forgiveness can only be done by your soul. The mind and emotions may understand forgiveness but do not in themselves, have the authority to tell the basic self to release the negativity. Only your soul has this authority. The basic self listens to whatever the soul says!

“I forgive myself for allowing myself to feel (the negative emotion, i.e. betrayal), the first time, the second time, the third time 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 . . .

Clients count as long as energy continues to move and clear. We go as high as 30 or 50 in a 1:1 session. In the next three days, it can be very healing for clients do it again--as long as energy moves somehow. I count to 1000 on my issues. I often do this walking, one number per step.

You do not need Bruce or any coach to do this. You can do this on your own. If you need coaching, call me.

Please do make up your own verbal formulas and try them! You know you have the right word formula if energy begins moving and clearing. Feel free to change the words to “hit the nail more on the head.” Often clients cannot feel the energy move. A more intuitive person can tell them what’s occurring.

Bruce Dickson, "I See Into You" Medical Intuition * IntegrationArts.net 310.287.2813

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The inner child (abbreviated "b/s" for basic self) is the one breathing you right now. The conscious self only occasionally attends to the rhythms of breathing. We can breath consciously--but--frankly, the conscious self has more pressing and interesting things to do.

The inner child is functionally equal to the basic self, the immune system, the Little Artist and to the sum total intelligence of your cells. Consequently you communicate with all of them in the same way--thru loving awareness.

What does the b/s want? It wants the loving cooperation of the conscious to bend down and lovingly assist it with all the places it is stuck in life. The b/s has language limited to that of a two to five year old and can only count to ten.

The conscious self (c/s) is the one reading this word right now. It's trying to do the right thing, at the right time, with the right people, at the right place. The job of the c/s is to make healthy choices and decisions. 3D life is a very rapid course of opportunities to make better, healthier decisions. Ultimately the c/s, who stands in for the soul here in 3D, learns to make healthy decisions for the highest good of all concerned.

The c/s is the one who makes lists including, "Bad people do these kinds of things. . . Good people do these kinds of things . . ." The c/s has the job of learning cooperation with the b/s and high self.

What does the c/s want? Just ask it; it has all the language you have. It can count to and is comfortable in the domain of 100.

The high self (h/s) is the one who knows the plan of your present embodiment, the lessons the soul planned to accomplish and the unresolved issues it planned to resolve. Your h/s is working right now to ascertain the value of this page for you. That's its main job, to determine the value of persons, places and experiences for you.

At each level, the 3S communicate with each other. Conscious selves access each other primarily by talking. Basic selves access each other primarily by body language and other non-verbal channels.

Whenever two or more people meet, all the basic selves and all the high selves are in constant communication depending on proximity and involvement.

Conscious communication between levels simply education & takes practice. Your basic self and high self are always in touch because they are similar in many ways. The c/s is out of the loop of the basic and high self (John-Roger); the b/s and h/s are cut from the same cloth; the c/s is cut from different cloth. The conscious self can get in on the conversation, but it takes desire, willingness and practice.

This helps explain why the three selves has been a cultural blind spot. The good news of the isolated c/s is, fewer distractions enable the c/s to do its job better: making healthy choices.

Communication between all your selves will flow along whichever sub-modality of meaning is most open in you. They are visual, auditory, kinesthetic, & smell/taste. Generally if the first channel seems closed, try the next channel to the right, the next slower frequency.

The c/s and b/s especially often have different most open channels of communication. The b/s is typically one down in frequency from the c/s. If the c/s is predominantly visual, the b/s is likely to be predominantly auditory or even kinesthetic. Look for this.

Muscle testing, in all its variations, which I call self-testing, is a valid technique for the conscious self to communicate with the basic and high self.

Muscle-testing and self-testing is both objective and scientific within the field of one individual.

