Higher Conscious Meditation

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0:44 Denzel Washington, welcome to Inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you to do the same. Lair, Welcome to the show. Doc. Thank you so much. I really appreciate the opportunity to be with you. Well, I'm really excited on this one. It's I think this is going to be really fascinating. You have had an interesting life and you've had a very interesting focus for many years. Could you share with the audience a little bit about how you got to this point? And also how you started writing all these many books that you've written. Yeah, be happy to I've been doing yoga now, for guys, since nineteen seventy three when I first moved to San Francisco from the other side of the country, North Carolina, and yoga was a or meditation was part of the yoga routine that I learned, and I've been doing that just as part of my daily practice for all these years. However, about ten years ago, I had moved from the East coast to the West coast to take a sizeable promotion and was headed for the top of my profession. When I realized that I was in a difficult situation with

2:17 a really a very a terrible boss, abusing employees, misusing funds, running the program into the ground, and I just had to speak up. So I went to the people above us and let them know what was going on. An investigation was done, she was fired, but they fired me too. He said I was a troublemaker. Well, yeah, what that meant was that I was a trouble maker. I was making trouble for them, pointing out that there was not much supervision going on, and having to go through all this investigation and so forth, and that was devastating. I mean that basically ended a thirty year career doing business consulting for the US Small Business Administration and kind of working my way up and headed for a stage director position.

3:14 So it was devastating. You know, I lost my income, I lost my job, and you know, my ego was terribly wounded by that experience. And I didn't really know what I was going to do next. Ended up moving. I was in San Diego. I ended up moving to the Bay Area, where my son and grandchildren live. And really it started taking a real deep dive into my meditation practice for therapy and began journaling about my experience, and it was really an awakening. It was a time of awakening. It was a time of new understandings of spirituality.

4:05 In fact, what I would say at this point, looking back on it, is that I had made soul contact. I had contacted my higher self and began to have a conversation with what I now called High c by way of journaling. And what would happen is I would I would sit at night and I would write, and it would just feel like spirit was just flowing through my hands right on to the right on to the keyboard, and that was really the genesis of the books. I had never intended to be an author, but after about one hundred and fifty thousand words in my journal, I realized I had material for some books, and I began to write. And I've been writing ever since. Now have six books. I have two more in the works, and they're all the subject of meditation, mindfulness, manifestation. My next book is on making soul contact, and also have one coming on health and wellness from a spiritual perspective. So it's become a passion. I continue to do some business consulting, but it's the thing that I'm really passionate about and I love talking about it well.

5:32 And you know, I think meditation is just amazing. I got involved in it a few years ago. I had attended a week long course with a gentleman that is very you know, well known in his meditation program and I found it fascinating. And since then I've tried to meditate practically every day. Sometimes I miss today, but I try that. But what I've found is this really interesting is they talk to different people who meditate and talk about meditation. There's such a variety of approach, and I know that you have a very specific one, which you call a higher conscious meditation. What I'd love for you to do, though, is kind of explain for you what has been your experience of the benefits of meditation and how does it really work that way?

6:25 Yes, well, the benefits are many. In fact, one of the books that I wrote is on the subject of the amazing benefits of meditation. And the interesting thing I think that the book indicates is that there's been some really thorough scientific research on the subject of the benefits of meditation. Roughly three thousand plus studies have been done that show that on all levels emotional, mental, and physical levels, meditation has positive benefits as it relates to all kinds of conditions, everything from depression to psoriasis. Uh. And I found personally that my quality of life, especially as I took some a deep dive into my meditation created my higher meditation, higher consciousness meditation process, my life has just improved dramatically. My well being, my sense of my place in the world, my contact with what I would call five dimensional reality has has just exploded, if you will. Uh.

8:01 Having done a lot of meditation over all of these years, it really won't. Wasn't until I took this deep dive that I began to realize how surrounded by spirit we are and how that spirit infuses our lives. And so when I meditate, I just get this really nice They call it bliss, you know, kind of elevation and awareness and a feeling of joy and happiness. And I do it twice a day along with some mindfulness practices throughout the day to kind of keep tuned up as a way of maintaining an elevated state of awareness. And the results of that have been as the research shows, you know, mentally, emotionally, physically, I'm in you know, great physical condition. Mentally, emotionally, I'm I'm happy to be alive. I'm happy to be doing my work. I'm I'm happy to be around the people that I'm around. I mean, good circumstances, things and people seem to just flow into my life.

