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Ray Merrihew speaks at Associated Psychotherapists of Vermont Annual Gathering - October 18th, 2008

Introduction: I am grateful for the inspiration from so many people, including most of you as well as Z B and B K. And when I first sat down to prepare this, I felt Mary and my parents, Robert and Hazel, and others present. In my mind I heard, “You are a Spiritual Being, Ray. Begin your presentation and we will help.” I relaxed and the thoughts flowed freely. And it felt so good. I was high on Spirit.

CONSCIOUSNESS IS ON THE MOVE !

Example: I looked at movies and TV shows over the past 40 years. Until about 2000 there were only around 20 movies or shows dealing with space, spirituality, other Beings, psychic material, awakening, etc. The 60 top TV shows 1970-1990 contained only 1such show, Quantum Leap. Since 2000 there have been over 70 such shows! We have changed.

And then there is numerology: 2008 = 2+8 =10 = 1 which means Spiritually uplifting. And October 18, 2008 = 29 which =s 11 which means Spiritual gains; questioning of present ideals.

Spirit: I grow when I become aware of Spirit, so I want to share Spirit with you today.

Our Consciousness is becoming conscious: This is a time of immense potential. The Q’uero in Peru, descendants of the Incas, say that this is the time of meeting ourselves again. The Hopi Elders have made it even clearer, “We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the Ancient Ones.” It is time, Now, to Dream the New Dream. With our Intentions and Insights, we are already weaving the threads of the fabric of Creation. Let us accept our Whole-ness, our Holiness, our Divine nature. Let us Awaken to our Spirit Path, and to our abilities and responsibilities of co-creation as Luminous Beings, that we may Dream well, for the joy of all Consciousness. Who says this? Many many people over the years.

There is an old science fiction book by Sir Arthur C. Clark, called Childhoods End. The story is that at some point in time on Earth, children begin to be born with adult minds and with amazing capabilities including unaided space flight. As they grew up, one by one they flew upwards away from Earth, to join other grownups

Today we have the Indigo Children. They seem to be born knowing what I had to be taught. I remember watching my daughter explaining to my 3 year old granddaughter why she shouldn’t do something, and my granddaughter just said ok and stopped doing it, permanently. She taught herself to read that same year.

In her book Beyond The Indigo Children, P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D. states: We need “a science of intuition ... enabling us to weave our intentions directly into the fabric of what we want to manifest.” She “beckons us to drop our fears and dogmas and grow into the conscious spiritual beings that we are.” She adds, “Certainly Consciousness has a plan.”

She says 90% of DNA was considered junk. But there is evidence now that the increase in child geniuses and unusually psychic children being born today are using some of this “junk” DNA.

The Shift: A very recent movie on YouTube by www.theshiftmovie.com states that if we want peace in the world, it must begin with the children.

In Thank God for Evolution, Michael Dowd says “God’s creativity didn’t stop (with the big bang) - it continues today.” “God has set the Universe Expanding and Complexifying.” It is in our DNA.

Rupert Sheldrake: “We live in a radically evolutionary universe with its own inherent memory.” On September 2, 2008, in a video presentation on YouTube, he spoke of the Extended Mind. He said, “Minds are spread out fields far beyond the brain. Your mind reaches out to touch what you are looking at.”

From the DVD “What the (bleep) do we know” a quantum phys-icist says: Our brains are receiving 400 billion bits of information a minute yet we are only aware of 400,000 bits. Many people have said we only use 5 or 10 % of our brain. So there’s plenty of room for expansion. We are not trapped at today’s level of functioning!

We have far more than 6 senses We are so much more than is generally accepted, and have far more abilities than are acknow-ledged. To mention only a few: I’ve found Time to be relative, twice. In 1976 a 5 hour trip was shortened to 4 hours, despite heavy traffic and never speeding. I was in time for a meeting, but I should have been at least an hour late. On Christmas Eve 2006, I was driving home from New Hampshire, very relaxed, seldom even being up to the speed limit. The 3 hour trip took only a little over 2 hours. I know a family of 7 in which the 5 children always want their mother to drive because the trips will be so much shorter. This is a routine happening for them.

I took part in a Remote Viewing test this summer. I didn’t do very well, but a classmate had a nearly 100% hit. One of the targets was an old fashioned round alarm clock, set at 5:00. He got the clock, but had the time wrong! Me, I got a circle.

Barbara Marx Hubbard says: “Quantum Transformation is Nature’s way.” “Our intent needs to work with Nature.” Our DNA is “being driven by 13 billion years of progressive evolution,” like a strong wind of creativity behind and within us. “We are designed to evolve and doing so is our inherent nature.” It is in our DNA. Ilya Prigogine’s theory of "Dissipative Structures" says that when anything collapses, something more complex is created. And this happens because “...evolving is our built-in spiritual goal, pushed by 13 billion years of progressive evolution. To evolve is our DNA heritage. Anything is possible, anything.” And as, Brian Swimme says, “For the DNA, there is never Enough.”