In the same way that, "What's true for me, may not be true for you;" and, "One man's meat is another man's poison;" and, "food that is healthy for type O blood types is not that healthy for type A blood types," when TWO persons test the same target, they may or may not get similar results. Two testers will get very similar testing results IF they calibrate themselves to each other or to the precisely same larger field of loving. This is not common in 3D at this time. It could be.

Truth will be increasingly individual in the Aquarian Age--for better and worse.

Ultimately muscle testing is only a language. Even a child can use a telephone; so, the effectiveness of the technique is only as good as the operator.

Beginning techniques in self-testing and self-healing are given in Self-Healing 101! Awakening the Inner Healer, available at Amazon, Lulu.com and SelfHealing101.net. The easiest form of muscle testing is the standing muscle test. See Psychic Protection by John-Roger p 156-160.

The basic self is analogous to the young child, usually before seven years of age. The young child is converged and identified with the physical body, feels more and thinks less (thinks more dimly) than the conscious self, the adult. The young child is given up to the Oneness of Experience.

The conscious self is analogous to the adult. The adult represents the clear thinking of the light of day (a Rudolf Steiner idea). "Thinking" is more precisely termed "being rational" because Feelings are a good way to be rational, evaluate and make decisions; and, thinking is another good way to be rational, evaluate and make decisions (an MBTI wisdom).

The high self is analogous to the grandmother or grandfather, wise with age, already reunited with Spirit. Because healthy elders expand to embrace consciousness beyond their own ego, the wise grandmother or grandfather understand all three ages, child, adult and other elders. Healthy elders are no longer slaves to the isolation of the mere ego.

All healthcare should begin with self-healing, don’t you agree?

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Bruce Dickson, I See Into You Medical Intuition * IntegrationArts.net 310.287.2813

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Here's the most accurate map of consciousness I've found in forty years of esoteric study. Maybe you see it more clearly, though, so your comments are welcome! I am NOT a spiritual teacher. This is simply the clearest explanation on record. I'd like to hear yours too.

The best intro to spiritual geography is, of course, experiential. In the early 1970s a certain meditation was popular and used in many learning settings. It goes like this. Close your eyes. Quiet your pictures of what you like and dislike. Now quiet your feelings about what you love and hate. Now quiet your mind. Now quiet your memories. Okay, now. Who doing that?

The One doing the quieting, however well or poorly, is your soul, the spark of the immortal-eternal in you. All sentient beings have souls.

The soul is so far away from its true home here in 3D physical- material reality, all we mostly see of true soul qualities here are the qualities of unconditional loving, service, choice, friendliness, attention and intention. All the other positive qualities are more obscure and less visible down here. Instead what we mostly see in and around us are very conditioned energies.

Hence, another blessing of 3D life is the most essential qualities of the soul: unconditional loving, service, choice, friendliness, attention and intention--are highlighted; and, very conspicuous by their absence. This draws our attention to them.

The soul, a spark of unconditional energy, is difficult to perceive here. It's true home might be even more obscure, right? Maybe a map can assist us.

The simple overview of spiritual geography is Mother-God and Father-God. Two regions or fields.

Their Son, the Holy Spirit, I think is easiest to grasp as the love, joy and synergy between Mother and Father God in their creating. So the Earth, you, me and all of creation, is their Child, their Son, part of their creation. We came out of their joy of creating together.

Unchanging. Eternal. Stable but no fixed form. All the QUALITIES and flavors; of consciousness-beingness.

These two face each other, as lovers do. The most common 3D imagery is Father God on top and Mother God receiving, below. They are really inter-penetrating. 3D creation is one of their offspring. If they ever stopped inter-penetrating, the atoms would stop spinning and we'd all be in trouble.

So that's the simplest map. Notice it embraces polarity, as in it takes two poles of a car battery for a car to run (John-Roger).

The simplest way to picture these five divisions of creaTION is to look at your open hand, with the thumb up. The little finger down below represents the physical level. Next finger is the level of liking, disliking, polarity and ambition (astral). The next finger represents the deeper emotions. The next finger represents the mind and beliefs. The thumb represents our unconscious memories, habits and behaviors (upper part of etheric).