9:21 Oh and that's cool. I mean, you know, you mentioned the higher conscious meditation, you talk about manifestation, you talk about mindfulness, and those those are all related, and I want to go into each one of them. But one of the things that struck me and just brought a question to my mind as I was preparing for this was this concept of manifestation because you hear so much about having your you know, your bored in front of you and all of these types of things, and and I know for many people the thought of hey, if I just have my you know, my dream board up there and if I just think about it, I'm going to manifest that's going to happen. What has been your experience in that and what are your thoughts about manifestation and how does it really work?

10:08 Yes, I've tried all forms of manifestation that I was able to come across, from the secret to doing vision boards and all of that, and what I found was it didn't work very well. I think it works for some people, just for me, it didn't seem to work very well. And I concluded that the reason that that's the case is that a lot of the practices, manifestation practices are ego based. That they're about what does the ego need and want, you know, BMW and my driveway tomorrow just appearing out of nowhere, or all kinds of promises you know, are made with that kind of those kinds of practices. H And what I realized that was that and this is partially as a result of my interaction with my higher consciousness. I realized that there was a better way, a more spiritual way to do manifestation practice.

11:17 So I developed a manifestation practice called the best Possible Outcomes process, and it kind of goes like this. It's real simple. I ask for the best possible outcome as it relates to my oh my, my my podcast with Doug this morning, and then pause for a moment, get a sense that Spirit has engaged, or my higher consciousness has engaged, and then I offer thanks for to High c for its involvement in my life. Now that sounds real simple, but it's got some, I think, very powerful principles built into it. First, there's an ask, but the ask is very general. It's not specifically for a BMW to pear in my driveway tomorrow. But if I have a need for transportation, I ask for the best possible outcome as it relates to my transportation, with the thought that Spirit knows what I need and want for my highest evolution, for my greatest growth and evolution, and will

12:47 provide or I will attract by virtue of the vibratory rate that I achieve in a meditative state, I will attract that which I need for again for my greatest growth, and that I trust then spirit to know what it is that I need and want and for that to begin to appear in my life. It may not appear right away. I just continue to trust that that's the case because I know that I've turned it over to that that that consciousness, to that awareness, to that spirit, to that my soul for that manifestation to occur. And then I offer thanks for that, in other words, gratitude, and it lifts me up. But it also then relieves my ego mind from having to produce something but instead to allow not produce well.

13:55 And you know, you talk about ego, and I can't help the smiling because I've had a lot of chat about this, read some interesting books about how ego, as you mentioned, you know, when when we're talking about the secret or talking about some of those other things, is so ego based that this is what I'm looking because I'm gonna feel better at whatever it happens to be. And this concept of eliminating the ego, and you know, Buddha refers to it as the non self, and I find that fascinating that even way back then, he recognized what ego could do. And so he's saying to the people, learn to develop a non self or that ego does not affect you. And that's really what you're talking about.

14:36 Now. I'm curious because you talk about the high see higher consciousness, meditation, you talk about the spirit. Can you explain to the audience what you're really meaning by that? Yes, well, let's let's use Buddha's concept of non self. Another way to say that is that there's a self, there's a a I think all of us know that we've got a soul, that we've got higher consciousness. But how often did you, as a youth or a person coming up here, from a teacher, from parents, from anybody, about the fact that you had a higher self. And I think that's what he means by self, which is the opposite of non sel, you know, right right or in the same ballpark, when we talk about that, that we all have that part of us that h is.

15:46 In my case, it feels like a friend, a companion, a a part of myself that again informs, that surround owns. That is that loving part of me that loves me and from which I can love outward. So you know, my experience of that is one again of companionship. It's one of conversation. I have ongoing conversations and again I use I like to use UH, I like to use journaling as a way of having that contact. But if you if you read my books, what you'll find is an ongoing conversation with that part of me that I would call soul or higher self. And that's what I'll be writing about in great detail in my next book on that subject. So it's a what what I've done is to offer tools that allow one to make contact with that hires and have become acquainted with that higher self and to develop a relationship with that higher self.

17:06 So I'm offering tools that I was never offered early in my life, but which have become very important later in my life. Well, and it is you talk about your higher self, and you know, so many people that are really into meditation talk about the quantum field, and many of those I think are pretty well avoiding any type of quote religious element to that. As you talk about spirit, as you talk about higher self, my impression is there is an element of something there that is available to be able to tap into that can really create some real opportunities and affirmations and all those types of things. So I know one thing, for instance, you're right about the christ consciousness. I don't know if you're right about the Buddha consciousness or any of those others. But what do you mean by that? And because I think what I find is a lot of people as I've started meditation, I get a few different reactions depending on who I'm talking to. Many say, oh, that's so cool, and others I find are a little bit nervous, particularly if they tend to have a fairly strong background in some type of religion. They feel like, you know what, No, I pray, I pray, I don't need to meditate, and can you talk about that a little bit.