Barbara speaks of Complexification of the Universe. The way the Universe builds up complexity creates a synergy that has beneficial affects, a mutually enhancing relationship.

Jean Houston at Jean Houston On-Line says our purpose “is to engender The Passion for the Possible in our human development while discovering ways of transcending and transforming the local self so that extraordinary life can arise!”

Teilhard de Chardin’s book The Phenomenon of Man: In his Complexity Consciousness theory he says, “if you look at evolution as a spiral, at every turn of the spiral there was a jump in consciousness and freedom to greater complexity – from the molecule to a cell, to an animal, to a human.” (And where to next?)

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GUIDED MEDITATION

PLEASE MOVE YOUR CHAIRS CLOSER TOGETHER INTO A SMALL ER CIRCLE SO YOU WILL BE ABLE COMFORTABLY TO TOUCH THE PERSONS ON EITHER SIDE OF YOU.

PLEASE TURN YOUR CHAIR SO YOU ARE FACING ANOTHER PERSON. LIGHTLY TAKE HOLD OF EACH OTHERS HANDS

NOW GAZE STEADILY AND LOVINGLY INTO THE LEFT EYE OF EACH OTHER TO SET UP THE SOUL CONNECTION.

FEEL THE LOVE YOU ARE SHARING. (Pause) -------

NOW REACH BACK WITH ONE HAND AND LIGHTLY TAKE THE HAND OF THE PERSON JUST BEHIND YOU, KEEPING ONE HAND IN CONTACT WITH YOUR ORIGINAL PARTNER. If needed, adjust your chair or position to be comfortable.

PLEASE CLOSE YOUR EYES, MAINTAINING TOUCH WITH THE PERSONS IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND YOU

VISUALIZE BEAUTIFUL LOVING WHITE LIGHT ENTERING YOUR CROWN CHAKRA (top of your head)

THEN MAINTAIN THIS FLOW AND SEND THIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE BEAM OUT FROM YOUR HEART CHAKRA IN A CONTINUOUS FLOW TO ALL PRESENT.

FEEL THIS LOVE BEING RETURNED TO YOU THROUGH YOUR CROWN CHAKRA A THOUSAND FOLD , FILLING YOUR MIND, BODY, EMOTIONS & SPIRIT TO WONDERFUL OVER FLOWING WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE (Pause) ----

NOW WIDEN THE FOCUS OF YOUR LOVE SENDING TO INCLUDE ALL PEOPLE IN THE US (Pause) -----

FURTHER EXPAND THE BEAM OF YOUR LOVE SENDING TO ALL CREATURES AND PLANTS - TO ALL CONSCIOUSNESS IN, ON OR AROUND OUR EARTH (Pause) ----

NOW AGAIN EXPAND THE BEAM OF LOVE FROM YOUR HEART CHAKRA TO INCLUDE ALL WITHIN OUR GALAXY (Pause) ----

NOW GENTLY AND GRADUALLY REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THE MIDDLE OF THIS FLOW OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, AND SEE THE FLOW OF YOUR LOVE CREATION CONTINUING BY ITSELF. LET GO OF HANDS IF YOU WISH (Pause) ----

GENTLY RETURN TO THIS ROOM AND BREATHE DEEPLY A FEW TIMES. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES.

PROCESS TOGETHER

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lIn Brian Swimme’s DVD The Earths Imagination, He says the human species now is in a new realm of many, many possibilities. Our challenge is to transform our mind, our consciousness to deal with new possibilities, yet our consciousness is “flat earth” oriented. Strategies that work well in the micro are disastrous system wide, at the macro level. We need macro intelligence to deal with today’s problems. I think it was Einstein who said, “A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness at which it was created.”

How are we to do that? Brian says, “Imagination and play provide the possibilities of seeing the new, of creating changes,” of enabling “the future to influence the now.”

Swimme says that once committed to the Mind of the Whole, we can develop “Comprehensive Compassion” - to take part in the Universe instead of using parts of it and ignoring the rest. “Evolution won’t permit ignoring or discounting the Universe.” “Life has a purpose.”

Susan Mokelke, song writer, singer and Shaman, in her CD “Teachings from the Spirit, sings:

“All Creation flows in our veins – in Holy Harmony.”

“Be a Light, let your Spirit shine – it’s what we’re here for.”

“Wake up and hear it, the call of the Spirit !”

And now, let us Awaken a little together today! Please join me in a Guided Meditation.