There are many more words of each of these levels. Each level has its own King or God. You can read interviews with the God of each level in Paul Twitchell's book, Tiger's Fang, 2nd edition, a book justly famous for this tour of the realms. You can read a more personal account of a journey thru the realms in John-Roger's 2003 book, When Are You Coming Home?. It's very rare that anyone on Earth goes to these realms and comes back to tell about it so these two docs are really for everyone and anyone, regardless or race, creed, color or religious belief.

It's these five levels, physical, imaginative, emotional, mental and unconscious, that we deal with primarily in the human experience.

Following the language of Theosophy, John-Roger calls these five distinctions Physical, Astral, Causal, Mental and Etheric. These initials spell PACME. However these Theosophical terms, from the late 1800s, have dated rapidly.

More descriptive and precise terms might be: physical, imaginative, emotional, mental and unconscious: PIEMU. Always go for more precise language if you can get it.

Note I'm deliberately using two or more terms for the same level. If we start with multiple labels for each level of consciousness, we will start out on the correct foot: not getting hung up on labels.

Each reader will then have wiggle room to define these divisions as she wishes to. Don't get hung. up on labels. What's meaningful is not the labels but the characterizations you build up in your own mind as you practice observing and thinking about the contrasting qualities of the different levels of God's body if this pursuit appeals to you. Otherwise, just stick with the loving, make as many good choices as you can; and, forgive yourself for any choices that later seem less than optimum. That will always work.

So what's this map good for? Like any map, it's good for learning where you are now; and, to choose a direction of travel.

Father-God, soul realm and above. Positive realms of formless Spirit where among other things, Beings congregate to keep alive the positive qualities of Love, Honesty, Humor, etc so these can be available down in creation.

Cosmic Mirror - where many spiritual beings get stuck on the way back to the soul's true home, turn around, and go back down into Creation as Avatars saying, "I've seen God. It's me!" This action is not recommended.

Creation, the realms of the Mother-God, comprised of five levels of conditioned energy.

Unconscious. The upper etheric realm. The endlessly fertile Womb of Creation. The Cornucopia. The Zen void, the realm of "neither this nor that." Home of Mystery, angels, archetypes and Ur-concepts. Unconscious memories, habits and behaviors.

The Upper Etheric realm spans all of PACME and weaves the disparate aspects of different density together into wholes. The Etheric has rightly been called the Web of Life as it gives sentient beings the sense of being one whole rather than disconnected parts.

The realms below the Upper etheric can be pictured as bands of liquid in a clear glass beaker. They form into bands according to their respective density, densest layer on the bottom. The Upper Etheric density runs thru all of them uniting them all.

Mental realm - Form and structure. Beliefs. Mentalizing. Monkey mind. Beliefs. Allegiances.

Emotional realm - Attachment. Deep emotion. Ten times stronger than any other realm in Creation at this time. Emotional love. Hatred. The emotions you are attached to. Attachment in all its forms, especially emotional. Called the "causal realm" in times past because attachment was seen as the cause of our karma, which is largely accurate--but not very helpful.

Imaginal realm - Liking and disliking (see RS 1919 on this). Reactivity. Monkey mind. The more obvious five senses (animal senses). Fleeting feelings. Animal passions. Imagination. The blueprints of your optimum physical body can be found here. The theosophical term was astral realm. Astral means starry. Early clairvoyants were very impressed with the sparkly and colorful quality of the human aura and the appearance of disincarnate beings living on this level, who appear sparkly and colorful. New language is more appropriate for purposes of growth. Also: Pan(?), devas and nature spirits. UFOs, aliens, Star Trek and Federation of Planets activity.

Lower etheric realm. Acupuncture meridians and all phenomena related to them. Vitality! Chi! Prana! Nature spirits. Life energy is the animating quality of the etheric visibly moving the physical corpse). This realm is not separate from the upper Etheric. They are a continuum, the energetic "glue" holding the whole creation together.