18:32 Well, First of all, meditation is a form of prayer. Yeah, I know. But my notion of prayer is one of listening rather than speaking. It's one of receiving rather than one of offering up to a God my request for something that I think the gods that quote God can provide. I don't think God is a Santa Claus. I think God of God as infinite intelligence. I think of God as the all I think of this universe as a outpicturing of the all. But I don't think of you know, God as as again as a Santa Claus that I can then go to and ask for certain blessings that maybe not available to anybody else if I just pray. Right, So what I offer is not religious. It's it's an enhancement to any religion that somebody may have. But it's not a religion. It's not intended to be a belief system.

19:54 It's not intended to be something that one follows to the exclu usion of something else. It's really the opportunity to have an experience of Christ consciousness or inspiration or illumination by virtue of doing meditation. So I think of Christ really to me, and I grew up in the Christian Church, and so there was this Jesus Christ person who is the one and only son of God, you know, was what I was taught. Well, I've come to realize that Christ is really a term of mastery, that Buddha mind is the same as Christ mind. That every one of our master teachers was offering a path pointing in the direction of something, of saying, look, I've come to the realization about myself I've come to this realization. I've had an experience of illumination, and you can have that experience too. So they all offer tools that are intended to have you have the same experience that they had, which, to my way of thinking, is christ consciousness or it's boot to mind, or it's you know, whatever kind of

21:26 higher consciousness experience you might have as a result of doing benediction. Well, then you know what comes to my mind. And I have a Christian background also. But what's interesting is, you know, as I've read the New Testament, there's one one scripture that I find can be so devastating to people. And this be therefore perfect, even as your father in heaven is perfect, and you know that creates such a sense of guilt and lack of goodness and so on and so forth. But when you get to the original Greek word of what it really means has nothing to do with perfection. It has everything to do with completeness.

22:07 And as I think about that, then you talk about, you know, Christ's consciousness or Bodha mind is really how do we become complete? How do we eliminate all of these things that are affecting us because of our physical existence, And how do we get to the point where we get rid of the ego and all of those imprints that have been in our lives. We're able to just move them aside except what they are, but just move them aside so that they don't affect us, and we start to become complete. Because as we do that, all of a sudden you see the kindness, you see the empathy, you see the love, you see all those things suddenly emanating from an individual who has been able to achieve that.

22:51 And so in my mind, you know, it is not a matter of doing doing doing in order to achieve that, but it's a matter of becoming. And of course I think that meditation and is really one way in which that can happen. What is the higher conscious meditation? Because you talk about a very specific type of thing that you've developed. What is that higher conscious meditation? Yes? Well, higher conscious meditation is not about doing doing doing, Its about being, Yes, you know, it's it's about relaxing into your self or non self, you know. And uh, it's a it's a it's a process. It's a tool.

23:42 Let me kind of take you through it. It's simple. It begins with peace, Be still, something that you may remember from your youth. I want to say peace, be stillness, be the essence still as a beginning to this meditation practice. And then it then offers three different open ended statements, which you allow these open ended statements to complete themselves and to begin to have an experience of the all, begin to have an experience of your higher consciousness, begin to have an experience that you are an eternal being occupying a complicated biomechanical vehicle. You know that you're driving around during your time on planet Earth with the opportunity maybe this time to wake up. So the process is again simple. The open ended statements are the All or God is, and then pausing and letting that statement finish itself, what experience do you have when you offer the opportunity for the all or for spirit to respond to you

25:15 with some kind of experience or statement God, the All is, divine intelligence, the all is, the I am that I am the All is? And then what kind of experience do you have in relationship to opening up to that the next piece? And then I am one with that whatever response you get, and as you do this over time, you get deeper and deeper responses. Eventually you get to the point where you just get a sense of the all is omnipresent and I am one with that. I mean, that's a fabulous experience, and that's what I would call illumination.

26:08 The next open ended statement is higher consciousness is. So here you're opening up to your self, to your soul, to your higher consciousness. Higher consciousness is and then what kind of experience do you have when you opened it that. My experience of that is higher consciousness immediately responds because it's right there, has always been right there and has always wanted to be involved in my life. And that's what began to happen as I developed this process. So higher consciousness is companion, friend, higher self, soul, you know, whatever kind of response comes from that, and then just kind of pausing and just allowing that experience to happen, and I am one with that. And then the third open ended statement is I am Often what I've gotten back from that is I am an eternal being. I am that, I am, I am one with the all.

27:20 So those three open ended statements are intended to elicit an experience, and that experience will come sometimes immediately, sometimes it'll take a little while, but it just bears repetition and then it begins to happen. I do this in the morning, and then I do this in the evening, and then I finish up by saying elevate awareness, illuminate consciousness, radiate light. I say that a couple of times, and that just amplifies the experience and I just get then a sense of of higher consciousness, of awareness, of illumination that I can then carry forward for the next I don't know, hour or two. However, you know, it kind of wears off. That's why I use some mindfulness practices throughout the day to remind myself or tune myself up, and then I'll do the same thing in the evening.

28:36 And after doing that for a while, you know, it becomes something that you really want to do and that you get tremendous benefit from. So so here's the question number one, and here comes my analytical Okay, how long do you find you meditate in the morning? How long in the evening? Different periods of time. Sometimes it is just for a few minutes, because this process can only you know, can be done in a few minutes. But if I have time, then, after all, after doing the process. Then I'll just sit and let myself marinate in that experience of being of true awareness, if you will. So it can last beco fifteen to twenty minutes. It can last as long as you have to devote to it, and as long as you're getting a sense of that elevation in awareness or elevation and consciousness.

29:37 Are you are you doing kind of a focus on the breathing type of thing. I mean, you talk about yoga, you know, there's all sorts of different approaches and meditation. Is there is there a way in which you recommend that people are really able to get into that state so as they're making those statements, it really becomes something of value. Yes, I think the statements in and of themselves has is part of the great value that comes with doing it, because you begin to by doing it, you begin your awareness shifts. You begin to uh see and understand the eternal beingness that you are. You began to get a sense of five dimensional consciousness or five dimensional the fifth dimension of spirit, which is you know, it's it's invisible.

30:33 It's uh hard to necessarily prove, but the experience of it is the proof of it. Right now, one of the practices that I also have been using most recently is one where as a as a mindfulness practice, I say to myself, I breathe, I breathe you know, eternal awareness. I breathe eternal consciousness, or I breathe, I breathe cosmic consciousness and get a sense of again the omnipresence of spirit and my connection to that ombnie presence. That it's a that's that sense of awareness is available. So these it's all intended to have you have an experience of that higher consciousness part of yourself.

31:34 So do you use music? Do you put on the headphones and listen to music while you're doing that? Or no? No, I just I just breathe and just enjoy the experience of elevated awareness. So beyond that, I don't really do much of anything other than just relax and just enjoy whatever experience comes. Sometimes times again at what I'll do is is is do some journaling and just flow into the onto the computer screen. You know, what I'm thinking or the understandings or realizations that come.

32:15 So it's it's I think it's it's it's who we really are. And uh, you know, once you begin to contact that part part of who you really are. It just begins to grow and flow well. And you know, it's it's interesting that so many people on focus on the music, focus on what's going to be the best one, whether it's so fagio, you know, frequencies or hemi sync or minurro, and you you get into all of that. And all all of that's available, and it's it's something to experiment with and see what works well.

32:58 And I think that's the key. Everybody has to discover what's going to work for them, but they need to focus and really discover what it is. So here's my question. As you talk about how you've experienced better health all these other things, how does as you look at some of these scientific research that's gone on, how do they explain the better health that comes about through meditation, whether it's your way or other ways. Right, A couple of things that I would say about that. First of all, I think the body has a natural tendency toward health and toward wellness. We do a lot of things that kind of get in the way of that, and meditation I think allows one to begin to dissolve some of that. In the vibratory rate or vibratory rate that you achieve by virtue of doing meditation. So your vibratory rate increases, and you're likely to attract better circumstances, better health, better people, better outcomes in your life. Like attracts like, So a higher rate of vibratory vibration will attract higher level of experience and a higher higher consciousness,

34:33 better health, mental health, emotional health. I also think that meditation breaks the cycle of lower level experiences people who are having depression, for example. It tends to be and there are all kinds of circumstances, and some of it is you know, physiological, and and you know requires a lot of work and various different ways. But fundamentally it's a loop. And you get a loop going in a dark place, or you get a loop going of lower level vibratory rate, thinking, doing being, and meditation interrupts that loop.

35:20 It's sort of it's sort of dissolves, if you will, or again, it interrupts the loop so that the natural tendency of the body mind begins to flow in and begins to occur, that natural healing state, that natural wellness state that I think is really who we are, but we're not experiencing it. But because we've developed you know, ego attachment, and we've developed bad habits, and we've developed lower level experiences that we don't know how to get out of, and this is the way to get out of.