Physical - Chemical - Nutritional - Materialism per se. The chemical corpse of the human being. Not the living part of the human being. Material building blocks. Things.

You know how you go to a new mall and look for the map and look for the "You are here" marker?

Is there such a "You are here" marker on this map of spiritual geography? No and yes.

Yes, there are markers for where you are as a unique individual on this map. One marker shows up when you simply ask, Where do I spend the majority of my attention, primarily, PIEMU?

The answer to this is akin to your spiritual center of gravity. It's a useful idea as long as you understand you can change this up or down depending on the choices you make today. Where our spiritual center of gravity is a function of our habits. Our habits are a function of our choices. We can make new choices and upgrade our habits on any level.

A: Not likely. It would be your physical body if you spent the largest part of all your awareness in materiality and materialistic concers, survival concerns.

If your whole life and everything you do is centered primarily around survival, comfort & pleasure, for your physical body, then yes, we'd say your center of gravity is in the physical. But if that were so, you’d be unlikely to be reading this now.

Give yourself time to consider each level of consciousness. Simply explore the idea of which level, PACME or PIEMU, might represent where your center of gravity is. It is possible to have your center of gravity in the soul realms above the unconscious. It's more rare though.

The above five-fold map is often called PACME in honor of John-Roger, who did more than anyone else in the last 100 years to promote this basic orientation in the West.

Understanding PACME or PIEMU, understanding a basic map of spiritual geography, is where you often have to start, if a clear and true mental image of personal-spiritual growth is desired.

To my brother and sister metaphysical bookworms, yes, you do find similar spiritual geographies in Steiner, Heindel, Buddhism and many other places. Crucially, these other maps outside of Light and Sound groups usually only go up as high as the Causal realm, sometimes to the mental. They often use Buddhist terminology difficult to translate and penetrate with the light of day. I've studied dozens of spiritual maps; go see for yourself. It's primarily Light & Sound groups, who have spiritual geography going all the way up to soul and beyond. Ultimately--it's only a map. Find people who love and support you and whom you can love and support.

Many, many people will not like the idea that maps of consciousness even exists. That's fine. The map is not for those people! A map is only useful if you wish to learn where you are and to make choices about where to go. A map does not make choices for you;tho it may make some choices obvious. That's why the people who DO like maps, like them. They are helpful--but as NLP says: maps are not the territory. Don't get caught in the map!

Bruce Dickson, I See Into You Medical Intuition * IntegrationArts.net 310.287.2813

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According to the Beings of Love working with me, the single main consideration in working energeticly with people is: Is this operation/ technique/operation safe to do on this person at this time?

If this question is not asked, a great downfall of healers comes into play: doing too much, stressing the client; that is: showing off.

Both practitioners and clients fall into this fallacy out of eagerness to "make something happen" that can be experienced consciously, some impressive "gosh, wow!" effect.

Believe me, a healing crisis is more than you want to experience consciously. You can die or be permanently injured by a healing crisis. No one needs a healing crisis. I can't think of a single healing crisis that I, a client, or clients of friends has gone thru that was karmicly required. Virtually all healing crises are due to amateur management by the conscious selves involved.

Specifically, the Law of Gentleness for practitioners means asking THE FIRST THREE ETHERIC CENTERS: Can this body handle the contemplated change? The body is energetically equivalent to the first three chakras. If ANY CENTER says "no" to any proposed change--and a practitioner goes ahead anyway--then a healing crisis is risked.

In other words, don't open any energies the client's first three etheric centers are uncomfortable with. How do you find out? You ask via muscle testing or by ASKing each of their centers directly.

Like what you see here? The Three Selves: Becoming fully human is available in book form on the Publications page.

Bruce Dickson, I See Into You Medical Intuition * IntegrationArts.net 310.287.2813

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