36:20 And do you feel like getting into that fifth dimension that there's existence there of those healing capabilities that can occur both emotionally as well as our soul physically, all of those type of things. You know, you talk a little bit about a sacred sense of mindfulness, and you talk a little bit about what you do with mindfulness, but could you share what you mean by sacred sense mindfulness practice. Yes, well, all of us have our you know, our senses, our taste, touch. I think my experience is that each one of them have a sacred element to them. So, for example, sacred seeing would be to be in a state of awareness where as you look out into the world, what you see is the beauty of the world and bye bye. The story about that is going to the grocery store and slipping into a state of higher consciousness and seeing the higher consciousness of the people around me, and the grocery store just kind of lights up with that experience. It's the same thing with food and tasting.

37:49 We my wife and I got some training and vegan cooking when we went to a cooking class at the at them and they have you sit and eat in silence, and the idea is to taste and smell and enjoy the food that we have a tendency to just bolt down when we're eating. But if you use the sacred sense of tasting, you have an experience of the food or the you know, the fruit that you're you have an amazing experience of that just by virtue of shifting your awareness to one of again, I can only describe it as higher consciousness, our higher vibration, and that sacred sense of tasting then begins to occur or touching or hearing.

38:53 So each one of our senses have a sacred nature to them. If what we're able to do is get wide enough to experience and enjoy those things. Well, and I think once you've experienced it, and then you can really kind of want to repeat it. I smell as you're talking as you talk about the food. Here. I've found that I love to put together a strawberry type of strawberry flavored type of protein shake, and I put in oranges and all those type of things, and I will sit and literally and I throw in a lot of eyes so it's all mixed together, and I just sit and let that just drain down my throat and it just feels so good. And you know, as you were talking about that, it's like, wow, that's what I've been experiencing, because once I experience it every day, I want to just sit and experience that and just stop and just experience that strawberry flavor, cold strobably flavor going down my throat.

40:00 That by itself becomes a meditation. So we're talking about having, you know, experimenting with your senses and having that be a meditative experience and one of heightened awareness and heightened enjoyment. I mean, that's part of it, is just the enjoyment of the strawberry shape, or the enjoyment of being with somebody and seeing the light in their eyes and seeing the bigness of them and the soul of them from that place where you are residing.

40:40 Yes, So as we're getting near the clothes, I'm curious, is there a message that you would like to share with the audience that just kind of puts together everything that you have been feeling and wanted to share. Is there something that you could share with the audience that would be meaningful to them? I think fundamentally for many people, And of course meditation is not going to work for everybody, but to me, meditation is the most direct path to higher consciousness. And so find some way to meditate, find some way as a practice that will work for you to raise your consciousness to be in touch with your higher self.

41:36 Well, and that's lovely, and you know, quite frankly, I think as people do that, they're going to, as you say, experience some major changes, a sense of peace, it's sense of joy and betterhelp, all of those type of things. So, as what we've been talking about today, what are the books that you've written that would be best read by the people talking about everything we've been talking about out here. Yes, so I've self published all my books on Amazon, and the books, the titles are so simple. It's the meditation book, the mindfulness Book, the manifestation Book. In fact that I'd like to offer your listeners u a free copy of my mindfulness book, and all you have to do is go to my website to get that. It's High Cmeditation dot com. Hi Capital c Meditation dot Com and people get can get a copy of that mindfulness book.

42:37 I've done a poetry book. I've got some journals and some workbooks. So it's a it's kind of a whole suite of of books that people can take advantage of. And I see myself as a tool maker, so I'm offering tools, and these are tools for lifeness and tools for awareness. Well, and I hope people will literally go to your side. I went to your side and to see. All of those books. And what I love is you've written a book about mindfulness. You've written a book about you know, each of these individual things, the high conscious, meditation, the manifestation. And to be able to read that and to be inspired by that. I think for many people, you know, they keep searching and they haven't quite figured out where to find that and to understand that. And here's a Cure's a way that it just might really.

43:28 Connect with them. It's a potential path for people to follow. Yeah, yes, yes, oh that's great. Well, Blair, thanks so much for being on the show. This has been an interesting discussion. I've enjoyed in Manselin. Yeah, yeah, I have too. Hey, folks, thanks for listening. I hope you go to the website again. That's high hi C Capitalcmeditation dot com right exactly, okay, and I think you'll enjoy that. So again, once again, thanks for being on the show, folks, thanks for listening. I hope you'll join us again soon. No mistake, no mistake. M.